"No!"
Qian Xunji's expression changed drastically. He tried to stop her, but it was already too late!
Boom—!!!
A surge of soul power as vast as the sea erupted with Bibi Dong at its center!
The eight soul rings around her blazed with light!
Then!
Under Qian Xunji's horrified gaze, a ninth soul ring—a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring shining with dazzling, blood-red light—slowly emerged and took shape!
Level 90!
Titled Douluo!
Bibi Dong threw back her head and let out a long cry, filled with the resentment and killing intent she had suppressed for so long!
Violent waves of air battered the entire Secret Chamber until it hummed!
Qian Xunji was forced back step after step by her overwhelming aura. His smug composure had long since vanished, replaced by an ashen expression!
He had miscalculated!
He had utterly, completely miscalculated!
He had never imagined that Ning Lin possessed such a heaven-defying Breakthrough Pill, one that could allow a Soul Douluo to break through to Titled Douluo on the spot!
A Titled Douluo with twin martial souls!
Her strength was beyond anything an ordinary Titled Douluo could match!
Even if he defeated Bibi Dong here today, both of them would inevitably suffer grievous injuries!
Worse still, if a Titled Douluo bent on death wanted to kill herself, he could not possibly stop her!
His plan, the conspiracy he had believed seamless as a heavenly robe, was utterly shattered at that moment!
Watching the situation reverse and the spectacular changes on Qian Xunji's face, Ning Lin's smile grew increasingly wild.
He thought to himself.
If this was all, it still wasn't enough.
Inside the Secret Chamber, the pressure weighed like a mountain.
Qian Xunji's initial horror gradually gave way to a complicated expression mingling bitterness with malice.
He stared fixedly at the ninth soul ring slowly taking shape behind Bibi Dong.
That dazzling blood-red hue proclaimed the terrifying might of a hundred thousand years.
A Titled Douluo.
The disciple he valued most, and most wanted to control, had taken that crucial step right before his eyes, within the hopeless trap he had personally laid.
He had lost.
From the moment Bibi Dong swallowed that Breakthrough Pill, he had already lost.
He could no longer toy with Bibi Dong's life and death as casually as he could with a Soul Douluo's.
If a Titled Douluo resolved to die and sought death with all her heart, even he could never stop her.
Qian Daoliu's instructions, the Angel Clan's future, his own ambitions...
With that single Breakthrough Pill, everything had dissolved into bubbles.
Boundless regret and fury surged into his heart.
Things had come this far. There was no retreat!
If he could not possess her, he would destroy her!
"Treacherous disciple!"
Qian Xunji's face twitched violently. His gentle mask was torn away completely, leaving only a savage expression.
"Do you think becoming a Titled Douluo means you can stand against me?"
"Today, I'll show you the unbridgeable chasm between Level 95 and Level 90!"
Golden light blazed around him, and his nine soul rings abruptly lit up. Behind him, the sacred, majestic true body of his six-winged angel martial soul spread wings that blotted out the sky and sun!
The terrifying pressure made the walls of the Secret Chamber groan beneath the crushing burden.
Yet just as he prepared to strike and subdue Bibi Dong with thunderous force—
A figure moved faster than him!
It was Ning Lin!
With a smile both resolute and tender, he took one long look at Bibi Dong, who was doing everything she could to absorb the pill's power and stabilize her cultivation.
The next instant, he turned without hesitation to face Qian Xunji, who looked like a god descended to earth!
A clear shout rang through the Secret Chamber!
Boom!
Brilliant multicolored flames instantly burst from Ning Lin's body, engulfing him!
Phoenix Undying Flame!
He made no attempt to defend himself and did not retreat an inch. He poured every last bit of his soul power and life force into those heavenly flames!
His entire body became a human bomb burning with his own life, and he charged toward Qian Xunji's Angel True Body without a backward thought!
It all happened with blinding speed!
Having just stabilized her cultivation, Bibi Dong opened her eyes in time to witness the sight that nearly shattered her heart and guts!
"No—!"
She let out a scream so piercing that her voice broke. Her beautiful phoenix eyes flew wide, bloodshot in an instant!
She wanted to stop him, to pull him back.
But it was too late!
That burning figure had already become a brilliant streak of light, hurtling toward the Angel Holy Sword that could cleave mountains!
"Qian Xunji!"
Bibi Dong's voice carried bloody tears and the deepest venomous hatred.
"If you hurt him in the slightest, I'll slaughter your entire family! I'll butcher every last member of the Angel Clan!"
Ning Lin heard her.
In the final instant of his charge, he looked back and gave Bibi Dong a reassuring smile.
You fool.
Boom—!!!
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
When the brilliant Phoenix Undying Flame touched the sacred, majestic Angel Holy Sword, it seemed to encounter its natural nemesis.
The sacred power imbued in the sword swiftly purified and dissolved the flames.
Under Bibi Dong's despairing gaze, Ning Lin's figure disintegrated inch by inch.
There was no blood, no severed flesh.
His entire body turned into a sky full of multicolored sparks, like fireflies on a summer night—brilliant, yet fleeting.
Then they slowly faded into the air.
The final spark went out.
The entire world seemed to fall silent.
Bibi Dong stood with her hand stretched out, frozen in the posture of trying to grasp something.
Her tears poured out like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
She broke down completely.
Dead?
He had just... died?
He had died before her eyes to protect her?
Indescribable agony spread from her heart through every limb and bone, as though it would tear her very soul apart!
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Bibi Dong threw back her head and unleashed an anguished howl like a wild beast!
At that moment, her reason burned away completely!
All that remained was towering hatred and a frenzied urge to kill!
"Qian! Xun! Ji!"
She whipped her head around, her phoenix eyes streaming bloody tears as they locked onto the man, who looked somewhat stunned himself.
"I want you dead!!!"
Boom!
Death spider emperor! Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor!
At that moment, her twin martial souls erupted fully, with an intensity never seen before!
She had not even obtained the ninth soul ring that had just taken shape!
With only the configuration of an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo, she charged straight at the Level 95 Qian Xunji using her Level 90 soul power!
At that moment, the true worth of twin martial souls was displayed in all its glory!
The Pope’s Palace.
Before the magnificent floor-to-ceiling window, Bibi Dong, dressed in the Pope’s Purple-Gold Robe, slowly withdrew her gaze from the night outside.
She raised her delicate hand and gently stroked her chest.
Even now, she felt as though she could still sense the bone-piercing pain Ning Lin had left her with that day, when he turned into sparks and vanished.
She sighed softly, a flicker of remembrance passing through her eyes.
Although I couldn't kill that beast Qian Xunji on the spot that day, I still found my chance later.
I ended his life with my own hands.
But...
Bibi Dong's eyes dimmed again.
She murmured to herself.
"Back then, we agreed that if I broke through to Level 90, you would choose my title yourself."
"All these years, I've never taken a title."
"But you can never personally bestow one on me again..."
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