Douluo Continent: On Becoming a God Through Science

Chapter 114 Mission: To Shame Bibi Dong

Faced with Bibi Dong's accusations, Yue Guan could only smile awkwardly.

Of the ten elders in the Elder Hall, Bibi Dong actually only controls Chrysanthemum and Ghost. This is a well-known fact at the highest level of power within the Spirit Hall.

The three elders who were willing to take action this time were not doing so to protect Bibi Dong's interests, but simply to consider the Spirit Hall's position and to uphold its prestige.

However, not all elders are so responsible.

Damn it, even after becoming a Title Douluo, I still have to work myself to the bone, I can't relax, and I can't do whatever I want. Then what's the point of becoming a Title Douluo?! -- Many Title Douluos have similar thoughts.

Therefore, Title Douluos often act relatively freely, especially lone Title Douluos, because unless they do something reckless, almost no one can control them. They are basically unrestrained and are the kind of beings that the top forces in the Douluo Continent are unwilling to provoke easily.

The "Heavenly-level Assassin" can already be considered a lone Douluo. This is why the Star Luo Emperor is so willing to give him face.

Bibi Dong realized she had said something stupid as soon as she spoke.

Emotionally, Bibi Dong wanted to beat these elders who didn't work for her to death to vent her anger, but rationally, she knew she couldn't do that.

Because this contradicts her only ultimate purpose in life.

Therefore, she had to suppress her violent thoughts.

As we all know, the more a spring is compressed, the more powerful its rebound becomes.

The more Bibi Dong suppressed her true nature, the more she descended into madness.

Like walking a tightrope, no one knows when the string will snap.

She cast a dazed look into Yue Guan's eyes, making his scalp tingle and causing him to swallow hard before saying, "Tell all the elders for me: whoever manages to defeat that masked assassin will be granted the right to choose a suitable soul bone from the Spirit Hall's treasury. Of course..."

Bibi Dong glanced at Kiku and Kiku: "You two are the same."

If you can't reason with them, you can only appeal to their interests.

……

Reasoning backward from the result is relatively simple.

Bibi Dong can deduce the cause from the phenomenon, but that doesn't mean that she, being in You Chen's position, can foresee all the consequences of her actions.

The same applies to You Chen.

The world is complex, and no one can be Laplace's demon that can calculate everything.

His initial expectation was that the event would temporarily cease after the Super Douluo or Bibi Dong herself entered the Hall of Worship.

However, after a six-month-long hunt, the strongest unit that managed to capture him was still just an ordinary Title Douluo.

A combat power at the level of a Super Douluo has never appeared.

Of course, when Chrysanthemum and Ghost join forces, they can be considered to have the combat power of a Super Douluo.

However, due to a shortage of manpower, Kiku and Kiku had to split up to expand the search area.

Even if it's comparable to Super Douluo, it's still a bit lacking.

The biggest reason they are comparable to Super Douluo is their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, "Two-Pole Stillness Domain".

However, You Chen already knew this information in advance.

The most important point is that this martial soul fusion skill is dominated by the slower Yue Guan, rather than the agile Ghost.

When he was surrounded by the two at the same time, You Chen decisively used the Soul-Suppressing Technique on Yue Guan, which briefly intimidated him and created distance between them.

Ghost could still catch up with him, but Yue Guan's speed was about the same. Once they used their speed advantage to create distance, the two would be unable to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Then they would not be the Chrysanthemum-Ghost combination, but just two Title Douluos.

Only a Super Douluo could truly make You Chen feel apprehensive.

Therefore, You Chen began to have doubts.

He guessed that perhaps a super Douluo-level powerhouse had already begun an ambush, but had not yet shown up in order to avoid letting him notice anything amiss and to secure victory with a single blow.

The continuous killings surrounding Wuhun City have lasted for half a year.

The Spirit Hall was certainly not a lamb to the slaughter, and naturally changed its methods of pursuing the masked assassin more than once.

But two problems remained in their sights.

One is to search for and find the target.

Another issue is how to arrest or kill someone after they've been found.

At first, they could only rely on luck and guess blindly, but gradually they deduced some of You Chen's behavior patterns and successfully ambushed him time and time again.

Now that the first problem has been gradually solved, it is only natural to start focusing on solving the second problem.

Therefore, from You Chen's perspective, such a guess is reasonable.

It's not that the Super Douluo aren't making a move; they're just waiting for an opportunity.

A choice was once again placed before You Chen.

Should we give up now, or continue to outwit and outmaneuver the Spirit Hall?

As usual, he made a decision quickly.

"Don't scare yourself unnecessarily. It's possible that the Spirit Hall itself has some problems. The most likely explanation is Bibi Dong's Divine Trial. The original story doesn't explain the content of her Divine Trial or how Bibi Dong completed it. We only know that after obtaining the qualification, she delayed for decades before starting her plan to unify the continent and destroy the Spirit Hall. Perhaps Bibi Dong was hindered by the Divine Trial."

You Chen decided to infiltrate Wuhun City to carefully gather intelligence.

As the Spirit Hall's investigation becomes more detailed, it becomes increasingly difficult to establish contact with informants, and it is also very easy to be exposed.

Furthermore, it would be too much of a hellish joke if his own people were killed in the aftermath of his battle with the Spirit Hall members. So, taking advantage of the large flow of people rushing out, You Chen had all the beast envoys slip out of Spirit City.

Therefore, You Chen can only learn about the situation of Wuhun City through each hunt. He has a rough idea of ​​the situation in Wuhun City, but when it comes to details, he is basically clueless.

If Grace were still in Wuhun City, things would be much easier.

Unlike Hu Liena's completely unbalanced charm style, Grace's white fox spirit follows the mainstream mental system, and she successfully acquired the spirit skill "Mental Link" when she got her third spirit ring.

This is also why Grace has always been his chief steward and the leader of the invisible beastmen.

Through mental connection, communication and information exchange can be completed very covertly.

In this era where only Title Douluos generally possess spiritual power reaching the Spirit Abyss Realm, perhaps only Title Douluos could discover some clues.

However, this also presents another problem. While it may be well-hidden, if one is unlucky enough to be discovered, it could very well directly implicate You Chen himself.

Therefore, You Chen now has to go into the city as a scout to clarify some of the doubts.

His method was to knock out a resident who was traveling between the city and the outside world, steal their identification, disguise himself as them, and then enter the city openly.

In this way, he can move freely within the city, and even if someone comes up to verify You Chen's identity, they will ignore him because the face on the identity document resembles his own.

This method may seem crude, but it is actually highly feasible.

Because... You Chen has never used it even once.

For the past six months, he has never entered the city through disguise; he has always forced his way through the city gates using the Concealing Breath Technique.

As mentioned before, the Spirit Hall members on patrol were actually more focused on hindering the masked assassins' operations than on actually discovering the masked assassins who lacked identification.

The reason is that if they were just ordinary patrolmen, You Chen didn't kill a single one, and they never encountered masked killers when verifying their identities.

Over time, everyone developed a fixed mindset, subconsciously believing that the masked killer would only take unconventional paths and would not choose the most conventional method of infiltration.

Even some patrol personnel started slacking off.

Of course, this method of open and aboveboard infiltration should not be used too often.

The possibility of someone impersonating another person to enter the city will reduce the flow of people.

If such impersonation is discovered even once, the Spirit Hall will definitely increase the number of search personnel, making it easy to find out.

However, You Chen originally intended it to be a one-time emergency measure, so there was no problem with it.

After entering the city as if nothing had happened, You Chen quickly sensed something was amiss.

Actually, he had felt something was wrong before. Even though he had been in action for half a year, the flow of people in Wuhun City did not seem to have decreased significantly.

Now, after he entered the city, he found that these residents were going out on the streets as if nothing had happened.

Are you kidding me? Someone dies here every three or four days! Is it really okay to be so calm?!

You Chen was somewhat bewildered and dejected.

One of You Chen's three main goals is to delay Bibi Dong's ascension to godhood and the start of the war.

His direct assassination attempt was not only to complete his mission, but also to create chaos in Wuhun City and unsettle the people there.

Wuhun City is the headquarters of the Wuhun Hall, where logistics, economic and military forces are all concentrated. It is the rear base of the Wuhun Hall.

If trouble is stirred up in the rear, causing unrest, Bibi Dong, as the current Pope, will naturally have to spend time quelling the chaos and devote more time to handling political affairs.

By strengthening themselves, they can also delay Bibi Dong's time, which is killing two birds with one stone!

But now it seems...

"Did it fail? What happened?"

You Chen was somewhat confused.

However, this idea was ultimately just a side benefit. You Chen returned to his original goal and began to investigate the true nature of the Spirit Hall.

Ordinary titled Douluo are simply stronger, but they still need to live a normal life, need to sleep and eat, and do not have the forbearance of ninjas or the aura control of assassins.

They all hold very high positions in the Douluo world. While they carry out their missions, they never deliberately make things difficult for themselves or mistreat themselves.

Therefore, their strategy of holding down a position is not to find a secluded place to hide and remain undiscovered by anyone, then wait for the masked assassin to appear.

They were just like normal residents living in Wuhun City, just like the plainclothes law enforcement officers that You Chen encountered at the beginning.

In any case, if a Title Douluo doesn't release their soul power or exude soul pressure, they look no different from an ordinary person. Unless you have a deep understanding of auras and are extremely sensitive to them, you won't be able to detect the differences in the subtle details.

This is how the Soul Master cultivation system works.

Even an ordinary assassin, like You Chen, who had been lurking in the city for a month, probably wouldn't be able to tell if any new Title Douluo were lying in ambush.

But You Chen is different.

Think about his identity. Among those Title Douluos of the Spirit Hall, even if he's not familiar with them, which one is unfamiliar to him?

His method of investigation was very simple and unpretentious—he listened with his ears and looked with his eyes!

However, before You Chen could even spot an acquaintance, he made an unexpected discovery.

"Hehe, which big shot do you think will be next to die this week?"

"Shh! Are you out of your mind? Although everyone knows the truth, it's best to keep these thoughts to yourself. If you say them out loud, you might get caught by that yellow-clothed dog!"

"Ha, what's there to be afraid of! They're all too busy right now, they don't have time to care about us. Let's drink, let's drink!"

"You...you..."

"Speaking of which, His Holiness the Pope has really lost all his prestige! So much time has passed, and he's still talking about 'masked killer,' 'masked killer,' doesn't he even know who did it!?"

"You've really had too much to drink!"

Inside the tavern, You Chen, who was drinking at the next table, widened his eyes slightly: "This is... using the people I killed as gossip fodder? What kind of bloodthirsty audience is this, reminiscent of Douluo Continent?!"

However, he continued to listen and soon realized that this was not the case.

These guys aren't some crazy people who would risk their lives just to watch a show!

"So that's how it is... The Spirit Hall people were restrained to avoid affecting the city's residents, and I also dislike indiscriminate killing. An unspoken agreement formed, leading to this result. Almost no innocent people were caught up in my carnage—that's the foundation!"

From the casual conversations among the residents, You Chen finally realized that something was wrong.

As I said before, if you work backward from the result to find the cause, the difficulty level is significantly reduced.

You Chen wouldn't say he was an expert on human nature, but he had a basic understanding of it, and he quickly figured out the origin of these people who enjoyed themselves.

Then... he realized that his worst-case scenario was probably just needless worry.

It's still unclear why Bibi Dong didn't make a move, but we can roughly guess why the Hall of Worship isn't taking action!

So this is not a danger or a trap, but rather... an opportunity!

You Chen's eyes flickered, and he quickly got up to pay the bill: "In any case, let's double-check."

He started shopping again.

Then, that guess quickly turned into a certainty.

He had heard residents gossip about Bibi Dong in private on more than one occasion.

Undoubtedly, Bibi Dong's reputation has declined significantly.

This means—

"Bibi Dong's mission now has a chance of being completed!"

You Chen's eyes burned with passion.

After more than half a year of completing tasks, plus the previous accumulation, starting from the Yu Xiaogang task, he has completed nearly 150 tasks on the first task line!

What does this mean?

Ages 12 to 35, a total of 24 years.

The number of tasks each year is approximately 10 to 20.

In other words, he has already completed more than half of his mission line one, and the time he is currently working on the mission has reached the point where he was in his twenties.

No, considering the later stages, after he gradually began to disappear from the upper echelons of the Spirit Hall and lay low like a marginal figure, apart from Bibi Dong, basically no one would target him. The mission progress is probably more than two-thirds complete!

Given such a long time span and mission progress, how could he not have received any missions related to Bibi Dong?

This is clearly impossible.

He triggered it, and more than once!

However, these tasks were basically impossible to complete at this stage, so he abandoned them one by one.

In You Chen's mind, by the time he is able to complete Bibi Dong's mission, he will probably have the ability to defeat Bibi Dong directly!

What's the point of having this task now? It's too late!

Therefore, You Chen did not hesitate for a moment for the generous reward, and every time he saw it, he would give it up immediately!

In the process, he became increasingly certain of his previous conjecture about the power of fate.

Even though Bibi Dong is indeed a world boss, considering her age and strength at the time of the mission, the reward for her mission was still a bit too good.

In response, You Chen could only think of one possibility—as long as he didn't complete the first task of the character with high destiny power, this huge reward would remain there indefinitely.

In other words, You Chen did not deprive the other party of their luck, so the level of reward naturally remained the same.

The above is merely You Chen's reasonable speculation based on the available information.

However, because of this, You Chen was no longer so heartbroken about giving up Bibi Dong's mission.

In any case, the most important thing is Bibi Dong's first blood.

With the blood left there, and given the enmity between the two, You Chen would eventually have a chance to obtain it.

However, You Chen has always placed this expectation in the future.

But it's different now.

He still couldn't complete tasks like "defeating" or "changing attitude".

But "humiliation" is different.

Who says only the strong deliberately humiliate the weak?!

Damn it, the weak can still humiliate the strong!

And so, time passed.

Half a month later, after completing several more tasks, You Chen finally got the task he was looking for.

As luck would have it, this day was also the day Bibi Dong officially emerged from seclusion.

[Mission: The Holy Maiden Bibi Dong from the Spirit Hall has always considered you a fame-seeking scoundrel who stole the prestige of her beloved. She has publicly criticized and denied your theories within academic circles. How can you, as the greatest theoretical master of all time, leaving behind countless unsurpassable, god-like records, tolerate such humiliation? You must retaliate in kind, tenfold, and thoroughly humiliate this ignorant bastard!]

This task will provide a "humiliation progress" as a reference for the task's phased completion progress.

Humiliation Progress 1 Completed 100%! Successfully humiliated the target, causing them to lose face and suffer disgrace, earning the basic reward! Unlocked Humiliation Progress 2!

Humiliation Progress 2 is 100% complete. The entire Spirit City is talking about the target's humiliation, and attitudes towards the target have completely reversed. You have received an extra reward! Humiliation Progress 3 is now unlocked!

Humiliation progress 3 completed 100%! The goal has become a laughing stock throughout the Douluo Continent. Congratulations! You have obtained the ultimate reward!

[Basic Rewards: Ten Flashes of Inspiration, Five Muscle/Tendon Transformation and Marrow Cleansing, Three Illuminations of the Origin, a number of top-grade pills, and a number of special-grade pills]

[Bonus Rewards: Soul Bone Age Doubled Card, Soul Ring Age Doubled Card, Martial Soul Ascension Card (Temporary)]

[Ultimate Rewards: Soul Bone Age Doubled Card, Soul Ring Age Doubled Card, Martial Soul Ultimate Sublimation Card (Temporary), 100 Drops of Pure Divine Power]

[Note: The Soul Ring Age Doubling Card increases the age of Soul Rings by an additional number of years without any side effects, ignoring the Soul Master's maximum endurance limit.]

(End of this chapter)