Bibi Dong's Cold Smile Filled the Screen: Yu Xiaogang, You Deceived Me So Bitterly!

Spirit City, Pope Hall.

Bibi Dong sat upon her throne, her fingertips lightly tapping the armrest. Beneath her golden mask, no one could see her expression. Yet within those purple eyes surged an icy fury that had been suppressed for twenty years.

Yu Xiaogang... you deceived me so bitterly!

Nording City.

Yu Xiaogang, who had just been stripped of his emotional memories and left with a blank mind, instinctively sensed an extreme danger. He looked up blankly at that familiar yet unfamiliar name on the Light Screen, his heart pounding uncontrollably.

The entire continent waited.

A comment radiating nine-colored divine light appeared, noble and majestic, carrying an irresistible imperial aura as it forcibly suppressed every other comment.

Everyone knew that this was the symbol exclusive to the Pope of Spirit Hall.

[Spirit Hall Pope · Bibi Dong: A judgment? No, I disdain judging a dead man. I am merely here to seek justice for the person I was twenty years ago.]

Before anyone could react, the image on the Light Screen abruptly changed.

It was a letter.

A letter imprinted with Soul Power onto special paper. The handwriting was neat, yet it carried an undertone of urgency and fawning servility.

At the beginning of the letter were the striking words—"To His Eminence Qian Xunji."

The signature bore three glaring characters—Yu Xiaogang.

[Heaven Dou Royal Academy Xue Ye: This is...]

[Star Luo Empire Emperor Dai Tianfeng: A letter Yu Xiaogang wrote to the former Pope, Qian Xunji?]

[Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect Ning Fengzhi: The contents of the letter...]

Before the crowd could speculate further, Bibi Dong's second nine-colored comment descended like a divine decree. It contained a complete copy of the letter.

[Spirit Hall Pope · Bibi Dong: To His Eminence Qian Xunji. Your student, Yu Xiaogang, has long admired Your Eminence's divine might and yearned for it. Today, I humbly write for one matter alone. The Saintess Bibi Dong and I were young and ignorant, and once shared private feelings. Yet I deeply understand that the Saintess is the future light of Spirit Hall, bound to the safety of the continent. How could personal feelings be allowed to tarnish her? I am willing to withdraw of my own accord, to sever all ties with Bibi Dong, and I respectfully ask Your Eminence to permit me to join Spirit Hall. For Your Eminence's grand ambitions, for Spirit Hall's eternal glory, I am willing to offer my meager strength. I have gained some insights into martial soul theory and may perhaps help ease some of Your Eminence's burdens...]

How was this a love letter?

This was clearly a declaration of allegiance, selling out his lover for glory!

When his beloved was imprisoned by her teacher and needed support most, Yu Xiaogang did not think of rescuing her or resisting. He thought only of stepping on her shoulders and wagging his tail before the man who imprisoned her!

[I... holy shit!!!]

[This is no longer a matter of bad character. He's a beast!!!]

[He knew Qian Xunji had designs on Bibi Dong. Not only did he refuse to help, he even took the initiative to write a letter cutting ties with her while promoting himself? I'm going to puke!]

[The person above has no vision! This isn't promoting himself. He's telling Qian Xunji: Look, I've withdrawn willingly. She's free now, so please, go right ahead! I'm even willing to be your dog! He's handing him the knife! He sold Bibi Dong and still wanted to get a better price for himself!]

The comments went completely mad.

If abandoning Liu Erlong after beginning a relationship with her had been cowardice and selfishness, then this letter was utter despicability and shamelessness!

Shrek Academy.

Flender, Dai Mubai, Oscar, Ma Hongjun... everyone stood stunned.

They had always believed that Grandmaster had merely mishandled his relationships.

Who could have imagined that he had been rotten to the core from the very beginning?

Nording City.

Yu Xiaogang stared at the letter, and it felt as though all the blood in his body had frozen.

He remembered...

The emotional memories stripped away by divine punishment were actually stirred by the sight of this letter, restoring a faint shadow of themselves.

He remembered that night. He had carried this letter and wandered outside Spirit City for a long time before finally delivering it.

His thought at the time had been that since he could not be with Bibi Dong, he might as well use that connection to seek a future for himself!

"No... it wasn't like that!"

His instinct to survive erupted with its final strength, and he frantically began typing into the comments.

[Plagiarist · Yu Xiaogang: It wasn't like that! I was only a Soul Master in my twenties at the time! Qian Xunji was a Titled Douluo! What could I have done if I stayed? Die for nothing? I could only preserve this useful body and study martial soul theory. That was the greatest contribution I could make to the Soul Master world!]

He was still making excuses, still using that same theory of "the greater good" to whitewash himself.

[Spirit Hall Pope · Bibi Dong: Heh, studying theory?]

[Spirit Hall Pope · Bibi Dong: Yu Xiaogang, you stole Spirit Hall's archives for twenty years. Did you ever truly cultivate even one non-genius commoner capable of changing the Soul Master world's landscape? Your theories merely added flowers to brocade, pushing those who were already geniuses a little faster. Your so-called contribution was taking things stolen from my home, guiding a few noble children who would have succeeded anyway, then telling the entire world that it was your achievement?]

[Spirit Hall Pope · Bibi Dong: You dare speak of contribution?]

Every word pierced the heart!

Within Shrek Academy, the atmosphere became incomparably strange.

Dai Mubai, Oscar, and Ma Hongjun instinctively exchanged glances.

Was Grandmaster's theory... truly useful?

Or was it simply because they themselves were geniuses?

Dai Mubai was a prince of the Star Luo Empire, with the White Tiger Martial Soul. Oscar possessed Innate Full Soul Power in the food system.

Ma Hongjun possessed the mutated Evil Fire Phoenix Martial Soul. Tang San had Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.

Not one of them was a commoner. Not one of them was mediocre.

How much effect had Grandmaster's theories truly had on them?

The last trace of respect they held for Yu Xiaogang began to crumble away.

Meanwhile, a new storm had already formed in the comments.

[Blue Tyrant Academy Teacher: I propose that Yu Xiaogang be expelled from Blue Tyrant Academy immediately! He does not deserve to remain in the place Sister Erlong established to commemorate her youth!]

[Blue Tyrant Academy Student Wang Shuai: Seconded! Every second that scum remains at our academy is an insult to Headmistress Liu!]

[Joint Petition of All Blue Tyrant Academy Teachers and Students: Expel Yu Xiaogang! In addition, we respectfully request that Headmistress Liu Erlong rename "Blue Tyrant Academy"! Erase every trace connected to this man completely!]

The teachers and students of Blue Tyrant Academy expressed their fury in the most decisive way possible.

They wanted to sweep away the trash. More than that, they wanted to carve this rotten flesh out for their headmistress!

Heaven's Path Light Screen seemed to hear their hearts, and a streak of golden light flashed across it.

[Announcement: The Blue Tyrant Academy renaming procedure has been initiated. Confirmation pending Headmistress Liu Erlong's awakening.]

This completely cut off Yu Xiaogang's last retreat.

Blue Tyrant Academy and Liu Erlong had utterly abandoned him.

Yet this was only the beginning.

Bibi Dong's will did not stop at words alone.

Just as the entire continent was processing this shocking scandal, a crimson battle report streaked across the sky!

[Spirit Hall Urgent Report: Ghost Douluo Gui Mei has led three thousand Holy Emperor Warriors across the Heaven Dou Empire border and is currently encircling Nording City at maximum speed! Papal Order: Capture Yu Xiaogang alive and escort him to Spirit City, where he will be offered before the former Pope's mausoleum in tribute to the heroic spirits!]

Boom!

Spirit Hall was getting serious!

Three thousand Holy Emperor Warriors! They were an elite legion composed of Soul Kings and Soul Emperors!

Led personally by a Titled Douluo!

All to capture a disgraced piece of trash whose strength had barely reached level thirty!

What an absurd overkill!

But everyone understood that this was not about killing a chicken with a butcher's knife.

This was the Pope declaring her resolve to the entire world! No one was allowed to protect him!

The Heaven Dou Empire did not dare. The Star Luo Empire could not.

Whoever dared interfere would become an enemy of all Spirit Hall!

Yu Xiaogang's end had arrived.

He was finished.

His reputation, love, career, backing... everything was gone.

Upon the Light Screen, an aged and weary comment slowly appeared, carrying the majesty of the dragon clan.

[Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan · Yu Yuanzhen: Sigh...]

That single long sigh conveyed endless disappointment and resolve.

[Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan · Yu Yuanzhen: My Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has stood tall beneath the heavens and endured for a thousand years. Never have we produced one so devoid of integrity and honor, so faithless and treacherous! Today, in the name of the clan head and before the ancestral shrine, I announce to the entire continent: From this day onward, Yu Xiaogang shall be completely removed from our clan genealogy! His surname "Yu" is hereby revoked! Henceforth, whether he lives or dies shall have nothing to do with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan! He shall never enter the ancestral mausoleum for all eternity!]

Cast out by his family!

Those four words became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Yu Xiaogang's eyes flew wide open. The color drained from his face, leaving only an ashen gray.

His family had abandoned him too.

In less than an hour, he had fallen from a respected theory grandmaster, a romantic entangled with two peerless beauties, and a direct descendant of a top sect, into an emotional fraud, an academic thief, a family outcast, and a public enemy of the world!

The distance between heaven and earth was no greater than this.

"Urgh..."

Yu Xiaogang let out an incoherent sound from his throat. His eyes rolled back, and he fell stiffly backward, fainting on the spot.

Thus ended a generation's "Grandmaster."

Across the continent, sighs rose everywhere.

Yet Heaven's Path Light Screen seemed to feel that this grand spectacle was not exciting enough.

The instant Yu Xiaogang fell, the golden ranking list belonging to the [Hypocrite Rankings] began to slowly turn its page at the center of the Light Screen.

All previous images and words vanished.

Vast, desolate sound effects resounded across the sky.

They were the sounds of waves crashing against reefs, grand and majestic.

Then came the rustling sounds of countless Blue Silver Grass shoots breaking through the earth and swaying in the wind, brimming with the breath of life.

Two utterly different sounds intertwined perfectly.

At the very top of the rankings, in the position of first place, a blood-red crown slowly condensed from illusion into reality.