The reveal of Xu He, fifth on the Hypocrite Ranking, had come to an end.
The light of the Sky Screen suspended high above gradually faded.
The pressure that had hung over every living being in both eras quietly dispersed.
The world seemed to return to its former calm.
[Douluo I Period · Spirit City]
Pope's Palace.
Inside the towering hall, the atmosphere was grim.
Bibi Dong sat on the papal throne, the symbol of supreme authority.
She wore a magnificent purple-and-gold robe and the Nine-Curve Purple Gold Crown.
A frost that seemed incapable of thawing covered her beautiful face.
The Sky Screen's temporary disappearance had done nothing to soften the chill in her eyes.
"Your Holiness."
A Cardinal hurried into the hall, knelt on one knee, and reported respectfully, "The criminals from Shrek Academy have been escorted to the square before Pope's Palace. They await your judgment."
"I see."
Bibi Dong slowly rose.
She tapped her scepter against the mirror-smooth floor, producing a crisp chime.
In the next instant, she appeared on the Terrace outside Pope's Palace like a phantom.
From above, she looked down on everything in the square.
At the center of the square,
dozens of Spirit Hall's elite guards stood in a circle with halberds in hand, trapping four bedraggled figures within.
They were the Golden Iron Triangle and Zhao Wuji, the "Immovable King."
Their Soul Power had been sealed, and they now knelt in humiliation on the cold ground.
Zhao Wuji looked utterly resigned, as though he had accepted that he was going to die.
Liu Erlong kept her head bowed.
Her dark hair hid her face, making her expression impossible to read.
But the deathly stillness of her body betrayed deep despair.
Flender's face was full of bitterness and self-mockery.
He had never imagined