Yu Xiaogang Resented Bibi Dong's Deception; Gods Lived as Long as Heaven
Douluo World.
Everyone had still wanted to see what happened next with Qian Renxue, but unexpectedly, the image in the sky screen suddenly shimmered like a ripple on water.
The camera moved away from Qian Renxue and settled on Bai Yi.
In the image, clouds billowed and rosy light gathered, while purple Qi rose into the sky.
At some point, an auspicious cloud like white mutton-fat jade had appeared beneath Bai Yi's feet, racing lightly through the sky.
The Soul Masters of Douluo Continent stared in astonishment.
Heaven Dou Empire, imperial palace hall.
Emperor Xue Ye pointed at the sky screen, his beard trembling.
"This... this is what an immortal can do?"
"No Martial Soul Possession, no flashing Soul Rings, and he just flew up like that?"
The civil and military ministers present exchanged looks, all at a loss for words.
They all knew this man's abilities reached the heavens; only His Majesty was still making such a fuss.
The comments in the sky screen's livestream were likewise in an uproar.
[Heaven Dou Empire · Passerby A]: Where's this big shot going?
[Spirit Hall · Su Yuntao]: Lord God is obviously going to catch a few Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to help our Spirit Hall's young lady build up her strength!
As the various parties in Douluo made wild guesses, the auspicious cloud on the sky screen had already crossed countless mountains and rivers.
Before long, Bai Yi lowered his cloud and landed before a Blessed Land and Grotto-Heaven wreathed in immortal Qi.
Verdant immortal peaks towered there, jagged rocks jutted out, auspicious birds sang among emerald cypresses, and Auspicious Beasts strolled among the lingzhi.
Before the mountain gate, pines and bamboo mingled their greenery, while peach and plum blossoms vied in beauty.
What made everyone on Douluo Continent gasp was that two young boys with red lips and white teeth were already standing before the mountain gate.
Both boys wore their hair in double buns and were dressed in Water-Joined Robes, with silk sashes tied around their waists.
They were none other than Qingfeng and Mingyue.
Seeing Bai Yi approach on his cloud from afar, the two boys hurried forward and bowed in greeting.
"This humble boy Qingfeng greets Immortal Bai Yi!"
"This humble boy Mingyue respectfully welcomes Immortal Bai Yi!"
Bai Yi smiled faintly and gently swept his sleeve. A soft breeze lifted the two young Daoist boys upright.
"There's no need for such formality. Is your master at the temple?"
Qingfeng answered in a clear, youthful voice.
"In answer to the Daoist, our master calculated just now that you would be coming and specifically ordered the two of us to wait here and welcome you."
Bai Yi nodded and followed the two boys toward the Daoist temple's mountain gate.
At that moment.
The sky screen's camera perceptively gave a close-up of the Daoist temple's main gate.
Hanging from the temple's imposing gatehouse was a timeworn plaque, bearing three large characters that danced like dragons and phoenixes.
Wuzhuang Temple.
On the jade pillars flanking the gatehouse, two lines of a couplet were engraved, shining brilliantly.
On the left: Immortal Abode of Eternal Life.
On the right: Daoist Home of Longevity with Heaven.
As soon as those fourteen great characters appeared, the sky screen's wondrous power transformed them into writing every living being on Douluo Continent could instantly understand, and they crashed into every mind!
Boom!
All of Douluo Continent fell deathly silent in an instant!
Eternal life?
Living as long as heaven?!
Inside the Worship Hall.
Qian Daoliu, who had been putting on an air of profundity, stared fixedly at the two lines and exclaimed aloud.
"Eternal life... living as long as heaven?!"
"What outrageous words!"
"Even gods can't live as long as heaven!"
It was not just Qian Daoliu. After a momentary lull, the comments in the sky screen's livestream poured in, refusing to believe it.
"They're bragging! They have to be bragging!"
"Who could live as long as heaven? Even immortals couldn't be that absurd!"
"Exactly! The Limit Douluo on our continent live a few hundred years at most. How could anyone live as long as heaven?!"
Just as the various parties throughout Douluo World were arguing in a chaotic uproar, a comment bearing a special, distinguished golden glow floated across the livestream.
The speaker bore the title of Pope of Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong!
[Pope · Bibi Dong]: A bunch of frogs at the bottom of a well. Why make such a fuss? Deities transcend mortal flesh to begin with.
[Pope · Bibi Dong]: As long as the Divine Position endures, those who become gods can naturally live as long as heaven and earth. Otherwise, what would be the point of becoming a god?
As soon as Bibi Dong's comments appeared, countless ordinary Soul Masters came to a sudden realization.
Bibi Dong was the Pope of Spirit Hall, after all, and knew far more than ordinary Soul Masters like them. Presumably, she was unlikely to deceive the Soul Masters of the entire continent.
But when Bibi Dong posted those comments, one person's heart was in such agony that he wished he were dead.
Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang looked at Bibi Dong's golden comment on the screen, his face deathly pale.
"Become a god, and you can live as long as heaven!"
"Bibi Dong knows this. From the look of it, she's known all along!"
As Yu Xiaogang stared at Bibi Dong's comments, his heart felt as though it were bleeding!
Back then, he had considered himself the continent's foremost theoretical Grandmaster. He had spent his days with Bibi Dong among the flowers and beneath the moon, believing he had mastered the most essential Martial Soul knowledge on the entire continent.
He, Yu Xiaogang, had pored over countless ancient texts in Spirit Hall and concluded that gods were nothing but elusive legends, that no god had existed on the continent in ten thousand years, and that the limit for Soul Masters was Titled Douluo!
But what about now?
With one offhand remark, Bibi Dong had stomped his theory to pieces!
What he found even harder to accept was that Bibi Dong had kept it from him all along!
She had probably touched upon the realm of gods long ago, yet she had never breathed a word of it to him!
"Bibi Dong... you hid it from me and made me suffer so!"
"Since you knew gods existed all along, why didn't you tell me back then?!"
"If you had helped me find a Deity's inheritance back then, how could I, Yu Xiaogang, have fallen to being a level twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster, subjected to the scorn and ridicule of the world?!"
Intense humiliation, jealousy, and anger at having been deceived turned into a blaze that surged into his heart.
Yu Xiaogang swayed, and another thread of bright red blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
After so many emotional upheavals, Yu Xiaogang had evidently been angered into suffering internal injuries, leaving him utterly dispirited.
Meanwhile, the image on the sky screen had shifted inside Wuzhuang Temple.
Bai Yi entered the hall and saw that the main hall enshrined neither the Three Pure Ones nor the Four Heavenly Ministers, but only the two characters for heaven and earth.
A Daoist sat on a meditation cushion.
He wore a purple-gold crown, a seamless crane-feather cloak, and vermilion shoes, with a tasseled sash around his waist. His face was lean and clear, and three strands of beard drifted from his chin.
He was none other than Zhen Yuanzi, master of Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple.
Seeing Bai Yi approach, Zhen Yuanzi slowly opened his eyes, broke into a smile, and rose to greet him.
"Haha, Fellow Daoist Bai Yi, I trust you've been well since we last met!"
Bai Yi cupped his hands in return, his manner composed and carrying the ease of familiarity.
"Fellow Daoist Zhenyuan, I came uninvited. Sorry for disturbing your quiet cultivation."
The two great powers exchanged smiles and took their seats.
Qingfeng and Mingyue were quick to read the situation and had already taken their leave with light steps. A moment later, the two boys returned, each carrying a mutton-fat jade platter.
Each jade platter was covered with a thin gold-threaded brocade cloth.
Qingfeng stepped forward and respectfully lifted the cloth.
In an instant, an indescribable fragrance seemed to pierce the barrier of the sky screen and fill the space between heaven and earth across all of Douluo Continent!