Bibi Dong's Counter-Kill

Looking at Gu Shenggo lying completely motionless, the color drained from Bibi Dong's exquisite face. Had she injected too much venom?

After all, Gu Shenggo had been imprisoned by her for five years, leaving his body incomparably weak. Her venom was exceptionally vicious; it was only natural that he could not withstand it.

Just as Bibi Dong regretted striking too heavily and prepared to detoxify Gu Shenggo, a long-barreled flintlock musket pressed against the back of her head. The icy touch made her body stiffen.

"Senior Sister, you lost."

Gu Shenggo's hoarse yet faintly magnetic voice echoed by Bibi Dong's ear. Another Gu Shenggo had appeared behind her, dressed in an incomparably magnificent dark-gold military uniform and holding a long and a short flintlock musket. A smile hung on his pale cheeks, while the Golden Clock in his left eye spun continuously, radiating an unusual golden glow.

Looking at Gu Shenggo collapsed on the ground before her, then glancing at the Gu Shenggo behind her, Bibi Dong instantly understood what had happened. Her exquisite, peerless face darkened, and she gritted her teeth as she said in a low voice:

"Shadow of Time!"

"Correct. Senior Sister is so clever."

The Gu Shenggo who had just been lying motionless slowly rose to his feet, pain written across his face. The Golden Clock in his eye spun rapidly, and two flintlock muskets appeared in his hands. Eight soul rings emerged around him.

Three purple and five black soul rings circled Gu Shenggo. A massive Golden Clock appeared behind him, dazzling and sacred, exuding vast power of time.

Gu Shenggo raised the shorter gun to his own temple and softly murmured—

"Bullet of Four."

The hour hand of the Golden Clock behind him turned and landed on the number four. Gu Shenggo pulled the trigger, and the Bullet of Four, containing the power to reverse time, shot from the barrel and struck his temple directly.

At the same time, the Soul Power within one thousand-year soul ring was rapidly depleted, and its originally deep-purple color faded slightly.

The expected spray of blood did not appear. The bullet directly merged into Gu Shenggo's body, reverting his time to three minutes earlier—the very moment Bibi Dong had injected venom into him.

Since he could not purge the poison himself, he would simply turn back his body's time to before he had been poisoned.

Feeling his body return to normal, light and relaxed, Gu Shenggo smiled. The long-lost feeling of freedom—free from the restraints of the Soul Sealing Chains and able to move as he pleased—was truly wonderful!

Watching Gu Shenggo's series of actions, Bibi Dong understood. She had fallen into his trap!

He had made her undo the Soul Sealing Chains, then used Shadow of Time to hold her back before using Kekeddi to restore his body. What a calculation.

"Gu Shenggo, you truly plotted this well!"

Bibi Dong stared at Gu Shenggo's pale, handsome face and spoke through gritted teeth. Gu Shenggo looked at Bibi Dong, raised his flintlock musket, pressed it to her forehead, and said with a smile:

"Senior Sister, likewise. You plotted against me back then, and now I have plotted against you. We are merely even."

Bibi Dong snorted coldly. Her rose-red eyes were filled with chilliness as she looked at the two flintlock muskets pressed to the front and back of her head. A sneer rose on her lips, her voice carrying faint mockery.

"What? You want to kill me? Could you bear to kill me?"

Just as Bibi Dong had not dared to kill Gu Shenggo in order to return to the past.

Gu Shenggo likewise had some reason that kept him from being willing to kill Bibi Dong.

"Of course I couldn't bear to kill Senior Sister. After all, I love you very much."

Gu Shenggo held the flintlock musket against Bibi Dong's forehead, a trace of infatuation appearing in his gaze. He truly loved Bibi Dong—how could he bear to kill her?

Killing Bibi Dong was impossible, but he still had to collect the debt. Gu Shenggo would not let Bibi Dong off for those five years of imprisonment!

"Bullet of Seven."

As Gu Shenggo's words fell, the golden clock hand behind him turned once more and pointed to [seven]. Gu Shenggo pulled the trigger, and a bullet shot from the flintlock musket, striking Bibi Dong's snow-white forehead and merging into her body, directly suspending her body's time.

In an instant, aside from her clear consciousness, Bibi Dong's body had been frozen in time. She could clearly sense everything happening around her, yet she could not control her body. Like a toy, she collapsed limply into Gu Shenggo's embrace.

Holding Bibi Dong in his arms, Gu Shenggo wrapped an arm around her slender waist. He looked at her peerlessly beautiful, cold face—mature, dignified, and brimming with charm. Her alluring fragrance made one unable to stop.

"Senior Sister, I cannot suffer those five years for nothing. You must compensate me properly. Let me leave some marks of time upon you, and turn you into mine!"

Gu Shenggo gently caressed Bibi Dong's tender cheek, traces of infatuation in his eyes, while deep within them lay a twisted sickness.

The affection of the past was already gone. Now, Gu Shenggo only wanted to vent the suffering of five years of imprisonment, utterly destroy Bibi Dong in body and mind, and turn her into his possession!

He raised a hand and knocked away her ornate papal crown. Her wine-red hair, tinged with purple, scattered loose, alluring and bewitching.

With a wave of his hand, he extinguished the lights in the secret chamber. Only endless darkness remained; no one could know what happened within.

Two days later—

Gu Shenggo looked at the noble Pope lying motionless on the floor at his feet like a puddle of mud, as if dead. Her delicate body was covered in marks he had left behind, and satisfaction appeared in his eyes.

He had also taken the opportunity to read some of Bibi Dong's memories, learning of the changes across the continent during the past five years.

After Bibi Dong imprisoned him, she pinned the entire charge of murdering his master on him. At the same time, she declared that she had already eliminated him and cleansed the sect.

In other words, in the eyes of the world, he was now a dead man.

But this suited Gu Shenggo perfectly. Though he had once basked in boundless glory within Spirit Hall, he had not lived comfortably. This was the perfect chance to change his appearance and travel the continent under a new identity.

Gu Shenggo had no interest whatsoever in Spirit Hall's position of Pope, nor any position as an offering. He preferred being free and unfettered.

Lowering his head to look at the unconscious Bibi Dong, he draped the clothes scattered across the floor over her body so that she would not catch a chill.

"Senior Sister, farewell. When we meet next time, I will dote on you twice as much."

Gu Shenggo spoke softly beside Bibi Dong's ear. Bibi Dong's delicate body trembled slightly, as though frightened by his words.

Watching Bibi Dong tremble in fear, a faintly deranged smile appeared on Gu Shenggo's face. He liked seeing Bibi Dong afraid.

Afterward, Gu Shenggo straightened his clothes and left the dim secret chamber where he had been imprisoned for five years.

A long while later, Bibi Dong slowly woke. Recalling what had happened in the chamber over the past two days, her exquisite, stunning face twisted grotesquely. She was on the verge of a mental collapse. Gu Shenggo had been even more terrifying than Qian Xunji—he had spared no part of her, leaving his mark everywhere!

"Ahhh!! Gu Shenggo! I'm going to kill you! Aahhhh!!!"

A shrill, ghostlike wail echoed from the secret chamber, filled with towering hatred and utter misery, enough to make anyone shudder!

Bibi Dong's hatred for Gu Shenggo was more than a hundred times greater than her hatred for Qian Xunji!

If Qian Xunji had ruined her, then Gu Shenggo had pushed Bibi Dong into the abyss, wantonly humiliating and trampling her within it!

(Gu Shenggo: I'm the big boss of the Cao Wei faction!)