Spirit City, the Papal Palace!
Pope Bibi Dong sat upright on her throne, scepter in hand!
She looked down at the three children before her!
None of them were very old. They looked barely over ten!
Yet all of them had reached the twenties in level, becoming Soul Grandmasters.
A hint of delight crossed Bibi Dong's face. She was thoroughly satisfied!
These three could well be called Spirit Hall's Golden Generation!
Now that she had reclaimed her rightful authority as pope, she finally had the time and energy to teach the next generation!
Only when the next generation grew strong would her position as pope be truly secure.
"Xie Yue, Yan, Hu Liena, you've all done very well!"
"I'll set a modest goal for you. I hope all three of you can become Three Rings Soul Elders before you turn twelve!"
"If you succeed, I'll reward each of you!" Bibi Dong told the three children before her.
At her words, all three children grew serious and nodded firmly.
Become Three Rings Soul Elders before turning twelve?
That would certainly put some pressure on them.
Still, if they worked hard, it was not necessarily beyond their reach.
"All right, you may go. Nana, stay a moment!" Bibi Dong waved a hand, keeping Hu Liena behind.
"Teacher!" Hu Liena greeted her.
"Nana, you're the most gifted of the three!"
"Although you're a year younger, your soul power level is already on par with Xie Yue's and Yan's!"
"Keep training hard. Once you become a Three Rings Soul Elder, I'll name you the Saintess of Spirit Hall!" Bibi Dong promised her outright.
"Yes, Teacher! I'll do everything I can!" Hu Liena answered loudly.
"Good. With your talent, you could be considered Spirit Hall's second-greatest prodigy. I hope you won't squander that gift..." Bibi Dong nodded.
As she said this, Bibi Dong instinctively thought of her daughter, Qian Renxue!
Her innate soul power of level twenty was surely unique across the entire continent.
In Bibi Dong's eyes, Hu Liena's talent was second only to hers.
The second most gifted? Hu Liena froze for a moment at her teacher's words.
Then she thought of her teacher herself!
Teacher must mean that my talent is second only to hers, right?
"I understand, Teacher!"
Having eagerly swallowed Bibi Dong's pep talk, Hu Liena left brimming with hopes for the future.
"Your Excellency, actually, in terms of talent, Nana should rank third among the younger generation!" Once Hu Liena had left, Gui Mei emerged from a corner of the hall and offered this remark.
Beside Gui Mei came Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, a man with feminine features.
"Oh? Aside from... her, who else is more gifted than Nana?"
Bibi Dong raised an eyebrow as she watched Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo emerge.
Most of Spirit Hall's authority was now in her hands. The Worship Hall had withdrawn and rarely interfered in Spirit Hall's official affairs anymore. Could there really still be something she knew nothing about?
"Luofan. His talent should be the greatest of all, even greater than the Young Master's!"
As one of Qian Xunji's former trusted aides, Ghost Douluo felt no hesitation whatsoever in addressing Qian Renxue as the Young Master.
"Luofan? Who is that? Why have I never heard of him?!" Bibi Dong asked in surprise.
With innate soul power of level twenty, Xiao Xue's talent was one of a kind across the continent.
Calling her the continent's greatest prodigy was no exaggeration.
She was someone who had drawn the Angel God's attention!
Yet someone was actually more gifted than Xiao Xue?
How was that possible?
And from what Gui Mei was saying, this person belonged to Spirit Hall?
Why had she never heard of this Luofan?
"Your Excellency, this goes back to the Soul Master Tournament our Spirit Hall held a year ago!"
Gui Mei explained everything to Bibi Dong in detail: how Spirit Hall had pursued Sword Douluo and Ning Rongrong, how Luofan had intervened, how they had later learned that he served the Young Master, and all the information they had subsequently gathered about him.
A Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster at six or seven?
That revelation astonished Bibi Dong!
Hu Liena and the others were also Two-Ring Soul Grandmasters, but they were all over ten!
And both of his soul rings were purple Thousand-Year Soul Rings?
How was that possible? In theory, given the limits of what a Soul Master could absorb, shouldn't the first two rings both be yellow hundred-year soul rings?
This Luofan had started with a thousand-year-level ring as his very first?
And when Sword Douluo fought Storm Douluo, Luofan's soul skill had actually blocked an attack?
A Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster could block a Titled Douluo's attack? What kind of soul skill was that?
Finally, he had come from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but had left because he had zero innate soul power and a trash martial soul.
Yet in the blink of an eye, he had become a prodigy with innate full soul power, and his trash martial soul had evolved into the Top-Tier Martial Soul, the Nine-Story Pagoda? Then Xiao Xue had recruited him?
The earlier details shocked Bibi Dong.
But that last point was what truly caught her attention!
Born into a great sect, only to suffer a detrimental martial soul mutation—those circumstances inevitably reminded Bibi Dong of someone from her past!
Back then, Xiaogang had also come from one of the Upper Three Sects, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but his martial soul had undergone a detrimental mutation, and his innate soul power had been only half a level!
As a result, even after all these years, his soul power remained stuck at level twenty-nine, unable to break through to Soul Elder.
Wasn't this Luofan's situation remarkably similar to Xiaogang's?
Yet why had he been able to evolve his martial soul and become a prodigy with innate full soul power?
Bibi Dong knew all too well that his martial soul mutation and his inability to raise his soul power level were Yu Xiaogang's deepest obsessions!
How had Luofan achieved such a transformation? More importantly, could his success be replicated for Xiaogang?
At that thought, Bibi Dong could no longer sit still.
She needed only to imagine finding a way to make Xiaogang a top-tier prodigy, and the boundless gratitude he would feel toward her.
Bibi Dong rose to her feet.
"Your Excellency?" Sensing something unusual in Bibi Dong's expression, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo both looked at her questioningly!
"I am going to Heaven Dou City!" Bibi Dong announced.
"Your Excellency, there are so many matters in Spirit Hall right now..." Ghost Douluo began, hoping to dissuade her!
"Say no more. I know what I'm doing. I want to see Luofan's talent with my own eyes. Besides..."
Bibi Dong waved a hand imperiously, paused briefly, then continued, "I should also take this opportunity to see how Xiao Xue is doing!"
With that, Gui Mei could no longer object!
After all, who could speak against a mother wanting to visit her daughter?
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