Yu Xiaogang Publicly Admitted He Was a Fake Grandmaster, Everyone Mocked Him, and His Humiliation Turned to Rage!

Hearing Yao Xuan's words, Yu Xiaogang slowly raised his head as he lay sprawled on the ground.

Not a trace of his usual dignity as "Grandmaster" remained on his face.

Through the muddy water blurring his vision, he saw Yao Xuan's eyes.

There was nothing in those eyes.

No anger, no impatience, and not the slightest hint that he was joking with him.

There was only an indifference unlike anything he had ever seen in his life!

At that moment, Yu Xiaogang's heart lurched.

He remembered what Yao Xuan had just said-refuse to admit it, and kneel until you die!

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang shuddered!

Shameless though he was, he still valued his own life dearly!

Reputation, dignity, theories, disciples...

Could any of those matter more than his life?

"I admit it! I admit it!"

As these thoughts ran through his mind, Yu Xiaogang nodded repeatedly, no longer daring to wriggle out of it or act like a scoundrel.

"That's more like it."

Looking at Yu Xiaogang sprawled on the ground with mud all over his face, Yao Xuan gave a faint nod.

"If you knew it would come to this, why do it in the first place?"

Hearing Yao Xuan's words, Yu Xiaogang trembled again.

At this point, he had no room left to retreat.

That kick had already crushed the last shred of hope in his heart to dust.

This man really would kill him!

Reputation mattered, dignity mattered, but what did they amount to compared with his life?

At that thought, Yu Xiaogang gritted his teeth and steeled his heart.

"I... I admit it."

"I, Yu Xiaogang, am a fraud and a Fake Grandmaster."

He spoke those words with extreme reluctance.

His voice was pitifully quiet, like a mosquito's hum; without leaning close, one could not make out what he said at all.

With every word he uttered, he felt as though someone had slapped him hard across the face.

"What?"

Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, Yao Xuan leaned forward slightly.

"I can't hear you!"

"If you're admitting your wrongs, act like you mean it!"

"Who are you trying to fool, speaking so quietly?"

Hearing Yao Xuan's words, Yu Xiaogang's face instantly flushed crimson.

How could he not know that Yao Xuan was deliberately humiliating him?

But even knowing that, he could only obey.

"I admit it! I'm a fraud and a Fake Grandmaster!"

This time, his voice was somewhat louder than before.

But to Yao Xuan's ears, it still was not enough.

"Still can't hear you."

Yao Xuan shook his head, then suddenly willed something into motion.

The next instant, an invisible force enveloped Yu Xiaogang's entire body!

"I admit it! I'm a fraud and a Fake Grandmaster-!"

This time, Yu Xiaogang's voice seemed to have been amplified countless times over.

Throughout Nuoding Academy, every last corner heard that declaration with perfect clarity!

For a moment, cheers erupted across the field like roaring mountains and surging seas.

"Good! He admitted it! He finally admitted it!"

"So this Grandmaster really is a fraud!"

"I saw through him ages ago! How does a level twenty-nine piece of trash deserve to be called Grandmaster?"

Applause and whistles mingled together.

Those taunts reached Yu Xiaogang's ears, one after another.

He knelt on the ground, his face so red it looked ready to drip blood.

He opened his mouth, wanting to offer a few words in his defense.

But when the words reached his lips, he forcibly swallowed them back down.

What he valued most in his life was his "face."

For the sake of saving face, he could act shamelessly, wriggle out of things, and lie.

But now, in front of all the academy's teachers and students, Yao Xuan had trampled that face into the mud and ground it beneath his heel several times!

How he wished a crack would open in the ground so he could crawl inside and never come out for the rest of his life.

But none did.

He could only kneel there, beneath everyone's gaze.

And the mockery continued.

Soon, its spearpoint shifted from him to Tang San on the stretcher.

"Look at that Tang San! He's still lying there!"

"With a fraud like that for a master, how could he be any good?"

"I could tell when he gave false testimony in public earlier! That master and disciple are each more shameless than the other!"

Tang San's expression, as he lay on the stretcher, was hardly any better than Yu Xiaogang's.

As those words bored into his ears, he clenched the hand hanging beside the stretcher so tightly that his knuckles cracked.

In his previous life in the Tang Sect, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

What a proud man he, Tang San, was.

Yet now, not only did he have to endure people pointing at his nose and cursing him, he also had to carry this black pot of blame for that old fellow kneeling in the mud!

This indignity hurt him even more than the arrow wound at his waist!

He lowered his head without a word.

But a cold glint flashed through his eyes, unnoticed by anyone else.

Yao Xuan took all of this in.

"Yu Xiaogang, remember what I tell you today."

However, Yao Xuan could not be bothered to pay Yu Xiaogang any attention and merely spoke indifferently.

"A person should live honestly."

"If you don't have the ability, don't go around swindling people and leading students astray!"

"You can fool people for a time, but you can't fool them for a lifetime!"

With that, Yao Xuan turned and walked straight off the field.

His receding figure soon reached the edge of the field.

Once Yao Xuan left, the oppressive force enveloping Yu Xiaogang withdrew as well.

Kneeling on the ground, Yu Xiaogang felt his whole body relax.

The force that had pressed down on him until he could barely breathe had finally vanished.

He tried moving his fingers.

They moved.

He tried summoning his Martial Soul again.

Luo Sanpao's aura actually returned to his body!

Just moments ago, that oppressive force had pinned down the Soul Power within him so completely that he could not even summon his Martial Soul.

But now, he had his power in his grasp again.

At that moment, a surge of malice shot from the depths of Yu Xiaogang's heart straight to the crown of his head!

He raised his head and stared at Yao Xuan's receding back.

Not a trace of fear remained in those murky eyes.

All that remained was towering hatred!

In all his years, when had he, Yu Xiaogang, ever suffered such monstrous humiliation?

Exposed in public, trampled into the mud, and forced to accept the labels of "fraud" and "Fake Grandmaster."

Today, he had utterly lost every scrap of dignity he had built up over his life!

Since that was the case, why care about the consequences anymore?

Bracing both hands against the ground, Yu Xiaogang struggled up from the mud.

His legs were still weak, and he needed two attempts before he could barely stand steady.

Then Yu Xiaogang abruptly gritted his teeth.

At that moment, the Soul Power within him surged wildly!

The next instant, his mutated Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, suddenly appeared beside him!

At the same time, a Soul Ring lit up around him!

"Fart like thunder-Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao!"

Then, his eyes bloodshot and fixed on Yao Xuan's back, Yu Xiaogang silently recited the soul incantation!