Just as Bibi Dong retracted her soul bone,
footsteps sounded outside the Papal Palace.
"Report!!!"
The messenger rushed in again, trying to enter the Papal Palace, but Bibi Dong blocked him with her powerful soul force.
Bibi Dong's expression was unfriendly as she said, "What is it? Why are you in such a hurry?"
The messenger immediately bowed respectfully: "Your Holiness, someone claims to be an old friend of yours. He has an elder's token and wishes to see you!"
An old friend?
With an elder's token?
A wise-looking figure immediately appeared in Bibi Dong's mind, and her expression became excited.
"Quickly, invite him in!"
Bibi Dong looked slightly flustered, her hand unconsciously brushing aside her fallen hair, her eyes glancing at the smooth, mirror-like marble floor, trying to see if she had done something wrong.
"Yes, sir!"
The clever messenger immediately retreated.
Hu Liena immediately took her leave. Seeing Ye Tianxing standing motionless, she instantly became energized and pulled Ye Tianxing outside.
Ye Tianxing didn't want to leave. The real show was about to begin, and as a transmigrator, how could he leave? He wanted to see the Grandmaster's true colors later.
There were tons of Douluo Continent fanfictions, some criticizing the Grandmaster, some bashing him, and some even about transmigrating into the Grandmaster's world. Today, Ye Tianxing wanted to confirm whether this Douluo Grandmaster was truly deserving of his title.
"You two go to the cultivation room for a while. It's nothing serious, no need to leave. I have something to discuss with you two later."
Bibi Dong waved her hand, and the Papal Palace door slammed shut.
She slowly walked back to her papal throne, her eyes narrowed, a strange emotion on her face, as if she were lost in thought.
The instant the cultivation room door closed, Ye Tianxing clearly saw the words above Bibi Dong's head change.
[Love-Brained]
Inside the cultivation room.
Hu Liena's expression was uncertain, her eyes filled with guilt, and she lightly punched Ye Tianxing's arm with her small fist.
"It's all your fault! I lied today, you know? This is the first time I've ever lied."
Her mind was completely filled with the soul bones.
Eight soul bones in total! Her heart nearly stopped from excitement.
In the Star Dou Great Forest, Ye Tianxing had made a bizarre move. He attracted a large group of soul beasts, then had the Flame Eagle Douluo, hiding in the shadows, kill or severely injure them.
Then, an astonishing scene unfolded: the soul beasts dropped a total of eight soul bones.
Five were less than ten thousand years old, and the other three were over ten thousand years old.
The Flame Eagle Douluo took one ten-thousand-year-old bone and one thousand-year-old bone.
Hu Liena took two of the remaining six, one ten-thousand-year-old and one thousand-year-old .
The three of them had discussed it and agreed to hand over the two thousand-year-old bones to the Spirit Hall, thus reaching a verbal agreement.
Therefore, Hu Liena not only felt unworthy of these bones but also felt she had deceived Bibi Dong.
Ye Tianxing rolled his eyes, ignoring her.
If it weren't for the possibility of a hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast appearing, he would have already begun a massacre.
To be honest, he never expected his Spirit Eye Martial Soul to be so monstrous, able to see which soul beast would explode its soul bone.
"Shut up!"
Hu Liena wanted to say something, but Ye Tianxing shouted at her.
She immediately stopped uttering a sound, standing motionless behind him.
Through the crack in the door, Ye Tianxing saw the scene outside.
A dozen or so Spirit Hall soldiers walked in in neat rows.
Behind the captain in the middle was a middle-aged man.
The man was thin, with haggard eyes and a stubble-covered face. His appearance was average, far from handsome, but he exuded an air of arrogance.
Under the passive effect of his Spirit Eye Martial Soul, a line of text appeared above his head: "Saying No."
"Greetings, Your Holiness the Pope!"
A dozen soldiers, led by their captain, knelt in a single-knee salute.
Behind them, a disheveled middle-aged man stood motionless, as if the beautiful Pope seated in the Papal Palace was of equal strength to him.
Bibi Dong's narrowed eyes suddenly snapped open, and a powerful aura surged downwards.
The dozen soldiers swayed slightly.
The man in the middle remained unmoved, seemingly unconcerned by this aura.
In reality, upon closer inspection, the aura had already dissipated instantly upon approaching the middle-aged man.
Bibi Dong, who had been seated on the papal throne, raised her beautiful face and waved her left hand forward, saying, "You may all leave."
"Yes, sir."
The captain of the soldiers saluted again and then led all the soldiers away.
Suddenly, only Bibi Dong and Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang remained in the vast papal hall.
Bibi Dong rose slightly, leaning on her papal scepter, and slowly walked forward, her graceful figure fully revealed. Looking at the man before her, her eyes trembled slightly.
Seeing everyone leave, Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang raised his head and coldly said, "Bibi Dong!"
Hearing him call her name directly, Bibi Dong was stunned. Her trembling eyes slowly closed, and when she opened them again, her voice was icy.
"Please call me Your Holiness the Pope!"
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang's expression changed slightly, but he still obediently turned around and bowed slightly to Bibi Dong, saying, "Yes, Your Holiness the Pope!"
Seeing Yu Xiaogang's attitude, Bibi Dong was instantly furious and wanted to kill him, but she controlled her emotions well. Her right hand gripped the papal scepter tightly, so tightly that the scepter was slightly deformed.
"What brings you here?" Bibi Dong lowered her voice, not showing her emotions on her beautiful face, but asking with a question.
Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang pretended to stroll around the papal hall, acting as if admiring the scenery.
Finally, he turned to Bibi Dong and asked directly, "Your Holiness the Pope, I want to know how you overcame the difficulty of obtaining soul rings with twin martial souls?"
Twin martial souls?
Bibi Dong's face immediately turned somewhat ugly; she thought of Tang San.
However, her face quickly filled with a smile, because she also thought of Ye Tianxing's handsome face.
"Yu Xiaogang, you don't seem to need to know these things, do you?"
Hearing Bibi Dong's reply, Yu Xiaogang wasn't angry. Instead, he calmly explained, "The reason I'm asking you so many questions is because I've taken on a disciple. He's very fortunate to possess twin martial souls like you. I have a wish: to nurture him into a powerful figure."
Yu Xiaogang looked at Bibi Dong with expectant eyes.
He hoped for clarification, answers, and even more so, guidance.
"Hahaha—"
Bibi Dong suddenly burst into laughter, her laughter unrestrained.
The things Ye Tianxing had said during their martial soul fusion flashed through her mind. At the time, she found them absurd, as they were too mysterious.
Ye Tianxing had said that Bibi Dong would encounter an opponent with twin martial souls, who would kill her after she became a god.
And that opponent's twin martial souls were Blue Silver Grass and the Clear Sky Hammer.
Aside from the future, Bibi Dong knew everything Ye Tianxing had said. She had already sent assassins two days prior to kill Tang San.
Yu Xiaogang was puzzled and asked, "Your Holiness, is this so funny?"
Bibi Dong, holding her stomach with her left hand, continued to laugh.