From This Day Forward, Spirit Hall Has No Saintess!

"He published the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls? I have read them all. They were nothing more than stolen Spirit Hall materials that you pilfered using your status as Saintess, with his own nonsense mixed in!"

"Teacher, you are not allowed to humiliate him like that! Only Dong'er has seen his efforts. How could you possibly understand?!"

"Teacher, you do not understand him. You do not understand his wisdom, you do not understand his hard work—you know nothing!"

As Qian Xunji looked at the girl before him, not a trace of pity remained in his heart. There was only frustration at her failure to live up to expectations!

He finally understood why his predecessor had resorted to such extreme measures. Who the hell could put up with this?!

But now, he would not use such despicable methods to destroy Bibi Dong. He would crush this ungrateful wretch completely, openly, and in the most brutal way possible!

"Having received Spirit Hall's cultivation and been entrusted with the vital duty of Saintess, yet seeking to betray Spirit Hall and defect to an enemy force—this is disloyalty!"

"Disregarding Spirit Hall's many years of nurturing, leaving at a moment's notice for personal love and utterly ignoring old bonds—this is unrighteousness!"

"Forgetting the life-saving grace of your mentor, defying your mentor completely for an outsider, a worthless piece of trash—this is the height of filial impiety!"

"As the Saintess of Spirit Hall, you bear Spirit Hall's future upon your shoulders, yet you care only for romantic love and insist on walking away—this is utter heartlessness!"

Every word Qian Xunji spoke pierced straight into Bibi Dong's heart.

"For someone so disloyal, unrighteous, heartless, and unfilial, do you think I would let you leave so easily?!"

"Teacher... Teacher... it is not like that! Dong'er is not that kind of person! Dong'er merely..."

Bibi Dong's eyes widened after hearing this, and she panicked completely. Was she truly that kind of person? She was only pursuing love!

"Teacher, please listen to Dong'er's explanation. Dong'er is not like this, Dong'er is not like this..." She immediately tried to rise and explain.

"Get down on your knees!" Qian Xunji roared.

"At this moment, there is no teacher of yours named Bibi Dong here. The one standing before you is Qian Xunji, Pope of Spirit Hall!"

"Since you keep saying that you want to return everything to Spirit Hall, then today, I shall grant your wish!"

Qian Xunji slowly raised his right hand. "Because you are disloyal, today I will cripple all your cultivation!"

Before his words had even faded, dazzling golden soul power erupted from his palm and slammed viciously into Bibi Dong's dantian.

Bang...

A dull sound of shattering rang through the great hall.

Bibi Dong's eyes flew wide open, her pupils contracting sharply.

She could clearly feel the soul power she had painstakingly cultivated for years suddenly lose all restraint and begin to drain away wildly.

Her dantian had shattered.

In the blink of an eye, she had fallen from a twenty-year-old Soul Emperor into a helpless cripple.

Yet Qian Xunji did not stop. "Because of your unrighteousness, I will shatter your martial souls!"

As his icy words fell, Qian Xunji's immense sacred soul power surged through Bibi Dong's meridians and forcibly flooded into them.

"Ah..." Her shrill scream echoed through the great hall.

Bibi Dong's twin martial souls—the Death Spider Emperor and the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, two supreme martial souls—shattered inch by inch beneath the frenzied purification and devastation of the sacred soul power, vanishing into nothingness.

"No... no, Teacher!"

Bibi Dong lay weakly sprawled on the floor, wanting to beg for mercy, but the excruciating pain allowed only hoarse whimpers to escape her throat.

She had never expected her teacher to be so cruel, much less that merely pursuing love would bring her to such an end.

"Because of your filial impiety, I will extract the Spider Emperor Bloodline from your body!" Qian Xunji said expressionlessly as he suddenly clenched his right hand at the air.

A powerful suction force erupted!

Bibi Dong felt as though countless ants were gnawing at her marrow and blood, while some innate source within her was being forcibly torn away.

Within just a few breaths, her face had turned as pale as paper. Even her life force began to drain away rapidly.

"Teacher... Dong'er begs you..." Like a puddle of mud, she collapsed limply onto the floor and whispered in despair.

"Because of your heartlessness, I will destroy that face of yours!"

With a flick of his wrist, Qian Xunji instantly condensed a blinding mass of holy light. It then transformed into a beam that mercilessly shone upon Bibi Dong's exquisitely beautiful face.

Sizzle...

A piercing burning sound rang out, and wisps of white smoke mixed with the stench of scorched flesh spread through the great hall.

After doing all this, Qian Xunji flicked a finger, sending an extremely faint strand of healing soul power onto Bibi Dong's face, barely preventing her wounds from worsening.

Yet such crude healing was destined to leave ugly scars upon Bibi Dong's face—scars that would never heal!

After all, while the Six-Winged Angel martial soul was versatile, Qian Xunji truly was not skilled at healing. Of course, this was precisely the outcome he wanted!

The Spirit Hall Saintess who had once dazzled the world was gone. In her place was an ugly monster whose cultivation had been crippled, whose martial souls had been shattered, and whose face was horribly disfigured and twisted!

Qian Xunji withdrew his hand and looked down at Bibi Dong lying on the ground. He was not the Qian Xunji from the original story—the one who lost his mind and ultimately let lust cloud his judgment!

He knew how insane this woman would become in the future, and he knew what a pathetic end his predecessor had met.

Thus, he acted without the slightest hesitation. Besides, even though he had inherited his predecessor's memories, they were like watching a movie to him. He held no deep feelings for Bibi Dong.

"Elder Chrysanthemum, Elder Ghost, where are you?!" Qian Xunji's voice boomed through the Papal Palace like a great bell!

The palace doors opened, and two figures radiating powerful auras instantly appeared in the great hall: Yue Guan and Gui Mei.

When they saw Bibi Dong's mangled form on the ground, her face blackened by burns, a flash of horror passed through both their eyes at once.

The more the Pope had once adored this Saintess, the more utterly merciless he was now!

They knew of the Saintess's affair, but they had never expected her to meet such a miserable end.

Feeling Qian Xunji's icy gaze, Yue Guan and Gui Mei instantly came to their senses, fine beads of sweat forming on their foreheads.

"Your subordinates are here!" they answered in unison.

"Expel this traitorous disciple from the Papal Palace!" Qian Xunji said coldly. "From this day forward, Spirit Hall has no Saintess!"

"As you command, Your Holiness!"

Yue Guan and Gui Mei did not dare hesitate in the slightest. They stepped forward, one on either side, and dragged Bibi Dong toward the doors of the Papal Palace as though carrying a dead dog.

Then, before the guards, they threw Bibi Dong outside.

From this day forward, she was no longer Bibi Dong, the Saintess who had drawn countless eyes and enjoyed endless glory—the twenty-year-old Soul Emperor!

She was merely a traitor to Spirit Hall, a cripple whose cultivation and martial souls had been personally destroyed by His Holiness the Pope!

Watching the figure vanish beyond the great hall's entrance, Qian Xunji slowly sat back upon the papal throne. At that moment, he felt every pore on his body open as the pent-up gloom in his heart completely dispersed!

To put it simply, his thoughts were clear, and his path could now be achieved!

He was not Qian Xunji, not the Pope who had ultimately died such a pathetic death. He was a transmigrator who knew what the future held!