The original storyline's timeline...
"So cool! As expected of Brother Nan, killing the Purple-Winged Spider Emperor so easily."
"This Purple-Winged Spider Emperor was already incredibly difficult to deal with, and it even had wings to fly."
Pope's Palace
Seeing this, Bibi Dong breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, but she knew that her External Soul Bone, the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings, had come from a Purple-Winged Spider Emperor.
She wondered whether this one would drop it.
The sky screen's timeline...
"We did it, Teacher!"
Bibi Dong jumped off Nan Huai'an and jogged over to the Purple-Winged Spider Emperor's corpse, raising her little leg to stomp on it:
"Weren't you so cocky just now? Go on, be cocky again if you've got what it takes!"
Nan Huai'an: ???
Whose disciple started taunting after the fight was over?
Bibi Dong's behavior made quite a few viewers in the original storyline's timeline laugh.
"His Holiness the Pope really is adorable. That gap moe is real."
"Yes, exactly."
Pope's Palace
Bibi Dong covered her forehead. How could my younger self do something so stupid?
This is so embarrassing!
Do I really have that much gap moe?
Even I didn't know.
"All right, all right, stop stomping. It's already dead as dead can be."
Nan Huai'an didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Teacher, I'm venting!"
Bibi Dong spoke with a perfectly serious expression.
Just as she finished speaking, something giving off pulses of light caught her attention.
"Teacher, something here is glowing."
Glowing!
It really dropped an External Soul Bone.
Nan Huai'an strode forward and extracted the External Soul Bone radiating purplish-black light, looking at its six cicada-wing-thin purple light wings.
"An External Soul Bone, the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings!"
"Teacher, what's an External Soul Bone?"
Bibi Dong asked curiously.
She really didn't know what an External Soul Bone was.
Holding the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings, Nan Huai'an explained:
"Ordinary Soul Bones are divided into six types: the skull, torso bone, and four limb bones. Once absorbed, they fuse into a Soul Master's own skeleton, stabilizing and strengthening the body while providing fixed Soul Skills. They don't evolve on their own. Once their age is set, their abilities remain essentially unchanged. Their drop rate is about one in a thousand. After a Soul Master dies, ordinary Soul Bones fall away and can be absorbed again by someone else."
"External Soul Bones are a special exception among Soul Bones. Their drop rate is less than one in ten thousand, making them far rarer than ordinary Soul Bones. They don't belong to the six basic body parts and manifest outside the body, such as Spider Spears or light wings. Their greatest feature is their ability to evolve along with a Soul Master's cultivation."
Bibi Dong's little face changed slightly. "Evolve? Doesn't that make External Soul Bones stronger than ordinary Soul Bones?"
"In theory, yes. If you can inherit a deity's legacy, your External Soul Bone will also evolve to a higher level."
In the original story, Tang San's Eight Spider Soul Bone had evolved continuously as his cultivation increased, ultimately becoming the Sea God's Eight Wings and a component of the Sea God Divine Armor. Its final quality had even reached the super-divine level.
"Then, Teacher, is this External Soul Bone for me to absorb?"
Bibi Dong's eyes shone.
"Of course, but I have one condition!"
Bibi Dong asked:
"What condition? Just say it, Teacher!"
Nan Huai'an let his shoulders droop:
"Your teacher is tired. Killing this Purple-Winged Spider Emperor was a little more than my body could take. Just pound my shoulders and massage my legs on the way back."
Bibi Dong readily agreed:
"Isn't that just taking care of you, Teacher? A piece of cake. Leave it to Dong'er."
Nan Huai'an nodded in satisfaction. He had thought Bibi Dong might refuse.
"Take it and absorb it!"
Nan Huai'an tossed the Six-Winged Purple-Winged Spider Emperor to Bibi Dong.
Bibi Dong caught the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings, quickly sat down, and began absorbing the External Soul Bone.
Teacher's luck is so good. Following him even gets me an External Soul Bone to absorb.
I must take good care of Teacher when we get back.
While she absorbed it, everyone outside the sky screen was filled with envy.
"An External Soul Bone? That's an External Soul Bone! It's no less precious than a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring or Soul Bone. Who wouldn't love an External Soul Bone that can evolve?"
"Brother Nan's luck is through the roof this time. His Holiness the Pope really is blessed to be following him. I think Brother Nan is a pretty decent person."
Quite a few viewers felt that Nan Huai'an really knew how to conduct himself.
Clear Sky Sect
"How can people from Spirit Hall be this lucky!"
Tang Xiao was furious. Seeing Bibi Dong obtain an External Soul Bone left a terrible taste in his mouth, worse than eating shit.
"Sect Master, I've obtained specific information."
The liaison rushed back in a great hurry.
"You have information?" Tang Hao asked quickly. "What information? Tell us the details!"
The liaison said:
"According to the information provided by the Moonlight Pavilion, the person on the sky screen is named Nan Huai'an. He's a student at Spirit Hall Academy, but he's always been slacking off. In public, he's always been a Soul Elder. After this series of events, there's only one conclusion we can draw: he concealed his strength and transmigrated to a parallel world."
Tang Xiao was somewhat surprised after hearing this:
"To think he possesses the ability to travel to parallel worlds. This young man is no ordinary person. If he weren't at Spirit Hall Academy, our Clear Sky Sect could try to recruit him. I just wonder what sort of experiences await the Clear Sky Sect in that parallel world."
Shrek Academy
"An External Soul Bone actually dropped! Isn't that luck a little too good?"
Oscar was filled with envy.
External Soul Bones were immensely valuable, and Nan Huai'an on the sky screen had already personally given them a lesson on the subject.
Yu Xiaogang was deeply dissatisfied. Why can Nan Huai'an and Bibi Dong get one, while Tang San and I, master and disciple, can't receive the enhancement of an External Soul Bone?
Isn't this just cheating?
Are we sure this isn't a script arranged by heaven?
He, Yu Xiaogang, had spent a lifetime researching his knowledge.
Crown Prince's Residence
"Damn it!"
Qian Renxue viciously smashed the teacup in her hand onto the floor, glaring at the scene on the sky screen in uncontrollable rage.
"Why did they manage to keep the External Soul Bone? Why?"
She couldn't accept it. Watching Bibi Dong suffer setbacks was clearly the show she wanted to see. Why had it turned out like this?
Qian Renxue gritted her teeth.
Pope's Palace
"An External Soul Bone, the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings. So it really was?"
She hadn't expected her other self to absorb the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings at just six years old, while she herself had only absorbed them later.
Absorbing an External Soul Bone early offered a good chance for it to evolve, and she had already spent a long time studying the abilities of the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings.
She wondered what sort of ending awaited the Bibi Dong of that world.
Without hatred, she probably wouldn't be chosen by the Rakshasa God. If another deity could choose her, perhaps she would have a different ending.
"Teacher, do you have the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings too?" Hu Liena asked.
"Yes, I have the Six-Winged Purple Light Wings too."
Bibi Dong nodded.
Hu Liena looked at the sky screen, then at Bibi Dong:
"Teacher, I'm saying if Nan Huai'an comes back one day, what should you call him? Would you have to call him Teacher?"
Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched slightly:
"What nonsense are you spouting? I've discovered that you really do have quite an imagination. Making me call him Teacher? In his dreams."
Hu Liena considered it seriously:
"But he's your teacher. That's a fact!"
"Nana, I think you're really asking for a lesson." Bibi Dong walked toward Hu Liena with a half-smile.
"Teacher, no!"