Invitation Seven Days Later

Invitation Seven Days Later

The woman known as Aunt Mei looked at Qian Renxue's exhausted state, a trace of reluctance flashing through her eyes before an odd expression quickly replaced it. Perhaps because she had earned Qian Renxue's deep trust, Qian Renxue failed to notice anything amiss with the person beside her, even at such close range.

Looking at Qian Renxue like this, a flicker of struggle passed through the woman's eyes. In the end, her usual kindly expression returned.

"Young Mistress, your body is precious beyond measure. How can you waste your energy over such a trivial matter? A Soul Master from some insignificant place has merely stumbled upon a little good fortune. Who can say how far he will grow in the future?"

"If Young Mistress wishes to keep an eye on him, simply send someone to express goodwill. I doubt he would refuse the favor of the current Crown Prince. If Young Mistress has no time to concern yourself with him for now, it will not be too late to decide once his talent becomes clearer."

"Ah..." Qian Renxue shook her head without saying anything. Yet inwardly, she agreed with Aunt Mei's words.

For ordinary factions, a second Soul Ring that was a thousand years old could only appear through a rare stroke of luck or coincidence. But for Spirit Hall, it was not particularly difficult. It was merely a question of whether they wanted to do it and whether it was worth doing.

Spirit Hall's ancestor was the Angel God. Every generation had a Peerless Douluo serving as the Angel God's High Priest, while each generation of the Worship Hall and Elder Hall included Titled Douluo from all across the land.

How could ordinary people possibly understand the inheritance left behind over these ten thousand years?

Qian Renxue understood the requirements for Soul Masters to absorb Soul Rings. She also knew that improving one's physical constitution could raise the age limit of the Soul Rings one could endure. But for the Angel Clan, there was truly no need for such a method.

Those with the Six-winged Angel Martial Soul were born with twenty levels of Soul Power. After absorbing two hundred-year Soul Rings, they would possess at least level twenty-three Soul Power. Within two years, they could become Soul Elders and absorb their third Soul Ring.

Though their cultivation speed would slow after level thirty due to the Martial Soul's overwhelming attributes, that slowness was only relative.

Even with diminished cultivation speed, possessors of the Six-winged Angel Martial Soul were still faster than ordinary people with Innate Full Soul Power, not to mention the various resources and inheritances provided by Spirit Hall.

After obtaining their third Soul Ring and becoming Soul Elders at eight years old, they could become Soul Ancestors at around twelve. By seventeen or eighteen, they could become Soul Kings.

But what if Qian Renxue wanted her Second Soul Ring to be a Thousand Year Soul Ring?

She awakened her Martial Soul at six. Though she possessed twenty levels of Soul Power, the limits of heaven and earth meant that only ten levels could be displayed before she absorbed her First Soul Ring. Only after absorbing it would her cultivation rise to level twenty.

She had only just awakened her Martial Soul at six years old. Even though she had undergone all manner of Medicinal Baths since childhood and possessed a God-Tier Martial Soul, her body had not yet fully developed.

The stimulation of Soul Power was a gradual process that required time. The same Soul Power and Martial Soul produced different results at different ages. The extraordinary development of people on Douluo Continent fundamentally depended on the stimulation of Soul Power.

For children, their physical constitution improved enormously every year. After a year of nourishment from Soul Power, even with identical Soul Power and Martial Souls, the body of a seven-year-old Soul Master was far stronger than that of a six-year-old who had just awakened their Martial Soul.

If Qian Renxue wanted to absorb a Thousand Year Second Soul Ring, she would need to undergo at least two years of development and conditioning after absorbing her First Soul Ring before attempting it. To be safe, it would likely take three years.

Even then, after absorbing a Thousand Year Second Soul Ring, her Soul Power Level would at most hover around level twenty-seven.

After all, while cultivation could still accumulate Soul Power after reaching a level cap, and one's Soul Power Level would rise upon obtaining a Soul Ring, cultivating while suppressing one's level could never compare to normal cultivation.

What if she simply absorbed Soul Rings properly and cultivated normally?

Assuming only two years had passed, a possessor of the Six-winged Angel Martial Soul should at least be a level thirty-three Soul Elder by then. The difference would be around seven or eight levels.

A major realm on Douluo Continent only spanned ten levels. Why would anyone waste their most precious golden years and sacrifice nearly an entire major realm of Soul Power for a mere few hundred additional years of Soul Ring age?

For the Qian family, suppressing one's level to improve physical constitution merely to endure higher-aged Soul Rings in the first few rings was simply an effort that brought no worthwhile return.

Besides, Spirit Hall possessed the Angel God's inheritance. Even if the first few Soul Rings had lower age limits, they could be directly raised to the thousand-year or ten-thousand-year level during later Divine Trials.

Rather than waste energy over an extra two or three hundred years of Soul Ring age, it was better to save that effort and perform well during the Divine Trials.

At its core, this was an extremely irrational practice.

Talented Soul Masters reached the required Soul Power Level before their bodies met the standard. Unless their Martial Souls were exceptionally special, the limit they could endure at that stage was only hundred-year Soul Rings.

Soul Masters who had trained and tempered themselves for around ten years, on the other hand, had bodies nourished by Soul Power for a long time and were actually superior in physical constitution. Theoretically, they could endure higher-aged Soul Rings better than child Soul Masters.

But the problem was that such Soul Masters generally had low-quality Martial Souls, which did not grant enough physical enhancement. Their bodies might also carry more or less some ailment due to one reason or another, and they might not even be capable of hunting Thousand-Year Soul Beasts.

Even those capable of hunting Thousand-Year Soul Beasts might not have the courage to absorb a Soul Ring beyond their level. Those with the courage to try might not necessarily succeed. With all these factors combined, cases of absorbing a purple Soul Ring as the Second Soul Ring were rare.

In short, lucky people whose Second Soul Ring was a Thousand Year Soul Ring were few, but to Qian Renxue, who knew the underlying truth, it was nothing mysterious. If she wished, she could even artificially create a few such geniuses.

In her eyes, Chen Ming had merely stumbled upon some extraordinary luck, perhaps consuming medicinal herbs or the flesh and blood of a precious Soul Beast to become what he was today. Though his Martial Soul had evolved, his mere innate level-five talent was still not worth her attention.

After all, in her view, Chen Ming could at most become a Soul Saint in the future. Even if he cultivated diligently, the best he could achieve was the level of an early-stage Soul Douluo.

Unless he encountered some exceptionally rare fortuitous encounter or unforeseen circumstance, he would probably never touch the threshold of a Titled Douluo in his life.

And even if he could rely on a string of lucky encounters to become a Titled Douluo...

Qian Renxue considered the timing and felt that by then, even if she had not become a god, she would at least be a Demigod-level Peerless Douluo approaching the level of her grandfather, Qian Daoliu.

Whether an ordinary Titled Douluo could even withstand her First Soul Skill was questionable.

Still, as the Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou royal family in public, Qian Renxue ultimately could not directly ignore the file when Xue Ye had personally placed it in her hands.

After all, although a genius with at most the talent to become a Soul Douluo was nothing to Qian Renxue, the young mistress of Spirit Hall—

For the Heaven Dou Empire, a nation lacking high-level combat power, Xue Qinghe, as Crown Prince, truly had no reason to overlook a genius who might become a Soul Douluo in the future under such circumstances.

Qian Renxue sat silently on her chair for a long while. After quietly reviewing her recent schedule, she finally made a decision.

"Half a month from now, send someone to bring him here. As for the location... the top floor of the Seven Treasures Wine House. Set the time for the Hour of the Dragon."

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