Qian Renxue

"You lost!"

Yuan Luo looked at her calmly and spoke indifferently.

After removing the ice from Meng Yiran's body, she wore a bewildered expression, not even knowing how she had lost.

Yuan Luo remained casual, as though he had merely done something trivial.

"You cheated!"

Meng Yiran gritted her teeth, her eyes reddening as she spoke. She simply could not believe this was real.

"Ah, Yiran, come back. We lost."

The others could not see clearly, but the Snake Woman had seen everything. This young man possessed an ice attribute and had frozen the moisture on Meng Yiran's body to control her. That required exceptionally precise control over Soul Power. She had never expected this child to be capable of it.

Moreover, this child had broken through to Soul Elder at the age of twelve, and he was even a high-level Soul Elder. Such a thing had never appeared anywhere on the continent.

"Grandma!"

Meng Yiran's eyes were red. Was the Soul Ring she had nearly obtained going to slip away just like that?

"Hmph!"

Chao Tianxiang snorted coldly and led Meng Yiran away.

Before leaving, Meng Yiran reluctantly glanced back at the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

"Xiao Ao, hurry up!"

Zhao Wuji urged him. If this Soul Beast died later, there would be nowhere to cry about it.

"Luo-ge, I... I'm so touched... I love you!"

Oscar covered his mouth and pretended to cry. Anyone unaware of the situation would have thought he had suffered some terrible grievance.

"Get lost!"

Yuan Luo kicked him, sending Oscar sprawling face-first onto the ground, his mouth pointed straight at the snake's tail. Who knew whether he had licked it or not.

"Luo-ge, I don't want to marry you. I want to marry a fairy!"

Yuan Luo's face darkened. This guy needed a good beating; he could not even tell genders apart.

After fooling around, Oscar sat down cross-legged and carefully began absorbing the Soul Ring.

At that moment, Yuan Luo seemed to have something weighing on his mind.

"Teacher Zhao, everyone, I have something important to do. I'll leave you for a while and come back soon!"

Yuan Luo took a deep breath, an incomparably beautiful girl appearing in his mind.

"What is it? We can help you!"

Zhao Wuji asked. He could not rest easy letting Yuan Luo wander through the Star Dou Great Forest alone.

"It's a small matter. No need to trouble yourselves. I'll be back soon. You don't need to wait for me; I'll come find you."

Oscar needed a Soul Ring, and Tang San and Xiao Wu needed them too.

"Luo-ge, what are you doing?"

Tang San looked at Yuan Luo with some concern. He had a feeling that Yuan Luo faced grave danger this time.

"I'm taking care of some personal business. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. It's only on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest."

With that, Yuan Luo left.

After arriving in the Star Dou Great Forest, he felt a sense of nostalgia in his heart.

He had never been to this place before, so he could only search blindly.

He wanted to go back and take another look. After all, that was the place he missed most deeply.

The path was filled with towering trees that blotted out the sky and sun.

He occasionally saw wolves and rabbits, but he had no interest in eating them.

After wandering around for who knew how long, he finally saw a familiar place.

This was the Pool where he had fallen. There was still a crack in the wall beside it, left behind by Qian Renxue's sword light.

It was that sword light that had nearly cost him his life.

Fortunately, his extraordinary intelligence had saved him from death.

Now that he had found this place, the Mountain Cave could not be far away.

Something in Yuan Luo's heart seemed to have been stirred, and he rushed forward.

Before long, he saw a place that filled him with nostalgia.

He slowly entered the Mountain Cave. It was still the same as before.

Only a few rays of sunlight shone in, giving the cave a faintly gloomy atmosphere.

Some uncleaned scraps of clothing remained on the stones inside. Yet after four years, they had been covered in dust, no longer bearing yesterday's splendor.

The tree at the very center, the chief culprit, had already sprouted new buds. Everything was brimming with life.

Yuan Luo let out a deep sigh. The past remained as vivid as though it had happened yesterday.

Only by cultivating diligently could he gain greater power, and only then could he possess this woman!

He made up his mind. After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest this time, he would head to Slaughter City and begin his path of slaughter.

Yuan Luo stayed there for quite some time before finally leaving the cave entrance.

At that very moment, every hair on Yuan Luo's body stood on end, and he was seized by the terror of imminent danger.

With one step, the ground shattered with a bang. Yuan Luo's footing gave way, and he appeared ten meters in the air.

Turning his head, he saw an incomparably beautiful woman with golden wings floating in the air. Her golden hair fluttered in the wind, making her seem all the more enchanting.

Her curvaceous figure, paired with those long slender legs, left Yuan Luo staring blankly for a moment.

"Is... is that you? Why are you here?"

Yuan Luo felt somewhat flustered. The woman before him was none other than the Qian Renxue he had thought of day and night.

"To kill you!"

Qian Renxue's face was expressionless, though there was a faint trace of killing intent in her eyes.

The six Soul Rings on her body made Yuan Luo tremble. She had actually become a Soul Emperor. This was going to be difficult.

He could only deal with an ordinary Soul King at most. Against a Soul Emperor like Qian Renxue, even a Soul Saint might be unable to do anything to her.

"Well, can we talk?"

Yuan Luo scratched his head and thought, You came too quickly. Couldn't you wait a few years? No, wait... how did Qian Renxue know I was here?

"Oh? What do you want to talk about?"

To his surprise, Qian Renxue did not attack immediately.

"Look, the two of us could be considered acquainted through fighting. As the saying goes, first you meet, then you get to know each other; once you know each other, you can fall in love. How about we get to know one another first..."

Yuan Luo narrowed his eyes as he looked at the woman who seemed like a celestial fairy.

But what answered him was a streak of sword light.

"Let you and my sword get acquainted first!"

"Damn it! You're being unreasonable!"

Yuan Luo swiftly dodged. Behind him stood a tree that had already been sliced apart by the sword light. If he had been that tree...

Just thinking about it sent a chill through his body.

"Let me see what you're capable of!"

Vast Soul Power erupted from Qian Renxue's body, fully revealing her sixty-sixth-level Soul Power.

She improved so quickly!

That was Yuan Luo's only thought. The last time they had met, she had only been level fifty-one. Yet in four years, she had risen fifteen levels above Soul King!

One had to know that Tang San in the original story had only broken through to Soul Emperor at nineteen or twenty. Qian Renxue's talent truly was extraordinary.

What Yuan Luo did not know was that, starting four years ago, Qian Renxue had cultivated desperately every day. Aside from matters required by imperial affairs, she spent all her remaining time cultivating.

"Fifth Soul Skill, Holy Sword!"

The first black Soul Ring on Qian Renxue's body lit up, and the sword in her hand seemed to turn crimson.

The air around her carried an extremely high temperature, making it feel as though one's body was about to melt.

"Second Soul Skill, Wings of the Angel!"

At that moment, the golden wings became enormous, and their patterns grew ever clearer.

Her entire body was bathed in holy light, sacred beyond measure.

"Third Soul Skill, Angel Holy Light Slash!"

All three Soul Skills struck at once, making Yuan Luo feel as though Qian Renxue truly intended to kill him.

Yuan Luo swallowed, then sprinted in the opposite direction.

Behind him, an immensely powerful streak of sword light illuminated the entire sky.

Sword Qi was like the wind, its momentum vast and mighty; its force surged like a rainbow, and the sword flashed like lightning!

The sword radiance was incomparably dazzling, and the sword intent incomparably powerful.

The sword light rapidly expanded in Yuan Luo's pupils.

For some reason, just as the sword light was about to strike Yuan Luo, he suddenly felt the Sword Qi weaken somewhat.

But even weakened, Yuan Luo still could not withstand that sword intent. A sense of death spread through his heart.

At that moment, the Storage Ring on his hand emitted a purple glow.