Simulator Upgrade, Qian Renxue: I Have a Friend

Because Tang San's origins had not been introduced in the previous simulations.

Qian Renxue had no idea that Tang San's mother was actually a Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation.

Could humans and Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformations have children together?

Qian Renxue found it utterly unbelievable.

This truly lay beyond the limits of her knowledge!

[Compared to Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformations could likewise yield a Soul Ring and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone after being killed, but their strength was far inferior to that of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.]

[Upon discovering this Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation, Qian Xunji was extremely thrilled and immediately gave the order to capture it.]

[He wanted to capture and imprison this Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation as a gift for his daughter Qian Renxue when she broke through to rank eighty in the future!]

[Unfortunately, the Titled Douluo who had discovered the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation was no match for Tang Hao. Tang Hao smashed one of his legs, then fled with the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation.]

[Over the next few years, although Qian Xunji mobilized all of Spirit Hall's forces to search for Tang Hao and the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation, there was still no news of either of them.]

[Throughout this period, you merely watched coldly from the sidelines and cultivated in silence.]

[Over those years, after your daughter Qian Renxue had completed a series of lessons in noble etiquette and prepared to replace Xue Qinghe, she left Spirit City. She planned to approach Xue Qinghe, secretly study his habits, and find an opportunity to take his place.]

You felt deeply conflicted about this.

Yet just over a year after your daughter Qian Renxue left.

You discovered that Qian Xunji had suddenly learned of Tang Hao and the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation's whereabouts. He set off with Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and numerous Spirit Hall experts to hunt them down.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue closed her eyes in pain.

Because she knew the outcome would not be a good one.

Her father had led Elder Ju, Elder Gui, and numerous Spirit Hall experts in pursuit of Tang Hao, who had not yet become a Titled Douluo.

Logically speaking, they should certainly have been able to seize the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation from Tang Hao.

But in the end, the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation sacrificed herself to Tang Hao, benefiting him instead.

After breaking through to Titled Douluo, Tang Hao used the Great Vast Sumeru Hammer's Exploding Ring and severely wounded her father with a single strike.

In the end, after being brought back to Spirit City, her father succumbed to his injuries.

Although discovering that her father had done such a thing to That Woman.

Had utterly shattered the towering image of him in her heart.

When she learned that her father had gone after Tang Hao and the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation to prepare a future gift for her breakthrough to rank eighty, only to die by accident in the end.

In a sense, she had gotten her father killed too!

No matter how many terrible things her father had done before.

Compared to That Woman, her father's love for her had undoubtedly been selfless and genuine!

[You had thought that Qian Xunji would successfully return with the Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast Transformation this time and use it to curry favor with that bastard child.]

[But half a month later, Qian Xunji was carried back while severely wounded and unconscious.]

[When you discovered that Qian Xunji had been gravely injured, you were so excited and delighted that you could barely contain yourself, for this was undoubtedly a chance bestowed by heaven to begin the Rakshasa Nine Trials!]

[After receiving treatment from Spirit City's finest healing-type auxiliary Soul Master and its best physicians, Qian Xunji's injuries had already healed considerably, and he had even regained consciousness.]

[But you seized an opportunity, made a bowl of chicken soup laced with deadly poison, pretended to have come to your senses, and brought it to Qian Xunji so that he could recuperate properly.]

[Qian Xunji actually believed you and drank the bowl of poisoned chicken soup.]

[Already severely injured, Qian Xunji could not even hold on for a minute after drinking your poisoned chicken soup. In unbearable agony, he vomited blood, collapsed onto the bed, and died of poisoning.]

[Seeing that beast who had destroyed your love and made you bear a bastard child finally die, you were so happy you nearly went mad.]

[After Devouring Qian Xunji's soul, you successfully began the Rakshasa Nine Trials.]

[After you poisoned Qian Xunji to death, the cause of his death had been obvious.]

[But even after learning the truth, that softhearted, indecisive old fool Qian Daoliu, who cared so much about the Qian Family's and Spirit Hall's reputation, ultimately suppressed the matter and did nothing to you.]

[He even seemed not to have told Qian Renxue the truth.]

[Finally, under your careful planning, you successfully ascended as Spirit Hall's new Pope.]

[Simulation End!]

No!

Upon discovering that her father had truly been killed by That Woman rather than dying from untreated wounds—and that her grandfather had known the truth but never told her.

Qian Renxue felt nothing but utter collapse and despair, grief tearing her apart.

Why!

Why had heaven treated her this way!

Ever since she was little, not only had she never received her mother's love, but now she learned that her mother had even killed her father.

This truth was too cruel!

If she could choose, she would rather never have come into this world!

Qian Renxue fell onto the bed, her eyes vacant and lifeless as she stared numbly at the room's ceiling, at the layered glazed green tiles resembling fish scales and the golden-red beams.

She did not even hear the system notification sound ringing in her mind.

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully completed ten simulations. The Simulator is beginning its upgrade...]

In the days that followed, Qian Renxue remained unable to escape the pain and confusion brought by this simulation.

She did not understand who was right and who was wrong.

Although she knew that, no matter what, That Woman should never have killed her father.

Her father had violated That Woman back then and forced her to give birth to her.

That was clearly wrong as well.

Among all these grudges, love, and hatred, who was right and who was wrong?

I can't tell!

I really can't tell!

Qian Renxue only felt as though her heart were being torn apart by unbearable pain.

And when she thought of how, in every simulation, Ye Luo had managed to rise from humble beginnings with nothing but his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and innate rank-three Soul Power—such inferior talent—and defy fate to become a God King.

And how he had even rejected her recruitment.

His ability, talent, and unwavering will undoubtedly surpassed hers.

Qian Renxue could not help wanting to ask Ye Luo who was right and who was wrong in this matter.

Perhaps Ye Luo could give her an answer.

One day.

Qian Renxue took a carriage to Swan Territory and found Ye Luo still in the Castle.

"Xiao Luo, there is something I want to ask your opinion about."

"This didn't happen to me. It happened to a friend of mine."

"She's in great pain and confusion right now, and I don't know how to comfort her. I hope you can give me some advice."

In the room, Qian Renxue suppressed the pain and confusion in her heart, doing her best to reveal a gentle smile as she asked Ye Luo.

What? I have a friend?

Hearing Qian Renxue's words, Ye Luo's expression immediately turned strange.

"The friend you're talking about... isn't you, is it?"