The Reason for Her Appearance

(PS: Qian Renxue from the future will henceforth be collectively referred to as Future Xue.)

At that moment, Future Xue was frantically complaining inwardly:

"You've imprisoned me here, and now I can't even open my mouth! How am I supposed to talk?!"

Ling Yuxuan seemed to realize that he had just restrained her entire body, leaving her unable even to speak. He hurriedly withdrew some of the restraints.

"You little hooligan! You stole my first kiss without even a word of warning! And I naturally look like this—I'm not impersonating your Qian Renxue!"

Especially when she mentioned "your Qian Renxue," she was particularly displeased with those three words.

Ling Yuxuan was stunned. Was there really someone in the Douluo world who looked exactly like Qian Renxue? Why had he never heard of such a person?

Could the person before him, who looked identical to his Xue Er, be a transmigrator?

Curious, Ling Yuxuan circled her and began examining her carefully.

Mm, mm. She looked almost exactly the same. As for her figure, it was even better than his Xue Er's, and her balloons were bigger too. No wonder they had felt so good in his hands just now. Still, his Xue Er was only fifteen and still developing. In the future, she would definitely surpass this impostor.

The more Ling Yuxuan looked at her, the stranger she seemed. There was an added trace of maturity on her face. She looked exactly like his Xue Er after growing up.

Looking into her golden eyes, Ling Yuxuan suddenly thought of something. In the original timeline, hadn't his Xue Er's eyes changed from Blue-Gold to gold after she became a god?

At first, Future Xue had simply decided to stop caring. At worst, she would die. She had been someone destined to die anyway.

"Stop looking. I am Qian Renxue!"

Hearing that, Ling Yuxuan became even more certain of his suspicion.

He then released Future Xue from her restraints.

Feeling the restraints around her body vanish, Future Xue looked at Ling Yuxuan strangely.

"Oh? Has my Little Man started taking pity on women?"

"Don't look at me like that. I'm not your Little Man! You say you're Qian Renxue, so where's the proof? Show me your proof!"

"Oh? Then what proof do you want, Little Man?"

Qian Renxue was speechless. No matter how she explained, Ling Yuxuan simply would not believe her.

After all, two Qian Renxues existing at the same time was something no one would believe.

Future Xue had no choice but to summon her Martial Soul, the Six-Winged Angel. Though she could still summon it, it was severely damaged and now only retained its appearance. The three pairs of wings behind her were covered in cracks.

Ling Yuxuan looked at Future Xue's Six-Winged Angel Spirit. A shattered Martial Soul and golden eyes—both key traits matched.

Yet Ling Yuxuan still could not fully believe Future Xue.

"Heh, are you joking with me? You claim to be Qian Renxue. I can't deny that you look extremely similar to my Xue Er—identical, even—but Xue Er has kept me by her side since I was three. Naturally, I know her very well. I can tell who's real and who's fake at a glance."

Future Xue was dumbfounded. What? The Qian Renxue of this world had raised Ling Yuxuan? What was this—had her counterpart in this world raised a child husband?

"Believe it or not, I am Qian Renxue."

Ling Yuxuan laughed. Why was this Qian Renxue so easy to tease?

"Though your Six-Winged Angel Spirit is genuine, my Xue Er's Martial Soul isn't the Six-Winged Angel."

Future Xue knew that as well. She had seen from inside the bracelet that her counterpart in this world had undergone Martial Soul Evolution into an Eight-Winged Holy Angel, while her own Martial Soul was only the Six-Winged Angel.

Ling Yuxuan raised his hand and controlled the true origin power of the Judgment Land, Judgment Source Power. In any case, the Judgment Land could continuously produce Judgment Source Power, so using some to repair Future Xue's Martial Soul Origin would not be any loss.

Judgment Source Power poured endlessly into Future Xue's body. Upon reaching her Six-Winged Angel Spirit, it automatically transformed into Light and Flame Source Power, repairing her damaged Six-Winged Angel Spirit.

Future Xue could also feel her damaged Martial Soul continuously recovering. She looked at Ling Yuxuan strangely. He claimed not to believe her, yet he was repairing her Martial Soul.

For the first time, Future Xue felt the care of a man other than her grandfather.

How wonderful it would have been if I had been the one who brought you back back then.

Future Xue shook her head self-mockingly. She knew the Little Man before her loved Qian Renxue, but that Qian Renxue was not her. She did not have the right to hope for that, did she?

Half an hour later, Ling Yuxuan stopped. Future Xue's Martial Soul had been fully repaired.

"Alright, I've repaired your Martial Soul. Angel God from the future!"

At those words, Future Xue's pupils widened, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"You... you already knew?"

"Wasn't it obvious? Besides, you're not the only person from the future I've met. They occupy their present bodies with their future souls, while you appeared in the form of a divine soul.

"While I was meditating just now, I suddenly sensed a portion of the sacred Light Power here decrease. You were probably using it to condense a body, weren't you? That's why you can stand before me now.

"And one last point: you are Qian Renxue from the future, but not from this timeline's future!

"You were once a god as well. Though your Six-Winged Angel is already shattered, the divinity contained within it is stronger than the divinity in the Old Man's Six-Winged Angel Spirit. You should know that the Old Man is the Angel God's Grand High Priest. If the divinity within you is even stronger than that within a Grand High Priest, then there is only one explanation—you once became a god. Wouldn't you agree, Angel God Qian Renxue?"

Future Xue could only nod blankly. For some reason, the Ling Yuxuan before her seemed to know almost everything. Could he also have traveled back from the future?

Besides, Ling Yuxuan was probably the only person in this world she could trust.

Future Xue then told him everything that had happened in her original spacetime.

From infiltrating Heaven Dou as a child, to the Heaven Dou Palace incident, and finally the Battle of the Two Gods.

Ling Yuxuan listened intently to Future Xue's account. Though he himself knew everything, he still wanted to see whether this Qian Renxue from the future trusted him.

Two hours passed, and Future Xue had told Ling Yuxuan everything.

"You said your Martial Soul shattered because you self-destructed your godhood and burned your divine soul to kill Tang San in the end. Then how did you survive? And how did you arrive in the spacetime I'm in?"

Future Xue lowered her head and pondered for a while before slowly speaking.

"When I self-destructed my godhood, I gained my strongest sword strike. Just as I was about to bring it down on Tang San, a silver light mixed with Nine-Colored radiance suddenly flashed across the sky. Everything was erased by that light, and I lost consciousness. When I woke up again, I was already here."

Hearing this, Ling Yuxuan fell into thought. Silver light mixed with Nine-Colored radiance... had it awakened ahead of time? But during the Battle of the Two Gods, it should not have recovered yet. Still, at that time, the only one on Douluo Star fitting those conditions was that Silver Dragon Fish. It seemed some unknown changes had also occurred in the Parallel Time.

Ling Yuxuan looked up at Future Xue.

"It seems the spacetime you came from underwent some changes as well. Now that you've recovered, where do you plan to go?"

Future Xue's eyes were lost. She had remained here before only to seek an opportunity to recover.

But now that she had recovered, where could she go? This world also had a Spirit Hall, but it was not her home after all. She truly had nothing now.

Future Xue shook her head, indicating that she did not know either.

The scene shifted as Ling Yuxuan brought Future Xue to the Judgment Cave.

A five-hundred-thousand-year Light Unicorn emerged from the Judgment Cave.

Future Xue turned to Ling Yuxuan.

"What are you doing?"

"Though I repaired your Martial Soul, you're still stuck at the bottleneck of Rank 90 because you lack a Ninth Spirit Ring. This Light Unicorn will be your Ninth Spirit Ring."

Ling Yuxuan turned to the Light Unicorn.

"Begin!"

The Light Unicorn lowered its head. A Blood Light Pillar shot into the sky and enveloped Future Xue. The sacrifice began!

Ling Yuxuan began chanting a strange incantation while injecting the Power of Judgment into the Light Unicorn's body.

A massive magic formation appeared between Future Xue and the Light Unicorn.

Though Future Xue did not know what Ling Yuxuan intended to do, she chose to trust him.

Gradually, the Blood Light Pillar dissipated. A Golden Light flew out from the Light Unicorn's body. It was a golden torso bone, which slowly fused into Future Xue's body.

The Light Unicorn's body also began shrinking, becoming the size of an ordinary horse.

Future Xue floated in the air, her six wings spread behind her as spirit rings rose from her body.

Black, black, black, black, black, black, red, red, red!

Peak Rank 97!

Ling Yuxuan then took out the spirit bones left behind when Ye Xishui had previously replenished her spirit rings. Ye Xishui had already possessed a full set of spirit bones, and one of the nine soul beasts had provided her with an External Soul Bone, the Phoenix Four Wings, leaving eight spirit bones over a hundred thousand years old. Ling Yuxuan selected five that were more suitable for Future Xue and threw them toward her.

Future Xue caught the spirit bones and looked at Ling Yuxuan gratefully.

"Absorb these spirit bones. Both their age and attributes suit you extremely well. Consider them compensation for me taking your first kiss earlier. Once you've absorbed them, come find me at the Judgment Holy Temple."

I worked overtime all day and wrote this late at night.