Bibi Dong's Divine Trials and the Captive Tang Hao's Recent Situation

Bibi Dong not only failed to gain any advantage or become stronger during the divine trial, but was instead forced to suppress her strength.

With this back and forth, Tang San and Qian Renxue are the chosen ones, while Bibi Dong is simply being punished by heaven.

Why is this the case?

Is the Rakshasa God really that stingy?

That's not true at all.

Helping the successor become stronger does require consuming one's own divine power, but Bibi Dong was already strong enough. Even if the Rakshasa God upgraded all of Bibi Dong's Soul Ring to the 100,000-year level, the amount of divine power required would not be too painful for a powerful First-Level God.

In a sense, Bibi Dong brought this crime upon herself.

It wasn't that Rakshasa God was unwilling to support Bibi Dong; however, as an extremely twisted and Evil God King goddess, she naturally couldn't be as friendly as the Sea God towards her successor. What she hoped to see was Bibi Dong becoming even more depraved and twisted, rather than turning into another Asura God who tended towards neutrality.

Therefore, during each divine trial, she would tempt Bibi Dong to become more depraved and move in the same direction as herself.

In this process, the first thing the Rakshasa God needs to distort is naturally the positive emotion she hates most—love.

Even among the many idealistic forces, love is an extremely powerful one. Otherwise, so many works of art would not celebrate it.

In the eyes of the Rakshasa God, Bibi Dong was perfect in every way, except for one major flaw: she fell in love with Yu Xiaogang, a good-for-nothing! And no matter how depraved and twisted she became, she still retained this love!

Damn it, let alone a god, even a normal person would find it hard to understand Bibi Dong would fall in love with such a thing.

For the Rakshasa God, this was certainly a stain that had to be erased!

Her successor is head over heels in love with a good-for-nothing who only knows how to talk big. Even if people in the Divine Realm find out, she will still be ridiculed!

She's not like Asura; she's not that cold-faced, emotionless man! She has her pride too!

Even the Rakshasa God could imagine that scene.

As soon as Rakshasa God arrived at the gathering of gods, all the gods who were drinking looked at her and laughed. Some shouted, "Rakshasa, your successor has gone to lick the boots of that useless mortal again!"

Rakshasa did not answer, but said to the counter, "Warm two bowls of Azure Jade Nectar Wine, and a dish of Magic Bean." Then she released nine crystals of divine power.

The gods then deliberately shouted loudly, "I saw your successor stealing things for her lover again!"

Rakshasa opened her eyes wide and said, "How can you slander someone's innocence like this?"

The god said, "What innocence? I saw that Yu Xiaogang acting suspiciously at the gate of the Asura God's house the day before yesterday, as if he wanted to ask about some theory of becoming a god. He was captured and beaten by the Asura. It was your successor who went to rescue him!"

Rakshasa's face flushed red, and veins bulged on her forehead as she argued, "That Asura must be deliberately targeting me! He's even targeting my successor! This Asura is utterly inhuman!"

That would be terrible.

Therefore, Rakshasa gave Bibi Dong a choice directly during the first divine test mission.

Bibi Dong was given two choices: kill Yu Xiaogang and then enter the Rakshasa Secret Realm, or directly enter the Rakshasa Secret Realm.

Choosing the former option directly lowers the difficulty of the Rakshasa Secret Realm by one level.

In addition, there are extra rewards, and the difficulty of the subsequent assessments will be reduced, while the latter will not have any rewards.

The Rakshasa Secret Realm consists of five trials, each corresponding to one of the five negative emotions: anger, hatred, suffering, sorrow, and doubt.

There are only three difficulty levels: Cage, Purgatory, Abyss, and Despair.

The first Wrath Secret Realm is the Purgatory level.

The lowest level, the Cage level, does not actually correspond to any specific type of secret realm; the difficulty of the secret realm can only be reduced through other divine trials.

Even the Purgatory level is a near-death experience for a normal Soul Master, and it is also fraught with danger and risk of death for Soul Master who are qualified to activate the Divine Trial.

Even for those who have taken the Divine Trial, the Abyss level is extremely cruel and dangerous. As for the final Despair level... it's basically telling you that it's impossible to complete. If you don't pass the previous Divine Trials to reduce the difficulty, going in is just courting death.

As for the lowest difficulty level, the cage level...

Not only is there no risk of death, but also, thanks to the fact that death within it is merely a shattering of consciousness, one can hone their combat awareness and accumulate combat experience.

The final Doubt Secret Realm was originally a level of despair difficulty. The Rakshasa God lowered the difficulty for Bibi Dong in the very first divine trial, which was already a huge concession. If the difficulty were lowered again later, it would directly reach the Purgatory level, and Bibi Dong, who had already passed four trials consecutively and was incredibly close to godhood, would definitely be able to pass.

Moreover, the first secret realm was reduced to the prison level, which directly prevented Bibi Dong from being caught off guard and losing her life.

Bibi Dong, who's such a simp, is there even a need to choose such an option?

She completely ignored the prominent hints about lowering the difficulty and started exploring the secret realm headfirst.

Rakshasa God thought the temptation wasn't strong enough, but as the difficulty of the subsequent trials in the secret realm gradually increased and the risk of death rose significantly, Bibi Dong remained unmoved.

Once the divine test is released, even the gods themselves are not allowed to change it, because this would be a blatant violation of the laws of the Divine Realm.

Regarding divine examinations, deities possess a high degree of autonomy. While they cannot simply shirk their responsibilities and relinquish their divine positions—such actions of arbitrarily retiring are not permitted—they have considerable room for maneuver. For instance, the Rakshasa God's adjustments to the difficulty of the examinations remain within the laws of the Divine Realm.

Therefore, the divine test is both an assessment and an opportunity for dialogue between the gods and the candidates.

This is why, when the Sea God used the Sea God's Heart, a secret he had left behind, to communicate with Tang San and subtly convey the method for passing the test, Asura directly warned him. Otherwise, even with competition for the candidates, given Asura's personality, he wouldn't joke about his position.

However, gods are all arrogant. Rakshasa God projected his own thoughts onto Bibi Dong, who was obsessed with love, and never expected this situation. His poor design when issuing the task resulted in wasting many opportunities for dialogue.

Would the Rakshasa God realize he was wrong?

Obviously not.

Instead, she increased the difficulty of the task as much as possible within the allowed limits, and directly told Bibi Dong in the Divine Trial task that the final task would be so difficult that she would have no chance of survival in her current condition.

The implication is that Bibi Dong should kill Yu Xiaogang to reduce the difficulty of the mission.

There is a subtle sense of coercion.

Would Bibi Dong agree to this?

That's definitely not possible!

Despite receiving no rewards, she gritted her teeth and persevered through several difficult divine trials and the five secret realms required to inherit a divine position.

What was the reaction of the Rakshasa God?

Seeing how outstanding one's successor is, one develops feelings of admiration?

She could never be happy!

She could have easily completed the remaining tests with Bibi Dong's qualifications and strength after passing several tests, after killing some clueless trash. However, she insisted on taking on a task that was more difficult than she had initially envisioned, despite the numerous risks involved!

Rakshasa God cursed Bibi Dong as a pig-brain more than once in his mind.

So they became even more ruthless, and even began to deliberately set up extra traps to disgust Bibi Dong during the divine trials.

Normally, a god seeking a successor wouldn't do such a thing, but if it were a mad Rakshasa God like Bibi Dong, then it would be a different story.

Rakshasa God and Bibi Dong thus found themselves at odds without ever having a direct confrontation.

After several clandestine clashes, Bibi Dong ultimately miscalculated. In the repeated conquests of the secret realms, she became tainted by the madness within the Rakshasa Divine Power and had to use most of her Soul Power to fight against the uncontrollable Rakshasa Divine Power within her body. In the end, her Soul Power Level superficially dropped to 98.

Pope's Hall, after venting her anger, Bibi Dong was terrified by her earlier thoughts.

'How could I have such a thought?!'

She actually understood the reason, but even so, she still couldn't accept it.

Because of the previous public opinion incident, the Rakshasa Divine Power within her went out of control for a time. If Qian Daoliu hadn't intervened, she might have gone completely mad and become a monster without reason.

That would naturally mean losing the qualification for the Divine Examination and failing the test, similar to Tang Chen's situation.

Although he suppressed his inner madness once again, this restraint loosened.

Even when she maintained her previous dominance, Bibi Dong would occasionally find herself unable to control herself.

This is a very serious situation.

The constant fear of becoming a madwoman at any moment, the terrifying feeling of being chased by an invisible demon, caused Bibi Dong to suffer from neurasthenia and develop a mental illness similar to bipolar disorder.

In addition, one cannot pass through the final Doubt Secret Realm without a relatively rational mind.

Although the Rakshasa Secret Realm is fraught with danger, and death there is real death, it is not something that one must pass through on the first try once one chooses to start.

Some dungeons have time limits, allowing players to choose to return at a certain time after a certain period; others have specific one-time save points where players can save their progress, exit to rest, and continue their adventure from the same spot next time... and so on.

Apart from the initial Wrath Secret Realm, which is both the first realm and the first divine trial, the other realms only differ in difficulty, with no requirement for a specific order of completion.

Bibi Dong's strength is already close to its peak. Even if she completes the next few Soul Ring for her Second Martial Soul, she will only gain a few more powerful Soul Skill and a slightly better set of attributes.

Considering her increasingly worsening condition, she had already entered the Doubt Secret Realm once for a preliminary investigation.

So she just realized that the most important thing in that secret realm was to keep a clear mind.

Bibi Dong's original strategy was to clear the other secret realms in the same way to increase her affinity with the Rakshasa God, thereby suppressing the Rakshasa Divine Power.

Through numerous divine trials, she did indeed reduce the difficulty of the Doubt Secret Realm to "Abyss Level" without lowering the difficulty of other realms, using all of this "reward" to reduce the difficulty of the Mysterious Realm of Doubt. However, the Doubt Secret Realm is still the most difficult of all the Abyss Level realms.

Anger, hatred, suffering, sorrow, doubt... Following this line of thought, she has successfully conquered the first three.

As for the Sorrow Secret Realm, which remains at the Abyss level difficulty and is the second most difficult level because the difficulty has not been reduced at all, she originally planned to maintain her level 98 strength to pass the preliminary levels as much as possible, and then temporarily release the Soul Power restriction when facing the final BOSS, unleash her full power, and pass the level directly.

Based on her initial assessment, it was just a case of divine power going out of control, and she still had a chance to regain her senses and not become a monster.

The increased affinity from the fourth secret realm not only allowed her to regain her senses, but also, in her calculations, freed up another opportunity to unlock the restrictions on her Soul Power, thus giving her hope of passing the fifth secret realm.

But now, she no longer has that trump card.

This means that she has almost no chance of completing the divine test through the remaining two secret realms.

'If I don't increase my affinity with the Rakshasa God, I'll go crazy before I can continue with the subsequent secret realm trials...' Bibi Dong thought, her face filled with pain and contortion.

To be someone who is still yourself, yet become a monster who is not yourself at all, is a result that is more painful than death.

Otherwise, even the love-struck Bibi Dong wouldn't have developed evil intentions towards Yu Xiaogang in an instant.

However, a simp is a simp after all; even the pain of self-torture can be borne by Bibi Dong.

No, there is still hope.

Driven by her unwavering resolve not to harm her beloved, Bibi Dong finally devised a plan.

"I still have two Soul Ring slots left for my Second Martial Soul. If I could find two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts... no, Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast aren't enough, they must be legendary Ferocious Beast! If I could hunt down two Ferocious Beast as my Soul Ring, thereby forcibly increasing my Soul Power and truly reaching the limit below the level of a god, with the excess Soul Power to suppress the Rakshasa Divine Power, I could restore my maximum combat strength! With the amplification from the two Ferocious Beast Soul Ring, it would probably be even more than that, perhaps even surpassing that old Qian Daoliu!"

So, here's the question...

Where can we find Ferocious Beast?

'The sea!'

A fierce glint flashed in Bibi Dong's eyes.

Once, Qian Xunji was ambitious and eager for success. Without informing Qian Daoliu, he led thousands of elite Soul Master to attack Sea God Island, only to return defeated.

It was only through the intervention of Qian Daoliu, a powerhouse at the pinnacle of strength, that the great battle between the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island was prevented from escalating completely.

From that point onward, the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island established a peace treaty of non-aggression.

Bibi Dong is going to the sea to search for traces of the Ferocious Beast. Given her current condition, it is impossible for her to do it herself, so she will naturally have to send out a large number of people to search.

This is obviously a breach of the previous agreement.

One can imagine how furious Qian Daoliu would be.

But...

'I can't worry about that now.'

Bibi Dong gave a cold smile.

If a conflict truly breaks out between the Spirit Hall and Sea God Island, causing the Sea God High Priestess, Bo Saixi, to appear, and she is unable to take action, then even if Qian Daoliu is unwilling, he will still have to make a move.

Given Qian Daoliu's pedantic nature, he would never sit idly by and watch a large number of the Spirit Hall Soul Master die.

In the Cataclysm Mountain Range, in the Beast Soul Alliance Headquarters, in a newly constructed underground cave built in the last month.

This place has been transformed by skilled craftsmen into a sealed underground prison.

A burly man with disheveled hair and a foul stench was imprisoned here, his limbs bound and his tendons severed.

"You're here again? Heh, a Titled Douluo powerhouse like you, doing such a despicable thing, don't you feel ashamed!?"

Hearing footsteps, the man suddenly raised his head and glared angrily at the newcomer.

But upon closer inspection, the anger in his eyes turned into astonishment.

"Ah Yin?" Tang Hao looked at the gentle woman standing obediently beside You Chen, his face filled with disbelief.

Under Tang Hao's intense gaze, Blue Silver Emperor Ling Xian shrank back behind You Chen in fear, and replied, "I'm sorry, my name is Ling Xian. Sir, you've mistaken me for someone else."

Tang Hao looked bewildered.

After more than a month of torment and humiliation, this sudden and intense shock made him forget even his anger for a moment.

"Ling Xian, this is my prisoner, a heinous villain. You don't need to be polite to him."

Just then, You Chen gently educated the bewildered Ling Xian.

"Oh, I understand, Master." Ling Xian gave You Chen a bright smile, nodded, and rubbed against You Chen like a little animal.

After a month of education, You Chen had basically completed the indoctrination of Ling Xian's values and beliefs, and had completely become Ling Xian's master, both spiritually and physically.

That's why he brought Ling Xian to Tang Hao.

There was no other reason than to further provoke Tang Hao and obtain a higher reward.

After countless experiments on others—referring to Bo Saixi — You Chen has become Grandmaster influencing other people's emotions.

However, although Douluo people do not cultivate their minds, reaching the level of Titled Douluo means that their life level has undergone a true leap. That is to say, as extraordinary beings, their ability to adapt to pain is far higher than that of normal people.

About half a month later, You Chen discovered that even with the advantage of being able to trigger Tang Hao's mission more easily on the first day of the day, it was already difficult to trigger Tang Hao's mission once a day by simply inflicting pain.

However, You Chen had anticipated this situation.

He already knew that for experts above the Titled Douluo level, mental anguish was far more intense than physical torture.

Let's Bo Saixi as an example again.

The physical pain of losing an arm was bearable for Bo Saixi; what she could not bear was the fact that she had become incomplete.

On the other hand, mating was not painful for Bo Saixi's body; it could even be described as enjoyable. However, the shame and pain of losing her virginity and becoming a female beast far outweighed the loss of an arm or a body.

Moreover, this mental anguish can never be eliminated unless Bo Saixi is completely tamed by You Chen.

Moreover, Tang Hao had always been plagued by illness, and his patience with pain was definitely higher than that of most Titled Douluo.

Therefore, given that Tang Hao had developed a tolerance for physical pain, resulting in a lack of quests to complete, You Chen had anticipated this and prepared a plan to inflict mental torture on Tang Hao.

Of course, he couldn't just confront Tang Hao directly like he did with Bo Saixi. Let alone doing it himself, he couldn't even accept hiring someone to do it. From this point, he confirmed his own humanity and realized that he was still very far from the Spirit Realm he had imagined.

So his approach was very simple and direct...

He chose to feed Tang Hao excrement.

From forcibly stuffing it into his mouth to using mental hypnosis to keep Tang Hao conscious but unable to control himself from eating feces...

Considering that Tang Hao has maintained a high task refresh rate for the past two weeks, You Chen did not bring out the subsequent self-circulation system.

Well, to be honest, even You Chen himself found it a bit disgusting.

However, in order to receive the reward, You Chen said he could lower his standards as much as possible.

Now that the cultivation of the Ling Xian is complete, there is no need for such trouble and disgust.

"You beast, what did you do to Ah Yin! What did you do!? I'm going to kill you!!!"

Seeing Tang Hao suddenly become enraged and hearing the pleasant system notification in his mind, You Chen revealed a pleased expression.

Look, he hasn't even done anything yet, and Tang Hao has already automatically generated tasks like a qualified task refresher.

This is much easier than getting a new mission from Bo Saixi.

"I reckon this pace can last a month without any problem. At this rate, if we really want to unleash the ultimate humiliation tactic—making Tang Hao eat shit in front of Ling Xian —it might have to be scheduled for a year or two later."

You Chen glanced indifferently at Tang Hao, who was constantly cursing him. In his eyes, there was no longer the individual "human," and he regarded Tang Hao purely as a tool.

"You sinner, how dare you insult your master!"

Before You Chen could react, the gentle Ling Xian beside him was already bursting with murderous intent.

Before Ling Xian could even teach Tang Hao a lesson, Tang Hao, seeing Ling Xian's murderous intent towards him, glared at her, coughed up blood, and fainted.

Ling Xian asked in confusion, "Huh? Why did he vomit blood on his own?"

[Ding, mission complete]

You Chen: "..."

You Chen paused for a moment, then, under Ling Xian's Ling Xian gaze, he patted her head as if comforting a small animal and said, "Although you did well, don't do it again next time. Without my instructions, don't say a word to him or do anything else."

"Huh? Why?"

Ling Xian was puzzled.

You Chen glanced at Tang Hao, whose handcuffed body was still twitching, and explained, "I'm afraid he won't make it through this year, then he'll miss out on a lot of fun (tasks)."

Although Ling Xian didn't understand, she naturally had no choice but to obey You Chen's orders.

You Chen glanced at the reward Tang Hao had revealed this time and nodded silently.

Aside from the initial few big drops, Tang Hao mostly gave out basic resource rewards later on. Today, however, he did give out rare resource rewards such as "Flash of Inspiration".

You Chen no longer needs those enhancement pills, and the number of top-tier experience pills corresponding to ordinary Titled Douluo is already trending towards surpassing other levels of experience pills.

However, after You Chen accidentally caused Sea Princess Li Na of the Sea to Soul Sacrifice, his Soul Power increased excessively, and he no longer needed top-level experience pills.

What he values now is Tang Hao's discovery of top-grade Nourishment Pill and the intermittently appearing special-grade Nourishment Pill.

Some people may not remember what Nourishment Pill is. Simply put, it is a versatile cultivation resource that can completely replace the role of Soul Beast and even some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

The Nourishment Pill resources provided by Tang Hao alone were equivalent to at least one-tenth of the supply from the entire North Sea during this period, which was truly terrifying.

The quantity alone is secondary; the most significant feature of Nourishment Pill is their rapid digestion.