"Isn't it only right for a teacher to instruct students? Why does it sound like he has other intentions?" Ning Rongrong asked.
Lin Ye smiled and said, "Yu Xiaogang stayed at Nuoding City Junior Spirit Master Academy for so many years, but I never saw him instruct any students.
Actually, this goes back to Yu Xiaogang's past. Yu Xiaogang was born into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and his father is the current Sect Master Yu Yuanzhen.
The direct descendants of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan are said to be like dragons, but when Yu Xiaogang, the Sect Master's son, awakened his Spirit, it mutated, degenerating into a pig, and his innate spirit power was only half a level.
If he were an ordinary commoner, half a level of spirit power would be better than none, but for a direct descendant of the Yu family, he could truly be called a rare waste in a hundred years.
However, relying on his Sect Master father, Yu Xiaogang still received ample resources and managed to push himself to twenty-nine levels.
But after that, no matter how hard he tried, level thirty became an insurmountable barrier for him.
Unable to advance his cultivation, and coupled with the ridicule from his Sect disciples, Yu Xiaogang left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and went to Spirit Hall, intending to find a way to break through there.
Later, due to emotional issues and the exclusion and targeting by the then Supreme Pontiff Qian Xunji, he had no choice but to leave Spirit Hall.
And at that time, he was also expelled from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
From then on, Yu Xiaogang began to travel the continent. During this period, he met Dean Flender and Dean Liu Erlong, and the three formed the Golden Triangle.
During their time together, Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong developed feelings for each other, and thus, with Flender as a witness, they intended to become husband and wife.
However, on their wedding day, Liu Erlong's stepfather arrived in time to stop this absurd marriage.
The reason it was absurd was because Dean Liu Erlong was the illegitimate daughter of Yu Xiaogang's second uncle, Yu Luomian.
In other words, Liu Erlong actually had to call Yu Xiaogang her cousin.
Hearing this, Ning Rongrong's mouth dropped open in shock. What kind of melodramatic plot was this?
Moreover, it sounded like Yu Xiaogang also had a relationship in Spirit Hall, so why did it just fizzle out?
Without interrupting, Ning Rongrong chose to continue listening, her intuition telling her that the next part would be even more exciting.
"Yu Xiaogang fled in disarray on the spot, and for the next twenty-plus years, he never reappeared.
After becoming disheartened, he went to Nuoding City and settled down at his friend's Nuoding Junior Spirit Master Academy.
But he did not choose to be a teacher, probably because his identity as a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan made him feel superior.
It wasn't until after years of freeloading that he met Tang San, a genius with innate full spirit power, and only then did he take him as a disciple."
At this point, Lin Ye paused, looked at Ning Rongrong, and said, "Rongrong, guess why Yu Xiaogang wanted to take Tang San as his disciple?"
Ning Rongrong was not stupid. After some thought, she analyzed, "He spent several years at Nuoding Academy and never taught any students, so he clearly isn't someone who likes to be a teacher. The reason he took Tang San as a disciple is naturally because he saw Tang San's talent.
And the fact that he could spend several years in Nuoding Academy in a decadent state shows that he had given up on himself and chosen to lie flat.
Choosing to take Tang San as a disciple either means he hopes Tang San will grow up and fulfill some of his unfulfilled wishes, or he wants to prove something through Tang San."
Clap!
"Smart."
Ning Rongrong rolled her eyes at her best friend. "Just talk, can you not hit my butt?"
Lin Ye continued, "Yu Xiaogang wanted to use Tang San to prove his so-called Ten Great Spirit Core Competition Theory.
He also wanted to use Tang San to make himself famous throughout the world. Therefore, what he pursues is fame and fortune. He longs for people's recognition and wants others to sing his praises.
And in his eyes, we, the Shrek Seven Devils, are merely foils for his disciple, Tang San.
Think about it, do his so-called devil trainings really have much effect?
Then why did Tang San, as his disciple, not receive training before, and why did it only start when he came to Shrek and met us, and why did it stop later?
Actually, he just used those excessive trainings to make us physically and mentally exhausted, unable to think of anything else, to cultivate so-called team Spirit, and to suppress individual troublemakers who refused to be disciplined.
And since it's a team, there needs to be a captain. For Yu Xiaogang, this captain must be his disciple, Tang San.
You can recall what you were like when you first joined Shrek, and what you are like now.
Has that Little Witch of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School now become a well-behaved girl?"
Ning Rongrong was speechless.
"I…"
Ning Rongrong opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.
Lin Ye said, "This is very normal. Many times, it is the environment that changes people. You are influenced by those you associate with.
At first, I was also physically and mentally exhausted by those trainings, and it wasn't until later that I realized that everything Yu Xiaogang did was to strike at us and smooth out our edges.
The All-Continent Soul Master Competition will be held soon. As long as Tang San performs brilliantly in the competition, Yu Xiaogang, who taught this genius Spirit Master, will also become famous.
We, the Shrek Seven Devils, are Yu Xiaogang's tools for training, especially Dai Mubai and I.
Dai Mubai's and my Spirit Fusion Skill is a very powerful trump card, and your Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda's auxiliary ability is indispensable, Rongrong.
So, even if I have no feelings for Dai Mubai, Yu Xiaogang will still try to bring us together.
He needs us to help Tang San, but we cannot overshadow Tang San's brilliance.
Think carefully, have we unconsciously regarded Tang San as the core of the team?"
Ning Rongrong's face looked a bit grim. It seemed to be true. Unbeknownst to her, they had already placed Tang San in the captain's position, but nominally, Dai Mubai was the captain.
Knowing her own change made Ning Rongrong feel both ashamed and angry.
She felt that Yu Xiaogang and Flender treated her as if they were taming cats and dogs, which even made her feel a sense of humiliation at being played.
Crucially, the one playing her was just a Spirit Grandmaster, a fifty-something-year-old useless Spirit Grandmaster.
She was the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, held in the palms of two Titled Douluo, yet she never expected to be played around by a good-for-nothing like Yu Xiaogang.
This was like an emperor of a nation being slapped in the face by an ordinary woman pulling his hair. Such a difference in status would make the emperor feel Feel humiliated.
Ning Rongrong was in this state now. Her eyes were downcast, and her small hands on her skirt were tightly clenched, revealing her turbulent emotions.
A hint of a smile flashed in Lin Ye's eyes. Perfect, Ning Rongrong was alienated, and the scheme of discord succeeded.
"Damn Flender, damn Yu Xiaogang, how dare they play me!"
Ning Rongrong cursed Flender and Yu Xiaogang a hundred times in her heart.
At this moment, her small hand was held, and her best friend's voice came from beside her.
"I'm sorry, Rongrong, I shouldn't have treated you coldly and isolated you like them back then."