Not wholly good, not thoroughly evil

Lu Chen's guess had not been wrong. Bibi Dong's first reaction after seeing the spoilers had indeed been to go utterly haywire.

If the influence of the Rakshasa Divine Sense had remained, she would probably have chosen between an even more frenzied, sick love for Gangzi and hatred for him.

Unfortunately, System Sis was there. Although her former incarnation had merely been an amalgamation of numerous shattered Plane Spirits, her rank was still far above that of a mere Rakshasa God.

Especially when all that remained of this Rakshasa God now was a trace of lingering malice?

Having steamrolled right over it, System Sis declared, "What was that? I thought it was a speed bump..."

So, when she saw "orphan" and "her mother was the person who hated her most," that feeling of love turning into hatred at its utmost extreme was finally suppressed, replaced by deep fear and guilt.

Xue'er had held up her drawing for her to see, her little face lifted in a smile...

Only for her to tear the drawing to pieces with her own hands.

When Xue'er absorbed her first Soul Ring and became a Soul Master, she had longed for her encouragement...

Only to be harshly scolded because of that Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and leave dejectedly.

Qian Xunji deserved to die, and he had indeed died. Bibi Dong had killed him herself!

Yu Xiaogang deserved to die too, and Bibi Dong would make his life worse than death to thank him for all those years of exploitation and deception.

Only Qian Renxue... Bibi Dong did not know what she could possibly offer to repay all she owed her daughter and all the harm she had done her.

Yet a certain heartless fellow just had to stab the knife in deeper at this moment.

[Lu Chen: Qian Renxue suffered so much.]

He opened with the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's signature move, tugging at the hearts of everyone in the Chat Group.

Even Liu Erlong temporarily forgot her urgency because of what Qian Renxue had suffered, desperate to know what happened next.

[Lu Chen: With the purest bloodline of the Six-Winged Angel, the biological daughter of two Spirit Hall Supreme Pontiffs, and a Level 99 Limit Douluo grandfather renowned as invincible in the skies, she should have been showered with love and grown up healthy amid countless people's care and blessings.

And what happened instead?

Her father was a beast who developed feelings he should never have had for the disciple he had raised from childhood.

Her mother was every bit his equal, an ungrateful wretch, a bootlicker, and a lunatic all rolled into one. She neglected her own daughter and reserved all her maternal love for Hu Liena.

The only one slightly better was her grandfather, Qian Daoliu. At least he shouldered his responsibilities as family and protected Qian Renxue as she grew safely into adulthood.

But although his personal conduct was blameless, he was also a stubborn mule with a painfully lacking intellect. His handling of Qian Xunji's death alone earned him that assessment.]

In the Chat Group, the few who knew something about Spirit Hall's history all erupted when they saw Qian Daoliu's name.

[Netherworld: Spirit Hall's former strongest expert is still alive?]

[Spirit Cat: Looking at it now, his announcement thirty years ago that he was entering seclusion until he broke through or died, and would no longer concern himself with worldly affairs, looks more like a hoax.]

[Little Princess: A Level 99 Limit Douluo!]

[Yanzi: What a sinister old man...]

[Ah Yin: After all these years, could he be about to reach level one hundred and become a god?]

[Xiao Wu: Sisters, can I still rescue my mother?]

[...]

Had Qian Renxue not been too overwhelmed by emotion, she would certainly have jumped out to argue with these people who had no filter whatsoever.

Unfortunately, both she and Bibi Dong were wallowing in gloom now, temporarily lacking both the strength and the desire to chat in the group.

However, when she saw Lu Chen's assessment of her grandfather, Qian Renxue still forced herself to rally and focused her attention on the Notebook, wanting to see why he would judge her grandfather in such an almost teasing manner.

[Lu Chen: Apart from Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu could be considered the most astonishing talent of the Six-Winged Angel lineage.

As the Angel God's high priest, he drew on Angel Divine Power to cultivate to the realm of a Level 99 Limit Douluo before the age of one hundred, earning a reputation as invincible in the skies. Alongside Tang Chen of the Clear Sky Sect, invincible on land, and Bo Saixi, the Sea God's high priestess, invincible at sea, he towered over an entire era of the Douluo Continent.

He was wise, he was radiant, he was imposing, and he was Spirit Hall's mightiest leader of that era, but his later years were shrouded in ill fortune...]

[Lu Chen: Ever since he became friends with Tang Chen and Bo Saixi, everything started going wrong.

First came Bo Saixi. By then, both Qian Daoliu and Tang Chen had lost their first wives, yet these iron trees blossomed, both falling in love with Bo Saixi, Sea God Island's high priestess.

Bo Saixi had secretly given her heart to Tang Chen, but a mature woman's reserve kept her from saying it outright. Instead, she told them both that she wanted to marry a level-one-hundred expert...]

[Lu Chen: In truth, although becoming a god's priest provides divine power to help with cultivation and makes it comparatively easier, there is one ironclad rule: they can never reach level one hundred and become gods in their lifetime, because they are servants of the gods and must dedicate everything to the deity they worship.

Bo Saixi's answer seemed to invite them to compete, but she had actually already made her choice.

Of the three, only Tang Chen had steadily cultivated to the Limit Douluo realm entirely on his own, without any outside help. That was probably also why Bo Saixi thought more highly of him.

If you ask me, Qian Daoliu had a bit of a sneaky mean streak too... At least Bo Saixi was too shy and embarrassed to say it outright. If you understood, you could have told your good brother! What was that silent departure supposed to mean?]

[Lu Chen: "Until I become a god, I will not return." What a domineering declaration. I wonder whether old Tang Chen later felt the urge to slap himself every time he remembered it.

That departure became a farewell forever~

Before Tang Chen left to embark on the path to godhood, Qian Daoliu sought him out, and the two held one last contest on a mountain peak. This time, the two men who had always been evenly matched finally ended their contest with Qian Daoliu falling short by half a move.

I keep feeling that Qian Daoliu's guilt over sneakily setting Tang Chen up exposed an opening and caused his defeat. That was also the underlying color of his character: not wholly good, not thoroughly evil. In the end, he finally let everything spiral out of control...]

[Lu Chen: It was precisely this defeat by half a move that led Qian Daoliu to swear that until he defeated Tang Chen, no one in Spirit Hall beneath him would ever set foot on that mountain. The harm it caused was endless!]

[Netherworld: I think I finally know why Spirit Hall nearly destroyed the entire Clear Sky Sect back then, yet ultimately failed to wipe them out completely.]

[Spirit Cat: Now we can be sure those imperial strategic analysts have all been wasting funds spouting nonsense.]

[Yanzi: Tell us more!]

[Netherworld: The mountain peak where those two Limit Douluo fought, as Lu Chen mentioned, should be where the Clear Sky Sect is now living in seclusion.]

[Spirit Cat: The leaders of our respective factions have always been very interested in why Spirit Hall failed to destroy the Clear Sky Sect completely. After all...]

[Little Princess: I get what you mean. If that battle could be replicated, then even if you lost a future conflict with Spirit Hall, you could still preserve the seeds, right?]

[Xiao Wu: Do your factions have Limit Douluo too?]

[Netherworld: _(´ཀ`"∠)_]

[Spirit Cat: _(´ཀ`"∠)_]

How rude of you, Xiao Wu!

Zhu Zhuqing and Zhu Zhuyun indicated that they did not want to talk to a stupid rabbit incapable of thought!

[Lu Chen: Everyone outside believed Tang Hao was responsible for Qian Xunji dying of his severe injuries. In a fury, Qian Daoliu immediately led Spirit Hall's forces against the Clear Sky Sect, uprooting every one of its external strongholds.

Facing the threat of annihilation, the Clear Sky Sect's leader at the time, Tang Hao's father, finally remembered the wager his father had made with Qian Daoliu back then. He led the last remaining sect members up the mountain peak and announced that they would seal off the mountain, live in seclusion, and withdraw from the world from that day onward.

Tang Chen had long since embarked on the path to godhood. There had been no word from him for years, and no one knew whether he was alive or dead.

As Sea God Island's high priestess, Bo Saixi did not concern herself with matters on land.

At that point, Qian Daoliu was the sole invincible figure on the Douluo Continent, yet he really did stop short of exterminating them all!]