After all, that was the incomparably powerful Spirit Hall. How could a child possibly save Qian Renxue by himself...
"Father, I believe in you... I'll wait for you to bring Mother back."
Shi Bantian did not dampen the child's enthusiasm. Smiling, he spoke before beginning preparations to awaken Shi Bantian's martial soul.
Everything needed to awaken a martial soul had been left behind by Qian Renxue. As the heir to Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue possessed quite a lot of things.
So, she had left Shi Bantian many items, including the tools now being used to awaken a martial soul.
Shi Hao stood within the formation and followed Shi Bantian's instructions... beginning to awaken his martial soul step by step.
And soon!
A powerful radiance immediately surged from the formation. This was a sign of a powerful martial soul awakening, and Shi Bantian grew excited.
Within the formation, Shi Hao kept his eyes tightly shut... Only after a long while did he open them, a flash of Golden Light bursting from his eyes.
"Xiao Hao... what martial soul did you awaken?"
Shi Bantian hurriedly asked. He could not tell what martial soul Shi Hao had awakened. There was no sign of a Tool Martial Soul, nor were there any traits of a plant-type martial soul... so he could only ask.
"Father... I don't know whether it counts as awakening one. I just feel like something here is different!"
Shi Hao's tiny hands fluttered as he pointed at his own back. Shi Bantian hurriedly looked over and saw that Shi Hao's spinal bones were faintly giving off light.
More accurately, the bones in his back were glowing. Looking carefully, one could see what seemed to be inscriptions flowing across them. They were incomparably dazzling, so brilliant that one could hardly look directly at them.
Shi Bantian froze, his mouth slightly open as he said:
"What kind of martial soul is this?"
"It... seems to be a Supreme Bone?"
Shi Hao spoke timidly.
"Supreme... Bone?"
Shi Bantian felt as though someone had grabbed him by the throat, leaving him unable to speak. That name sounded rather familiar... It reminded him of a certain legend from his previous life.
Shi Bantian could not help shaking his head, unwilling to think about such random things.
"Supreme Bone... so does this count as a type of Body Martial Soul?" Shi Bantian murmured.
Shi Hao blinked his large, watery eyes and looked at Shi Bantian with curiosity.
"What does Body Martial Soul mean... Father?"
"Uh... Father doesn't know how to explain it right now. Just know that it's very powerful."
After testing the martial soul, it was time to test Soul Power!
Shi Bantian was also curious about Shi Hao's Innate Soul Power. After all, Innate Soul Power represented a Spirit Master's talent and potential. The higher it was, the greater the achievements one could attain in the future.
"Xiao Hao... place your hand here, then pour in your Soul Power, just as I taught you before."
Shi Hao nodded and began pouring his Soul Power into the crystal ball. A brilliant light erupted in an instant, dazzling enough to hurt the eyes. In the next moment... the yellow crystal ball turned into powder.
"Ah, what happened?? Why did it explode?"
Shi Bantian was filled with confusion.
He remembered that Qian Renxue had previously left him many crystal stones. The yellow ones were the smallest, with a testing limit of ten levels of Soul Power. They were generally used to test Innate Soul Power.
There were also blue ones, which were slightly larger than the yellow ones, as well as red ones, which were the largest.
Could Xiao Hao's Soul Power be too high? The thought involuntarily rose in his mind.
Then he took out another one and poured Soul Power into the blue crystal ball. It met the same fate as the previous one, instantly turning into powder.
Even the Soul Power crystal ball with a testing limit of twenty levels had exploded!
"It exploded again? Could it be..."
Shi Bantian took out a red crystal ball. This red crystal ball had a testing limit of thirty levels of Soul Power. When Soul Power was poured into it, the crystal ball did not explode this time. However, the red light it emitted was extraordinarily bright, filling the entire room. Shi Bantian stared in stunned disbelief.
"Innate Full Soul Power, thirty levels!"
What kind of concept was that? This Soul Power Level was even more monstrous than Xiao Xue's! Even Xiao Xue's Divine Level Martial Soul, the Six-winged Angel, had only possessed Innate Full Soul Power at twenty levels!!!
Yet Da Wa Shi Hao possessed Innate Soul Power at thirty levels. This was probably unprecedented in all of Douluo Continent.
Shi Bantian was wildly excited, so much so that he completely overlooked the changes in his own Soul Power. Unbeknownst to him, his Soul Power was also quietly increasing.
Meanwhile, at the Worship Hall.
Almost at the same time, Qian Renxue, who had been imprisoned in the dungeon, felt as though something inside her body had shattered, as if some kind of switch had been activated. Qian Renxue suddenly felt a stream of pure Soul Power emerge within her.
Her Soul Power, which had originally been at level sixty-six, directly broke through its bottleneck and reached level sixty-seven... and it was still rising.
Qian Renxue's beautiful eyes opened involuntarily. It was not only because she sensed the changes within her body, but also because a beam of light had entered the secluded room.
She looked up and saw that the visitor was not tall, yet possessed a graceful and alluring figure. Her legs were long and proportionate to the rest of her body, giving off a sense of strength. She wore a luxurious black robe embroidered with golden patterns, which accentuated her fair skin, nearly flawless face, and refined, sculpted features.
The woman wore a Nine-Curved Purple-Gold Crown and held a two-meter-long scepter embedded with countless gemstones. An invisible nobility and sacredness radiated from her, making others unable to resist the urge to kneel in worship.
Seeing that familiar yet unfamiliar figure, Qian Renxue's expression became complicated.
Because this peerless beauty was none other than the current Pope, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue's biological mother.
However, the relationship between mother and daughter was exceedingly complicated...
After recognizing the visitor, Qian Renxue naturally felt none of the worshipful impulse ordinary people would have felt.
"Your Excellency the Pope, shouldn't you be in the Pope's Hall handling Spirit Hall affairs? What are you doing in this secluded dungeon?" Qian Renxue asked somewhat irritably.
Bibi Dong could not help feeling a trace of pity as she looked at Qian Renxue before her. After all, Qian Renxue was still her daughter.
Looking at the gloomy surroundings, she could not help recalling an experience similar to Qian Renxue's—being locked in this sunless dungeon, even confined within a sealed cage, and being subjected to that beast...
At that thought, the nameless fury in her heart blazed fiercely, burning away even the faint pity that had just arisen. She immediately said coldly, "Men are not as devoted as you imagine, whether you hate me or not."
"That Shi Bantian is not a suitable match... He is too weak and unworthy of you. You should stay away from him!"
Bibi Dong showed rare concern for Qian Renxue. Although Qian Renxue was the continuation of that sin.
But... after so many years, it was naturally impossible for her to have no feelings at all.
"That's none of your business!" Qian Renxue said with resentment.
"What right do you have to lecture me? You are not my mother... nor are you worthy of being my mother. I have never felt even the slightest bit of love from you. When I was little, you even wanted to kill me. Why are you pretending to care about me now?"
"In my eyes, Bantian is thousands, even tens of thousands of times better than you..."
"You!!!"
Before you continue