Emperor Xue Ye’s guess was indeed correct.
Xue Qinghe—no, to be precise, Qian Renxue—had undergone a drastic personality change five months ago.
The change was extremely dark and extreme, even affecting Qian Renxue’s Six-Winged Angel martial soul.
The Serpent Spear Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo, responsible for protecting Qian Renxue, didn’t know why their young master had become like this.
But given the urgency of the situation, they could only contact the Grand Enshrined Qian Daoliu and let him decide how to handle the matter.
Upon receiving the news, Grand Enshrined Qian Daoliu rushed over from Spirit City at top speed.
The moment he saw his granddaughter, upon whom he had pinned all his hopes, in such a crazed and extreme state, his vision went dark.
Especially when he heard Qian Renxue repeatedly shouting Bibi Dong’s name with killing intent in her voice, his heart jolted.
He thought that Bibi Dong’s murder of Qian Xunji had been discovered by Xiao Xue.
Only the sudden revelation that her biological mother had killed her biological father could have driven Xiao Xue to such a state.
Thinking about the messy affair between Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong, and now it was affecting Xiao Xue—even the Limit Douluo Qian Daoliu found it extremely headache-inducing.
“What a tangled mess!”
That said, Qian Daoliu still stopped Qian Renxue, who had drawn her sword and wanted to go kill Bibi Dong.
First, he absolutely couldn’t let his precious granddaughter bear the crime of matricide.
Second, Qian Renxue as she was now couldn’t defeat Bibi Dong, who had already obtained a divine trial and become a Super Douluo.
In the end, Qian Daoliu could only forcibly take Qian Renxue back to the Enshrined Hall.
As for the original plan to infiltrate and usurp the Heaven Dou Empire?
Qian Daoliu had never taken it seriously in the first place.
His family had a divine seat to inherit—how could Qian Daoliu possibly care about the mere identity of a Heaven Dou prince?
If it weren’t for his granddaughter wanting to prove herself because of Bibi Dong, and he didn’t want to discourage her, Qian Daoliu wouldn’t have wanted his granddaughter Qian Renxue to go undercover in this place at all.
Qian Daoliu secretly brought Qian Renxue back to the Enshrined Hall, hiding it from everyone else—but he couldn’t hide it from the Enshrined Hall’s enshrined.
At this moment, inside the Enshrined Hall,
Golden Crocodile Douluo looked worriedly at the golden-haired girl kneeling beneath the Angel God’s statue, her expression one of longing.
His tone was filled with concern.
“It’s been so long.
Has Xiao Xue still not recovered?”
A person’s martial soul wasn’t fixed after awakening.
With special opportunities or major emotional trauma, mutations could occur.
Qian Renxue’s current condition was similar to this.
Her Angel martial soul showed signs of mutation.
Dark, ominous energy had begun to emerge.
Qian Daoliu, who took pride in the Six-Winged Angel martial soul, viewed this darkness-oriented mutation as a malignant one.
So he brought Qian Renxue before the Angel God’s statue, hoping to use the Angel’s holy light to suppress and eliminate this malignant mutation.
“What exactly happened to Xiao Xue to make her like this?” Although Guang Ling Douluo was also an old-timer, he still had a childlike disposition.
He finally couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked.
Qing Luan Douluo shook his head.
“I don’t know.
But since the Grand Enshrined hasn’t pursued the matter, it’s probably not that simple.”
Qian Renxue was the young master of the Enshrined Hall and the heir to the Angel God.
There were very few people who could make her suffer and become like this.
And since the Grand Enshrined doted on Xiao Xue so much, if he could have taken revenge, he would have.
The fact that he hadn’t acted yet made Qing Luan Douluo think of one woman…
Only that woman could hurt Xiao Xue without the Grand Enshrined intervening.
“Oh!” Not getting a definite answer, Guang Ling Douluo shrugged in disappointment.
He then continued “protecting” the golden-haired girl praying before the Angel God’s statue, to prevent her martial soul from continuing its malignant mutation.
Meanwhile, on the other side, after Qian Renxue remained unwell for a long time, Qian Daoliu once again questioned the Serpent Spear Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo.
“What exactly happened before Xiao Xue’s abnormality?
Think carefully—maybe you can find the cause.”
At first, Qian Daoliu had also thought that the revelation of Bibi Dong killing Qian Xunji had caused Qian Renxue’s personality change.
But after learning the details from the Serpent Spear and Pufferfish Douluo, it didn’t seem to be the case.
“Grand Enshrined, I’ve truly told you everything I know.
The young master woke up one morning and was like this.” The Serpent Spear Douluo smiled bitterly in the face of the Limit Douluo’s repeated questioning.
He had been asked countless times these past days—the pressure was immense.
“Grand Enshrined, the young master suddenly shouted the Pope’s name in her sleep, and when she woke up, she was like this.
In my opinion, could it be…” The Pufferfish Douluo decided to help his good brother share the burden.
After swallowing hard, he gathered his courage and voiced his guess.
“Could the young master have had a nightmare that caused her personality to change?”
“Impossible.
Absolutely impossible.
Xiao Xue is a genius with innate level-twenty soul power.
How could she become like this just because of a nightmare?” Qian Daoliu glared at the Pufferfish Douluo upon hearing this absurd guess.
In the end, Qian Daoliu couldn’t bear to watch his precious, adorable granddaughter waste away like this.
He thought that whoever tied the knot should untie it.
So he came to the Papal Hall.
The Enshrined Hall and the Papal Hall had maintained a policy of non-interference since Bibi Dong became Pope after Qian Xunji’s death.
This was the first time Qian Daoliu had taken the initiative to visit Bibi Dong.
His feelings toward Bibi Dong were extremely complicated.
On one hand, Bibi Dong had grown up in the Spirit Hall and was his son Qian Xunji’s disciple, as well as the Spirit Hall’s Holy Maiden—a junior he had watched grow up.
But then Qian Xunji had raped Bibi Dong, leading to Qian Renxue’s birth, and then Bibi Dong killed his only son, Qian Xunji.
This had caused Qian Daoliu’s relationship with Bibi Dong to plummet drastically.
When he first learned the truth, Qian Daoliu’s head was spinning.
For a long time, he couldn’t believe it—how had things come to this?
Even now, he still couldn’t face Bibi Dong.
As a father, he harbored some resentment toward Bibi Dong, his son’s killer.
But his sense of justice made it hard for him to accept what his son had done.
If Qian Xunji had just let Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang run away, or killed Bibi Dong in the name of treason, it wouldn’t have been as painful for Qian Daoliu.
What Qian Xunji had done was simply a disgrace to the Qian family.
As soon as Qian Daoliu entered the Papal Hall, he felt something was off with the atmosphere.
More precisely, something was off with Bibi Dong.