As Liu Erlong stared at the screen, she froze in place, her whole body turning ice-cold.
No matter what, she couldn't bring herself to believe what she was seeing.
This was completely different from what Xiao Gang had told her back then!
Yu Xiaogang had told her that Bibi Dong had abandoned him of her own accord for the power of Spirit Hall. He had been the victim in their relationship.
But the truth in the video turned everything she thought she knew upside down.
She loved Yu Xiaogang deeply, so she chose to believe him—and as a result, she had hated Bibi Dong for twenty years.
But now, this so-called "truth" had turned all the hatred and obsession she'd carried for two decades into an absurd joke.
"No, it can't be true! The Group Owner must have fabricated it! Xiao Gang would never lie to me!"
The Crown Prince Residence.
"Smash!"
A sharp crash rang out as a teacup was hurled to the ground, shattering into pieces.
Qian Renxue's body trembled violently. Her face was as pale as paper, and blood vessels filled her jade-green eyes.
Shock, rage, humiliation!
So this was... where she had come from?
She wasn't the fruit of love. She was the product of something evil and filthy?
The mother she had always hated had actually... actually...
And the man she had always believed to be her father, whom she had even secretly admired, had done something so despicable and shameless!
"Ahhhhhhh!"
Qian Renxue screamed soundlessly in her heart as an unprecedented rage swept away all her reason.
(Emotion Points +300 from 6G Sky Wing's overwhelming hatred!)
At that moment, the Spirit Hall bedchamber had already been reduced to utter ruin.
Bibi Dong had gone mad, crushing everything in the room to dust.
Her most shameful, most painful scar had just been ripped open and exposed to the world, raw and bloody.
Her dignity and pride had been trampled into pieces.
[Most Beautiful Pope: Group Owner!]
[Most Beautiful Pope: I. Will. Kill. You!]
(Emotion Points +500 from the Most Beautiful Pope's extreme resentment!)
"Holy crap!"
Ye Qiong watched as two enormous surges of Emotion Points flooded in, their totals shooting through the roof. He was so excited he nearly jumped up.
This haul was a fortune!
Ye Qiong ignored Bibi Dong's death threat completely and cleared his throat.
It was time for the final harvest.
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: Everyone, let's review the whole incident.]
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: Qian Xunji was a demon. He used the most despicable means to destroy a gifted young woman. He was the indisputable culprit.]
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: But what about that so-called "Grandmaster"?]
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: When his lover suffered a devastating change and needed him most, where was he?]
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: He chose to run away, to back down, leaving a woman to face hell alone. And later, he even accepted another woman's love with a clear conscience.]
Ye Qiong's words struck Liu Erlong and Bibi Dong like a heavy hammer.
That was right. What about Yu Xiaogang?
Why had he walked away back then?
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: So, looking back now, this man wasn't just a liar. He was a coward.]
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: A complete and utter coward.]
(Emotion Points +280 from Fire-Breathing Dragon's grief and anger!)
(Emotion Points +200 from the Most Beautiful Pope's despair!)
(Emotion Points +150 from 6G Sky Wing's hatred!)
Another huge wave of Emotion Points rolled in.
Seeing the group fall silent, Ye Qiong knew he'd harvested about all he could this time.
[Face-Tanking Ultimate: All right, that's it for today's revelations. I'll share something else in a couple of days.]
Today's gossip had gone far enough. Any more would be too much.
You had to harvest leeks one patch at a time, so you needed to give them time to settle down, too.
Closing the group chat, Ye Qiong looked with satisfaction at his rapidly rising Emotion Points.
The system interface showed more than three thousand Emotion Points!
"Put all 620 Emotion Points into my First Martial Soul!"
He'd decided to solve the problem of evolving his seed right here, right now!
Ye Qiong summoned the seed. It immediately blazed with light and began to stir.
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 48%)]
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 53%)]
Watching the progress bar climb, Ye Qiong grew more and more excited. A quiet anticipation began to stir within him.
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 69%)]
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 77%)]
The seed kept spinning as the energy of the Emotion Points poured into it. Its pink radiance grew brighter and brighter, until, moments later, it became a dazzling sphere of light.
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 98%)]
"Change! Change! Come on!"
The progress was almost complete. Ye Qiong was so excited that he stared at the sphere without blinking, nearly forgetting to breathe.
It was coming. It was about to appear!
The little one he had longed for for more than five years was finally about to emerge.
The light swirled and gradually gathered into a familiar outline.
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 99%)]
As soon as he saw the outline, Ye Qiong had already filled in the rest of her appearance in his mind.
[Martial Soul: Pure Child of Anāsrava (Evolution Progress: 100%)]
The light slowly faded, and a small figure gradually appeared.
Long ears, a fluffy tail, chubby little hands, plump little legs...
The moment he saw that familiar figure, Ye Qiong blurted out her name almost instinctively.
"Mimi..."
At the sound of Ye Qiong's voice, the little one tilted her pink head. Her round eyes opened wide, brimming with curiosity.
"Mimi?"
It was still that familiar voice, so comforting and reassuring—just like the first time they met.
"Long time no see. Welcome back, Mimi..."
[Name: Ye Qiong]
[Group Nickname: Face-Tanking Ultimate (Group Owner)]
[Age: 12 years (???)]
[Martial Soul: Mimi, Void Archives (main function temporarily sealed)]
[Level: 30]
[Soul Rings: None]
[Emotion Points: 330]
Emotion Points were still pouring into his status panel, but Ye Qiong couldn't spare a thought for whatever the others in the group chat were discussing.
He was holding Mimi now, carefully inspecting the system's exchange shop.
Mimi had awakened, and he had cleared one hurdle on his path to becoming stronger. As for Void Archives, he had no use for its primary transformation function for the time being, so he had no plans to lift its seal.
Next, he needed to add Soul Rings and break through the bottleneck in his level.
Fortunately, he could exchange for Soul Rings in the system shop.
The Soul Rings in the exchange shop were priced according to their age, with older rings costing more Emotion Points.
A Ten-Year Soul Ring cost ten Emotion Points, a hundred-year ring cost a hundred, a thousand-year ring cost a thousand...
The maximum was a million years, which cost one million Emotion Points.
The pricing seemed perfectly reasonable.
But when he checked his balance, he saw that he had only a little over two thousand Emotion Points. Ye Qiong couldn't help frowning.
If he wanted the optimal yellow-yellow-purple Soul Ring configuration, that might not be difficult.
But he, Ye Qiong, had an Innate Soul Power of level thirty. Wouldn't using that configuration be a waste?
As Ye Qiong hesitated, a line of small print caught his attention.
[Note: These Soul Rings can be absorbed cumulatively.]
"Cumulative absorption!" Ye Qiong's eyes widened in disbelief.
Did that mean that after exchanging for and absorbing a Soul Ring, he could add another one on top of it to increase its age?
Holy crap, these weren't just Soul Rings—they were a cheat code!
"Then I'll choose..."
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