Their Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had endured for so long. If it were destroyed simply because they had offended that man surnamed Zhao, how would they answer to their ancestors?
Besides that, the three elders were still trembling with lingering fear. Fortunately, they had been a step too late and had not encountered that man surnamed Zhao. Otherwise, whether the three of them could even have returned to the clan would have been a serious question.
Just as Yu Luomian and Liu Erlong had said, even three Soul Douluos working together might not defeat a Titled Douluo.
Some might say that was not entirely correct, because in the original work, after Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender joined forces to evolve Luo Sanpao into the Golden Sacred Dragon, they could trade blows with Dugu Bo, a Titled Douluo.
When Dragon Duke, a Soul Douluo, joined forces with Snake Granny, a Soul Emperor, they were also said to rival a Titled Douluo. So why might the three elders together fail to defeat one?
But one must not forget that when Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender joined forces, the evolved Golden Sacred Dragon was reputed to rank first among Douluo's dragons in quality. It was perfectly normal for it to unleash greater power.
Dragon Duke and Snake Granny had complementary Martial Souls. It was also normal for them to unleash strength comparable to a Titled Douluo while using their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
But the three elders had no such Martial Soul Fusion Skill and could not make one plus one plus one greater than three. Zhao Ling himself was far stronger than an ordinary Titled Douluo.
If the three elders had encountered Zhao Ling back then, even if they had managed to return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, they would probably have been beaten into idiots just like the eldest young master.
The more the three elders thought about it, the more frightened they became. The more they thought, the more they felt that Yu Xiaogang was a good-for-nothing who accomplished nothing and ruined everything. And the more they thought, the stronger their urge grew to go down to the dungeon and teach him a vicious lesson.
Endure for a moment, and the more they thought, the angrier they grew. Take a step back, and the more they thought, the more cheated they felt. No, they absolutely could not let this matter slide.
So the three elders exchanged glances, then rose and headed toward the dungeon.
The dungeon was in a secluded location anyway, and hardly anyone went there except the person who delivered food once a day. They refused to believe that food delivery servant would dare tip off the clan leader.
While the three elders stormed off to trouble Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaolong was sitting on the ground outside his room, a foolish grin constantly plastered across his face.
His wife, whom he had married only recently, held a bowl and was feeding him dinner. Her heart was filled with bitterness. She had thought marrying into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan meant a life of comfort, but she had never expected her husband to become an idiot just days after their wedding.
She felt she must have committed some terrible sin. She desperately wanted to divorce her idiot husband, but she did not dare. Whether for her family's future or to avoid offending the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, she could only endure it.
Just then, Yu Yuanzhen entered the courtyard and spoke kindly.
"Child, thank you for your hard work."
Yu Xiaolong's wife smiled bitterly inwardly, but she had to keep a gentle, affectionate smile on her face.
"Father-in-law, what are you saying? Since I married Xiaolong, taking care of him is my duty. It isn't hard."
Yu Yuanzhen nodded, his aged, cloudy eyes resting on his idiot son.
"Alas, Xiaolong, had I known, I would never have let you go to Suotuo City, no matter what. I was the one who harmed you. I never imagined your second brother would offend a Titled Douluo.
"But Xiaolong, I swear to you here and now that sooner or later, I will avenge you and wash away this hatred! That man surnamed Zhao will pay the price for hurting you."
Chapter 117: How could you be so cruel?
In the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's dungeon, Yu Xiaogang gazed at the azure sky through a barred window no more than twenty centimeters long and fifteen centimeters wide, muttering to himself.
"Miss Dong'er, where are you now? Are you doing well?"
He had been locked in this dungeon for over half a month. At first, he had passed the time by sleeping.
During the first few days, because his injuries had not fully healed, sleeping every day had indeed been a good way to pass the time while speeding up his recovery.
But once he had fully recovered, it became impossible to pass all his time sleeping.
Usually, if he managed to fall asleep during the day, he would spend practically the entire night with his eyes open until dawn.
That reversed sleep schedule put him through even greater mental torment, forcing him to return to a normal routine.
But days without freedom or any entertainment to pass the time soon pushed him to the brink of a breakdown.
To find a way to pass the time, he kept thinking about Miss Dong'er, who had used a handkerchief to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth when he was injured.
He thought of her exquisite beauty and her gentle, affectionate smile. As he thought, an infatuated expression crept onto his face.
Just then, Yu Xiaogang saw three old men standing outside the iron door. He assumed the three elders had been ordered to take him out of the dungeon.
He felt that no matter how angry his father was with him, he surely would not truly lock him up for ten years.
He had never intended to turn his elder brother into an idiot. It was all that bastard Zhao's fault.
Watching the three elders order someone to open the dungeon door and walk inside together, he hurriedly rose and asked expectantly.
"Elders, has Father forgiven me? Can I leave now?"
Hearing Yu Xiaogang's words, the first elder gave a mocking smile.
"Leave? Where do you think you're going? The clan leader said ten years, and ten years it will be. Who would dare let you out?"
"What? You're not letting me out? Then why did you come in?"
Yu Xiaogang froze, completely unable to understand why the three elders had come running to see him.
"What else? To teach a useless wretch like you a lesson, of course!"
The second elder sneered, looking at Yu Xiaogang through cloudy eyes as though he were an idiot.
Frightened by those words, Yu Xiaogang hurriedly tried to rush toward the open iron door. He wanted to escape through it, to escape this dungeon.
As long as he could get out, he would find somewhere to hide for a while and return only after his father and the clan elders had cooled down.
But how could the three elders possibly let him escape? The third elder grabbed Yu Xiaogang by the collar and hurled him back onto the ground, barking furiously.
"You useless wretch! After causing so much trouble for the clan, you still want to escape the dungeon? Haven't you caused enough trouble already?"
The first elder also glared viciously at Yu Xiaogang, raised his foot, and kicked him hard in the stomach.
"You useless wretch! Why did you have to provoke a Titled Douluo for no reason? Our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan has only one Titled Douluo.
"Yet you went running off to Suotuo City and offended one! You disgraceful piece of trash! You've already ruined your elder brother. Will you only be satisfied once you've brought destruction upon the entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
The first elder's kick made Yu Xiaogang howl on the spot. Clutching his stomach with both hands, he curled up like a shrimp from the pain, tears and snot streaming down together.
The second elder showed no restraint either. He rushed forward and unleashed a flurry of vicious kicks on Yu Xiaogang.
"What are you screaming for? What are you screaming for? After making your elder brother suffer so terribly, you still have the nerve to cry about pain, you useless thing! Where did you find the gall to offend a Titled Douluo? Couldn't you have opened your eyes?"
The first and second elders' words left Yu Xiaogang bewildered. When had he ever offended a Titled Douluo?
But under their relentless kicks, he barely had time to cry out, let alone argue. He could only shield his head while trying to protect his stomach.
Seeing that the first and second elders still looked as though they wanted to beat Yu Xiaogang to death, the third elder hurriedly pulled them back and reminded them.
"Don't kill him. This brat may be useless, but he's still the clan leader's son. If we beat him to death, we won't be able to answer to the clan leader."
Only then did the first and second elders stop their vicious kicking. But the beating had already left Yu Xiaogang rolling on the ground in agony.
Once Yu Xiaogang recovered enough, he glared angrily at the three elders.
"Elders, aren't you going too far? How exactly did I, Yu Xiaogang, offend a Titled Douluo?
"From beginning to end, the only one I've had a grudge with is that beast Zhao Ling! How does that mean I offended a Titled Douluo?"
The third elder glanced at him again as though looking at an idiot and spoke coldly.
"You still don't know, do you? That Zhao Ling you say you have a grudge with is a Titled Douluo. A few days ago, the Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall personally bestowed a title upon him: Demon-Suppressing Douluo!"
Yu Xiaogang's body jolted. He kept shaking his head, muttering.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! How could that Zhao be a Titled Douluo? I don't believe it. I absolutely refuse to believe it! He can't possibly be a Titled Douluo!"
"Impossible? Why is it impossible? Can't you use your brain? Your elder brother is a Soul Emperor, yet even when he unleashed his full strength, that Zhao could still grab his head barehanded and smash it into the ground without using his Martial Soul or Soul Power.
"Even Soul Douluos like us would struggle to do that, yet he could do it effortlessly. That alone proves his strength is extraordinary. Why couldn't he be a Titled Douluo?"
Watching Yu Xiaogang shake his head on the ground, his eyes full of disbelief, the second elder sneered again and mocked him mercilessly.
"Do you think everyone else is useless just because you are? No, not only are they not useless, they're heaven's favored talents.
"If he weren't such a talent, why would Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff arrange an engagement between that Zhao and Spirit Hall's new Saintess?"
"Spirit Hall's new Saintess? Who is she? Why haven't I heard of her before?" Yu Xiaogang's body jolted, and a vague sense of foreboding rose in his heart.
The mockery in the first elder's eyes deepened.
"Who? The Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiff's only disciple, of course. Hmm... I believe she's that girl called Bibi Dong you've taken a liking to. How laughable. As the second son of our Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's leader, you actually fell for Spirit Hall's new Saintess!
"Yu Xiaogang! Are you trying to plunge our entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan beyond all hope of redemption? How could you be so cruel! You would even sell out your entire clan for a woman???"
Chapter 118: First place in causing trouble
Yu Xiaogang's pupils contracted sharply at those words. Miss Dong'er was Spirit Hall's new Saintess.
And Spirit Hall's new Saintess was engaged to that Zhao. In other words, Miss Dong'er was now Zhao Ling's fiancée.
He felt chilled to the core. Although he had already anticipated that Miss Dong'er might have married by the time he managed to leave the dungeon,
he had never expected that after he had been imprisoned for a mere ten or twenty days, Miss Dong'er would already have become that fellow Zhao Ling's fiancée.
Most unexpected of all was that Zhao Ling was actually a Titled Douluo. He could have racked his brains and never imagined that.
Zhao Ling, a dignified Titled Douluo, had actually stolen his beloved! Yu Xiaogang was utterly furious.
Zhao Ling already possessed such tremendous talent and had become a Titled Douluo at such a young age.
Why couldn't he simply work hard to improve his strength? Why did he insist on clinging to his Miss Dong'er?
Why was this world so unfair? His poor cultivation talent was bad enough, but he could not even beat that beast Zhao Ling when competing for a woman! Damn it!
The hatred in Yu Xiaogang's eyes was so intense that the three elders beside him sensed it easily. They assumed he hated them for beating him.
The three elders were furious. Being useless was one thing, but this worthless wretch actually dared glare at them like that. So the three surrounded Yu Xiaogang again and gave him another vicious beating.
To avoid killing him, however, the three elders struck only his limbs this time. Those areas were unlikely to sustain serious internal injuries, leaving at most superficial wounds.
But a sharp crack suddenly rang out. With one careless kick, the third elder broke Yu Xiaogang's right leg.
The pain instantly drenched him in sweat, and his entire body trembled uncontrollably. The first and second elders glared fiercely at the third elder and complained.
"Can't you hold back a little? If the clan leader finds out, we'll never hear the end of it."
The third elder scratched his head and hurriedly explained, "Sorry, I got carried away and used a little too much force. You can't blame me. Blame this fellow for being so useless."
"Find someone to treat him yourself. Just don't let the clan leader see. All right, it's time we left."
The first elder gave Yu Xiaogang, who lay on the ground like a dead dog, a cold glance, then turned and left. The second elder quickly followed.
The third elder spat on Yu Xiaogang irritably.
"What a spoilsport. If you weren't the clan head's son, you'd have been kicked out of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan long ago. Useless at everything, but first place in causing trouble! Pah..."
With that, the third elder turned and left the dungeon. He was now fretting over where to find a Healing-type Soul Master to treat Yu Xiaogang's broken leg.
He regretted it deeply now. Why had he kicked so hard? Hadn't he just made trouble for himself?
After the dungeon's iron door closed, Yu Xiaogang could only lie on the ground, unable to rise. With one leg broken and his whole body burning with pain, he could do nothing but bare his teeth in agony.
The scene returned to Zhao Ling and the others. After lunch, Zhao Ling took Ah Yin and Bo Saixi to a hotel to stay.
He intended to settle in Heaven Dou Imperial City because it was lively enough for him to enjoy life.
Second, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was not far from Heaven Dou Imperial City, so he could visit it often in the future.
Thus, he planned to spend the next couple of days exploring the city to see whether he could find a reasonably priced, nicely decorated house. Ah Yin had no objections.
Compared with the little village where she had lived for so long, Heaven Dou City had a large population and was enormous in scale. Living here would help her integrate into the human world more easily.
However, it was rather late today, so they could only stay at a hotel for now.
Zhao Ling and Ah Yin had been a couple for some time, so naturally, they shared a couples' suite. Bo Saixi's room was more than ten meters away from theirs.
Originally, Zhao Ling had wanted to book the room next to his for her. But for some reason, Bo Saixi had refused outright, insisting on a single room on the same floor, but more than ten meters away.
Zhao Ling found that regrettable. They were companions now, so why stay so far apart?
Bo Saixi, however, badly wanted to grumble inwardly. Why the hell would I stay so close to you two? Didn't I get force-fed enough lovey-dovey displays yesterday? You still have to keep shoving more down my throat?
Of course, Bo Saixi could not voice those thoughts. After watching Zhao Ling and Ah Yin enter their room, she hurried into her own.
Early the next morning, Zhao Ling and Ah Yin got up bright and early, ready to search the city for a house that suited them.
Since Zhao Ling had previously spent fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins on a Storage Soul Tool for Ah Yin, along with some other expenses, he now had fewer than two hundred and forty thousand Gold Soul Coins left.
Zhao Ling was not sure what price range he should look at, but whatever the case, the house could not be too shabby.
Unfortunately, this world had no secondhand property agents or organized real estate companies. To learn about housing here, he had to experience it firsthand.
When Bo Saixi learned of Zhao Ling's intention to buy a house that day, she followed the two of them without a second thought.
In any case, she simply wanted to stay with them. Whether she could learn Tang Chen's whereabouts from them seemed to have become less important to her now.
Even Bo Saixi found her own change somewhat unbelievable. After all, she had originally left Sea God Island precisely to find Tang Chen's whereabouts.
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