Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 315 The Vanished Angel

Similarly, for the sake of fairness...

The knockout stage begins in the second round, and the order of draws for each round will be determined by the tournament committee.

Whichever team the committee members draw, that team will then come forward to draw lots.

In addition, the entire lottery process was supervised by the Contras from the eight major factions.

This wasn't done to supervise the drawn combat representatives, but to prevent the committee members from engaging in favoritism or corruption. And this was Wuhun City, where most of the competition committee members were from the Wuhun Hall.

Therefore, it's more accurate to say that the purpose of supervising the Spirit Hall is to supervise the Spirit Hall rather than the competition committee, while the Spirit Hall's Soul Douluo is to supervise the other seven Soul Douluo.

……

late at night.

Wuhun City, a private room in a teahouse.

"You mean, Bibi Dong wants you to harm Yan Mo and Wang Shiyu, while Qian Daoliu wants you to stop Bibi Dong from doing so?"

After listening to Yue Guan's story, Lin Rong sorted out her thoughts and summarized it in this sentence.

"Why? Qian Daoliu clearly knows you are Bibi Dong's people, yet he still so openly gives you this order. Is he certain you will be able to play both sides?"

Yue Guan shook his head and replied:
"My lord, you are unaware that in the Spirit Hall, the Pope has the authority to punish personnel in all departments, except for one department: the Hall of Offerings."

"The Hall of Worship has a transcendent status and is not under the jurisdiction of the Pope, so strictly speaking, Bibi Dong has no right to punish me and Lao Gui."

“But Bibi Dong doesn’t have that power; Qian Daoliu does.”

"As the Grand Elder of the Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu has the authority to punish any of the Elders in the Hall of Elders, and the Pope has no right to pardon such punishment."

"For this reason, we no longer work for Bibi Dong. At most, we are no longer Bibi Dong's confidants, and Bibi Dong can't do anything about us."

“But if we don’t do things for Qian Daoliu, then Qian Daoliu will have an excuse to punish us, and the Pope doesn’t have the power to save us.”

"It is precisely because of this rule that Qian Daoliu can act so brazenly."

"So that's how it is," Lin Rong said, suddenly understanding.

In the Spirit Hall, those whose spirit power breaks through level 90 automatically advance to the position of Spirit Elder, and those whose spirit power breaks through level 95 automatically advance to the position of Spirit Hall Elder.

Once a person's soul power level breaks through a barrier, it won't drop for no reason. Therefore, once a person advances to become an enshrined member of the Spirit Hall, the only way to leave the Hall of Enshrined Members is to leave the Spirit Hall itself.

Once Yue Guan's ghostly soul power breaks through to level 96, as long as he is a member of the Spirit Hall, he will be a Spirit Hall retainer for life.

Bibi Dong herself probably never expected that Qian Daoliu would get involved in this matter.

For more than a decade, no matter what Bibi Dong did during her time as Pope, Qian Daoliu turned a blind eye, which led to a situation in the Spirit Hall where the Pope's lineage held absolute power.

Lin Rong drank a cup of tea and asked:
"So, did Bibi Dong know that it was her good daughter who was going against her?"

Upon hearing this, Yue Guan pondered for a moment before replying:

"When I reported this matter to Lao Gui, I should have guessed it from Bibi Dong's reaction."

Qian Dao's affairs changed from the usual way, and there were only two people in the world who could influence his decision: one was his unrequited love, Poseidon, and the other was his granddaughter, Qian Renxue.

Since this concerns the internal affairs of the Spirit Hall, Poseidon should be ruled out first.

With one of the two standard answers eliminated, only Qian Renxue remains as the sole candidate.

"So, what does Bibi Dong say?" Lin Rong continued to ask.
"Are you giving up on targeting Yan Mo and Wang Shiyu? Or are you going to ignore everything and continue to act recklessly?" "Look at the question I asked. You've definitely given up, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here leisurely drinking tea."

He should have thought of it.

Now that Bibi Dong has Yu Xiaogang as a weakness, she cannot afford to break ties with Qian Daoliu for Yu Xiaogang's safety.

After all, Bibi Dong was Qian Renxue's mother in name and by blood, and also Qian Daoliu's daughter-in-law without a formal title.

Qian Daoliu wouldn't attack Bibi Dong for his granddaughter's sake, but what is Yu Xiaogang? He's not only the culprit behind this situation, but he's also cuckolded Qian Daoliu's son, Qian Xunji.

The reason he didn't take action before was because Qian Daoliu didn't want to bother with it, but if Bibi Dong dares to go against Qian Daoliu, then Qian Daoliu wouldn't mind bringing up old scores.

……

Day two.

The Battle Arena, Central Stage.

Dozens of people gathered on the arena to conduct a draw.

"Huh? Something seems to be missing here."

While waiting for the draw, many people noticed that something was missing from an empty space in the Soul Arena.

The thing had been in the open space the whole time, but they couldn't remember what it was for the time being.

Because many people were discussing this topic, Hu Liena, the representative of the Spirit Hall team, followed everyone's gaze to the open space in the Soul Arena.

"I remember there was a statue in that place?"

"Statue, statue, um... what statue was it again? I can't remember."

This is a very common phenomenon.

Things that are ordinary and that people encounter every day can suddenly disappear one day. People know that something has gone missing, but they can never remember what it was.

"Bibi Dong! How dare you..."

In the crowd, Xue Qinghe's hands, hidden in his sleeves, were clenched together, the veins on them bulging.

Others might not be able to recall what was in that open space in the Soul Arena, but how could he not?

Because what should have been placed in that open space was a statue of a six-winged angel.

The Soul Arena in Wuhun City was not built during Bibi Dong's reign, and the six-winged angel is the symbol of the Spirit Hall, so it is perfectly normal for there to be a statue of a six-winged angel in the Soul Arena.

To maintain her public image, Bibi Dong never touched the six-winged angel statues of all sizes in Wuhun City.

But last night, in order to vent her pent-up anger, Bibi Dong ordered her men to remove every single six-winged angel statue within the Pope's authority overnight.

On his way from the hotel to the Soul Arena, Xue Qinghe vaguely sensed that something was wrong with the street, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

It wasn't until he heard people discussing the open space of the Soul Arena that Xue Qinghe realized something was wrong: there was no statue of a six-winged angel.

"Hmph, you can't do anything to me, so you take it out on these innocent statues? What a lowly woman, she's not worthy to be my opponent!"

As Xue Qinghe thought this to herself, she completely forgot how she had taken her anger out on the porcelain in her room after learning about Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong's affair.

"No, we have to get Grandpa to put the six-winged angel statue back. We'll tell him it's about the inheritance of the Angel God, and he definitely won't refuse."

(End of this chapter)