Yue Guan looked up.
"Brother Bai, help Old Ghost with his Immortal Herb. I'll absorb the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum first."
He could no longer hold himself back.
He was like a man who had seen a girl he liked and wanted to confess his feelings, but couldn't make up his mind.
I'm not an indecisive person.
So I have to absorb the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum as soon as possible.
"Suit yourself."
Having received his answer, Yue Guan immediately sat down cross-legged, put the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum in his mouth, and began absorbing it to his heart's content.
"Ah, that feels good!"
The immense medicinal power made Yue Guan's delicate face flush slightly, and he moaned in comfort.
This was the most wonderful sensation he had experienced since birth.
"Hm?"
Gui Mei tilted his head and looked at Yue Guan in surprise.
Was his reaction really that intense?
It took him somewhat by surprise.
What exactly was Yue Guan feeling?
Meanwhile, Bai Guyue searched for the first Immortal Herb for Gui Mei.
After some effort, he found one: the Shadow Soul-Congealing Ghost Mushroom.
It was a translucent, inky black. Its cap resembled a floating ghostly shadow, with no fixed shape, twisting and drifting gently in the breeze. Its stem was as black as dark mist, and the entire Immortal Herb seemed both illusory and real.
He brought it before Gui Mei.
Gui Mei also found it quite peculiar when he saw it, but in any case, an Immortal Herb suited to him was something he might come across by chance but could never find by searching.
So he had to treasure it.
"Gui Mei, eat it."
Gui Mei took the Immortal Herb and swallowed it without hesitation, then sat down and began absorbing it.
As soon as he came into contact with its medicinal power, Gui Mei felt thoroughly comfortable.
No wonder Yue Guan made that face. It really does feel good.
Bai Guyue watched the three of them absorb their Immortal Herbs. Once everything was taken care of, he began picking his own.
The Nine-Leaf Soul-Devouring Grass.
The entire plant was about seven inches tall and glimmered with a dark, blood-red light. It bore nine narrow, swordlike leaves, their edges finely serrated and their surfaces marked with dark golden veins like blood vessels. A gentle sway was enough to release a very faint black mist.
At the center of the leaves sat a pitch-black crystalline bead the size of a needlepoint. It was the core of the entire plant's medicinal power, called the "Soul-Devouring Core."
After picking the Nine-Leaf Soul-Devouring Grass, he indeed couldn't swallow it directly.
The method of refining it was also highly unusual.
He had to wrap the herb in his Nine Kill Soul-Devouring Sword Martial Soul and slowly refine it for seven times seven, or forty-nine, hours.
Forty-nine hours, a full two days and two nights, was nothing much to him.
While the three of them refined their herbs, he would make preparations to absorb the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and the Infernal Delicate Apricot.
One day later...
Bibi Dong's aura suddenly erupted.
"Break!"
Bibi Dong gave a soft shout.
The Death Spider Emperor and Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor flickered in and out of sight.
A powerful aura spread out, bearing the fluctuations of a breakthrough to Titled Douluo.
Her Martial Souls faded away, and Bibi Dong slowly opened her eyes, a flash of excitement passing through them.
"I thought it would take me some time to break through. I didn't expect to do it already."
Bibi Dong could hardly contain her excitement.
She noticed that Yue Guan and Gui Mei were still absorbing their herbs.
The effects of the two Immortal Herbs had allowed her to break through to Level 90, so the Immortal Herbs Yue Guan and Gui Mei were absorbing would surely also strengthen their foundations and then raise them one level from where they had been.
For a Titled Douluo, every level was a chasm, and upon reaching level 96, one could crush most entry-level Titled Douluo.
"You only broke through to Level 90, and you're this happy?"
Bai Guyue stood to one side and spoke indifferently.
What a good opportunity. How could I not mock her a little?
"You really do seize every chance to make snide remarks at me. I'm happy, so I won't hold it against you."
Bibi Dong rolled her eyes at him.
On the surface, she acted as though she didn't care, but inwardly, she remembered it.
Either way, I have to give you a good going-over and leave you unable to get out of bed.
"You won't hold it against me?"
"Anyone who didn't know better would think you were awfully magnanimous."
Bai Guyue gave a derisive laugh.
"Xiao Bai, don't push your luck."
Bibi Dong glared at him.
There's a limit to my patience.
He's really going too far.
"Push my luck?" Bai Guyue laughed. "I can go even further. Want to try me?"
Bibi Dong's expression changed. "If you say it, I'll let you experience it right here and now."
Hearing that, Bai Guyue's expression froze. "Forget it. I was joking."
He didn't dare gamble on whether Bibi Dong was joking.
"You've got a thief's heart, but not a thief's guts."
Bibi Dong shot back.
Bai Guyue swallowed his retort.
After that little interlude, Bibi Dong came up to Bai Guyue. "They're all absorbing Immortal Herbs. Why aren't you?"
Bai Guyue held up the Immortal Herb in his hand. "This is the Immortal Herb I'm absorbing. It needs to be refined for seven times seven, or forty-nine, hours.
"I didn't absorb it just now because I was also worried we might run into danger."
"So that's how it is?"
Bibi Dong chuckled.
"Xiao Bai, you have a sharp tongue but a soft heart after all. You do care about me quite a bit."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bibi Dong moved closer.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? What are you imagining this time?"
Bai Guyue was dumbfounded.
You can imagine something else even from that?
"Nothing. I just want to reward you."
Looking at Bai Guyue's handsome face, Bibi Dong couldn't resist leaning in to kiss him, but Bai Guyue had long been on guard and dodged aside.
Bibi Dong lunged at empty air and grew somewhat annoyed.
"Xiao Bai, now you even know to run away."
I actually didn't sense anything in that instant.
Who did Bai Guyue learn that movement technique from?
She was about to make another move when Bai Guyue interrupted her first:
"Hold on. Put the kissing aside for now. I have something important to say."
"Go ahead." Bibi Dong calmed down.
Bai Guyue said, "Are you certain those people in the Worship Hall will support you wholeheartedly?"
"Support me?"
Bibi Dong sneered.
"They can't wait for me to die. How could they possibly support me? I'm nothing but a puppet they put forward. Once Qian Renxue grows up, I'll be replaced. I, Bibi Dong, am not stupid."
With that, Bibi Dong looked at Bai Guyue.
"But they don't know that I, Bibi Dong, have a trump card. Now that I've broken through to Titled Douluo, by the time they react, the position of Pope will already be mine. And I want the next Pope to be our child, not someone from the Qian Family."
Now that I've made up my mind, I won't let anyone from the Qian Family take the position of Pope again.
By the time Qian Renxue grew up, she wouldn't pose any threat at all.
"You actually think that way?"
Bai Guyue had clearly underestimated Bibi Dong's ambition.
He hadn't expected her to want to take control of the entire Spirit Hall step by step. Did she want the Spirit Hall to change its surname?
"Of course!"
"The Great Enshrined may stand at the pinnacle of the human world, but in the end, he can't contend with me."
"Once our child is born, when I step down, I'll let you succeed me, or else our child."
Bibi Dong had already thought it all through.
Today was an opportunity.
"Your ambition is too great."
Bai Guyue could no longer fathom Bibi Dong's thoughts.
She was so mad and ambitious that she already wanted the Spirit Hall to change its surname.
"Xiao Bai, I have a chance to succeed. Why shouldn't I take it?"
"Sometimes, an opportunity is right in front of you, and once you miss it, it's gone."
Bibi Dong had suffered so much. How could she possibly forget the harm the Qian Family had done her?