Bibi Dong straightened her posture, stood up holding the Supreme Pontiff Scepter, and looked at Hu Liena, who walked in from outside the palace with a graceful sway of her slender waist, saying:
"Congratulations, you successfully emerged from Slaughter City. The Slaughter God Domain should significantly boost your strength."
Her tone carried both authority and a hint of expectation. As the Supreme Pontiff, she rarely showed personal curiosity, yet this matter clearly interested her more than she admitted.
"Reporting to Teacher, I did not obtain the Slaughter God Domain," Hu Liena said, cupping her hands.
Her voice was calm, but there was a trace of seriousness beneath it. The journey through Slaughter City had changed her—hardened her—but it had also taken something from her original expectations.
Hearing this, Bibi Dong's eyes narrowed: "You didn't pass the Road to Hell? Then how did you get out?"
The scepter in her hand tilted slightly, and the temperature in the hall seemed to drop. Slaughter City was not a place one simply "left" without consequence. Survival itself implied anomaly.
"Teacher, although disciple did not obtain the Slaughter God Domain, I obtained an even better Forbidden Magic Domain. In this Domain, disciple not only gains the enhancements of the Slaughter God Domain but can also restrict enemies from using Spirit Abilities."
Hu Liena lifted her hand slightly.
From her body, a dark red aura bloomed, spreading outward like a living mist. The atmosphere in the hall subtly changed, as if unseen chains were beginning to form in the air itself. Spirit power fluctuations within the space grew noticeably suppressed, as though the world itself was being restrained.
Bibi Dong's expression changed, and she couldn't help but take two steps forward:
"What exactly is going on?"
Her gaze sharpened instantly. As someone who had personally experienced Slaughter City, she understood the significance of such a domain more than anyone. The ability to suppress Spirit Abilities alone was already beyond conventional domains.
"Teacher… the situation is like this."
Hu Liena hesitated for a moment but then roughly recounted what had happened in Slaughter City.
Her words flowed slowly at first, then gradually gained rhythm as memories resurfaced—the brutality of the arena, the constant struggle for survival, and the unexpected encounters that had reshaped everything she thought she knew.
When she heard that four disciples from Heart of Fire Academy had also entered Slaughter City for training, Bibi Dong's brows furrowed slightly.
That detail alone was enough to shift her attention. Anything involving that academy—and especially its teacher—rarely remained ordinary.
When she heard that Teacher Xin had appeared, turned the tide, saved his disciples, and that the boundless cherry blossoms had reshaped the rules of Slaughter City, Bibi Dong's eyes gleamed brightly:
The coldness in her gaze softened, replaced by something far more animated.
"Nana, tell me more specifically, in what manner did Teacher Xin appear? And how did he defeat that Slaughter King?"
"Also, what was the sight of Teacher Xin's cherry blossoms filling Slaughter City like?"
Her voice grew noticeably more eager as she spoke. The Supreme Pontiff's composure remained, but her curiosity was unmistakable now, almost childlike in its intensity.
"Sigh~ What a pity, Teacher couldn't go see it in person. If I had known Teacher Xin was also there, even if it were a mountain of daggers and a sea of fire, I would have wanted to go with him."
A faint sigh escaped her lips.
It was rare for Bibi Dong to express regret so openly. Yet in this case, the regret was not strategic—it was personal. A missed opportunity she clearly still felt.
Listening to Hu Liena describe the situation in Slaughter City, Bibi Dong's face was filled with regret.
The more she heard, the more vivid the scene became in her mind—cherry blossoms sweeping through a city of blood, rewriting rules, overturning order itself. Even for someone of her level, it sounded almost unreal.
"Wait, so, does that mean that the current Slaughter City is actually under Teacher Xin's control?"
Bibi Dong came back to her senses, her face lighting up. This was an excellent excuse to go congratulate Teacher Xin on acquiring a city?