At the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan,
Yu Yuanzhen was baffled too.
"No wonder Spirit Hall has never united the continent. They have to play so many schemes.
Turns out their ancestor is an idiot. It runs in the family, too. How did she ever become a god?"
Yu Yuanzhen stroked his beard and decided he should keep his distance from that bunch of addled minds at Spirit Hall, especially the women.
After learning of Qian Renxue's past, many people in Spirit City felt sorry for the Saintess.
Inside the Papal Palace,
"The Pope is too cruel, isn't she? That's her daughter, after all."
"Exactly. The child is innocent. She's her own flesh and blood."
"The previous Pope was also a..."
The person beside him hurriedly clamped a hand over his mouth. After glancing around, he whispered,
"Keep your voice down. If Her Holiness hears us, we're dead."
The man nodded at once.
But Bibi Dong was a Titled Douluo. With the slightest circulation of Soul Power, she heard every word.
Crack!
She crushed the armrest of the papal chair into a handful of ash.
Bibi Dong raised her hand and stared at the ashes in her palm.
"Was I wrong?"
Confusion flickered through her eyes, only to be replaced by a glint of purple.
"I did nothing wrong. Qian Xunji ruined me. I'll bury everything he treasured alongside him!"
The purple in her eyes grew wilder.
Her lips parted. With a soft puff, she blew the dust across the room.
Qian Daoliu stood at the entrance to the Worship Hall with his hands behind his back. After a long while, he sighed.
"Ah..."
"If only I hadn't indulged her back then."
Golden Crocodile Douluo walked out and patted Qian Daoliu's shoulder.
"Brother, this isn't your fault. Haven't we treated Bibi Dong well enough?
She was the one who ignored Xiao Ji's warnings and insisted on being with Yu Xiaogang.
What's so good about that good-for-nothing from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan? Does having a big backside make his farts special?"
Qian Daoliu shook his head. His clouded eyes fixed on Qian Renxue in the Sky Screen as tears slid down her cheeks.
"It's Xiao Xue who's suffered. Perhaps the position of Angel God was only a burden I selfishly placed on her shoulders."
He had dreamed of seeing Qian Renxue become a god. But would she truly be happy afterward? If she severed all seven emotions and six desires, how would she be any different from a puppet?
If that was what it meant, she was better off never becoming a god.
The images continued, and what came next caught everyone off guard.
Before the eyes of all the gods, Qian Renxue actually fantasized about Tang San.
When she called out "Tang San," Tang San, who was waiting in line outside Shrek Academy, froze.
That person was me? A peerless beauty like her fantasized about me?
A sudden pain shot through his hand. Xiao Wu gripped it and asked, her expression complicated,
"Brother San, who is she?"
Tang San felt thoroughly wronged. He explained softly,
"I... I don't know."
Then a possibility struck him. Hadn't he been the one standing against Qian Renxue at the beginning?
"Xiao Wu, listen to me. Remember the first scene? I was on the opposite side from that girl!"
At his explanation, Xiao Wu came to her senses. That was right! At the start, Tang San had stood against the girl called Qian Renxue.
Xiao Wu stuck out her tongue and said sheepishly,
"Then... I'm sorry, Brother San. But stay away from that girl! One look at her and you can tell she's no good!"
At the Soul Master Academy in Nuoding City,
Yu Xiaogang's face darkened. He had never expected the girl who became a god at the beginning to be the daughter of Bibi Dong and her teacher, Qian Xunji.
She really was a wretch, and her daughter was wretched too!
But as he watched, he heard the name "Tang San" and cried out in delight.
"Little San? The one who becomes a god is Little San? Hahaha! Wonderful! Little San will surely take me to the Divine Realm.
I'm his teacher. I raised a god! He'll be able to lift the curse on me.
Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Bibi Dong, Spirit Hall—just you wait!
I'll settle the score with every one of you. I'll destroy Spirit Hall at any cost!"
With that, Yu Xiaogang immediately began packing. He was going to find Tang San.
As for the trivial affairs in Nuoding City, he would leave them to his old friend. Once he became a god, after all, the divide between gods and mortals would be absolute.
For all the years his friend had looked after him, he would have Little San find him a position when the time came.
On the Sky Screen, the images continued. Qian Renxue completed the Nine Trials and became a god.
"The Angel Bloodline! The Godhood Legacy!"
For the first time, every living being on the continent felt the majesty of a god throughout Qian Renxue's succession as the Angel God, especially once she donned the Angel God Armor.
Before the stunned eyes of all living beings, Qian Renxue spared Tang San again and again after becoming a god.
She even uttered that immortal line: "Tang San, if you're willing to submit to me, I'm willing to set aside my father's murder."
Snake Lance and Pufferfish were struck dumb. They stared at her in disbelief.
Qian Renxue looked bewildered. She had not lived through any of those events, so naturally she felt no affection for Tang San.
First, fantasizing about him during her Divine Trial had humiliated her. Then she had chased him down, only to offer to set aside her father's murder to win him over.
"I... I don't know either..."
Qian Renxue no longer knew how to explain herself. She felt her grandfather might already be disappointed in her.
The images continued. Qian Renxue had countless chances to kill Tang San, yet she chose to spare him every time.
When the Sea God's Remnant saved Tang San, Qian Daoliu finally breathed a sigh of relief. At least there was an explanation now: even if Qian Renxue had struck, the Sea God's Remnant would have stopped her.
The scene shifted. Tang San had completed the Sea God's Nine Trials and become the Sea God.
He fought Qian Renxue again and defeated her. One after the other, they reached the skies above Jialing Pass.
The images returned to the opening scene: Qian Renxue facing off against Tang San.
Tang San caught sight of Dugu Bo lying dead on the battlefield and froze for a moment.
Just then, a dark-purple scythe pierced his chest.
Every living being watching was stunned.
Wait, there was another powerful fighter?
The figure appeared: Bibi Dong, on the verge of becoming the Rakshasa God. She crushed the Sea God's Heart in her hand.
By then, Ning Fengzhi, Yu Yuanzhen, Tang Hao, and the others had roughly pieced together the course of the future:
Spirit Hall would launch the Soul Hunting Operation and first wipe out the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan;
more than half the disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would be lost, and the sect would join the Heaven Dou Empire in its struggle against the Spirit Hall Empire.
And this young man called Tang San, the future Sea God and the only god-level fighter on their side, had just been killed in an ambush.
"Was Spirit Hall truly unstoppable?"
At the Church of Favonius,
Zhu Zhuqing was fighting Rosaria.
Rosaria sent Zhu Zhuqing flying with a whipping kick and said helplessly,
"We're in the middle of a fight, and you let your mind wander? Teaching a disciple really is too much trouble."
Zhu Zhuqing got to her feet, her face full of apology. Losing focus in a fight was disrespectful.
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