A Mysterious Connection

After Yue Guan finished speaking, Lin Yu and Dugu Yan left.

"Teacher." Lin Yu didn't return to his own quarters. Instead, he went to Pope Hall.

"Xiao Yu, you're here. How are you feeling?" Bibi Dong smiled when she saw Lin Yu.

After entering Pope Hall, Lin Yu walked straight behind Bibi Dong with practiced ease and began massaging her.

For some reason, ever since Bibi Dong's Martial Soul Fusion, that yearning his body had felt whenever he saw her had never returned.

However, although that yearning had disappeared, Lin Yu could clearly sense another mysterious connection between himself and Bibi Dong.

He wasn't sure whether Bibi Dong could feel this connection too.

"I'm fine now," Lin Yu answered readily.

"That's good." Hearing his answer, Bibi Dong breathed a sigh of relief. She knew Lin Yu would be all right, but she had still spent this time worrying about him.

"Since that's the case, you should get your third Soul Ring, too." As Lin Yu massaged her, Bibi Dong stopped working and simply enjoyed it.

"Mm, I was thinking the same thing." Lin Yu nodded at her words.

"Mm. After absorbing an Immortal Herb, Dugu Bo's granddaughter, Dugu Yan, has also reached level thirty in Soul Power.

"Take her with you when you get your third Soul Ring." Bibi Dong opened her eyes and looked at Lin Yu.

Lin Yu had no objection to Bibi Dong's suggestion.

However, after they had finished discussing that, Lin Yu didn't leave. He continued massaging Bibi Dong, looking as though he wanted to say something but couldn't bring himself to.

"What is it?" Bibi Dong noticed his unusual behavior and asked directly.

"Teacher, why did you make Dugu Yan and me substitutes for the Martial Soul Hall Team?" Lin Yu finally asked.

"What's wrong? You don't want to?" Bibi Dong looked at him with a smile.

"It's not that. It's just that you know my strength will probably be in a different league from theirs six years from now.

"Would it really make sense for me to fight them...?" Lin Yu looked at Bibi Dong hesitantly.

"Making you substitutes is simply a precaution. The Spirit Hall needs to ensure that we win the championship." Bibi Dong explained.

Even Bibi Dong herself hadn't noticed how much she had changed.

In the past, she would never have explained herself. Yet now, she was willing to explain things to Lin Yu.

Before, Bibi Dong's heart had been filled with resentment toward the Spirit Hall and the Douluo Continent.

But now, that resentment had begun to fade without her realizing it. Instead, she seemed to have found hope in life.

"Besides, you might not even need to fight. Those few should be able to handle the other academies' teams on their own." In Bibi Dong's heart, Lin Yu was becoming increasingly important. Otherwise, she wouldn't have explained so much to him.

Bibi Dong hadn't noticed the change in herself, but Lin Yu had. And it had begun after Bibi Dong's Martial Soul Fusion.

Soul Blood! Bibi Dong changed after absorbing my Soul Blood. Lin Yu's thoughts wandered.

But this clearly wasn't the time to think about it.

As for Bibi Dong's claim that the Martial Soul Hall Team could handle the other academies, Lin Yu wasn't sure what to think.

If Tang San hadn't appeared, the Spirit Hall would indeed have won the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

After all, if Tang San hadn't existed, Oscar should have been the protagonist of the Douluo Continent: the only support-type Soul Master on the entire continent with Innate Full Soul Power.

Even the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, renowned throughout the continent for its support-type Soul Masters, had never produced anyone with Innate Full Soul Power. That showed just how incredible Oscar's talent was.

"Then I'll head back and get ready, Teacher. I'll be going to get my Soul Ring soon." Having learned what he wanted to know, Lin Yu prepared to take his leave.

"Mm, go get ready. Yue Guan and Gui Mei will accompany you again this time. Dugu Bo will probably come along, too.

"Last time, you went to Sunset Forest to get your Soul Ring. This time, the place you've chosen won't be any less dangerous. With three Titled Douluo, you should be safe." Bibi Dong tapped Lin Yu on the head.

Bibi Dong believed she knew Lin Yu fairly well.

At her words, Lin Yu gave an awkward chuckle. She was right. This time, he had chosen Star Dou Forest to get his Soul Ring, and that place was home to the widely known kings of the Soul Beasts. There was no way it could be considered safe.

"Is this because of the Soul Blood?" After saying goodbye to Bibi Dong, Lin Yu returned to his room and thought about how she had changed recently, as well as the inexplicable connection between them.

Then Lin Yu calmed his mind and examined himself.

"What is this place?" Lin Yu stared in confusion at the dim space before him.

But as soon as he spoke, the space that had been dim moments ago brightened, and the Undying Emperor Spider appeared before him.

His Second Martial Soul appeared as well. It was because of his Second Martial Soul that the space wasn't so dim.

Not only that, Lin Yu saw Bibi Dong beneath the Undying Emperor Spider. But compared to the real Bibi Dong, the figure below the spider seemed rather illusory.

When he saw this illusory Bibi Dong, Lin Yu suddenly felt as though he could control her.

At the same time, Bibi Dong in Pope Hall seemed to sense something and closed her eyes.

The scene before Bibi Dong was exactly the same as the one Lin Yu was seeing. She, too, saw her illusory figure beneath the Undying Emperor Spider.

"It seems Xiao Yu's Martial Soul is far from ordinary. Even now that my Martial Soul has become a God-level Martial Soul, it still can't compare to his." Bibi Dong's expression was one of surprise.

Bibi Dong sensed not only the Undying Emperor Spider's tremendous power, but also that she and Lin Yu seemed to have become superior and subordinate, with Lin Yu as the superior and her as the subordinate.

It was as though Lin Yu could control everything about her, even whether she lived or died.

Yet Bibi Dong felt no resistance to this at all. If anything, she seemed willing to accept it.

"Through the Soul Blood, I seem to be able to control Bibi Dong—even her life and death." Lin Yu clenched his hand in shock.

"If that's the case, then I have nothing to worry about." Lin Yu opened his eyes, a relaxed smile on his face.

It was the first time since joining the Spirit Hall that Lin Yu had smiled so sincerely.