Douluo: Yu Hao is reborn, this Tang San is different

Chapter 120 The Master Suffers Castration
On the bluestone path of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex clan, Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were dragged forward by iron chains. Liu Erlong's hair was covered in mud, and Yu Xiaogang's clothes were already soaked with blood. The sound of their footsteps and the scraping of the iron chains echoed in the corridor, like the death knell of the Grim Reaper.

Family members passing by stopped and hurled insults and curses at them.

"Look! This is the bastard who has disgraced the family!" A young Soul Master threw a half-eaten fruit pit at Yu Xiaogang. "A piece of trash with a mutated Martial Soul, how dare you come back?"

"Liu Erlong is utterly shameless!" The old woman's shrill voice pierced the eardrums. "Her affair with a piece of trash like Yu Xiaogang has utterly disgraced the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex!"

Yu Luomian strode ahead, when suddenly he heard a muffled groan behind him.

He looked back and saw an elder whipping Liu Erlong, the wounds from which blood seeped.

"Father!" Liu Erlong cried out, his voice filled with despair.

Yu Xiaogang suddenly sprang up, the iron chains rattling as he shielded Liu Erlong with his body, leaving several more bloody marks on his back.

"Stop right there!" Yu Luomian roared, his dragon-shaped martial spirit half-manifesting. "Spare their lives; the clan leader will deal with them as he sees fit!"

When they were escorted to the ancestral hall, more than three hundred clan elders were already waiting there. Yu Yuanzhen sat upright on the dragon-patterned throne, his dragon-headed cane striking the ground heavily, the clanging sound echoing throughout the hall.

Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong were roughly forced to kneel on the blue bricks. The cold touch from their knees reminded Yu Xiaogang of twenty years ago, when he was also here and his fate of having his martial soul mutated was announced.

"Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong!" The Third Elder rose shakily, his cloudy eyes filled with rage. "You eloped, founded Blue Tyrant Academy, and openly defied the family! And now you dare to do such a despicable thing!"

"Exactly!" The Fifth Elder slammed his fist on the table and stood up. "Liu Erlong, as a direct descendant of the family, you have no shame, engaging in illicit relations with Yu Xiaogang! How are we supposed to face the other sects after this?"

The insults and abuse continued, and Yu Xiaogang felt a splitting headache.

He raised his head, gazing at the family crest hanging high above him; the majestic blue lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex seemed to mock him. "Enough!" he suddenly roared, his voice so powerful it made the candlelight in the ancestral hall flicker. "I have long been expelled from the family; what right do you have to punish me?"

Yu Yuanzhen's face instantly turned ashen. "Expelled from the family? You think a single order can erase your bloodline?" He abruptly stood up, his dragon-headed cane pointing directly at Yu Xiaogang. "You not only tarnished the family's reputation, but you also plagiarized the Spirit Hall's theories and spread those fallacies and heresies! Do you know how many sects have questioned the prestige of my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan because of your words?"

"I didn't plagiarize!" Yu Xiaogang struggled to stand up, but was forcibly held down by two Soul Emperors. "My theory is the result of years of research, and it's meant to help more Soul Masters!"

"Help?" Yu Luomian sneered. "You just want to use this to make a name for yourself! Do you know that the Spirit Hall has already questioned your family? Because of you, we almost offended His Holiness the Pope!"

Liu Erlong suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with stubbornness, "This is all my fault! It has nothing to do with Xiaogang! Punish me if you must!"

"Shut up!" Yu Yuanzhen roared. "You two have committed heinous crimes and must be severely punished today! According to clan rules, those who commit incest are drowned in the pool, and those who betray the clan have their hands cut off!"

Yu Xiaogang's heart clenched. He turned to look at Liu Erlong, whose face was pale, yet she was still smiling at him. "Erlong," his voice choked, "I'm sorry."

"No need to say anything more."

Liu Erlong said softly, "To be with you, even death would be my willing sacrifice."

This remark thoroughly enraged everyone present.

"Shameless!" The Seventh Elder trembled with rage. "Guards, cripple their soul power!"

Two Soul Emperors stepped forward, their hands glowing with a ghostly blue light.

Yu Xiaogang suddenly unleashed all his strength, and managed to break several of the iron chains.

"I'll say it again!" His voice echoed throughout the ancestral hall, "I, Yu Xiaogang, am no longer a member of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan! You have no right to touch me!"

His gaze swept over everyone present, finally settling on Yu Yuanzhen. "Father, when you expelled me from the family back then, did you ever imagine this day would come?"

Yu Yuanzhen's hands trembled slightly as he gripped his dragon-headed cane. "Shut up! You will always be a member of the Yu family! Today, I will cleanse the house!"

After a while.

The air inside the ancestral hall seemed to freeze. Yu Xiaogang was pressed firmly against the bronze execution platform by four Soul Emperors, and the icy touch traveled down his spine.

The dragon-shaped carvings at the four corners of the execution platform had their fangs bared, as if they were about to devour him.

Holding a bronze token engraved with ancient runes, Yu Yuanzhen slowly walked towards the execution platform, each step feeling as if he were stepping on Yu Xiaogang's heart.

"Yu Xiaogang, considering you were once a member of the family, I'll give you one last chance."

Yu Yuanzhen's voice was as cold as iron, "Confess your crimes in public and apologize to your family, and perhaps you can be spared a proper burial."

Yu Xiaogang's disheveled hair obscured his eyes, and traces of blood still clung to the corner of his mouth. He raised his head, his eyes filled with stubbornness: "What crime have I committed? Is pursuing truth a crime? Is defending love a crime? You people, blinded by outdated clan rules, are the real sinners!"

Enraged, Yu Luomian stepped forward and slapped Yu Xiaogang hard across the face: "Still being stubborn even when death is imminent! Guards, bring the torture!"

At a command, two executioners carried forward a simple wooden box.

The moment the wooden box was opened, a cold glint flashed, revealing a strangely shaped bronze knife inside. The blade gleamed with an eerie, ghostly blue light, clearly indicating that it had been coated with a potent poison.

Yu Xiaogang's pupils contracted sharply. He finally realized what he was about to face, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"No! No!" Liu Erlong tried frantically to rush forward, but was blocked by more clansmen. Her dragon claws tore through the clothes of several Soul Emperors, but were quickly suppressed by new attacks. "Father! Please, punish only me! Spare Xiaogang!"

Her cries echoed in the ancestral hall, but received no response.

Looking into Liu Erlong's desperate eyes, Yu Xiaogang felt a sharp pain in his heart. He began to struggle frantically, the chains rattling loudly.
"Yu Yuanzhen! You can't do this! I'm your son!"

"Son?" Yu Yuanzhen sneered. "When you committed such a disgraceful act with Liu Erlong, when you tarnished the family's reputation with your fallacies and heresies, you ceased to be my son! Today, I will cleanse the family of its filth and teach you the price of betrayal!"

The executioner slowly raised the bronze sword, its blade gleaming coldly in the candlelight. Yu Xiaogang's face turned deathly pale, and large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong! I'm willing to confess my crimes and apologize to my family! Please, spare me!" His voice was choked with sobs, filled with fear and despair. However, his pleas for mercy did not elicit any pity.

Yu Luomian stepped forward and stomped on his chest: "Now you know fear? Too late! You think a few pleas for mercy can atone for your sins? Today, I will not only strip you of your manly dignity, but also make you a laughingstock in the world of Soul Masters forever!"

Suddenly, Liu Erlong unleashed a deafening roar, her soul power surging wildly, and nine blue lightning dragon shadows roared in unison. She forcefully broke through the encirclement of her clansmen and lunged towards the execution platform: "Anyone who dares to touch him, I'll fight them to the death!"

Yu Yuanzhen's eyes narrowed, and with a wave of his token, a huge blue-purple barrier instantly rose up, sending Liu Erlong flying.

She fell heavily to the ground, coughing up a mouthful of blood, but still struggled to get up.

Without further hesitation, the executioner brought down the bronze knife toward Yu Xiaogang's vital parts.

At the critical moment, Yu Xiaogang suddenly unleashed a powerful force, shaking off the person pressing down on him, tumbling off the execution platform, and running towards the ancestral hall gate.

However, the entrance was already completely blocked by the clansmen, and the light of the dragon-shaped martial spirit illuminated the exit as bright as day.

"Trying to escape?" Yu Luomian grinned maliciously as he chased after Yu Xiaogang, grabbing his hair with his dragon claws and slamming him to the ground. "In the territory of the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan, you won't escape!"

He gestured to the executioners to continue, "Speed ​​up, don't let this bastard cause any more trouble."

Yu Xiaogang was pressed back onto the execution platform. He stared in despair at the dragon relief on the ceiling, tears blurring his vision. Once, he too had dreamed of becoming a powerful Soul Master like his ancestors, bringing glory to his family.

But now, he is about to lose his dignity as a man on this cold execution platform.

"Make your move!" Yu Yuanzhen's voice rang out.

The bronze knife was raised again, and Yu Xiaogang closed his eyes, waiting for the excruciating pain to come.

Liu Erlong's cries, the clansmen's curses, and Yu Yuanzhen's cold laughter all became blurred at this moment. He silently prayed in his heart, hoping that all of this would end soon, and that he would not have to bear this heavy bloodline shackle in his next life.
The moment the bronze blade sliced ​​through the air, Yu Xiaogang's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

That chilling blue light, carrying an icy edge, pierced his flesh with pinpoint accuracy, and the excruciating pain instantly engulfed his consciousness like a surging tide. His screams shattered the dome of the ancestral hall, startling the crows perched under the eaves, and the despair and fear in his voice sent a shiver down the spines of many present.

"Ah—!" Yu Xiaogang's body arched like an arrow released from a bow, veins bulging on his neck, and beads of sweat mixed with blood rolling down his forehead.

He tried to struggle, but the Soul Emperors held him down firmly, his limbs twitching futilely on the execution platform. In the midst of the excruciating pain, the warm memories of his time with Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy and the respectful gazes of the Shrek Academy students flashed before his eyes, these images becoming fragmented in his agony.

Liu Erlong desperately rammed into the barrier, her fingernails carving deep, bloody marks into the hard wall of soul power: "Dad! Stop! You'll kill him!"

Her cries were drowned out by Yu Luomian's cold snort. Yu Luomian stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes full of disdain: "If you knew this would happen, why did you do it in the first place? This is the consequence of betraying your family!"

Yu Xiaogang felt as if his soul was being torn apart, and the excruciating pain made his thoughts chaotic. He recalled the scenes of being ridiculed as a good-for-nothing in his family when he was a child, and the disappointed look in his father's eyes. At this moment, these memories surged up like a tide, intertwining with the pain before him.

"I regret it. I really regret it," he wailed intermittently, his voice filled with remorse and despair. "I shouldn't have come back. I shouldn't have."

The executioner, expressionless, completed the final step, tightly binding the poisoned strips of cloth around the wound. Yu Xiaogang's body convulsed violently, then slumped onto the execution platform, blood gushing from his mouth, staining the bronze platform beneath him crimson.

His consciousness gradually blurred amidst the excruciating pain, yet he could still hear the mocking laughter of his tribesmen around him.

"Look at this, this is the so-called master!" A young clansman burst into laughter. "He dared to preach about martial spirit theories, but now he can't even protect himself!"

"He's just a bastard who overestimates himself!" another voice said disdainfully. "He thinks he can rise above others by leaving his family, but in the end, he'll just be at everyone's mercy."

Yu Yuanzhen looked down at the dying Yu Xiaogang, his eyes devoid of any pity: "Throw him into the dungeon and let him reflect on his sins."

After saying this, he turned and left, the sound of his dragon-headed cane striking the ground echoing in the ancestral hall.

Liu Erlong finally broke through the barrier. She rushed to Yu Xiaogang's side and held his blood-stained head in her arms, crying, "Xiaogang, wake up! I'm here."

Her tears fell onto Yu Xiaogang's face, but received no response. Yu Xiaogang's eyes were tightly closed, his face ashen, only his faint breathing proved that he was still alive.

"take away!"

Yu Luomian waved his hand impatiently, and several Soul Emperors stepped forward and roughly dragged Yu Xiaogang away from Liu Erlong's arms. Liu Erlong tried to stop them, but was knocked unconscious and dragged into the dungeon along with them.

Inside the ancestral hall, the clansmen were still discussing and laughing.

Someone picked up the blood-stained strip of cloth from the ground and threw it contemptuously: "He's completely disgraced the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family!" Another person spat on the bloodstains on the execution platform: "This kind of person deserves to suffer a fate worse than death!"

In the dungeon, Yu Xiaogang, still unconscious, twitched intermittently, his clothes soaked with cold sweat. His lips twitched slightly, as if he were still muttering regret to himself.

The surrounding darkness and dampness enveloped him, mirroring his despairing state of mind. This punishment from the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family not only destroyed his body but also left an indelible scar deep within his soul.

At this moment, in the council hall of Shrek Academy, the candlelight flickered in the draft, casting distorted shadows of Flander and Zhao Wuji.

Flander paced back and forth, the wings of his owl spirit trembling slightly involuntarily, each step causing the wooden floor to creak. Zhao Wuji leaned against the wall, arms crossed, the scars on his face bulging slightly from his taut muscles.

"Yu Xiaogang has been captured by the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family, and his fate is currently unknown." Flander suddenly stopped, his voice filled with barely concealed anxiety. "Erlong is also in their hands. Those old fogies are capable of anything!"

Zhao Wuji stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Even when we joined forces last time, we were no match for Yu Luomian. The Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan has many experts, so a direct attack is definitely not going to work." He paused, a glint of light flashing in his eyes, "However, perhaps we can find outside help."

"Foreign aid?" Flander frowned. "A force capable of rivaling the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Rex family either has no dealings with us, or..."

“Tang San,” Zhao Wuji said directly, “His father, Tang Hao, was once the Haotian Douluo. He fought the Spirit Hall alone and even the Pope Qian Xunji died at his hands. If he is willing to help, rescuing Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong is a piece of cake.”

Flander's eyes lit up, but then he hesitated: "But Tang Hao is a loner, rarely seen, where are we going to find him? And would he risk going against the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus Clan for Xiao Gang?"

(End of this chapter)