Chapter 36: You're Pretty Good at Recycling Trash for the Continent's Benefit
[Group Member No. 9: Uh… sorry.]
[Yan Zi is Not Swallow: Well… actually, what Yu Xiaogang said isn't entirely wrong. There are no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters. No matter what happens, you must never give up.]
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: I think she gave up a long time ago. Just look at last night—when it was time to draw the reward, she directly forfeited.]
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Moon Pavilion
Tang Yuehua felt a wave of discouragement.
Maybe…
Maybe she truly hadn't persisted enough.
[The Moon of My Childhood: It's fine. I've already found another path in life. I can shine in other ways too.]
[Carrot Lover: You also have the "Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls"?]
This line instantly made everyone in the chat burst into laughter.
[The Moon of My Childhood: ???]
Nuoding Academy
Su Yan almost broke down laughing when he saw that.
As expected of you, Xiao Wu!
Six.
[Su Yan: Alright, time for the real content. After Yu Xiaogang was expelled from his clan, how did he end up developing a relationship with Bibi Dong in the Spirit Hall?]
[I Am an Orphan: Bibi Dong was blind.]
[Everyone: Agreed.]
[Bibi Dong: Enough! I've said this before—when it comes to emotions, there is no absolute standard. Soul power, appearance, and so on aren't the deciding factors.]
[Su Yan: Oh, please, stop bragging.]
[Su Yan: If you were just an ordinary person, saying that would be fine. But you were the Saintess carefully cultivated by the Spirit Hall. Are you seriously telling me soul power wasn't part of your criteria for choosing a partner?]
[Su Yan: Observing the long river of time, I can analyze your relationship with Yu Xiaogang with three possibilities.]
[Su Yan: The first possibility—this was arranged by the Asura God. The Asura God needed Tang San as his successor, so he had to create a major villain on Tang San's path. And that villain… was you, Bibi Dong.] (T/N: I think this possibility is very high)
[Su Yan: Before Tang San appeared, you were the greatest genius of the entire Douluo Continent. Using you as Tang San's stepping stone has incredible narrative weight.]
[Bibi Dong: You…]
Pope's Palace
Bibi Dong gritted her teeth in fury.
Damn it.
But thinking about it carefully… what Su Yan said might actually be possible.
The key issue was—
The Asura God was the strongest God King in the God Realm.
If Tang San really had him as a backer, how could she possibly be Tang San's match?
Even if she wanted Tang San dead… it definitely wouldn't be easy.
A sense of despair and frustration surged in her heart.
Whether because of Yu Xiaogang or because of the Asura God, the obstacles ahead were too overwhelming.
[Su Yan: Second possibility—Yu Xiaogang manipulated you. Yu Xiaogang is extremely calculating, and everything that happened was part of his scheme to use you.]
[Bibi Dong: Impossible. Absolutely impossible.]
[Bibi Dong: Su Yan, you don't need to slander Xiaogang like this.]
[Su Yan: Look at you—so anxious. Didn't I say THREE possibilities? I didn't even conclude that he really schemed against you.]
[Cat in the Shadows: I don't think it's that simple… Isn't Bibi Dong the Pope of the Spirit Hall? How could she be that brainless?]
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: Exactly! No matter what, Bibi Dong is still the Pope of the Spirit Hall. How could she be so brainless as to be schemed against by Yu Xiaogang?]
[Bibi Dong: …Thank you all so much!]
[Group Member No. 9: I remember Su Yan saying this before—Bibi Dong's personality wasn't like this in the past, right? She used to be a naïve, lively girl. Being manipulated isn't impossible.]
[I Am an Orphan: If Bibi Dong had a brain, she wouldn't have fallen for Yu Xiaogang. If she had even a sliver of intelligence, no matter what happened, she would never have fallen for him.]
[I Am an Orphan: I'm not insulting Bibi Dong, I'm telling the truth. You can all think about it yourselves.]
Everyone who read this fell silent.
Thinking it over… that did make sense.
Anyone with the slightest bit of sense wouldn't fall for someone from an enemy clan— Especially someone who was discarded as a useless piece of trash by that same clan.
It defied all logic. In fact, it was utterly impossible for the two to even have contact, let alone develop feelings for each other.
[Su Yan: As for Yu Xiaogang, like I said earlier, he suffered humiliation from childhood that normal people could never endure. He desperately wanted to prove himself, desperately wanted to improve. He had to read the Spirit Hall's records. He had to find a method that might help him break through rank 30.]
[Su Yan: If you were Yu Xiaogang, wouldn't you also do anything—absolutely anything—to get those records?]
At this point, no one responded.
Even Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong remained silent.
From Yu Xiaogang's perspective, anyone would risk everything to get access to the Spirit Hall's core information. After all, the Spirit Hall was the highest authority—and his greatest hope of breaking past the thirtieth rank.
[Su Yan: Now here's the question. Whether Yu Xiaogang is trash or not aside, why would the Spirit Hall let an outsider access their core documents?]
[Su Yan: Forget the fact that he's from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Information involving martial soul mutations should only be accessible to high-ranking members, right?]
[Su Yan: A discarded nobody expelled from his clan definitely had no chance of reading them. Which means someone had to help him.]
[Su Yan: It didn't matter who that person was, but would any high-ranking member of the Spirit Hall help Yu Xiaogang? Pay attention to him?]
[Su Yan: And then, in the midst of his despair, Yu Xiaogang encountered a pure-hearted, kind, naïve young Saintess—don't you think that was the perfect opportunity?]
[Su Yan: A mentally mature, hardened man shaped by humiliation meets a girl raised under careful protection, nurtured as a future Pope… what do you all think would happen?]
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: I think I get it now.]
[Yan Zi is Not Swallow: Makes sense. Without Bibi Dong, Yu Xiaogang could never have accessed the Spirit Hall's key records.]
[Cat in the Shadows: I can't say what happened later, but I'm sure Yu Xiaogang's initial motive was exactly that.]
Pope's Palace
Bibi Dong froze as she read.
Scenes from her past flashed across her mind.
She once believed everything between them was fate… But now, that "fate" looked different. Very different.
Where would so many coincidences come from?
Most likely—it had been deliberate from the start.
And yet…
Bibi Dong still refused to believe it.
[Bibi Dong: Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Xiaogang isn't that kind of person. He would never use me!]
[Hu Liena: Teacher, I will always protect you… But can you please face reality?]
[I Am an Orphan: Bibi Dong, can you use your pig brain for a moment? Yu Xiaogang was a piece of trash humiliated since childhood, and he was even the son of Clan Leader Yu Yuanzhen. Do you really think someone like him would be thinking about love?]
[The Moon of My Childhood: Even if Yu Xiaogang had a strong heart and no psychological issues, romance would never be in his priorities. His only lifelong desire was to become stronger.]
[Group Member No. 9: Honestly, it's no surprise Bibi Dong fell for Yu Xiaogang. At that time, the two weren't even on the same level.]
[Seven Treasures Little Princess: It would've been as easy as an adult tricking a child.]
[Su Yan: Let's move on to the third possibility. If we exclude every conspiracy theory, then the truth is simple—Bibi Dong was simply a blind, brainless idiot. I can't even imagine how blind and how brainless she had to be to fall for a useless piece of trash expelled by his own clan.]
[Su Yan: So what, Bibi Dong—were you running a garbage recycling center? The trash his family threw away instantly became precious Treasures to you?]
[Su Yan: You're really doing the continent a great service—recycling trash for the good of humanity!]
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