A Firm Refusal, Dividing the Soul Bones, a Worthy Ruler and Loyal Subjects, and Xue Qinghe's Plans

Bibi Dong looked at Qi Dao with confidence.

She refused to believe he could resist the terms she had offered.

Setting aside the Fifty Thousand Year Soul Bone, the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring she had promised was enough to make countless Soul Masters desperate to accept.

Across the entire continent, only a handful of people possessed a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

And a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was guaranteed to yield a Soul Bone!

Yet Qi Dao merely smiled at her tempting offer.

"Your Holiness, your terms would tempt countless geniuses."

At that, Bibi Dong's lips curved slightly. She cast Xue Qinghe a smug glance, as though to say:

The person you value isn't much after all.

But Xue Qinghe remained unmoved.

After eight years together, she knew Qi Dao far too well.

He would never abandon her.

Sure enough, just as Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo began to worry that Qi Dao might join Spirit Hall—

"But..." Qi Dao turned to Xue Qinghe and smiled calmly.

"Crown Prince Xue Qinghe recognized my potential and gave me this opportunity. I'm afraid I cannot join Spirit Hall."

The moment he finished speaking, Xue Qinghe's lips lifted slightly.

She had known it would end this way.

Behind Bibi Dong, Ning Fengzhi also breathed a sigh of relief.

Spirit Hall was already putting so much pressure on the sects that they could barely breathe.

If Qi Dao joined it as well, Ning Fengzhi would truly have to consider lying low and humbling himself before Spirit Hall.

As a businessman, Ning Fengzhi would never stake the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's thousand-year legacy on the Heaven Dou Empire unless the enmity was beyond reconciliation.

In the original story, Spirit Hall's surprise attack on the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had killed more than