The Beginning

"Snow covers the hair, a lifetime spent together."

"When you were before my eyes, ten thousand words were not enough."

"Now we are worlds apart, even a single word feels like a theft."

On the mountain path leading to the Douluo Hall at the summit of Martial Soul City, a melodious song rang out.

A golden-haired girl in a white dress appeared on this path, which was rarely frequented in the past; the singing clearly came from her.

The girl was in a very good mood right now, and the song on her lips and the expression on her stunning, peerless face were clear proof of this. However, her happy mood did not affect her slightly hurried pace.

It's been nearly two years since I last saw my little sister. I finally found a reason to leave Tiandou City, and after nearly ten days of traveling, I can finally see her again. She must have grown taller, right? Will she recognize me, her big sister? Has her impulsive and slightly dazed personality changed at all?

Qian Renxue, the golden-haired girl, thought about these messy things in her heart, but her footsteps grew faster and faster.

If it weren't for the rule in Martial Soul City forbidding flight, she would have loved to activate her Martial Soul and fly directly to the Douluo Hall.

While Qian Renxue was walking on the mountain path, inside the majestic Douluo Hall at the summit:

"Shuang'er, Xue'er has already reached the mountainside. Let's wait a little longer."

An old man with thick eyebrows and white hair, dressed in a linen robe, said to a little girl beside him.

"It's fine, Grandpa. I haven't seen sister Xue'er for a long time either."

A crisp, slightly childish voice rang out. The source of the voice was the little girl next to him, wearing a training suit with her dazzling blonde hair tied into a single ponytail.

The girl's blue-purple eyes looked toward the gate of the Douluo Hall, while her own past surfaced in her mind.

I, Qian Ningshuang, am a transmigrator from Blue Star. I have read Douluo and various Douluo fanfictions. I am six years old and currently live in Martial Soul City on the Douluo Continent.

My identity is the adopted granddaughter of the Limit Douluo Qian Daoliu. After the Soul Hunting Operation, a heavily injured Qian Xunji brought the newborn me back to Martial Soul Hall. Qian Daoliu gave me the name Qian Ningshuang. Of course, even in this coincidental timeframe, I can still be certain that I have no blood relationship with the family of Tang Dachui.

At the same time, my interpersonal relationships in Martial Soul City are limited to the 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 a young age, and I fear him because he treats me too well—even better than he treats his own granddaughter, Qian Renxue.

The elders like Tian'e are also very good to me, but before I turned five, their gazes toward me always held suspicion. I understand very well what they were suspicious of. After all, a little girl with unknown parents and therefore an unknown Martial Soul—even if brought back by the previous Pope—could have just been placed in the Martial Soul City orphanage. There was no need for a Limit Douluo to keep her by his side at all times.

This is the reason why I fear Qian Daoliu; I also don't understand his reason for doing this.

But I digress. Today is the day of my Martial Soul awakening. However, unlike other transmigrator predecessors, I am not worried about my talent being poor. I don't have anything like a system, but when I transmigrated, I obtained the template of that "Honkai" goose—that god-slaying, heaven-defying Phoenix Empress Bianka Durandal Atagina, or in other words, True Kiana.

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

Ending her reminiscence, Qian Ningshuang sighed.

There is no need to worry about the Martial Soul, but what about the future? My camp is firmly set with Martial Soul Hall. As long as I am still a human, it is impossible for me to turn a blind eye to the kindness the elders and Qian Renxue have shown me over the past six years.

However, according to the analysis of the big shots in the Douluo fanfiction groups, in this world where everything is rotting, the one targeting Martial Soul Hall—which can be considered a progressive force—is the high and mighty God Realm. Whether I, a transmigrator, can change the ending remains an unknown variable.

As for the great Tang God King, what of it? It's this era already, and there are still transmigrators afraid of Blue Silver Entanglement?

"Shuang'er, don't worry, it is impossible for you to awaken a trash Martial Soul." Qian Daoliu spoke up to comfort her. Based on his experience, Qian Ningshuang's sigh was clearly due to anxiety before the awakening. Everyone has such moments; after all, the path a person takes in the future is decided at the moment of Martial Soul awakening.

"Grandpa, I'm just..." Qian Ningshuang twitched the corner of her mouth. Look at that, a tone even more confident than she was herself. She really didn't know where the old man got his confidence from, and she was too lazy to say anything more.

"Shuang'er, Big Brother is right. Based on your talent, and according to the records and research of our Martial Soul Hall, your Martial Soul and Innate Soul Power are destined not to be too bad."

Tian'e, who had been acting as an invisible man on the side, also stood up at this moment. He wasn't like Qian Daoliu, whose confidence in Qian Ningshuang came from nowhere; he was certain that Qian Ningshuang would not be ordinary.

At first, he might not have cared about this little girl, but ever since Qian Ningshuang pinned down and beat his granddaughter Tian Yao—who had already become a Soul Master—when she was five, he had to take her seriously. In his heart, he elevated the importance of this girl to Martial Soul Hall to the same level as Qian Renxue.

One must know that his granddaughter Tian Yao was no trash with a mutated Martial Soul; she inherited his Golden Crocodile Martial Soul and was an 18th-level Soul Master. She won peer-level duels with ease, and could even fight Soul Grand Masters whose Martial Souls were inferior. Yet, even so, she lost to Qian Ningshuang after activating her Martial Soul. Perhaps there was an element of Tian Yao going easy on her, but for someone who hadn't even awakened their Martial Soul to beat a Soul Master was shocking enough!

Afterward, Tian'e specifically took Qian Ningshuang to the Wuhun Research Institute for testing. Yes, Martial Soul Hall does research the Martial Soul system, and there are even specialized institutions responsible for this.

When Qian Ningshuang first learned of this, she was quite surprised. The original work never mentioned this, as if Yu Xiaogang was the only one on the entire continent walking the path of theory, researching the growth and combinations of Martial Souls.

But thinking about it carefully, in a real world, for a soul master organization that has been established for nearly ten thousand years, it would be strange if they didn't research the Martial Soul system they rely on for survival. Long-standing records and research might not reach the essence, but basic cognition and speculation certainly exist.

The results of the test were also startling. At the time, five-year-old Qian Ningshuang's strength and physical fitness were completely comparable to a beast-type Soul Grand Master.

According to the records of Martial Soul Hall, the influence of a Martial Soul on a person does not begin after awakening, but from birth. Those with powerful Martial Souls have better physical fitness in childhood than ordinary peers, it's just not as obvious.

In other words, Qian Ningshuang's physical fitness, which was comparable to a Soul Grand Master, indicated that her Martial Soul would not be bad, and might even be a god-level Martial Soul. After all, the other god-level Martial Soul holder, Qian Renxue, did not have this level of physical fitness at five years old.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything. There are cases where children perform very well but awaken a trash Martial Soul.

For example, the famous "Master" Yu Xiaogang. He performed very well in his childhood; otherwise, the entire Blue Lightning sect wouldn't have pinned such high hopes on him, and he himself wouldn't have been so confident and arrogant. It was only after he awakened a trash Martial Soul that his previous confidence and arrogance turned into inferiority, and the former high hopes and respect turned into indifference and contempt.

But that was just an exception. Since the existence of this theory on the continent, he was the only exception. Tian'e certainly wouldn't think Qian Ningshuang was an exception too.