Yu Xiaogang Is a Dog Chain? Is Bibi Dong a Puppy?

Bibi Dong understood instantly.

[Li Yifei: In the future described by the storybook, unable to forget your old feelings for Yu Xiaogang, you repeatedly showed mercy to the protagonist.]

[Li Yifei: And every time you showed mercy, the Rakshasa Demonic Thought caught it and judged it as "weakness" and "betrayal."]

[Li Yifei: Then, the demonic thought would intensify its erosion of your reason, making you crazier and more brutal, causing you to commit even more irreparable mistakes.]

[Li Yifei: In the end, it would turn you completely into a monster that knew only slaughter and destruction—the most perfect, and most "deserving," final villain on the protagonist's path to godhood.]

Li Yifei's description was calm yet cruel.

He reduced what seemed like a complicated tangle of fate to a cold "cultivation plan," orchestrated behind the scenes by the Asura God and aimed at the Rakshasa God's inheritor.

Bibi Dong was the monster being "cultivated."

And Yu Xiaogang—the man she had loved, and whom she was about to hate to the bone—was the puppet the Asura God used to stir her emotions and lead her step by step into the abyss...

The dog chain around her neck, named "love."

"Pfft—"

Bibi Dong spat out another mouthful of blood.

This time, she had not vomited blood from anger, nor from humiliation.

She had... been disgusted into vomiting blood by the nauseating, absolute malice behind it all!

So that was how it was.

Even her own feelings were beyond her control.

Her love for that worthless man, the hesitation and struggle born from that love—every bit of it had been calculated with perfect clarity.

The devotion she believed in was merely a chess piece on the God King's board, used to lure her into making mistakes.

The Rakshasa Demonic Thought she believed in was merely a "backdoor program" the Asura God had installed in her mind, ready to detonate at any moment!

What irony!

What tragedy!

The Chat Group fell deathly silent.

Every girl was left speechless by the truth.

They had been mocking Bibi Dong for being love-brained.

Only now did they realize that His Holiness the Pope was, from beginning to end, the most pitiful victim, toyed with in someone else's palm.

[World's Number One Princess: Th-This is too disgusting, isn't it? He even schemes over other people's feelings? Is this Asura God... a pervert?]

For the first time, Ning Rongrong put away her schadenfreude. Her tone was full of discomfort and disgust.

[Little Fox Demon: Teacher...]

Hu Liena's thoughts were filled with heartache.

She could not imagine what crushing shackles her teacher had borne all these years.

[???:...]

Qian Renxue remained silent.

Yet an even fiercer storm raged within her heart than within Bibi Dong's.

The Rakshasa God Trial had a backdoor.

Then what about her Angel God Trial?

Both were First-level Gods. Both were stepping stones for that "protagonist."

Could her own path to godhood have likewise been seeded with traps in advance by the Asura God—or some other God King?

She had always believed that her greatest enemy was Bibi Dong, the power struggle within Spirit Hall.

Only now did she realize in horror that her true enemy was hidden in the God Realm, at a higher dimension, so powerful that she was not even qualified to look up at it.

And she did not even know how much that enemy had tampered with in her inheritance.

The terror of the unknown was more tormenting than despair with a known cause.

Just then, a timid voice broke the silence in the Group Chat.

It was Xiao Wu.

[Bunny Is So Cute: Um... Brother Yifei.]

[Bunny Is So Cute: That protagonist from the storybook you mentioned... who is he?]

The question instantly drew everyone's attention back.

That was right.

After all that talk of stepping stones and God King inheritors, just who was this "protagonist" who rose to power by stepping over the two Deities of Spirit Hall?

Li Yifei's answer was simple and direct.

[Li Yifei: Tang San.]

Tang San?

To most of the people in the Group Chat, the name was completely unfamiliar.

Only a few showed thoughtful expressions.

[A Little Goose: Tang San? That name... sounds a little familiar.]

There was a trace of uncertainty in Dugu Yan's thoughts.

[A Little Goose: Isn't he from the Clear Sky Sect?]

[Is Jade Not Jade: Tang Hao's son?]

Liu Erlong's thoughts surfaced as well.

She remembered the name because Yu Xiaogang had once mentioned it to her. He had said he had taken in an extraordinary disciple with Twin Martial Souls, Tang Hao's son.

At the time, she had even been happy for Yu Xiaogang.

Thinking back on it now, all she felt was irony.

That so-called extraordinary disciple had been the real powerhouse all along.

And the man she had loved for a lifetime was merely an insignificant accessory hanging from that powerhouse.

However, no one was more shocked than Xiao Wu.

[Bunny Is So Cute: X-Xiao San?!]

Her thoughts were filled with an incredulous cry.

She had already suspected it, after all, she had never heard of Master having any other disciples.

But when everything became reality, Xiao Wu was still utterly shaken.

The protagonist... was Xiao San?

He... was the Asura God's inheritor?

In the future... he would overthrow Labor Martial Hall and defeat the Pope and the Angel God?

Xiao Wu felt as though her entire world had fallen into complete chaos.

Li Yifei ignored their individual shock. He merely dropped another piece of information, one enough to drive Spirit Hall completely mad.

[Li Yifei: Oh, right. I forgot to mention something.]

[Li Yifei: This protagonist, Tang San.]

[Li Yifei: His father is Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo of the Clear Sky Sect, leader of the Upper Three Sects.]

[Li Yifei: His mother...]

Li Yifei's thoughts deliberately paused here.

[Li Yifei: Was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor who rebuilt herself and took human form.]

If the earlier information had been precise strikes aimed at Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue—

Then this sentence was an all-out war without end against the entirety of Spirit Hall!

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

Something Spirit Hall had hunted for countless years, paid untold prices for, and dreamed of obtaining!

And yet... it was the protagonist's mother?

From the moment of Tang San's birth, Spirit Hall and Tang San had been destined to share a blood feud, one that could end only in death!

Within Spirit Hall.

Bibi Dong smiled.

She raised a hand and gently wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. There was no longer the slightest trace of pain or despair on her face.

In its place was an almost crazed, morbid calm.

So that was it.

At last, she understood completely.

There could be no reconciliation for the murder of one's mother.

No room for compromise.

From the moment she took the Pope's throne, from the moment Tang San was born, only one of them could survive.