Chapter 20: The Pope's little lover

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After the coronation ceremony ended, ignoring Jin E's murderous glare, Bibi Dong took Nan Feng directly back to the Pope Palace meeting hall.

From now on, or rather, in the future, she would have to work here.

After the Elder Hall passed the resolution for her to succeed to the Pope's position a week ago, the Pope Palace began renovation work. Every Pope could change the furnishings of their office area to a certain extent.

At Bibi Dong's request, all the flashy golden decorations in the Pope Hall were thrown out and replaced with purple-gold.

Besides that, the decoration style of this hall was also very different from before. It didn't have the ostentation of Qian Xunji's reign; the current dark purple-based decoration was somewhat oppressive, but Bibi Dong liked this style.

"Are you sure this unconventional method is useful?" Bibi Dong was a bit worried.

She suspected that Nan Feng was doing this purely for fun! He said that her posture of holding the cat at the time coincided with the posture of the Angel God statue, and that on such a solemn occasion, the more casual she appeared, the more unsure those watching her in secret would be.

To put it bluntly, it was posturing!

Whether it could control them or not, she had to suppress them with momentum first.

If she followed the Elder Hall's wishes in everything, then in everyone's eyes, she, the Pope, would appear weak and easy to bully, which would make the subsequent work of recovering power troublesome.

Enduring was necessary, but she didn't need to endure anything anymore.

Since Qian Daoliu dared to push her to this position, it proved that he wouldn't interfere too much. As long as the Spirit Hall was developing in a good direction, Qian Daoliu wouldn't interfere.

As for the Elder Hall she was worried about, since those people had joined the Spirit Hall because they feared Qian Daoliu's strength, as long as she was stronger than those people, no one would dare stand up to stop her.

Even if some stubborn fool really dared to stand up, just kill them.

"With your current strength, the only ones who can suppress you are those elders above level 96. Those people don't care about affairs, and they all listen to Qian Daoliu. As long as that old man doesn't speak, the elders won't interfere with your actions," Nan Feng said.

"What if Qian Daoliu intervenes?" Bibi Dong worried.

The only thing she was worried about was Qian Daoliu tripping her up! That was the reason she had planned to hide for a while and develop slowly before.

"If he intervenes, you just go head-to-head with him," Nan Feng said.

"The Pope and the Grand Elder clashing, causing instability in the Spirit Hall—it's not you who loses out. Anyway, this Spirit Hall is their family's; as long as we have fun, that's all that matters."

"Besides, this is the first time I've played this kind of real-time strategy game in person."

Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched.

I knew you little brat didn't have good intentions! "What are you doing?" Bibi Dong glared at Nan Feng, who was being restless in her arms.

"What bad intentions could a little kitty have?" Nan Feng raised his head, looking innocent.

"If you mess around again, I'll throw you out." Bibi Dong pinched Nan Feng's scruff and lifted him up.

"Yes, yes..." Nan Feng landed honestly on the table and started flipping through the strategic deployment for after the Spirit Hall and Clear Sky Sect went to war.

Every Spirit Master force had a large industrial chain involving all levels of human society—clothing, food, housing, and transportation. All these things were controlled by the Spirit Master class.

And the war between the Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect wasn't just about charging forward with martial souls; the Clear Sky Sect's affiliated sects in the two great empires, as well as their industries, all had to be dealt with.

After declaring war, the Spirit Hall immediately launched attacks on these parts. Although nominally it was just a war between the Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect, in reality, this conflict had affected nearly half the continent, and no sect could stay out of it.

Sects and countries with interest dealings with the Clear Sky Sect all suffered varying degrees of impact, especially those families that were affiliated forces of the Clear Sky Sect, including the four single-attribute clans—nearly twenty large and small ones.

To put it vividly, this conflict also triggered a small financial crisis. With the Clear Sky Sect's industries going bankrupt, it wasn't just Spirit Master forces that were affected, but also a large number of workers. And these unemployed workers would become refugees within the two great empires, or even be reduced to slaves.

Who told them they were unlucky enough to work in industries related to the Clear Sky Sect before? As for where these unlucky people would go, the Spirit Hall wouldn't care. After all, the Spirit Hall was a Spirit Master organization, and the lives of ordinary people had nothing to do with them. The Spirit Hall only cared about Spirit Masters and only represented the interests of the Spirit Master class.

"Hmm?"

Bibi Dong, who was processing the memorials, suddenly looked up at the gate of the Pope Palace.

"Come in."

Hearing the sound, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, who had been fidgeting outside the door for a long time, walked in one after the other.

"Oh?" Bibi Dong was a bit surprised.

"What business do the two elders have?"

At today's coronation ceremony, only Chrysanthemum and Ghost had come to support her. To be honest, she was still a bit surprised, as the situation was currently unclear, and elders wouldn't easily pick a side.

And the actions of Chrysanthemum and Ghost today could actually be understood as them picking her side.

However, she didn't understand why these two were in such a hurry. It should be known that before the coronation ceremony, except for Qian Daoliu and Jin E, no one knew she had been promoted to Titled Douluo, and Chrysanthemum and Ghost were the same.

Moreover, these two had previously been hanging out with Qian Xunji. Now that Qian Xunji had just died, it wasn't very appropriate for them to change sides, right?

It should be known that although Qian Daoliu had pushed her to the Pope's position, during the Elder Hall meeting, as long as one wasn't blind, one could see the atmosphere between them was wrong.

Picking a side at such a time was too risky, right? "Greetings, Pope Crown!"

Led by Yue Guan, Gui Mei followed closely and knelt on one knee.

Bibi Dong was stunned. "What is the meaning of this, two elders?"

The Pope was the highest leader of the Spirit Hall, but the status of elders in the Spirit Hall was not low either. Even Platinum Bishops, who were lower in status than elders, didn't need to kneel before the Pope, let alone elders.

"Please, Pope Crown, take us in," Yue Guan said in a deep voice.

"Take you in?" Bibi Dong looked puzzled.

"What does this mean?"

Yue Guan found it hard to say. "Pope Crown, you may not know, but now in the Elder Hall, there is no longer any room for the two of us."

Hearing this, Bibi Dong's brain started working rapidly.

Yue Guan, Gui Mei—they had just been seriously injured in the Spirit Hall's operation. How could they say there was no room for them? Could it be because...

Bibi Dong, who quickly thought of the reason, found it a bit funny. "I thought the Grand Elder's heart was very broad, but I didn't expect it to be just so-so."

Qian Xunji took Yue Guan and Gui Mei out to surround and kill Tang Hao and the hundred-thousand-year transformed spirit beast, but the hundred-thousand-year spirit beast wasn't caught, countless Spirit Saints participating in the hunt were killed or injured, and three veteran Titled Douluo died or were seriously injured.

Most importantly, Qian Xunji died! And Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who also besieged Tang Hao, were still alive and well.

If it weren't for the fact that these two didn't have many breaths left when they returned, that old thing Qian Daoliu, after seeing Qian Xunji's miserable state, might have been able to kill these two guys on the spot! That day, the terrifying spirit power pressure and cold killing intent that erupted in the Elder Hall—she still remembered it.

The killing intent of the former Ruling Elder...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 21 =====