Xiao Wu said, "So what if he's a lecher? He hasn't leered at you, has he?"
Dugu Yan's scalp prickled. "Don't you think one man and one woman is how it should be?"
When Ning Rongrong woke up and discovered that her martial soul had evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, she immediately realized that Li Sen had only been trying to scare her earlier.
She breathed a sigh of relief. For the sake of this immortal herb, I suppose I can forgive Li Sen's nasty attitude earlier.
At the same time, she began taking his side, and immediately picked up the conversation when she heard Dugu Yan's words.
"What's wrong with being lustful? The strong should reproduce and pass down their powerful genes. My father has dozens of concubines."
Zhu Zhuqing looked utterly astonished and couldn't help turning toward Ning Rongrong.
Good grief. If she hadn't seen Ning Rongrong call Li Sen scum, she really would have believed this girl was his die-hard fan.
Rebuffed again and again, Dugu Yan said dejectedly, "I can't outtalk the five of you on my own. I'm done!"
Ning Rongrong clicked her tongue.
As the Little Demoness with the most vicious tongue, she immediately replied with biting sarcasm.
"If you can't argue your point, it means you have no grounds. Don't act like you're being bullied."
"You want to become his disciple, but he won't even take you."
Standing to one side, Dugu Bo listened to the girls argue and recalled the past, chuckling despite himself.
He had been handsome in his youth too, a prime catch adored by countless women.
It was only because his martial soul developed problems, and Spirit Hall's Chrysanthemum and Old Ghost were such nuisances, that his descendants ended up so few.
In Spirit City, after failing to win Li Sen over, Salas began collecting information on him and personally delivered it to Spirit Hall.
Inside the Main Hall, Pope Bibi Dong held Li Sen's dossier and studied it closely.
"Li Sen, innate soul power of rank two. Broke through rank ten at nearly eight years old. Martial soul: blue silver grass. Became a rank 39 Soul Elder at twenty. Took Tang San as his disciple in Nuoding City."
"Now twenty-six, a Physical Battle Soul Saint. His disciple Tang San has been promoting his martial soul evolution theory.
Some time ago, he fought the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Bone Douluo for two hours. The outcome is unknown. His strength is judged to be at least that of a rank 94 Titled Douluo."
Bibi Dong put down the letter and addressed her people in the Main Hall.
"This man has poor innate talent, yet he managed to use theory to achieve unprecedented genius-level accomplishments. He's only slightly inferior to Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang."
"For the sake of our plan, a talent like this must join Spirit Hall. Otherwise, kill him!"
Everyone in the Main Hall was stunned on the spot when they heard Bibi Dong say that Li Sen's theory was slightly inferior to Yu Xiaogang's. They all stood there, dumbfounded.
Chrysanthemum Douluo, a level 95 Titled Douluo of the power attack system, couldn't help whispering a question to his longtime friend, Ghost Douluo.
"Old Ghost, is Yu Xiaogang that son of Yu Yuanzhen from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, the one who's almost an old man and still hasn't broken through to Soul Elder?"
Ghost Douluo shook his head.
"I don't know either."
As the two whispered in bewilderment, they suddenly heard Bibi Dong's sinister call.
"Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, I'm sending you to invite Li Sen to join Spirit Hall. Are you confident?"
The corner of Chrysanthemum Douluo's mouth twitched.
"Your Holiness, Salas is one of Spirit Hall's bishops. If his invitation failed, wouldn't the result be the same if we went?"
"Anyone who wants to join would certainly agree when invited by a bishop. If he doesn't want to join, sending Old Ghost and me won't help."
Bibi Dong sneered. "For the sake of our plan, if Li Sen refuses to join Spirit Hall, he can only die!!!"
At those words, Chrysanthemum Douluo instantly understood what Bibi Dong meant.
She wasn't sending them to recruit Li Sen, but to kill him!
Inside Spirit Hall, after issuing her orders and dismissing everyone, Bibi Dong looked up at the sky and murmured, her voice laced with hysterical madness.
"Xiaogang, wait for me. I'll become a god very soon."
"Once I become a god, no one will ever stop us from being together again!!!"
In Heaven Dou City, Flender arrived at Blue Lightning Academy looking haggard after running for days with Yu Xiaogang in tow.
When the gatekeeper told Liu Erlong that someone named Yu Xiaogang had come looking for her, she went to greet him excitedly, outwardly calm but inwardly full of resentment.
Decades ago, Yu Xiaogang had left, leaving her alone to face all the moral finger-pointing and accusations of incest.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and her father, Yu Luomian, had regarded her as a disgrace.
Liu Erlong cared about none of that.
There was only Yu Xiaogang in her heart.
She only resented him for abandoning her instead of facing the world alongside her for the sake of their love.
Now that she heard Yu Xiaogang had come, Liu Erlong lined up five major questions in her mind.
Why did he leave and abandon me all alone?
Could love really not measure up to worldly morality?
Did I, Liu Erlong, hold no place at all in Yu Xiaogang's heart?
When Liu Erlong reached the academy gates and saw the gravely injured Yu Xiaogang, all the questions she wanted to demand answers to turned into towering fury.
"Who did this!!!"
Liu Erlong turned to Flender. "Flender, who beat Xiaogang into this state!"
Flender looked at the woman he loved but could never have and answered honestly, "A twelve-year-old boy named Tang San!"
At Blue Lightning Academy's gates, the gatekeeper and the passing teachers and students all froze.
Unless their eyes deceived them, that gravely injured middle-aged man named Yu Xiaogang was in his forties or fifties, wasn't he?
He was nearly an old man, wasn't he?
How terrible did his talent have to be to get beaten half to death by a twelve-year-old at his age?
Why would someone like that know the dean?
Wasn't he afraid of becoming a laughingstock if word got out that a child had beaten an adult like him?
Liu Erlong had eyes only for Yu Xiaogang and paid no attention whatsoever to the attacker's age.
She didn't know Tang San, so she demanded of Flender, "Where's Tang San! I'll tear him apart alive!"
Knowing Liu Erlong's temper, Flender hurriedly answered.
"When I brought Xiaogang to Heaven Dou City, Tang San and his master, Li Sen, were in Suotuo City."
Concerned for Liu Erlong's safety, Flender hurriedly warned her.
"Erlong, calm down first. Tang San's master, Li Sen, is very strong, comparable to a Titled Douluo."
"Let's wait until Xiaogang's injuries heal and go together. It'll be safer with our Martial Soul Fusion Skill."
Liu Erlong gritted her teeth.
"Does being a Titled Douluo give him the right to let his disciple bully Xiaogang?"
"I'll make him pay! If I can't beat his master, then I'll beat him!"
Flender's mouth froze, and he couldn't get a word out.
How familiar this scene was. Wasn't it just like what had happened before Yu Xiaogang went looking for a beating?
Besides, he had clearly said that all three of them should go together to be safe.
He hadn't said they shouldn't go!
Why was Liu Erlong getting so worked up?
Flender felt a little dazed. For an instant, he couldn't understand why he had fallen for Liu Erlong in the first place.
No wonder those two had become a couple. Both had bubbles in their brains.
The thought vanished in an instant.
In the end, Flender couldn't withstand the power of the woman who had been both the moonlight of his dreams and the cinnabar mark on his heart for so many years, and chose to shut his mouth.
Liu Erlong snorted coldly and was about to race toward Suotuo City.
Just then, Yu Xiaogang, who had been burying his head like an ostrich ever since they met, could no longer hold back and spoke.
"Erlong..."
Liu Erlong stopped without turning around, her voice resolute.
"Xiaogang, don't say another word. I have to avenge you right now!"
Yu Xiaogang paused for a moment, then said in a weathered voice, "Thank you, Erlong, but Tang San stays by Li Sen's side all the time. There won't be an opening."
"Let's wait until my injuries heal and go together."
Flender's eyes widened. This was the first time he had seen Yu Xiaogang show any sense.
But in the next moment...
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