The Beginning

"Frost and snow blew over our heads; perhaps that counted as growing old together."

"Once, when we stood before each other, even ten thousand words were not enough."

"Now that we are parted in two places, even a single word feels stolen."

A melodious song rang out along the mountain path leading to Douluo Hall at the summit of Spirit City.

A blonde girl in a white dress had appeared on the mountain road, which was usually seldom traveled. The song clearly came from her.

The girl was in a very good mood. The song on her lips and the expression on her breathtakingly beautiful face were ample proof of that. However, her happiness did nothing to slow her slightly hurried steps.

It's been nearly two years since I last saw my little sister. I finally found an excuse to leave Heaven Dou City, traveled for almost ten days, and now I can finally see her again. She must have grown taller, right? Will she still recognize me as her big sister? Has that rash, slightly scatterbrained personality of hers changed at all?

Qian Renxue—the blonde girl—was thinking a jumble of thoughts, while her steps grew faster and faster.

If Spirit City had not forbidden flight, she would have summoned her Martial Soul and flown straight to Douluo Hall.

While Qian Renxue walked along the mountain path, within the majestic Douluo Hall at the summit—

"Shuang'er, Xue'er has already reached the mountainside. Wait a little longer."

An elderly man with bushy white brows and hair, dressed in coarse linen robes, spoke to a little girl beside him.

"It's all right, Grandpa. I haven't seen Sister Xue'er in a long time either."

A crisp voice with a hint of childishness sounded out. Its owner was the little girl beside him, dressed in training clothes, her dazzling golden hair tied into a high ponytail.

The girl's blue-violet eyes looked toward the doors of Douluo Hall, while memories of her past surfaced in her mind.

I, Qian Ningshuang, am a transmigrator from Blue Star. I've read Douluo and all kinds of Douluo fanfiction. I'm six years old and currently live in Spirit City on Douluo Continent.

My identity is the adopted granddaughter of Limit Douluo Qian Daoliu. After the Soul Hunting Operation, the severely wounded Qian Xunji brought me, just after I was born, back to Spirit Hall. Qian Daoliu gave me the name Qian Ningshuang. Of course, even with that coincidental timing, I can still be certain that I have no blood relation to Tang Hao's family.

At the same time, my social circle in Spirit City is limited to Douluo Hall, and the only person I am particularly close to is Qian Renxue.

As for Qian Daoliu, I both respect and fear him. I respect him because he raised me from childhood, and I fear him because he treats me too well—far better than he treats his own granddaughter, Qian Renxue.

Tian'e and the other High Priests are also very good to me, but before I turned five, there had always been doubt in their eyes whenever they looked at me. I understood perfectly what they were wondering about. After all, a little girl with unknown parents—which also meant an unknown Martial Soul—even if she had been brought back by the previous Pope, could simply have been placed in Spirit City's orphanage. There was no need for a Limit Douluo to keep her at his side at all times.

That was why I feared Qian Daoliu. I did not understand his reasons for doing this either.

I've gone off-topic. Today is the day of my Martial Soul awakening, but unlike the other transmigrator seniors, I'm not worried that my talent will be lacking. I don't have a system or anything like that, but when I transmigrated, I obtained the template of a certain airhead goose on a tricycle—the overwhelmingly overpowered Bianka Durandal Atagina, or rather, True Kiana.

So, although I don't know what my Martial Soul will be, it definitely won't be too bad.

Her recollection ended, and Qian Ningshuang sighed.

There's no need to worry about my Martial Soul, but what should I do in the future? My faction is firmly bound to Spirit Hall. As long as I'm still human, there's no way I can pretend not to see the kindness the High Priests and Qian Renxue have shown me over the past six years.

But according to the analyses of the big shots in the Douluo fanfiction group, in this world where everything is terrible, the one targeting Spirit Hall, which could be considered a progressive force, is the lofty God Realm. Whether I, a transmigrator, can change the ending remains unknown.

As for the great God King Tang—what, are transmigrators in this day and age still afraid of Blue Silver Entanglement?

"Shuang'er, don't worry. It's impossible for you to awaken a useless Martial Soul." Qian Daoliu comforted her from the side. In his experience, Qian Ningshuang's sigh clearly came from pre-awakening anxiety. Everyone had such moments. After all, the path a person would walk in the future was determined at the moment of Martial Soul awakening.

"Grandpa, I just..." Qian Ningshuang twitched the corner of her mouth. See? He sounded even more confident than she was. She truly had no idea where the old man got such confidence, and she could not even be bothered to say anything anymore.

"Shuang'er, Big Brother is right. Judging by your talent, according to Spirit Hall's records and research, your Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power are destined not to be poor."

Tian'e, who had been acting like an invisible man at the side, stepped forward at that moment. Unlike Qian Daoliu, his confidence in Qian Ningshuang was not inexplicable, nor was he simply convinced that she could not be ordinary.

Perhaps he had not cared much about the little girl at first, but ever since Qian Ningshuang, at age five, had pinned down and beaten his granddaughter Tian Yao—who had already become a Spirit Master—he had been forced to take her seriously. In his heart, he raised this girl's importance to Spirit Hall to the same level as Qian Renxue's.

After all, Tian'e's granddaughter was no useless failure with a mutated Martial Soul. She had inherited his Golden Crocodile Martial Soul and was already an eighteenth-level Spirit Master. She could win same-level battles with ease, and she could even fight a Soul Grandmaster with a weaker Martial Soul. Yet even so, after summoning her Martial Soul, she had still lost to Qian Ningshuang. Perhaps Tian Yao had gone easy on Qian Ningshuang, but for someone who had not even awakened a Martial Soul to defeat a Spirit Master was astonishing enough!

After that, Tian'e had specifically taken Qian Ningshuang to the Wuhun Research Institute for testing. Yes, Spirit Hall researched the Martial Soul system and even had a dedicated institution responsible for it.

Qian Ningshuang had been greatly surprised when she first learned of this. The original work had never mentioned it, as though Yu Xiaogang had been the only one on the entire continent who pursued theory and researched Martial Soul growth and combinations.

But on further thought, in a real world, for a Spirit Master organization that had existed for nearly ten thousand years not to study the Martial Soul system it relied on for survival would have been the strange thing. Their long-standing records and research might not have reached the essence of the matter, but they still possessed basic understanding and theories.

The test results had also been astonishing. At the time, five-year-old Qian Ningshuang's strength and physical condition had been fully comparable to those of a Soul Grandmaster with a Beast Martial Soul.

According to Spirit Hall's records, a Martial Soul's influence on a person did not begin only after awakening; it began at birth. Those with powerful Martial Souls possessed better physical qualities than ordinary children their age from a young age, though the difference was not especially obvious.

In other words, Qian Ningshuang's physical condition, which was enough to rival a Soul Grandmaster, showed that her Martial Soul would not be weak. It might even be a God-level Martial Soul. After all, Qian Renxue, another owner of a God-level Martial Soul, had not possessed such physical qualities at age five.

Of course, there were exceptions to everything. There had been cases of children who performed exceptionally well in their youth but awakened useless Martial Souls.

For example, the famed Master Yu Xiaogang. He had performed exceptionally well in childhood; otherwise, Blue Lightning would not have placed such high hopes on him, nor would he himself have been so confident and proud. But after he awakened a useless Martial Soul, his former confidence and pride became inferiority, while the hopes and respect he had once received turned into indifference and scorn.

But that was only an exception. Since this theory had emerged, he had been the sole exception on the entire continent. Naturally, Tian'e did not think Qian Ningshuang would be another exception.