The Sun in Hu Liena's Heart, Stepping on Xu Feng's Face!
"With your aptitude, as long as you don't slack off, I expect you'll be able to meet my requirements," Xu Feng said.
Bibi Dong was on the verge of going mad. As his "probationary spouse," she had to be tested at every moment, and if he wasn't satisfied, he would even "return" her?
And besides,
wasn't he looking down on her far too much?
He actually thought she would hold him back on the path of cultivation.
Though her talent couldn't match Xu Feng's monstrous aptitude, she was a leading figure among her peers, radiant as the blazing sun. Many couldn't even catch sight of her back. She was also hiding her greatest secret: she possessed Twin Martial Souls!
She hadn't even revealed that to her teacher.
That was what she relied on most, the source of her confidence. She was certain she would achieve a brilliant and glorious future.
"Think about it. I've already reached level 99, becoming a Limit Douluo. If one day I attain a Divine Position and enter the Divine Realm, but you're still treading water, unable to keep up with me, wouldn't we be separated forever?"
"You wouldn't want to watch me ascend to the Divine Realm and leave you alone in the mortal world, with a gulf between a god and a mortal, would you?"
Xu Feng began spinning his tale.
"Hm?" Bibi Dong lifted her beautiful eyes, a trace of surprise in her gaze. She hadn't expected Xu Feng to have thought so far ahead. She nodded and pondered to herself, That makes some sense.
But she still felt that something was off.
"Tell me your next requirement." Bibi Dong wanted to hear what other outrageous demands Xu Feng could come up with.
He was already treating her as a "probationary spouse." What else couldn't she accept?
In the original timeline, beneath the Sky Screen.
"Damn, Xu Feng is incredible. I'm on my knees."
"Tell me, what man who met His Holiness the Pope in her youth wouldn't worship her like an ancestor, terrified of making her angry, just to win a smile from her? Yet Xu Feng actually treated her as a 'probationary spouse,' and even wanted to 'return' her if he wasn't satisfied?"
"A real man should be like Lord Xu. To hell with all that—even if you're His Holiness the Pope, high and untouchable, so what? He still won't indulge you."
"His Holiness the Pope looked like she was about to die of anger when she was young. Haha, this is too funny. Xu Feng has some nerve."
"Now this is art."
"But Xu Feng has a point too. Given his current strength, he probably has a good chance of ascending to the Divine Realm in the future. Wouldn't that leave a gulf between him and His Holiness the Pope, between god and mortal?"
"Hmph, what does Xu Feng take His Holiness the Pope for? Goods he can return or exchange whenever he wants? How rude."
"Exactly. He acts so overbearingly just because his cultivation is formidable. I say he'll take a tumble sooner or later, going from Sky-reaching Douluo to Ground-hitting Douluo."
"If you weren't separated across time and space, would you dare say that to Sky-reaching Douluo's face?"
"Joke and mess around all you like, but don't take a Limit Douluo lightly."
"..."
After seeing the scene in the Sky Screen, the people in the original timeline all widened their eyes in disbelief.
What had they just heard?
If His Holiness the Pope's cultivation couldn't keep up, Xu Feng would call off the marriage?
The heavens and earth had truly been turned upside down.
At Shrek Academy, Flathead Bro Yu Xiaogang was furious after hearing Xu Feng's words in the Sky Screen. His fists were clenched, and his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, was even faintly emerging, making him look quite imposing.
"Xu Feng!"
"How dare you humiliate Dong'er like this!"
He was enraged.
So angry he was about to explode.
In his heart, Dong'er was his white moonlight. He couldn't even see her face, yet Xu Feng was ready to cast her aside at any moment?
He wished he could cross the timeline at once and demand justice for Dong'er.
In a palace hall in the Heaven Dou Empire, Qian Renxue froze, somewhat taken aback. Then a faint, relaxed smile appeared on her previously tense face.
"Xu Feng, well done!" Qian Renxue said with satisfaction. Rather than having Bibi Dong as a mother, she might as well have been an orphan. Her grandfather had raised her from childhood, and Bibi Dong had even made her call her sister or His Holiness the Pope in front of others. She had never acknowledged Qian Renxue as her daughter and had been exceptionally cold and distant toward her.
When she was around nine, Bibi Dong had sent her to the Heaven Dou Empire to carry out the Nation-Stealing Plan.
This had filled her heart with resentment toward Bibi Dong. At the same time, she desperately wanted Bibi Dong's acknowledgment, and even wanted to surpass her and slap her hard in the face.
Now, seeing the young Bibi Dong suffer a setback at Xu Feng's hands and be treated as goods that could be returned or exchanged, she felt a soothing relief throughout her body.
At Spirit Hall, inside the Pope's Palace.
Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes. A trace of coldness appeared on her strikingly beautiful face, and from beneath her brilliant golden robes, a powerful fluctuation of Soul Power escaped from time to time.
"Heh." She gave a soft, cold laugh. "In another timeline, I actually became merchandise?"
"And if he wasn't satisfied, he'd return or exchange me?"
No one knew her aptitude better than she did. Although she was indeed somewhat inferior to Xu Feng, in her timeline, no one had ever been able to compare with her.
Twin Martial Souls were no mere words.
Yet now, not only had she been married off in an arranged union, but the man could also cast her aside at any moment?
She wished she could cross the timeline and slap Xu Feng flying on her younger self's behalf!
The seductive look had vanished from Hu Liena's fair, flawless face as well, replaced by astonishment and shock. Gasp, this man is so overbearing. He actually treated Teacher like that? she cried inwardly.
In her heart, her teacher was forever the most perfect and flawless person, the sun in her heart.
After marrying her teacher, Xu Feng still wasn't satisfied and was ready to turn around and cast her aside?
Her head spun, and she could hardly make sense of it. Could Xu Feng have spent all day absorbed in cultivation until he suffered cultivation deviation and lost his wits?
Other than that possibility, she truly couldn't imagine that anyone in the world could resist her teacher's grace and charm.
In Xu Feng's timeline.
Bibi Dong was pricking up her ears, wanting to hear what other utterly outrageous demands Xu Feng could make.
She was fuming, wishing she could plant a foot on Xu Feng's face.
"All right. The second condition is that you must never betray me. Otherwise..." Xu Feng's eyes sharpened, and a trace of killing intent emanated from him. "Otherwise, not only will I take back everything I've invested in you, one by one, but I'll also make you wish you were dead."
Sensing that icy killing intent, Bibi Dong shuddered all over.
She felt terribly aggrieved, tears brimming in her beautiful eyes as though she had been humiliated. Looking straight at Xu Feng, she said angrily:
"You're saying I'd betray you?"
"Hard to say."
"Who knows whether you'll fall for some piece of trash in the future?" The pathetic image of Yu Xiaogang appeared in Xu Feng's mind as he spoke speechlessly.
In the original story, it was hard to imagine that someone like Bibi Dong, radiant as the blazing sun, would fall for Yu Xiaogang and even be willing to break with Spirit Hall for him.
Qian Xunji was naturally a beast beyond question, and his methods were extreme. But just imagine it from Spirit Hall's perspective: the Holy Maiden you had devoted yourself to nurturing since childhood, the next Pope of Spirit Hall, fell for some punk. How could you not be furious?
They'd probably not only deal with Yu Xiaogang, but also bore straight through the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, grind the clan's dogs to dust and scatter their ashes, and even drag the earthworms out of the soil and chop them in two.