Death Spiral Formation! The Two Missing Corpses

Before long, news of Bibi Dong's death reached the imperial royal family and all the major factions.

Within Spirit Hall, discussions also began over who would assume the position of the next Pope.

The vast majority supported Qian Renxue, but because she was still too young, some also recommended Qian Xunye.

But in Qian Daoliu's eyes, as long as the bright and holy Six-Winged Angel remained, the position of Pope would never fall to Qian Xunye, who possessed the Dark Angel.

Thus, the position of Pope ultimately fell to Qian Renxue.

On the night before Qian Renxue ascended to the position of Pope, she finally came to where Qian Xunye was being held.

"U-Uncle..."

Qian Renxue walked in, her heart filled with unease.

"You've come, my niece." Qian Xunye looked out the window with his back to her.

"Uncle, I'm sorry. I didn't come see you even once these past few days. Do you blame Xiaoxue?"

Qian Xunye turned to look at Qian Renxue, shook his head, and smiled. "Since you've come to see your uncle now, it means you've thought it through. How could your uncle blame you?"

"Uncle!!" Qian Renxue threw herself into Qian Xunye's arms. "Uncle, though she and I never had any mother-daughter bond, though she never cared for me, and though I hate her for killing my father... she was still my birth mother. Yet when I watched you kill her, I felt no hatred toward you."

"Uncle, do you think I am..."

"No!"

Qian Xunye answered with absolute decisiveness.

"You said it yourself. You had no mother-daughter bond with her, and she never cared for you. What kind of mother gives birth but refuses to raise her child?"

Qian Xunye said very seriously, "Xiaoxue, it is only natural for you to hate her. I understand how you feel, because your uncle had the same experience."

"The... same experience?"

Qian Xunye shook his head with a smile. "After I awakened the Dark Angel Martial Soul back then, your grandfather began favoring your father, Qian Xunji. Like you, I was neglected, treated coldly, and subjected to emotional abuse by those closest to me!"

"So your uncle understands your pain, and I understand your hatred."

"So, you are not!"

Qian Xunye gently patted his niece's shoulder, then revealed the truth of that year. "Back then, I was never truly in danger of dying. I deliberately faked my death because I wanted to leave Spirit Hall forever."

"So that was it, Uncle..."

Qian Renxue instantly empathized with him and threw herself into Qian Xunye's arms once more.

Having endured the same experiences, the two understood and empathized with each other. Through this conversation, a special bond instantly formed between uncle and niece.

Their relationship also grew much closer at once.

Qian Daoliu, who had been secretly eavesdropping outside the door, heard their entire conversation. He sighed heavily, a trace of regret appearing on his face. "Sigh, so that's how it was. So that's how it was!"

"Xunye, you left of your own accord?"

Come to think of it, the way he had treated Qian Xunye back then was much like how Bibi Dong had treated Qian Renxue.

Only after sensing Qian Renxue's pain did Qian Daoliu truly realize the harm he had inflicted upon Qian Xunye all those years ago.

"Perhaps I really was wrong."

Qian Daoliu shook his head and silently left, no longer listening in.

"All right, stop crying. And you said you weren't a little crybaby, yet here you are crying again at the drop of a hat." Qian Xunye affectionately wiped away the tears at the corners of Qian Renxue's eyes.

"I told you, I'm not a little crybaby!~" Qian Renxue huffed and stamped her foot coquettishly. "Uncle! You're not allowed to call Xiaoxue a little crybaby again!~"

"All right, all right. I won't say it anymore. Your uncle won't say it again," Qian Xunye said with a smile.

Cute, cheerful, sunny—wasn't that the personality Qian Renxue should have had?

Rather than becoming the deeply calculating, profit-driven Qian Renxue she had turned into after infiltrating Heaven Dou Palace, where her true self had been erased.

"Oh, right, Uncle. There's something I need to tell you. Tomorrow, Xiaoxue will ascend to the position of Pope."

"So they still chose you as successor?" Qian Xunye's expression immediately turned serious. "Xiaoxue, you should be focusing on cultivation right now. You shouldn't waste your cultivation time on Spirit Hall's trivial affairs. Have Qian Daoliu govern in your stead, understand?"

"Mm. Xiaoxue will speak to Grandfather about it."

"All right, go back and cultivate."

"Mm, goodbye, Uncle." Qian Renxue waved and left.

Time passed into the dead of night.

Before Bibi Dong's grave, where she had already been properly buried, the tombstone suddenly shattered. A pale hand abruptly thrust out of the earth!

At that moment.

Qian Xunye was also preparing to escape Pope's Palace.

"My injuries have mostly recovered. It's time for me to leave Pope's Palace and make a trip to Sunset Forest."

"Dark Night Power!"

Qian Xunye's spiritual power instantly increased tenfold, and the range of his spiritual perception directly exceeded ten thousand meters.

He could almost clearly grasp every movement within Pope's Palace.

But at that very moment, he unexpectedly received a piece of information.

A soul master hurried before Qian Daoliu. "Report!! This is bad! Great Worshipper, Bibi Dong's and Young Master Xunji's graves have both been dug up! Their remains are gone!! But not a single burial item is missing!"

"What did you say!!"

"Who dared steal their remains!!" Qian Daoliu flew into a rage. "Investigate! Find out who is so audacious!"

"Guang Ling! Azure Luan, go at once! Get to the bottom of this!"

"Yes!"

Guang Ling and Azure Luan immediately set off.

"What is going on? Who would steal two useless sets of remains for no reason?" Qian Xunye's expression changed drastically, and a bad feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

If it were grave robbers, they would only be after money and valuables. Who would steal corpses?

When Bibi Dong had been carried away, everyone had confirmed that she was thoroughly dead.

"No, I need to go take a look."

Relying on Dark Night Power's ability to conceal his aura, Qian Xunye quietly slipped away without Qian Jun or Demon Subduing noticing.

He secretly followed Guang Ling and Azure Luan, the two Worshippers sent to investigate, and arrived near Bibi Dong's grave.

Guang Ling and Azure Luan conducted a thorough investigation, yet found no traces whatsoever.

But Qian Xunye also sensed something abnormal.

A faint, almost imperceptible evil death aura lingered in the surrounding space and soil.

Qian Xunye's face instantly darkened as he clenched his fists. "Damn it! Could Bibi Dong possibly not be dead!"

He pushed his spiritual power to its limit.

He then discovered extremely faint residual power from a formation, as well as a lingering divine power of death and evil.

Because his attribute was ultimate darkness, he was far more sensitive to these powers.

"Damn it!"

"It is the Death Spiral Formation! And the power of Rakshasa God Power!"

"Bibi Dong really isn't dead!"

Qian Xunye's expression turned somewhat grim.

In the original story, Bibi Dong could indeed use the Death Spiral Formation and Rakshasa God Power to bring the dead back to life, but that was an ability she only possessed after becoming the Rakshasa God.

As long as a dead person's remains still existed, they could be resurrected and turned into undead.

Ordinary soldiers and low-level soul masters would become mindless undead puppets under Bibi Dong's control.