Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 26 - Mission Accomplished

After a moment of silence, she cast her burning gaze at Qian Lingyun, who was chasing slimes around on the grass not far away with a stick, and guessed what was going on in her mind.

She raised her hand and grasped a clump of her damp, long hair, gently inhaling the refreshing scent of roses. A slight flutter stirred within her usually calm heart.

Noticing Qian Renxue's awakening, Qian Lingyun abandoned the group of bouncing slimes, squatted down beside Qian Renxue, and made funny faces. She whispered, "I've been idle for so long with nothing to do, so I helped you wash up. Heading south from here, I saw a Holy Light Unicorn..."

"Holy Light Unicorn!" A hint of surprise flashed in Qian Renxue's eyes. She hadn't expected to find a soul beast with the same holy attribute as her after ten thousand years.

Flying out of the Slime Valley and heading south, they soon arrived at a rugged meadow where a white and gold horse with a single horn was drawing power from the sun in the sky.

The Holy Light Unicorn, which is ten thousand years old, is extremely powerful among ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts. It is the kind of dangerous soul beast that can fight beyond its age limit.

While it's not quite as absurd as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear or the Golden Dragon, which have a hundred years of cultivation to fight against thousand-year-old soul beasts, are not afraid of ten-thousand-year opponents during their thousand-year period, or can even go toe-to-toe with a hundred-thousand-year-old old guy when they just reach ten-thousand-year.

However, as a very rare sacred attribute soul beast, its actual combat power is even comparable to that of a Soul Emperor. Without attribute suppression, it would be very troublesome for Qian Renxue to take it down without taking any damage.

In response, the two devised a simple plan: Qian Renxue would be responsible for attracting the attention of the soul beasts, while Qian Lingyun would find a place to hide, and then... hehehe, they would take down the unicorn in one fell swoop!

"Hey!" Qian Renxue's low shout instantly alerted the Holy Light Unicorn. It stopped absorbing solar energy and glared fiercely at Qian Renxue, seemingly wanting to see what this human would do next.

Once the arrow is released, there's no turning back. The moment she successfully attracted the unicorn's attention, Qian Renxue's figure blurred, and she instantly shot out from her spot.

During the flight, Qian Renxue's golden wings unfurled from behind, bursting forth with a strong divine aura. The golden divine fire resembled a magnificent golden trail as Qian Renxue charged towards the holy unicorn.

The Holy Light Unicorn snorted, its slender yet sturdy forelegs lightly treading the ground, like a warhorse about to charge into battle. The Holy Light Unicorn slowly lowered its head, pointing its horn at Qian Renxue. The tip of the horn radiated light, which finally condensed into a golden giant horn with its soul power contained within.

Propelled by the Holy Light Unicorn, the golden horn spun towards Qian Renxue from the front.

A ten-thousand-year-old soul beast unleashing a full-force attack, powered by its own accumulated strength, is enough to shatter a Soul King head-on!

But would Qian Renxue be foolish enough to collide head-on with it? Of course not. As she moved forward, Qian Renxue flipped over to avoid the Holy Light Unicorn's direct impact.

As their figures intertwined, Qian Renxue's Angelic Holy Sword mercilessly slashed a huge wound in the unicorn's back, from which golden-red blood gushed forth.

The Holy Light Unicorn, wincing in pain from its wound, turned its head and glared angrily at Qian Renxue.

"It seems there's no need for the girl to cover for me. Judging by the current situation, I'll wear it down sooner or later."

Thinking this, Qian Renxue casually flicked the blood off the sword's blade, then provocatively extended her index finger and beckoned to the Holy Light Unicorn, as if saying, "Come here!"

After a brief moment of preparation, the Holy Light Unicorn charged forward again, but this time, it was ready to leap and turn.

As long as Qian Renxue dares to roll and dodge, she will inevitably be pierced by its single horn.

Just as it charged forward, Qian Renxue used the same trick again, flying straight into the air. It turned its horn, ready to change direction at any moment, but it didn't notice that Qian Renxue's expression was only calm.

"Second Soul Skill, Death Mist!"

"Third Soul Skill: Ghost Shadow Clone!"

Beneath the grass directly below Qian Renxue, something seemed to be slowly wriggling along the ground. A faint human figure stood within a thick black mist, its body pressed very low, moving almost entirely close to the ground.

Just as the Holy Light Unicorn raised its head and thrust its horn at Qian Renxue in the air, a ghostly, swift black shadow split in two, moving alternately to the left and right. One of them chopped off one of the Holy Light Unicorn's front legs.

The consequences of the horse stumbling were predictable. The Holy Light Unicorn, which had just been determined to severely injure Qian Renxue, lost its balance and fell face-first to the ground.

Using the momentum of her natural descent, Qian Renxue twisted her body in mid-air, the Angelic Holy Sword drawing a shimmering golden arc in her hand, and in the instant she landed and turned, she directly severed the head of the Holy Light Unicorn.

Stepping on the massive body of the Holy Light Unicorn that had crashed to the ground, Qian Renxue wasn't in a hurry to absorb her sure-fire third soul ring. Instead, she took out a handkerchief, bent down, and wiped the sweat from Qian Lingyun's forehead. She smiled and asked, "Was the consumption really that great?"

"Heh." Qian Lingyun rolled her eyes, then raised a finger and said indignantly, "The energy consumption of activating a soul skill isn't that high, but I was squatting in the ground for so long, suppressing my soul power fluctuations the whole time. I didn't even dare to move!"

"I see now, you're just messing with me!"

As she spoke, Qian Lingyun raised her elbow and nudged Qian Renxue's stomach lightly.

"Ah... I'm dead!" Qian Renxue took a few steps back in perfect cooperation, coughed lightly a few times, pretended to be in great pain, and then sat on the ground in a very unladylike manner, making a fuss with Qian Lingyun.

After a while, the two of them were tired of playing. Qian Lingyun took out a small knife, cut off a few pounds of good meat from the unicorn, skewered it with a thin twig, and started a campfire to roast it.

But Qian Renxue silently appeared behind her, gently wrapping her arms around Qian Lingyun's slender waist, burying her head in her flowing purple hair, and whispering, "If we rebuild the Spirit Hall... I'll be the Grand Elder, and you'll be my Pope!"

"Pah! Let go! I'm starving, and you want me to be your pope? You just want me to work for you for free until I die!" Qian Lingyun pouted, pried open Qian Renxue's arms, and impatiently urged, "Instead of wasting your time, hurry up and absorb the soul ring, or you won't have any meat to eat later."

"Oh," Qian Renxue said dejectedly, letting go of her arm and nodding sheepishly. Just as she turned around to activate her spirit ring, she heard a lazy voice behind her: "I don't want to work. How about I be the High Priest and you be the Pope?"

"!" Qian Renxue's body stiffened for a moment, then she nodded and said, "Whatever you say, I'll do as you say."

Watching Qian Renxue sit cross-legged, absorbing the Soul Ring, a faint sadness flashed in Qian Lingyun's eyes. She casually added some firewood to the campfire and muttered to herself, "How can we take these things seriously now? Whether we'll even live to see that day is another matter!"

As she spoke, Qian Lingyun raised her hand to wipe her blurry eyes and turned the meat strip on the branch over!

Qian Renxue's original spirit rings were completely unworthy of a genius with the potential to become a god; they were all yellow and purple, which was infuriating to even think about.

After her rebirth, she underwent bone forging using divine equipment as a template, but the will of the plane only helped her repair one piece of divine equipment for her head.

The remaining five pieces require 100,000-year-old soul bones to serve as fusion materials.

In fact, Qian Renxue is now fully capable of absorbing spirit rings of higher age. The main reason she's choosing those under 30,000 years old is probably because she might not be able to defeat them...

(>ω<)

(End of this chapter)