Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue.

Chapter 81 Mysterious Prophecy, Celestial Aura

"This thing looks ugly, and it's definitely not pleasant to eat." The little angel frowned after swallowing the Spirit-Nourishing Sea Urchin.

"Well, our teacher really brought out this good stuff for us." The little devil was quite pleased, since she wasn't the one who had to ask for it.

"Next time it's your turn to eat," the little angel said irritably.

"No way, of course we have to save this good stuff for you." The little devil stretched in Shuangxue's little nest. At this moment, she was in a conscious state, so she naturally experienced the benefits most deeply.

"For the sake of Qian Renxue's future, let's make things difficult for our little angel first," she said with a grin.

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After finishing her meal, Qian Renxue felt a warmth spreading throughout her body, and she comfortably walked around the room twice.

She thought for a moment, put on her saintly crown, picked up the empty lunchbox, and walked out, leaving the room in a mess.

As she stepped outside, Shen Yuanyi was already waiting for her at the door: "Have you finished your meal?"

"Hmm, it tastes pretty good. Who cooked it?" Qian Renxue asked casually.

Shen Yuanyi took the food box and casually replied, "Miss, I made it."

"It's really good, it tastes just like you." Qian Renxue looked around. This was the rest area of ​​the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters. There were many rooms around, and those who could stay here were undoubtedly important figures among the high-ranking officials.

"The teachers should be almost there too, let's go find them." Shen Yuanyi first put the lunchbox into her soul tool, seemingly planning to wash the dishes after she got back.

The two arrived outside the rest area, where Ye Xishui and the Ice and Snow Emperors were already there.

"Where is Elder Long?" Qian Renxue asked.

"I sent him back first. I heard there's some movement at the Sun Moon Empire's palace, so I told him to go back to Mingdu and check it out," Ye Xishui said. "You spent the whole morning meditating, which is why I had Yuan Yi send you that sea urchin. You won't be able to meditate or cultivate for the next while. However, your brain will be more alert during this time, which is a good time to learn what you're about to see."

"You mean the techniques of spirit ascension and spirit gathering?" A serious expression appeared on Qian Renxue's face.

"That's right, the two elders, Ice and Snow, were also curious about this technique, so I gave each of them a serving of sea urchin. But there might not be that many left later," Ye Xishui said.

"That thing isn't really of much use to me," Hyotei said. "After all, I am... well, so I'll give the extras to Yuki-nee."

Ye Xishui glanced at her: "Do you think that stuff is as common as cabbage? Our sect doesn't have much in stock either."

"Speaking of which, this crown suits Xiaoxue perfectly," Xue Di said, glancing at Qian Renxue.

"Really? I think so too." Qian Renxue nodded.

As they walked and chatted, Qian Renxue thought to herself that although there were cultivation methods for soul power and standards for classifying levels in this world, it seemed that spiritual power was not really valued that much.

In this era, I might be considered the most gifted in terms of mental strength, and that's no exaggeration. I just wonder if the person with the strongest mental strength in the Holy Spirit Cult might be my teacher? Perhaps I could discuss it with her and see how mental strength is categorized?

As they pondered, the group arrived at a mysterious place, which seemed to be at the very bottom of the underground headquarters, where a huge metal door stood before them.

What would you see if you pushed open this door? Some kind of bloody ritual? A group of men in black laughing maniacally around an experimental subject? Blood gushing out like a tidal wave?

Ye Xishui fed a drop of her blood to the lock on the door, and the door opened. This made Qian Renxue wonder if, in some way, this underground headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult was being controlled by Ye Xishui with her own blood.

After all, she had heard of her teacher's martial soul, which was called Blood Soul Demon Puppet. Shen Yuanyi had also mentioned to her that her teacher had some secret techniques, such as Blood Soul Technique and Blood Transformation Technique.

Before them appeared... a group of researchers dressed in strange costumes...

All her previous fantasies shattered at this moment. Qian Renxue looked at this group of strange people in astonishment. There were men and women among them, and their uniforms were quite uniform. However... when Qian Renxue tried to use her mental power to investigate this group of people, she found that their clothes were simply like high-level soul tools.

They possess extremely high defense and also have some special functions, such as a strong isolation capability that can completely shut out outside air, and they carry a canister on their backs. The air they breathe appears to be specially made.

There were about twenty people, and without exception, they all had a cultivation level of seven rings or higher.

"Ahem, everyone, I originally wanted to bring the Holy Maiden and the worshippers to visit our laboratory, but is this how you welcome us?" Ye Xishui couldn't hold back her emotions any longer.

"You misunderstand, Supreme Master. We were in the laboratory, and we could smell your scent even before we opened the door. Although you are all considered beauties, you were practically a source of pollution in the laboratory."

Ye Xishui seemed to have a very high tolerance for this group of people. If an ordinary believer dared to speak to her like that, their soul would probably be refined into the Tower of Death.

"That's not a source of pollution, it's just something we just ate," Ye Xishui said, holding back her anger.

"Really? Based on our analysis just now, what you and the others ate seems to have tasted like cheap roasted meat, fermented, rotten seafood, and moldy animal milk."

"Those are... ten-thousand-year-old earth dragon tendons, spirit-infused sea urchins, and cheese extracted from thousand-year-old dairy cow milk." Ye Xishui continued, holding back her words. She suddenly regretted bringing people to visit the laboratory. In the Holy Spirit Cult, this mad paradise, these researchers were a group of Soul Masters or Soul Mentors with extremely high intelligence. Their cultivation levels were generally above the seventh ring, and their Martial Souls included the Body Martial Soul Brain, the extremely intelligent Beast Martial Soul, and some special Weapon Martial Souls.

Qian Renxue had reason to think that the Holy Spirit Cult had a low number of spiritual power masters. It turned out that all the people with strong spiritual power had been locked up in this laboratory, although it seemed that they wanted to be locked up.

They placed great emphasis on their safety, not only in terms of air quality but also in the security of this mysterious laboratory, which was located more than 300 meters underground. Above them, in the rock strata, were six level-eight soul-guided defensive arrays, with various soul-guided interception nets between them. According to their professional calculations, even a level-nine soul-guided cannonball might not be able to penetrate so much protection.

However, recently, they seem to have become increasingly suspicious of the prophecy left behind by the Grand Elder. The Grand Elder urged them to accelerate their research because—

"The sea will eventually submerge the earth, and all things in the world will return to the embrace of the ocean; but the platinum seeds will give birth to new souls, dancing in the interplay of light and shadow."

They don't care who the platinum seed is, but they care about the first part of the sentence.

If a cataclysmic tsunami were to occur one day, it would be a disaster that even a Limit Douluo couldn't withstand. They began to seriously discuss the survival of humans and soul beasts, and thus wanted to study the secrets of the origin of life.

Fortunately, one of their researchers had previously discovered the embryo of a soul beast that had transformed into a human from the far north. This news thrilled them, but on their way to set off, they were robbed by someone from Mingde Hall, and the embryo disappeared without a trace.

"Okay, okay, I promise you I'll reduce the frequency of interruptions in the future, but could we go in and see your progress?"

The group entered the laboratory and were sprayed all over their bodies with a sterilizer by a neurological researcher.

Several researchers looked at each other, their serious expressions unsettling.

"When I see that kind of expression on their faces, I always have a bad feeling," Qian Renxue murmured.

"Yes, it's just as unsettling as seeing the 'thinking' look on Atai's face," Hyotei murmured.

Xue Di patted her shoulder with satisfaction. This sister had finally learned a little bit about human speech.

"We have to thank the experimental subjects that the Supreme Master sent earlier. One of them, a Soul King, had already reached the bottleneck of level 59." A researcher nodded. "We put him on the operating table and conducted a Spirit Gathering experiment."

"What was the result?" Ye Xishui asked. "Researcher Xu Shaoxin."

The researcher named Xu Shaoxin seemed to be the leader here. He led everyone to a secluded room containing a device that resembled a culture chamber.

Qian Renxue remembered that the person in the incubation chamber seemed to be the Shrek Academy student who was in charge of detonating the explosives, and whose tongue was eventually pulled out and his vocal cords sealed.

At this moment, his eyes were lifeless, and five bright spirit rings swayed around his body, but there was a less obvious and dark ring next to his head.

"Even so, it feels like there are still things in this world that we can't do. But we did encounter a bottleneck when trying to gather spirit energy," Xu Shaoxin said. "That is, we can't stably inject that energy into the soul master's body; something is missing."

"What is it?" Ye Xishui asked.

"Soul," Xu Shaoxin said slowly. "As we all know, absorbing a soul ring from a soul beast that is over ten thousand years old will cause a soul shock. In fact, there are also souls in soul rings that are a hundred or a thousand years old. However, the souls in those soul rings are too weak. Even an ordinary soul master can crush them. This is the advantage of humans."

"You mean, when trying to gather spirit energy, it's impossible to imbue the soul ring with this kind of spirituality?" Qian Renxue frowned and expressed her opinion.

Researcher Xu Shaoxin paused for a moment, looked at the amazing girl, and then nodded.

"That's right, just like this one..."

"She is the new Holy Maiden," Ye Xishui introduced.

"...What this Holy Maiden said means that no matter how we try, even if we use that magical 'qi' to construct the prototype of a soul ring, we cannot truly turn it into a soul ring because it lacks that spirituality."

"This kind of energy?" Qian Renxue's eyes flashed. Indeed, she could sense a trace of immortal energy here, but she didn't know where it came from.

"What is this 'qi' you're talking about?" she asked.

"We don't really know much about this either. It's because the Grand Elder left behind a mysterious device that releases a small amount of energy every two weeks or so," Xu Shaoxin said. "That energy is extremely rare and precious! So we don't dare use it casually, and some of it has been used for spiritual ascension."

The idea that the Holy Spirit Cult lacks Soul Masters with spiritual attributes is absurd. After all, they deal with things related to the soul, so how could they lack Soul Masters with spiritual attributes?

This place serves as a haven for these mysterious spirit-attribute soul masters. Their methods of controlling souls are not only abilities of the evil soul masters themselves, but also the results of their research.

It's just a minor patch, nothing serious.

(End of this chapter)