When Bibi Dong thought of Zhang Fan, her eyes softened, no longer carrying the coldness and indifference from before.
"Fate truly plays tricks on people. The past flows like water, gone and never returning. Everything happens for a reason..."
"Whoosh..."
She raised her hand and sucked back the token from Yu Xiaogang's body.
...
Yu Xiaogang hobbled away, limping heavily.
His face was gloomy to the extreme. He hadn't expected Bibi Dong to be so heartless.
Not only had she attacked him multiple times, she even took the Pope's Token that Tang Hao had given him.
He was furious and on the verge of tears as he turned and left.
...
"Dad... Grandpa Sword, why are you here?"
Ning Rongrong was thrilled to see Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo. She rushed forward and leapt into her father's embrace.
In her excitement, Ning Rongrong completely forgot to hide her identity.
Huo Wu and Feng Xiaotian, seeing her leap into Ning Fengzhi's arms, had a noticeable change in expression.
The fact that the daughter of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's leader was here left them speechless.
And she didn't come alone — a Titled Douluo came with her.
But in the end, they had all come for nothing.
Everything had been resolved by the impossibly handsome Zhang Fan.
Everyone turned to look at Zhang Fan and Ning Fengzhi's group.
"Of course, we came to protect His Highness the Crown Prince!" said Ning Fengzhi to Ning Rongrong and the others.
Xue Qinghe, representing the Heaven Dou Empire, hadn't brought many followers, but Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo were in her carriage.
They hadn't expected that they'd end up doing nothing — everything was handled by Zhang Fan.
"We didn't expect the Spirit Hall to make such a grand move, only to test Zhang Fan's strength!" said Xue Qinghe, slightly surprised.
"No one could have predicted it!"
Ning Fengzhi was also quite surprised:"And it seems no one died — only a few were injured."
"Yes, it's definitely odd," said Xue Qinghe, walking over from the side.
After chatting a while, they all boarded the carriages again and continued their journey.
The road ahead was uneventful.
Soon, they arrived at Spirit City.
According to Spirit City's special regulations, the royal knight regiment must remain stationed outside the city and cannot enter.
Only fifteen soul master teams were allowed to enter.
Compared to large cities like Heaven Dou City or Soto City, Spirit City was much smaller — not even a tenth of Heaven Dou's size — but its impact on soul masters was immense.
Upon entering, the city felt spacious.
There weren't many people on the streets, and there were few shops.
Most sold items essential to soul masters.
Even spatial-type soul tools were sold here, though the quality was rather poor.
A red-robed bishop approached.
Under his guidance,
The group settled into a hotel on the west side of Spirit City.
The staff there were all soul masters of at least level 20.
According to news from Spirit Hall, the competition would officially begin in three days.
Exhausted from the journey, they all returned to their rooms to rest.
...
Yu Xiaogang drove a carriage toward the hotel where Zhang Fan and the others were staying, looking disheveled.
He never imagined Bibi Dong would be so ruthless. Had all their past affections been washed away by time?
He remembered everything clearly.
"Hyah!"
Yu Xiaogang, anxious to return to the hotel, cracked the reins hard to speed up the horses.
"Ding! Story alteration mission triggered."
[Yu Xiaogang drives his carriage past a women's outhouse.] — Four words can be modified.
Zhang Fan was momentarily stunned when he heard the system's mechanical voice. This system really was something — it wanted him to mess with Yu Xiaogang again?
As if Yu Xiaogang hadn't suffered enough?
But such things were all too welcome to Zhang Fan.
He immediately changed the word "past" to "crashes into," and changed "past" to "into."
"Ding! Story successfully modified. Minor chaos introduced. Reward: 60 modification points."
Yu Xiaogang crashed his carriage into a women's outhouse.
"Boom..." The door to the outhouse was smashed open by the carriage.
Yu Xiaogang's head went straight into the latrine.
This was one of the larger outhouses — this was, after all, Spirit City.
Several girls were inside, preparing to use the toilet.
Seeing a carriage burst in, they all scrambled away.
Only to see a lecherous-looking middle-aged man plunge into the latrine pit.
They were startled out of their minds.
"Aahhh!" they screamed continuously.
Yu Xiaogang, utterly humiliated, crawled out of the pit in tears.
"Wuuu..."
He already felt unlucky enough. He thought nothing could make things worse.
But the cold cruelty from Bibi Dong, the body slams, the kicks, the face-slaps from her subordinates — that crushed him. And now this. He couldn't even drive a carriage properly and ended up crashing into a latrine.
He was practically the god of misfortune.
"Wuuu..."
Yu Xiaogang cried his heart out. He had thought Bibi Dong might treat him differently — but it turned out even his first love didn't like him anymore.
Now he felt like a broken man. Utterly destroyed.
He cried so miserably.
The girls who had initially been angry were now stunned. They no longer wanted to beat up this pitiful guy.
They just let him cry and walk off to the side.
Right now, Yu Xiaogang was like a cursed soul.
No one dared to get near him.
Soon, he jumped into a nearby river and took a bath.
Only then did he start feeling better.
Afterward, he got out of the river and walked toward the hotel — crying as he walked.
Tang San was waiting for Yu Xiaogang at the hotel entrance.
When he saw his godmother return in tears, he was dumbfounded.
"Godma, what happened to you?"
Tang San ran over in concern. After all, his godmother had recently come out as... different, and was always so tough no matter what happened. Why was she crying like a child this time?
Flender, Liu Erlong, Zhang Fan, and the others also heard the crying and came out to look.
"Uh… what's up with Yu Xiaogang? Why is he crying like this? And why is he soaking wet?"Xiao Wu frowned, completely confused.
"Could he have… fallen into the river on the way back?"Ning Rongrong, seeing Yu Xiaogang's state, couldn't help but laugh.
"It's possible!"Zhu Zhuqing nodded.
"Little San, Godma doesn't want to live anymore!"Yu Xiaogang threw himself into Tang San's arms.
"God… Teacher, where did you go? Why are you like this? You even smell kinda funky."Tang San gagged slightly from the smell. Even though Yu Xiaogang had bathed in the river, the stench still lingered.
"Ugh... these two, all lovey-dovey..."
Even Liu Erlong couldn't watch any longer, but she didn't leave. She wanted to know where Yu Xiaogang had gone and why he was so broken — she'd never seen him like this before.
Even when they broke up, he hadn't cried this hard.
"I went to see Bibi Dong... I wanted to ask her about the secret of the twin spirits. But I didn't expect her to ignore the past... she body-slammed me, kicked me flying, and ordered her people to slap me..."
As Yu Xiaogang recounted this, he sobbed even harder:"Then on the way back, I crashed my carriage into the women's outhouse..."
"Hahaha..."
Xiao Wu and the others burst into laughter when they heard this.
"So he got his heart broken by his first love, then fell into a latrine? No wonder he had a breakdown!"Zhang Fan said with a wicked grin.
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