There are hosts.
Ding~! Congratulations to the host for your overflowing luck, struck by the system's grand gift package, and acquiring the Absolute Rationality trait.
Absolute Rationality: no matter the situation, the host will be able to maintain absolute rationality and corresponding caution.
As the system's voice faded, Ling Feng only felt a surge of spiritual energy rush straight to the crown of his head.
His entire Spiritual Platform experienced a bout of clarity, and all impatient emotions were completely suppressed.
"System, many thanks!"
Ling Feng expressed his gratitude to the system.
He knew that he had no such thing as overflowing luck.
This was merely an excuse for the system to open the back door and give him special treatment...
After a sincere expression of gratitude, Ling Feng transformed into action, riding his sword in flight toward the nearest village.
Tang Hao was already in a near-death state of severe injury, and with Tang San on his back, it was impossible for him to travel far.
A streak of light swept across the sky, shooting in the direction of the village adjacent to Sacred Soul Village.
No need to thank...!
The Dao Protector System had always been taciturn and tight-lipped.
Spirit City, Pope's Palace.
After murdering Qian Xunji, Bibi Dong placed all the blame squarely on Tang Hao's shoulders.
She announced to the outside world that Qian Xunji was severely injured by Tang Hao and died of his injuries not long after returning.
Regarding this, none of the people in Spirit Hall raised any questions.
After all, Qian Xunji had led a team of Soul Douluos from Spirit Hall specifically to hunt down the Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast Ah Yin.
Furthermore, Ah Yin was Tang Hao's beloved woman, and Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Sect's most formidable genius—one of the Haotian Twin Stars renowned across the continent. Tang Hao possessed the strength to counter-kill Qian Xunji.
The Clear Sky Sect's ultimate technique of the Great Sumeru Hammer, Explode Ring, could substantially boost combat prowess, something every advanced soul master on the continent knew.
Besides, Tang Hao himself was a Level 89 Soul Douluo, and with Ah Yin sacrificing herself to him, he would become a Level 90 Titled Douluo.
Upon entering Level 90 as a Titled Douluo, and with the amplification of Explode Ring, a single hammer strike by Tang Hao could wipe out Spirit Hall's entire Soul Douluo team.
It was entirely possible that Qian Xunji had grown arrogant and careless, and was hammered to death across ranks by Tang Hao.
Upon learning that Tang Hao had dared to turn his back on humanity for the sake of a soul beast, killing the Pope of Spirit Hall with a single hammer,
Spirit Hall issued a warrant for Tang Hao at the very first moment.
They issued a continent-wide arrest warrant for Tang Hao, while demanding that the Clear Sky Sect hand him over, or else prepare to bear the towering fury of Spirit Hall.
Faced with Spirit Hall's threat, the Clear Sky Sect could not possibly hand Tang Hao over.
Yet if they did not hand him over, faced with Spirit Hall's fury, the Clear Sky Sect lacked the strength to block it.
Although the Clear Sky Sect was proudly one of the Top Three Sects, the gap between them and Spirit Hall remained vast.
In order to endure, the Clear Sky Sect had no choice but to choose seclusion and avoid the world.
From then on, the Clear Sky Sect vanished from the mainland, and the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul also became a taboo among the mainland's people.
Inside the Pope's Palace, the tender young maiden of merely nine years of age—Qian Renxue—lost all focus in her eyes upon learning the news of her father's death, and the sword in her hand slipped directly to the ground.
She could not help but burst straight into tears, becoming a tearful mess.
Before the news of Qian Xunji's death arrived, Qian Renxue had managed with great difficulty to train the strength of a single arm to twenty catties, swinging the twenty-catty-heavy Juque Sword.
To her, this progress was the greatest, a doubling of her strength.
She was very happy, joy filling her heart.
She had been impatient to share this good news with her grandfather, to let her grandfather share in her joy as well.
Yet she had not even had the chance to impart this news to her grandfather.
Over on Bibi Dong's side, a nightmare had been transmitted to her.
She was told a nightmare.
Her father, Qian Xunji, because he went to hunt the Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast Ah Yin, had been beaten into critical condition by Tang Hao with a single blow of the Clear Sky Hammer.
Shortly after returning, he failed to recover and died.
The team of Soul Douluos her father had brought along had been utterly annihilated by Tang Hao, with not a single one able to return.
Upon hearing this harrowing news, the brilliant world in Qian Renxue's heart collapsed.
Her body felt as though it were plunging into a bottomless abyss, falling endlessly.
Her surroundings grew colder and colder—so cold that even though it was still summer, she could not feel a shred of warmth.
"Mother, can I please take one last look at Father?"
Amidst her sobbing voice, Qian Renxue carried a hint of pleading.
So small, fragile and helpless, pitiful and sorrowful.
Bibi Dong's heart was as cold as iron; not only did her inner self fail to stir even a ripple, but she also refused to buy into Qian Renxue's act.
On the contrary, looking at young Qian Renxue like this, she even faintly felt a trace of subtle pleasure.
She simply loved watching Qian Renxue in unbearable pain, helpless and sorrowful.
Because of him, the life that should have been happy for her was ruined.
Therefore, Bibi Dong wanted to exact revenge on Qian Xunji, to exact revenge on the Qian Family, to exact revenge on everyone!
"No!" Bibi Dong coldly rejected Qian Renxue's plea, showing not a shred of softness even though the other party was her own biological daughter. "And haven't I warned you?"
"Do not call me mother; you are to call me older sister!"
Her mother's refusal made Qian Renxue's already wounded heart all the more desolate.
"But... but you are originally my mother!"
"Why do you want me to call you sister!"
She pressed her lips tightly together, her mist-filled eyes looking pitifully at Bibi Dong.
A sob was suppressed in her throat, her eyes red and swollen, tears flowing ceaselessly down.
She continuously wiped away her tears with her wrists, yet no amount of wiping could dry them.
She stood rigidly, stubbornness written across her small face.
Looking at little Qian Renxue, who seemed abandoned by the entire world, Bibi Dong—acting as a mother—not only felt no sense of guilt, but instead felt even more exhilarated inside.
The more painful Qian Renxue was, the happier she became.
Qian Xunji, although you are dead, our accounts are not settled.
You ruined me, and I will ruin your daughter as well.
"Bibi Dong, how dare you?! She is your daughter!"
An angry roar rang out, as Qian Daoliu and several grand enfranchised elders of the Enshrining Hall, including Golden Crocodile Douluo, walked in with gloomy, dark faces.
Their pressure weighed heavily, resembling the dawn before a violent storm.
Golden Crocodile Douluo glared directly at Bibi Dong, an unyielding murderous aura radiating from his body.
Waves of masculine killing intent surged from him.
Had he not considered that the other party was Xiao Xue's mother, Golden Crocodile Douluo might already have killed Bibi Dong.
How could such a mother exist in this world?
Bibi Dong was simply unworthy of being a human, unworthy of living in this world.
Qian Xunji's approach was admittedly wrong, but Qian Renxue was innocent.
Bibi Dong's hatred toward Qian Xunji should not fall upon Qian Renxue.
Moreover, Bibi Dong, you were raised by Spirit Hall and received Spirit Hall's grace.
Since you received Spirit Hall's grace, you ought to have the ideological consciousness to sacrifice yourself for Spirit Hall.
Sensing the surging killing intent on Golden Crocodile Douluo, Qian Daoliu extended an arm to stop him, terrified that he might kill Bibi Dong out of extreme rage.
No matter what, Bibi Dong was Qian Renxue's mother, her final remaining kin in this world.
As for him, Qian Daoliu, he was destined to be sacrificed.
"Bibi Dong, you've gone too far!"
After stopping Golden Crocodile Douluo, whose anger had rushed to his head, Qian Daoliu's gaze fell upon Qian Renxue with a heart full of distress.
He then turned his icy gaze toward Bibi Dong and sharply rebuked, "No matter how wrong Xiao Xue is in a thousand ways, she is still your daughter—your biological daughter!"
How can you bear to treat her this way?!"
Bibi Dong knew that with Qian Renxue serving as a protective amulet, Qian Daoliu—no matter how furious—would not dare do anything to her.
Emboldened and utterly fearless, she didn't give Qian Daoliu an ounce of face.
Crossing her arms over her chest, she pushed out her cleavage.
A cold smirk played at the corners of her lips. "Gone too far?"
"How have I gone too far? I am just like this!"
"Besides, compared to the harm your Qian Family inflicted upon me, what do these things even count for?"
Seeing Bibi Dong abandon all pretense of shame and prepare to air those unspeakable matters, Qian Daoliu could not help but twitch his brow.
Fearing that Qian Renxue would lose her will to live upon finding out, and that her already fragile soul would suffer injury once more,
he hurriedly shouted out, reprimanding her in a stern tone.
"Bibi Dong, shut your mouth!"
Hearing this, Bibi Dong hooked the corner of her mouth in a demonic smirk, cast her gaze toward Qian Renxue—who had already stopped crying—and closed her mouth.
That period of experience was her darkness, as well as the pain in her life; she did not wish to recount it.
*(My mind has been muddled these past few days, and my writing skills are also lacking. These chapters were written and deleted, deleted and revised, revised and deleted. Since I'm still unsatisfied, let's just leave it like this for now!)*
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