Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 157 Coco Nair

Qian Renxue tilted her head and slipped to the place where the commotion was taking place.

"What happened?" she asked Scorpion Tiger Douluo.

"Reporting to the young master, we have set up a cordon here for safety reasons," Scorpion Tiger Douluo said in a low voice, "but the guards have discovered these uninvited guests."

Here, Qian Renxue's identity is the young master of the Spirit Hall, so Scorpion Tiger Douluo naturally wouldn't call her Saintess as he would in private.

Qian Renxue looked over and saw a team of four people, led by a girl in her twenties, and the other three looked like her bodyguards.

This is probably a small team that came to the Jingyang Mountains to mine or something.

"Hmm?" Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes, then enveloped the group with her mental detection. She discovered that the young woman in her twenties who was leading the group had a fairly high cultivation level, at the fourth ring, and her foundation was stable, so she probably hadn't taken any drugs that would force her to grow faster.

This is quite unusual in the Sun and Moon Empire.

The three bodyguards behind her looked rather ordinary; they were level five Soul Masters.

However, the clothes they wore were quite unique; they were the uniforms of the Sun and Moon Palace guards.

"Bring them with you, follow me." Qian Renxue waved her hand, signaling Scorpion Tiger Douluo to bring the group over.

"Let me go! Don't you want to live anymore? You know we... um...!" One of the guards tried to struggle, but Scorpion Tiger Douluo sealed his mouth shut.

Qian Renxue arrived at a distant mountain peak and had Scorpion Tiger Douluo and his three guards wait in the distance, as she wanted to talk to the woman in charge.

"Sit." She casually pointed to a small stone stool, indicating that she should sit down, while she herself stood to the side.

The woman sat down, a glint in her eyes.

Qian Renxue roughly knew who this woman was. In Mingdu, there was a story about a woman in her twenties who was different from ordinary women. She liked to wear men's shirts, ties, and trousers, and was very boyish. She was a fashion icon.

Most importantly, she owns a very large business, which makes her one of the richest women in Mingdu.

This woman's name is Coco Nair.

"Coco Nair?" Qian Renxue asked with interest.

"Do you know me?" the woman asked in return.

"A woman as outstanding as you, it would be hard not to know you, wouldn't it?" Qian Renxue said. "However, I'm curious, why aren't you having a secret rendezvous with some prince at this time? What are you doing here in this desolate wilderness?"

"It seems you know quite a bit about my past," CocoNair said, shrugging. "In your opinion, is that what you call outstanding?"

"I know a little bit, but most of it is just hearsay. So I'm quite curious too," Qian Renxue said calmly. "Getting back to the point, tell me why you've come."

CocoNair rolled her eyes at her: "Talking to someone as straightforward as you makes me... doubt my own charm."

"..." Qian Renxue sighed helplessly, "I don't doubt the charm you exude, but it depends on the person you're with."

"Do you know what my martial soul is?" Coco Nair put away her joke. Qian Renxue twirled her fingers; she hadn't fully explored this woman's abilities. "Tell me," she said.

Coco Nair extended her right hand, revealing a bead: "This is my martial soul, called the Golden Lotus Bead. It's a kind of treasure-type martial soul; it has a special function—it can resonate with valuable things in the surrounding environment."

Qian Renxue raised an eyebrow. She was not unfamiliar with treasure-type martial souls; in fact, she was quite familiar with them.

Most of these martial souls are support-type, the most typical being the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. This is a treasure-type magic weapon martial soul. Long ago, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School used this martial soul's sensitive detection of other treasures to obtain a lot of resources.

As a result, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School possessed the greatest wealth in the world at that time.

"So, with this ability, you must have found quite a few good things, right?" Qian Renxue said. This woman's cultivation was stable, and she must have used this martial spirit to distinguish the quality of those medicines.

This ability is indeed outstanding.

"I was just lucky." Coco Nair smiled casually, seemingly not taking it to heart. "Since you don't like beating around the bush, young master, I might as well speak frankly."

Qian Renxue smiled and nodded.

"I need a shelter," Coco said slowly.

Qian Renxue walked up behind her and gently touched her neck: "But why should I trust you? What do you have that's worth my investment?"

"Your power is currently in its early stages and requires a large amount of capital, while my business radiates from Mingdu to almost half of the Sun Moon Empire." Coco Nair seemed very confident. "My abilities are what you need."

"Since your business has already grown so large, why did you come to me? If I remember correctly, the power behind you should be... um?" Qian Renxue smiled casually.

"If that's the case, then you must know something about my past, right?" Coco said. "Most of the information you've heard is correct."

"I was born in a satellite city outside Mingdu. My family had many children, which caused financial difficulties. When I was eight years old, my father passed away, and my mother abandoned me and the other children in an orphanage," Coco Nair said slowly. "There, every year, soul masters from Mingdu would come to help us awaken our martial souls in order to see if there were any talents who could be cultivated."

Qian Renxue nodded slightly; this kind of thing is normal.

"I was very lucky to awaken the Golden Lotus Pearl Martial Soul, which was accompanied by Soul Power. This kind of treasure-type Martial Soul caught the eye of Soul Masters and was taken to Mingdu, where I entered a Soul Guidance Factory. Because I have a very high sensitivity to treasure-type things, I used various jewels to arm myself."

"When I was thirteen, I pondered a question: what kind of life did I want to live? I wanted to make money, to use my abilities to earn money, and thus change my impoverished life. But I had no resources and no connections."

"So, I secretly started working part-time at a tavern at night. I was fourteen years old then, with a slender build and appearance far beyond that of ordinary people. Not long after, I encountered the opportunity that would change my life. He was the third prince of the Sun and Moon Palace, a wealthy man who kept many mistresses. He spotted me in the crowd at a glance, and my youth and beauty were an irresistible poison to him."

"So, those rumors are true, and you really became the Third Prince's lover?" Qian Renxue raised an eyebrow.

"That's right. When he offered to be my sugar daddy, I agreed without a second thought. I wanted to change my life, and this was undoubtedly a shortcut."

Coco Nair, whose prototype is she? We won't reveal it here.

This character was created specifically for the future economic development of the Spirit Hall.

(End of this chapter)