"I'm afraid your disciple really has to leave you this time... leave you... leave you... you... you..."
Xu Feng's final words kept echoing through Bibi Dong's mind, rising and falling like a demonic voice coiling around her ears.
Along with them came images of heaven falling and earth splitting, of mountains and rivers shattering. Perhaps this was the true end of the world.
Until...
Buzz!
Bibi Dong's consciousness grew hazy. Everything she had experienced began to fade, as though she had had a very, very long dream. Yet that dream had been so incredibly real that even at the very last moment, she had not thought it was false.
Bibi Dong did not know how long that haziness lasted, but she could feel her consciousness beginning to clear. She could think normally again, and most importantly... she could feel a powerful new force within her body.
The sensation this power gave her was the same as what she had felt after absorbing soul rings before. The difference was that this power was extraordinarily overbearing and formidable, stronger than all the soul rings she had absorbed before combined.
"My disciple..."
At that moment, Bibi Dong still did not know what that new power within her body was, nor could she be bothered to consider where it had come from. Now, all that remained in her mind was her disciple's figure, and the sight of his body fading away.
"Why..."
"Why did the end of the world leave only me behind..."
"Why didn't it sweep me away too..."
Whenever she thought of that black hole appearing and sweeping everyone away, and the scenes of space collapsing and the world ending, Bibi Dong felt as though knives were twisting in her heart, the pain so great she wished she were dead.
If she