Chapter 127: Yu Yuanzhen: My fellow clan members, who can understand this? This son is a Divine Being.
The Grand Elder's nagging went in one of Yu Xiaogang's ears and out the other. Seeing his absent-minded expression, Yu Yuanzhen could only chuckle.
He didn't share those concerns; after all, as a father, he understood his son's situation far better than the Grand Elder did.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have felt at ease letting Yu Xiaogang go to study at the Spirit Hall Academy.
Glancing at Bibi Dong, who was curiously sizing up the Radiant Elemental Dragon beside Yu Xiaogang, a mischievous smirk tugged at the corner of Yu Yuanzhen's mouth.
"This brat not only won't side with Spirit Hall, but he might even steal the heart of their future Holy Maiden."
"Hahaha, I really want to see what kind of expression Qian Xunji will make once he finds out about all this."
Despite these thoughts, Yu Yuanzhen knew that it was nearly impossible for his son and Bibi Dong to truly end up together.
For no other reason than their identities, which dictated that they were destined to become the leaders of their respective factions.
Bibi Dong would become the Holy Maiden and eventually the Supreme Pontiff.
Yu Xiaogang would also most likely succeed him as the Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
A Supreme Pontiff and a Sect Master of one of the Upper Three Sects—the union of two such people carried a significance entirely different from an ordinary political marriage.
Ordinary political marriages occurred between high-status figures within two factions who did not actually hold power.
For example, the daughter of a Sect Master from the Upper Three Sects marrying the Emperor of one of the two great Empires.
That was a normal political marriage.
But a union between Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong would be like the Emperor of the Heaven Dou Empire marrying the Emperor of the Star Luo Empire.
If it actually happened, who would be the primary and who would be the secondary?
If a dispute arose between the two factions, how would the subordinates handle it when their leaders were a couple?
Far too many problems made such a thing nearly impossible.
Unless either Bibi Dong or Yu Xiaogang were willing to be a mere figurehead.
But for people with their level of talent, was that even possible?
"So, Xiaogang, whatever you do, don't invest real feelings."
Yu Yuanzhen sighed, thinking to himself.
In the White World, within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect.
Looking at the complex expression of his past self on the heavenly curtain, Yu Yuanzhen let out a cold laugh.
He could still remember his thoughts from back then.
Under normal circumstances, Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong would have become the leaders of their respective forces, making it impossible for them to be together.
But he hadn't accounted for the fact that neither of them was normal.
As for Bibi Dong, his son called her a love brain, and Yu Yuanzhen felt that term couldn't be more appropriate for her.
To pursue her love for his son, Bibi Dong truly could abandon anything; she was perfectly willing even to be a decorative figurehead.
While his son wasn't a love brain, he was infuriating in his own right.
He refused the position of Sect Master no matter what. Finally, forced into a corner, he took the position under duress and then dumped all the Sect Master's work onto Little Dragon.
Little Dragon had no interest in such matters to begin with, and because it was being oppressed so harshly by Yu Xiaogang, it simply exploded when it saw all that work about to fall on its head.
Yu Yuanzhen still remembered the scene on the second day after Yu Xiaogang took over as Sect Master, when the Sect's headquarters was turned into a pile of rubble by Little Dragon.
Faced with Little Dragon, who would blow up the Sect as soon as there was work to do, and Yu Xiaogang, who was prepared to throw any work he had at Little Dragon...
Ultimately, Yu Yuanzhen could only take back the work from Yu Xiaogang's hands, leaving him with only the title of Sect Master.
This led to a dual-Sect Master system in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, with Yu Yuanzhen as the Sect Master with actual power and Yu Xiaogang as the Sect Master in name only.
Later, over at Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong followed Yu Xiaogang's example, resulting in a dual-Pope system with Qian Xunji as the Supreme Pontiff with actual power and Bibi Dong as the Supreme Pontiff in name only.
Then, the two figurehead leaders happily flirted with each other, throwing all the work to the two leaders with actual power.
Qian Xunji accepted this arrangement quite well; he hadn't wanted to abdicate so early anyway, and Bibi Dong becoming the Supreme Pontiff had been purely through rebellion.
But Yu Yuanzhen was very unhappy. He had finally managed to throw away the Sect Master's work, only for it to come right back to him?
Thus, Yu Yuanzhen began looking for ways to lighten his workload.
Fortunately, that son who only ever made him angry was somewhat useful; he came up with the idea of a Secretariat Office for him.
By delegating matters large and small to them and only handling major events himself, Yu Yuanzhen was kept from quitting entirely.
Looking back at his past self now, he really was young then.
He had no idea just how divine a Divine Being in this world could be.
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After resting at the camp for another two days and adjusting his state, Yu Xiaogang walked up to the Radiant Elemental Dragon.
"Wuu-roar!"
With its mouth restrained by special equipment, the Radiant Elemental Dragon glared at Yu Xiaogang. If looks could kill, Yu Xiaogang would likely have been cut into a thousand pieces by now.
Without saying much, Yu Xiaogang killed the Radiant Elemental Dragon directly.
Before it died, the Radiant Elemental Dragon looked at the two Soul Rings floating around Yu Xiaogang's body, and its indignation and resentment surged to another level.
It hated it! To think it was being killed by such a person.
If not for the powerful experts backing him, it could have killed this ant with a casual strike.
Carrying its indignation and resentment, the Radiant Elemental Dragon closed its eyes forever.
The next second, a black Soul Ring emerged from the corpse of the Radiant Elemental Dragon.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Xiaogang sat cross-legged on the ground and began to guide the Soul Ring.
Not far away, the Grand Elder, Bibi Dong, Lin Lang, and the others all held their breath.
This was the first time they were seeing Yu Xiaogang absorb a Soul Ring, so they didn't want to miss a single detail.
Unfortunately, Yu Xiaogang was no longer the same person he was when he absorbed his first spirit ring; now, absorbing a Soul Ring just over ten thousand years old was not difficult for him.
The impact of the Soul Power within the Soul Ring did not affect Yu Xiaogang, and Little Dragon began to undergo changes once more as it absorbed the Soul Power from the ring.
Just then.
Roar!!!
Within Yu Xiaogang's mental world, a surge of negative emotions including madness, hostility, and resentment charged straight at Yu Xiaogang's Soul.
Subjected to the soul shock, Yu Xiaogang did not dare to relax in the slightest. He mustered all his focus to seriously deal with the Radiant Elemental Dragon's soul shock.
However, to Yu Xiaogang's surprise, that seemingly ferocious soul shock felt like a child tickling him when it touched him.
It was completely harmless.
This turn of events even stunned the Radiant Elemental Dragon's resentment. It let out another roar, and the resentment struck Yu Xiaogang again, but the result was no different from before—it couldn't shake Yu Xiaogang in the slightest.
Watching the resentment gradually weaken until it dissipated, Yu Xiaogang recalled the circumstances of his birth.
"Astonishing mental power... Is this the benefit of having such incredible mental power?"
Yu Xiaogang pondered for a moment and felt that it should be more than just that.
He planned to research the application of mental power in the future.
Simply using mental power to release his Second Spirit Skill would be too much of a waste of his talent in that area.
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