Chapter 10: Were Yu Xiaogang's Theories All Plagiarized?
Spirit City — Spirit Hall Academy
Hu Liena was so furious that she jumped to her feet, her pretty face flushed red.
"Outrageous!"
"That damn Lin Yuan—how dare he slander a Teacher like this!"
"Teacher is pure and spotless. How could she ever take a fancy to a level-twenty-nine piece of trash?!"
"I'm going to kill him! I must kill him!"
But soon, Hu Liena remembered the rules of the diary copy, and her anger deflated.
She didn't know whether the Teacher had also obtained a diary copy. If she really saw what Lin Yuan had written… wouldn't she be furious to death?
Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan
Ning Rongrong was so excited that she rolled around on her bed, her little feet kicking wildly.
"Wow! Earth-shattering gossip!"
"The cold and aloof Pope's rumored lover—and he's actually a scumbag?"
"I really want to see whether what Lin Yuan said is true."
"Once I finish reading, I have to go ask Dad. Maybe he knows some of the old gossip from back then!"
However, for two other people, this diary entry was nothing short of a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
Spirit City — Pope's Palace
Bibi Dong's hand, which had been reviewing documents, suddenly began to tremble violently.
The color drained from her breathtaking face in an instant, replaced by boundless shock and humiliation.
"This is bad!"
"That Lin Yuan… this time, he's coming straight at me!"
This long-buried past was her greatest weakness!
And now it had been dragged into the open!
She could now be certain—there were other holders of diary copies.
If Qian Renxue saw it… If those old fogeys in the Douluo Hall saw it…
What Bibi Dong didn't even know was whether all diary-copy holders were women—or whether men could have them as well.
Heaven Dou City — Blue Tyrant Academy
Liu Erlong stared at the diary, crushing the wine gourd in her hand to pieces.
"Xiaogang…"
"Living off women… coward…"
Those words were like sharp blades, stabbing straight into her heart.
She wanted to refute them, but realized she had no strength to do so.
Because back then… Yu Xiaogang really had run away from the wedding.
"Lin Yuan, just who are you?"
"Why do you insist on ripping open all these scars?"
As for the instigator himself, Lin Yuan couldn't care less about any of this.
Although he could fabricate things in the diary, he felt there was absolutely no need.
The more truthful he was, the more the diary-copy holders would believe him.
And later, once he identified who possessed the diary copies, based on the trust he had already built—
Perhaps he could lie a little about certain matters.
After all, since everything he wrote earlier was true, wouldn't people naturally assume the later parts were true as well?
Second-Floor Cafeteria — A Subtle Atmosphere
Yu Xiaogang was now sitting alone in a corner, secretly observing Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu.
He coveted Tang San's twin-martial-soul potential and likewise lusted after the talent of Lin Yuan and Xiao Wu.
'As long as I can take all three of these geniuses as disciples, I, Yu Xiaogang, will be able to prove myself!'
'When that time comes, even Spirit Hall will have to look up to my theories!'
Yu Xiaogang swore silently in his heart while simultaneously beginning to plan how to use his "silver tongue" to fool these brats.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan couldn't care less about Yu Xiaogang.
As he ate, he continued writing in his diary within his mind.
It had felt good to roast Yu Xiaogang earlier—but it wasn't enough.
He had to strip him bare, expose everything, and let everyone see what kind of trash he really was!
[This Yu Xiaogang goes around calling himself a 'Grandmaster' all day long, even coming up with something called the 'Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls.']
[Sounds impressive, but it's actually all a joke.]
[Anyone with half a brain and any standing in the soul master world knows that most of his so-called 'theories' were copied straight from the Spirit Hall's library.]
[As for the rest, they were cobbled together from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's internal materials.]
[In my previous life, this would be like taking someone else's thesis, changing the title, reformatting it, and then claiming it as my own original work.]
[What is this called? This is academic fraud!]
[This is plagiarism!]
Spirit City — Pope's Palace
Reading the diary's contents, Bibi Dong's expression fluctuated between light and dark.
As a former Saintess and the current Pope, she naturally knew exactly what was stored in Spirit Hall's library.
Back then, to help Yu Xiaogang, she really had taken him into the library and let him read a great deal of research material.
Up to this point, Lin Yuan had already written many things in his diary that she personally knew about—and all of them were true.
This only made Bibi Dong believe even more that Lin Yuan was truly a so-called transmigrator, someone who knew the future of this world.
If that was the case… What kind of ending awaited her in the future?
[And the funniest part is that at least half of this so-called Ten Core Competencies theory is outright wrong!]
[One of the points claims that there is a hard limit to the age of soul rings a soul master can absorb.]
[The limit for the first soul ring is supposedly 423 years.]
[I honestly wonder—how was this '423' number even calculated?]
[What kind of precise instrument could measure a soul beast as being exactly 423 years old? Not a year more, not a year less?]
[I seriously suspect that this number most likely comes from the fact that Yu Yuanzhen's first soul ring might have been 423 years—or it was just a single case taken from some material he plagiarized.]
[Otherwise, who would bother compiling statistics that can't possibly be measured accurately?]
[In reality, how many years of a soul ring a soul master can absorb has no fixed limit at all. It depends entirely on the soul master's physique!]
[The stronger the physique, the higher the soul-ring age one can endure!]
[Take Bibi Dong as an example—she has twin martial souls, a physique far beyond ordinary people, and on top of that, she was stacked with Spirit Hall's resources. Her Death Spider Emperor's second soul ring was already a thousand-year ring!]
[And according to Yu Xiaogang's theory, what's the limit for a second soul ring? Less than eight hundred years!]
[This alone proves that Yu Xiaogang's theory is wrong. A prerequisite must be added: the soul-ring age a soul master can absorb is directly proportional to their physique.]
"Pfft—cough cough cough!"
At this point, Xiao Wu—who had just stuffed a chicken leg into her mouth—failed to hold it in and choked.
She coughed violently, her little face turning bright red.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Yuan put down his knife and fork, looking at her with an amused expression.
"Is the way I eat that funny?"
Xiao Wu hurriedly waved her hands, shaking her head like a rattling drum.
"No, no!"
"I just… I just suddenly thought of something happy."
She spoke nonsense while laughing uncontrollably in her heart.
'Hahaha! This is killing this rabbit!'
'Lin Yuan's mouth is way too vicious—but I love it!'
As a soul beast, she knew better than anyone that absorbing soul rings was all about physical endurance.
As long as your body and mental strength could handle it, even a ten-thousand-year first soul ring wasn't a dream!
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