Yu Xiaogang, Beaten Half to Death

"No!!!"

Early in the morning, a scream like a pig being slaughtered rang throughout the Spirit Hall branch.

In the room where Yu Xiaogang was resting.

He pulled back the blanket in terror, murmuring over and over, "It's gone? How is it gone... how could it be gone..."

"Elder, are you all right?!" Pang Dun came running over with his men, terrified. Yu Xiaogang's scream had made them think he had suffered other internal injuries.

But when they entered, all they saw was a despondent figure with his head buried under the blanket, sobbing incessantly.

Pang Dun and the others exchanged glances.

It was a sad story. Anyone who lost the mark of manhood would find it impossible to come to terms with.

Pang Dun sighed. "Elder, please restrain your grief. If there's anything you need our help with, please don't hesitate to ask."

Though he couldn't understand how a rank 29 Soul Grandmaster like Yu Xiaogang had a Spirit Hall Elder Token, the thing simply couldn't be forged. He could only assume Yu Xiaogang had connections among Spirit Hall's upper ranks.

Yu Xiaogang no longer cared that he was in Spirit Hall.

He gritted his teeth. "Help me find two people!"

"Find people? That's something Spirit Hall is good at. Who might you be looking for, Elder?"

"A little girl with blond hair and a young man with white hair. Find them and bring them back to me!"

A blond little girl and a white-haired young man?

Pang Dun's expression froze for a moment. "Are... are you sure?"

Yu Xiaogang slammed the table. "I'm sure! Find them for me! I'll kill them, I'll kill them! If it weren't for those two, how would I have become... how would I have been mutilated?!"

Pang Dun's gaze wandered. That pair-weren't they the mysterious Titled Douluo and the young lady, for fuck's sake?

The branch's training ground.

Pang Dun said respectfully, "Senior, that's what happened."

"Oh? I haven't even gone looking for trouble with him, and he's come looking for me first? Interesting." Jiang Nian stood up. "Xue'er, come with me. Let's see what this is about."

"Mm-hmm, all right, Teacher."

Teacher and disciple followed Pang Dun to the room where Yu Xiaogang was resting.

"I hear you're looking for me?"

The familiar voice reached Yu Xiaogang's ears, making him tremble all over.

Endless hatred surged up in him immediately afterward.

Having painfully lost his prized cock, Yu Xiaogang had already gone a little mad. This was Spirit Hall, and he was a Spirit Hall elder. Crushing some nobody traveling with a child would take no more effort than blowing away dust!

But when he raised his head, he noticed something was wrong.

The two people he hated hadn't been brought in as prisoners. Pang Dun had escorted them in respectfully!

What was going on?

Could this person also belong to Spirit Hall, and hold a position of some importance?

Yu Xiaogang instinctively looked at Qian Renxue. Suddenly, he remembered something he didn't want to accept and stared fixedly at her.

Jiang Nian narrowed his eyes and waved a hand. "Deacon Pang Dun, I don't want anyone listening nearby. You can leave too."

Pang Dun cupped his fists. "I obey!"

Hearing Jiang Nian give a Spirit Hall deacon a direct order, Yu Xiaogang became even more certain that the two were no ordinary people.

He looked at Qian Renxue. "Who's your mother? Speak! Who's your mother?!"

Qian Renxue was startled. Then she jumped up and punched Yu Xiaogang in the right eye, saying in a sweet, delicate voice, "Why did you shout so loudly? You scared me!"

Jiang Nian smiled at the sight. Qian Renxue had a bit of a scheming streak.

Yu Xiaogang clutched his eye and wailed, "You... you dare hit me? You bitch, you dare hit me?!"

Smack!

Another slap followed. Jiang Nian knocked four of Yu Xiaogang's molars straight out.

Yu Xiaogang went mad and roared, "You... I'm a Spirit Hall elder! You're finished, you're finished! Even if you're that bitch's daughter, you're dead!"

Only then did Qian Renxue realize something was wrong. She asked tentatively, "You... you know who my mother is?"

Yu Xiaogang held his face. "You have the same face as that bitch. I wondered why you looked so familiar... Bibi Dong, oh, what a Bibi Dong!"

Yu Xiaogang ground his teeth. "Bitches, all of you are bitches!"

As soon as he finished, Qian Renxue slapped him across the other side of his face.

Yu Xiaogang clenched his fists. "You think this is funny, don't you? That bitch of a mother of yours promised to fly far away with me, but she went and had someone else's child instead. Bitch!"

Qian Renxue clenched her fists and looked at Jiang Nian in bewilderment. She couldn't understand why this hypocrite had anything to do with her mother.

Now that things had come to this, Jiang Nian no longer hid the truth. "This guy used to be acquainted with your mother. For the sake of Spirit Hall's Soul Master records, he pretended not to know, and even tricked her into giving him a Spirit Hall Elder Token."

"What do you mean, I tricked her?!" Yu Xiaogang raged. "Bibi Dong was the stupid one! My only regret is that I didn't just sleep with her back then!"

Qian Renxue's eyes widened. She hadn't expected her mother to have once liked trash like this. In an instant, a large part of her rosy view of Bibi Dong fell away.

A person would have to be blind to fall for someone like him, wouldn't they?!

She retorted, "You're lying! You're trash who takes other people's plagiarized academic knowledge and passes it off as your own. How could my mother ever have liked you?! You're from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, yet you came to Spirit Hall asking for things. Pah!"

Yu Xiaogang fell silent for a long while. Then his shoulders shook as he sneered. "I'm trash, yes... I'm trash. How much better is your mother, that bitch Bibi Dong?!"

"She knew I was from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but she shamelessly got together with me anyway. She even wanted to fly far away with me! If I were Spirit Hall, I'd be furious enough to die, raising an ungrateful wretch like that!"

Qian Renxue finally couldn't hold back anymore. Without holding back in the slightest, she punched Yu Xiaogang in the face again and again.

Jiang Nian pursed his lips. He had recorded everything that had just happened with a recording stone, and he was a little curious what Bibi Dong would think when she heard it.

Qian Renxue beat him for a long time, only stopping when Yu Xiaogang could no longer make a sound.

When Jiang Nian looked again, Yu Xiaogang's face had been beaten to a bloody pulp, and he was barely breathing.

"That's enough. Let's go." Jiang Nian turned and pushed open the door.

Killing someone like Yu Xiaogang would only dirty his hands. Rather than beat him to death himself, Jiang Nian looked forward more to Bibi Dong's reaction to the man.

After all, Bibi Dong was completely unhinged later on. When she found out the man she had never stopped thinking about thought of her this way, Yu Xiaogang would probably find even dying difficult.

After teacher and disciple left, Pang Dun brought his men inside. Looking at Yu Xiaogang, a bloody mess clinging to his last breath, he felt a chill in his heart, and his resolve not to report this to his superiors grew even firmer.

If he reported it, the higher-ups in Spirit Hall wouldn't send a Titled Douluo to protect him, and if a Titled Douluo set their sights on him, he could lose his life at any moment.

The healing-type Soul Master beside him asked, "Deacon... are we still going to save him?"

Pang Dun was at a loss for a moment. On one side was a Titled Douluo, and on the other was a Spirit Hall elder. Offending either one seemed bad for him.

Finally, he made the decision. "Just stop the bleeding, then throw him out by the roadside. If he lives, he lives. If he dies, it has nothing to do with us."

A rank 29 elder, and a mysterious Titled Douluo expert.

Even a fool knew whom to choose.

On the street.

Qian Renxue asked quietly, "Teacher, was everything that guy said true? My mother..."

"Yes, it was." Jiang Nian sighed. "It's best not to let your mother know you beat him."

"Why? I stood up for her! That guy actually said those things about Mother. He's not a responsible man at all!"

"In any case, just don't tell your mother about it when you're alone with her."

If that madwoman Stupid Bibi Dong finds out you beat Yu Xiaogang up like this, she really might kill you.

Qian Renxue said softly, "Does Mother dislike me because she never wanted to marry Father in the first place?"

It's much more complicated than that. Your father, Secret Chamber Douluo, wasn't a good bird either, though he was much better than Yu Xiaogang.

If it had been anyone else, Qian Xunji would have been merciful just to spare him after Bibi Dong had the child. In fact, Qian Xunji not only spared him, but also gave Bibi Dong authority.

Even so, Secret Chamber Douluo was still Secret Chamber Douluo. That beast deserved to die.

Jiang Nian changed the subject. "All right, let's not talk about this. What would you like to eat, Xue'er? I'll take you."

"Yes, yes! Thank you, Teacher!"

All was joy and harmony on their side.

Yu Xiaogang, however, was in a miserable state. He had been thrown by the roadside like a dead dog, and even breathing was difficult.

Am I going to die?

Yu Xiaogang murmured inwardly, I haven't taken my revenge yet. I haven't proved that there are no trash Martial Souls, only trash Soul Masters. I can't die yet...

Just then, a carriage bound for Nuoding City stopped.

"Oh my, how did he get beaten up so badly? He's even a Soul Master... just as well. If I save him, I can have him stay in Nuoding City and be a teacher..."