Spirit City, on the streets!
Pale-faced, Lin Feng dragged his chilled body along the road out of Spirit City, his steps unsteady.
"Lin Feng, Dong'er told me you always looked down on me and called me trash. Haha... Which of us is trash now?"
Yu Xiaogang, his hair cropped short, darted out of an alley ahead and blocked Lin Feng's path.
His grin stretched almost to his ears, and mockery filled his face. He felt exhilarated. In all his time in Spirit City, this was the first time he had stood tall before Lin Feng.
Yu Xiaogang had once been terribly jealous of Lin Feng. Lin Feng was better-looking, of higher standing, and stronger than him. Worst of all, he was younger.
A genius who had reached level 52 Soul Power at just twelve years old!
Yu Xiaogang, who had long been stuck at level 29, had envied and resented him beyond measure.
Consumed by insecurity and driven by a warped mindset, Yu Xiaogang had tried approaching Bibi Dong.
Well!
After only a little flirting, the Pope's disciple, Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden, and Lin Feng's fiancée had taken a liking to him. She had even personally brought him to Spirit Hall's library to browse its books.
Yu Xiaogang looked down at Lin Feng with his hands behind his back, every inch the petty man gloating over his success.
"Trash, trash, trash! You're trash! You see a level 29 Soul Grandmaster like me and don't even salute?"
Lin Feng despised Bibi Dong and hated Qian Xunji, but Yu Xiaogang was just some nobody by the roadside. He wasn't worth getting angry over.
Even saying one more word to him
would be beneath Lin Feng.
"Get lost!"
Lin Feng's expression remained indifferent as he snapped at him.
Yu Xiaogang's eyes widened. He rolled up his sleeves and unleashed his "mighty" Soul Power, looking ready for a fight.
"You're a powerless piece of trash, and you dare tell a Soul Grandmaster like me to get lost?"
"Today I'll show you the might of a Soul Grandmaster."
"Come out, Luo Sanpao!"
The Purple-Skinned Pig appeared at once. It grunted and rubbed its snout against Yu Xiaogang's leg.
Yu Xiaogang kicked the Purple-Skinned Pig in irritation.
Disgust covered his face. He looked down on the Purple-Skinned Pig from the bottom of his heart. For decades to come, he would never once consider studying or developing Luo Sanpao.
"Luo Sanpao, attack!"
Grunting, Luo Sanpao glanced at Lin Feng, then turned around and stuck out its rear as its belly began to swell.
Lin Feng frowned!
Yu Xiaogang's eagerness to kick him while he was down thoroughly disgusted him!
"Get lost!"
This time, Lin Feng wasn't the one who said it. The words came from a woman in a red robe.
That robe was the uniform of a Red-Robed Cardinal. This woman was one of Spirit Hall's Red-Robed Cardinals.
Rebuked by a Red-Robed Cardinal, Yu Xiaogang shot Lin Feng a resentful glance. It had been such a perfect chance to humiliate him.
What a shame!
But Yu Xiaogang didn't dare talk back to a Red-Robed Cardinal. He took his Purple-Skinned Pig and slunk away.
The Red-Robed Cardinal stepped forward. At the sight of Lin Feng's pale face, her eyes reddened with distress. "Xiaofeng, how could the Holy Maiden, the Pope, the Elders, and the Worships do this?"
"What fiancé would molest his own fiancée? It's absurd! Have they all lost their minds? Why would they believe something like that?"
The woman was named Su Yuan'er. Her Martial Soul was the Blazing Spirit Kite, and decades later, she would become Ling Yuan Douluo.
For now, she was still a Red-Robed Cardinal at the Soul Saint level.
She had been a colleague of Lin Feng's parents.
After they sacrificed their lives, Su Yuan'er had looked after him.
"Xiaofeng, you were too rash. If you'd kept your Soul Power and Soul Rings, you might have had a chance to uncover the truth once you grew stronger. Now it's too late."
Lin Feng gave a bleak smile. "Aunt Su, did you want to see me admit I molested Bibi Dong?"
"Heh. Aunt Su, I'm leaving, but I'll be back!"
Su Yuan'er's brows drew together, her eyes full of heartache.
Spirit Hall had driven that once high-spirited, incomparably handsome boy to this point.
That wicked Bibi Dong! As if my sweet Xiaofeng would molest her. Has she looked at herself in the mirror? Xiaofeng is much better-looking than she is.
She's more likely to molest Xiaofeng. If I weren't afraid people would call me an old cow eating tender grass, even I might...
She pressed her lips together, took a pouch of Gold Soul Coins from inside her robe, and pushed it into Lin Feng's hand.
"Xiaofeng, without your Soul Power and Soul Rings, you must never come back. Spirit Hall isn't something you can bring down."
"I'm still in Spirit Hall. Once I become a Titled Douluo, I'll make sure you get justice."
With that, Su Yuan'er pinched Lin Feng's cheek, then turned and left with firm resolve.
From that day on, winning justice for Lin Feng would drive her to grow stronger.
Lin Feng weighed the pouch in his hand. It was heavy, and warmth stirred in his heart.
At least someone still cared about him.
He tucked the pouch into his robe and walked in the opposite direction from Su Yuan'er.
Out of Spirit City!
Expressionless, Lin Feng called for the system.
"System, dissolve my engagement to Bibi Dong!"
[Bibi Dong's change-of-heart value has reached 100. She no longer has any feelings for you. Conditions for dissolving the engagement have been met.] [Engagement dissolution in progress. As Bibi Dong has fallen for someone else, all her Soul Power will be transferred to Lin Feng as compensation for his lost youth.]
In an instant, streams of energy gathered out of the void and poured endlessly into Lin Feng's Dantian.
His Soul Power began to soar as though riding a rocket.
Level 3!
Level 5!
Level 10!
Without Soul Rings, his later gains in Soul Power could not manifest, but the power continued to accumulate within him, nourishing his meridians and bones and strengthening his body.
Peacock, possess me!
A pair of multicolored wings spread from his back. Lin Feng rose into the air and flew toward the distant horizon at breathtaking speed.
From then on,
the sky was wide enough for birds to fly, and the sea vast enough for fish to leap.
The matter between him, Bibi Dong, and Qian Xunji was far from over. It had only just begun.
Meanwhile!
With Lin Feng no longer a problem, Bibi Dong was thinking about how she could finally be with Yu Xiaogang openly. Suddenly, she screamed, rolled her eyes back, and fainted.
"Dong'er! Dong'er! Dong'er..."
Qian Xunji cried out in alarm and flashed to her side. He lifted Bibi Dong from the ground, his face full of worry, and sent a thread of Soul Power into her to check her condition.
He found that Bibi Dong's body was like a punctured balloon. The vast Soul Power stored in her Dantian and meridians was vanishing from her body without a trace.
As her Soul Power continued to disappear, Bibi Dong's face rapidly turned pale, and her slender body twitched involuntarily from time to time.
Qian Xunji used his own Soul Power to try to stop the loss, but there was nothing he could do.
He even summoned his father, Qian Daoliu, but Qian Daoliu could not stop Bibi Dong's Soul Power from disappearing either.
It was as if Bibi Dong had been struck by divine retribution!
Two and a half hours later, Bibi Dong finally stirred awake.
Her eyes were vacant. Not a drop remained of the immense level 92 Soul Power she had once possessed.
She had once been a genius.
Now she was not.
The fallen genius of Douluo.
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