Bibi Dong's thoughts!

"Brother Gu, so you've been traveling and training out there all by yourself."

"You're really amazing."

"In all my life, apart from when my teacher took me out to hunt soul beasts for soul rings, I've never left Spirit City."

At this point, Bibi Dong's little face suddenly fell.

Then Bibi Dong looked at Gu Shengge curiously and asked, "Brother Gu, could you tell me about the cities you've visited and the scenery outside?"

Looking at the innocent little flower that was Bibi Dong, her eyes full of curiosity and longing for the outside world, Gu Shengge smiled. "The outside world..."

Gu Shengge told Bibi Dong about his time traveling with Tang Hao and his brother, recounting everything he had seen and heard.

Bibi Dong had originally been sitting across from Gu Shengge.

As Gu Shengge continued talking, Bibi Dong had drawn closer and sat down a short distance beside him, cupping her chin in both hands and gazing at him with admiration as she listened to his accounts.

As Gu Shengge recounted his travels across the continent, all the dishes were served.

"Brother Gu, let's eat first."

"After we finish, could you tell me more?"

"Of course."

After Gu Shengge and Bibi Dong finished the restaurant's medicinal cuisine, he continued telling her about his travels.

Before they knew it, the sky slowly darkened.

"Your Highness, it's already very late. It's time to return and rest."

As the voice rang out, Ghost Douluo, Gui Mei, emerged from the shadows.

At this point, Ghost Douluo's soul power had only reached the Soul Saint level, and he was still at least several years away from becoming a Soul Douluo.

Seeing Gui Mei appear in the room, Bibi Dong looked at Gu Shengge, her eyes full of reluctance to part.

"Brother Gu, how many days will you be staying in Spirit City?"

"It's already late today. I'll book you a room here."

"Will I still be able to see you if I come here tomorrow?"

After Gui Mei appeared, Bibi Dong looked at Gu Shengge with reluctance written all over her face and hurriedly offered to book him a room here.

She was afraid Gu Shengge would leave Spirit City tomorrow to continue his training outside instead of staying here.

"I'm not sure how many days I'll stay here yet."

"After all, I've only just arrived."

"Spirit City is, after all, the most authoritative and iconic city on our Douluo Continent."

"That's precisely why I came here."

"It should take at least a month or two to explore all of Spirit City."

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Hearing the words "a month or two," Bibi Dong's eyes lit up.

"Brother Gu, it's settled, then. I'll book your room here, and I'll come find you again tomorrow!"

"Remember to keep telling me the stories you haven't finished."

"All right. See you tomorrow."

Looking at the happy, excited young girl before him, Gu Shengge placed his hand on Bibi Dong's head and gently ruffled her hair.

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When Gu Shengge ruffled her hair, Bibi Dong's eyes widened, filled with disbelief as well as joy.

She truly hadn't expected Brother Gu to do something so affectionate to her. Happiness had come far too suddenly.

At that thought, feeling Gu Shengge's affectionate caress, Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes in enjoyment.

She looked just like a little kitten enjoying being petted.

Standing to the side, Gui Mei watched Gu Shengge's actions without saying much or interfering.

After all, less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea after Gu Shengge and Bibi Dong met, His Holiness the Pope had already learned of Gu Shengge's existence.

Even as a Soul Saint, he couldn't see through Gu Shengge's cultivation.

In his eyes, the other man seemed like an ordinary person without soul power.

There were only two possibilities: eighteen-year-old Gu Shengge was a peerless prodigy.

He might even be a prodigy unlike any who had ever appeared on the Douluo Continent.

At such a young age, his cultivation had already risen beyond Soul Emperor, and even his martial soul was definitely among the very finest.

Otherwise, with his Soul Saint cultivation, there was no way he would have been unable to detect the other man's cultivation.

The other possibility was that he was an ordinary person who had not awakened a martial soul.

After all, as long as someone had awakened a martial soul, even a trash martial soul, there would be fluctuations of soul power coming from them.

But the calm composure Gu Shengge had shown upon seeing him suddenly appear was not something ordinary people possessed.

Moreover, Gu Shengge had a distinctive air about him.

Those two things alone were enough to prove that Gu Shengge was definitely the first possibility, not the second.

At that thought, Gui Mei already knew what he should report to His Holiness the Pope upon his return.

"All right, hurry back and rest."

"It's already late."

After Gu Shengge removed his hand from Bibi Dong's head, her eyes were full of reluctance, tinged with disappointment.

If only he could have stroked my head a little longer.

But Brother Gu isn't leaving. If I come to find him early tomorrow, perhaps I'll get to enjoy it again.

At that thought, Bibi Dong waved to Gu Shengge. "Brother Gu, see you tomorrow."

"Mm, see you tomorrow."

After watching Bibi Dong leave, Gu Shengge smiled, in a very good mood.

The young Bibi Dong really is adorable and innocent.

He would protect that innocence and kindness of hers.

With him around, Bibi Dong would never again be hurt by that useless scumbag Yu Xiaogang, and he certainly wouldn't let Qian Xunji hurt her either.

All her future misfortunes would cease to exist.

After all, when he learned that he had transmigrated into the timeline of Douluo I, and so far ahead of its events, he had already decided to change Bibi Dong's life.

Before transmigrating into Douluo, he had personally liked Bibi Dong, that deeply controversial empress, very much.

Those who liked Bibi Dong liked her a great deal, while those who loathed her loathed her just as much.

When he first read Douluo Continent as a young middle schooler, he hadn't had many thoughts about this villain. He had simply seen her as a villain.

Compared with villains in other books, Bibi Dong was merely a love-addled lunatic with a slight yandere streak.

Later, when he was a little older and read Douluo Continent again, seeing Bibi Dong's tragic life had made his heart ache for this woman.

Some people said she was an ungrateful wolf who had betrayed Spirit Hall's nurturing and investment in her.

In the great sects of other fantasy and cultivation worlds, raising a genius required vast quantities of cultivation resources, heavenly treasures, and all kinds of pills and spirit stones.

But in this bottom-of-the-barrel fantasy world, what heavenly treasures were there apart from immortal herbs that were worth anything?

As for spirit stones and pills for cultivation, there were none at all.

Spirit Hall's nurturing had merely given her a very good backing and spared her a few detours.

But a genius like Bibi Dong, with innate full soul power and twin martial souls, both of the finest quality, would have been a treasure among treasures in any major power on the Douluo Continent.

Yet Bibi Dong, originally an innocent and kind holy maiden, had been threatened by the teacher she respected and loved, and treated in that way.

Any woman in her place would have gone mad.

As a villain, Bibi Dong didn't even measure up to a Hall of Souls elder who made his entrance with his own "heh heh heh" sound effects.