In Douluo Continent, there is a proper way to die.

Chapter 68 Negotiation

Yinlan could tell what Qianrenxue was thinking just by looking at her "you're so filial" expression, so she casually explained, "Thanks to your father and grandfather, my mother was recently resurrected."

She was genuinely prepared to cooperate with the Spirit Hall. Rather than starting from scratch in the human world to build her own power and slowly develop it, competing with other forces in the human world, it would be much more convenient to cooperate directly with the Spirit Hall, which had been operating for tens of thousands of years.

After all, if she were to build her own power, she would have to start from scratch to provide free martial spirit awakening services to ordinary people, subsidies, and education. But the Spirit Hall has readily available resources that she can use.

Establishing a new power to overthrow the Spirit Hall and then ignoring all this stuff—that's Tang San's doing, a step backward in civilization!

Fun fact: Ten thousand years later, in Huo Yuhao's era, the Tang Sect and Shrek Academy took over the position of the Spirit Hall and abolished the policy of free awakening of spirits for commoners and the distribution of spirit master subsidies. This move made it even more difficult for commoners in the Douluo Continent II era to survive, with almost no chance to turn their lives around.

Even more abstract is that commoners even need a recommendation letter from a nobleman to enter Shrek Academy. Although Yin Lan has a grudge against Liu Erlong, she has to admit that this woman has done good deeds. Blue Tyrant Academy has given commoners a way out. There are even oddballs in her school who are over thirty years old and in their thirties.

That's not all. There's something even more unsettling: when Huo Yuhao infiltrated the Star Luo Empire's army later on, there were soldiers in their twenties who didn't even know what a Martial Soul was. That person hadn't awakened a Martial Soul at all! And this was the White Tiger Army of the Star Luo Empire, the strongest of the three great empires on the original continent!

Yinlan planned to explain everything to Qian Renxue now to avoid any future discord. It wasn't that she was afraid of Qian Renxue, but dealing with it would be troublesome. Since they had already decided to cooperate, she hated trouble.

"The dead can come back to life?!" Qian Renxue never expected that Yinluo could actually "come back to life." Her first thought was of her father, who had been killed by Tang Hao, and she immediately asked, "Then my father..."

"Yes, I can," Yinlan answered her question while retying her long, now white hair with a hairband. "Becoming a god is enough. My mother is a special case. As for your father, you'll have to find a way to be resurrected yourself. I also have family members who need to be resurrected."

"Becoming a god..." Qian Renxue finally grasped the key point. She suddenly remembered that the other party seemed to have mentioned something about a "fifth trial," and an unbelievable guess suddenly arose in her mind, "Then you..."

"Yes, as you guessed, I am a successor of the gods, and I'm currently in my fifth trial," Yin Lan shook her head to make sure her braids were tight enough and wouldn't come undone before looking at her again. "Let's get straight to the point. After I become a god, I will try to change the unreasonable cultivation methods in this world and address the survival issues between soul beasts and humans. This will inevitably involve cooperation with your Spirit Hall."

"Are you really that confident you can pass the Divine Trial?" Qian Renxue looked at her with a surprised expression, seeing her so confident. Even she, born into a family with divine lineage and possessing innate soul power at level twenty, wasn't confident enough to say that. She hadn't yet taken the Angelic Divine Trial, intending to consider it only after she had at least reached the Soul Saint level. She asked, puzzled, "And why are you dealing with such troublesome things?"

As the young master of the Spirit Hall, which controls the registration of all the Spirit Masters on the continent, no one understands the problems of the Spirit Master system better than her. As long as Spirit Masters need Spirit Rings for cultivation, and Spirit Beasts can give birth to Spirit Rings and Spirit Bones, then the conflict between the two races is unavoidable.

"I will definitely become a god," Yinlan answered with unwavering determination, gazing at Qian Renxue. Now that she had come to this world, there were some things she had to do. Humans have a strange kind of persistence. "As for why I need to deal with this problem..."

She raised her left hand, and a giant hammer almost as big as herself appeared. The hammerhead slammed heavily into the ground. She held the hammer handle with one hand and stepped on the huge hammerhead with the other. One platinum and two black spirit rings floated on her left side.

"That is...?!" Ci Xue's expression tightened, and She Long's expression also became serious.

"...The Clear Sky Hammer!" Qian Renxue could not possibly not recognize the martial soul of her "father's killer". The Clear Sky Hammer of Yinlan, which was equipped with three soul rings, had changed its appearance drastically. It was no longer the small hammer that it was at the beginning, but the giant hammer that the "Number One Weapon Martial Soul in the World" Clear Sky Hammer, which was widely known to the outside world, should have.

The only difference is the color. The Clear Sky Hammer of the Tang family of the Clear Sky Sect is usually black or dark blue, and sometimes red, but Yinlan's Clear Sky Hammer is white gold, perhaps influenced by the first soul ring of the Heavenly Dream Ice Butterfly.

"Are you from the Clear Sky Sect?" Qian Renxue stared intently at Yin Lan, her heart heavy. Due to Tang Hao's actions six years ago, the Clear Sky Sect and the Spirit Hall were practically sworn enemies. Now, with such a young member of the Clear Sky Sect having passed the Divine Trial, she couldn't help but feel a sense of crisis.

For the greater good, she should perhaps cooperate with them as they suggested. If the two inheritors of the divine power joined forces, they would be invincible in this world. However, from a personal perspective, she was unwilling to align herself with the people of the Haotian Sect...

"Those small fry, they don't even deserve it?" The girl scoffed, her childish voice directly interrupting her complicated thoughts.

"Pfft..." Upon hearing this, the black-haired, golden-eyed man not far away couldn't keep his icy expression in check and also burst out laughing.

Qian Renxue looked at Di Tian with awe and breathed a sigh of relief. Indeed, how could such a powerful person be ordered around by the mere Haotian Sect? If the Haotian Sect had such power and resources to cultivate juniors, it wouldn't have been forced to close its mountain six years ago and expel Tang Hao from the sect.

At such a young age, she already possesses three spirit rings in an extraordinary proportion. Although Qian Renxue cannot discern the age of her first spirit ring, she can tell that the second and third spirit rings are indeed ten-thousand-year spirit rings, so her first spirit ring must be no less impressive.

The fact that the other party wanted to use that "Lion Dog" as her fourth spirit ring indicates that she has already reached the level of a Spirit Master. Her first four spirit rings were at least ten-thousand-year spirit rings, something Qian Renxue had never even heard of. In addition, her divine test had already progressed to the fifth test. If such a person really came from the Clear Sky Sect, the entire Spirit Hall would probably be restless.

So what is this child's Clear Sky Hammer martial soul...?

"Do I need to remind you?" Seeing that Qian Renxue still seemed not to have reacted, Yinlan raised her right hand again, releasing her Blue Silver Emperor Martial Soul. "I'm six years old this year."

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Qian Renxue's eyes widened.

How could she forget that this child also has a martial spirit!

This chapter has been revised several times, from 8 o'clock until now. I struggled with it for a long time, and finally decided to leave the more detailed things for later. Now is not the time.

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