Douluo Continent: A Thousand Miles of Cultivation

They also learned that Qian Shui was not actually a Title Douluo, but a Soul Douluo, with only one more soul ring than Huan Hongchen. This was a Soul Douluo with two 100,000-year soul rings!

"Phew! It's over! Ascend! Ascend!"

The first kill once again demonstrated its power. The 100,000-year-old soul beast, similar to Dunkleosteus, was killed before it could even react, but its body was still swimming, only it had lost its direction and control, and gradually floated towards the surface of the sea.

"Goodness, such a big fish? We shouldn't have stirred up the Demon Orca King last time; we didn't catch a single one..."

After some time, Qian Shui finally caught up with the big fish that had moved a long way due to inertia.

"Give me a hand, protect the Dharma! If you agree, this fish is yours except for the edible parts!"

With her sleeves rolled up, Qian Shui spoke confidently to Huan Hongchen, whose head was peeking out from the cabin door.

"You...you're not a Title Douluo?"

"Uh……"

This question completely exposed Qian Shui's disguise, but he didn't care anyway.

"I'll explain after it's all over."

Having said that, he summoned the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and began to attach its first spirit ring to it.

……

"It's you! Marshal Goron!"

While Qian Renxue was touring the country, she inevitably had to sometimes travel incognito, and naturally encountered nothing more than a normal assassination plot.

But this time, the person in charge is different.

"Your Highness, it's been a long time!"

Originally, the 50-something-year-old Golong was mature and steady, and was quite competent as the marshal of the empire. However, his foolish son was not only an evil soul master, but also had to offend Qian Shui.

This sparked a fierce conflict between Qian Renxue and Qian Shuizhi. If it weren't for Qian Renxue's desperate attempt to keep them together, their fates would likely have been tragic.

It all started because of military power. What wouldn't Qian Renxue do for Qian Shui? How could she possibly let Ge Long go?

Using the pretext of evil spirit masters, Golong's side was suppressed by almost the entire spirit master world, including the Spirit Hall, and the empire had long since run out of places to stay.

Even an eight-ring Soul Douluo could escape if he wanted to. Bibi Dong's titled Douluos were too numerous to mobilize, the offerings in the Hall of Worship were too many to handle, and the two under her command needed to protect her safety. Furthermore, there was no concrete evidence as to whether Ge Long was an evil Soul Master, and the two members of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School were even less likely to intervene.

Soldiers seem to be particularly sensitive to danger. With the combined efforts of so many parties, he managed to escape ahead of time, and we met again today.

At this moment, Ge Long's face was ferocious and his blood aura was overwhelming. He had long lost the composure he had at the beginning. An even more terrifying scene appeared. Nine spirit rings, yellow, purple, black ...

"Your Highness! You are vengeful! Today, I will offer your head as a sacrifice to the soul of my son!"

A surge of bloodthirsty soul power swept in, "Seventh Soul Skill, Yazi True Form!"

"Your Highness, let's go quickly!"

On the surface, the Heaven Dou Empire has two Soul Saint-level Soul Masters protecting the Crown Prince's safety. Considering Xue Qinghe's current political status, there is no one who would dare to openly assassinate the Crown Prince.

If I had to name one, it would be the Spirit Hall; I won't even mention the others who are in cahoots.

The three upper sects, including the almost reclusive Haotian Sect, have all benefited from the large-scale infrastructure project and can be said to be on Xue Qinghe's side. If there is any conflict of interest, it is only the old aristocratic forces and the Xingluo Empire.

In fact, two Soul Saints are enough, and even Sword Douluo sometimes accompanies him when he goes on business trips.

"Eighth Soul Skill, Wrath of Yazi!"

Under the attack of a powerful titled Douluo, the two Soul Saints were annihilated in an instant, with almost no power to fight back. Moreover, this was in no way different from facing a top-tier dragon-type martial soul, which was almost the same as facing a titled Douluo-level Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus.

Xue Qinghe remained motionless, showing no fear, but instead displaying a cold indifference on his face.

"Has His Highness the Crown Prince simply resigned himself to his fate?!"

"Great! The troublemaker is gone!"

Two pairs of wings suddenly appeared behind Xue Qinghe, and with a wave of his right hand, a long sword appeared in his hand.

"Perhaps the reasons for killing you before were a bit far-fetched, but now killing you is perfectly justified!"

Looking at the two Soul Saints torn to pieces, she felt no pity. These were people sent by Xue Ye, ostensibly for protection, but in reality for surveillance. She knew this, but she deliberately let them go, leaving them as a mouthpiece.

If it was previously uncertain whether Goron had colluded with his son, that no longer mattered; the Angelic Spirit was trembling with rage!

The aura emanating from him speaks volumes. The fact that he was able to rise to the level of a Title Douluo so quickly makes it all too obvious what he plundered!

Although becoming a Title Douluo gave him a sense of security, Ge Long didn't understand what had happened to Xue Qinghe.

Xue Qinghe in his eyes suddenly became sacred, and a ray of light suddenly shone from his body. It was a brilliant golden light, starting from his forehead and instantly spreading to his entire body.

Then one after another, spirit rings appeared on his body: two yellow, two purple, and four black—a total of eight spirit rings!

'Contra? How is that possible?'

His hair turned into a bright, shining gold, every single strand glowing. With the flapping of his wings, his body seemed to defy gravity and slowly floated up, hovering about a foot off the ground.

Under the intense golden light, Xue Qinghe's eyes also turned completely golden, and a huge, faceless phantom appeared behind his body.

"A six-winged angel martial soul? That's impossible!!!! You're not Xue Qinghe!!!"

The moment he saw this super martial soul, fear from the depths of his soul swept over every pore of Ge Long's body. At the same time, he finally realized that the person in front of him could not possibly be Xue Qinghe, the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire!

Ignoring Golong's emotions, the seventh spirit ring surrounding Xue Qinghe glowed with a deep black light.

Black and gold, two incongruous lights, mingled together. Soon, the black spirit ring seemed to be assimilated, transforming into gold during its release.

A golden light shone brightly, and the phantom behind Xue Qinghe moved forward silently. Xue Qinghe himself quickly merged with the phantom, and his entire body, including his skin and hair, was rendered in pure gold.

His clothes were purified and disappeared in the golden light. A dazzling golden flame enveloped his body, making him look like a celestial being. Even his other six spirit rings were dyed gold at this moment.

On Xue Qinghe's two pairs of pure white wings, gold began to spread from the roots and continued to the tip of each feather.

The true form of the six-winged angel was fully revealed under the effect of the seventh soul ring martial soul true body, and Xue Qinghe's aura suddenly expanded like an overwhelming force.

Another golden light flashed, and the angel's true form appeared.

Qian Renxue was originally in her early twenties, with skin as white as snow, phoenix eyes that held a hint of power, a straight nose, and slightly slender phoenix eyes. At this moment, she was extremely cold and stern, her angry face carrying a touch of ruthlessness.

"Seventh Soul Skill, Angelic True Form! Angelic Domain!"

A clear, cold voice, imbued with holy light and angelic power, enveloped Goron!

"Fourth Soul Skill, Angel Free Will!"

"Sixth Soul Skill, Angel's Roar!"

"Eighth Soul Skill, Enlightenment!"

Chapter 160 Cause and Effect

"Miss!"

Serpent Spear Douluo and Porcupine Douluo appeared one after another, but Qian Renxue waved her hand to interrupt them from going forward.

"Ugh!!!!"

Despite enduring the powerful mental attack of Qian Renxue's sixth soul skill and the light cannon that dispels all evil spirits, Ge Long miraculously survived.

"who are you!!!"

The battle was a foregone conclusion; Qian Renxue was never a traditional Soul Master. Under Qian Shui's influence, although she didn't have much time for actual combat, she couldn't resist the constant instruction from certain people.

She is not the weak Angel Douluo who could be severely injured by Tang Hao when he first entered the title stage; her combat skills have reached a certain level.

Admittedly, she was taught a lot, but definitely not cultivation techniques. However, she made significant adjustments to the application and development of the Angelic Martial Soul.

The soul skills were not used. The sixth soul skill, Angel's Roar, was still a powerful light-type mental attack and an extremely strong control skill. Combined with the holy light chains unleashed by the fourth soul skill, Angel's Free Will, and the enhancement of the Angel Domain, a strong control effect appeared.

This is the moment for her eighth soul skill to attack.

Remembering Qian Shui's words to him: 'Single-target attacks need to be used in conjunction with control; otherwise, for someone like me who relies on dodging, the stronger your attack, the better! It just drains your soul power!'

Qianrenxue remained calm and still, but her thoughts drifted as she contemplated Qianshui.

A clear, cool, and noble voice answered the scalded Goron.

"The successor of the angels, a level 82 power-attack type Soul Douluo, Qian Renxue!"

"So that explains why the Spirit Hall ignored you! And it explains why you went to such lengths to settle scores with the Marshal's Mansion after that incident!"

Only after leaving the power center of the Heavenly Dou Empire did Golong finally see the strangeness of the situation.

The agreement between the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and the Spirit Hall is top secret, something Ge Long is unaware of, and Ning Fengzhi would absolutely not allow it to be revealed to the world.

After all, the fact that so many forces were gathered to kill Qian Shui is not something that can be openly discussed, and more importantly, it was a failure.

Ning Fengzhi agreed to one of Qian Shui's conditions: Qian Shui took away all the people involved in the assassination except for him and his group of three, making it impossible for anyone other than the three from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School to leak the secret.

It is precisely because Goron was unaware of this that the matter is so strange.

Nine out of ten soul masters in the world come from the Spirit Hall or the three upper sects and their affiliated forces, and it is unusual that all nine out of ten are attacking him. Who has the ability to gather so much power?

The most terrifying thing is that these parties were already rife with contradictions and were secretly attacking each other to the point of near-fatal conflict. How could they possibly cooperate?

The most unbelievable thing is Xue Qinghe's rise. It is puzzling that the Spirit Hall seems indifferent. The most surprising thing is the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Ning Fengzhi seemed to have been bewitched by Xue Qinghe, as if he had staked his entire sect on assisting the development of the Heavenly Dou Empire. Xue Qinghe's control of the empire from his base faced almost no resistance.

This is almost impossible, since the original situation of the Heaven Dou Empire was precisely created by these sects and forces. A divided Heaven Dou Empire is what suits them as a nation within a nation.

And the one who likes to play the game of checks and balances the most is Ning Fengzhi himself, who is closest to the center of the empire!

He understood these questions when he learned that Xue Qinghe was the inheritor of the Angelic Martial Soul.

"Only by being at the center of multiple spirals at the same time can one possibly leverage so many forces, am I right?"

The Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, Ning Fengzhi's disciple, and the legitimate heir of the Qian family of the Spirit Hall—only by possessing all three qualities, coupled with a cunning scheme that borders on the supernatural, could one possibly reach the heights that Qian Renxue has achieved so far.

"It's not unjust to lose to you. If you think about it carefully, the entire Douluo Continent is actually in your hands."

With the current strength of the Heaven Dou Empire, even without the involvement of the Spirit Hall, it already has the potential to devour the Star Luo Empire on its own.

As a citizen of the Heavenly Dou Empire, I was momentarily at a loss as to whether to feel resentment or gratitude…

"gratitude?"

"Yes, we have exhausted all our efforts but could not stop the decline of the empire. But in your hands, the empire has surpassed Xingluo in just a few years. How can I not be grateful!"

The clashes between nations are never in the eyes of high-level Soul Masters, but they are closely related to ordinary people. Golong was originally their marshal, so how could he not deeply understand this?

"Why did you fall into this path?!"