The Impact

Bibi Dong opened her hand. The Soul Power Breakthrough Pill, the size of a longan and glowing faintly gold, lay quietly in her palm.

Its surface was smooth, with faint cloud patterns beneath it. Its medicinal fragrance was subtle. One glance was enough to tell it was no ordinary pill.

To obtain it, she had drawn on resources accumulated over many years and paid a considerable price to commission it from Ge Duo.

Bibi Dong gazed at the pill for a long time before letting out a soft sigh.

That sigh held too many tangled feelings: regret, acceptance, and a trace of relief she did not even want to admit to herself.

Ever since she had asked Ge Duo to make the pill, Bibi Dong had been hesitating, torn within.

How was she supposed to get it into her dear Xiaogang's hands?

Should she have someone deliver it anonymously? Or find some respectable pretext to bestow it on him as the Pope of Spirit Hall?

Either way felt awkward, painfully deliberate.

Bibi Dong could even imagine the conflicted, perhaps resistant look on her dear Xiaogang's face when he received a pill from Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall. He was so sensitive, and so proud.

Too much had come between them: time, their positions, and the wound her teacher Qian Xunji had inflicted, a wound that could never heal.

While Bibi Dong was still weighing her options, Spirit Hall's information network, which spanned the continent, brought her the latest news about Yu Xiaogang.

Yu Xiaogang had returned to Heaven Dou City. Then he and his father, Yu Yuanzhen, sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, had gone to the Sunset Forest together.

The moment she read the report, Bibi Dong understood.

Her dear Xiaogang no longer needed