"She threw them away on a whim, discarded them whenever she pleased. What did she take Spirit Hall's elders for?"
Golden Crocodile Douluo's voice brimmed with anger.
Azure Luan Douluo also frowned deeply. "Yue Guan and Gui Mei were veterans of Spirit Hall. Even without great achievements, they had toiled hard. She went too far."
Demon Subduing Douluo, seated third on the right, abruptly rose to his feet.
"Big Brother!"
Demon Subduing Douluo looked at Qian Daoliu, his voice urgent and angry. "Let's go to the Papal Hall right now and drag Bibi Dong here! She must be taught a lesson today!"
As he spoke, he took two steps toward the hall doors. The other Enshrined also turned to Qian Daoliu, waiting for his decision.
Qian Daoliu raised his hand. It was a small gesture, yet it stopped Demon Subduing Douluo dead in his tracks.
"Everyone, sit down."
"Big Brother!"
Demon Subduing Douluo cried out, then obediently sat back down.
Golden Crocodile Douluo glanced at Qian Daoliu and sat back down on his meditation cushion as well, but his expression remained ugly. He, too, wanted to teach Bibi Dong a lesson.
"I'll go to the Papal Hall myself."
Qian Daoliu rose, and with a flicker, his figure vanished from the Worship Hall.
The Papal Hall.
Bibi Dong abruptly looked up. A figure had appeared in the center of the great hall without warning, enveloped in a faint golden halo.
"Great Enshrined."
"Bibi Dong, do you have no brains?"
Qian Daoliu stood before her, his gaze cold and stern. The very first words out of his mouth were an accusation.
"That incident in Soxina City-you deliberately had a deacon provoke the Body Sect's people so you could use it as an excuse to make trouble for them, didn't you?"
Bibi Dong's expression shifted.
"And what was the result?"
Qian Daoliu continued, "You took seven elders with you, only to be surrounded and beaten by their eleven Titled Douluo, and you even drove away two elders."
"You truly are a fool!"
Bibi Dong's face alternated between green and white. "Qian Daoliu-"
Without waiting for her to finish, Qian Daoliu unleashed his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
Golden light surged. The phantom of the Six-Winged Angel abruptly solidified, and a sacred, icy pressure instantly enveloped the entire hall.
That pressure forced Bibi Dong's words back down her throat, and she instinctively rose to her feet.
"Today, I'll teach you a lesson!"
Qian Daoliu raised his hand, and a golden Angel Holy Sword condensed in his palm.
He slashed once.
The golden sword light struck Bibi Dong squarely in the chest, sending her flying and smashing heavily into the Papal Hall's wall.
Bang!
A deep crater caved into the wall.
Bibi Dong slid to the ground, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth. But before she could get up, a second streak of sword light followed.
This streak pierced her right shoulder, pinning her to the wall.
Immediately afterward.
The third streak of sword light descended, piercing Bibi Dong's left shoulder. The fourth pierced her right leg, and the fifth pierced her left leg.
Four streaks of golden sword light pinned Bibi Dong firmly to the wall!
"Aaaah!!"
Pinned to the wall, Bibi Dong's voice turned crazed as she screamed hysterically, "Qian Daoliu! How dare you treat me like this!"
Unwilling to be restrained like this, she immediately unleashed her Death Spider Emperor Martial Soul.
Purple-black light erupted from within Bibi Dong.
"Stop struggling."
The instant the purple-black light flared, Qian Daoliu raised his right hand and loosely clenched it into a fist.
An invisible force abruptly tightened. The light around Bibi Dong seemed to be seized by a giant hand and was suppressed in an instant.
An extremely faint layer of almost invisible sacred patterns appeared on the golden sword light-
That was angel divine power!
Although Qian Daoliu could borrow only a little angel divine power, suppressing Bibi Dong, whose strength was only level 98, was effortless.
The power Bibi Dong had just mobilized was completely forced back down!
Qian Daoliu stood before Bibi Dong, his voice calm. "If you weren't Xue'er's mother, and if you weren't still of some use, you would already be a corpse."
Qian Daoliu turned and walked out, his voice echoing through the great hall.
"The sword light will dissipate on its own in six hours. Reflect on your actions."
"Also, from this day forward, not a single elder will obey your orders without the Worship Hall's permission."
His words fell.
Qian Daoliu's figure vanished from the doorway.
Bibi Dong remained pinned to the wall, all four limbs pierced and her martial soul origin suppressed by angel divine power, able to do nothing but rage impotently.
"Qian Daoliu!"
"Kill me if you have the guts!!"
"What kind of Pope am I if I can't command the Elder Hall?!"
Five days later, at the Body Sect.
Over a hundred newly recruited disciples were cultivating in the square, tempering their bodies according to the Body Aperture-Opening Art to lay the foundation for their eventual martial soul second awakening.
The resources Bibi Dong had promised had arrived at the sect three days earlier.
Together with the Body Sect's existing reserves, they were enough to support this batch of newcomers through basic body tempering.
Long Aoyu stood at the edge of the square, his gaze sweeping over the unfamiliar faces one by one.
Among the hundred-odd disciples, he had the highest hopes for four-Huo Wu, whose martial soul was Fire Shadow, a full-body body martial soul with a fire attribute. Her talent was the finest in this group.
Kuang Wu, whose martial soul was Thunderclap Spine, had innate soul power of a full seven levels. That was considered very high among body martial souls, because there was still the martial soul second awakening to come.
Zheng Tie, whose martial soul was Dual Arms, had exceptional comprehension and had worked out a cultivation method for his Dual Arms Martial Soul on his own.
Although it could not compare to the Body Sect's inherited secret methods, it was enough to show how extraordinary he was.
Jing Ling, whose martial soul was Bones, had Elder Mo's personal guidance.
But,
the ones who concerned Long Aoyu most were five other disciples.
These five disciples possessed the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys as their respective body martial souls. There were two men and three women, all of whose soul power happened to be around level thirty, with their ages ranging from twenty to twenty-three.
Their cultivation levels and ages were all very close.
It was such a coincidence, as though heaven itself had arranged it!
The Body Sect had once assembled a complete combination of the five viscera, possessing a Five-in-One Martial Soul Fusion Skill that had struck awe far and wide.
Now that a new generation of five had been gathered again, everyone in the sect placed tremendous importance on them.
Under the elders' arrangements, they had already begun jointly practicing the Five Viscera Returning-to-Origin Formation and the Basic Resonance Method.
Long Aoyu watched for a while, then withdrew his gaze.
The hundred-odd disciples varied in talent, but as long as they continued cultivating step by step, this group would produce at least twenty-some Soul Douluo!
As for Titled Douluo, that would depend on the grade of their martial soul second awakening.
Long Aoyu was just about to turn and leave when footsteps sounded behind him.
Long Aotian walked over. "Ghost Elder and Elder Yue Guan have come out of seclusion."
"Oh?"
Long Aoyu's eyes lit up.
"Both elders broke through to level 96, right?"
Yue Guan and Gui Mei had consumed top-grade spirit medicine and condensed their first soul cores. It would have been abnormal if they still failed to break through.
"Yes."
Long Aotian nodded.
"Wonderful. The sect's strength has risen by another huge margin." Long Aoyu was filled with joy.
Yue Guan and Gui Mei could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
With two level 96 Titled Douluo unleashing the Two Extremes Stillness Domain, even a level 99 Limit Douluo would be held in place for a breath or two!
A breath or two,
in a battle between the weak, was very short.
But in a battle between Limit Douluo, a breath or two was enough to decide victory or defeat!
"By the way, Xiao Yu, when are you going for Extreme Environment Tempering?" Long Aotian suddenly asked.
Long Aoyu smiled.
"In the next few days, once my master comes out of seclusion. I've already chosen the place."
For the Extreme Environment Tempering required for a martial soul second awakening, the usual choices were deep-sea water pressure, volcanoes, or heavenly lightning.
But Long Aoyu's choice was none of those three. Instead, it was-
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
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