"Flender, listen to me explain. That's not what I meant. I was just..." Yu Xiaogang clutched his swollen cheek, frantically trying to defend himself.
Flender had no desire to hear his nonsense and coldly turned away.
For at that moment, the scene on the sky screen took another spine-chilling turn.
The same secret chamber, the same dim lighting.
This time, lying on the chamber's cold stone bed was Qian Xunji, who had just been gravely wounded outside by Clear Sky Douluo Tang Hao's Great Sumeru Hammer.
Standing beside the bed was Bibi Dong, who had turned utterly dark, her eyes devoid of any trace of feeling.
She had seized the perfect opportunity to slip into the chamber while Qian Daoliu was outside overseeing matters and the guard was lax.
"Teacher, the suffering you bestowed upon me in this chamber all those years ago-today, your disciple will repay it with interest."
On the screen, hideous, terrifying purple-black spider legs spread out behind Bibi Dong.
An extremely evil cloud of dark-purple mist, brimming with devouring power, instantly enveloped the terrified Qian Xunji.
Before the utterly horrified gazes of countless people across the continent, Bibi Dong actually devoured her own teacher, Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff Qian Xunji, alive, consuming him bite by bite, along with his soul and the essence of his Angel Martial Soul.
Master and disciple turned on each other!
The disciple devoured her own teacher!
The bloody sight made countless people suck in cold breaths, their stomachs churning like storm-tossed seas.
The sky screen's review did not end there.
The view rose. After Bibi Dong finished devouring Qian Xunji, an evil, dark-purple divine sigil lit up between her brows.
[Hidden information revealed: Bibi Dong is the inheritor of the godhood of the deity-the Rakshasa God!] [One of the core requirements of the Rakshasa God Trial: devour a Soul Master possessing the Six-Winged Angel bloodline and sacrifice their angelic essence to the Rakshasa Abyss.]
The sky screen's narration coldly revealed the truth:
Bibi Dong had killed Qian Xunji because of that hatred etched into her bones and heart, certainly. But at the same time, she had also been beguiled and guided by the evil will of the Rakshasa God Trial.
"A divine inheritance?! Bibi Dong is actually undergoing a god's trials!"
Inside Shrek Academy, Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Douluos exchanged glances, each seeing terror in the others' eyes.
A madwoman with Twin Martial Souls and rank ninety-six cultivation.
And she was undergoing a deity's inheritance while controlling Spirit Hall-this was a calamity that would drown every sect on the continent.
At that moment, inside the Worship Hall in Spirit City, an even greater uproar had erupted.
Qian Daoliu stared at the dark-purple Rakshasa divine sigil on the sky screen as though struck by lightning, seemingly aging ten years in an instant.
"The Rakshasa God... it's actually the Rakshasa God! No wonder... no wonder she could evade my senses and devour Xunji."
Qian Daoliu closed his eyes in anguish.
The most hot-tempered of them all, Second Worship Golden Crocodile Douluo, was already so furious that his hair seemed to bristle beneath his crown, his Level 98 Soul Power raging throughout his body:
"Great Enshrined, the truth has now been laid bare before the world. Qian Xunji was guilty, certainly, but he was still the previous Supreme Pontiff. That venomous woman Bibi Dong not only murdered her teacher, but also pursued such an evil god trial. Even death cannot atone for her crimes."
Golden Crocodile Douluo dropped to one knee and loudly requested permission:
"Now that the entire continent has witnessed this scandal, Spirit Hall's reputation has been destroyed in a single stroke. I propose that we immediately dispatch every elder of the Worship Hall, seize Bibi Dong, and strip her of her position as Supreme Pontiff to restore proper conduct within our Spirit Hall."
The other worships voiced their agreement, all seething with indignation.
This time, Qian Daoliu did not speak up to shield Bibi Dong again.
He opened his eyes, a flash of resolve and exhaustion passing through them.
"So be it... since this is heaven's will, it is time these old bones came out of seclusion."
"Spirit Hall's foundations cannot be destroyed in the hands of a madwoman controlled by the Rakshasa God." Qian Daoliu's voice echoed through the hall.
Yet amid this storm sweeping across the entire continent, the person suffering the most, the one most utterly broken, was neither Bibi Dong nor Qian Daoliu at its center.
In a secret chamber in the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, in the imperial capital of the Heaven Dou Empire.
Qian Renxue, who had long lain hidden here disguised as Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, sat staring blankly into her dressing mirror.
She had already removed her disguise, returning to her original appearance: a breathtakingly beautiful girl in court dress, with golden hair cascading like a waterfall, bright eyes, and pearly teeth.
Yet that exquisite face, beautiful enough to topple cities and kingdoms, was covered in tears of despair.
The scenes on the sky screen were like sharp knives, slicing apart the worldview she had believed in without question for twenty years and every fantasy she had held about her parents, cutting them into shattered fragments.
The father she had always loved and respected was a beast who had raped his own disciple.
And the mother whose approval she had always yearned for was the murderer who had devoured her father with her own hands!
"Why... why did it turn out like this..."
Qian Renxue clutched her golden hair tightly in both hands, curling up in agony on the cold dressing table.
"Father... Mother... what... what are you, really..."
The scenes that followed plunged Qian Renxue's heart into an abyss of ice.
In the Papal Hall, Bibi Dong gazed tenderly at a girl standing below the steps.
The girl had neat, short hair and bewitching features. She was none other than Spirit Hall's Saintess-Hu Liena.
Bibi Dong lavished affection on Hu Liena with almost no restraint.
She personally guided Hu Liena's cultivation, pouring Spirit Hall's resources into her without holding anything back.
When Hu Liena encountered a bottleneck, she would patiently guide her through it.
When Hu Liena made progress, Bibi Dong would break into a genuine smile.
"Nana, you are the disciple I am proudest of. Spirit Hall's future will one day rest in your hands."
Bibi Dong gently stroked Hu Liena's hair, her eyes filled with maternal warmth.
Yet when the scene shifted to the young Qian Renxue.
Bibi Dong's gaze was cold and disgusted, even carrying a trace of murderous intent.
"Get away. Don't call me Mother."
"The sight of you makes me sick!"
Watching the woman on the sky screen treat her as coldly as frost while giving all her maternal love to another girl, Qian Renxue felt as though knives were twisting in her heart.
"Why? I'm your own daughter..."
Qian Renxue murmured in despair. Her twenty years of yearning for a mother's love turned into a bone-deep chill at that moment.
Finally, the sky screen delivered its assessment of Bibi Dong:
[Bibi Dong, the first peerless genius in the history of the Douluo Continent to cultivate Twin Martial Souls to full mastery and perfectly resolve the conflict between Martial Souls. Her talent and brilliance speak for themselves.] [As a disciple, she endured the world's deepest betrayal and humiliation, ultimately turning dark amid despair and hatred, turning against and devouring her own teacher.] [As a teacher, she poured the love and light she herself lacked into her disciple Hu Liena, treating her disciple with complete sincerity and giving her everything.] [She is a pitiable soul toyed with by fate, and also a crazed avenger consumed by hatred.] [Review complete. Calculating rewards...]
Because in the sky screen's review, Bibi Dong was both Qian Xunji's "disciple" and Hu Liena's "teacher."
Her dual identity triggered two Heavenly Dao rewards.
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