But Snow Empress reacted extremely quickly and immediately teased him, "Hahaha, the way you're asking me this, you're not planning to date me, are you?"
Lin Yu chuckled. "Why not? Once you take human form, you're breathtakingly beautiful. What guy wouldn't like you?"
But the two of them burst out laughing at that, because they both knew it was only a joke.
Lin Yu said, "I was just teasing you. Who would date a seven-hundred-thousand-year-old soul beast? How old am I? Are you planning to rob the cradle?"
Snow Empress spat, "Get lost. I only took human form recently. Who's older than whom? According to your human way of speaking, I was only born a little over a month ago."
Lin Yu said, "Then shouldn't you call me Dad?"
Snow Empress said, "Get the hell out of here."
At that moment, a person clad entirely in gray robes, with even their face covered so thoroughly that not a trace of skin showed, suddenly arrived.
Without saying a word, the person sat down at the small stall's table, right beside Lin Yu.
Lin Yu smiled. "You're here. Want to have a meal together, Qian Renxue?"
The person beneath the gray robes was indeed Qian Renxue. When Lin Yu had clung to her in the ballroom, she had already learned the memories of the future. She had now come out specifically to find him.
However, she had removed Xue Qinghe's disguise and returned to her original appearance, and her voice had returned to normal as well, becoming a pleasant feminine voice.
"I really didn't expect you to find a way to get so close to me. But thinking about it carefully, this was the only way you could approach me. With any other reckless method, you might not even have been able to get near me."
"Your cleverness is no joke."
Lin Yu laughed. "Thanks for the compliment."
But Qian Renxue suddenly asked, "There's one thing I don't understand. When we were dancing just now, why could you never learn the woman's steps even after I taught you? You weren't doing it deliberately, were you?"
Snow Empress in the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness: He was doing it deliberately. He's awful.
Lin Yu smiled. "Of course not. Men and women have different postures, and it was very difficult for me to grasp the woman's movements, so I looked rather clumsy. But when I dance the man's steps, I'm perfectly normal."
Snow Empress in the Spiritual Sea of Consciousness: Keep pretending. Go on, keep pretending.
Qian Renxue said, "But why do I feel like you were pretending?"
Lin Yu said, "How could that be? Besides, logically speaking, I'm a man, so I should dance the man's steps. Qian Renxue, you're a girl, so it's even more appropriate for you to dance the woman's steps that suit you."
He responded with ease, his smile never fading.
Qian Renxue finally couldn't hold back her laughter. "Now I understand why you treated my younger sister, Xue Ke, so coldly at the ballroom. But even after you left, Xue Ke still wanted me to send someone to find you."
"So it's because you're so glib. Girls generally like men who know how to talk and coax them."
Lin Yu said, "You've misunderstood. Your sister Xue Ke is merely attracted to my good looks. She hasn't even had the chance to see how glib I am."
Qian Renxue was amused again. She hadn't interacted with Lin Yu much, but she hadn't expected him to be so interesting after only a brief acquaintance.
The memories of the future had only shown her Lin Yu's serious side.
But a joke was only a joke. When it came to matters concerning his life and death, Lin Yu had always been extremely serious.
He said to Qian Renxue, "Since you're here, sign the contract. You haven't been subjected to the Divine Prohibition at this point in time, so there's no risk to our contract. No one will discover it."
He extended a hand, and the Starry Express Martial Soul manifested a Golden Contract.
Qian Renxue picked up the Golden Contract, then let out a soft exclamation. "The contents of the contract have changed. Originally, I was supposed to pay a little power as the price, while you would take me back through time to change everything."
"But now, the price is actually that you have to help me attain a Divine Seat."
After Qian Renxue signed the Golden Contract, Lin Yu also learned that the Starry Express had modified its contents.
He thought, It should be because you haven't lost anything at this point in time. The Starry Express believes that what matters most to you right now is attaining the Angel God's Divine Seat.
Qian Renxue said, "I'll naturally become the Angel God in due course. But how am I supposed to deal with Tang San, this Sea God and Shura God? He'll fight me sooner or later."
"Even if I join forces with the Rakshasa God, we still won't be able to resist the Sea God and Shura God."
"In the end, my Divine Seat will still be shattered."
"Isn't the content of this contract too vague?"
Lin Yu fell into deep thought. "It shouldn't be like that. The Starry Express itself exists to turn the impossible into the possible. It has experienced your future, so it definitely wouldn't hastily draw up the contract's terms."
"Instead, after taking your future, in which your Divine Seat is shattered, into account, it still drew up a contract requiring me to help you obtain a Divine Seat."
"It's just that I'll have to ensure your Divine Seat remains intact and never faces the risk of shattering."
Qian Renxue was extremely intelligent and immediately understood. "You mean that you have to help me defeat the Sea God and Shura God?"
"But your Soul Power is only at level sixteen right now. How are you going to help me?"
Lin Yu smiled. "To resist gods, naturally only gods can do it. If I become a god at Level 100 Godhood like you, then besides the Angel God and the Rakshasa God, with me as the God of Trailblazing as well, could we resist the Sea God and Shura God?"
Although Qian Renxue had no idea what kind of existence the God of Trailblazing Lin Yu was referring to represented, if three gods joined forces, even the Sea God and Shura God might not be impossible to resist.
Hope appeared in Qian Renxue's eyes. She nodded. "Then you need to start cultivating your Soul Power now and raise it all the way to level 100. But won't that take too long? We only have a little over a decade left."
Even the most talented person would find it difficult to become a god within a little over a decade.
Lin Yu smiled. "Have you forgotten? My Starry Express can travel through time and space. Even if I can't become a god within a decade or so, I can travel back to the past countless times and gain countless additional decades."
Qian Renxue's eyes lit up. As long as the Starry Express remained, Lin Yu possessed nearly limitless time.
He would definitely be able to become the God of Trailblazing before the Battle of the Three Gods.
"But for now, the most urgent matter is still solving my problem."
Lin Yu extended his hand. After successfully completing the contract, the radiant Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul had appeared on it once again.
His Soul Power had also been boosted, rising all the way from level 16 to level 20.
However, this time he didn't feel any surplus Soul Power. It seemed he had only barely reached level 20.
Lin Yu thought, At this point in time, Qian Renxue's strength has only reached the Soul Sage realm at most. The power she divided out is already inferior to that of Qian Renxue whose Divine Seat had shattered, so what she gave me won't be nearly as much.
This was a major problem. Qian Renxue's power at this point in time was insufficient, so it couldn't solve Lin Yu's life-drain problem once and for all.
Even after Lin Yu absorbed a new soul ring, it would only temporarily strengthen his life force.
He still had to face the arrival of death when the countdown ended.
Qian Renxue also sensed the changes in Lin Yu. Worry appeared on her face, as she never would have imagined that Lin Yu was burdened with such a troublesome problem.
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