...
"Run! This woman is insane! She's been consumed by the evil thoughts of the Rakshasa God and has completely lost her mind!"
In his mind, the Ice Dragon King's voice was extremely anxious, almost screaming as he reminded Xuan Hao:
"She doesn't even recognize who you are right now!
If that divine power erupts, she really will kill you! Get out of there immediately!"
However.
Faced with this terrifying pressure that would make any titled Douluo tremble, Xuan Hao did not retreat even half a step.
He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the fighting instincts and blood energy that had been awakened within him.
Instead of running away, he walked step by step towards Bibi Dong, facing the towering purplish-black mist.
Originally, due to his increased height over the past few years, Xuan Hao was already a head taller than Bi Bi Dong.
But at this moment, Bi Bi Dong, who had entered a semi-possessed state of the Death Spider King, was held high in the air by the eight sharp and thick spider legs behind her, looking down at him from above.
Xuan Hao raised his head, his clear sky-blue eyes meeting those violent and icy purplish-black pupils without flinching.
"I didn't force you."
Xuan Hao's voice was calm, without any hysterical roar, yet it carried an undeniable power:
"I didn't disobey."
"I've said it before, as long as it's right, as long as it's what you want me to do, I'll listen to whatever you say."
Xuan Hao looked directly into her eyes, his tone revealing a deep sense of helplessness and stubbornness:
"But... those words that cause you pain and make me feel bad, those words that make you forcibly push yourself away from me..."
"I can't listen to that.
And I absolutely won't listen."
Xuan Hao took another step forward, and the two were now very close.
If Bibi Dong's spider legs on her back moved even slightly, they could easily pierce through his chest.
"You ask me why?"
"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?"
"Bibi Dong, why do you keep living in the past?!"
"Why hide like a sinner who can't see the light of day?!
Why use this ugly shell to armor yourself, hiding your truest self in the darkest shadows?!"
"I know you're in pain, and I know you're scared. But... so what?!"
Xuan Hao suddenly raised his hand, pointed to his chest, his voice trembling slightly with excitement:
"I'm right here!"
"I want to pull you out of that damned abyss!
I want you to live like a normal person, happily in the sunlight!
Instead of like you are now, wearing a cold mask every day, a resentful ghost who only knows revenge and hatred!"
"Shut up!!!"
Upon hearing these words, the purplish-black light in Bibi Dong's eyes surged instantly.
Rakshasa-like malice raged wildly in her mind, twisting Xuan Hao's good intentions into the most vicious mockery.
"What do you know?!"
Bibi Dong roared hoarsely, her eight spider legs whipping wildly through the air like raging whips, sending up gusts of foul wind:
"You don't understand anything at all!"
"I'm already finished! My life, everything I have, was completely destroyed in that dark and sunless secret room!"
Bibi Dong clutched her head in anguish, her once exquisitely beautiful face contorted with utter despair and resentment.
"There is no tomorrow... I can never wash away that filthy sin!"
"I can't get over it!
I'll never get over it in my life!"
Seeing her self-imposed exile and near-madness, Xuan Hao could no longer suppress his anger.
"Can't get out?"
Xuan Hao roared suddenly, his voice booming like a bell, causing the surrounding purplish-black mist to dissipate somewhat:
"Is it that you can't get over it, or that you simply don't want to get over it at all?!"
"What are you so afraid of?!"
"I'm standing here! I'm right here!"
"I can be with you!
No matter how unbearable the past was, no matter how much resistance you face, no matter how difficult or painful it is, I can stand by you and bear it together!"
"I've said this since I was a child, and I'm willing to do it for the rest of my life!"
Xuan Hao, his eyes red, stared intently into Bibi Dong's crazed gaze, and pressed her for an answer, enunciating each word clearly:
"But what about you?"
Why won't you lend a hand?
Why don't you even have the courage to try standing up?!
Xuan Hao took a deep breath. "Because you don't trust me, right?"
"You think everything I'm saying is unbelievable, all fake.
You think I'm just acting on a whim, and you're afraid that after I see your truest, ugliest side, you'll despise and abandon you like everyone else, and won't hold on to you at all!"
"So you'd rather lock yourself in the dark than trust me even once!"
Xuan Hao stared at the woman in mid-air who seemed to be possessed by a demon, his eyes growing increasingly crazed.
He did not try to persuade him again, nor did he press him further.
He simply lowered his arms with extreme calm, withdrawing all the soul power defenses within his body, speaking with an infuriatingly calm tone, like a madman facing death:
"Fine. Since you don't believe me."
"Let's take a gamble today."
"Either you pull back from the brink, hand me your hand, and let me pull you out of that damned abyss!"
"Or..."
"Drag me away!"
"Are you crazy?!
Are you out of your mind?!"
Seeing that Xuan Hao not only didn't run away, but instead approached the crazed Bibi Dong, the voice of the Ice Dragon King in her mind instantly soared to an extremely sharp level.
This is no joke!
That's the Death Spider Emperor, a peerless Douluo, and even mixed with the evil thoughts of the Rakshasa God! Once those eight spider legs pierce down, let alone flesh and blood, even a 100,000-year-old soul beast would be pierced through!
"You fool, you want to die? I'm not going to play along!"
The Ice Dragon King was completely enraged.
She no longer sought Xuan Hao's opinion.
A vast and extremely violent power of the extreme cold dragon soul, like a flood bursting its banks, forcibly erupted from the right leg bone of the Soft Bone Rabbit and surged wildly into Xuan Hao's limbs and bones!
She was going to forcibly take over Xuan Hao's body and lead this reckless madman to evacuate this extremely dangerous room!
However.
Just as this extremely powerful and cold dragon soul power belonging to the true dragon suddenly erupted within Xuan Hao's body!
"roar--!"
This sudden, terrifying aura, comparable to that of a peerless Douluo, instantly triggered Bibi Dong, who was on the verge of losing control.
The Rakshasa's evil intent instinctively sensed an extremely strong threat.
Almost instinctively, Bibi Dong let out a shrill roar, and the eight dark purple spider legs on her back, like the Grim Reaper's scythe, pierced Xuan Hao's heart with a sharp whistling sound that tore through the air, at a speed that was hard to detect with the naked eye!
In the split second between life and death, Xuan Hao seized the opportunity to harness the extremely cold dragon soul power that had just surged into his body!
Absolute zero!
"Snap—!!!"
An extremely terrifying cold storm exploded from Xuan Hao's body.
The eight dark purple spider legs that were about to pierce his chest were frozen in mid-air the moment they came into contact with this extreme cold, covered with a thick layer of frost, making them unable to advance an inch!
Taking advantage of the half-second delay caused by Bibi Dong being frozen in ice.
Xuan Hao stomped his right leg and smashed the ground.
With the power of his waist, he unleashed a straight punch, simple yet containing earth-shattering power, at the thick Spider King carapace in front of Bibi Dong.
"boom--!!!"
A deafening explosion resounded within the palace.
With the Ice Dragon King's power amplified, the force of this punch was terrifying beyond measure.
Even someone as strong as Bibi Dong was sent flying backward like a kite with a broken string by this immense force!
"Boom!"
The sturdy walls of the papal palace collapsed like paper under the terrifying impact, sending bricks and stones flying and dust billowing everywhere.
"you..."
The Ice Dragon King was completely dumbfounded.
Why did you take action directly?
"nonsense!"
Xuan Hao shook his slightly numb right hand, took a deep breath, and his eyes became extremely sharp and focused:
"What's the use of just talking these days?
Trying to reason with someone who has lost their mind and is driven by malice is just asking for trouble."
"I think I understand now. I want to wake her up, I want to untangle those knots in my heart that have been festering inside..."
Xuan Hao stared intently at the purplish-black figure that had risen again from the ruins, its killing intent even more ferocious:
"We still have to use our fists first! Beat her into submission, bring her to her senses, and then we can sit down and talk things over!"
"Sister Bing, stop holding back, go all out! We have no choice but to fight!"
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