The Fool Yu Xiaogang and the Rise of the Northern Underworld Empire

[Yu Xiaogang: Nothing like that ever happened!]

[Ning Rongrong: You keep denying it, which means it's true, doesn't it? Don't worry, Grandmaster, we won't laugh at you. Scholars all have their little quirks. We understand.]

[Liu Erlong: That's right, Xiaogang. You don't have to be embarrassed. We understand.]

[Bibi Dong: Ahem. I believe Grandmaster Yu is innocent, but this really is rather embarrassing to talk about. Perfectly normal, perfectly normal.]

[Yu Xiaogang: Shut up! All of you, shut up! Aaaah! Damn that Sky Screen!]

At the academy, a furious Yu Xiaogang slammed the table so hard it shook the room. "Damn that Sky Screen! It exposed my little quirk for everyone to see! My lifelong reputation is ruined!"

Beside the Waterfall, Tang San read the information on the Sky Screen and hurriedly turned to Xiao Wu. He hesitated, then finally spoke.

"Xiao Wu, Da Ming and Er Ming are the two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, aren't they?"

"What's your relationship with them? Why do they call you their big sister?"

Tang San had known for some time that Xiao Wu was a Soul Beast. He was only curious about her relationship with the other two.

Xiao Wu glanced at Tang Hao, then at Tang San, and explained how the three of them were connected.

After hearing her out, Tang Hao said gravely, "Then return to the Star Dou Great Forest at once. That's your home ground, and the safest place for you."

"If you stay here, you'll only be a burden to Little San. Go back to the forest and focus on cultivating. Only then will you have a chance to meet again."

Xiao Wu nodded. "Take care, Brother San."

"Xiao Wu!"

Tang San gazed at her, reluctant to part. "Don't worry. Once I destroy Spirit Hall, we can be together openly."

"Mm!"

Xiao Wu nodded, then turned and left with tears in her eyes.

Tang San's eyes were wet too. He let out a deep sigh, then turned to Tang Hao. "Father, is it true? Is my mother really a hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor?"

"She is."

Tang Hao sighed and nodded, confirming what the Sky Screen had said.

"Then can I see Mother?"

Seeing the hope on Tang San's face, Tang Hao finally nodded. "Come with me."

While Tang Hao and the others were having their family reunion, the people of Douluo Continent noticed that information about the Northern Underworld Empire had begun to appear.

[The first round of live intelligence from the Northern Underworld Continent is about to be released...]

[Live updates from the Northern Underworld Continent:]

[1. The Northern Underworld Empire's Soul Tool Research Institute has made a technological breakthrough. Research and improvements on the ninth-generation Soul Guidance Energy-Gathering Cannon are complete, and testing has concluded.]

[The equipment has now been issued to every army in the Northern Underworld Empire. The first batch consists of one hundred cannons.]

[2. On the Northern Nether Glacier, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion survived her fourth heavenly tribulation and successfully passed the four-hundred-thousand-year mark. Stronger than ever, she is preparing to enter the Northern Underworld Empire's service.]

[3. The son of the Prince of Northern Nether in the Northern Underworld Empire awakened his Martial Soul, but had only level-one innate Soul Power. He therefore decided to devote himself to researching Soul Tool Armor and has now become Qiu Beiling's apprentice.]

As they read the intelligence on the Northern Underworld Empire, the people of Douluo Continent fell silent, like ducks seized by the neck. The once-noisy live chat went quiet in an instant.

A long while later, a Bullet Comments finally drifted across the Sky Screen above Douluo Continent's live chat.

[Yu Xiaogang: Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast exist? I don't believe it! I won't!]

The people of Douluo Continent might not know what a Soul Guidance Energy-Gathering Cannon or Soul Tool Armor was, but they understood what it meant for a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast to survive Tribulation Lightning.

In their narrow understanding, a hundred thousand years was the limit for a Soul Beast. After that, it either waited quietly for its life to run out or took human form and cultivated anew. How could a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast possibly exist?

[Bibi Dong: Spirit Hall has stood for a thousand years, yet we've never encountered such a thing. Have any of you sect masters seen a record of it?]

[Yu Yuanzhen: Never.]

[Ning Fengzhi: Neither have I.]

[Dugu Bo: What in the world is going on? A four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, and that Soul Cannon thing—how come this old man has never seen any of it?]

[Yu Xiaogang: That Sky Screen must be spouting nonsense! Once a Soul Beast reaches a hundred thousand years, it must become human or wait for death. How could there be a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast?]

[Yu Xiaogang: The Sky Screen is fake! It must be! Who's cast an illusion on us?]

Watching Yu Xiaogang's hysterical comments scroll across the Sky Screen, Ning Fengzhi gave a wry smile.

Who on Douluo Continent could cast an illusion on the leaders of every major power?

It seemed Yu Xiaogang could not bear to admit that the knowledge he had always trusted was wrong, so he kept denying it with all his might.

Ning Fengzhi began to wonder whether staking part of his sect's future on Yu Xiaogang and Tang San had been the right choice.

Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong stared intently at the second update on the Sky Screen. The lure of a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast was simply too great. She still had quite a few empty slots for Soul Skills from her second Martial Soul.

What if the attributes did not suit her?

If she managed to obtain a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and still turned up her nose at it, that would be shameless.

It looks like I'll have to investigate the Northern Underworld Continent.

Thoughts raced through Bibi Dong's mind, but she did not rush to act. The Soul Guidance Energy-Gathering Cannon mentioned in the first update made her wary.

Until she knew the other side's strength, she would not make a rash move.

[Ning Fengzhi: What the Sky Screen says doesn't seem false. Besides, I doubt anyone could cast an illusion on all of us.]

[Dugu Bo: Sect Master Ning is right. Grandmaster Yu, has something gone wrong with your head? How could you come up with such a ridiculous theory?]

[Yu Xiaogang: What do you know? Tell me, how many books have you read? How much do you know about Martial Souls and Soul Beasts?]

[Yu Xiaogang: I, Yu Xiaogang, am recognized across Douluo Continent as a master of theory. Isn't my disciple Tang San's success proof enough?]

Reading Yu Xiaogang's comments in the Bullet Comments, Dugu Bo was speechless. The man actually dared speak to him like that. If Yu Xiaogang had not been Tang San's teacher, Dugu Bo would have gone over and slapped him already.

[Dugu Bo: If you want to stay lost in your own world, I won't stop you. Suit yourself.]

Seeing Dugu Bo back down, Yu Xiaogang grew smug.

[Yu Xiaogang: Hmph! You just can't argue with me, so don't pretend you're choosing not to stop me. Let me ask everyone: have we heard so much as a scrap of news about this so-called Northern Underworld Continent?]

[Yu Xiaogang: There isn't even a single person or Soul Beast from there posting Bullet Comments. How could it possibly have a four-hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast?]