"Elder Ghost Leopard, how dare you disobey my orders?!"
Bibi Dong's face was so dark it could drip water. She hadn't expected Ghost Leopard Douluo to be so audacious, daring to openly defy her in public.
As an agility-type Titled Douluo, spying on the enemy camp was utterly riskless for him.
After all, the strongest soul master known to be in the Heaven Dou Empire's forward camp was only a Soul Douluo.
With Ghost Leopard Douluo's Level 95 cultivation, even if he were accidentally discovered, no one there could possibly stop him.
Bibi Dong would never have bothered assigning such a simple and safe task to Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo before; she usually reserved the thankless and highly difficult missions for them.
After all, only Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo would flawlessly obey her every command without question.
In the past, she could have easily given this task to a Platinum Bishop or the sect leader of one of the new Seven Great Sects.
But now, urgently needing to know the enemy's exact situation, she had decided to entrust the crucial matter to Ghost Leopard Douluo.
And this guy was so ungrateful, unwilling to even do such a simple task, completely disregarding her supreme authority.
If it weren't for the current scarcity of highly capable men under her direct command, she would never have spared this guy.
Seeing Bibi Dong about to erupt in genuine anger, Ghost Leopard Douluo shrank back and hurriedly explained, "Your Majesty, it's not that I want to disobey orders, it's just that I'm truly not good at gathering intelligence."
Although Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had already defected from Spirit Empire, Bibi Dong's own personal strength was deeply unfathomable.
Therefore, Ghost Leopard Douluo and the others couldn't simply ignore Bibi Dong's orders completely like the high priests of the Worship Hall could, nor did they dare to openly betray the Spirit Empire like Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo had.
Hearing this flimsy excuse, Bibi Dong's expression softened slightly. Right now, she desperately needed manpower, so she had to temporarily tolerate Ghost Leopard Douluo's subtle disobedience.
After a moment, she looked down at Ghost Leopard Douluo and said sternly, "You must gather the information before tonight, or you will bear the consequences!"
"Your subordinate obeys."
Ghost Leopard Douluo sighed inwardly. It seemed there was no way he could slack off this time. He could only hope that nothing unexpected would happen during this routine operation.
After watching Ghost Leopard Douluo leave the grand tent, Bibi Dong rested her chin on her right hand, gradually falling into deep thought.
Only now did she finally realize the true importance of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo.
In the past, the two were not only her loyal right-hand men, but also incredibly hardworking and dutiful, constantly helping her handle countless troublesome matters behind the scenes.
Most importantly, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were both Super Douluos of Level 96.
If she hadn't constantly punished them back then, they certainly wouldn't have betrayed her Spirit Empire.
With those two highly capable henchmen enforcing her will, these lesser elders wouldn't dare disobey her orders for a second.
Thinking about it carefully, they really hadn't committed any major, unforgivable mistakes.
However, Bibi Dong quickly extinguished this line of thought. She couldn't accept that she had made a fundamental mistake; she preferred to firmly believe that the two had simply betrayed her trust.
Moreover, she hadn't forgotten a single word Chrysanthemum Douluo had shouted at her before leaving.
How dare he say that she was just as ugly inside as Spirit Hall, and even dare to distort the absolute truth of what happened back then, when it was clearly all Spirit Hall's fault!
Killing Qian Xunji alone wasn't enough; she genuinely wanted to destroy the entire foundation of Spirit Hall.
"Yue Guan, you'd better pray I never catch you, or I'll make you wish you were dead!"
Thinking this, Bibi Dong gripped her pontiff's scepter tightly, her eyes turning icy cold.
As the various elders and the sect leaders of the Seven Great Sects withdrew from the meeting, only Bibi Dong and Hu Liena remained in the spacious tent.
Hu Liena quickly walked to Bibi Dong's side, her face serious, and said, "Teacher, the Heaven Dou Empire's army is behaving so strangely; they've probably received massive reinforcements. However, their supply corps probably haven't arrived yet. I think we can set up an ambush along their inevitable supply route."
Hearing this tactical plan, Bibi Dong nodded thoughtfully.
If they could successfully cut off the enemy's main supply lines, the Heaven Dou Empire's army would have no choice but to retreat. At that point, they could wipe out the struggling Star Luo Empire in one fell swoop.
Having thought it through, Bibi Dong looked up at Hu Liena and entrusted her, "Nana, I entrust this matter entirely to you."
Several years ago, when Hu Liena first returned to Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong immediately appointed her as the Holy Maiden, clearly intending to dedicate herself fully to cultivating this personal disciple as her successor.
To Bibi Dong, Hu Liena was the only person in the entire Spirit Hall she felt she could truly trust.
Although Hu Liena hadn't successfully obtained the Deathgod Domain, in Bibi Dong's view, that was all Lin Mu and Tang San's fault.
If Tang San had just taken Hu Liena with him to challenge Hell Road, she would definitely have obtained the Deathgod Domain. But Tang San only selfishly thought of himself, abandoning Hu Liena to challenge Hell Road alone.
And that wasn't all; Lin Mu, as Tang San's master, was even more utterly ruthless.
To deliberately prevent anyone else from obtaining the Deathgod Domain, Lin Mu had actually slaughtered all the Fallen Ones in the entire city.
Even the Slaughter King no longer existed, he was practically a mindless killing machine targeting fallen soul masters.
Because Lin Mu had slaughtered the Slaughter King and all the Fallen Ones, Hu Liena was completely unable to challenge Hell Road.
This was clearly all the fault of Lin Mu and his selfish disciple!
However, Bibi Dong never stopped to carefully consider one glaring question: if Lin Mu had truly gone mad with mindless bloodlust, how could he have possibly spared Hu Liena alone?
At the same time, Ghost Leopard Douluo was already rapidly heading towards the Heaven Dou Empire's military camp.
After all, he was an agility-type Titled Douluo, and with his full-force sprint, he arrived within a few hundred meters of the enemy camp in less than an hour.
Ghost Leopard Douluo's agile figure darted silently through the darkness, almost perfectly blending into the surrounding environment, easily avoiding the perimeter patrol teams' sight.
Ghost Leopard Douluo didn't take these patrol teams, composed mostly of low-level soul masters and ordinary soldiers, seriously at all.
"Such a ridiculously small matter, and she still sent me here?"
Ghost Leopard Douluo harbored a lot of deep resentment.
As a Level 95 Titled Douluo, just one single level away from being officially promoted to a High Priest, he was actually sent by Bibi Dong to personally spy on the enemy like a common scout.
Such a trivial matter could be easily done by any competent Soul Douluo; it was a massive waste of his supreme talent to make him do it personally.
But this was for the best; at least he definitely wouldn't encounter any real danger. Once he completed this menial mission, he would find a convenient excuse to return to Spirit City to cultivate in peace.
He had already seen right through Bibi Dong's true colors.
Years ago, he had witnessed firsthand Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo betraying Spirit Hall to violently break with Bibi Dong.
Although he didn't understand the exact details, the fact that even her absolute most trusted subordinates were willing to publicly betray her showed just how terrible Bibi Dong was at treating her people. Continuing to work under her would definitely lead absolutely nowhere good.
Even so, Ghost Leopard Douluo dared not rebel directly.
After all, he didn't have a powerful, god-like backer like Lin Mu behind him, and it was completely unrealistic for him to defy Bibi Dong directly with only his Level 95 soul power.
In just a few brief minutes, Ghost Leopard Douluo effortlessly passed through the layers of guards in the military camp and arrived right at the area designated for treating the wounded.
Logically, there should have been thousands of wounded soldiers desperately being treated here, but the scene before him was completely different.
Apart from a few freshly wounded soldiers being quickly carried into one massive, central tent one after another, there wasn't a single wounded person to be seen anywhere else.
Furthermore, not a single scream of pain could be heard from the entire area, which was simply illogical for an active war camp.
"So incredibly few wounded?"
Ghost Leopard Douluo hesitated deeply, seriously wondering whether he should risk entering that central tent to check.