Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 5 Second Martial Soul, Trade

Qian Renxue felt as if her head was about to explode, and all sorts of strange fragments of thought filled her mind like an explosion.

She seemed to be gradually understanding why the spirit of this dimension had shown her these things. It was because it wanted to tell her that her failure was because a god wanted her to fail, and she was completely unaware of it.

Besides what she knew and guessed, there were also things she didn't know.

"Was I born just to be a stepping stone for others?" Qian Renxue stared blankly at the scene unfolding before her, until the drama ended and she plummeted from a height of 30,000 meters—just like the failure of her previous life.

Everything made sense, the cause of her tragedy.

"No! No! No! No! Sea God! Asura God! You bastards! I'm going to kill you all!" After returning to reality, Qian Renxue roared, completely ignoring the pain in her body, and frantically pounded on the "ground" of the space she was in.

But it was no use. Reality is cruel. The fall of the Angel God could not affect its operation. After Tang San was rescued, he became the faith of the continent.

"I can sense that the former sea god had already shown some desire to strip the sea away in the past," the voice of the dimensional spirit came. "Therefore, I need your help. You are not entirely without anything now."

A clear energy enveloped Qian Renxue, calming her almost hysterical emotions and also helping to heal her injuries a little, so that she wouldn't feel so much pain when she moved.

"You're right, I'm not completely destitute. I still want revenge..." Qian Renxue calmed down. "But right now, I can't do anything."

"This is the content of our deal. I will use the power of the dimensional spirit to nurture your body, help you reshape a new body, and seal the angelic armor. However, this new body will return you to your childhood—around ten years old," the dimensional spirit said.

"At the same time, I can only preserve a wisp of your remaining divine consciousness."

Qian Renxue frowned, thinking to herself whether this spirit was joking with her. If you can restore my body, why don't you just restore it completely? If possible, strengthen yourself as well. Anyway, you don't like Tang San, so I'll just kill him for you.

"Don't look at me like that. I have no choice." The voice of the dimensional spirit revealed a hint of helplessness. "First of all, I dare not make a big move. In terms of level, I am not as good as the God-King. Otherwise, the God Realm would not have had to set up the dimensional barrier."

"If you rescue me, won't that mean the gods will find out?"

"No, because I fished you out after you had turned to ashes, and then restored you to this extent."

Qian Renxue looked at the light spot strangely.

"If I don't leave myself a way out, what if you're unwilling to cooperate with me in a deal? Wouldn't I be at a loss?"

"..." Qian Renxue nodded. She could understand that. After all, given her emotions just now, if she had the power, she probably wouldn't even need to talk about a deal; she would have refined it herself first.

"Secondly, and most importantly, I am incomplete now. The flow of time here is different from the outside world. You were unconscious here for a while, and about ten years have passed outside. I can feel that during this time, the ocean of the Douluo Plane has been gradually being peeled away. In other words, the ocean of the Douluo Plane is now gradually slipping out of my control," the plane's spiritual consciousness said slowly. "I can guess that if this continues, I will gradually lose control of the plane in the future, and may even be replaced."

"Reason." Qian Renxue looked at it.

"That's easy to understand. I remember there's a Spirit Hall in the Douluo Continent that inherits the Church, and you're a member of it. Before that, the Spirit Hall sent troops to the sea to try and subdue the sea spirit masters, right? So why did these spirit masters choose to add that prefix to their names? The continent is under the wings of the Angel God, but they weren't called Angel Spirit Masters."

"While the name 'Sea Spirit Beast' can be understood as referring to spirit beasts that live in the sea, there are no spirit masters who actually live in the ocean. It's simply because they are children of the Sea God, and from the previous Sea God onwards, they consciously made themselves and their people different from others," the dimensional spirit said. "Further west of Sea God Island lies another continent called the Sun and Moon Continent. That continent possesses amazing spirit guidance technology, but it lacks any divine faith. It is precisely because of the existence of Sea God Island that normal communication between the two continents is impossible."

Why?

"Because the gods in the heavens are afraid," the dimensional spirit said meaningfully. "If soul-guided technology truly develops to its peak, it can threaten the gods. At the very least, it can threaten third-level gods. And for soul-guided technology to develop, it needs the support of soul power. They won't allow the two continents to interact. If soul masters and soul-guided masters were to merge, wouldn't they be able to blast the gods in the heavens down with a single shot?"

So that's the reason. Qian Renxue understood; this guy was probably about to reveal the details of the deal.

"I need you to help me reclaim the authority over the ocean, because I don't want to die either. In exchange, I will help you nurture your body and the shattered Angelic Armor and Angelic Godhood, giving you a chance for revenge," the plane's spirit said. "If you succeed, then I need you to use the authority of the sun to nurture me, so that the Douluo plane can advance further." The Angel God possesses a certain degree of solar authority, and in the previous great battle, Qian Renxue's Angel God had actually completed its evolution. Facing the powerful pressure of Tang San, who possessed both gods, Qian Renxue broke through again, her entire body completely merging with the true fire of the sun. She was no longer a simple sun angel created from the Angelic Armor, but a sun angel transformed from her original form.

Qian Renxue pondered for a moment: "Can a god cultivate self-restraint?"

"Godhood can even evolve; a first-level god can cultivate their divine position to that of a god-king. This is possible."

"That must be quite a long time."

"That's right. The flow of time here is similar to that in the God Realm. It will take about thirty years to help you recover, while about ten thousand years will pass in the outside world. Your divine position will be activated when you reach level seventy, which is when you possess the true form of an angel."

"Why choose me?" Qian Renxue pondered for a moment and said, "Since you are a dimensional spirit, finding someone else who is also a chosen one shouldn't be a problem, right?"

"Firstly, you are destined to be the chosen one of this era. Secondly, the chosen one can be rewritten or manipulated. Tang San is an example. Before the chosen one has fully grown up, as long as the gods in the heavens interfere and guide him, he will become their loyal dog."

"Finally, it is because the opponent is a powerful enemy who has two gods coexisting. In order to face him, who has both a first-level god and a god-king, the only suitable candidate is someone who will have two god positions in the future."

Qian Renxue's pupils suddenly contracted: "You mean—her?"

The dimensional spirit said, "Don't forget, she comes from your mother. Within you, there is a hidden martial spirit, and that martial spirit belongs to her."

"It's normal that you don't know, because in fact, she herself didn't know either," the dimensional spirit explained. "This martial spirit came from your mother, and it was only activated after you became a god and died."

Qian Renxue tried hard to recall, and this situation seemed somewhat similar to that of the Ghost Douluo beside her mother. This elder was also said to have died once, and his soul re-entered his body, awakening his martial soul. However, she should be a little different from him.

"Your second martial soul evolved and mutated from your mother's Spider Emperor martial soul, and is called the Eternal Spider Emperor. After you became a god, your second personality controlled your body for a period of time. It was this experience of switching personalities and the death of your physical body that activated the hidden martial soul. This martial soul is very special because it represents death and the end, so this experience was necessary."

"So, you mean, just like Tang San inherited two godhoods with his two martial souls, she can also possess one godhood?"

"It's somewhat similar, but Tang San's godhood is more like it was directly bestowed upon him by a god. No matter how you look at it, Blue Silver Grass has nothing to do with the sea, so your second godhood won't be Rakshasa. Moreover, saying it's an inheritance isn't accurate, because she will create her own godhood, just like all the first gods," the dimensional spirit said. "As for what kind of godhood it will be, that depends on her own understanding."

"It's not some kind of spider deity position, is it?" Qian Renxue looked a little embarrassed. Although she no longer had much aversion to spiders, she still felt something was off.

The dimensional spirit did not respond to her words: "Your companion is actually much stronger than you, and she is not inherently bad. In fact, you could say she cares about you a lot. Otherwise, she could have easily turned against you on your path to godhood. In the end, she even did everything in her power to help you kill the sea god."

"..." Qian Renxue fell silent. "Where is my mother?"

"I'm sorry, I can't help your mother. The Rakshasa God was wiped out by the Asura God the moment she fell. But you still have a chance to avenge her," the dimensional spirit said softly.

The issue of the authority over the sea has already been mentioned in the relevant content of the Great God Circle. The Sea God "stripped" the ocean from the Douluo plane and forged the Ocean Cauldron to stabilize or suppress the ocean's fortune. This matter certainly wouldn't be accomplished overnight, as can be seen from the location of Sea God Island in Douluo Continent I, which prevented communication between the two continents.

As for why the separation of the ocean still couldn't prevent the continental collisions, it's because after Tang San ascended to the God Realm, he needed a buffer period. He couldn't immediately inherit Poseidon's will and directly interfere with the lower realm, especially with Destruction watching from the sidelines. Therefore, during the first ten thousand years, Tang San didn't truly interfere with the lower realm.

These two have been at odds for a long time, which led to Tang San's later scheme to destroy the world—this will be mentioned later, since the author doesn't have enough to write about.

The description of Ghost Douluo's martial soul can still be found in Chapter 260 of Douluo Continent I:

Ghost Douluo's martial soul is extremely peculiar. He died once in his childhood, but by chance, his soul was able to re-enter his body, thus awakening his martial soul and resulting in a very special situation: he possessed a ghost. In a sense, his soul was his martial soul, while he himself was a living dead.

Yukiko's twin martial souls are a custom setting in this work; let's draw an analogy to their origins.

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