Spirit Hall's Shocking Conspiracy, Bibi Dong's Unresolved Regret

At Longevity Sect's cloud-shrouded main peak.

Li Xuan stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the sky above as it was gradually dyed gold. In his mind, the System's cold mechanical voice sounded like the most beautiful melody:

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully activated the Sky Screen System. The novice gift pack has been issued.]

[Current Shock Points: 0 (Host, please begin the first broadcast as soon as possible and harvest emotional energy from across the continent.)]

The corners of Li Xuan's lips lifted slightly. With a thought, he said, "System, begin the first Sky Screen Review. The theme will be—<Spirit Hall's Shocking Conspiracy and the Pope's Unresolved Regret>."

[Command confirmed. Sky Screen warm-up has begun and will soon cover the entirety of Douluo Continent.]

Douluo Continent, Spirit City, Papal Palace.

Bibi Dong sat upon a black jade throne, her peerless face covered in frost. Just moments ago, a golden screen spanning the heavens had suddenly appeared in the sky. No matter where one stood, all it took was a glance upward to see it clearly.

"Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo." Bibi Dong's voice was icy, carrying unquestionable authority. "Have you figured out what this thing is?"

Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan pinched his orchid fingers together and replied with a grave expression, "Your Holiness, I just investigated it. This screen does not seem to belong to any known soul tool technology, nor does it contain any soul power fluctuations. Yet it... it seems capable of projecting directly onto one's retina. It cannot be blocked at all."

"It cannot be blocked?" Bibi Dong narrowed her violet eyes. The terrifying pressure of her Death God Domain instantly spread through the hall. "If someone intends to use this to spread rumors against Spirit Hall..."

Before she could finish, a sudden change erupted!

The previously tranquil golden screen began to tremble violently. Then, lines of blood-red words that seemed condensed from starlight appeared in the heavens with a suffocating sense of oppression:

[Douluo Regrets Reckoning, Issue One: Puppets Manipulated by the Divine Realm, the Tragedy of Spirit Hall's Twin Gods!]

[This issue's subjects: Pope Bibi Dong and Angel God Qian Renxue.]

Boom—!

The moment those words appeared, it was as though a nuclear bomb had been dropped onto the entire Douluo Continent. The whole continent instantly erupted into an uproar!

Inside Spirit Hall's Papal Palace, there was dead silence.

Bibi Dong's seated body suddenly stiffened. A flicker of shock flashed through her violet eyes before being replaced by towering fury. "Puppets manipulated? The tragedy of twin gods? Who is spouting such nonsense?!"

She was Spirit Hall's Pope, the most powerful woman on the continent. Who dared humiliate her so openly?

Yet the Sky Screen gave her no time to react. The scene shifted, and a long-buried past slowly unfolded alongside sorrowful, majestic music.

[She had once been Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden, an unparalleled genius possessing twin martial souls.]

[She had once had a lover she cherished and a beautiful dream: to inherit a Divine Position, unify the continent, and end the wars.]

On the screen, the young Bibi Dong wore a pristine white Holy Maiden robe, smiling as brightly as a flower. Beside her stood a refined middle-aged man—Yu Xiaogang in his youth. They gazed at each other amidst a sea of flowers, their eyes filled with love.

At the sight of this, Bibi Dong's pupils in the Papal Palace violently contracted, and her breathing grew hurried. That was the scar she least wished to touch in her entire life!

[However, all that beauty was personally shattered by the previous Pope, Qian Xunji.]

The scene abruptly shifted, turning dark and oppressive.

[In order to obtain Bibi Dong's hundred-thousand-year soul ring, and to forcibly produce a descendant with the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul through bloodline, Qian Xunji did not hesitate to lay hands on his own disciple.]

[That night, the Holy Maiden fell, and a demon was born.]

Though the Sky Screen showed no explicit images, the suppressed roars, Bibi Dong's despairing cries, and Qian Xunji's twisted, greedy face were clearly broadcast to every corner of the continent.

Heaven Dou Empire, imperial palace.

Emperor Xue Ye abruptly rose from his dragon throne, his face filled with horror. "This... this is a secret of Spirit Hall's Pope? Qian Xunji actually..."

Qian Renxue, disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, trembled all over. The memorial in her hand was crushed to pieces. That was her grandfather! The grandfather she had always admired had done something so beastly to her own mother?

Shrek Academy.

The teacup in Yu Xiaogang's hand fell with a smack, shattering on the floor. His face was deathly pale, and his lips trembled. "Dong... Dong'er? So back then... so back then, you suffered something like this? I always thought... thought you despised me because I had no future..."

Tears filled Liu Erlong's eyes as she tightly gripped Yu Xiaogang's arm. "Xiaogang, so Bibi Dong... she was a victim too?"

Meanwhile, within Spirit City's Papal Palace.

It was as if Bibi Dong's soul had been ripped from her body. She slumped limply upon the throne.

This scene was the nightmare of her life, the root of her fall. The past she had gone to every length to conceal was now being laid bare before the entire world!

Shame, rage, pain... countless emotions tangled within her heart.

"Who is it?! Who is peering into my memories?!" Bibi Dong let out a shrill scream. The Eight-Spider Soul Lance behind her shot forth, smashing the hard black jade floor to pieces.

But the Sky Screen's "execution" had only just begun.

[After suffering such devastating trauma, Bibi Dong turned dark in pursuit of vengeance. She killed Qian Xunji and became the new Pope.]

[She hated Yu Xiaogang's incompetence, hated his cowardice, and hated this unfair world even more. Thus, she began madly expanding Spirit Hall's influence, attempting to prove her strength by unifying the continent.]

[But was everything she did truly for power alone?]

The scene shifted once more.

It was on the eve of the great battle at Jialing Pass.

Dressed in magnificent palace robes, Bibi Dong stood atop the city walls, looking into the distance. Yet her eyes held a deep exhaustion and confusion.

[What she did not know was that her entire life had, from beginning to end, been played out upon the Divine Realm's chessboard.]

[Rakshasa God needed her hatred and slaughter to revive, while Angel God needed Qian Renxue's faith to pass on her inheritance.]

[In order to maintain balance, the Divine Realm tacitly permitted Spirit Hall's expansion, then tacitly permitted the resistance of the Two Great Empires.]

[Bibi Dong believed she was defying fate and changing her destiny. Little did she know that she was merely the sharpest—and most pitiful—blade in the Divine Realm's hand.]

[In the end, during the battle at Jialing Pass, she and Qian Renxue, mother and daughter, turned against each other and both perished.]

[Even in death, she never found true release. She hated for her entire life and struggled for her entire life, only to discover in the end that she was nothing more than a pitiful creature abandoned by the gods.]

The image froze on Bibi Dong's final moments, when she looked at Yu Xiaogang and revealed a bleak yet relieved smile.

That smile made countless female soul masters watching the Sky Screen burst into tears.

"So tragic... I never knew His Holiness the Pope had suffered so much..."

"The Divine Realm? The Divine Realm is actually this filthy? They treat humans as chess pieces to toy with?"

"What was so good about that Yu Xiaogang? He ruined His Holiness the Pope's entire life!"

[Ding! Detected intense emotional fluctuations among the beings of Douluo Continent.]

[Shock Points gained: +500,000!]

[Anger Points gained: +300,000!]

[Sympathy Points gained: +800,000!]

[Congratulations, host. First broadcast reward obtained: God-tier cultivation art Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art (fragment), one piece of secret intelligence regarding the Divine Realm.]

Within Longevity Sect, Li Xuan listened to the prompts in his mind and nodded in satisfaction.

"This is only the beginning." He murmured, "Bibi Dong, by now, you should already be questioning the Divine Realm, shouldn't you?"

Spirit City, Papal Palace.

The Sky Screen gradually faded, but the oppressive atmosphere lingered for a long while.

Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo knelt on the ground, scarcely daring to breathe. They had never seen His Holiness the Pope reveal such vulnerability and despair.

Bibi Dong slowly rose to her feet. Two dark flames now burned within her once-icy violet eyes.

Rather than venting her anger on others as usual, she stared fixedly in the direction where the Sky Screen had vanished.

"The Divine Realm... chess pieces..."

Bibi Dong's voice was hoarse, carrying a chilling coldness.

All this time, she had believed herself to be Rakshasa God's follower. As long as she unified the continent, she would obtain a Divine Position and take control of her own fate.

But the Sky Screen's words were like a poisoned thorn, deeply piercing her heart.

What if... what if all of this truly was a conspiracy of the gods?

What if, no matter what she did, she could never escape the gods' control?

"Qian Xunji..." Bibi Dong's nails dug deeply into her palms, blood dripping down. "So you were also a lackey of the gods."

Just then, a black shadow silently appeared in the corner of the great hall.

"Your Holiness." It was the head of Spirit Hall's intelligence agency.

"Investigate." Bibi Dong took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the raging waves in her heart and recovering her usual cold beauty and authority. "Find out where that Sky Screen came from. And... investigate this so-called 'Longevity Sect.'"

"Longevity Sect?" The subordinate froze. "This subordinate has never heard of such a sect."

"Before the Sky Screen appeared, that voice claimed to come from Longevity Sect." A sharp gleam flashed through Bibi Dong's eyes. "Whether he is human or god, he dared expose my scars... I want to see what his true purpose is."

At the same time, Heaven Dou City.

The residence of "Xue Qinghe."

Qian Renxue had already removed her disguise and returned to her female form. She looked out the window, her gaze complicated.

"Grandfather... so you were the one who drove Mother to her death."

Qian Renxue had always believed that her mother hated her because she was Qian Xunji's daughter, because her mother hated Spirit Hall.

Only now did she understand that what her mother hated was the man who had destroyed her entire life, and that hypocritical Divine Realm!

"The Divine Realm..." Qian Renxue clenched her fists. "If a Divine Position is built upon the blood and deception of one's family, then should I still inherit it?"

This night, no one was destined to sleep.

The Sky Screen's first revelation was like a scalpel, precisely cutting open Douluo Continent's most glamorous festering wound.

Spirit Hall's sacred halo had shattered across the ground. Bibi Dong's authority remained, but cracks had appeared in her faith.

And the instigator of it all, Li Xuan, sat in Longevity Sect's courtyard, idly playing with a black bead rewarded by the System.

"Heaven-Devouring Demonic Art..." Li Xuan smiled. "Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, when you discover that the only hope of resisting the Divine Realm lies in my hands, what choice will you make?"

He raised his head and looked toward the night sky.

"Who should be next issue's subject? That Tang San, who prides himself on righteousness? Or Tang Hao, who sacrificed his wife for the so-called greater good?"

A teasing glint flashed through Li Xuan's eyes.

"From this day onward, I will rewrite the Order of Douluo World."