"Teacher, Xiaogang and I love each other! He may never break through level thirty in Soul Power, but he possesses unparalleled wisdom!"
"Teacher, please grant us your blessing! I'm willing to give up my position as Holy Maiden and return everything to Spirit Hall!"
Inside the magnificent, solemn Papal Palace, a beautiful, fair-skinned young woman knelt on the floor.
She looked no more than nineteen or twenty. Though she was Spirit Hall's esteemed Holy Maiden, she had abandoned all dignity.
"What on earth is going on?!" A young man slowly raised a hand and rubbed his throbbing temples before opening his eyes.
The first thing he saw was the beautiful young woman kneeling on the floor, her words pouring out like a volley of cannon fire!
Who is she? Grant them my blessing? Return everything to Spirit Hall?!
Pain crossed the young man's face. He froze, and then a tidal wave of memories swept over him.
Within seconds, the confusion in his eyes gave way to clarity...
So I've crossed into another world? And I've become Qian Xunji, the pope with the worst reputation and most humiliating death on Douluo Continent?
What kind of joke is this?!
And I've arrived just before Bibi Dong breaks with Spirit Hall over Yu Xiaogang—right before the incident in the secret chamber?!
Qian Xunji rubbed his aching temples. Something as absurd as crossing into another world had actually happened to him?!
Since I'm here, I'll make the best of it! He was no longer his former self from the modern world. He was Qian Xunji, the pope destined for a tragic end!
He stood at the pinnacle of Spirit Hall's power, the pope whose status was the most exalted on the entire continent! He was a powerhouse of his age who had become a Titled Douluo at fifty!
"Teacher... please grant us your blessing! Dong'er knows you've always cared for her most. You'll understand her, won't you?!"
Qian Xunji looked down at Bibi Dong.
As he watched the young woman plead away in the middle of the hall, her head filled with nothing but love, his heart turned cold!!
She wanted to leave Spirit Hall for a good-for-nothing? What an ungrateful wretch through and through!
The continent had countless outstanding Soul Masters, and Spirit Hall had no shortage of talented young men! Of all the people she could have fallen for, why someone from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?!
And not just anyone from that clan, but its good-for-nothing who would never break through the Soul Grandmaster bottleneck!
What was the relationship between the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall? As Holy Maiden, how could she not know?!
Let you leave?
That would be no different from handing the future top-tier fighter Spirit Hall had devoted itself to raising straight over to an enemy force!
What was more!
Had Spirit Hall poured its heart into raising her so that, once her wings were fully grown, she could fly off to an enemy force?
After absorbing all his predecessor's memories, Qian Xunji finally understood why the Qian Xunji of the original story had been so furious that he lost his reason.
Who could keep a straight face in the face of something so crushing? Once Qian Xunji had absorbed those memories, he nearly laughed on the spot!
Fourteen years ago, Qian Xunji had rescued the dying Bibi Dong from a village slaughtered by Fallen Soul Masters.
He had brought her back to Spirit Hall, taken her as his disciple after her Martial Soul awakened, and taught her with care. He had practically held her in the palm of his hand and raised her like his own daughter!
And what had he received in return?
Fourteen years of raising her, fourteen years at her side—yet a good-for-nothing she had barely known had swayed her with his silver tongue, and she had cast aside the debts she owed for being raised, saved, and trained?!
What use was keeping such an ungrateful wretch, disloyal, unfilial, heartless, and faithless?! So she could make him angry?!
At that thought, a nameless rage blazed in Qian Xunji's chest...
He slowly rose. The pressure of a Titled Douluo spilled from him unbidden, bearing down on the hall like a mountain.
Bibi Dong shuddered and suddenly found it hard to breathe.
In her memory, her teacher had always been gentle. She had never seen Qian Xunji show anger so terrifying, so chilling.
She had found true love. As her elder, shouldn't her teacher be happy for her?!
Why was he so furious?
"You love each other? You're willing to return everything to Spirit Hall?" Qian Xunji's voice was calm, but cold to the bone.
Bibi Dong thought of the young man who had made her a promise beneath the moonlight, and determination filled her eyes.
"Yes, Teacher..."
Her teacher looked angry now, but she firmly believed she was doing this for a great love!
He had always cared for her so much. Surely he would give in eventually. Surely he would understand her...
"Hahaha! Hahaha!" Bibi Dong had made Qian Xunji laugh with rage. "Return it? What can you possibly return?!"
"How could you ever repay me for saving your life?"
"For fourteen years, Spirit Hall spent countless rare treasures and the finest resources to bring you to your current level!"
"How will you, Bibi Dong, repay every last one of those sacrifices?! What a joke!"
Qian Xunji's face was like frost. He descended the steps one by one, his eyes fixed on her. "Bibi Dong, answer me!"
"This Yu Xiaogang you speak of—who is he? Which faction does he come from? What is his position?!"
Bibi Dong hurried to explain. "Teacher, he's from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Although his Innate Soul Power is only level 0.5, he possesses wisdom that could astonish the world!"
"Dong'er doesn't care about his status or his cultivation! What Dong'er loves is his refusal to yield to fate, his unbreakable spirit!"
She poured out everything she had been holding inside in one breath. There was even a hint of self-righteous purity in her expression!
"Wisdom that could astonish the world? Level 0.5 Innate Soul Power?" Scorn almost spilled from Qian Xunji's eyes.
"A member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan... You know he's from that clan, and you can still say such things?"
"Of course you can afford not to care about cultivation or status. You're Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden! You're a genius! From where you stand, you can look down on everything and chase that self-important notion of love!"
"But why should Spirit Hall not care? Spirit Hall poured its heart and soul into raising you for fourteen years, making you a Soul Emperor at your age. Now you turn around and offer yourself to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
"Bibi Dong, you really are shameless! And I was just as much a fool back then, failing to see the ungrateful wretch you are!"
"If I let you leave, will you stand with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan in a few years and fight Spirit Hall on their behalf?!"
Bibi Dong hurried to explain. "Teacher, it won't be like that! Dong'er can swear it! Dong'er will never become Spirit Hall's enemy!"
"An oath? In a world where strength rules, what is an oath worth?! You've already decided to join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, yet you stand here talking to me about where your loyalties lie?!"
"Yu Xiaogang is nothing but a worthless member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with no ambition at all!"
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