It's All Your Fault, So Why Did You Have to Get Involved with Her?

The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan stood amid a mountain range, its buildings rising one after another...

The council hall.

Only Yu Yuanzhen was there, seated at the head of the hall, while Yu Xiaogang knelt on the floor in a sorry state.

"You wretch... You wretch! What did my family do to deserve a son like you?"

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you've caused? And you still had the nerve to come back? It took you a whole month?!"

Yu Yuanzhen looked at Yu Xiaogang kneeling before him, furious at his son's foolishness. "You... you... Why did you have to get involved with her?"

"Father, I... I only wanted to prove myself to the family. If I'd succeeded, both you and the clan would have seen me in a new light."

Yu Xiaogang knelt with his head bowed, not daring to glance at Yu Yuanzhen.

"You'd have been better off dying out there!" Yu Yuanzhen roared. "Everyone knows about this now. They're all watching Spirit Hall!"

"Spirit Hall will retaliate against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. They absolutely will, and it's all your fault!"

"Use that pig brain of yours! Even if you had succeeded, do you think Spirit Hall would have agreed to hand over the saintess they spent so much effort raising to our clan for nothing?"

"You fool! You don't understand a damn thing!" Yu Yuanzhen had completely lost hope in his son.

For the past month, he had barely been able to sit still as he waited for his son to return and explain himself. Yet the wretch had taken an entire month to come back!

"Father, I know I was wrong. I never thought the consequences would be this serious. It's all because of that woman, Bibi Dong!"

Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth. "If she hadn't insisted on running away with me, it wouldn't have..."

"You still dare say that? Who are you, and who is she? What made you think you could get involved with her?"

"Father, I only failed. If I'd succeeded, you wouldn't be saying this to me!" Yu Xiaogang protested.

"Failed? Succeeded? There was never the slightest chance this could succeed!" Yu Yuanzhen said angrily.

"Spirit Hall will send people after you. Their saintess betrayed them because of you. You're on your own!"

"Dad! You're my own father!" Yu Xiaogang panicked when he heard that his father would not protect him.

He crawled over, clung to Yu Yuanzhen's leg, and began to sob. "Dad, you can't abandon me! If you do, Spirit Hall will kill me!"

"So you do understand how serious this is?" Yu Yuanzhen kicked Yu Xiaogang away. "If you knew, why did you do it in the first place?!"

"Tell me why! Do you know what kind of power Spirit Hall is? It's the strongest force on the entire continent!"

"Now that you've caused this scandal, everyone is laughing at Spirit Hall. And the more they laugh, the worse our clan will suffer when Spirit Hall settles the score!"

"Do you know what our people reported back?" Yu Yuanzhen glared at him.

"Wh... what did they say?" Yu Xiaogang asked.

"Hah!" Yu Yuanzhen said through gritted teeth. "Even the residents of Spirit City are clamoring for revenge against us!"

"If this hadn't become such a huge scandal, we might have been able to settle it by paying a price."

"But now the whole world knows! Spirit Hall will never let this go!" Yu Yuanzhen said, his head aching.

"Dad, you have to save me," Yu Xiaogang sobbed.

"Save you? How? Do you think Spirit Hall will come after you alone? If they make a move, they'll come after the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!"

"Dad... Dad..." Yu Xiaogang looked at his father's disappointed face, hoping to stir some fatherly affection in him.

"Enough. Shut up!" Yu Yuanzhen said.

"You're a useless fool who only makes things worse! If I'd known it would come to this, I never would have let you leave!"

"Dad, do even you think I'm useless now?" Yu Xiaogang asked, his face full of grief.

"Aren't you? Do you think I don't know how you reached your current level? You're a good-for-nothing!"

Yu Yuanzhen flared up at the question. If he hadn't transferred Soul Power to his worthless son to speed up his training, his own progress would not have suffered!

"Dad, this isn't the time to blame me. What matters now is how we face Spirit Hall's wrath."

Yu Yuanzhen felt the strength drain from his body. How could they face it? What could they possibly do?!

The whole world now knew that Spirit Hall's saintess had betrayed Spirit Hall and tried to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan—all because of their clan's good-for-nothing son?!

The longer Spirit Hall waited to strike, the angrier it would be. And the greater the losses the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would suffer.

"We'll take it one step at a time..." Yu Yuanzhen said weakly. "You must not let anyone know you've returned. Understood?"

"Why?" Yu Xiaogang asked, puzzled.

"Why?" Yu Yuanzhen laughed in exasperation. "You idiot! You actually have to ask why?"

"You've disgraced the clan and brought disaster upon it, and you're still asking why?!"

"The elders and disciples want to tear you apart right now! Watch yourself!"

"My word isn't law in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. The elders keep asking me whether you've come back."

"Fortunately, you slipped in today and came to see me first. If you'd returned openly... Hah!"

A chill ran through Yu Xiaogang. If he had walked through the front gate in plain sight, he could imagine what would have happened.

"Dad, you'll save me, won't you?" Yu Xiaogang asked.

"Don't worry. I won't stand by and watch you die!" Looking at how cowardly Yu Xiaogang was, Yu Yuanzhen wished he had never fathered him in the first place!

What a disgrace to the family!

"I knew you loved me, Dad. I knew you wouldn't just watch me die." Tears welled in Yu Xiaogang's eyes.

If he had known the consequences would be this severe, he never would have gotten involved with Bibi Dong.

Bibi Dong was an utter fool. She had actually told Qian Xunji about the two of them.

"Go on, get out of here!" Yu Yuanzhen waved him away. "Be careful, and don't let anyone else see you."

"And stay out of my sight for a while. Right now, every time I see you, I want to kill you myself!"

"Huh?" A chill ran down Yu Xiaogang's spine. He scrambled to his feet and hurried out of the council hall.