"Why?"
Bibi Dong asked with a frown.
"Your Holiness!"
"Because... this child's Martial Soul belongs to the fate system. It's called the Wishing Divine Lamp, and it seems capable of granting wishes!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo lowered his voice, speaking with excitement and amazement.
"What! Grant wishes?!"
At those words, the expression on Bibi Dong's noble, coldly beautiful face changed. Her eyes filled with disbelief, and her delicate brows knitted tightly.
"Are you certain?"
"This child has only just awakened. Even with Innate Full Soul Power, he's only a level-ten Soul Scholar."
"Can someone with his cultivation really grant wishes?"
"My investigation confirms that he can!"
Chrysanthemum Douluo reported respectfully.
"Perhaps it's because this child's Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul doesn't grant wishes by creating things out of nothing."
"Instead, it influences fate and creates various coincidences to make wishes come true."
"That's why it doesn't place great demands on the Soul Master's strength!"
With that, Chrysanthemum Douluo also related the examples he had uncovered in Spirit City: the wishes granted for the level-forty-nine Soul Ancestor and the female Soul Master who had fallen victim to a romance scam.
After listening, Bibi Dong couldn't help knitting her brows and falling into thought.
Although the ways the level-forty-nine Soul Ancestor's wish and the scammed female Soul Master's wish had been granted were indeed unexpected,
their wishes had, strictly speaking, come true.
Especially the level-forty-nine Soul Ancestor's wish.
Although he had paid a price, he had indeed broken through to Soul King.
So... as long as a wish was stated objectively and accurately,
at most, a price would have to be paid.
But the wish would certainly come true!
For a moment, Bibi Dong's heart fluttered with excitement.
But Bibi Dong also knew that if she wished for time to flow backward and everything to return to how it had been back then,
that wish probably couldn't be granted.
After all, no matter how powerful fate was, it couldn't transcend space and time.
Besides, this child's Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul only granted wishes through accidents and coincidences.
But since the Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul could grant wishes through all sorts of accidents and coincidences, as if by some twist of fate,
could she wish for Xiaogang to return to her side?
But when she thought of the wish made by the female Soul Master who had fallen victim to the romance scam,
Bibi Dong took a deep breath and calmed down again.
A wish for Xiaogang to return to her side left far too much room for interpretation.
Heaven knew, if she made that wish,
just how it would end up being granted.
She had to keep her fate in her own hands as much as possible!
Soon, Bibi Dong came up with another idea.
She would take Xu Nuo to Nuoding Academy and have Xiaogang make a wish to him.
Bibi Dong had always known that Yu Xiaogang's greatest wish wasn't to become a master of Martial Soul Theory, but to have his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao, evolve back into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.
If she could help Xiaogang fulfill his wish,
that favor would surely make Xiaogang let go of the resentment he had held against her since those days.
Then she would weigh more in Xiaogang's heart than that Liu Erlong!
Besides,
this would also indirectly weaken that old fellow!
Otherwise, if this child continued to stay by the old fellow's side,
heaven knew what else the old fellow would wish for!
With a cold snort to herself, Bibi Dong quickly made her decision.
She would find a chance to abduct Xu Nuo and take him to Nuoding Academy!
Meanwhile, after introducing Qian Renxue and Xu Nuo to each other,
Qian Daoliu was eager to have his granddaughter Qian Renxue grow closer to Xu Nuo.
But it was getting late.
After a moment's thought, Qian Daoliu smiled and said to Xu Nuo,
"Xiao Nuo!
"It's getting late. Get some rest early!
"I'll take your Sister Xue'er back first.
"Tomorrow, I'll send someone to repair the roof of your room.
"When you have time tomorrow, you and Xue'er can take a good look around Spirit City together."
"All right, Grandpa Qian!"
Xu Nuo replied respectfully.
Qian Daoliu then left the villa with Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo.
"Qian Renxue fell out of the sky in the middle of the night.
"What a coincidence!"
After Qian Daoliu, Qian Renxue, and the others left, Xu Nuo couldn't help making the remark.
And because Qian Renxue had crashed down and smashed a hole in the roof of his room,
the cold night wind was whistling in.
There was no way he could sleep in this room tonight.
Xu Nuo promptly got out of bed and prepared to sleep in another room.
There were plenty of rooms in the little villa anyway.
Meanwhile,
Bibi Dong saw Qian Daoliu leave with Qian Renxue, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo, going far away from the little villa where Xu Nuo lived.
A light flashed in her beautiful violet-black eyes, set in her graceful, noble, and coldly beautiful face, and she tightened her grip on the Pope's Scepter.
"I've sensed an opportunity to break through. Tomorrow, I intend to enter seclusion and cultivate.
"Unless something urgent happens, don't disturb me!"
Bibi Dong had no intention of telling Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo about her plan to take Xu Nuo away, so she merely spoke indifferently.
With that, she turned and walked gracefully into the Pope's Hall.
After Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo left,
Bibi Dong quietly slipped out of the Pope's Hall and made her way silently toward the little villa where Xu Nuo lived.
After entering Xu Nuo's little villa,
Bibi Dong soon found the room where Xu Nuo was staying.
Amid a gust of cold wind, she pushed the door open and entered.
Xu Nuo was just about to go to sleep.
Hearing the door open, Xu Nuo instinctively opened his eyes.
But before he could see what was happening,
Bibi Dong knocked Xu Nuo unconscious with a chop of her hand.
She then took Xu Nuo out of Spirit City and headed straight for Nuoding City.
Early the next morning,
Xu Nuo felt terribly cold all over and woke up shivering.
He opened his eyes in confusion, only to find that he seemed to be lying on a patch of grass.
"You're awake?"
A cold voice came from beside him.
Xu Nuo turned his head and saw that he was out in the wilderness.
And the person sitting beside him was none other than Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall.
Oh no!
Xu Nuo's body stiffened, and he inwardly cried out that things had gone wrong.
This is bad!
Did Bibi Dong kidnap me and bring me out into the wilderness?
She's not planning to kill me, is she?
Xu Nuo was full of anxiety and apprehension, but he could only pretend to be dazed and pleasantly surprised.
"Y-you're His Holiness the Pope?!"
"Am I dreaming?"
"I actually dreamed of the venerable Pope!"
"You're not dreaming!
"This is real. I brought you out of Spirit City."
Bibi Dong nodded, stood up, and spoke slowly.
"I heard that your Wishing Magic Lamp Martial Soul can help people fulfill their wishes.
"I have a friend who is exceptionally talented and remarkably wise. He's known as a master of Martial Soul Theory in the Soul Master World, but his Martial Soul just happens to be a Trash Martial Soul with only half a level of innate Soul Power.
"His greatest wish has always been to find a way to achieve Martial Soul Evolution.
"I brought you out here because I hope you can help him fulfill that wish.
"Xiao Nuo, can you help with that?"