Qian Renxue

After the match ended, the two returned to the Papal Palace.

"Junior Brother, was that thing you used just now the legendary Soul Tool?" Hu Liena asked in surprise.

She was well-read herself, so she naturally knew that Attack-type Soul Tools had existed on Douluo Continent long ago.

"Yes, Senior Sister."

Liu Xinghan nodded. With a thought, he took a bracelet from his Storage Ring and handed it to Hu Liena. "Senior Sister, this is a Second-level Defense Soul Tool. As long as you activate it with Soul Power, it can form a defensive barrier capable of blocking one attack. It's for you."

"What a beautiful bracelet." Hu Liena took it and examined it.

The bracelet was as transparent as crystal, its surface carved with mysterious patterns. Beautiful enough to be a work of art, it immediately appealed to a beauty-loving girl like her.

"Then I'll accept it." Hu Liena happily put the bracelet on her wrist.

After entering Spirit Hall's headquarters, the two headed toward the Papal Palace.

After Bibi Dong accepted him as her disciple, Liu Xinghan had received a token. With it, he could freely enter and leave the various locations within Spirit Hall.

Of course, confidential areas were excluded!

Along the way, a figure suddenly approached them from the opposite direction.

Looking at the newcomer, Hu Liena quietly reminded Liu Xinghan, "Junior Brother, do you see the winged emblem on that person's clothes? He's a Worship Hall Guardian. The Worship Hall and our Papal Palace don't get along, so you need to be careful around them in the future, understand?"

"The Worship Hall?"

Liu Xinghan was stunned for a moment.

In the original work, aside from its branch halls and main halls, Spirit Hall had two highest governing bodies: the Papal Palace and the Worship Hall.

The Papal Palace was governed by the Pope.

The Worship Hall, meanwhile, consisted of seven powerful Titled Douluo. All seven were Super Douluo with Soul Power above Level Ninety-Five, while their Great Enshriner, Qian Daoliu, was a Level Ninety-Nine peerless Douluo and one of the continent's strongest experts!

Compared to the widely known Papal Palace, the Worship Hall kept a much lower profile. Ordinary people did not even know it existed. Yet in reality, the Worship Hall wielded greater authority than the Papal Palace and even had the power to depose the Pope!

While Liu Xinghan was lost in thought, the Worship Hall Guardian approaching them actually stopped in front of them.

"Are you Liu Xinghan?" the man asked.

Sizing up the expressionless middle-aged man before him, Liu Xinghan nodded. "That's me. What is it?"

The middle-aged man said, "Come with me."

Hearing this, Liu Xinghan was immediately taken aback. He did not understand why this Worship Hall Guardian was looking for him. He seemed to have never had any dealings with the Worship Hall, had he?

Hu Liena immediately stepped in to stop him. "Liu Xinghan is my Junior Brother and His Holiness the Pope's disciple. You cannot take him away without my teacher's permission."

The middle-aged man's face turned cold as he said to Hu Liena, "This is the Great Enshriner's order."

"The Great Enshriner?"

Both Hu Liena and Liu Xinghan were shocked.

They knew that the so-called Great Enshriner was the person with the greatest authority in Spirit Hall.

Hu Liena grew anxious. If it was the Great Enshriner's order, then as merely the Pope's disciple, she clearly could not stop him. Only her teacher could do so personally.

"It's fine, Senior Sister. I'll go with him."

Liu Xinghan spoke. He was also curious about why Qian Daoliu wanted to see him.

Following the other party, he arrived at the Worship Hall.

Looking at the building before him, whose scale was no less impressive than the Papal Palace, Liu Xinghan entered through its gates.

A magnificent Angel Statue came into view. Directly before it sat a white-haired, white-bearded old man in quiet meditation, with a tall figure standing beside him.

That person had smooth golden hair cascading down her back, and her curvaceous figure was nothing short of perfect.

Perhaps it was an illusion, but Liu Xinghan immediately felt a strange sense of familiarity.

When his gaze fell upon her face, he was instantly startled.

"Big Sister Qian Xue?"

Liu Xinghan was greatly surprised.

He had never expected to see Qian Xue here in the Worship Hall, at Qian Daoliu's side.

Suddenly, his body shuddered as a name from the original work surfaced in his mind.

Qian Renxue, Qian Daoliu's granddaughter and Pope Bibi Dong's daughter—also a character whose ending in the original work had been extremely tragic.

From the moment she was born, she had been disliked by her mother, Bibi Dong. Her father, Qian Xunji, had even been killed by Bibi Dong, his own wife.

Although Qian Xunji deserved it, Qian Renxue was innocent.

Is Qian Xue actually Qian Renxue?

Liu Xinghan thought in shock.

He had speculated about Qian Xue's identity before, but because he had first met her at Spirit Academy, he had never connected her with Qian Renxue.

Perhaps sensing Liu Xinghan's gaze, Qian Xue subconsciously looked over as well.

At once, a look of astonishment appeared on her exquisitely beautiful face.

Clearly, she had not expected Liu Xinghan to suddenly appear here.

As the two were both surprised by the other's appearance, Qian Daoliu's voice rang out. "You are Liu Xinghan?"

Hearing this, Liu Xinghan answered respectfully, "Yes, Great Enshriner."

Qian Daoliu rose to face Liu Xinghan.

Liu Xinghan looked at Qian Daoliu in surprise. His appearance was utterly ordinary, with white hair and a white beard—no different from any other elderly man.

Who could have imagined that such an old man was actually a Level 99 Limit Douluo, one of the strongest figures on the continent!

Grandfather looks like this, so his son probably isn't much better-looking either. It seems Sister Qian Xue got her heaven-defying looks entirely from Teacher, Liu Xinghan muttered inwardly.

Qian Daoliu naturally had no idea what Liu Xinghan was thinking at that moment. Otherwise, he might very well have felt like casually crushing this little brat to death.

He asked, "I heard you understand the lost techniques for crafting Soul Tools?"

Liu Xinghan froze. It seemed Qian Daoliu had sought him out mostly because of Soul Tools.

"Yes!" Liu Xinghan admitted openly.

Seeing Liu Xinghan nod, Qian Xue also shot him a surprised look. Clearly, she had not expected that the little brother she had known for so long—whom she believed she understood so well—still had such a secret she knew nothing about.

At the thought of this, she immediately felt somewhat uncomfortable!

"I have a set of Soul Tool blueprints here. Take a look and see whether you can make it." As he spoke, the Great Enshriner handed Liu Xinghan a stack of seemingly ancient drawings.

"Soul Tool blueprints?"

Liu Xinghan took them curiously and immediately began flipping through them.

The moment he looked, he was stunned.

This was indeed a Soul Tool design blueprint, but it was far too complex. The core formation alone took up ten pages, profoundly intricate. As Liu Xinghan looked at those core formations, it was as if he were reading a heavenly tome—he could not understand them at all.

He had seen quite a few third-grade Soul Tool designs before. Compared to those, this was like the difference between a children's reader and a university textbook.

They were simply not on the same level.

He suspected this was an eighth-grade, or perhaps even a ninth-grade, Soul Tool design blueprint!