"How is this possible? This, this can't be!!!"
Qian Renxue's head was spinning. She seemed completely lost.
Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo, who had been lurking in the shadows, recovered from their shock and hurried over to support Qian Renxue. Then they looked toward Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin, who sat there stunned, and said:
"Sorry, Sect Master Ning."
"The Crown Prince seems unwell. This subordinate needs to help him leave and rest."
"Huh?" Ning Fengzhi came back to his senses, still immersed in shock. He merely waved his hand and said:
"If Qinghe is feeling unwell, then let him go and rest."
Throughout it all, his gaze had remained fixed on the Sky Screen. He hadn't paid any attention to Xue Qinghe's condition.
By now, Xue Qinghe, being supported away by the two men, was like a puppet on strings. Her eyes were vacant, and she was utterly lifeless.
Her spirit had been shattered!
"How is this possible? This can't be!"
Qian Renxue cried out, "I, I can't believe my mother killed my father!"
The sight of Bibi Dong killing Qian Xunji was utterly earth-shattering to her. It was enough to shatter her completely.
Ever since she was a child,
Qian Renxue had been showered with love and adoration by everyone, yet she was the one person her mother never liked.
At first, she had thought her mother's natural aversion to her was simply due to the nature of her martial soul.
Now, she finally understood why.
It was because her mother had hated her from the very beginning.
No, she hated the entire Qian family—she hated their whole clan, from its people to its martial souls. It was a hatred so deep it drove her to murderous intent.
Why was that?
Qian Renxue couldn't understand.
"Great Enshrined has ordered us to take Young Master back to Spirit Hall," Porcupinefish Douluo said.
Snake Lance Douluo nodded. "Now that the Sky Screen has descended, it's sure to stir up plenty of trouble. The others can continue lying low here in the Heaven Dou Empire. We'll take Young Master back."
"Let's go!"
After Qian Renxue left,
Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo finally came to their senses.
Sword Douluo set down his teacup and clicked his tongue. "I never imagined there was such a secret behind what happened back then. If this hadn't been exposed, I doubt anyone would ever have known."
Ning Fengzhi nodded. "Indeed. No wonder Tang Hao refused to admit it, even at the cost of his life. It seems he knew that, no matter how fierce that battle was, it couldn't have been enough to kill Qian Xunji."
Meanwhile,
Tang Hao, the scapegoat, was just as stunned.
"I told you! I said it all along!"
He murmured like a child who'd been wronged. "I wasn't the one who killed Qian Xunji back then. Spirit Hall, you drove Ah Yin to her death, then drove my father to his. You're utterly unforgivable!"
"Ah Yin, did you see that?"
Tang Hao gently stroked Ah Yin and said, "The Sky Screen proved my innocence!"
"Spirit Hall, I'll repay you a hundredfold, a thousandfold, for every bit of pain you've inflicted on me!"
Clear Sky Sect was just as furious.
"What?! Tang Hao really wasn't the one who killed Qian Xunji!"
"The current Pope killed the previous Pope, yet they made our Clear Sky Sect take the blame. What an outrageous accusation!"
"Spirit Hall, you really are despicable! On the strength of a baseless accusation, you slaughtered the young geniuses of Clear Sky Sect until our next generation was wiped out. You killed my wife and children and eradicated my bloodline. Now the truth has finally come to light, decades too late!"
"..."
Clear Sky Sect was consumed by resentment.
Tang Xiao was even more furious. The entire younger generation of Clear Sky Sect had died in battle back then, leaving only a few people of mediocre talent behind.
The truth had finally come out, but what a cruel joke!
"Spirit Hall, this hatred can never be forgiven!"
Tang Xiao roared.
Fury blazed throughout Clear Sky Sect.
Across the world, people also spoke up in outrage, confusion, and doubt.
They couldn't understand why the current Pope had killed the previous Pope.
For a time,
Soul Masters everywhere raised doubts, and their faith in Spirit Hall's authority began to wane.
Just then—
The Sky Screen changed again.
Qian Xunji, his body pierced through, looked up in disbelief. "You... why? Heh-heh..."
But before he could finish, blood clogged his throat, leaving him able to make only a series of gurgling sounds.
Bibi Dong, meanwhile, wore a twisted expression and laughed like a madwoman.
"Why?!"
"Qian Xunji, you actually have the nerve to ask me why?!"
Bibi Dong shrieked, "Back then, you stopped me from being with Yu Xiaogang. I don't blame you for that—but why did you have to do it that way?!"
"Do you know what it felt like when you used your Soul Power to crush the breath out of me, stripped me naked, left me lying in that cold darkness, and violated me?"
"Despair!!!"
"Qian Xunji, I treated you as my teacher, as my father!"
"And you did something so despicable to me!"
"You raped me!!!"
"You made me carry the Qian family's bastard. You robbed me of my innocence and ruined my reputation. You left me with no idea how I could face Xiaogang!"
"You destroyed me!!!"
"And now you ask me why?!"
"I couldn't accept it! I hated you!!!"
"AAAAAAAH!"
Bibi Dong broke down sobbing. The Spider Spears on her back stabbed through Qian Xunji again and again like lances.
She pierced him through until he was nothing but a human sieve.
Boom—!
The world fell silent.
When those words and images appeared before everyone,
everyone, no matter who they were, was left dumbfounded!
On her way back to Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue saw the scene on the Sky Screen and fainted on the spot.
One blow after another had shattered her spirit. She couldn't accept what had happened.
Her father had raped her mother, and her mother had killed her father.
For anyone, this would be enough to cause a complete mental breakdown.
Despair. Collapse.
*
Shrek Academy.
Yu Xiaogang clutched his chest and gasped for breath.
The others hurried over.
"Master?!"
"Teacher!?"
"I, I'm fine!"
Yu Xiaogang managed to speak, but tears were already streaming down his face, pooling like a river and soaking a wide patch of grass.
"Why... No, it was me. I'm the one who hurt you!"
Yu Xiaogang was heartbroken.
He had indeed approached Bibi Dong with ulterior motives, but during that time, he truly had fallen in love with her.
He had thought he'd already put those feelings behind him.
But now, seeing Bibi Dong suffer, it felt like a knife twisting in his heart.
"I'm sorry!"
Those were the only words he managed to utter.
The others had also guessed some of what had happened from the scene on the Sky Screen.
Flender sighed.
"Let Xiaogang be alone for a while!"
Far North.
Several terrifying auras rose into the air, scattering the snow and wind.
Two figures appeared.
The Heavenly Snow Woman, with a dress of white snow, icy skin, and a graceful figure, gazed at the Sky Screen and shook her head.
"Humans. Such complicated creatures."
Beside her, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, its body like dark-green crystal and clad in armor, sneered.
"Just as I thought. Humans deserve to die!"
"Snow Empress, what will you think if you ever die for a human, only to suffer at human hands?"
"Me? Humans aren't worthy!"
At that moment,
the Douluo World was in an uproar.
Everyone had witnessed a love that transcended species.
They had also witnessed a grotesquely twisted love.
Both stories shattered their sense of what was right, but all people could think was that life was unpredictable.
Because the people involved were hateful, and yet pitiful!
Rumble—!
As if unwilling to let these emotions engulf the entire continent,
the Sky Screen trembled.
A few large characters slowly appeared.
[Secret Ranking, Ninth Place: The Raccoon Dog for the Crown Prince!]
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