In Douluo Continent, his martial soul mutated into Blue Silver Grass.

Chapter 217 Mistaking vinegar for ink, a lifetime spent writing only sourness.

"After learning that you are a Soul Master in Douluo Continent with innate Soul Power exceeding the tenth level limit, I really want to say something to your mother."

"Insult my mother? What business is it of hers?!" Qian Renxue was stunned at first, then realized what was happening and felt a surge of anger. Her tone was serious and tinged with rage.

Qian Renxue, after all, wasn't Lin Hai, and she was completely unfamiliar with many common modern expressions. Belatedly realizing what was happening, Qian Renxue thought Lin Hai was praising her mother, Bibi Dong. This led to a strange misunderstanding!

It is well known that Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong do not have a good relationship. Not to mention in public, even in private, Bibi Dong only allows Qian Renxue to call her "sister" and forbids her from using those other words.

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"It's not what you think." Lin Hai realized his mistake a moment later. He had spoken in his hometown dialect in his excitement, and Qian Renxue didn't understand. She thought that Lin Hai attributed her innate level 20 soul power talent to Bibi Dong!

Lin Hai continued, "To be honest, I really envy your talent. No, it's less about envy and more about jealousy."

"Qian Renxue, you really are like a bird in a room. You are too naive. Has your grandfather's pampering turned you into a spineless coward? With such talent, you have only reached the Soul Emperor realm. Judging from Xue Qinghe's age, I can roughly guess your age. Soul Masters with full innate soul power at the same age are also around Soul Emperors."

"You're just like Feng Xiaotian back then, holding a great hand, but playing it to no avail."

"I don't see any difference between you and those soul beasts."

Qian Renxue was acutely aware that Lin Hai was insulting her with those words.

No one dared to scold her from childhood to adulthood. Even Bibi Dong, who hated her to the bone, only dared to treat Qian Renxue coldly because of Qian Daoliu, and dared not scold her.

Qian Renxue was slightly annoyed, and glared at Lin Hai seriously, "I'm giving you a chance to speak properly, otherwise..."

After saying that, Qian Renxue activated her soul power, forming a powerful soul pressure that rushed towards Lin Hai.

"snort!"

"I want to see if your strength is worthy of your innate soul power." Qian Renxue's sudden soul pressure made Lin Hai quite unhappy.

Lin Hai was just an ordinary person, ultimately nothing more than a mortal pursuing immortality. Who wouldn't be envious of the inheritor of the Angel God? Qian Renxue's words might have been a relief, but Lin Hai, though aware of this, deliberately ignored it. Not for any other reason than this talent—he was practically being fed by the gods. However, Lin Hai had previously deliberately avoided thinking about it, numbing himself with the Sea God's legacy.

However, the inheritance of the Sea God is not so easy to obtain. His support for Qian Renxue, based on shared ideals, was also for the sake of that token of inheritance.

Lin Hai channeled his soul power to resist Qian Renxue's soul pressure, and the two ultimately did not engage in a full-blown battle. In the clash of soul power, Lin Hai and Qian Renxue were evenly matched, neither giving an inch, and neither able to gain the upper hand.

Lin Hai thought the result was pretty good; he knew his own abilities.

However, Qian Renxue was in a completely different state of mind from Lin Hai. She was very unhappy, and like Lin Hai, she also knew the extent of her own strength.

But she is a Soul Emperor, while Lin Hai is only a Soul King! There is a whole realm difference between them! Moreover, because she has advanced to the Soul Emperor realm, she can absorb another piece of the Angelic Divine Armor Soul Bone, so her current Soul Emperor realm is not low at all.

It wasn't that Qian Renxue didn't want to absorb all the Angel God Armor's soul bones at once, but rather that the Angel God Armor's soul bones had certain conditions. To absorb them, one had to gain the Angel God's approval. The higher the level of approval, the more one could absorb. Moreover, there were certain restrictions on the absorption requirements.

"Although I really don't want to admit it, it is indeed a fact that you... are very strong!!!" Qian Renxue is, after all, someone who possesses an angelic martial soul, and she has not lost her angelic personality.

"Hmph!" Lin Hai snorted softly, a slow smile playing on his lips.

"So you're nothing special after all? It seems your innate soul power exceeding level ten is nothing special, not even as good as mine with innate level nine soul power." After resisting the soul pressure, Lin Hai calmed down. He had been too attached to appearances. Jealousy couldn't solve the problem. The series of events that followed were all related to Qian Renxue, whether it was her red dream or her desire to become a god.

However, Lin Hai was not prepared to speak to Qian Renxue in a gentle tone.

Qian Renxue's previous life was too comfortable; she had never experienced the harsh realities of society, nor did she have the courage to break through limitations.

Lin Hai sometimes wondered why Qian Renxue, after becoming the Angel God, couldn't defeat Tang San, who became the Sea God, or Bibi Dong, who became the Rakshasa God, partly because her spirit rings were inferior to theirs.

Soul Master, Soul Master, the word "Soul" represents everything, so the importance of Soul Power and Soul Rings to a Soul Master is self-evident.

Soul rings are the essence of a soul beast's power. Soul masters who absorb soul rings can not only break through their limitations but also strengthen their physique and mental power. The higher the age of the soul ring, the stronger its enhancement effect on the soul master.

Tang San and Bibi Dong both possessed twin martial souls, which already put them far ahead of Qian Renxue in terms of spirit rings. The enhancement that spirit rings provided to Tang San and Bibi Dong's physiques surpassed that of Qian Renxue. Secondly, Qian Renxue's spirit ring configuration was consistently weaker than Tang San and Bibi Dong's. Even after becoming the Angel God, Qian Renxue only had three red spirit rings representing 10 years of cultivation and one gold one.

Tang San and Bibi Dong are different; they clearly have more than Qian Renxue.

The difference between gods may not be great, but when they first become gods, their divine power has not been fully transformed, and their battles rely most on their own abilities and attributes.

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"You!!" Qian Renxue gritted her teeth and glared at Lin Hai. She was angry, but she couldn't find any reason to refute what Lin Hai said.

"Look at yourself, then look at me. What do you see?"

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"Soul Rings!" Qian Renxue uttered these two words after a moment of silence.

"That's right. Your inherent environment makes you afraid to try and break through your limits. And you don't have the talent of twin martial souls. In the future, your soul rings will be fixed in this state."

"My current strength is something I earned by risking my life."

"I don't deny that I do have several soul bones, and they are quite old. It is because of these soul bones that I can absorb high-age soul rings."

"I'm not saying all this to show how lucky or brave I am. I just want to tell you that you... are too lazy and too stupid!" Lin Hai said bluntly to Qian Renxue.

Looking back on Qian Renxue's early life, wasn't it just incredibly foolish?

Mistaking vinegar for ink, I've spent half my life writing only sour things.

Qian Renxue fell silent; Lin Hai's words struck her heart mercilessly.

"Have I really become complacent?" Qian Renxue murmured to herself.

"No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, I hope you can now devote more energy to your cultivation."

I recommend my good friend Changqing Huaxianyu's work, "Douluo: A Hundred-Year Legend, I Am Chen Xin's Second Uncle". It has a very interesting perspective. The timeline is a hundred years before the Battle of Douluo, and it is a family story. It is not just a simple monster-fighting and leveling-up story. The first chapter describes the war that changed the Chen family. It is very interesting.

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