[Li Yuan: Yu Xiaogang began to immerse himself in theoretical research all day long, fantasizing about becoming a theoretical Grandmaster. However, the theories he researched are complete bullshit. I just want to ask you all, what kind of person can accurately determine the age of a Spirit Beast down to a single digit just by its appearance?]
[Li Yuan: Not to mention, everyone's physical fitness is different, and the limits everyone can bear are different.]
[Big Sister with a Vicious Heart: This is too ridiculous, isn't it? My grandpa is a Titled Douluo and he doesn't dare say he can accurately judge the age of a Spirit Beast, yet he actually can judge it down to a single digit. I can only say, Heaven-Defying!]
[Big Cat in the Dark Night: Agreed, this is too unrealistic.]
[The Richest Little Lady of Heaven Dou: Agreed +10086! My Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Bone are so powerful, yet they both say judging the age of a Spirit Beast is a matter of experience, and an error of decades or even a century is normal. Is Yu Xiaogang actually more powerful than them?]
[Loves Eating Carrots: This is simply impossible! The age of a Spirit Beast cannot be pinpointed so accurately.]
On this matter, Xiao Wu, as a hundred-thousand-year Spirit Beast in human form, actually had the most right to speak.
Humanity's understanding of Spirit Beasts mostly stayed on the surface.
Relying solely on the appearance and characteristics of a Spirit Beast to distinguish its age was itself a gamble on luck.
Because many Spirit Beasts are born weak, from birth, their size might be much smaller than their siblings of the same age, yet their age remains the same.
Let alone relying on size to be accurate to a single digit.
This can't even be called a theory; it's simply talking out of his ass!
Liu Erlong's face was pale and weak.
For the first time, an expression of disappointment appeared on her cold and beautiful face.
Could it be that Xiaogang is really this kind of person?
Doubt arose in her heart for the first time, but she quickly dismissed it herself.
Xiaogang must have just taken the wrong direction, which is why it's like this.
But that doesn't mean he's a waste.
[Li Yuan: Tell me, is publicly publishing such imprecise, even absurd theories misleading the younger generation?]
[Li Yuan: And Yu Xiaogang has researched theories for so many years; does he not know that publishing unverified theories will harm people?]
[Li Yuan: Of course he knows! Because he's gambling. He's gambling that someone can help verify his theories, so he can use that to become famous throughout the World!]
[It could be said that to make a name for himself, he would resort to any means.]
[Li Yuan: Imagine if a commoner Spirit Master from a poor background happened to see his 'theory', believed it to be true, and followed that method to absorb a spirit ring, only to have their body explode and die because they couldn't handle it due to a misjudgment of the age... what then?]
[Li Yuan: If that commoner happened to be the hope and pillar of the whole family, and had just broken through to become a Spirit Master, hoping to get by on that little subsidy from Spirit Hall, and he died, what would his elderly parents do? What would his crying children waiting to be fed do?]
One must know that on the Douluo Continent, many commoner Spirit Masters, even if they have awakened spirit power, might not necessarily be able to go to school because there are elderly people and younger siblings waiting to be fed at home.
If you go to school, who will take care of the elderly and the younger siblings?
This resulted in these people only being able to meditate through their own step-by-step exploration.
Cultivation is very slow; they might be in their twenties, already married with children, before they can Cultivate to Rank 10.
[Li Yuan: Sometimes, a villain's schemes are truly no match for a fool's sudden inspiration!]
The group chat fell into a brief silence.
The scene Li Yuan described was too specific and too heavy, like a giant boulder pressing on everyone's heart.
In the scene, a hardworking and gentle wife, one or two infants waiting to be fed, two elderly people needing support... a family of six, poor but warm, barely maintained by the husband's daily odd jobs.
Life wasn't great, but it was manageable.
The husband, the pillar of the family, because of his low Innate Rank and lack of resources, had toiled for many years and finally managed to break through Rank 10.
With the Spirit Hall subsidy right before his eyes.
To give his family a better life, he saved money by being frugal, hiring people to hunt Spirit Beasts to obtain a suitable spirit ring.
But because he blindly trusted a certain "Grandmaster's" seemingly precise but actually bullshit theory, he misjudged the age of the Spirit Beast, and at the critical moment of absorbing the spirit ring... "Bang!"
This thousand-pound burden suddenly fell onto the shoulders of the wife, a housewife.
Thinking of that scene, how much despair would there be?
That kind of despair, just imagining it, makes one shiver.
These words were like the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Liu Erlong, who originally still held a sliver of hope for Yu Xiaogang, had completely fallen into despair.
"Xiaogang, no, Yu Xiaogang... I always thought your theoretical research was to contribute to the Spirit Master's world, a righteous act enough to move the heavens and earth."
"But I didn't expect that you... were just doing it to make a name for yourself, to prove your pathetic self-esteem..."
"All these years... Boss Flender, me, and those who once trusted you, we've all been deceived by you..."
"Yu Xiaogang, you beast! I really misjudged you!"
Tears blurred her vision. Liu Erlong suddenly grabbed the photo frame on the table, a treasure kept for many years, the only photo of just her and Yu Xiaogang, and slammed it onto the ground.
Crack!
The sound of glass shattering was extremely piercing.
But she wasn't satisfied yet and stepped on it forcefully several times until the face on the photo that once made her heart flutter became shattered and blurred.
From now on, there is no more "Golden Triangle" in the World!
[The Richest Little Lady of Heaven Dou: This... this is simply murder for money! No, it's more detestable than a robber. A robber at least uses a blade or spear openly; he's killing without drawing blood.]
[Big Sister with a Vicious Heart: So disgusting, how can there be such a person in the World? Treating human lives as a joke, daring to pompously publish unverified theories, misleading the younger generation and harming lives!]
[Big Cat in the Dark Night: Truly shameless!]
[Loves Eating Carrots: This person is really bad, bad to the core. No, wait, I remember now. Our academy seems to have someone named Yu Xiaogang, and his nickname is Grandmaster.]
Xiao Wu, realizing it belatedly, felt terrible all over.
So that slovenly middle-aged man who spent all day in the academy acting mysterious and dragging Tang San to talk about nonsensical theories... was actually this "harmful person" being discussed in the group!
[The Richest Little Lady of Heaven Dou: Then you must stay far away from him. Don't believe a word he says.]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Don't worry, I won't believe a single word he says.]
Xiao Wu was currently filled with anger. If she weren't worried that hitting a teacher in the academy would have a bad influence...
She really wanted to rush over right now and give that sanctimonious "Grandmaster" a profound "physical education" lesson!
[The Yandere Maniac Beauty of the Spirit Hall: It's not Xiaogang who's wrong, it's this World that's wrong. Do you know how much effort Xiaogang put into his theoretical research? Do you know how much bitterness is in his heart? As for that Ji Juechen, who knows if you just made him up out of thin air to deceive people!]
[Li Yuan: Fine, fine, fine. If you think it's made up, then it's made up. I can't be bothered to argue with an 'ungrateful wolf' like you!]
[The Yandere Maniac Beauty of the Spirit Hall: You dare call me an ungrateful wolf? Make yourself clear, who is an ungrateful wolf?]
[Li Yuan: If you're not an ungrateful wolf, who is? Both your parents died when you were young. If Qian Xunji hadn't brought you back to Spirit Hall, you wouldn't even know which street corner you'd have starved to death on!]
[Li Yuan: Spirit Hall gave you fine clothes and food, gave you the best Cultivation resources, put all their effort into nurturing you, and even appointed you as the Holy Maiden, giving you the honor of being above ten thousand and below only one!]
[Li Yuan: And what about you? You grew up, your wings hardened, and instead of thinking about how to repay Spirit Hall's kindness in nurturing you, you're single-mindedly focused on marrying Yu Xiaogang, the son of the Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, a rival force of Spirit Hall? If you're not an ungrateful wolf, what are you?]
[The Yandere Maniac Beauty of the Spirit Hall: I don't care about being this Holy Maiden. It was that beast Qian Xunji who ruined everything for me, okay!]
[Li Yuan: If you hadn't met Qian Xunji, who do you think you'd be? With your twin spirits and this face, if you were left wandering outside, what do you think your end would be? The outside World isn't a fairy tale; don't think everyone is a gentleman.]
[Why don't you all imagine what the final outcome would be for a helpless female Genius with twin spirits, peerless beauty, but a stubborn personality?]