A day later, Bai Mo felt that his body had more or less recovered. First, he dyed everyone's Soul Rings black.
Then he and Bibi Dong hurried straight to Sacred Soul Village.
Since there were only the two of them, Bibi Dong simply changed back to her own appearance.
"Bai Mo, your Martial Souls..."
Bibi Dong didn't care how Bai Mo knew so many secrets. In her view, it was perfectly normal for Bai Mo, the counterpart of Xiao Xue from another world, to know all this!
Still, she cautiously asked him about his Twin Spiders and Angel Martial Soul.
"Oh, that? I was born knowing how to use them!"
Bai Mo bragged without a care, sweeping his Spiritual Power over the surrounding area.
"Bai Mo, your world... your family must love you very much."
Bibi Dong asked as if it were nothing, but the slight tremble in her voice revealed the turmoil inside her.
"Of course. Without them, I wouldn't be who I am now!"
Bai Mo found where the Blue Silver Emperor was and casually answered Bibi Dong. He thought she was asking about the situation ten thousand years in the future.
After all, Qian Renxue had openly revealed that she came from the future.
So naturally, Bibi Dong could figure that he came from the future, too!
By ordinary logic, Bai Mo's assumption wasn't wrong. But who could have expected Qian Daoliu to come up with such wild ideas?
As a result, Bibi Dong's thoughts had been led astray, and the two of them weren't even talking about the same thing!
"Is that so! Your family in that world must be so good to you!"
Bibi Dong sighed with mixed feelings, then hurried after Bai Mo as he started to leave.
"Maybe it's because they're not love-struck fools who'd fall for useless trash like Gangzi!"
Bai Mo laughed, mocking Bibi Dong as she pretended not to care.
Bibi Dong's expression shifted at his words, but she fell silent. She was still sharp-minded, so she knew there was some truth in what Bai Mo said.
But that was her Gangzi!
Bai Mo watched Bibi Dong's expression change and scoffed in disdain.
Then he flew straight to a waterfall.
A cave behind the waterfall opened into an empty space. Bai Mo flew right inside!
The cave was very dim, but Bai Mo still immediately spotted the malnourished, yellowed Blue Silver Grass.
In Bai Mo's eyes, the grass had a considerable spiritual presence.
Bai Mo walked up to Ah Yin and casually pulled a box out of the wall.
Inside the box was Ah Yin's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
Bai Mo had no interest in stealing Tang San's opportunity. After all, no matter how you looked at it, Tang San's opportunities couldn't compare to his own cheat!
But... since he was already here!
It was no trouble to take care of it while he was at it.
Bai Mo used his Spiritual Power to crush the Soul Bone, then transferred its data into the Simulated Universe.
Collection +1!
"Do you know what happened back then?"
Bai Mo didn't rush to collect Ah Yin. Instead, he asked Bibi Dong, who had drifted off.
Bai Mo didn't know why, but ever since she'd come out alone with him, Bibi Dong was always spacing out. What was she thinking about?
Maybe that was just how Blind Douluos were~
"I don't know much, either."
Bibi Dong spoke with mixed feelings. The sight of the cave had stirred up memories she didn't want to revisit, and she was overwhelmed by the past!
"Then let me tell you what I know, and we'll see if it differs from what you've heard."
Bai Mo shrugged, crouched down, and ran a finger over Ah Yin's grassy body.
Ah Yin instinctively sensed a breath of Life. The little leaf on her stem curled around Bai Mo's finger without her realizing it.
Bibi Dong quietly listened to Bai Mo. She thought he was about to tell her what had happened in his world.
"As far as I know, the Blue Silver Emperor was Tang Hao's wife. But because she was a Soul Beast, the Spirit Hall hunted her down."
Ah Yin's leaf tightened around Bai Mo's finger.
"The evil Spirit Hall couldn't stand seeing a young couple in love, so they sent three Titled Douluos after them!"
"You have to understand, Tang Hao had only just reached Level 90 that day! He hadn't even obtained a Soul Ring yet!"
"After that, the Blue Silver Emperor chose to sacrifice herself to Tang Hao to protect her man and son."
Ah Yin's little leaf wound itself even tighter around him, as if agreeing with Bai Mo's story.
"Humans and Soul Beasts belong to different races. The Spirit Hall was within its rights to hunt Soul Beasts."
Bibi Dong spoke with mixed feelings.
She was confused. Was she the only one who was different in Bai Mo's world?
"Let's set aside how your Spirit Hall found out where the two were hiding. How did you happen to hunt them down right when Tang Hao reached Level 90?"
Bai Mo's words carried a pointed implication.
"You hunted the Blue Silver Emperor for her Soul Ring and Soul Bone, right? Of course you'd want to do it as soon as possible. Or are you saying you didn't even know the Blue Silver Emperor existed before, and just happened to find out when Tang Hao reached Level 90?"
Bai Mo sent a little Life force into Ah Yin, restoring her yellowed body to its original state.
"Or maybe you knew about the Blue Silver Emperor all along, but the two of them were so good at running that you couldn't catch them?"
Ah Yin's leaves twitched twice, signaling that Bai Mo's last explanation was the right one.
Bibi Dong looked at Bai Mo in silence. The pope wasn't a love-struck fool, and she had enough sense to understand what he was getting at.
"Stop making Sister Dong laugh, Little Grass. Are you trying to say that the two of you could easily dodge the Spirit Hall's pursuit when you were only Soul Saints, but couldn't escape once Tang Hao reached Level 90?"
Ah Yin's grassy body shuddered violently. A clear liquid welled up on her leaves, and she gently rubbed them against Bai Mo's finger.
Those were tears, right? They had to be tears!
Bai Mo looked disgusted and dissolved the liquid on his hand with Soul Power.
"And why was it you? Shouldn't Tang Hao have blown up his own eight Soul Rings to get you and your son to safety?"
Bai Mo stroked Ah Yin's leaves and spoke in a pitying tone.
Bibi Dong froze and unconsciously clenched her fist. How was she any different from Ah Yin? Hadn't she been abandoned, too?
"Besides, after you sacrificed yourself, why did he leave you in this place? Even the most brainless person should know that a little grass needs sunlight to grow~"
Bai Mo's words pierced Ah Yin's heart like blades. Then he looked at Bibi Dong, whose expression was shifting, and continued:
"What? Once you were no longer useful, he stopped caring about you?"
"Shut up!!"
Bibi Dong summoned her Martial Soul and grabbed Bai Mo by the neck!
Her face twisted as she glared down at Bai Mo, who was still crouching!
But Bai Mo merely smiled and casually strangled the Blue Silver Emperor, collecting her soul into the Scepter.
"Old Dong, the game's only just begun, and you can't take it already?!"
Bai Mo pried Bibi Dong's trembling hand off him and straightened up.
"Listen to me, Bibi Dong! You need to learn to accept it, instead of lashing out at me like a lunatic!"
"You've tasted the bitter fruit of betrayal yourself! So why pass that same bitter fruit on to someone else?"
"I once saw a pack of beasts who shouted about their miserable pasts, ignored everything others had done for them, and harmed complete strangers in the name of dawn!"
"Bibi Dong, everyone who keeps going in their own life is a hero."
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