[Most Beautiful Pope: Mm, that's right. I am the current pope of Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong.]
Her words sent shock waves through the group chat.
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox:!!!]
At Saintess Hall, Hu Liena was beside herself with excitement.
It really was her teacher!
She was actually in the same group as her teacher.
[First Cute Bunny: Spirit Hall?!]
In a classroom at Notting Academy, a girl with a scorpion-tail braid shot to her feet.
"What's wrong, Xiao Wu?" Tang San asked, puzzled, glancing at her.
"I-I'm fine..." Xiao Wu realized she'd lost her composure and quickly recovered, slowly sitting back down.
"I just didn't sleep well last night. I'm a little tired."
Tang San said, "Do you want me to ask for a leave for you? We're leaving for Shrek the day after tomorrow, so you need to be well-rested."
"N-no, it's fine." Xiao Wu hurriedly shook her head, refusing. Her little face was still a little pale.
(Shock Emotion Points +20 from Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox) (Shock Emotion Points +20 from Pagoda Suppresses River Demon) (Fright Emotion Points +50 from First Cute Bunny)
[Fire-Breathing Dragon:!]
At Blue Tyrant Academy, Liu Erlong had just come out of the storeroom when she accidentally snapped another shovel.
What? It really was that old woman Bibi Dong?
Just thinking of her made Liu Erlong's temper flare.
That wretched woman was the reason Xiao Gang had...
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: @Most Beautiful Pope, Bibi Dong, why is it you, you old woman? Most Beautiful Pope? Pah!]
[Most Beautiful Pope: Friend, I've never wronged you. Why are you suddenly insulting me?]
Bibi Dong's expression instantly crumpled.
Hadn't they been chatting just fine a moment ago?
Why had someone started cursing her the moment she revealed who she was?
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Why I'm cursing you, and what you've done—you know that perfectly well.]
"Fire-Breathing Dragon's" words shocked everyone in the group.
Whoa! Who was this person? So gutsy! She dared to insult the current pope?
But there seemed to be a juicy story here, too.
Everyone stared at their screens in silence, quietly enjoying the show.
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: Why are you insulting Her Holiness the Pope?!]
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: I'll insult her! What about it?]
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Don't let her title as pope of Spirit Hall fool you. She's an old, ugly, vicious, evil woman.]
[Most Beautiful Pope: You!]
[6G Sky Wing: Like.JPG]
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: (｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡) No! Her Holiness the Pope isn't like that at all!]
Seeing someone insult her teacher, Hu Liena couldn't just stand by. She immediately jumped in to fire back.
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: (੭ु´͈//͈)੭ु⁾⁾ Her Holiness the Pope is different. She's different from everyone else!ヾ(･⌓´･)ﾉﾞ I-I won't let you talk about her like that!]
[Fire-Breathing Dragon: Ohoho, Bibi Dong, is this your pet dog? So loyal, always protecting her master?]
[Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox: Y-you!]
In front of her screen, Hu Liena was turning red with rage.
This was infuriating! This person had no manners at all. She wanted to reach through the screen and beat her up!
The onlookers watching the drama couldn't stop praising the fighter.
This person's got way too much firepower.
In the pope's bedchamber, Bibi Dong forced herself to calm down, then looked at the screen thoughtfully.
"Heavenly King Covers Earth Fox? That should be Nana. Then who is this Fire-Breathing Dragon?"
From the name, this person should be a fire-attributed Soul Master, and a woman to boot.
Bibi Dong couldn't figure out how she'd offended someone like that.
(Dissatisfaction Emotion Points +30 from Liu Erlong) (Irritation Emotion Points +40 from Bibi Dong)
Meanwhile, at Aedes Elysiae.
Watching the Emotion Points continuously roll in, Ye Qiong couldn't stop grinning.
"That's right, just like that. Keep arguing!"
A group chat only got lively and fun when people started fighting!
As the saying went, that was how group chats worked: the members just had to argue and provide Emotion Points for him, the group owner. Meanwhile, Ye Qiong had plenty more to consider.
[Total Emotion Points: 400.]
"Four hundred? It's a little low, but I'll try it first."
As he thought this, Ye Qiong immediately opened the system's personal panel and put 380 Emotion Points into his Martial Soul, "Pure Child of Anāsrava"—the seed of Remembrance.
Then he summoned the seed again and waited to see what would happen.
Sure enough, the instant the Emotion Points flowed into it, the seed in his hand began to change in subtle ways.
The seed, which had been motionless and seemed as good as dead, suddenly began to spin. Pink light flickered across it without pause.
Seeing this, Ye Qiong was overcome with excitement.
Five years... Finally...
Back then, he, Ye Qiong, had been a Trailblazer aboard the Astral Express alongside his younger sister, Ye Xing. Their name as one half of the Galaxy Bat Duo had resounded throughout the cosmos.
For Cyrene, he'd charged up the Imaginary Tree and erased the Iron Curtain from existence at the conceptual level. What glory!
But he'd overdone it, burned himself out, and ended up losing all his power and reincarnating on Douluo Continent.
The good news was, he'd managed to bring Cyrene back, and she'd become his Martial Soul.
The bad news was, Cyrene was currently a seed, and no matter how much he "watered" it, nothing happened.
Even more absurdly, his bonded weapon, Void Archives, had come along too and become his Second Martial Soul. But aside from letting him go inside and read books, the weapon was completely useless.
He'd even read through every recipe for Pom-Pom's special dishes, but hadn't found a single clue about Martial Soul Evolution.
Both his Martial Souls should have been existences even more divine than god-level Martial Souls. How had they ended up as nothing but useless ornaments?
And as for Ye Qiong himself, though he had an Innate Soul Power of level thirty and could be called a peerless genius, he was now stuck in the tiny secret realm of Aedes Elysiae. The realm was in Star Lake, at the heart of Star Dou Forest, surrounded by Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts. He couldn't leave to train and break through. No matter how high his Innate Soul Power was, it was all just empty talk.
At long last, there was a chance to solve these problems.
Emotion Points!
As long as he got enough Emotion Points, every problem could be solved!
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 38%)]
The seed's evolution progress had stalled at thirty-eight percent.
Ye Qiong understood at once.
There still weren't enough Emotion Points!
Judging by the 380 points he'd just put in, the seed still needed another 620 Emotion Points to evolve.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Ye Qiong was practically frantic. He wished he could make everyone in the group churn out a huge number of Emotion Points right now.
"Let's see if the system has any good solutions."
Ye Qiong quickly scrolled through the system interface. Before long, an unusual item in the system's exchange shop caught his eye.
"Custom Douluo Character Biopic Short Film: 10 Emotion Points each."
Whoa! How had he not thought of this?
He'd been worrying about how to get Emotion Points.
The people in the group had such complicated stories and relationships. If he exposed all their secrets, wouldn't that set off an instant explosion of emotions?
He'd only have to spend a tiny bit of Emotion Points to get a huge return!
"This plan is brilliant! I'll do it!"
Because of Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong were probably the most likely to clash. The two of them had just been arguing in the group, too, so starting with them was the best choice!
At the thought, Ye Qiong's grin grew even wider.
"It's not that I want to harm you, Your Holiness. The system's the one trying to harm you."
"Hehehe!"
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