You Call Yourself a Master Despite Your Poor Skills? Pah!

This feeling had come out of nowhere, yet it was incredibly strong.

Bibi Dong frowned and instinctively grasped Ling Jing's hand.

Feeling Bibi Dong's movement, Ling Jing turned his head in confusion, only to find that she showed no sign of anything unusual. She was merely curiously watching everything happening outside the carriage.

"You actually dared to strike me? Do you know who I am?!"

Liu Erlong raised her chin disdainfully. "I don't care who you are. All I know is that even if the Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire came, I'd still be in the right!"

"So when you can't win, you call for your parents? I like this part."

Flender also spoke from the side in a sinister tone.

Only Yu Xiaogang stood there blankly without saying a word.

"Xiao Gang, they were in the wrong to begin with. Don't you agree?"

"Xiao Gang?"

Liu Erlong called out to Yu Xiaogang several times in a row, but received no response.

Finding this strange, Liu Erlong looked toward Yu Xiaogang. He was staring at the carriage not far away, his hands silently clenching into fists, and the expression in his eyes was exceptionally complicated.

Resentment, indignation, unwillingness... and even a trace of vexation?

Liu Erlong looked over in confusion and happened to meet Bibi Dong's gaze from within the carriage.

Seeing Bibi Dong's exquisite yet noble face, Liu Erlong froze slightly, a flicker of curiosity rising in her heart.

This person... had Xiao Gang known her before?

The moment this thought arose, Yu Xiaogang spoke in a somewhat hoarse voice. "Bibi Dong, it has been a long time."

Bibi Dong? This woman was called Bibi Dong?

Wait... wasn't the current Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall also called Bibi Dong?

Liu Erlong's eyes widened instantly. She looked at Yu Xiaogang, then at Bibi Dong inside the carriage, and shock gradually appeared in her eyes.

Who would have thought Yu Xiaogang had such a past?

Liu Erlong had not yet fallen in love with Yu Xiaogang. In fact, she had only known Flender and Yu Xiaogang for a short while, and their relationship was nowhere near as close as it would be during the Golden Iron Triangle era.

Seeing that Yu Xiaogang actually had some connection to the Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall, Liu Erlong only felt curious.

After all, no matter how profound Yu Xiaogang's knowledge was, he was merely a Soul Grandmaster in his twenties. No matter how she looked at it, he did not seem like someone who could be connected to the Holy Maiden of Spirit Hall.

"Let's go."

Bibi Dong lowered her eyes and raised a hand to lower the carriage curtain, with no intention whatsoever of exchanging pleasantries with Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang's expression changed slightly at this. His tone became much more urgent. "Bibi Dong! We knew each other, at least. Do you have to act as though we're complete strangers?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bibi Dong's movement paused slightly.

Inside the carriage, Golden Crocodile Douluo, who had not been paying attention to these matters and had no interest in them whatsoever, slightly raised his head.

With Golden Crocodile Douluo's senses, he could naturally tell Yu Xiaogang's strength. He was nothing more than a weak Soul Grandmaster.

Yet in public, he actually dared use such words to tarnish the reputation of Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden?

Golden Crocodile Douluo said nothing. He merely cast a faint glance at Ghost and Chrysanthemum beside him.

The two of them shuddered at once, but before they could make any move, Ling Jing spoke directly.

"Yu Xiaogang, you still have the nerve to say that you and my senior sister knew each other? Don't forget how you used my senior sister's name to swindle people in Spirit City! And now, how do you still have the face to say such things?"

Seeing Ling Jing poke his head out of the window, Yu Xiaogang's face immediately darkened.

Ling Jing... why was this guy everywhere?

Yu Xiaogang could not help taking a deep breath.

Swindling people in Spirit City... while using Bibi Dong's title as Holy Maiden?

Liu Erlong cast a strange glance at Yu Xiaogang, whose entire body was trembling, then instinctively looked at Flender beside her.

Flender helplessly shrugged.

"Don't slander me! I... I didn't swindle anyone!"

Yu Xiaogang held it in for quite some time before finally forcing out those words.

But Ling Jing clearly had no intention of giving him a chance to defend himself. He directly removed Twenty Bridges Moonlit Nights from his waist. "You used my senior sister's title as Holy Maiden to deceive young soul masters in Spirit City. After the truth came out, the families of those soul masters blocked you outside Spirit City. Left with no choice, you handed over this belt to settle your debts... and now that I bought this belt, you still refuse to admit it?"

"Yu Xiaogang, I have never seen anyone as shameless as you!"

The strange looks from the crowd all fell upon Yu Xiaogang. Even Flender and Liu Erlong, who had initially stood with him, exchanged a glance and quietly shifted a little farther away.

Back then, Flender had only seen Yu Xiaogang surrounded by a group of people and forced to hand over this belt. He had not known that this was how Yu Xiaogang had left Spirit City.

At first, he had thought Yu Xiaogang was quite knowledgeable and somewhat confident in speech, so he had considered befriending him.

But now... this man did not seem worth getting to know deeply.

Flender adjusted his glasses. Though he had already made up his mind, he did not leave. Instead, he watched the show with great interest.

The surrounding onlookers also cast strange looks toward Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang trembled all over with rage, his fists clenched tightly as he wished he could punch Ling Jing, that damned fellow, to death.

But with his meager strength, rushing forward would be no different from delivering himself to his death.

Besides... if he summoned Luo Sanpao to fart in a situation like this, he feared he would only be mocked even more.

Yu Xiaogang took several deep breaths before forcing out a sentence through gritted teeth. "Ling Jing, you've gone too far! If it weren't for you... how could I have ended up like this?"

Ling Jing was immediately amused by this.

"I've gone too far? Then tell me, how exactly have I gone too far? You call yourself a master of martial soul theory, claiming to possess profound knowledge, yet you couldn't even recognize my martial soul. Oh, no, it wasn't merely that you failed to recognize it. You even brazenly claimed it was another kind of martial soul, and you even got its future development path wrong."

"You lack skill in your own studies, yet you falsely call yourself a master. And you still have the nerve to accuse me of lacking skill?"

"Pah!"

Ling Jing's face was full of contempt as he directly exposed Yu Xiaogang's pretense. At the same time, he did not forget to pat Bibi Dong's hand in comfort.

But in truth, Bibi Dong had not felt the slightest emotional disturbance.

Still, hearing Ling Jing defend her, Bibi Dong could not stop the corners of her lips from curving slightly upward into a faint smile.

"Yu Xiaogang, I told you last time that from this day onward, we are no longer friends. Yet you continued using my name to swindle people. And now, you're here spouting nonsense, repeatedly trampling upon the dignity of my Spirit Hall."

"Do you really think I wouldn't dare kill you?!"