Douluo: Yu Hao Pan Tang San

Chapter 8 8. Would you choose to be a dragon or a pig?

Yu Xiaomen walked outside the Awakening Hall and watched Yu Xiaogang running away. Yu Xiaogang tripped over a stone, then struggled to his feet and continued running away.

He raised his head, looked at the bright sunshine in the sky, and stretched out his hand as if to catch the warm light.

"It was really a good show for me." Yu Xiaomen said softly, and then, as if reminiscing, "Mother, I did not disappoint you. I awakened a powerful martial soul, but this Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex..." At the end, Yu Xiaomen showed a trace of disgust on her face.

Then, he said happily: "Humph, it doesn't matter. I don't want to leave the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan for the time being."

……

"How did he do it with such a small amount of innate soul power?" Huo Yuhao was a little confused.

Innate soul power determines the upper limit of future growth. Logically, Yu Xiaogang's talent is already sufficient to cultivate to the realm of soul master. However, in the original work, before taking the ninth-grade purple fungus, Yu Xiaogang actually reached the realm of great soul master.

Many works attribute this to the result of consuming a large amount of Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex clan resources. This may be a reason, but how could ordinary resources achieve this?

If Yu Xiaogang had only relied on natural resources to break through the limits of his talent and reached level 29, then in a sense, Yu Xiaogang could be considered a miracle-working genius. After all, have you ever seen someone with the same innate soul power as Yu Xiaogang become a great soul master?

So is Yu Xiaogang a genius? Judging from the plot of the first world of Douluo Continent, Yu Xiaogang is not a genius at all.

There must be something strange about Yu Xiaogang's growth.

Although Huo Yuhao can deduce Yu Xiaogang's future fate, just like watching a TV series, if you know the answer from the beginning, the subsequent plot will be boring.

……

In three days, or even less than three days, everything changed.

The young Yu Xiaomen, once a cautious and timid young man within the sect, who could easily be trampled upon by any servant, has now become the most talented of the sect's younger generation. If he continues to grow, he will surely occupy a place in the Douluo Palace in the future.

His father's attitude towards him was no longer cold, but caring. After learning about what Yunniang had experienced, Yu Yuanzhen immediately flew into a rage and ordered the execution of all the servants who had bullied Yunniang.

The other branches of the sect all sent their descendants to curry favor with Yu Xiaomen. Although the identity of Yu Xiaomen's young master had not yet been confirmed, Yu Xiaomen had already received the same treatment as Yu Xiaogang before. Wherever he went in the sect, everyone there had to bow their heads and greet him with a gentle greeting: "Young Master of the Small Sect."

On this day, Yu Yuanzhen handed the Sect Master's token to Yu Xiaomen and said, "Xiaomen, this token will be given to you from now on. With this token, you can go anywhere in the sect. You can also use this token to collect resources for cultivation and ask the sect elders to hunt souls for you."

After explaining this matter, Yu Yuanzhen walked in one direction.

"Father, are you going to see Brother Xiaogang?" Yu Xiaomen asked with concern.

Yu Yuanzhen sighed and said, "After all, he is my other son, your brother. He locked himself in the room for three days without eating or drinking." "Well, father, you must give brother Xiaogang some advice." Yu Xiaomen also said with concern.

Yu Yuanzhen nodded and walked straight to Yu Xiaogang's room. Faint sobbing could be heard from within. Yu Yuanzhen frowned, then recalled the awakening ceremony—the initial scene of Yu Xiaogang's spirit awakening was unmistakable. It had been the Golden Holy Dragon, but something had changed, transforming it into the spirit Luo Sanpao.

Although it was a useless spirit, Yu Yuanzhen had a vague feeling that it held some mysterious connection to the Golden Holy Dragon. He had some theories about the cause of the spirit's mutation. After all, Yu Xiaogang had been his most beloved and cared-for child. Yu Yuanzhen felt that perhaps Xiaogang could still be saved.

He simply unlocked the door and broke in.

It was pitch black inside the door, and the light from outside shone in, and the dust raised in the air was clearly visible.

Yu Yuanzhen stood in the light, his eyes quickly locked on Yu Xiaogang, who was curled up in the quilt and shivering.

He said angrily, "Xiao Gang, why are you locking yourself in this room?"

Yu Xiaogang's eyes were bloodshot, tears streaking his cheeks. He said in agony, "Dad, why did I awaken Luo Sanpao? I was supposed to be a Golden Holy Dragon at first..."

"Even if you cry all day and all night, can you cry the Golden Holy Dragon back?" Yu Yuanzhen asked back.

"With your talent, it is difficult to become a soul master. Even if the sect has the ability to allow you to break through to the soul master level in one fell swoop, the resources consumed will not be worth it." Yu Yuanzhen continued.

Yu Xiaogang shuddered upon hearing this. He said anxiously, "No, no, I want to be a spirit master. I don't want to be an ordinary person. Father, are you guys going to give up on me?"

The gap between soul warriors and soul masters is a huge gap in class status, representing the essential difference between 99% of ordinary people on the continent and the last handful of soul masters.

Letting Yu Xiaogang be an ordinary person would be better than letting him die. Although Yu Xiaogang did not have the courage to commit suicide, dying of old age was also a way to die.

Yu Yuanzhen looked at Yu Xiaogang's pleading expression, suppressed his displeasure, and said, "Just listen to me first. Remember the half-solidified golden holy dragon when your martial spirit awakened? That was a pivotal moment in your life. Your martial spirit seemed to be hindered by something. One step forward would open up a vast expanse of horizons, but failing to take that step would lead to a plunge into the abyss. Your physical fitness and mental strength weren't enough to support your martial spirit's transformation into the golden holy dragon, so it regressed and mutated malignantly into Luo Sanpao."

"So, don't underestimate your martial spirit. There must be some connection between Luo Sanpao and the Golden Holy Dragon."

Hearing this, Yu Xiaogang suddenly realized what was going on, and immediately a wave of hatred towards Luo Sanpao grew in his heart. He thought to himself: You should have been the Golden Holy Dragon, why did you degenerate into Luo Sanpao? Why!
Yu Yuanzhen continued, "Since the Golden Holy Dragon can degenerate into Luo Sanpao, there must be a way to evolve Luo Sanpao into the Golden Holy Dragon."

"What's the solution?" Yu Xiaogang asked hurriedly.

Yu Yuanzhen shook his head and said, "I don't know either."

"Now I give you two choices: do you want to be a dragon, or a pig? If you choose the latter, the sect will train you to be a business talent. You will be responsible for managing the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex Sect's business. As long as I am alive, your life will not be too bad, and the sect will not make things difficult for you. If you want to become a dragon, I can help you to the best of my ability, but you must forge your own path. You must put in two hundred times more effort than other soul masters to explore this thorny road."

(End of this chapter)