Likewise, Qian Daoliu, who was in the hall accompanying his precious granddaughter Qian Renxue, was also aware of Bibi Dong's arrival.
But in Qian Daoliu's eyes, accompanying his precious granddaughter to begin the Angel divine test was the first priority.
As for everything else, unless Spirit Hall was about to be wiped out, it could all be set aside for now.
Qian Renxue did not come out, and Bibi Dong was not angry. She could roughly guess what Qian Renxue was doing and simply waited quietly outside the hall.
Although a year was not long, she had enough patience.
Because this was her biological daughter whom she had grown sick of seeing, to whom she had given not a shred of affection, yet in the end she would shatter her own godhood to protect her.
Having returned through "rebirth," and having at once eliminated Tang San and his cohort, Bibi Dong knew that from now on, whether or not she existed, Qian Renxue's fate had already changed. At the very least, she would not end with a shattered end.
With that, Bibi Dong could be at ease.
If she still had an unfulfilled wish, it was that before her soul fell into Avici Hell forever at the end of one year, she could hear Qian Renxue call her "mother" once more.
Time passed little by little. Half an hour later, the food was cold. Bibi Dong turned and waved to the maid holding the dishes. "You can go back."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The maid bowed and withdrew with the food.
Outside the Douluo Hall, aside from the Hall-Guard Knights on duty, there was Bibi Dong waiting quietly.
At dusk, Bibi Dong left, but half an hour later she returned with a maid carrying food.
She waited a long time, but the doors of the Douluo Hall did not open. Just as at noon, she waved the maid away and waited quietly outside the hall.
From that day on, aside from briefly leaving morning, noon, and evening to personally cook the meals, Bibi Dong waited outside the Douluo Hall day and night, rain or shine.
Time flowed on. One day. Ten days. One month. Three months. A hundred days passed.
That night, Bibi Dong once more finished cooking and waited outside the Douluo Hall.
Suddenly, a brilliant pillar of holy light shot into the sky from within the Douluo Hall, illuminating all of Spirit City.
The Angel divine test had finally begun.
At first glance, Bibi Dong recognized what this was.
The scene before her was the same as before her "rebirth," when Qian Renxue began the Angel divine test.
After a long time, the pillar of holy light faded.
Inside the Douluo Hall.
"Xue'er, Bibi Dong has been waiting outside the hall for a hundred days. Your first Angel test is to pass through the Holy Light. It will take quite some time."
Seeing that Qian Renxue was impatient to enter the Angel secret realm to begin the first test, Qian Daoliu could not help speaking.
If possible, Qian Daoliu undoubtedly hoped to see the mother and daughter truly stand together.
The first Angel test, passing through the Holy Light, sounded quite similar to the first Sea God test, passing through the Sea God's Light.
No other reason. As the master of the illusion did not know what exactly the first Angel test was, he simply copied it.
"Hmph. Who told her to be so awful to me before?"
Qian Renxue snorted, a little displeased.
But then she changed her tone. "If she is still waiting outside for me in a year, I will forgive her."
"Very well."
Qian Daoliu nodded.
Clearly, a certain daughter did not know that in the illusion, her mother who had once been irresponsible, then awakened and returned through "rebirth" to try to make amends, would not be able to wait a year.
Rumble.
A faint hum sounded. The heavy doors of the Douluo Hall slowly opened. Qian Daoliu walked out, and then they slowly closed again.
"Where is Xue'er?"
Seeing that only Qian Daoliu emerged and Qian Renxue was nowhere to be seen, Bibi Dong hurried forward to ask.
In the "previous life," the mother and daughter could not stand each other. After the day they formally broke, Qian Renxue never sought out Bibi Dong, and Bibi Dong never sought out Qian Renxue. Naturally, she did not know that once the Angel divine test began, Qian Renxue would devote all her energy to completing it.
By the time they met again, it was years later, at the divine battle at Jialing Pass.
"Xue'er?"
Qian Daoliu raised a brow, a little surprised.
It seemed Bibi Dong had truly changed. Otherwise she would not address his granddaughter so affectionately.
"Xue'er has entered the Angel secret realm to undergo the Angel divine test."
At this, Bibi Dong froze, then hurriedly asked, "When will Xue'er come out?"
Qian Daoliu did not intend to hide it. He shook his head. "I don't know. But the first Angel test is not just a test. It is also an opportunity to rapidly increase strength. The time limit for this test is one year."
One year.
Qian Daoliu's words struck Bibi Dong like a bolt from the blue.
Since the first Angel test could rapidly increase strength, it was obvious that Qian Renxue would most likely complete it at the last possible moment, that is, after a full year.
But she herself had only eight months left. She could not wait that long.
Knowing that her final wish would most likely go unfulfilled, Bibi Dong's eyes turned red, and tears slid uncontrollably down her cheeks.
Qian Daoliu: "…"
What was this? Why was she crying?
"Bibi Dong, you…"
After hesitating, Qian Daoliu spoke.
"Get out."
Bibi Dong snapped without courtesy.
It was true that she had awakened in her "previous life," but that was only toward her daughter Qian Renxue. The old man Qian Daoliu was not included.
The ones Bibi Dong hated most in this life were Qian Xunji and Tang San, who in the "previous life" caused Qian Renxue's godhood to shatter and cut Bibi Dong down with the Ashura Demon Sword.
Second only to those two was the old man Qian Daoliu.
For no other reason than that Qian Daoliu, like Qian Xunji, possessed the Six-Winged Angel martial soul.
"Ridiculous."
Having his warm face met with a cold butt, Qian Daoliu no longer showed Bibi Dong a good expression and turned to leave the Douluo Hall.
If this were reality, after Bibi Dong abandoned the Rakshasa divine test and shifted from inheritor of the Rakshasa God to an ordinary level-99 Peerless Douluo, Qian Daoliu, the demigod-level Angel God's servant, would certainly have sensed the abnormality on Bibi Dong.
But this was an illusion. All people and things were fictitious based on reality. Under the control of the master of the illusion, aside from Bibi Dong's own emotional throughline, all the unreasonable parts would be subconsciously accepted by everyone.
Otherwise that one hundred thousand year old Human-Faced Demon Spider, one hundred thousand year old Hell Demon Dragon, and one hundred thousand year old Black Dragon would not sacrifice themselves for Tang San one after another.
Nor would the God of Cookery and Nine-Colored Goddess descend to revive Tang San, who had little to do with them, and raise him to the Sea God's seat.
Nor would Tang San, after being revived, directly inherit the Asura God through the Clear Sky Hammer martial soul, and even display the feat of unleashing a self god-soul fusion technique: Dual Gods Coexisting.
T/N: Sorry for not uploading last night, was out with family for my birthday and completely forgot about it.