Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 20 The Far North, the Ice and Snow Maiden

"Human, the scent on you is somewhat familiar to me." Suddenly, a voice echoed in Qian Renxue's mental realm.

The voice startled Qian Renxue. Who was speaking? She looked around, but there was no one there. Moreover, the voice came directly from her mental realm, or rather, from within Qian Renxue's head. Her dimensional spirit had also told her that it was asleep and wouldn't come back to nag like an old woman.

Finally, her gaze involuntarily settled on the tray in her hands. Sure enough, her guess was correct; this thing could talk, so it must be an embryo of a soul beast in human form!

"Are you talking to me?" Qian Renxue asked tentatively.

"Human, are you the employer behind the person who kidnapped me?" the voice rang out again.

Qian Renxue blinked, then communicated with the voice in the mental realm: "Yes. But I don't know your true identity. If you can tell me, then maybe I'll consider letting you go."

Qian Renxue had already guessed the true identity of this embryo; it was undoubtedly a soul beast embryo over 100,000 years old. She had been surrounded by various elders since childhood, naturally learning many things, such as how soul beasts over 100,000 years old would first transform into an embryo when they were to be reborn as humans, except that what would emerge from this embryo would be a human transformed from a soul beast.

She had this suspicion all along, feeling that this couldn't be an ordinary baby. What kind of baby would be worth locking up with a high-level soul tool? A chosen one or two? That would be too cruel.

However, this was the first time she had seen an embryo that had taken the form of a soul beast, so she wasn't sure.

"Are you threatening me?" The voice turned cold.

Qian Renxue's voice also turned cold: "You'd better understand your situation first. You're in my hands, so you'd better put away your pathetic pride and stop calling me 'this one' all the time. You're no longer the emperor among soul beasts, but my prisoner."

"..." The embryo was silent for a while. "I... don't believe you will let me go. You humans are all cunning villains."

"...?" Qian Renxue thought to herself that this soul beast was really good at judging people. She raised an eyebrow. "Then why don't you hurry up and say something nice?"

"But I sense a familiar aura emanating from you." The soul beast embryo did not directly respond to Qian Renxue's request. "I have sensed this aura twice before, ten thousand years ago. Once was when a human soul master stepped into my territory, and the other time was a divine fluctuation from ten thousand years ago. I can sense things happening outside. You must have a special ability to disguise yourself, so your current appearance is probably not your original true face."

"Excuse me, could you please tell me your identity first?" the embryo asked.

Qian Renxue was stunned for a moment. She didn't doubt the ability of her head soul bone because of the "disguise ability" mentioned by the embryo. In order to ensure that she was not exposed, she had transformed herself into a disheveled man when she passed through the alley earlier. This guy must have discovered that he could change his appearance at will and said that.

She suddenly remembered her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, who seemed to have mentioned that he had ventured into the northern part of the continent in his youth to test his control over "fire." He brought back some information from that place, saying that there were many ice-attribute soul beasts in the far north, the strongest of which might have cultivated for over 100,000 years, with unfathomable cultivation. The soul beasts that impressed Qian Daoliu the most were an ice scorpion-like creature and a Titan Snow Demon King.

Could this embryo be a spirit beast from the far north, over 100,000 years old? But judging from her childish voice, she seems to be a female spirit beast. Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she would naturally sense her past self, who became a god ten thousand years ago. Becoming a god is something that cannot be hidden, especially during a divine war where the energy and elements of the entire sky were stirred up.

"..." Qian Renxue pondered for a moment, "Just as you guessed, I am a descendant of angels." There's nothing wrong with that; she is the Goddess of Angels, but also a descendant of the first generation of angels. She'd heard that most soul beasts are rather dim-witted and probably wouldn't understand this kind of wordplay.

"A descendant of angels? But I remember that during the great war between gods, the Angel God fell. That's what makes me suspicious." The embryo's voice revealed doubt. "Although the aura you possess is very similar to that of an angel."

"There are always things you don't know. Since you say you're a soul beast living in the far north, you must not understand the human world. How could angels have completely fallen? I'm still here." Qian Renxue seemed to have been too long since she had spoken to anyone, so she was willing to chat with this soul beast embryo for a while.

If he could refine it for her after they finished talking, he would still do it without hesitation. Although she already had all her spirit rings and bones, the white-haired little devil didn't. The little devil had a second spirit ring, so he would probably need to equip it with rings later.

"Can you turn back to your original form?" A man's voice sounded strange.

Qian Renxue nodded and transformed herself back to the appearance she had when she first entered the inn. She was neither beautiful nor ugly, and her appearance was about one-third of her original size.

"So, can you tell me about your identity? I've never been to the far north, but I've heard there are many 100,000-year-old soul beasts there, and their cultivation levels are quite high," Qian Renxue said. "And, how did you find out my identity?"

"...I am the Ice and Snow Maiden." The voice came, then paused, "As for how I detected your aura, you detected mine first. In your soul, or rather your spiritual power, there is a trace of angelic scent. Humans are basically non-existent in the core area of ​​the far north, so I remembered the scent of your ancestors, as well as the scent of that fallen angel god."

"Ice and Snow Maiden? I think I've heard of her." Qian Renxue pondered for a moment. The Spirit Hall's records mentioned this kind of magical spirit beast. This kind of creature cannot actually be simply described as a "spirit beast." Their ancestors were more like a kind of spiritual life form transformed from pure ice and snow power, so they would have a human-like appearance, but at the same time have the lifespan and cultivation methods of a spirit beast.

As for the scent of angels it mentioned, that must be a wisp of its own divine consciousness. It seems I can't casually expose my divine consciousness to people or soul beasts with high cultivation levels anymore. This thing isn't invincible, at least not until it grows back to its full potential.

"I've already told you who I am. When are you going to let me out?"

"Don't be in such a hurry." Qian Renxue narrowed her eyes. "Since you claim to be an Ice and Snow Maiden, and capable of taking human form, your cultivation level must be very high, right? How many years have you been cultivating?"

The Ice and Snow Maiden's clear, cold voice rang out: "According to the timeline, it should be close to seven hundred thousand years. But in reality, the cultivation time is far less than that, because the so-called timeline of a soul beast is just an indicator of its cultivation level, as you should know."

"So, what kind of fortuitous encounter caused your cultivation period, which was nearly 700,000 years, to shorten?" Qian Renxue asked. She was actually somewhat shocked, because she hadn't expected that the reincarnated soul beast she encountered was actually an ancient being even older than her ancestor. If that was the case, then the plan to absorb her might have to be temporarily shelved.

Without reaching a high level of cultivation, even for a little devil, absorbing a spirit ring that is nearly 700,000 years old would probably not be a simple matter. Not counting the tenth ring, the highest spirit ring she had ever absorbed was only the ninth ring. That divinely bestowed spirit ring was eventually refined to a lifespan of 150,000 years, and with the 50,000 years given by the divine test, it was equivalent to a 200,000-year ninth ring.

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The angel's remaining divine consciousness is indeed not invincible. This is meant to be a reminder to Xuezi, otherwise, when she encounters Wang Dong later, she will be discovered by Tang Shenwang.

(End of this chapter)