Xiaogang Shocks the Entire Continent

"Congratulations, Host. You have completed Stage Mission (2): Raise your disciple's cultivation to the Soul Emperor realm. Reward: one selectable 100,000-year Soul Ring."

"Reward has been issued. Please check and accept it."

During the return journey, a notification sounded in Lu Xuan's mind.

He had originally intended to see what Soul Skills were available, but he had not expected to run into Yu Xiaogang here. He temporarily set aside the matter of choosing a Soul Skill and watched the show first.

Tsk.

Xiaogang's intentions were as obvious as Sima Zhao's; everyone knew them.

It just depended on what choice Saintess Bibi Dong would make.

Thinking of it, Lu Xuan was rather looking forward to it.

With the mindset of watching a show, he said nothing. He merely fixed an interested gaze on Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang looked warmly at Bibi Dong and spoke bluntly.

"Dong'er, I heard that you were driven out of Spirit Hall, so I came looking for you without stopping. If you don't mind, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect will be your home from now on!"

That "Dong'er" sounded especially sickeningly intimate.

Bibi Dong shuddered when she heard it, goosebumps rising all over her body. Filled with disgust, and hit by the foul stench that wafted over as Yu Xiaogang approached, she instinctively retreated several steps.

Outside the Sky Screen, the uproar exploded.

"Seriously, doesn't this guy have any self-awareness? What the hell is he, calling Her Holiness the Pope Dong'er the moment he walks up? And with that lovesick look on his face? No, I'm going to throw up!"

"Bleurgh—I already did! This guy is greasier than the dishwater in my house! Being greasy is one thing, but how did he get such a thick skin? As expected of someone from the Blue Tyrant Sect. Their defense is tough—their skin is as solid as a city wall!"

"Look at Her Holiness the Pope's reaction. She looks as sick as if she swallowed a fly. And the Supreme Douluo actually slipped quietly to the side and started watching the show!"

"Do you remember the Supreme Douluo's rules? First, no dating. Second, no betraying your own side. He must be testing Her Holiness the Pope right now! If she breaks the rules, given the Supreme Douluo's temperament, he definitely won't show her any mercy! Her Holiness the Pope might get her legs broken! Then the Supreme Douluo will abandon her completely!"

"That's going too far, isn't it? At least send someone handsome or strong! What's with sending a useless loser? What young girl could withstand a test like this!"

"Heh heh, now this is going to get interesting!"

Yu Xiaogang rubbed his hands together and said gloomily:

"Ever since our chance encounter last time, after we parted, I have thought of you day and night. I think of you while I eat, and I think of you while I sleep."

"I often think that perhaps meeting you was the greatest fortune of my life, but also the greatest misfortune of my life."

"My fortune is that I met someone worth loving and protecting for a lifetime. My misfortune is that from then on, I was no longer a carefree youth, because I think of you every moment."

The young Bibi Dong's eyes widened, her face filled with shock.

She retreated several more steps in succession, her face flushing red.

"Yu, Yu Xiaogang, please show some self-respect!"

"Dong'er, are you unwilling to even call me Xiaogang?"

Yu Xiaogang looked at her with deep affection as he said:

"My greatest dream in this life is to become the continent's strongest master of martial soul theory. My second greatest dream is to be with you."

"I will use everything I have learned to assist you and raise you into the continent's strongest soul master."

"Are you willing to give me this chance?"

Bibi Dong was nearly frantic with tears.

She turned around and desperately searched for Lu Xuan, only to see him leisurely leaning against a tree behind her, giving her an encouraging look.

Strange.

This was too strange.

Bibi Dong recalled the rules of the sect that she had recited hundreds of times in her heart. The first rule was that she was forbidden from speaking of love before receiving a title!

"Please leave!"

Gathering her courage, Bibi Dong shouted.

Yu Xiaogang looked agitated.

"No, I won't leave! If I don't even have the courage to express my feelings, can it still be called love? I would rather become a moth flying into the flames."

"Pfft—"

Lu Xuan truly could not hold it in any longer and burst out laughing.

Saintess Bibi Dong's heart went cold.

She regretted saving Yu Xiaogang when she had accompanied Spirit Hall to hunt soul beasts. Who would have thought this guy would repay kindness with enmity!

Gritting her teeth, Bibi Dong said, "If you don't leave now, I'm going to hit you!"

Yu Xiaogang said, "Hit me, then. Even if you beat me to death, I still love you."

Bibi Dong was about to cry.

How could there be such a shameless person in the world?

Just as Yu Xiaogang confidently believed that he had finally won Bibi Dong over, what arrived before the bashful reaction he had anticipated was the young girl's iron fist.

"Ahhh! I told you to leave! Leave! Leave!"

"Why are you trying to hurt me?!"

"I'll beat you to death!"

Yu Xiaogang was fairly tough at first, but then he realized Bibi Dong seemed a little wild. Every punch landed solidly on his flesh. Although she had forgotten to use soul power, the strength of a Soul Emperor could truly beat him to death!

"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me!"

"I'll leave! I'll leave right now!"

Bibi Dong cried as she refused to stop hitting him.

"I told you to leave just now, but you wouldn't. If I let you go now, what if Master misunderstands?"

"I'm sorry, but I can only beat you to death."

Yu Xiaogang was already black and blue. He could feel that even his internal organs seemed to have been beaten until they bled. There was no longer any romance in his heart, only fear.

With a thud, Yu Xiaogang dropped to his knees before Lu Xuan.

"Please make her stop!"

"My father is Yu Yuanzhen, the sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. If you don't want to become enemies with the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, make her stop immediately."

Bibi Dong stopped.

She stared at Yu Xiaogang in stunned disbelief, as though looking at a fearless warrior.

Was this man really that brave?

Lu Xuan's expression as he watched the show faded, and he said blandly:

"Is that so? By your logic, since my disciple beat you today, she has offended the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. What should we do about that..."

Seeing that Bibi Dong had stopped, Yu Xiaogang assumed that both she and Lu Xuan feared the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. Greed rose in his heart once more, and he muttered:

"Actually, if she becomes my Blue Tyrant Sect's daughter-in-law, then whether she offended us or not naturally won't matter."

Lu Xuan: "..."

Bibi Dong: "..."

The entire audience across the continent outside the Sky Screen: "..."

Brave. Too brave.

This was true courage beyond all others!

Papal Palace.

After Bibi Dong watched the entire farce, the obsession in her heart suddenly faded somewhat. Memories always added filters to the past, but when she truly saw the younger Yu Xiaogang with her own eyes through the Sky Screen, she felt no flutter in her heart at all. In fact... she felt nothing.

Had she changed, or had Yu Xiaogang always been like this?

"Xiaogang, was it my guilt and my memories that gave you so much brilliance you never possessed?"

Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.

Yu Yuanzhen had gone numb.

The entire sect had gone numb!

Fortunately, it was Yu Xiaogang from another time and space who was courting death.

At that moment, an elder timidly asked:

"Sect Master, what do you think will happen to the Blue Tyrant Sect in that other time and space?"

"I don't know. But with my temperament, before the sect is destroyed, I'll whip that unfilial bastard to death first!"

Yu Yuanzhen gritted his teeth in fury!

Why hadn't he smashed him into the wall back then?

Why had he insisted on that final thrust!