Golden Crocodile Wraps Things Up

The two deacons exchanged knowing looks and reached for the soul tool belts at their waists.

"Proof? How are you going to prove it? That mouth of yours proves nothing," She Long said.

"No. Even if I do nothing, you'll soon learn the truth."

Meng Xuanji's voice was very soft.

"What did you say?"

"Move!"

The two deacons suddenly leaped down from the second floor! Their waists were instantly strapped with explosives!

Sizzle!

The explosives were triggered, and the fuses rapidly burned down.

The two of them were destined not to leave this place alive today. If that was the case, then even in death, they would drag Meng Xuanji down to hell with them!

"Third Soul Skill, Demon Wolf Battle Roar!"

"Fourth Soul Skill, Eagle Strike!"

Their soul rings lit up at once, and their martial souls erupted behind them.

Faced with the joint hunt of a Soul Elder and a Soul Ancestor, Meng Xuanji had almost no chance of survival.

"Finally, you fell for it."

Meng Xuanji looked at the two behind him with an amused smile, as though his scheme had succeeded.

"What?"

Both men's hearts suddenly clenched!

Squelch!

Two sharp spider spears shot through the air! Like a pair of javelins, they streaked past Meng Xuanji's sides and nailed the two men firmly to the wall!

"Argh!"

The two deacons sprayed blood wildly. They had completely underestimated Bibi Dong's reaction speed.

Before they had even jumped down, Bibi Dong had already been secretly charging the Bloodthirsty Spider Spear.

The meticulous Pope was not foolish enough to fail to see through such a simple tactic of luring the enemy in.

"Damn it, we miscalculated."

"Don't be afraid! At worst, we'll blow this place flat! Hu Liena is still inside Yangxin Palace. If we die, she'll be buried with us!"

The explosives in their soul tools were enough to blow the entire Yangxin Palace to the ground. This was the last trump card they had left.

"What?!"

Meng Xuanji's eyes widened in disbelief!

"Blow up the entire Yangxin Palace! Doesn't that mean Hu Liena will die too?!"

Before Meng Xuanji's mind could react, his body had already instinctively flown toward the second floor.

"Blue Silver Emperor!"

The Blue Silver Emperor's tendrils carried Meng Xuanji to the second floor, instantly bringing him close to the curtains where Hu Liena was hiding. When Meng Xuanji yanked the curtains aside, Hu Liena was already barely conscious from excessive blood loss. A gruesome wound still ran across her abdomen, blood flowing from it without end.

"Meng Xuanji."

Hu Liena instinctively called his name.

Meng Xuanji immediately turned to look at the fuses at the two deacons' waists. They had already burned to the very end.

"Meng Xuanji, Hu Liena!"

Just as Bibi Dong was about to teleport to the second floor, a powerful surge of soul power suddenly erupted from She Long's body!

"Sixth Soul Skill, Thunder Serpent Ward!"

A massive blue serpent head appeared above She Long's head. Though it protected the Spirit Hall members behind him, it also caused Bibi Dong to lose the best opportunity for rescue.

"It's too late. Blue Silver Emperor!"

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Layers upon layers of thick black-red tendrils wrapped around Meng Xuanji, enclosing him in a huge ball of vines.

Meng Xuanji held the nearly unconscious Hu Liena tightly in his arms and silently prayed.

Gods above, please let me survive. I still have dreams I haven't fulfilled. I don't want to die yet!

Boom!

A massive explosion rang out!

The blast wave blew the entire roof off Yangxin Palace! The jade-like bricks and tiles were utterly consumed by the flames produced by the explosion!

Meng Xuanji and Hu Liena were both blasted away. Like a burning fireball, they crashed into Yangxin Lake outside Yangxin Palace, sending up a towering splash.

When the smoke cleared, She Long's figure slowly emerged from the haze.

"The blast just now was powerful enough to kill a level-40 Soul Ancestor. That kid and Hu Liena should both be dead, right?"

Just as She Long was still pondering this, Bibi Dong's furious voice suddenly rang out beside him.

"She—Long—!"

When She Long turned his head, a sharp Death Spider Spear was floating in midair before his face. The distance between them was so close that She Long could clearly see the purple patterns on the spear.

"Bibi Dong, what are you—"

Boom!

The spider spear, filled with intense killing intent, instantly pierced through She Long's chest! She Long dropped to his knees with a thud, black blood continuously spilling from his mouth.

"You... Bibi Dong... how dare you... Urgh! Pfft!"

She Long's voice was hoarse. No matter what, he had never expected Bibi Dong to truly dare attack him here, leaving him struck before he could even react.

"She Long, do you know that if anything happens to my students, you will be Spirit Hall's greatest traitor? You'd better pray that the two of them are unharmed. Otherwise, in the name of the Pope, I will strip you of every identity you hold in Spirit Hall, then personally send you to the judgment platform!"

Bibi Dong was truly enraged.

The next moment, Bibi Dong appeared at the edge of Yangxin Lake, retrieved Meng Xuanji and Hu Liena from the bottom of the lake, and brought them back to her own quarters.

She Long knelt on the ground, unable to utter a complete sentence for a long while. The Death Spider Emperor's poison had already spread throughout his body. At this moment, aside from using all his soul power to suppress the poison, there was nothing else he could do.

The Spirit Hall members nearby did not dare make any rash moves either.

They had already figured out who the real assassins were, and they had also realized that She Long's sixth soul skill had indeed appeared to be intended to stop Bibi Dong.

This factional struggle, which had practically been laid bare, was no longer something insignificant figures like them could involve themselves in.

Buzz!

In an instant, a figure shrouded in golden holy light descended upon the ruins of Yangxin Palace!

He wore the golden battle armor of the Consecration Hall, and his entire body radiated an unstoppable aura.

The Second Consecration of the Consecration Hall, Golden Crocodile Douluo!

"Second Consecration!"

The Spirit Hall members all dropped to their knees.

Golden Crocodile looked at the deeply poisoned She Long and personally pressed a hand to his shoulder. Vast soul power like the sea flowed into She Long's internal organs. Before long, She Long spat out a mouthful of black blood, forcing all the poison from his body.

"Cough, cough... She Long thanks the Second Consecration for saving my life."

"That's enough."

Golden Crocodile Douluo coldly looked at everyone present.

"Keep everything that happened here tonight secret. It must not leave Papal City. Anyone who disobeys will be killed without mercy!"

"Yes!"

"Hmph. Dismissed!"

At Golden Crocodile Douluo's command, everyone immediately dispersed, leaving only the ruins of Yangxin Palace behind. By tomorrow, someone would naturally come to clear away the rubble.

She Long, who had been taken away by Golden Crocodile Douluo, kept his head lowered as he walked behind Golden Crocodile, unsure whether he should claim credit from him.

"She Long, is there something you want to say?"

"Ah! Second Consecration, you saw through me. To be honest, there is indeed something I wish to report."

"Bibi Dong's two students may already be dead."

She Long waited nervously for Golden Crocodile Douluo's response.

But what awaited him was not Golden Crocodile Douluo's praise, but a harsh rebuke.

"She Long, what you did tonight was truly going too far!"