Forced to Become a Disciple, Bibi Dong's Second Disciple

Lin Yue had already withdrawn.

After reporting everything that had transpired in the Star Dou Great Forest in a concise and straightforward manner.

The composed dean bowed and exited the grand hall.

Leaving Ye Xuan alone to face the highly imposing Pope.

"Ye Xuan."

Bibi Dong spoke.

Her voice was not harsh.

One could even call it quite melodious.

Yet the authority contained within it caused Ye Xuan's heart to tighten abruptly.

"Your Holiness."

Ye Xuan lowered his head in a salute.

Doing his best to keep his voice steady.

"Dean Lin Yue told me that your martial soul captured a little girl in a highly peculiar manner."

Bibi Dong rose slowly from her throne.

Her slender figure appeared even more statuesque against the backdrop of her robes.

"Furthermore, he suspects that the girl... is a transformed spirit beast."

She walked down the steps.

Each step was light and elegant.

Yet Ye Xuan felt an invisible pressure intensifying with her approach.

"Release her."

Bibi Dong's voice was calm.

"I wish to see for myself."

Ye Xuan took a deep breath.

He knew he had no choice.

He mobilized the spirit power within his body.

His palm grew slightly warm.

The red and white Pokeball manifested once more.

It hovered silently above Ye Xuan's palm.

As Ye Xuan injected his spirit power.

The light on the surface of the Pokeball began to flicker.

A soft beam of light shot out from the sphere.

Landing on the floor of the grand hall.

Within the beam.

A petite figure gradually coalesced into form.

Xiao Wu reappeared by his side.

She was still wearing that pink dress.

Her scorpion braid was somewhat disheveled.

The red mark on her forehead from where the Pokeball had struck her had faded significantly.

The moment she landed.

She instinctively backed up against Ye Xuan.

Her eyes scanned the surroundings with vigilance.

Until her gaze fell upon Bibi Dong before her.

Her breathing seemed to stall in that very moment.

Xiao Wu's pupils contracted sharply.

Her petite body began to tremble uncontrollably.

It was not fear, but rage.

Countless images flashed through her mind in an instant.

Her mother's gentle smile.

That tranquil home deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

And then blood, blood filling the sky, and the cold purple eyes of the woman before her...

It was her!

Xiao Wu's lips trembled slightly.

She wanted to rush forward and tear apart the murderer who had killed her mother.

At the same time, Bibi Dong was also watching Xiao Wu.

When Xiao Wu's figure fully appeared.

Bibi Dong's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

An inexplicable sense of familiarity swept through her heart.

It was not a familiarity of appearance.

She was certain she had never seen this little girl before.

Bibi Dong closed her eyes.

Powerful spiritual energy extended outward like invisible tentacles.

Gently and carefully, she probed every inch of Xiao Wu's existence.

Boundless vitality.

And that faint perception unique to a hundred-thousand-year-old transformed soul beast.

It was just that this perception was too weak.

If her own cultivation were not high enough.

It would have been difficult to detect her true state at this moment.

"As expected, a hundred-thousand-year-old transformation..."

Bibi Dong opened her eyes.

A trace of complex emotion flashed through her purple eyes.

And the moment she reached this conclusion.

Xiao Wu could no longer suppress the hatred in her heart.

She stared fixedly at Bibi Dong.

Those large, once-lively eyes were now bloodshot.

"You... you killed... my mother..."

This sentence was like a stone cast into a calm lake.

It stirred subtle ripples throughout the great hall.

Bibi Dong's body.

Stiffened, just for a fraction of a second.

She killed her mother?

Suddenly, Bibi Dong recalled that incident from several years ago.

Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

The hundred-thousand-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit.

Ah Rou.

"So that's it, you are her daughter; no wonder I felt a sense of familiarity."

Bibi Dong walked slowly to Xiao Wu and lifted her hand to pinch her chin.

Her gaze rested on the contours of Xiao Wu's face that felt so familiar.

"Yes, I should have guessed it sooner; since you had already transformed back then, you were bound to enter the human world."

"It is just that I did not expect to encounter you again under these circumstances."

Listening to Bibi Dong's words, Xiao Wu raised her eyes, which were filled with hatred.

"Since you have already become the soul ring for the pride of my Martial Soul Hall, I will not do anything to you."

Having said that.

Bibi Dong raised her eyes to look at Ye Xuan.

"Ye Xuan, your martial soul is quite special, but in order to test your potential, I must ask you to endure a little."

There was a strange tone in Bibi Dong's words.

Ye Xuan did not understand what exactly Bibi Dong intended to do.

But soon.

He understood how Bibi Dong planned to test his potential.

An invisible pressure of soul power instantly enveloped Xiao Wu's body.

"Pfft--"

Xiao Wu spat out a mouthful of blood.

Her petite body was instantly pinned to the ground by this terrifying pressure.

The intense pain made her vision go black.

And just as her body was about to reach its limit.

The Pokeball spirit within Ye Xuan reacted automatically.

It sensed that Xiao Wu was about to suffer fatal damage.

A beam of red light shot out from the Pokeball.

It precisely enveloped Xiao Wu.

Her figure began to blur in mid-air.

It became transparent.

Finally, she transformed into a stream of light.

She was forcibly retracted into the space inside the Pokeball.

At this very moment.

Ye Xuan could feel the soul power within his body rapidly depleting.

He could sense his Pokeball spirit quickly mending Xiao Wu's injuries.

Before long.

The great hall returned to silence.

Perhaps because Xiao Wu's injuries were too severe.

His internal soul power was consumed rapidly.

His complexion also turned slightly pale.

But in just a few seconds.

He could feel that Xiao Wu's injuries had been restored to their original state.

In exchange, however, he had exhausted nearly all of his soul power.

Bibi Dong slowly retracted her leaking soul power.

She looked at the slightly trembling Pokeball in Ye Xuan's hand.

She appeared lost in thought.

"Interesting..."

She whispered to herself.

"Even when facing a fatal threat, she does not die, but is forcibly retracted and restored using your soul power... This means that even if I were to kill her now, I would not be able to obtain a spirit ring or spirit bone."

Her gaze shifted to Ye Xuan.

It became gentle and calculating once more.

"Ye Xuan, your spirit is quite unique, but I still wish to know how long this little girl needs to recover within your spirit?"

Hearing Bibi Dong's words, Ye Xuan felt like cursing out loud.

They always said Bibi Dong was a madwoman, and it seemed they weren't wrong at all.

However, he needed to prove his value now.

So, he did not hold back.

He took out the Pokeball directly.

And summoned Xiao Wu once again.

But this time, he kept his guard up.

If Bibi Dong were to strike again.

He would retract Xiao Wu at the first opportunity.

As Xiao Wu appeared before them once more, completely unharmed.

A look of surprise flickered in Bibi Dong's pale purple eyes.

"Not bad."