At these words, Bibi Dong seemed to have heard something grating. Her hand, which had been absently stroking the cup, stopped.
Chu Feng acted as if he hadn't noticed.
"Your Holiness, please give me an explanation!"
"Why did Your Holiness appoint a Spirit Master below level thirty as an Honorary Elder of Spirit Hall? And why does this Spirit Master below level thirty have an Elder Token?"
"Your Holiness, please explain all this to me!"
After a pause, Chu Feng pretended to ponder.
Then, knowing full well the answer, he asked, "If I remember correctly, Spirit Hall currently has only nine Elder Tokens in total.
"These nine Elder Tokens belong to Elder Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, Elder Ghost Douluo Gui Mei, Demon Bear Douluo, Ghost Leopard Douluo, Elder Snake Lance Douluo She Long, Elder Pufferfish Douluo Ci Xue, and the three Honorary Elder Tokens that Spirit Hall bestowed upon the Upper Three Sects."
"Of the three Honorary Elder Tokens—the Pope Tokens—given to the Upper Three Sects, two are accounted for. They're in the hands of Yu Yuanzhen, sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Ning Fengzhi, sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
"That Spirit Master below level thirty couldn't possibly have gotten this Honorary Elder Token from either of them."
"Of the nine Elder Tokens, only the one belonging to the Clear Sky Sect is unaccounted for. The other eight are all documented in detail. I wonder if Your Holiness can explain?"
Chu Feng had said so much that he might as well have bluntly asked Bibi Dong whether the Honorary Elder Token in Yu Xiaogang's possession had come from the Clear Sky Sect.
Even if Yu Xiaogang wasn't a member of the Clear Sky Sect, he was certainly connected to it in countless ways.
Otherwise, he couldn't possibly have had a Clear Sky Sect Honorary Elder Token.
What's more, one of Yu Xiaogang's students was surnamed Tang.
One coincidence was just a coincidence, but two together couldn't be mere chance.
Who had the Clear Sky Sect's Honorary Elder Token? Of course, it had been in the hands of Tang Hao, the sect's heir apparent at the time.
Tang Hao had a Blue Silver Emperor wife, and the Martial Soul of Yu Xiaogang's student was a stalk of Blue Silver Grass.
The more he thought about it, the more chilling it became.
Blue Silver Grass was a famously useless Martial Soul, yet Tang San had displayed astonishing innate level ten full Soul Power.
It was too strange, too bizarre!
If two coincidences couldn't be mere chance, then four together were enough to make anyone wonder what connected them.
"He's no good-for-nothing!" Bibi Dong hadn't expected Chu Feng to ask so many questions at once. He'd hit the nail on the head, leaving her at a loss for how to answer.
She could only focus on the less important points and avoid discussing where Yu Xiaogang's Honorary Elder Token had come from.
Bibi Dong knew perfectly well.
After ruling out every other possibility, there was only one place Yu Xiaogang's Honorary Elder Token could have come from: the Clear Sky Sect.
A student surnamed Tang, with Blue Silver Grass as his Martial Soul and the rare talent of innate level ten full Soul Power—Yu Xiaogang had even asked her about how to cultivate Twin Martial Souls.
That was already enough to reveal his identity.
With a little thought, Bibi Dong could guess who Tang San was.
Tang San was almost certainly the son of Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao.
Tang Hao's wife was the Blue Silver Emperor, so Tang San's Martial Soul wasn't actually Blue Silver Grass.
It was the Blue Silver Emperor, the emperor among Blue Silver Grass.
Besides the Blue Silver Emperor, he should also have another Martial Soul: the Clear Sky Hammer.
The Blue Silver Emperor and the Clear Sky Hammer were both top-tier Martial Souls of the same level, so the two could coexist, just like her Death Spider Emperor and Soul Eater Spider Emperor.
Tang San had Twin Martial Souls. That explained why he possessed innate level ten full Soul Power!
Bibi Dong knew all this.
But she couldn't let Chu Feng grow suspicious, let alone allow anyone to investigate.
Otherwise, Tang San's identity would be exposed.
Once Tang San's identity was exposed, Yu Xiaogang would be guilty of taking in the son of the man who had killed Spirit Hall's former Pope and making him his student.
At that point, she wouldn't be able to protect him!
Pretending to be an Honorary Elder of Spirit Hall was already enough to get Yu Xiaogang executed. Add to that the crime of taking in and training the son of Spirit Hall's enemy, raising a mortal enemy for Spirit Hall, and his fate would be sealed.
Even with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan backing him, he wouldn't escape death.
"You've never looked into him, so you don't know how great his contributions are!
"If you knew how many Spirit Masters had benefited from his Ten Core Competitiveness Theories of Martial Souls, how many Spirit Masters he'd shown the path of cultivation, you'd never object to his becoming an Honorary Elder!"
"Yu Xiaogang may not be a Titled Douluo, but his theories could create countless Titled Douluo in generations to come. None of you can compare!"
Bibi Dong didn't say a word about where Yu Xiaogang's Honorary Elder Token had come from.
Clearly, she was avoiding the issue and focusing on the less important points.
Chu Feng had intended to use this matter to challenge her, reclaim his position as the Eighth Elder, and strip Yu Xiaogang of his Honorary Elder title. Naturally, he wouldn't let her brush it aside so easily.
"Your Holiness, for now, I'm not interested in whether he deserves the title of Honorary Elder.
"I only want to know where he got that Honorary Elder Token.
"After ruling out every other possibility, there's a ninety-nine percent chance that the Honorary Elder Token in his possession came from the Clear Sky Sect!
"And everyone knows that the Clear Sky Sect's Honorary Elder Token was in the hands of Tang Hao, the sect's heir apparent at the time.
"If his Honorary Elder Token really did come from the Clear Sky Sect, then what is his relationship with Tang Hao?
"Tang Hao killed our former Pope for a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast. He's Spirit Hall's mortal enemy.
"For years, we had no trace of him, so the matter was left unresolved.
"Now that we've finally found a trace of him, we absolutely cannot let the matter go unresolved again.
"Tang Hao must pay for what he did!"
Chu Feng fixed his gaze on Bibi Dong.
Chu Feng knew that Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji and Tang Hao had merely taken the blame.
But he didn't deserve the blame any less. After all, he'd never come forward to admit his mistake!
"Where Yu Xiaogang got his Honorary Elder Token isn't important!
"Even if his Honorary Elder Token really did come from Tang Hao, so what?
"The token is in his possession now, so he's an Honorary Elder of Spirit Hall."
Bibi Dong continued to evade the question.
This was a life-or-death question in the truest sense of the phrase. She absolutely couldn't let Yu Xiaogang be convicted of taking Tang Hao's son as his student.
So what if the Honorary Elder Token really had belonged to Tang Hao? She was the Pope of Spirit Hall now, and she could protect Yu Xiaogang. The final say was Yu Xiaogang's.
Yu Xiaogang could claim the token came from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Anything but the Clear Sky Sect.
The Clear Sky Sect had withdrawn from the world, so there was no way to verify its origin.
Yu Xiaogang had the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan behind him, and Ning Rongrong, one of the Shrek Seven Devils, was the young lady of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
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