Conjectures and a change of plans

A strange feeling?

Chen Feng made some connections to those words.

"Grandmaster, what happened to you during your trip to the Spirit Hall?"

The Grandmaster shook his head, frowned, and said, "I'm not sure if my feeling is right, but I just feel that... the Pope seems a bit strange."

"What's strange about it?" Tang San asked curiously.

The Grandmaster lowered his gaze slightly and began to recount his experience of traveling to the Spirit Hall.

He was invited by the Cardinal of the Spirit Hall to go to the Spirit Hall to meet Pope Bibi Dong.

Everything went smoothly along the way.

After arriving at the Spirit Hall's council hall, Grandmaster waited for a short while before Bibi Dong entered alone.

The two exchanged brief pleasantries at first, catching up on old times.

"Xiao Gang, you've arrived." Bibi Dong said gently, holding her scepter.

"Yes, I'm here. How are you?" The Grandmaster looked at Bibi Dong with a complicated expression.

"I am now the Pope of the Spirit Hall, a position above all others. Even the emperors of the two great empires would show me deference. What's wrong with that?" Bibi Dong said with a faint smile.

"But you're not happy. Have you ever laughed from the bottom of your heart all these years?" the Grandmaster asked with a sigh.

"You weren't even by my side! How do you know I didn't laugh!?" Bibi Dong's temper suddenly flared up.

"I..." The Grandmaster hesitated, feeling deeply wronged.

It was your teacher who forbade me from being with you, and you refused to see me again.

How come you're turning around and blaming me now?

However, the Grandmaster ultimately didn't voice his thoughts. What happened back then was in the past, and there was no point in talking about it anymore. The two of them could never go back to the way things were.

So he changed the subject and asked, "Is there something you wanted to see me about?"

"Can't I let you come if there's nothing wrong?" Bibi Dong retorted.

"His Holiness the Pope requests an audience, then of course we can," the Grandmaster said.

Bibi Dong snorted coldly, "Your His Holiness the Pope, Your His Holiness the Pope, don't you know my name?"

"... Bibi Dong," the Grandmaster said after a moment of silence.

Bibi Dong's expression softened somewhat, and she asked, "Is that boy named Chen Feng really the author of the Foundation Building Method?"

"Yes, to avoid trouble, we worked together to create a fake identity." The Grandmaster nodded slightly.

"Ha, if you had come to me back then, none of this trouble would have been a problem."

"At that time, I accidentally discovered that Xiao Feng might be Chen Clan members, so my first choice was naturally the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."

"I see." Bibi Dong nodded. "And then he became your student?"

"We can't really call them students; let's just say we're exchanging knowledge and learning from each other. My Golden Horn, oh, I mean Luo Sanpao's problem was solved by Xiao Feng."

"How did your Golden Iron Triangle come together later?" Bibi Dong asked casually.

The Grandmaster didn't hide anything, saying, "After Xiao Feng others graduated from the junior Soul Master Academy, I had them enroll at the Shrek Academy, run by Flender. As you know, compared to other Intermediate Soul Master Academy, Flender's is much more reliable."

"Um.

"However, there's a problem with Flender. Due to a shortage of funds, the Academy doesn't meet the basic requirements, which is why Shrek Academy has never been registered in any country."

"That's why you can't qualify for the All-Continent Spirit Master Academy Elite Tournament." Bibi Dong understood.

The Grandmaster nodded and said, "That's right. At that time, Erlong owned the Blue Tyrant Academy. In order to enable the children to participate in the Spirit Master Tournament, we gathered together again."

"So, you're with Liu Erlong again? Even if she's your sister?" Bibi Dong asked, staring intently at the Grandmaster.

"No, I've made it clear to Erlong from now on, we'll only be cousins." The Grandmaster shook his head.

Bibi Dong's eyes flickered for a moment, "Are you serious?"

I have no reason to lie to you.

Bibi Dong frowned. "Since you're not with Liu Erlong, why don't you come back to me? Didn't you leave in the first place because of your sister?"

The Grandmaster looked puzzled. "Back then, your teacher, the former Pope Qian Xunji, told me that you were the Saintess of the Spirit Hall, the next Pope, and that a piece of trash like me was not qualified to be with you, and that you would never come looking for me again. I didn't believe it at the time, and waited for you for a while, but you never came, so I left Spirit City."

Bibi Dong's face immediately darkened. She gripped the scepter tightly, and a deep purple glint flashed in her eyes.

"Thousand, See, Speed!"

What was the purple she saw? The Grandmaster noticed the change in Bibi Dong's expression and a sense of doubt arose in his heart.

Could it be a pupil technique like that of Xiao San and Xiao Feng?

Just as the Grandmaster was about to ask, Bibi Dong asked first, "Xiao Gang, Qian Xunji is dead. Are you willing to come back to my side?"

"You... you address your teacher by his first name?" The Grandmaster was somewhat surprised.

He sensed that the relationship between the two Pope of the Spirit Hall was not as simple as he had thought.

"You don't need to worry about that. You just need to answer my questions." Bibi Dong waved her hand somewhat impatiently.

The Grandmaster stopped dwelling on the relationship between the two Pope. After thinking for a moment, he said, "You are the Pope of the Spirit Hall, with an incomparably noble status, while I am merely a teacher at an Academy. What your teacher said back then was actually quite right; I am not worthy of you. Let bygones be bygones."

There was another reason he didn't say: he disapproved of the Spirit Hall's way of doing things, and he still remembered the attack on Chen Feng.

"What if I'm willing to give up everything?" Bibi Dong asked urgently.

"It's not worth it, Bibi Dong, and as the Pope, you can't leave so easily." The Grandmaster shook his head.

He didn't think Bibi Dong could just let go like that.

"Why not? I can give up everything... Ouch..." Bibi Dong suddenly covered her forehead, a look of pain on her face.

"What's wrong with you?" The Grandmaster suddenly felt uneasy.

"Leave... this place..." Bibi Dong's voice suddenly became intermittent.

"What?"

"Leave... Spirit Hall! Don't come back!" Bibi Dong suddenly threw Grandmaster towards the door of the council hall, then left somewhat disheveled from the other side.

"Bibi Dong! Dong'er!" The Grandmaster collapsed at the door, nearly choking on his own breath and still somewhat dazed, only managing to call out instinctively.

However, Bibi Dong left without looking back.

"After that, I left the Spirit Hall and returned here." Inside the Hotel, the Grandmaster finished his story.

He omitted some of the content of his conversation with Bibi Dong, since some things were not easy to say aloud, but he described in detail the strange things he observed about Bibi Dong.

After listening to the Grandmaster's explanation, Tang San was completely bewildered; he had absolutely no idea what the Grandmaster was saying.

Chen Feng gradually began to have his own guesses.

The situation the Grandmaster encountered was something that had never happened in the Original Work or the Manga, which means that some variable caused this to occur.

So what are the variables regarding Bibi Dong? Chen Feng first thought of the time when he broke up Grandmaster and Liu Erlong, because he did so in order to have a card to deal with Bibi Dong.

Chen Feng's idea was that if Grandmaster and Liu Erlong hadn't ended up together, Bibi Dong would have had some hope and wouldn't have turned to the dark side so quickly.

As is widely known, the Rakshasa God is God of Malice, or more accurately, God of Evil Thoughts.

Anyone who desires to inherit the divine position of the Rakshasa God will inevitably be influenced by evil thoughts.

A kind-hearted, normal person will instinctively resist evil thoughts, but a person filled with despair will simply give up and plunge into the abyss under the influence of evil thoughts.

Having murderous thoughts? So what if you kill? What's the big deal?

Do you harbor thoughts of starting a war? It doesn't matter; even if many die, it's just a number.

Want to destroy the world? Even better, everyone will die and you won't have to see them anymore. There's nothing left to miss anyway.

That's roughly the situation.

In the Original Work, after experiencing the secret chamber incident and severing ties with Grandmaster due to the attack on Tang San, Bibi Dong had no warmth left in her heart.

In her eyes, this world is meaningless, it causes her pain, and she would rather it be destroyed.

Oh, besides Hu Liena, perhaps this is the only thought in Bibi Dong's heart.

However, after becoming a god, one can bring others into the Divine Realm, so Hu Liena alone could not stop Bibi Dong from falling into the abyss.

All she could see was darkness.

What Chen Feng wanted to do was to slow down Bibi Dong's descent into the abyss, thus giving her more time to develop.

Judging from what the Grandmaster encountered today, Chen Feng's strategy seems to have worked.

After repeatedly questioning the Grandmaster, Chen Feng confirmed that Bibi Dong's strange behavior only began after she said, "I am willing to give up everything."

Did Bibi Dong include the Rakshasa Godhood in this "everything"?

Chen Feng believes it should be included, otherwise Bibi Dong wouldn't have shown such obvious abnormalities. For a powerhouse at her level, there are very few factors that can affect her, and "god" is the most likely factor.

In Chen Feng's view, Bibi Dong probably went to visit the Grandmaster to reminisce, only to be surprised to find that the Grandmaster was not with Liu Erlong as she had thought.

The two may have confronted each other about what happened back then, and realized that Qian Xunji. As a result, Bibi Dong felt hope and wanted to be with the Grandmaster again.

It's alright if Grandmaster doesn't want to return to the Spirit Hall; Bibi Dong can give up everything and live in seclusion with Grandmaster.

She felt that this time no one could stop her.

Indeed, if Bibi Dong were to truly relinquish the position of Pope and go into seclusion, the rulers of the two great empires would probably jump for joy, and most of the Spirit Hall members would be powerless to stop Bibi Dong.

Perhaps only Qian Daoliu would be unwilling to see his son's grave covered in green, but he already felt guilty towards Bibi Dong, so he might not actually do anything.

There was indeed no one left to stop Bibi Dong, but "God" was not pleased.

What's going on, little sister? You were doing so well with your dark side, how come you're suddenly filled with love all of a sudden?

Perhaps it was due to the subjective influence of the Rakshasa God, or perhaps it was the autonomous reaction of the Rakshasa God's Will; in any case, Bibi Dong had run into trouble.

Chen Feng was naturally pleased with this outcome.

He didn't know if his guess was correct, but it was the most likely conjecture he made based on the available intelligence.

Chen Feng thought for a moment and said, "Grandmaster, when I was on the VIP platform before, the Pope did give me a unique feeling. That feeling was both profound and had a vague evil about it, which I had never encountered before. Could it be that the Pope's Martial Soul is special?"

"Her Martial Soul... her Martial Soul are the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, which can indeed be associated with evil," the Grandmaster said.

"Does that Pope possess Twin Martial Souls?" Tang San asked in surprise.

Aside from himself, this was the first time he had ever learned about another Twin Martial Souls.

The Grandmaster nodded and said, "That's right. I had considered asking her before about how to overcome the difficulties of having Twin Martial Souls, but then I saw that Xiao Feng had a very good solution, so I didn't ask."

"The difficulty of Twin Martial Souls? Does it mean there's a possibility of Twin Martial Souls exploding and dying?" Tang San asked.

"That's right."

"That has indeed been resolved." Tang San smiled, recalling a conversation he had with Chen Feng back in Sacred Soul Village.

That was the Starting Point of everything.

Now that he can withstand the Ten-Thousand-Year Fourth Ring, and with the Ring Expansion Method researched by Chen Feng, he can no longer face the crisis of exploding and dying.

The Grandmaster nodded in agreement with Tang San's statement, then pondered and said, "So, she became like that because there was a problem with her cultivation?"

"Perhaps." Chen Feng didn't intend to reveal the matter of the Rakshasa God now, because such a being was too far removed from them, and saying so wouldn't have any effect.

His only hope was that Bibi Dong could hold out long enough in the battle against the Rakshasa God's Will, which would give him enough time to develop.

In addition, Chen Feng also plans to make some adjustments to his original plan.

He originally planned to use the Heaven Dou Empire as a foundation, gradually accumulate power with the help of Qian Renxue, and then seize the opportunity to make his move.

But now that he has revealed his identity and Bibi Dong seems to be in trouble, he might as well take bigger steps.

Chen Feng had gradually formed some ideas about how to do it.

He looked at the Grandmaster and asked, "Grandmaster, do you still plan to go to the Spirit Hall later?"

"Of course I'll go. The Pope... she's encountered some problems, and I'm a little worried about her," the Grandmaster said.

Tang San frowned.

The Grandmaster noticed and explained, "I know you dislike the Spirit Hall, and I actually dislike it too. I won't stop you from seeking Vengeance. I just want to confirm that the Pope is alright this time because of our past friendship. Personal relationships won't affect my stance."

He was silent for a few seconds, then said in a low voice, "I don't know yet if she's related to Xiao Feng's attack. If it turns out they are, then I'll have to sever all ties with her."