The scene shifted.
A peerlessly beautiful woman dressed in a luxurious purple-black robe, wearing a Nine-Curved Purple Gold Crown and holding an enormous scythe, appeared at the center of the Sky Screen.
Her face was noble and icy, while her eyes carried an air of majesty that looked down upon the world.
An intense aura of evil and slaughter radiated from her body, as though she were an Empress who had stepped out of the depths of hell.
She was none other than Bibi Dong, Empress of the Spirit Hall Empire and the Rakshasa God.
The purple-black scythe in her hand had an eerie, wicked design. Its blade was engraved with countless faces frozen in agonized wails, while streams of ominous purple-black energy coiled around it. Merely looking at the image made one's soul tremble with dread.
[Douluo Exotic Treasures Ranking, Eighth Place: Rakshasa Demon Scythe!] [The weapon of the First-level God, the Rakshasa God, containing evil Divine Sense! It is rumored that this treasure also holds secrets unknown to others.] [Owner: Bibi Dong] [Reward One: Divine power purified and condensed by onefold!] [Reward Two: All Spirit Rings raised to one hundred thousand years!] [Reward Three: Conqueror's Haki (from the otherworldly One Piece Continent)!] [Reward Four: Return to a virgin state!]
Jialing Pass.
Within the grand and majestic Papal Palace.
Bibi Dong sat upon the throne that symbolized supreme authority. Her luxurious purple robe trailed across the ground, outlining her breathtakingly perfect curves.
She rested her smooth chin on one hand as she watched the Ranking List on the Sky Screen with interest.
When she saw her Rakshasa Demon Scythe make the list and rank eighth, a trace of expectedness flashed through her alluring phoenix eyes.
As a Deity, her weapon naturally qualified to appear on the Exotic Treasures Ranking.
However, when her gaze moved line by line over the rewards that followed, even with the state of mind she had attained after becoming a god, her breathing could not help but quicken.
"Divine power purified and condensed by onefold?"
Bibi Dong's pupils contracted slightly as towering waves surged within her heart.
This reward was nothing short of timely aid to her!
Although she had become a god, her foundation was far from stable.
In her pursuit of rapidly increasing her strength, she had devoured the Soul Power of Qian Xunji and many other powerful figures, leaving her divine power impure and mixed. A tremendous hidden danger had always remained.
The reward from this Divine Ranking could actually purify her divine power!
That meant she could completely erase the traces Qian Xunji had left behind and make that power wholly her own!
And condensing it by onefold would allow her, newly ascended to godhood, to completely stabilize her divine position and experience a huge surge in strength!
"All Spirit Ring durations raised to one hundred thousand years..."
Bibi Dong's gaze lowered, and an enchanting smile involuntarily curled across her lips.
She possessed Twin Martial Souls. Between the two Martial Souls, she had a full eighteen Spirit Rings!
If all eighteen Spirit Rings turned into hundred-thousand-year red Spirit Rings...
What a spectacular sight that would be!
Her strength would undergo another leap forward!
"Conqueror's Haki? A peculiar ability from another world..."
She murmured softly, her eyes gleaming with curiosity and powerful confidence.
As the Empress of an empire, this innate quality of a king suited her perfectly.
Yet when her gaze finally landed upon the fourth and final reward, her entire body froze.
"Re... turn... to... a... virgin... state?"
She spoke each word separately, as though every syllable had drained all her strength.
For the first time, a blank expression appeared on Bibi Dong's noble, icy face.
She thought she had misread it.
She raised her jade hand, rubbed her eyes, and looked again.
That was right!
Those were indeed the words!
Boom!
Bibi Dong's mind went blank.
That nightmare she had sealed in the deepest depths of her memories, the nightmare that woke her from sleep whenever it returned in the dead of night, the stain she could never wash away in her entire life...
Now...
It could actually...
Be erased?
An unprecedented ecstasy erupted from the deepest part of her heart like a volcanic eruption!
She abruptly rose from the throne. Her luxurious purple robe slipped with her movement, revealing the pair of long, straight jade legs beneath it, wrapped in purple stockings.
Her delicate body trembled slightly from overwhelming excitement.
"Accept the rewards!"
She practically screamed those four words.
The moment her voice fell, four dazzling Golden Pillars of Light descended from the Sky Screen, instantly enveloping her!
A vast and incomparably pure energy surged into every part of her body.
Bibi Dong could clearly feel the impure divine power within her being rapidly sorted, purified, compressed, and condensed by a gentle yet domineering force!
The sensation of wielding her own power as effortlessly as her limbs, of having complete control over it, made her feel so comfortable that she nearly moaned aloud.
Immediately afterward, the phantom images of her two great Martial Souls, the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, emerged behind her. All eighteen Spirit Rings shone brilliantly, their colors rapidly changing toward the crimson hue that represented the ultimate extreme beneath the cleansing golden light!
An invisible bearing of Reign Over the World awakened from the depths of her soul, as though a single thought from her could make countless people submit!
Finally, a gentle radiance swept across her entire body.
An indescribable feeling of ease and cleanliness arose naturally, spreading from her body to her soul.
As though...
As though the heaviest shackles upon her had been removed, and the filth buried deepest within her soul had been wiped away.
The light faded.
Bibi Dong stood quietly at the center of the main hall and slowly opened her eyes.
She lowered her head, looking at her fair, jade-like hands and sensing the pure, surging divine power within her. An unprecedented strength and confidence filled her heart.
Everything... was real!
Her pair of flawless jade feet were bare against the cold, smooth floor. Her toes were round and lovely, painted with purple nail polish that added several touches of bewitching allure.
She slowly walked about, feeling every change in her body.
The nightmare that had oppressed her for decades had truly... vanished like smoke!
"Heh..."
A soft laugh spilled from her sensual red lips.
Then her laughter grew louder and more unrestrained, until it finally became a hearty, unbridled laugh that echoed throughout the entire Papal Palace!
"Hahahahahaha!"
She extended her pink tongue and gently licked her lips, excitement and danger gleaming in her eyes.
"From this day onward, I, Bibi Dong, am a maiden too!"
"I will pursue the man I like!"
Her voice was filled with delight, along with a faint thrill of vengeance.
"I've decided!"
"Whoever that little brat Qian Renxue likes, I'll pursue him!"
At the thought of her daughter, who opposed her at every turn, wearing a depressed and frantic yet helpless expression when her beloved was taken by her, Bibi Dong felt utterly refreshed. Her mood could not have been better!
At the same time.
Atop the walls of Jialing Pass.
Qian Renxue, clad in golden armor and standing tall with sacred nobility, frowned slightly as she looked up at the Sky Screen.
"I didn't expect Bibi Dong's Rakshasa Demon Scythe to rank only eighth?"
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