Flender's... friend... a member of... the Golden Iron Triangle... Was that man in his forties, whose strength didn't even seem to have reached the Soul Ancestor level, really a member of the Golden Iron Triangle?
Li Yusong wondered curiously at that moment. As a level-60 Soul Emperor, he had one Ten-Year Soul Ring. Looking at Yu Xiaogang, he felt the man didn't seem like someone who had run with Flender. After all, Flender was a Soul Saint-level powerhouse. Would a powerhouse like that have a friend who wasn't even a Soul Ancestor?
And he was supposedly a member of the Golden Iron Triangle, too. Li Yusong had heard Flender mention before that one member of the Golden Iron Triangle wasn't good at fighting but possessed great theoretical wisdom. With the help of that Horn of Wisdom, the three of them had developed a Martial Soul Fusion Skill-and a three-in-one one at that.
But Flender had never mentioned how strong that Horn of Wisdom was.
Could it be that he was too weak, so Flender didn't want to say?
With that thought, Li Yusong soon arrived at Flender's office.
Flender was just about to fall asleep when Li Yusong came in.
"Flender, tell me, do you have a friend named Yu Xiaogang? He used to be a member of the Golden Iron Triangle with you, and now he's here looking for you. Is he a member of the Golden Iron Triangle? Is he your friend?"
The moment Li Yusong finished, Flender knew who it was. He had even given the name-wasn't that Yu Xiaogang?
"He's come to see me? I'll go see him."
Flender immediately went to meet Yu Xiaogang as fast as he could.
"Flender!"
"Xiao Gang, what brings you here now? When will this matter between you and Erlong finally reach a resolution?"
"Flender..."
"I understand. Let's talk in private." Flender also knew that discussing the private affairs between Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong in front of everyone really wasn't appropriate.
The two of them then went straight to Flender's office. After all, no one would come eavesdropping there, which made it a better place. Besides, Flender was a Soul Saint. Whatever else one might say, a Soul Saint could take an enemy general's head amid an army of ten thousand, and his hearing was no slouch, either.
If his old companions on the team tried to eavesdrop, he would hear them, too. After all, this really wasn't something convenient to speak of openly. Once it got out, the consequences would be troublesome.
"Xiao Gang, tell me, where on earth have you been all this time? Tell me what you went off to do. Ever since that incident with Erlong, you just disappeared. Where did you go?"
"Do you know how much Erlong has missed you all this time? Do you know how much I've missed you, too? The three of us are sworn brothers and sister."
"I know it was your second uncle, Yu Luomian, who stopped you back then. There was nothing we could do about that. Who could have expected things to turn out that way? It was simply too outrageous. No one expected it, and neither did you. But was it really right for you to just disappear like that? You simply vanished."
"You chose to hide away alone and never see Erlong again, but was that really right?"
"Was doing that really correct? Were you really right to do that? You can hide for a while, but can you hide forever?"
"You can't hide from this. In the end, this is a matter between us, and it's also a matter between you and Erlong."
"Even if the truth of that incident really was hard to accept, the fact remains that it happened. Erlong... chose to establish a Soul Master Academy because of you."
"She's been waiting for you to return all this time, hoping you'll respond to her. Why can't you face her? Erlong doesn't even mind, so what are you still bothered about?"
"Don't tell me you're still thinking about that ex-girlfriend of yours, Bibi Dong. She dumped you, and you still have the nerve to pine for her? She might not even think anything of you now. Erlong is the only one who has stood by you through thick and thin, all right?"
Flender spoke his true feelings, too. After all, the goddess he had once loved had ultimately chosen someone else, and she was willing to accept it. As long as his goddess could be happy, it didn't matter even if she was with his sworn brother.
After all, it was because his goddess, Liu Erlong, had chosen Yu Xiaogang that Flender had ultimately chosen, as their sworn brother, to personally officiate their wedding, both to bring them together and to make his goddess happy.
Who could have expected Yu Luomian to burst onto the scene halfway through and turn everything into this? Yet Yu Xiaogang had actually chosen to run away from it all!
Because of this, his goddess was still living in pain even now. He wanted to see her and help, but there was nothing he could say to dissuade her.
"I'm telling you, if you're still thinking about that ex-girlfriend and that's why Erlong is still like this, I'll fight you to the death!" Flender was speaking from the heart, too. After all, Liu Erlong was his goddess.
No matter what, Flender would never allow anyone to insult his goddess. He truly lived up to being the number-one lapdog, a heaven-ranked lapdog-and number one in that rank, at that.
Even Feng Xiaotian, the Douluo Continent's famous lapdog, couldn't outdo Flender in his fawning devotion.
"I know what you mean, but there's nothing we can do about these things. Do you know how serious this is? This violates human ethics and morality. No matter what, I can't agree to it. The best outcome is for us not to meet..."
That was what Yu Xiaogang said on the surface, but as his brother of many years, Flender also sensed that he was hiding something.
"Are you hiding something? I'm telling you, if there's anything in your heart that wrongs Erlong, I'll break your arms and legs and tie you up to take you to her."
A lapdog truly was a lapdog.
"I'm begging you. There really is nothing we can do about this. Right now, we..."
"Right now, there's simply nothing we can do. These things aren't permitted, after all. We can't do this. I can't do something like that! Once we do, how will everyone view our Golden Iron Triangle? How will they view you, our eldest brother, and how will they view Erlong? I can disregard my own reputation, but you have to care about yours!"
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang was deliberately keeping Flender hanging, because Liu Erlong was an important pawn of his and also served to maintain his facade as the Grandmaster. No matter what, he had to keep up the pretense.
Although Flender didn't pick up on the problem in those words, he still felt deeply disappointed. He thought his brother was taking this matter far too seriously.
My goddess doesn't think there's anything wrong with it. She's even willing to remain single for you, yet you act like this. This really isn't right of you.
"All right, let's not talk about it anymore. Let's get to the point now. Flender, I came to help you, and at the same time, to prove myself."
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