Before that, Xiao Wu had even saved a human woman gravely wounded by a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
So Xiao Wu's mother had not actually been killed by Bibi Dong.
Moreover, in Yang Xing's memories, the ninth soul ring of Bibi Dong's first martial soul had come from another Death Spider Emperor, not from Xiao Wu's mother.
Then what was the grudge Xiao Wu had mentioned?
White light swirled in Yang Xing's eyes, and his consciousness sank into the inner realm of Wind Empress Qimen for a mere instant.
Images surged, the timeline rolled backward, and he took in every detail of what had happened.
Hundreds of years ago, a human female soul master had ventured deep into the core of the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Gravely wounded and driven away, she had been saved by Xiao Wu. This woman later taught Xiao Wu's mother human language, stayed for a time, and then left.
That woman was not Bibi Dong!
Several decades later, Xiao Wu reached the hundred-thousand-year mark. Not long afterward, her mother entered the core region alone to search for Xiao Wu's father, only to be swallowed whole by a hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor.
Several hundred more years passed. With the help of several elders and consecrators from Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong, still a Soul Douluo then, entered the Star Dou Great Forest and killed that hundred-thousand-year Death Spider Emperor, obtained its soul ring, and advanced to Titled Douluo.
Afterward, Bibi Dong entered the Star Dou Great Forest again for her second martial soul and encountered Xiao Wu. At the time, Da Ming and Er Ming were fighting in the core region, while Xiao Wu had befriended some ten-thousand-year soul beasts on its outskirts, including a spider soul beast eighty or ninety thousand