"Heh~"
"A bunch of old geezers who add up to several thousand years old, and you still want to take back what you said? How ridiculous."
"What? If I refuse to hand him over today, what can you do to me?"
Bibi Dong's beautiful eyes were filled with disdain.
On one hand, it was because these people had gone back on their word and broken their promises.
They had already agreed to it that day, yet nearly half a month later, they suddenly remembered they wanted to regret it. What had they been doing before then?
On the other hand, she did not believe Qian Daoliu truly dared to make a move.
That old man had been timid and hesitant for decades. If he had truly been willing to swallow his pride and attack her, he would have done so long ago. Why wait until today?
Who knew what had gotten into these people today, making them insist on coming to the Pope Hall to assert their presence?
No!
Why was Qian Renxue being so intimate with this brat?
Bibi Dong, who had just been looking disdainful, suddenly thought of a terrifying possibility.
Could it be that Qian Renxue liked Chen Xing...?
If that was the case, then Qian Renxue begging Qian Daoliu to back him up and come here to snatch Chen Xing away made sense.
No! These old men seemed to be serious!
At that thought, she narrowed her eyes slightly, silently beginning to circulate Soul Power in the palm behind her back.
As though sensing something unusual about Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu took a step forward first and enveloped Qian Renxue within a Soul Power barrier.
The next moment.
A purple figure appeared before the barrier.
The aura of a level 99 Peerless Douluo erupted in full, dark-purple Soul Power surging forth like a tidal wave.
A spider leg cleaved downward, causing the golden light barrier to flicker into illusion for an instant.
Bang!
The dull impact rang out. Qian Renxue, standing at the center, was instantly terrified and fell to the ground.
"Bibi Dong!"
"What are you doing?"
"She is your..."
"The Saintess of the Worship Hall!"
"Heh~"
"What am I doing?"
"What do you think?"
[Fourth Soul Skill: Thorn Spider Armor]
Without giving Qian Daoliu any extra time to react, Bibi Dong directly unleashed her Fourth Soul Skill.
Her arm was instantly covered by a layer of purple armor, whose spikes tore through the barrier in the blink of an eye.
"Don't!"
"How dare you!"
The Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul Possession activated. Golden light blazed around Qian Daoliu, and a golden longsword appeared in his hand.
[Third Soul Skill: Angel's Protection]
A more solid light barrier than before enveloped Qian Renxue.
The transition between their Soul Skills took less than half a second.
By the time Chen Xing reacted, he had already been tucked under Bibi Dong's arm at her waist.
Seeing this, Qian Daoliu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
That had scared him to death. He had thought Bibi Dong was going to attack Qian Renxue.
Thankfully, she was only trying to snatch Chen Xing away.
At that moment, Qian Renxue, whose arms were now empty, also came back to her senses.
She stared blankly at the other side.
What was going on? That woman had just unleashed such a terrifying aura. She had thought the woman was going to kill her. Was it all just for Chen Xing?
Chen Xing!
Damn it!
The girl turned around anxiously and looked at Qian Daoliu, who was still in Martial Soul Possession state.
"Grandpa, Chen Xing was snatched away by her again!"
"Help me snatch him back! You promised me before."
Hearing the girl's words, Chen Xing, who was tucked beneath Bibi Dong's arm, was speechless.
"Am I some object that can just be snatched back and forth?"
"None of you take me seriously at all."
Thinking about it carefully, given his current strength, he really was...
"Tea... Teacher, those spikes won't hurt me, right...?"
Chen Xing was naturally referring to the spikes on Bibi Dong's armor after she used her Fourth Soul Skill.
He was being held at her waist in an awkward position, and the spikes were practically pressed against his face.
Besides, they looked poisonous at a glance.
"Shut up!"
"No one will mistake you for a mute if you say less."
Bibi Dong glared at Chen Xing and quietly retracted the spikes.
"Everyone!"
"Please leave."
"Chen Xing has already become my final disciple. Don't bring up nonsense like who discovered him first ever again."
"Don't you think that's childish?"
Qian Daoliu's body, which had just straightened up, fell silent again after Bibi Dong's words.
Most importantly, Chen Xing was in her hands now, putting their side at a disadvantage once more.
What should he do?
Chen Xing had already been snatched away. Could they get him back just by arguing?
Obviously not.
Therefore, for Xiao Xue's sake, he could only take him back by force.
Having made up his mind, Qian Daoliu shot forward in an instant.
[First Soul Skill: Angel Assault]
The golden Holy Sword carried boundless might as it locked onto Bibi Dong.
In an instant.
The entire hall was shrouded in a layer of golden light.
Bibi Dong had not expected Qian Daoliu to be so decisive today. She could not defeat him to begin with, and now that she also had Chen Xing with her, she had even less chance of resisting.
Besides.
She did not dare put Chen Xing on the ground. Leaving aside whether the brat would run away himself...
With the other six worshipers standing there, who would believe they were merely here to watch?
Thus, Bibi Dong could only keep dodging and defending...
Whenever she found an opening, she also threw out a few verbal barbs.
"At your age, you go back on your word. Your words are no better than farts, and you still have the nerve to say anything!"
"And you lot, a bunch of old men hundreds of years old, are just going to stand there and watch him make a fool of himself?"
"Making a fool of himself? If anyone suited that phrase over the years, it would be you."
Mighty Lion Douluo was straightforward by nature and had long found Bibi Dong unpleasant.
Although he could not defeat Bibi Dong, and they had been instructed before coming not to make a move unless absolutely necessary, surely he could still mock her a little.
When Mighty Lion spoke, Guang Ling could not help adding a few words as well.
"Exactly. After all these years, have you done too few outrageous things? Do you really think we're all blind?"
"We're only asking you for one person. Hand him over obediently, and we can all get along better in the future."
"Idiots. Do I need to get along with you?"
"You're all still the same, dressing up your pretty words to sound righteous."
"If you truly couldn't stand what I did, would you have tolerated me until now?"
The so-called outrageous things were mostly extreme measures Bibi Dong had taken to clear away obstacles for the Spirit Hall.
For instance, assassinating leaders of forces that resisted the system, using improper means to recruit certain geniuses, and so on...
While such actions could not be called righteous, they were also things every power did, more or less, to preserve its authority.
She naturally knew she could not hide those actions from the people of the Worship Hall, and she had never intended to hide them from the start.
Those old men all put on righteous faces and talked about resolving matters peacefully.
In truth, they could not wait for Bibi Dong to use iron-fisted methods to deal with those hostile forces.
Guang Ling had been cursed at while being pointed at the nose.
His face alternated between green and red.
He had completely forgotten Qian Daoliu's earlier instructions.
The Guang Ling Divine Bow appeared in his hand, directly aiming at Bibi Dong's fleeing figure in the center of the hall.
"You woman..."
"You don't know what's good for you!"
"Today, this old man will teach you a lesson!"
[First Soul Skill: Frost Feather]
Bibi Dong, already struggling to cope, suddenly sensed an icy aura rapidly approaching. The instincts of a Peerless Douluo made her instinctively dodge to the side.
But she forgot that Chen Xing was still tucked at her waist...
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