Chapter 257: Ning Rongrong Confesses—A Reborn
After dealing with Yu Tianheng, Bibi Dong suddenly felt an all-too-familiar and gut-wrenchingly disgusting presence—a sensation as if she were once again trapped in a hellish nightmare. Her legs reflexively clamped together, a conditioned response from her traumatic memories in the secret chamber with Bone Douluo.
Bibi Dong arrived at a luxurious dormitory similar to the one where Yu Tianheng had stayed. Inside sat a towering man over two meters tall, with an enormous frame barely contained by his clothes. His appearance was somewhat withered, his muscles and eye sockets sunken. With a buzzcut and distinctly unattractive face, he looked older than his peers—ugly, even.
This man's features looked as if they'd been carved from the same mold as Bone Douluo's. The soul power he exuded was nearly identical as well. He was, without a doubt, Gu Chen.
Upon seeing Gu Chen, Bibi Dong's killing intent surged like a tidal wave. The memories of her three-year nightmare in Bone Douluo's chamber flooded back—she wanted nothing more than to slap this bastard child of his to death.
She was silent for a moment. In the end, she suppressed her murderous rage. No matter what, Gu Chen had still come from her own body. She couldn't bring herself to kill him with her own hands. Besides, killing Gu Chen would do nothing to advance her plans.
Leaving Tian Dou Imperial Academy, Bibi Dong rushed toward Blue Tyrant Academy in Tian Dou City.
Boom!
A tremor rocked the teacher's building. In the principal's office, Bibi Dong used her soul power to strangle the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon disciple sent by Yu Luomian to manage the academy. The man's eyes bulged, his face turned purple from lack of oxygen, and his expression contorted with pain.
Bibi Dong had sealed off the area with her power, so no one in the building heard the struggle, no matter how the man thrashed or screamed.
"Where is that wretched Liu Erlong?" Bibi Dong's eyes flashed with bloody light—pure, concentrated killing intent. In her past life, she had let Liu Erlong live to stay beside Yu Xiaogang. But in this life, that woman had to die. Yu Xiaogang was dead, and if Liu Erlong didn't commit suicide afterward, she deserved worse.
The disciple gritted his teeth, refusing to speak. As a direct member of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, proud of his dragon heritage, he would never submit to anyone.
"How stubborn. Just like Xiao Gang."
Bibi Dong sneered. Her nine soul rings emerged—eight black, one red. A sinister green glow flickered as the Rakshasa God spirit possessed her. A spiderweb pattern spread across her forehead, sprouting six green eyes. From her back extended six sharp spider spears; her hands also transformed into blade-like arachnid limbs.
Four spider spears pierced into the disciple's body, injecting the Soul-Eating Spider Emperor's venom. Within moments, the man screamed in agony so intense it seemed to shred his soul.
The poison didn't just destroy his body—it also attacked his very spirit. Soul injuries were exponentially more painful than physical ones.
No one knew how long it took, but when it was over, all that remained was a pool of inky black pus that reeked with rot. Even the floor beneath it sizzled from corrosion. Who could have imagined this sludge was once a soul saint?
Bibi Dong smirked viciously. "So Liu Erlong's already imprisoned at the clan? Good. I'll make sure she watches her loved ones die one by one."
With that, she vanished—heading straight for Elemental City, toward Thunderclap Academy.
The next day.
News of the deaths of Yu Tianheng (Tian Dou Academy), Yu Tianxin (Blue Tyrant Academy), and others spread rapidly. All were members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. The entire Tian Dou capital was shaken. The royal family demanded an immediate investigation.
Who had the guts to target such a powerful clan and kill its brightest third-generation talents? Were they trying to drive the clan to extinction?
A sect needed a Title Douluo to maintain its top-tier status. Without one, even the clan's treasured territory of Thunderclap Gorge might be taken over. Many speculated that Yu Yuan Zhen, the clan patriarch, would go mad when he found out.
Upon hearing the news, Ning Fengzhi immediately recalled Gu Chen and Ning Rongrong from Tian Dou Academy. He ordered Sword and Bone Douluo to be on full alert—he could already picture an enraged Yu Yuan Zhen storming the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for revenge.
Inside the sect's main hall, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo discussed who might hate the Blue Lightning Clan enough to kill off its heirs and a soul saint like the Blue Tyrant Academy principal. Such an assassination would have required at least a Soul Douluo.
Just then, Ning Rongrong approached, looking conflicted.
"Father, Grandpa Sword, Grandpa Bone."
Ning Fengzhi said, "Rongrong, we're in the middle of an important meeting. Speak later."
"No, Father, Grandpas… are you discussing the murders of those Blue Lightning Clan members? I… I think I know who did it."
"Oh?" Ning Fengzhi gave her a gentle smile. "Do tell."
Taking a deep breath, Ning Rongrong said firmly, "It was Spirit Hall."
Ning Fengzhi chuckled, "We just discussed this. While it's possible, the odds are very low."
But then Ning Rongrong bit her lip. "Father, Grandpa Sword, Grandpa Bone… there's something I've been hiding from you."
After two years at Tian Dou Academy and seeing Tang San humiliated again and again, the rose-colored filter through which she'd seen him had completely shattered. Coupled with the tragedy of the Blue Lightning Clan, she'd decided it was time to reveal her deepest secret:
She had been reborn.
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