Liu Erlong's delicate body trembled slightly, many people around her had already spoken ill of Brock, but she still resolutely chose to believe in him in the end.
She chose to believe everything she saw, rather than those baseless speculations.
But after spending so many days with Brock, she gradually realized that he was no longer the Brock of the past.
"Beast, kneel before Erlong!" Yu Yuan Zhen saw the situation, felt even more indebted to Liu Erlong, and slapped Brock across the face again. He had thought that after being kicked out of the family, his irreverent son would restrain himself, but he had become increasingly reckless, fully aware of Erlong's identity and still daring to attempt such a thing on her.
"No, I won't kneel." Brock bore the pain on his face, looking angrily at his father, his eyes turning blood red.
Why?
Why must everyone bully him? Why must his own father lay hands on him as well?
Why is this so? Could this be Brock's destiny?
Liu Erlong and Xu Ran had both plotted against him, and now they wanted him to kneel to her? Impossible!
"Beast, I said kneel!" Yu Yuan Zhen became furious upon seeing this. He knew that Xu Ran was watching them from some corner, and if they couldn't satisfy him, it might even affect the Supreme Elder's impression of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
That a great sect would show tolerance to such a lowly disciple could incur the Supreme Elder's displeasure.
And if the Supreme Elder took a fancy to Liu Erlong, they naturally had to teach Brock a lesson.
Even though he was Brock's father, this time, he would not hold back at all.
"Father, please spare me."
"I will not."
"Please let me go. I can't kneel."
Brock's eyes were bloodshot, glaring wide, enduring the powerful Soul Pressure his father was exerting on him, his heart filled with immense pain and despair.
Why must even his father treat him like this?
Did his father also think he was a loser?
He was Brock, the man deeply loved by Bi Bidong. If only he returned to her side, he could elevate the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to become the number one sect in the world, and now...
"Kneel." Yu Yuan Zhen, heedless of Brock's pleas, directly used his powerful Soul Pressure to forcefully make Brock kneel on the ground.
"Ah!" Brock screamed in pain, feeling as if his body was about to fall apart, his legs bending as he knelt directly on the ground. His eyes were vacant, feeling like his whole mindset had collapsed.
Why had it come to this? Why did his father and uncle suddenly appear? Hadn't they already stopped caring about them? Why did they still show up?
"Uncle, Father..." Liu Erlong started to speak, intending to intercede. Seeing this scene, Liu Erlong looked at Brock's condition and did not try to stop it. She had already been heartbroken over Brock before.
Even now, as she watched Brock being chastised by Yu Yuan Zhen, she felt no compassion, just a little anxious, as she waited for an answer. If it turned out to be true, it would be utterly despairing.
Her youth had been entirely ruined by a vile and shameless person... She dared not contemplate that, it was just too horrifying.
"Erlong, your father and I came here to stop you from being with Brock. He is not worthy of your love,"
"Everything Brock has shown you before was a facade; his approach to you, even his departure, was all with ulterior motives..." Yu Yuan Zhen spoke directly, revealing everything to her.
"No, that's impossible."
Liu Erlong staggered backward several steps, her delicate body trembling violently, unable to accept this reality.
She had wasted her youth on this, and now she was told that the man she loved and treasured was nothing but a hypocrite, approaching her merely to achieve his own ends.
"I don't believe it, this cannot be true," tears crazily surged from Liu Erlong's eyes. She had already suspected this, but she had not dared to think in that direction.
Now, spoken out loud by her father and her uncle, two high-ranking members of the Yu Family and her own relatives, she had to believe it even if she did not want to. Yu Xiaogang knew full well she was his cousin, and that there could be no good outcome between them, yet he still treated her so kindly, deliberately making her heart flutter.
Heh, where in the world are there so many coincidences?
With so many people in Soul Land, how could it be that just any two people in love would be cousins?
It was clearly all deliberate on Yu Xiaogang's part!
"Brock, you tell me yourself, is what my uncle and father said true?" Liu Erlong's delicate body shook, her full breasts heaving, and her silk-stockinged legs weak, nearly stumbling to the ground.
Her eyes were bloodshot, staring hatefully at the man before her.
At this moment, endless hatred and resentment filled her heart.
Why did Yu Xiaogang have to do this to her? Had she not been good enough to him? What was the reason for all this?
"Haha. Yes, I did all of this," Yu Xiaogang also lost his mind at this moment. With the truth of the past spoken by his own father, his fabricated persona shattered, driving him into madness.
He only knew that the world had always been against him.
This universe, since the moment his Martial Soul had awakened, had started to disgust him, as his Martial Soul turned out to be inherently flawed. That was one thing. But why, when he chased after something, would there always be someone at the last moment trying to harm him?
Why?
Qian Xun Ji... Xu Ran... these animals, all of them were harming him, opposing him.
And now, his own relatives were one by one viewing him with such hatred. Why?
Was he, Yu Xiaogang, really so despicable?
Did he, Yu Xiaogang, deserve to be laughed at by others for his entire life?
"Why did you do this? Why?" Liu Erlong watched Yu Xiaogang in despair. In that moment, she didn't even know what she was feeling. It seemed even pain had vanished. It wasn't worth it to feel pain and cry for such a person, was it?
"Haha, why? I'll tell you now."
"In fact, I knew early on that you were of the direct bloodline of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, I just didn't know whose bloodline it was. However, that didn't deter my pursuit of you. Among the Golden Iron Triangle, I needed to win you over to become the lead of the three, to become the core that everyone in the world would remember."
"Do you know why I brought you back to the Yu Family?"
"Because Dong'er ascended to the position of Pope, she became the Pope, and with her Twin Martial Souls, she would eventually control the entire Martial Soul Hall. Compared to Dong'er, what are you? The reason I did this was to deliberately let the family separate us so that I could then plan to return to Dong'er's side," Yu Xiaogang roared, completely losing his sanity at this point.
Having lost his sanity, Yu Xiaogang laid bare everything.
The original Yu Xiaogang did indeed plan this, recuperating in Notting City, waiting for the opportune moment to then go find Bi Bidong in Spirit City.
But later, after meeting Tang San, he had another idea. That was to cultivate Tang San into a peerless powerhouse, to satisfy his vanity as a theoretical grandmaster.
In the original work, he achieved this, using his relationship with Bi Bidong to buy Tang San enough time to develop. Eventually, Tang San learned this tactic and managed to convince Qian Renxue and Hulena to spare his life multiple times.
Passive, unrejecting, unaccountable. Tang San, the protégé who surpassed his teacher in talent, embodied these nine words to perfection with his actions.