"Brother!"
Xiao Wu looked at Mu Chen anxiously.
Although she didn't fully understand what Mu Chen was trying to do, her instincts told her that everything he was doing was for her sake.
"Do you really intend to go this far?" Bibi Dong's voice was eerily calm—so calm that it sent shivers through everyone around her.
"Yes." Mu Chen nodded resolutely.
"Haha..."
Bibi Dong laughed softly, but the laughter was bitter and filled with self-mockery.
Once upon a time, she had thought there was something special between her and Mu Chen, especially after what happened in the All-Continent Advanced Spirit Master Academy Tournament. Back then, to intimidate Qian Daoliu, Mu Chen had shamelessly used his True Millennium Kill on her in public, frantically provoking her emotions to push his soul power to the next level.
Afterward, Mu Chen had even come to apologize, and at that moment, Bibi Dong had foolishly believed that Mu Chen cared about her. But now, she realized she had been completely mistaken.
By asking for her Soft Bone Rabbit spirit bone and the 100,000-year spirit ring she obtained from Xiao Wu's mother, Mu Chen was essentially asking her to sacrifice her right leg and her status as a powerful spirit master.
Losing a spirit ring would halt her cultivation forever, causing her spirit power to plummet. As the Pope of Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong had made countless enemies. If her power declined, those enemies would come after her without hesitation.
This demand was equivalent to asking for her life.
"I am Bibi Dong, the Pope of Spirit Hall. My word is absolute. If I've lost, then I've lost. I am not someone who can't face defeat. Fine, I will give you my Soft Bone Rabbit spirit bone."
Bibi Dong's voice was firm and decisive, her gaze cold and unwavering.
"Your Holiness!"
"Teacher!"
Both Chrysanthemum Douluo and Hu Liena shouted in alarm.
Bibi Dong moved swiftly. She retrieved a sharp sword from her spatial soul tool, and with a single stroke, severed her right leg at the thigh. Blood spurted into the air, a vivid red against her pale face. Yet not a single sound of pain escaped her lips.
"Teacher!"
Hu Liena's heart twisted with anguish. Her gaze shifted to Mu Chen, filled with both sorrow and resentment.
Mu Chen was her husband, yet he had driven her teacher—her closest family—to such desperation. How could she ever face him again after this?
"Mu Chen, from now on, we are no longer husband and wife!"
Hu Liena slashed her robes with her spirit power, splitting them into two halves—a symbolic severing of their bond.
Mu Chen frowned slightly, but he said nothing. He had expected Hu Liena's reaction.
"What else?" Mu Chen asked calmly, ignoring the tension in the air.
Bibi Dong looked at him silently, sweat beading on her forehead. Blood loss was already making her face deathly pale.
Boom!
Activating her spirit, the Death Spider Emperor, Bibi Dong's upper body was quickly encased in purple-black armor. Even her face was partially covered, with four small spider-like eyes growing beneath her normal ones.
"My ninth spirit ring from the Death Spider Emperor came from the Soft Bone Rabbit. If you want it, then take it. I cannot separate it from my spirit, but I'm sure you can find a way."
Her voice was cold and distant, her resolve unwavering.
"Fine. I'll do it."
Mu Chen held out his Chaos Sword, and the nine gemstones embedded in the hilt glowed brightly. A trace of grey chaotic energy floated from the blade, cutting through the air with precision.
Under the guidance of his system and after more than a year of dedicated training, Mu Chen had finally mastered a single thread of chaotic energy—a power capable of severing anything down to its most elemental form.
The blade moved slowly but deliberately, slicing through the connection between Bibi Dong's ninth spirit ring and her spirit.
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Bibi Dong clenched her teeth tightly, glaring at Mu Chen with an icy stare as her spirit ring was carefully extracted.
The process lasted for over ten agonizing minutes. For Bibi Dong, it felt as though she were being subjected to a brutal lingering death, her body dissected while still alive.
When the red spirit ring finally detached, Bibi Dong's spirit power plummeted. Once a Title Douluo, her level had now fallen to Level 83, making her merely a high-level Spirit Douluo.
Sweat soaked through her robes, clinging to her curvaceous figure. Despite her pale face and blood loss, her beauty seemed almost ethereal in that moment.
"Do you have any more demands?" Bibi Dong asked softly, her voice devoid of emotion.
Inwardly, she could scarcely believe her life had come to this. Twice, her fate had been ruined by men.
The first had been Qian Xunji, her teacher, who had cruelly violated her for the sake of a powerful heir.
The second was Mu Chen, the man who had seemed to care for her but who had now humiliated and stripped her of her strength.
"No, that's all," Mu Chen replied.
Bibi Dong turned to leave, her heart utterly shattered.
"Leaving so soon?"
Mu Chen's voice stopped her in her tracks.
"Do you have another demand?" she asked flatly, turning back to face him. Her pale, bloodless face only made her look more beautiful, as though tragedy itself had shaped her appearance.
"What if I told you I could give you a chance to start over—a chance to become a woman free of your past burdens? To erase the pain of your past and restore your purity? Would you take it?" Mu Chen asked, his tone soft yet resolute.
Bibi Dong's eyes widened, and for the first time in years, they filled with a glimmer of hope. "What do you mean?" she asked, her voice trembling.
For all her strength and power, Bibi Dong had never been able to heal the wounds left by Qian Xunji's violation. The knowledge that she had been robbed of her purity had festered in her soul, driving her hatred of the world and herself.
That wound had shaped her distrust, her bitterness, and her relentless ambition. It was the source of her darkness, a scar she had never been able to erase.
Now, Mu Chen was offering her a chance to undo it all. To reclaim what had been stolen.
"What I offer you is a rebirth. A chance to cleanse your soul and body, to truly start over as a pure and unburdened woman."
Tears welled in Bibi Dong's eyes as she stared at Mu Chen, hardly daring to believe what she
was hearing. For the first time in decades, she saw a ray of light piercing through the darkness of her life.
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