Bibi Dong's Attention, Creating a Clone

Spirit City.

The council hall of Pope Palace was brightly lit.

Bibi Dong sat upright on the papal throne, draped in a gold-trimmed robe, the Nine-Curved Purple Gold Crown upon her head.

Her features were exquisitely flawless, her skin as fair as snow, her eyes deep as an abyss.

But the majesty hidden beneath that beauty made others afraid to look directly at her.

The entire council hall was so quiet that a dropped needle could be heard.

Chrysanthemum Douluo, Yue Guan, knelt on one knee below the steps, his head lowered, not daring to look up.

A trace of cold sweat clung to that handsome face of his, beautiful almost to the point of being uncanny.

Bibi Dong slowly spoke.

"So, on this trip to Heaven Dou City, you didn't even see that child called Bai Yi?"

Yue Guan said, "Your Holiness, please hear my explanation."

Bibi Dong raised a hand, her fingertips lightly tapping the armrest as she said, "I gave you two months. I gave you two Soul Saints and five Soul Emperors to assist you. And in the end, you couldn't even find a boy in his teens?"

Yue Guan said, "Your Holiness, I did indeed search Heaven Dou City and several nearby cities. But that Bai Yi vanished as if he had evaporated from the world. There was no trace of him at all."

Bibi Dong said, "Then what did you come back for?"

Beads of sweat slid down Yue Guan's forehead and along his cheeks.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Your Holiness, although I did not find Bai Yi, I made an even more important discovery."

Bibi Dong's gaze shifted slightly as she said, "Speak."

Yue Guan said, "While following Bai Yi's trail, I encountered someone deep within Sunset Forest. The martial soul that person used was exactly the same as Bai Yi's martial soul. Both were a golden staff."

Bibi Dong's brow lifted slightly.

Yue Guan continued, "And that person's strength was at least at the Title Douluo level. The staff martial soul in his hand was extremely powerful, and in a direct clash with my Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, it was not at any disadvantage. He even joined forces with Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo, and forced me back."

Bibi Dong's fingertips stopped tapping.

She leaned forward slightly and said, "A Title Douluo with the same martial soul?"

Yue Guan said, "Absolutely true. This subordinate suspects that Bai Yi and this Title Douluo are very likely from the same clan. This clan is hidden extremely deeply, and the quality of its martial soul is in no way inferior to the Clear Sky Hammer."

Bibi Dong leaned back into her chair, her gaze turning profound.

A chill rose in her heart.

Ever since she had ascended to the position of Pope, she had swept away countless obstacles and expanded Spirit Hall's power to an unprecedented degree.

Her goal of unifying the continent was drawing closer and closer.

The Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire were the two greatest stumbling blocks in her path.

The Soul Hunting Operation she had planned was already advancing step by step.

As long as the Upper Three Sects were destroyed, and Qian Renxue seized control of the Heaven Dou Empire's imperial clan, the authority of the entire continent would fall into her hands.

But at this moment, a hidden clan with a Title Douluo had suddenly emerged.

This clan's martial soul was even not inferior to the Clear Sky Hammer.

If this clan chose to join hands with the Heaven Dou Empire, many more variables would appear in her plan.

Bibi Dong's tone turned a little colder as she said, "Were there any other discoveries?"

Yue Guan said, "This subordinate gathered information that Ning Fengzhi, sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, had his daughter Ning Rongrong enter Heaven Dou Royal Academy. And the core figure she came into contact with was precisely that Bai Yi."

Bibi Dong's eyes abruptly turned cold.

Yue Guan added, "A hidden, powerful clan, cooperating with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, which possesses the number one support martial soul in the world. If they secretly join forces, they will become an enormous threat to our plans."

Bibi Dong slowly rose to her feet.

She walked down the steps, stopped in front of Yue Guan, and said, "The information you brought back is very important. You handled this matter well."

Yue Guan let out a breath of relief and said, "Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness."

Bibi Dong said, "But you still failed to complete the mission. Bai Yi's whereabouts must be investigated clearly, and the origins of that Title Douluo must also be found out."

Yue Guan said, "Please give your orders, Your Highness."

Bibi Dong said, "Send two capable people to infiltrate Heaven Dou City at once and investigate in secret. In addition, find a way to notify Qian Renxue and have her keep an eye on Bai Yi's movements over in the Heaven Dou Empire as well. I want to know exactly how many people this family has, and where they are hiding."

Yue Guan said, "This subordinate obeys."

Bibi Dong turned and walked back to the throne, then sat down again.

She looked up at the enormous Spirit Hall emblem on the ceiling of the council hall, her gaze icy cold.

Anyone who stood in the way of Spirit Hall's great ambitions had to be eliminated.

No matter how deeply that family had hidden itself, she would tear them out by the roots.

Heaven Dou City.

Bai Yi sat on the edge of the bed in his room, toying with a spiritual herb in his hand.

The spiritual herb gave off a faint azure glow.

He had only recently returned from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and he had already agreed to Meng Shenji's arrangement for him to form a team.

But he was in no hurry to choose team members.

He first needed to sort out his current situation.

Qian Renxue's surveillance was becoming tighter and tighter.

Even with the Seventy-Two Transformations, shaking off the eyes on him completely was becoming more and more troublesome.

And Spirit Hall would certainly not let him go.

With talent like his, a woman with Bibi Dong's personality would either do everything she could to win him over, or rack her brains for ways to get rid of him.

He knew exactly what kind of woman Bibi Dong was.

Mad, paranoid, domineering, and willing to use any means necessary to unify the continent.

If he did not join Spirit Hall, his fate would most likely be the same as Dugu Bo's, driven into a dead end by Spirit Hall.

Although Bai Yi did not fear opponents at the Title Douluo level now, he was still not strong enough to face the entire Spirit Hall head-on.

He needed time.

And he needed more trump cards.

Remaining in Heaven Dou City and continuing to be watched layer upon layer by Qian Renxue and Spirit Hall was not a long-term solution after all.

Leaving Heaven Dou City to train outside for a period of time was actually a decent option.

There were still roughly ten years before Bibi Dong officially launched the Soul Hunting Operation and destroyed the Upper Three Sects.

These ten years were his most precious period of growth.

He had to make himself powerful enough within these ten years to change the direction of the plot.

Bai Yi set down the spiritual herb in his hand and took four immortal herbs out of his storage space.

These immortal herbs were from the batch of relatively weaker quality he had brought back from the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

But even the weaker immortal herbs were priceless treasures in the outside world.

Bai Yi took a deep breath, and Soul Power condensed at his fingertips.

He blended the four immortal herbs in different proportions and infused them into four clones.

Golden light flashed.

Four figures with different appearances appeared in the room.

Not one of the clones bore the slightest resemblance to Bai Yi.

Some had rugged features, some were lean and thin, some had a cold and sinister air, and some looked gentle and mild.

These clones all possessed a portion of Bai Yi's main body's consciousness and cultivation ability.

Bai Yi assigned each of them different cultivation tasks for the Seventy-Two Transformations.

At present, the spells he had mastered still amounted to less than half of the total.

From the time he had begun cultivating the Seventy-Two Transformations until now, it had taken a full two years just to barely learn one-third of the spells.

At this rate, fully mastering all of the Seventy-Two Transformations would take at least another four or five years.

He could not wait that long.

So he would use these four clones to cultivate different spells at the same time, increasing his speed severalfold.

Bai Yi looked over his four clones with satisfaction.

They were just right for handling Meng Shenji's task of forming a battle team.

A battle team needed seven people in total. On his side, he could make up four spots with his clones, then add Ye Lingling and that little witch Ning Rongrong.

That made exactly enough for one battle team.