Bullet comment: [Qian Renxue: Sky Screen system, ask Tang Si what he means by "capital setting a trap"! Will the Divine Realm interfere in the mortal world too? Is there really no way out for Spirit Hall?]
Qian Renxue was frantic, but the Sky Screen ignored her.
Tang Si knew nothing about the Different World. He checked how many characters he had left and thought, I'm almost out of room... Looks like I can't go into detail. I'll just write how Spirit Hall can break out of this. Poor Bibi Dong. Then again... there's a reason people hate her, too.
Bullet comment: [Hu Liena: Stop slandering my teacher! Explain yourself!]
[Gui Mei: How dare you disrespect His Holiness the Pope!]
[Yue Guan: You're asking for death.]
[Tuoba Xi: You don't have even the most basic respect for the strong. Hmph. If I get the chance, I'll kill you myself!]
After those lackeys weighed in, someone asked: [Li Que: Wait, is Tang Si saying His Holiness the Pope fell into a trap set by capital? What does that even mean?]
[Lu Yifa: How should I know? He keeps stopping halfway through...]
"A way out for Spirit Hall?!"
Qian Renxue was about to learn how Spirit Hall could break out of its predicament, yet she couldn't bring herself to feel happy.
Tang Si kept implying that her mother had a troubled past. And it wasn't just her mother—the whole of Spirit Hall had fallen into a trap set by capital!
Spirit Hall's destruction seemed inevitable.
Tang Si wrote: [Spirit Hall's strength is beyond question. It should sweep across the world outright! Why bother with all those pointless schemes? Bibi Dong and seven elders of level 96 or above could take on the world together. One of them is even Qian Daoliu, a level 99 Peerless Douluo! With strength like that, who could stop Spirit Hall? It should flip the table and give neither Tang San time to grow nor the two empires time to breathe. Strike at their leaders and kill every member of the Dai and Xue clans! Their armies could number in the millions, but without their ruling families, they couldn't save the empires!]
Tang Si paused, then wrote: [Forget the usual rules and crush them with overwhelming force! Move so fast that even the gods have no time to react! That's one of only two methods I can think of, but I can't guarantee it would work.]
Bullet comment: [Emperor Dai Yutian: Tang Si, you're bringing disaster upon the world. Divine punishment will come for you too.]
[Dai Mubai: Tang Si, you're asking for death!]
[Emperor Xue Ye of the Heaven Dou Empire: Damn it! Starting today, surround the imperial city with the imperial guard. Don't let so much as a fly inside! Gather every army as well and hunt down everyone from Spirit Hall within the empire! They are not to set foot on a single inch of Heaven Dou soil!]
Xue Ye refused to sit and wait for death. He immediately began making plans to protect himself and move against Spirit Hall.
At the same time, the Star Luo Empire issued similar orders, expelling all Spirit Hall personnel from its territory.
Inside the Worship Hall in Spirit City.
Qian Daoliu fell silent as he weighed the feasibility of Tang Si's proposal. Before long, he shook his head and sighed. "Whether a strike on their leaders could succeed is one thing. Now that both empires have been warned, they'll be on guard. And even if it succeeded, the major powers and nobles across the continent would never accept Spirit Hall's rule. Killing their leaders is easy. Governing an empire is hard!"
Light Feather Douluo nodded thoughtfully. "It would be difficult to kill them now. They know our plans. All they have to do is hide, and the strike fails. Then they can operate from the shadows... Countless lives would be lost."
Golden Crocodile Douluo sighed. "We should have done it decades ago."
Qian Daoliu sighed again. "Tang Chen was still around then. We couldn't have united the continent."
Golden Crocodile Douluo paused at that, then shook his head helplessly.
On the Sky Screen, Tang Si continued writing: [That leaves only the last, clumsy option: grow stronger yourself! Don't just become a god—become strong enough to defeat Tang San, strong enough to make the gods of the Divine Realm tremble! But achieving that would be even harder!]
At that point, Tang Si said with delight, "Great, I still have room left... Heh heh heh!"
Tang Si let out a strange cackle and wrote: [On a side note: now that I'm on Douluo Continent, I'll side with Spirit Hall. Once I win Bibi Dong over, Spirit Hall can't possibly lose!]
Bullet comment: [Hu Liena: !!!]
In the Different World, Hu Liena turned to stare at her teacher Bibi Dong, horror written all over her face.
Everyone on Douluo Continent knew what "winning a woman over" meant. The entire continent understood: Tang Si had feelings for Bibi Dong?
A six-year-old boy had feelings for Bibi Dong?
Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and everyone else in the hall went silent. Their necks stiffened. None dared turn their heads, much less look Bibi Dong in the eye. They watched for her reaction only from the corners of their eyes.
Bibi Dong's mouth twitched, and her teeth ground together. She cursed in the bullet comments: [Bastard!]
Bibi Dong was so furious that, after that one word, she couldn't think of anything else to say. That was how it went when anger pushed someone past their limit.
Bullet comment: [Tang Hao: Well, that's a new one. I don't need to spell out who Tang Si is in the Different World. Spirit Hall killed his mother, yet he has feelings for Pope Bibi Dong? Hah.]
[Tang San: I could never forgive the murder of my mother! I can't agree with Tang Si.]
[Tang Hao: Is he giving up on avenging his mother? And what about the feud between Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect? His family's blood debt, his sect's hatred—he'll disregard it all? Hah. He's unworthy of being anyone's son!]
[Yu Xiaogang: Hah. Tang Si, look at Tang San, whom I taught. He knows right from wrong and repays both kindness and enmity!]
[Liu Erlong: Does anyone still trust Tang Si after seeing what kind of person he is? Can you believe a word he says?]
[Xiao Wu: Someone actually has feelings for that awful woman Bibi Dong? I've lived long enough to see everything.]
Outside Heaven Dou City in the Different World.
Qian Renxue had not withdrawn at once. Instead, she helped the bulk of Spirit Hall's members and their families evacuate in an orderly fashion.
When Qian Renxue heard Tang Si's thoughts, she froze. What did I just hear? Tang Si... a six-year-old brat... wants to be my dad?
"Young Master..." Snake Lance Douluo called softly, testing her response. Fine sweat beaded on his forehead.
Beside him, Platinum Bishop Salas and Porcupinefish Douluo turned to admire the scenery. They pretended they hadn't seen Tang Si's broadcast and didn't dare speak.
All three knew about Qian Renxue's relationship with Bibi Dong, so none dared offer an opinion on the matter.
Snake Lance Douluo forced himself to speak. "Young Master, Heaven Dou City has sent thirty thousand troops after us, and another hundred thousand are assembling. Fifty thousand more are blocking the road ahead. We need you to lead us through!"
"Hoo..." Qian Renxue took a deep breath. Coming back to herself, she immediately made arrangements for the breakout and the rearguard.
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