That crazy woman Bibi Dong was truly extraordinarily gifted when she wasn't losing her mind. No wonder she could solve the cultivation problem of Twin Martial Souls. In just one year, she had created such a perfectly suited dark version of the Wuji Technique. Honestly, she seemed even better than me. Qin Heng praised her inwardly.
But aloud, he only gave a rather mediocre evaluation.
The corners of Bibi Dong's lips rose slightly. Through their interactions during this time, she had confirmed one thing: the hardest thing about Qin Heng was his mouth.
If she could not hear his inner thoughts, Bibi Dong figured this guy would have angered her to death long ago.
In truth, Qin Heng's outward stubbornness was also part of his persona, one designed to make Bibi Dong lower her guard.
In Bibi Dong's eyes, Qin Heng was now someone with a sharp tongue but a soft heart, someone stubborn on the outside yet tender within. She thought she understood him and could keep him under control, but in reality, that was all Qin Heng wanted her to see.
*What was this woman feeling so smug about? She was celebrating way too early, wasn't she? The technique she created was only suitable for Soul Masters with dark or evil attributes. It couldn't be widely spread, or it would just be handing a cultivation technique to Evil Soul Masters.
Her precious disciple and old lover weren't suited to learning her dark version of the Wuji Technique either. She was the only one who could use it, so what was there to be happy about?*
Qin Heng's vicious roasting ruined more than half of Bibi Dong's good mood.
Bibi Dong found it strange. Why did Qin Heng harbor such deep hostility toward Na'er and Xiaogang? She wanted to ask, but did not know how to bring it up.
As if by coincidence, a Cardinal hurried over at that moment with a piece of intelligence in hand. Qin Heng glanced at the seal and saw that it read: Notting City.
Hah, intelligence from Notting City. Could it be news about Bibi Dong's old lover, Yu Xiaogang?
Hearing Qin Heng's thoughts, Bibi Dong felt a little awkward. The boy had guessed right. She was mainly worried about Yu Xiaogang.
A year ago, Qian Daoliu had revealed the truth about Yu Xiaogang's plagiarism and stripped him of his honorary elder title.
Bibi Dong had also read the comparative materials, and her feelings at the time had been extremely complicated.
Did Bibi Dong not know that Yu Xiaogang's writings were plagiarized? She did know. She simply had not wanted to face it or admit it, choosing to deceive herself instead.
As someone directly involved, Bibi Dong knew all too well where Yu Xiaogang's knowledge had come from back then. Had he not gained access to all that knowledge through her?
At the time, love had clouded her judgment. Not only had she opened Spirit Hall's highest-level reading room to him, she had often personally explained secret knowledge she had learned herself.
So after seeing the evidence Qian Daoliu had presented, even Bibi Dong, lovestruck as she had been, could no longer keep deceiving herself.
The filter of Yu Xiaogang's supposed talent shattered just like that, and Bibi Dong's feelings toward him changed as a result. At the very least, they were no longer so crazed.
Before this, if Bibi Dong had heard that members of the Qian Family's Angel Legion had publicly humiliated Yu Xiaogang and forbidden him from receiving Spirit Hall's Soul Master subsidy again, she would have gone mad long ago.
Of course, a first love was not so easily forgotten. Though Bibi Dong had not gone mad, she had continued following Yu Xiaogang's recent circumstances. A letter arrived every few days, and Qin Heng had merely happened to see one today.
Bibi Dong drew the letter into her hand with Soul Power, then said to Qin Heng and the Cardinal, "You may both leave."
The Cardinal bowed in acknowledgment and turned to leave. Qin Heng, however, dawdled as he furiously roasted Yu Xiaogang in his heart: *How the hell did that useless Yu Xiaogang enchant Bibi Dong?
All his knowledge was plagiarized. At level 29 Soul Power, he had no combat ability whatsoever. When he took Tang San to hunt his First Soul Ring, he was only a Soul Grandmaster. His Martial Soul had two soul skills, and all they could do was fart, yet he still confidently took his disciple out to hunt Soul Beasts.
Then they ran into a four-hundred-year-old Datura Snake, and he got poisoned himself, nearly dying there. If Tang San had not learned how to make and counter poisons in his previous life at the Tang Sect, he would have died long ago.
Even more absurdly, he actually suggested that Tang San absorb a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo! His reason was that Lone Bamboo was tough. He wanted a genius with Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power to absorb a Ten-Year Lone Bamboo? Any bamboo cut down by some random seventy- or eighty-year-old man or woman along the road would have a higher age than that Lone Bamboo.
He even tried to force the Blue Silver Emperor, with its top-tier life attribute, to be associated with insidious attributes like poison and spiders. He was trying to turn a divine herb brimming with life force into a poisonous weed.
Sometimes, I even wonder whether Yu Xiaogang's guidance of Tang San's cultivation was a direct copy of Bibi Dong's cultivation path. After all, Bibi Dong was the strongest person he had ever seen, and like Tang San, she had Twin Martial Souls.*
Bibi Dong was full of question marks. After hearing Qin Heng's thoughts, she truly had the same feeling. Yet Qin Heng's inner voice did not stop, and his roasting continued.
*Setting aside that baffling teaching ability, what I really cannot understand is this: Bibi Dong had top-tier cultivation talent, superb political skills, and stunning looks. Liu Erlong, the other woman utterly devoted to him, was not lacking in talent or any other aspect either. Yet both of those women actually fell for trash like Yu Xiaogang.
In that respect, I genuinely admire Yu Xiaogang. In my opinion, he should not be teaching Martial Soul theory at all. He should be teaching people how to pick up women, how to woo girls, how a useless man could hook up with Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff and make her utterly devoted to him.
If Yu Xiaogang really taught that, I would go apprentice myself to him at any cost. I am just too curious. How exactly did he do it?
This so-called erudite master left Bibi Dong and seamlessly moved on to Liu Erlong. After they fell deeply in love and privately pledged themselves to each other, he only discovered on their wedding day that Liu Erlong was his own first cousin!
And what happened? When trouble came, he ran faster than anyone, leaving Liu Erlong alone to turn herself into a joke.
The key was that after doing something so disgusting, Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong were still so devoted to him. This skill of his really needed to be passed down through a class, or it would be such a waste.
Looking at Yu Xiaogang's life as a whole, when he was young, he borrowed Bibi Dong's influence and freeloaded on Spirit Hall's research materials, repackaging theories developed by Spirit Hall's predecessors as his own Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
In middle age, he borrowed Tang San's talent and forcibly imposed his patchwork theories on Tang San. In the end, Tang San became a god, and he actually had the nerve to stand before everyone and shamelessly claim that he had cultivated a god.
Clearly, Tang San reached the pinnacle through Tang Sect secret manuals, Immortal Herbs, and the Twin God Inheritance that had been reserved for him through the Asura God's backdoor arrangement. It had absolutely nothing to do with his nonsensical Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
Yu Xiaogang was simply the most successful academic fraud in this world. He deceived his first love, deceived his cousin, and in the end even wanted to deceive the history of the entire Soul Master World. He was truly shameless...*
As Qin Heng gradually walked farther away, his inner voice slowly faded as well. In the vast Pope Palace, only Bibi Dong remained, sitting on the Supreme Pontiff's throne in a daze.
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