The idiot Yu Xiaogang

In the dungeon, Yu Xiaogang watched the cell door open and pairs of jailers file inside. He instinctively curled up.

These men had often amused themselves at his expense, beating him until he howled every time. Seeing so many of them enter, Yu Xiaogang wet his pants in fright.

"Grandmaster Yu, we were blind dogs who failed to recognize Mount Tai. We hope you won't hold it against us."

Several jailers who had beaten him dropped to their knees with a thud and slapped their own faces, smack after smack.

They knew Yu Xiaogang was Bibi Dong's cherished first love. Once he saw Bibi Dong, what good end could possibly await them?

At those words, Yu Xiaogang immediately stopped trembling and huddling up. Instead, he posed as though folding his mutilated arms across his chest.

"You damned bastards, you finally recognized me!"

"We did! We all recognized you!" The jailers knelt and begged for mercy.

"I told you long ago that I was the Supreme Pontiff's lover! Now she's finally found me. Once I get out, she'll certainly entrust me with an important position, and then every one of you will die!"

The moment Yu Xiaogang finished speaking, the jailers were so terrified that they kowtowed repeatedly.

"Grandmaster Yu, please spare our lives! Please don't, Grandmaster Yu!"

"Grandmaster Yu, we beg you, spare us! We didn't mean it back then!"

"Grandmaster Yu, spare us!"

Yu Xiaogang grew even more pleased with himself.

"Spare you? Why should I spare you? The moment I see Dong'er, I'll have her punish you immediately. You dogs throwing your weight around behind your masters, not one of you will escape. I've remembered every last one of you!"

Yu Xiaogang strutted and swaggered, domineering and arrogant, wishing he could repay all the suffering of the past days in one go.

"Grandmaster Yu, I was a blind dog who failed to recognize Mount Tai. I couldn't recognize who you truly were, but I have elderly parents and young children at home. My whole family depends on my earnings to survive. Please, show us mercy. We're willing to compensate you with Gold Soul Coins, lots and lots of Gold Soul Coins. As long as you forgive me, we'll sell everything we own and give you all the Gold Soul Coins."

"You think I care about your Gold Soul Coins? I'm Yu Xiaogang, son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's master! I've never lacked money in my life. What would I want your few stinking Gold Soul Coins for? Since you mentioned your elderly parents and young children, I'll... I'll enslave all your relatives and friends, send your sons to fight to the death in the Soul Fighting Arena, and send your daughters to brothels to serve customers!"

The jailers pleaded even louder.

"Grandmaster Yu, please don't!"

"Hahahahahahaha! You offended me, Yu Xiaogang! You won't escape my grasp in a hundred years, a thousand years! I'll keep you suffering under my hands for all eternity!"

Hearing this, the kneeling jailers stopped kowtowing and silently stood up instead.

"Grandmaster Yu, must you really be so heartless?"

"Hmph, heartless? This doesn't even count as heartless! Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff is my lover, and the master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, one of the Upper Three Sects, is my father! You dared humiliate me like this. I'll make sure you can neither live nor die, with no road to heaven and no gate into the earth!"

The lead jailer barked.

"Enough, enough, enough! Stop crying, all of you. Can't you see he never intended to spare us?"

The other jailers stopped wailing as well, wiped away their tears, and stood up.

"At this point, we only have that one option."

They exchanged a knowing look, and Yu Xiaogang immediately sensed that something was terribly wrong.

They had carefully prepared this cell for Yu Xiaogang. The instant his portrait appeared on the sky-screen rankings, they had moved him here, precisely so that no one could hear or see what they were about to do.

"Now that Grandmaster Yu refuses to forgive us, we can only save ourselves. Brothers, we have no choice."

Two jailers stepped forward, one on either side, and pinned Yu Xiaogang firmly down.

"Wang Tou, are we really doing this? What if the Supreme Pontiff investigates afterward..."

"Bullshit!" Captain Wang roared. "So what if she investigates? Yu Xiaogang wants us dead!"

"If it were only our deaths, that would be one thing. But he wants to send our children to fight to the death in the Soul Fighting Arena and our daughters to brothels to serve customers. Our parents, relatives, and friends will all be executed then."

"If the Supreme Pontiff investigates afterward, just put all the blame on me. All I ask is that after she executes me, you help look after my family."

The jailers all responded.

"Don't worry, Wang Tou. From now on, your family's affairs are our affairs!"

"That's right!"

As everyone voiced their agreement, the lead jailer no longer had any worries holding him back.

Yu Xiaogang also realized something was wrong now and cried out in panic:

"What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I'm the Supreme Pontiff's lover! I'm the son of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's master! What are you going to do? Get away from me!"

Captain Wang raised his steel blade! Just as he was about to kill Yu Xiaogang with a single stroke, a young jailer behind him rolled his eyes in thought and hurriedly stopped him.

"Why are you stopping me? Don't tell me you can't bear it?"

The young jailer chuckled. "Of course not. Since you're looking out for us like this, Wang Tou, we can't just do nothing. Why don't we do this and that to him? That way, our actions will stay hidden, and Grandmaster Yu won't be able to tell anyone about us."

Captain Wang's eyes shifted several times. "That... that really is a good idea."

Two hours later, the jailers escorted Yu Xiaogang to the Martial Soul Main Hall and handed him over to the Temple Army stationed at the entrance.

"Your Holiness, Yu Xiaogang has been brought here."

"Have him wait at the entrance for now. Things here, things here are a little messy~"

The Temple Army guards at the door exchanged glances. They all thought the Supreme Pontiff's voice sounded rather strange today, but they did not dwell on it.

Those who worked in Spirit Hall and looked or thought too much about everything would soon end up dead.

They settled Yu Xiaogang in a study not far from the hall's entrance and even brewed him a pot of precious black tea.

Unfortunately, Yu Xiaogang merely sat in his chair, chuckling nonstop.

"This man is truly pitiful. Apparently, Tang Hao abducted him, and he crawled all the way to Spirit City through untold hardship. Our people even thought he was damaging the Supreme Pontiff's image and locked him up. He was only released today."

"Isn't that the truth? Tang Hao was far too ruthless. Not only did he break all four of his limbs, he even drove him mad. Who knows what kind of perseverance Grandmaster Yu relied on to crawl to Spirit City, one step at a time?"

"Yes, Grandmaster Yu truly is an example for all of us to learn from."

Before, being acknowledged would certainly have made Yu Xiaogang jump up in uncontrollable excitement. But now, he merely chuckled twice, saliva trailing from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, the nearby Temple Army soldiers hurried to attend to him solicitously.

Inside the Papal Hall, Bibi Dong and Ma Hongjun's yoga progressed rapidly.

Through all kinds of highly difficult poses, Ma Hongjun felt the Soul Power inside him circulating at tremendous speed. Before long, his Soul Power had increased by one level.

Ma Hongjun stared at his hands in shock.

"I broke through just like that? Isn't this way too fast?"

He had only practiced this cultivation technique for three or four days, yet his Soul Power had already increased by one level.

"Woohoo, taking flight!"

Moreover, this cultivation technique had many other marvelous uses. Even Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff could be controlled by the curse.

Ma Hongjun was already fantasizing about using the curse to control all the powerful women on the continent in the future, then using them as cultivation cauldrons. He would surely break through to a realm he had never imagined before.

Even after he ascended to the Divine Realm someday, perhaps the curse could control even deities...