Bibi Dong and the Rakshasa God stared at each other, remaining silent for quite a while.
One was the dignified Supreme Pontiff of Spirit Hall, a Level 99 Peerless Douluo; the other was a veteran First-Level God, and the Asura God's companion god at that.
"The Rakshasa God?" Bibi Dong's voice was filled with disbelief. Although she knew gods truly existed, this was her first time seeing one.
"That's right. I'm the original Rakshasa God. You can call me Yaoyue."
"Did you come to give me rewards?" Bibi Dong stepped forward, her face full of anticipation. Although she was already a Level 99 Limit Douluo, she was still missing so many Soul Rings.
The Rakshasa God wiped the nonexistent sweat from her forehead. Rewards? Go farm them yourself.
Oh no. Without my evil thoughts suppressing her, my successor has wised up. I can't fool her anymore.
She really had been rather irresponsible. Even now, she did not know what the Divine Examination for her own God Position entailed, let alone the rewards.
Other gods carefully selected their successors and showered them with resources, providing the full package of Soul Rings, Soul Bones, divine skills, Soul Power, and Divine Artifacts. She only hoped her successor would become a god soon so she could dump her God Position, and had simply let the Asura God arrange everything. The Asura God was the Divine Realm's God of Law Enforcement-surely he would not cheat her?
This was not really the Rakshasa God's fault. In fact, the Rakshasa God and the Asura God were companion gods. Once one devoured the other's God Position, they could advance to become a genuine God King. But only the Asura God himself knew this.
"Well... actually, I came to issue your final Divine Examination task!" Having spent so many years getting by in the Divine Realm, the Rakshasa God was best at trimming her sails to the wind. A little predicament like this could hardly stump her.
"You should know someone named Su Ling. My final Divine Examination is for you to gain his trust!"
Bibi Dong narrowed her eyes.
"Gain Su Ling's trust?" Bibi Dong had a bold guess: the Rakshasa God also coveted Su Ling's abilities and wanted to win him over.
"Exactly! As long as you can win Su Ling over, forget the Douluo Continent-even the Divine Realm will be ours to command!"
"Wait?" Bibi Dong spotted a problem. "Why 'ours'?"
The Rakshasa God's mouth twitched. My dear lady, how did you suddenly get so clever?
"I mean, you just need to recruit him into Spirit Hall," the Rakshasa God rephrased. "He wants to establish a faction and unite the continent. That doesn't actually conflict with Spirit Hall uniting the continent. All you need to do is... secretly climb under his covers, take off his coat, then take off his..."
"Are you... an idiot?" Bibi Dong frowned. "Go yourself if you want to. Climb into his bed yourself."
"Ah, that's where you're wrong." The Rakshasa God lowered her voice, her tone suddenly turning somewhat serious. "Bibi Dong, I'm not the only god watching the Douluo Continent now. From what I've observed, at least five or six gods have just bestowed their inheritances on the Douluo Continent. Add the original three, and there are at least ten gods besides me watching Su Ling!"
Bibi Dong fell silent. She had to admit that the Rakshasa God had a point. No, no. She nearly talked me into her trap.
"What does that have to do with you climbing into his bed? At worst, you can all go together."
The Rakshasa God finally failed to maintain her expression.
"You-I'm doing all this for your own good! Think about it. As long as you get him wrapped around your finger..."
"Enough. I won't let you fool me!" Bibi Dong waved her hand. Why was this original Rakshasa God so strange? One day, she might sell her off and have her help count the money.
"You said it yourself." The Rakshasa God looked at Bibi Dong with an amused gaze. Since you won't cooperate willingly, I can only give you a hand.
"Mami mami hum!" The Rakshasa God cast a novel spell on Bibi Dong that she had learned elsewhere.
"Nani?" Bibi Dong cried out in surprise. Then her entire body rapidly shrank, and her previously well-fitting clothes became loose and baggy.
Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong vanished. Taking the stage next was Holy Maiden Bibi Dong.
"Rakshasa God, you?!" By now, the Rakshasa God had taken on Bibi Dong's original appearance. "All right, you're now the new Holy Maiden of my Spirit Hall. As Supreme Pontiff, I order you to hurry up and give Su Ling the secret-chamber treatment."
The Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
After watching the livestream, Qian Renxue could not calm herself no matter what. The Worship Hall's seven Super Douluos, the Nation-Stealing Plan-it had all become meaningless.
Yet she felt a hint of relief instead, like a machine that had worked for over a decade and could finally rest thanks to a technological upgrade.
Time to play, then. Let's play. As he saw it, Su Ling was also a lecher. As long as she could trick him into a secret chamber, hehehe...
Su Ling's group had already left Sunset Forest. Next, he was going to find the Silver Dragon King to hatch the egg.
"You... why are you still following us?" Su Ling glanced at Dugu Bo, who had been trailing behind him the whole time.
"Me?" Dugu Bo had ten thousand grievances in his heart. Xue Xing was dead, the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well had been dug up, and his granddaughter... had been lured away too.
Now he was a textbook empty nester-the homeless kind.
"Weren't you the one who told me to join your faction?"
Su Ling recalled that this was indeed the case. But you can't keep following me around. If those people in Heaven Dou City see us, they'll say I go for little girls, mature beauties, and old men alike. I can't just drive him away either. That would hurt the old man's feelings.
"How about this? Go recruit the Chrysanthemum Douluo to our side." The Chrysanthemum Douluo surely had plenty of seeds for exotic flowers and rare herbs. When the time came, he could have the Chrysanthemum Douluo and the Poison Douluo work as gardeners on his planet.
"The Chrysanthemum Douluo? How did you know... that I know the Chrysanthemum Douluo?"
Dugu Bo had originally wanted to ask how Su Ling knew about the Chrysanthemum Douluo, but on second thought, the man seemed more famous than he was.
"I heard the Chrysanthemum Douluo and the Poison Douluo are a pair who love and fight each other. I thought you two were close."
"Who's a couple with that neither-man-nor-woman?"
"Huh? I don't think I said you two were a couple."
Hearing this, Dugu Yan covered her mouth in disbelief. Her grandfather had just said she liked talking crap. Could it be because... he could not keep his own gas in?
"I'm not... I didn't! Yanyan, believe me."
"Not listening, not listening."
"Su Ling!"
"Not listening, not listening."
"Your Eminence Snow Ji!"
"Not listening, not listening."
"Aah!" Dugu Bo collapsed to his knees and howled at the sky. His lifelong good name was probably going to be ruined here.
"All right, all right. Get going. Do a good job, and I'll reward you with a... Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone!"
"Awooo!" Dugu Bo lost control of his Soul Power, and the clothes on his upper body burst apart. "Don't worry, Su Ling. I'll definitely train that old fellow Chrysanthemum Guan into perfect obedience and bring him before you!"
Dugu Yan found it somewhat impossible to look her grandfather in the eye. Why did he look more and more gay the longer she looked at him?
Blue Tyrant Academy.
Yu Xiaogang, whose face had been beaten into a watermelon by Xue Ye's Imperial Guards, was sitting in the academy infirmary.
A healing Soul Master was treating Yu Xiaogang, while Liu Erlong stood a short distance away.
"Erlong, you're finally willing to see me."
"Xiaogang, focus on recovering first. We can discuss everything else later."
Liu Erlong had come to see Yu Xiaogang to verify one thing: whether his feelings for her were genuine. But in her heart, she understood that whether Yu Xiaogang was sincere toward her or not, they could never return to how things had been.
"Xiaogang, if you had two choices before you, one being me and the other being the chance to break through Level 30, would you..."
Before Liu Erlong could finish, Yu Xiaogang jumped excitedly from his stool.
"What! Erlong, are you saying there's a way for me to break through Level 30? Tell me what it is!" Liu Erlong's heart instantly turned half cold. Sure enough, Yu Xiaogang had never liked her.
"Tell me, Erlong!" Yu Xiaogang could no longer care about his pain. All he wanted was to know how to break through Level 30.
"What if that method required paying a very high price?" Liu Erlong was already getting somewhat angry. Heartbroken? Over Yu Xiaogang? What a joke. Who would get angry over this old, ugly, useless thing?
"I'm willing to pay any price!" Yu Xiaogang had completely lost his reason. He felt that every misfortune he had suffered since birth had been Luo Sanpao's fault. Of all the people this accursed Martial Soul could have chosen, why did it have to come to him?
"What if... the price was me?"
"Erlong, you know that breaking through Level 30 has been my lifelong dream. You'll help me fulfill it, won't you?" Yu Xiaogang intended to exploit Liu Erlong's feelings for him to make her sacrifice herself for his sake.
"Help you fulfill it? Fulfill it, my ass!" Liu Erlong flew into a complete rage. This old thing really did harbor ill intentions.
Then, with two heavy stomps, Liu Erlong broke both of Yu Xiaogang's legs.
"Throw him into the Star Dou Great Forest to feed the Wind Baboons."
Spirit City, the Worship Hall.
"What do you mean, Tang Hao escaped?"
Qian Daoliu looked incredulous upon hearing the news the Demon Subduing Douluo brought.
He remembered that when Tang Hao had been brought back, all his meridians had been ruined, his strength had fallen to the Soul Saint realm, and every Soul Bone in his body had been dug out. He was thoroughly Useless Hao. Qian Daoliu had even assigned three Soul Douluos to take turns guarding him, and he had still escaped?
"Every word I've said is true. According to the Soul Master on duty that day, black smoke suddenly started pouring out of Tang Hao. Then, as if he'd gained some powerful force, he broke free of his restraints and... and sucked all the Soul Power out of three Soul Douluos!"
The Demon Subduing Douluo trembled somewhat as he spoke. He would never have believed such a thing, but he had seen the three Soul Douluos' corpses with his own eyes.
"I see..."
Qian Daoliu turned around in thought. This was definitely not so simple. Could it have been an evil god?
A sudden surge in strength, absorbing other people's Soul Power-he had clearly received an evil god's inheritance. This would be difficult. He had been unable to contact the Angel God for a long time. If Tang Hao really had a god backing him, and one who disregarded the rules at that, this was definitely not something his Worship Hall could handle alone.
"Gather the six Enshrined and devote every effort to tracking down Tang Hao! We absolutely cannot let him keep running wild!"
"Yes!"
After the Demon Subduing Douluo left, Qian Daoliu knelt on the ground. "Great Angel God, please bestow your blessing and help me slay Tang Hao."
Qian Daoliu was merely giving it a try, with no hope of receiving a response. After all, he had prayed every day for over a decade without receiving a single reply.
But this time was different. A golden pillar of light slowly descended, and the Angel Holy Sword fell into Qian Daoliu's hands.
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