Yue Hongsheng Captured!

The man's limbs hung Flaaffy at an extremely bizarre and chilling angle—his arms were like snakes whose bones had been completely removed, twisted backwards at his sides.

The legs were unnaturally bent from the top of the thighs, with the knees and calves drooping in a direction that violated physiological structure.

He was like a lump of mud that had been pulled out of its support, only managing to stay upright by the Gui Mei hand wrapped in a black glove holding him by the back of his collar.

The man was dressed in tattered clothes stained with dark red dirt, his hair was disheveled, his face was covered with blood and bruises, his breath was weak, and he was making a hoarse, painful breathing sound from his throat, like a broken bellows.

However, when Lin Xia's gaze fell upon that face, which, though contorted in pain, still retained some familiar features, her pupils suddenly contracted!

The Yue Hongsheng!

Yue Hongsheng, who was considered his 'guide' and almost killed him, is now here, in this very manner!

In that instant, Lin Xia understood many things, and her eyes were filled with respect as she looked at Bibi Dong.

He never expected that the things he said when he first joined the Spirit Hall would be remembered by Bibi Dong, who even sent people to capture Yue Hongsheng and bring him here to await his decision.

But what's with Elder Yue Guan's expression?

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xia suddenly realized the key point...

Yue Guan, Yue Hongsheng!!!

They all share the surname Yue!

Thinking of this, Lin Xia frowned. Yue Guan had treated him well, but Yue Hongsheng had almost killed him several times. He couldn't let this grudge go unpunished!

But over at Yue Guan...

Thinking about this, Lin Xia also felt a little troubled!

The Gui Mei tossed the muddy Yue Hongsheng to the ground as if he were a piece of trash.

"Ugh--!"

The excruciating pain caused Yue Hongsheng to let out a piercing scream, like a dying wild beast.

He struggled, using all his strength to lift his swollen eyelids.

His murky, desperate gaze first swept over the high Pope throne, and when he saw that majestic figure, immense fear instantly gripped him. As if grasping at the last straw, he cried out with all his might, his voice hoarse and broken.

"Your His Holiness the Pope! Your His Holiness the Pope, spare my life!! I know I was wrong! I truly know I was wrong! Please spare my life! I will never dare to do it again! I will never dare to do it again!!"

Yue Hongsheng's cries echoed in the empty hall, filled with despair and humiliation.

Immediately, his gaze swept to the side and he saw Yue Guan's complex expression, filled with deep reluctance and helplessness. He immediately felt as if he had found another glimmer of hope and pleaded with tears streaming down his face.

"Cousin! Cousin Yue Guan! Save me! For the sake of our shared surname Yue, please save me! I know I was wrong! Please plead with the Pope for me, cousin!"

However, Bibi Dong, sitting on the throne, merely looked down at him with her cold, emotionless purple eyes, as if watching an insignificant ant struggling in vain.

Yue Guan closed her eyes in agony, turned her head to the side, clenched her fists so tightly her knuckles turned white, but remained silent, clearly experiencing intense inner torment.

Yue Hongsheng's cries and pleas sank without a trace, eliciting no response. Only his desperate gasps and sobs filled the hall.

The madness and last hope in Yue Hongsheng's eyes gradually faded, leaving only a deathly aura.

In this deathly silence of despair, he seemed to finally notice the figure standing quietly not far away.

That upright posture, that youthful face, those calm yet complex emotions in his eyes...

And at his feet stood a gigantic Grass-type Soul Beast, radiating a powerful aura and possessing a majestic form?!

Yue Hongsheng's cloudy eyes trembled suddenly, like a dying fish making its last leap.

He recognized him!

It was that kid who was supposed to become his "fertilizer"! It was Lin Xia!

In an instant, all the causes and consequences flashed into his chaotic mind like lightning!

The preferential treatment from the Plant Academy, the coveting of the first Soul Skill, the delusion of breaking through to the Soul Douluo, the pursuit in the forest... and now his desperate situation, lying like a limp rag in front of the Pope of the Spirit Hall!

It's all because of this kid!

Because Lin Xia didn't obediently become his stepping stone!

Because Lin Xia actually escaped, and... and even joined the Spirit Hall?! She even stood before the Pope?!

"It's... it's you?!"

Yue Hongsheng's voice suddenly rose, becoming sharp and piercing due to extreme pain, fear, and a sudden, indescribable outburst of Spite, like sandpaper rubbing against glass.

On Yue Hongsheng's twisted face, pain was instantly replaced by an extreme ferocity. His eyes were wide open, almost bursting out of their sockets, staring intently at Lin Xia. His bloodshot pupils burned with a mad and venomous flame!

"It's you! Lin Xia!! It's all because of you--!!"

Yue Hongsheng roared, using up all the strength he had left, his saliva splattering with blood.

"Why?! Why won't you obediently become my material for breaking through to Soul Douluo?! I prepared such a perfect First Soul Ring for you! So many cultivation resources for you! I arranged it all! I paved the way for you! You should be mine! You should be my stepping stone! How dare you refuse?! How dare you escape?! How dare you... how dare you come to the Spirit Hall?! And... and you've become like this?!"

Yue Hongsheng's voice trembled with extreme resentment, each word sounding like Curse squeezed out from between his teeth.

He couldn't understand how a country bumpkin with only first-level innate Soul Power, whom he considered a sure thing, could have ended up like this, standing in the Pope Hall, which he had to look up to, watching him crawl on the ground like mud!

Yue Hongsheng went completely mad, as if he wanted to unleash all his resentment, Spite, and fear on Lin Xia.

Its distorted appearance was like that of a demon crawling out of hell.

On the throne, a clear look of disgust finally flashed across Bibi Dong's usually calm and unwavering purple eyes, as if she were looking at a pool of filthy mud.

Her delicate brows furrowed very slightly.

No words are needed.

The Gui Mei that had been standing guard like a shadow moved almost the instant Bibi Dong frowned.

Without him making any move, a viscous, almost tangible shadow force suddenly surged up from the ground, like several cold, black venomous snakes, precisely and swiftly Wrap Yue Hongsheng's neck and mouth!

"Ugh--!!!"

Yue Hongsheng's frenzied roar was instantly cut off, turning into a muffled, painful whimper.

The shadowy forces seemed to have a life of their own, Sheer Force tightening their grip on his chin, sealing all his vicious curses and Spite deep within his throat, leaving only desperate and painful "hoarse" sounds.

His body convulsed violently from suffocation and excruciating pain, his veins bulging and his eyes protruding, but he could no longer utter any clear sound.

Inside the main hall, only Yue Hongsheng's painful struggles and heavy, suppressed breathing remained.

Yue Guan looked at Lin Xia and tried to open her mouth several times, but in the end she kept it closed.

Bibi Dong looked at Lin Xia with a hint of testing in her eyes, wanting to see how Lin Xia would choose.