A New Version: Brother Xunji Went Completely Mad

"You should know how absurd Yu Xiaogang's theories were. Any proper Soul Master could see just how ridiculous they were!"

"Your mother may have been born a commoner, but she grew up in Spirit Hall and received an elite education!"

"Under those circumstances, don't you want to know what your mother went through to fall in love with Yu Xiaogang?"

Gu Changge spoke with a faintly amused smile.

Dugu Bo and the others' eyes immediately lit up.

They could all smell the gossip.

After that relentless barrage—

Qian Renxue no longer had the mind to keep weeping.

She instinctively reached out and grabbed Gu Changge's hand. "Why?"

Feeling Qian Renxue's slender, soft, though slightly cold little hand—

Gu Changge stopped keeping them in suspense. "To explain this, we must first mention someone. Dream Douluo, the one in Spirit Hall who mysteriously vanished and whose martial soul was the Dream Demon!"

"Dream Douluo?"

Dugu Bo said, "There did seem to be such a person. But I heard from that fellow Chrysanthemum Pass that Dream Douluo betrayed Spirit Hall around twenty years ago, became a fallen Soul Master, and was eventually executed by Demon Bear Douluo! Could he be connected to this matter?"

Gu Changge nodded. "Not only is he connected, he is deeply involved! Dream Douluo's martial soul was the Dream Demon, and his main abilities were creating all kinds of illusions and dreams!"

"The reason Bibi Dong fell for that useless Yu Xiaogang as if her brain had been flooded was actually because Dream Douluo used the combined effects of dreams and illusions!"

"What?"

Qian Renxue instantly exploded. So the tragedy-filled life she had lived had all been caused by that Dream Douluo.

"How could he dare?"

Qian Renxue was practically going mad with rage.

"Exactly!"

Gu Changge teased, "As a Spirit Hall elder, how could he do something like that in Spirit Hall's core territory, right under your father's and so many Title Douluo's noses?"

Listening to Gu Changge's mocking words—

And recalling what he had said before about the only price that had to be paid—

Qian Renxue's fury instantly turned to panic. "Y-you mean—impossible, how could that be possible—"

"Nothing is impossible!"

Gu Changge said, "All of this was arranged by your father, Qian Xunji!"

"As for why he did it, naturally, it was for your family's Angel God Position!"

"Neither your grandfather nor your father had the aptitude to inherit the Divine Throne!"

"Especially your father. Because your grandfather did not choose his wife properly, his aptitude was even worse!"

"Not only was he unqualified to inherit the Divine Throne, he was not even qualified to become a guardian of the Angel God Position like your grandfather—a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo!"

"So he was unwilling to accept it. He wanted to change everything!"

"And Bibi Dong's appearance happened to give him that opportunity!"

"Bibi Dong carried the bloodlines of two supreme martial souls: the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor!"

"The former wielded the purest power of death, while the latter possessed the purest power of evil!"

"As long as Bibi Dong could cultivate to rank seventy, becoming a Soul Saint, while awakening these two powers of origin!"

"Then the strength of her bloodline would reach its peak!"

"At that time, if your father united with her, the child they produced would surely be able to rely on Bibi Dong's fully awakened and powerful bloodline to push your family's Six-Winged Angel martial soul to its strongest level!"

This time, Gu Changge did not deliberately keep them guessing.

Instead, he rapidly laid everything out, quickly explaining the entire matter.

"That doesn't sound right, Chang Ge!"

At that moment, Dugu Yan raised another question. "Even if things really were as you said, how could Qian Xunji ensure that the child born would definitely inherit their family's Six-Winged Angel martial soul?"

"There was no need to ensure it!"

Gu Changge smiled. "Because it was inevitable."

"Martial soul inheritance depends on strength. Whichever parent possesses the stronger martial soul, the child inherits that martial soul. Naturally, mutations are an exception!"

"And the Six-Winged Angel martial soul is one of only two god-tier martial souls in all of Douluo Continent."

"Other than Sea God Island's High Priestess, Bo Saixi—who, like Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen, was a rank ninety-nine Limit Douluo—and her Sea God martial soul, the Six-Winged Angel martial soul was the strongest existence!"

"Therefore, the child born from Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong would awaken only the Six-Winged Angel martial soul, without any possibility of an accident!"

Ye Lingling said thoughtfully, "In other words, the former Pope of Spirit Hall chose Bibi Dong to bear his child merely so he could use her fully awakened, pure, and powerful bloodline to nurture his own family's Six-Winged Angel martial soul!"

Gu Changge nodded. "That's right. Exactly so!"

"Then what does that have to do with Dream Douluo?"

Qian Renxue said to Gu Changge in great distress, "Even if he needed to use this so-called bloodline to give birth to me, there was still no reason for him to have Dream Douluo deliberately make that woman fall in love with that useless Yu Xiaogang!"

"Under normal circumstances, there truly would be no reason!"

Gu Changge nodded. "But your mother's situation was not normal!"

"Her martial souls were the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor. One wielded the power of death, while the other wielded the power of evil."

"To awaken those powers and completely purify—or even elevate—her own bloodline!"

"She had to use emotions such as death, despair, pain, resentment, and many others as catalysts!"

"But Bibi Dong had been brought back to Spirit Hall and raised there since childhood. When had she ever experienced such things?"

"So under normal circumstances, let alone reaching rank seventy and becoming a Soul Saint, even if she relied on her talent to cultivate to the level of a Title Douluo!"

"The power of death and evil hidden within her bloodline could never have been awakened!"

"Because in Spirit Hall, she could never encounter anything capable of fully awakening her martial souls and bloodline power!"

Gu Changge shook his head.

"So your father devised this plan!"

"First, he had Dream Douluo create dreams and illusions, making Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang fall in love!"

"Then, once the two of them were madly in love, he suddenly stepped in and tore the lovers apart, driving Yu Xiaogang out of Spirit City and thereby awakening Bibi Dong's hatred for him!"

"But that hatred alone was not enough."

"So after driving Yu Xiaogang away, your father put your mother in the Secret Chamber!"

"At that time, in Bibi Dong's eyes, your father Qian Xunji had been the strongest and most revered figure, like a guardian deity and also like a father!"

[PS: Let me clarify: I did not make up this version. Tang Jia San Shao explicitly wrote it in Bibi Dong's side story. However, that side story was not included in the online novel; it was specially made for the physical edition. You can find it with a quick Baidu search. I made slight adjustments here to fit the story's needs, but the overall process has not changed. Our Secret Chamber Douluo really did operate like this. It's utterly shocking.]