Yu Xiaogang

Biodata

Background / History

Yu Xiaogang traveled widely during his youth and spent more than thirty years studying soul beasts, soul masters, and martial souls. His reputation as the continent’s Grandmaster rests on theoretical knowledge, which he regards as his greatest achievement 2 5 7.

He is Yu Yuanzhen’s son, but was expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan before the Heavenly Screen appeared. The clan’s elders later confirm that his name is absent from its genealogy 18 21 22.

When the Heavenly Screen begins comparing the two continents, he is at Shrek Academy following the Shrek Seven Devils’ five-year reunion. Tang San addresses him as his teacher and initially turns to him to explain the unfamiliar information 2 5.

Appearance

• Beard: He strokes it while dismissing the Holy Spirit Continent 2.
• Hair and beard: Both become wind-tousled while he sits outside Shrek Academy after his allies abandon him 21.

Personality

Yu Xiaogang is intensely proud of his scholarly reputation and particularly sensitive to criticism in his own field. When confronted with evidence beyond his knowledge, he repeatedly alleges fraud or changes the basis of comparison rather than accepting the implications. He eventually admits to Tang San that he knows the Heavenly Screen’s information is real, but wants to recover his dignity after being humiliated 6 7 12 14.

His confidence depends heavily on perceived protection. Discovering that he has insulted deities reduces him to terror; being abandoned by his allies prompts genuine regret. Once he believes the Douluo Continent is protected by gods and cannot be located, he immediately resumes his taunts 18 21 22 25.

Abilities & Skills

Soul-Master Theory

Yu Xiaogang has studied soul beasts, soul masters, and martial souls for over thirty years and is recognized across the Douluo Continent as a theoretical Grandmaster 5 7.

• Teaching: Tang San consults him about the existence of two-million-year soul beasts 5.
• Limits of knowledge: He initially treats the Douluo Continent’s records as universal rules, insisting that million-year soul beasts cannot exist 6.
• Soul-tool knowledge: He understands soul tools as auxiliary devices for storage, lighting, and transportation, leaving him unable to explain Lingxiao’s god-level combat capabilities 11.

Public Persuasion

His arguments repeatedly rally the Douluo Continent’s prominent soul masters through the Heavenly Screen 7 13.

• His enslavement theory restores morale after the first overwhelming comparison with the Holy Spirit Continent 7.
• He redirects the debate from soul tools to martial souls and soul-power levels, gaining support from sect leaders and Spirit Hall 12 13.
• Even after Lingxiao locates the Douluo Continent, he attempts to intervene through the Heavenly Screen as its morale collapses 28.

Physical Strength and Limits

• He can shatter a desk with a palm strike, but the resulting splinters pierce his hand 6.
• Punching an old tree leaves the tree unmoved and his hand badly swollen 21.
• Ma Hongjun privately contrasts his claims of exceptional talent with his being over fifty and still stuck at rank thirty 7.

Relationships

• Tang San — Student. Initially seeks his explanations and tries to calm him, but also challenges his denial of the Heavenly Screen’s evidence. When Yu Xiaogang becomes a potential target of divine retaliation, Tang San moves more than thirty feet away to avoid being associated with him 5 7 21.
• Yu Yuanzhen — Father and head of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Supports his arguments, then blames him for the dispute and publicly denies their relationship. After confidence returns, Yu Yuanzhen explicitly acknowledges him as his son again 14 15 21 22.
• Bibi Dong — Former romantic connection. Publicly calls him the man she loves, but later blames him to protect Spirit Hall. The subsequent account states that the Enshrined forced her to sell him out 7 21 22.
• Liu Erlong — Calls Bibi Dong a “homewrecker” immediately after Bibi Dong expresses love for him 7.
• Ma Hongjun — Privately mocks the discrepancy between his self-proclaimed talent and stalled cultivation 7.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong — Initially endorse his reasoning. When the Holy Spirit Continent’s deities are revealed, Gu Rong publicly identifies him as the culprit behind their insults 7 15 20.
• Tang Xiao — Supports his arguments, then apologizes on behalf of the Clear Sky Sect and offers Yu Xiaogang as compensation 13 21.
• Lingxiao — Rejects his accusations that advanced soul tools are fraudulent and rebukes his ignorance of their purpose and development 12.
• Ao Che — Becomes a personal enemy after the dragon-martial-soul dispute; expresses a desire to tear Yu Xiaogang’s mouth apart 27.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Opening Comparison and Public Humiliation

• Identifies the Heavenly Screen as likely divine in origin because ranked figures can receive rewards 2.
• Dismisses the unfamiliar Holy Spirit Continent as small and barren, arguing that the Douluo Continent could easily crush it 2.
• Ridicules claims that ordinary people on the other continent can be Titled Douluo 3.
• Cannot answer Tang San when the ranking reveals a two-million-year soul beast in twentieth place 5.
• Has his desk-breaking tantrum broadcast by the Heavenly Screen’s real-time intelligence function. He responds to the resulting mockery by accusing the other continent of using illusions to falsify the ranking 6.

The Enslavement Theory

• Proposes that powerful soul beasts have monopolized spiritual energy, displaced human soul masters, and reduced humanity to slaves or food 7.
• Gains support from Chen Xin, Gu Rong, Yu Yuanzhen, Tang Xiao, and Bibi Dong 7.
• Rejects accounts of fifty thousand years of peaceful human–beast coexistence, recasting shared streets as evidence that humans are being walked on leashes 7 9.
• Treats the appearance of another ranked soul beast as “ironclad proof” of enslavement 9.

Soul Tools and Martial Souls

• Lingxiao’s profile overturns his assumption that soul tools have little connection to combat: her rank-ninety-three body can wield power comparable to a First-Level God 10 11.
• Accuses her continent of cheating and insists that lifeless external aids cannot challenge deities 12.
• After Lingxiao’s rebuke, shifts to arguing that innate cultivation, martial souls, and physical strength are the only valid comparisons 12 13.
• Dismisses Lingxiao’s brain martial soul as trash and interprets soul-tool research as evidence that her continent’s martial souls have no future 14.
• Uses Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon and Yu Yuanzhen’s Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon ranking profiles to celebrate an apparent advantage 14 15 16.

Divine Revelations and Abandonment

• The Azure Tide Sacred Dragon and Azure Nether Heaven-Slaying Sword revelations destroy his argument. He acknowledges that his continent’s martial souls look like garbage beside them 18.
• Collapses after learning that the two ranked figures are First-Level Gods occupying only sixteenth and seventeenth place 18.
• The Upper Three Sects and Spirit Hall blame him while seeking to avoid retaliation. His father disowns him, and Bibi Dong’s apology extinguishes his remaining hope of protection 20 21.
• Regrets provoking the other civilization with his theories. The Heavenly Screen broadcasts him sitting outside Shrek Academy, ashen-faced and unresponsive 21.

Renewed Defiance and the Expedition

• Resumes boasting after assurances of divine protection and the belief that the Holy Spirit Continent cannot find them 22 25.
• Mocks Lingxiao’s long-range scanning technology shortly before the Douluo Continent’s location is exposed 27 28.
• Condemns the bombardment of Sea God Island and warns that the Sea God will retaliate 32.
• Later cheers for the Sea God, declares the Douluo Continent victorious, and demands that its opponents kneel. He admits that he does not know the Sea God’s divine rank 35.

Notable Quotes

“I know! … I’m just upset! … After being slammed like that, I have to win back some face!” 7

“I actually tried to shake their civilization with my insignificant theories!” 21

“Exactly! Want to kill me? Find me first! Hahaha!” 22