Liu Erlong's Hesitation

Ning Rongrong's eyes nearly popped out. Was this Master Yu really this shameless?

Running away once wasn't enough—he ran away a second time.

Although she did not know what exactly had made Yu Xiaogang run away again,

abandoning a woman and fleeing on his own was utterly despicable.

[Bibi Dong: Hahaha, I'm dying of laughter. Yu Erlong, so you had a day like this too? Is this the Gangzi you've been pining for?]

Bibi Dong burst out laughing when she saw what the group leader had said.

Bibi Dong, who had originally been saddened by her own tragic past, felt much better after seeing that Liu Erlong was suffering just as badly.

As a result, she accidentally exposed Liu Erlong's real name.

[Shadow Cat: So the Pope knows this person? Her surname is Yu—could she also be from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?]

Zhu Zhuqing was already planning her route on the map.

She intended to leave the Zhu Clan and this suffocating empire early tomorrow morning.

Then she would go find the group leader!

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: The two of them count as love rivals. With Bibi Dong's methods, it should have been easy for her to find out who she was.]

[World's Greatest Poison: Tsk... Yu Xiaogang really is a piece of work. From now on, we should just call him Yu Run-Run.]

[Group Message: Waiting for One Person for Life changed their nickname to Liu Erlong!]

[Liu Erlong: Bibi Dong! So you really did guess who I was. And who are you calling Yu?!]

After Liu Erlong saw Bibi Dong reveal her name, she stopped pretending.

She directly changed her nickname to her own name.

Then she looked at what the group leader had said and sighed.

She had waited painfully for twenty years, thinking of him every day and every night. It was impossible for her not to resent Yu Xiaogang.

"Xiaogang, you must have been in great pain back then too..."

[Liu Erlong: Group leader, Xiaogang must have had his difficulties back then... After all this time, he must have been suffering too.]

[Strongest: I won't argue with you about this anymore. Let's continue with what happened after Yu Xiaogang left Spirit Hall.]

Yang Xiu felt there was nothing to explain to someone as love-addled as Liu Erlong. He would simply let the facts speak for themselves.

[Strongest: When Yu Xiaogang fled Spirit Hall, he was already utterly disheartened. If even Spirit Hall could not find a way to solve his martial soul problem, then there was basically nowhere else on the continent that could. At that point, Yu Xiaogang was lost... because if he could not find a solution for his martial soul, he would never be able to prove himself.

So Yu Xiaogang took another path: he wanted to become an invincible master of theory! Before studying in Spirit Hall's library, Yu Xiaogang did not know a damn thing about theory. Afterward, he learned a little of the basics, but not much—otherwise, he would not have failed to know what Soul Shock was. Not long after, he published his martial soul theories. I assume you have all read Master Yu's theories, right?]

[Not Little Witch: I know this one. There are no useless martial souls, only useless Gangzis!]

[World's Greatest Poison: Hahaha, I'm dying. Little Witch, you're vicious.]

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: I think it was something about martial soul competitiveness or whatever. When I wanted to read it as a child, my grandfather told me not to read that garbage.]

[Bibi Dong: That shameless Yu Xiaogang plagiarized most of his theories from Spirit Hall. I truly do not know where he got the nerve to claim he published them himself.]

Since she had already cursed Yu Xiaogang once, Bibi Dong simply stopped pretending.

Anyway, seeing Yu Xiaogang's name irritated her now!

Waiting for One Person for Life: "Nonsense! Xiaogang's martial soul theories were all obtained through his own hard work, bit by bit."

Liu Erlong immediately refuted Bibi Dong's words.

If Yu Xiaogang's martial soul theories had also been plagiarized, then she truly did not know what other virtues Yu Xiaogang had.

[Bibi Dong: He published his theories right after leaving Spirit Hall. If that isn't plagiarism, what is?!]

Bibi Dong sneered.

She had long since sent people to investigate. Yu Xiaogang's first theory had been published not long after he left Spirit Hall.

[Motherless Since Childhood: Stop arguing. Don't call the kettle black, Bibi Dong. If you hadn't been blind back then and fallen for Yu Xiaogang, would he have ever gotten into Spirit Hall's library?]

[Bibi Dong: Hmph!]

[Strongest: Continuing on, during his travels across the continent, Yu Xiaogang met Flender and Liu Erlong in succession. The three of them formed the Golden Iron Triangle, a group that was rather famous on the continent back then.]

[World's Greatest Poison: I think I've heard of that group. I heard the three of them even had the legendary Trinity Martial Soul Fusion Technique and could defeat a Titled Douluo.]

[Not Little Witch: What a load of bullshit. With that farting master around, they could defeat a Titled Douluo? That's hilarious.]

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: I think they could at most fight the weakest Poison Douluo. Of course, they still definitely couldn't win.]

Ye Lingling gave a sly smile, intending to provoke Dugu Yan.

[World's Greatest Poison: Poison Douluo is not the weakest Titled Douluo! His area damage is incredibly powerful, you know?]

[A Healer Cannot Heal Themself: I don't believe it. I've never seen it.]

[World's Greatest Poison: Ahhh, I'm so mad!]

[Strongest: The Golden Iron Triangle—two men and one woman. Next came the melodramatic love triangle. Flender liked Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang liked Liu Erlong too.

Then Flender, that pathetic loser, learned that his brother also liked his goddess and took the initiative to withdraw. He even stubbornly tried to bring the two of them together. In the end, just as he wished, Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong got together.]

As Liu Erlong listened to the story of the three of them, her eyes filled with nostalgia.

Back then, the three of them hunted soul beasts together, formed teams together, and occasionally listened to Yu Xiaogang explain his martial soul theories.

How wonderful it had been!

But... none of it could ever return.

Even if Flender had not withdrawn from the competition, she still would have chosen Yu Xiaogang.

What attracted her to Yu Xiaogang, aside from his being slightly more handsome than Flender, was his martial soul theories.

Having never attended school as a child, she greatly admired intelligent people. In Liu Erlong's eyes back then, Yu Xiaogang belonged among the intelligent ones.

But now... after hearing so many people in the group discuss it from every angle,

Liu Erlong began to waver. "Xiaogang, were your martial soul theories really plagiarized? Did I truly misjudge you back then?"

[Shadow Cat: How long has it even been? Yu Xiaogang already forgot Bibi Dong?]

[Not Little Witch: As expected, Yu Xiaogang is a complete scumbag. Pah!]

[Bibi Dong: I told you not to drag me into this with him!]