The next day.
Bibi Dong woke from a deep sleep and glanced at little Xu Feng in her arms. He was still holding his phone, but he was sound asleep. She could not help smiling. "What a playful little sleepyhead."
"Hmm?"
"What's this?"
Bibi Dong noticed that the phone screen was still lit. It displayed an image of an exploding crystal, along with a large word.
"Defeat"
Bibi Dong did not know what that word meant, but seeing little Xu Feng sleeping so soundly in her arms, she could not help thinking, My Bao'er must have had a wonderful time playing last night.
"I'll get changed while Bao'er is still asleep."
Bibi Dong carefully left the bed. Even with the slightest movement, she kept watching Xu Feng, afraid of waking him.
Soon, rustling sounds filled the room.
Bibi Dong quickly changed out of her gauzy nightdress into a practical, fitted outfit. Once everything was in order, she stole another glance at little Xu Feng and let out a small sigh of relief. "Good, Bao'er is still asleep."
In Bibi Dong's eyes, little Xu Feng was now just a one- or two-year-old child who knew nothing, so she felt it was fine to change beside him. Still, if he really saw everything, she would be very embarrassed.
"Her Holiness the Saintess."
"Elders Yue Guan and Gui Mei have prepared the Lingbo Treading Snow Flying Chariot you requested."
Just then, a maid's voice came from outside her bedchamber.
"Yue Guan, Gui Mei?"
Bibi Dong raised her delicate brows and walked out of her bedchamber, where she saw Yue Guan and Gui Mei bowing to her together.
"Greetings, Her Holiness the Saintess."
Bibi Dong asked in puzzlement, "I only ordered a flying chariot prepared. When did I ask you two to come?"
"Your Highness, as the esteemed Saintess, whenever you travel, we subordinates must naturally ensure your protection."
Yue Guan spoke respectfully, while Gui Mei kept his head lowered beside him.
The two had only just broken through to Titled Douluo and become Spirit Hall's newest elders. Their positions were not yet secure, so before the Saintess, whose status was second only to the Supreme Pontiff, they had to adopt a humble attitude.
"That won't be necessary."
Bibi Dong's voice gradually grew cold. "I don't want anyone following me on this trip. Go back."
Although everyone in Spirit Hall honored her as the Saintess, Qian Xunji alone held real power. Rather than saying these two elders had come to protect her, it would be more accurate to say Qian Xunji had sent them to watch her.
Little Xu Feng had once revealed this in his thoughts, too.
[As long as Teacher hasn't become the Supreme Pontiff or broken through to Titled Douluo, none of Spirit Hall's elders will sincerely follow you. They'll only be loyal to Qian Xunji.]
Precisely because of this, Bibi Dong felt nothing but aversion when she saw Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
"Rest assured, Your Highness."
"We will only follow from a distance and won't interfere with any of your affairs."
"Enough." Seeing that they refused to give up, Bibi Dong narrowed her beautiful eyes, her expression turning colder still. "I don't want to repeat myself. Get lost."
"Your Highness, please reconsider..."
"First Soul Skill, Half Moon." Bibi Dong lightly waved her fair hand, and a crescent-shaped wave of purple Soul Power instantly slashed toward Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
"Your Highness!"
"You..."
Yue Guan's and Gui Mei's expressions abruptly changed. They had not expected Bibi Dong to attack them so decisively and could only dodge out of the way.
Boom!
That simple Soul Skill blasted a huge crater into the spot where Yue Guan and Gui Mei had stood.
"Please calm your anger, Your Highness. We'll leave at once."
Gui Mei did not dare let Yue Guan say anything more. He grabbed him and hurried away.
Perhaps, apart from little Xu Feng, Bibi Dong was wary of everyone in Spirit Hall.
"Why is it so noisy?"
On the large, soft bed in the bedchamber, Xu Feng was awakened by the commotion outside. Then he saw the enormous "Defeat" displayed on his phone.
"Ugh..." Xu Feng felt utterly miserable.
Last night, Xu Feng had won forty-nine consecutive matches of Poison of the Dead, but in the final match, he had freaking fallen asleep, ending his winning streak.
"My Bao'er~"
"I'm sorry. Your teacher woke you up."
Noticing that little Xu Feng seemed unhappy, Bibi Dong thought she had made him grumpy by waking him, so she hurried over.
"Don't be angry, all right?"
Bibi Dong dotingly gathered little Xu Feng into her arms and planted an intimate kiss on his cheek.
Before outsiders, Bibi Dong could be ruthless and heartless, as cold as frost, but she did not want to be that way before little Xu Feng. She feared making her adorable darling unhappy. If that happened, perhaps he would no longer let her kiss him or hold him while they slept.
"Teacher, stop messing around."
Just then, Xu Feng suddenly grew serious, because a system notification panel had popped up before him.
[Ding! Congratulations, host. You have played Poison of the Dead on the 29th Generation Flat Pan Phone Plus for over five hours, earning the lying-flat achievement "Gaming Enthusiast." Reward: Soul Power Radar.]
The moment he finished reading the notification, Xu Feng suddenly felt a jolt in his mind. The instructions for using the Soul Power Radar became a stream of information and thrust straight into his brain, leaving him no time to react.
"Not too shabby." Having learned the radar's effects, Xu Feng curiously took out the Soul Power Radar and fiddled with it.
"Bao'er, what's that?"
"Nothing, just a little toy."
"Oh, I see." Bibi Dong said that aloud, but did not believe it inwardly.
Sure enough, little Xu Feng's habit of snarky commentary flared up again.
[So dumb. She believes whatever I say.]
[This is clearly an extraordinary self-defense tool. Just inject Soul Power into it, and you can detect the positions of every Soul Master and Soul Beast within ten li. That way, you don't have to worry about powerful people tailing you or launching sneak attacks.]
Hearing this, Bibi Dong was startled and immediately became intensely interested in the Soul Power Radar. After all, she was going to search for the Rakshasa Demon Scythe. With this thing helping her, she would be much safer.
As for how Bao'er had obtained such a treasure, that did not matter. Bao'er had fallen from the sky in the first place, which was already strange enough. No matter how many more treasures he produced, it would be understandable.
"Bao'er."
"Could you lend your teacher that little toy to play with?"
"No."
"Bao'er~"
"No."
Finding that even acting cute did not work, Bibi Dong steeled herself and said, "Bao'er, if you lend it to your teacher, I promise to find you a pretty young lady to be your maid."
"Really?"
"Really." Bibi Dong seemed to have made a painful decision.
Little Xu Feng had actually brought this idea up with her before. His reason was that he wanted to fully enter a "lying-flat state": someone to feed him when he was hungry, hand him water when he was thirsty, and put him to bed when he was sleepy. In short, he was too lazy to move another muscle.
However, Bibi Dong had not agreed. She did not want Xu Feng to be so idle and dispirited that he was too lazy even to take care of his own daily needs.
Now, though.
Since Xu Feng had turned into little Xu Feng, he did need someone to care for him, and she could not possibly stay beside him every moment. Naturally, there was no problem agreeing to this request now.
"Since Teacher likes it, I'll lend you this little toy to play with."
"Please accept it."
Xu Feng handed over the Soul Power Radar without hesitation.
[Tsk, tsk, tsk. Once I have a pretty young lady as my maid, I can finally lie flat completely.]
[Still, Teacher has been watched by Qian Xunfeng for so long, yet she hasn't taken any precautions. She's so dumb. Hopefully, she'll put the Soul Power Radar to good use, instead of being ambushed by certain people and dragged into a grove for some heh-heh-heh without even realizing it.]
"I'm being watched by Qian Xunfeng?"
"And I might even be dragged into a grove?!"
Bibi Dong had received the Soul Power Radar, but before she could feel happy, Xu Feng's words startled her.
Qian Xunfeng-she knew quite a bit about him. The man was a complete lecher, and the women he had secretly abducted numbered more than could be counted on both hands.
Bibi Dong had always despised Qian Xunfeng's conduct, so she had never accepted his advances. She had never expected that Qian Xunfeng would actually plan to ambush her and force that sort of thing on her.
"It seems I'll have to be more careful on this trip."
Bibi Dong grew wary.
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