Soul Skill

"Stop, stop, stop! You're talking way too fast! Though chatty beautiful girls are cute too!"

Durandal cut off Qian Ningshuang's barrage of questions and took the opportunity to tease her.

"Even a Supercomputer can't keep up?"

Qian Ningshuang asked rather strangely. In her eyes, Durandal, with her supercomputing abilities, was a Supercomputer.

"This has nothing to do with being a Supercomputer. It's part of my human persona. At that speed, normal people shouldn't be able to understand you. Next question."

Durandal did not dispute Qian Ningshuang's impression of her. As a weapon with supercomputing abilities, she was indeed not much different from a Supercomputer. The difference was that she might be better at fighting?

"Fine. Let me repeat it. Why did you wake up? Were you dormant before because you lacked energy?"

"I shut down because the world rejected me. It had nothing to do with energy. I woke up because I've already partially analyzed this world's rules."

"This world is so weak, yet it could reject you badly enough to shut you down? Then why wasn't I rejected?"

"Can you stop clinging to your preconceived notions? This world only seems weak because the people here are weak. The world itself is still a fantasy world, so it can't be that weak. As for why you weren't rejected, it's because you're different from me. You were the main subject of the transmigration, and some force altered you during the process so you could adapt to this world. I was merely an extra and wasn't affected by that force."

"Then why did I transmigrate? And what was that force?"

"I don't know that either."

"Why did Abyss Flower become a Martial Soul, but you didn't?"

"Same answer. The influence of that force."

While Qian Ningshuang communicated with Durandal inside her body, deep within the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest—

Beneath the Lake of Life, a massive Black Dragon opened his eyes.

"Lord, what are your orders?"

"I sensed an enormous, pure life energy appearing on the outskirts of the Star Dou Forest. Di Tian, find the source of that energy and bring him here."

Hearing the somewhat urgent voice, the black giant dragon—Di Tian—revealed a trace of hesitation in his golden draconic eyes.

"Lord, will the God Realm allow it?"

"Di Tian, have you become afraid after being injured just once?"

The voice from the lakebed carried a trace of anger.

"Please forgive me, Lord! It's merely that if this life energy cannot do much for your injuries, it would be best to rely on the Lake of Life and recover slowly. At this stage, there is no need for us to draw the God Realm's wariness."

Although he could not see his Lord's figure, Di Tian still lowered his head.

"The purity and scale of this life energy far surpass the Lake of Life. With it, my injuries can be healed in at most a hundred years! Do you think it will be of great use or not?"

"Furthermore, there is no need to worry about the God Realm. With the arrival of this energy, the God Realm's gaze upon Star Dou has already vanished."

Seeing Di Tian's attitude, the source of the voice rarefully explained herself to him. Perhaps it was also because of the enormous wound on Di Tian's dragon body.

"This subordinate will bring him here immediately!"

Di Tian let out a sigh of relief. Since the God Realm's gaze had already vanished, there was nothing left to worry about.

But just how powerful would that life energy have to be for Lord to fully recover within a hundred years? Even the Life God King of the God Realm likely could not accomplish that.

With that doubt in mind, Di Tian flew out of the Lake of Life.

"Have Xiong Jun and Scarlet King go with him. There are two other fairly strong auras beside that life energy. The injured Di Tian may not be able to handle them."

The voice rang out from the lakebed once more.

"Yes, Lord."

Soon afterward, a giant bear and a Three-Headed Red Demon Mastiff also emerged from the Lake of Life.

"Phew."

Under the gazes of Qian Renxue and the others, Qian Ningshuang opened her eyes.

"How could it be this fast?"

Qian Renxue said in surprise, and the others wore equally astonished expressions.

No matter how quickly a Spirit Master absorbed a Spirit Ring for the first time, it would take at least one or two hours. Some even took an entire day.

They had never seen anyone like Qian Ningshuang, whose eyes had been closed for no more than the time it took to drink a cup of tea before opening again.

Could powerful talent actually speed up Spirit Ring absorption?

"Ahahaha, I'm not really sure why it was so fast."

Qian Ningshuang gave a silly laugh, trying to act cute and muddle through.

Of course, Qian Ningshuang knew why she had absorbed the Spirit Ring so quickly. Durandal had already told her within her sea of consciousness.

Very little of the time a Spirit Master spent absorbing a Spirit Ring was actually used for breaking through. The moment they obtained the Spirit Ring, they had already broken through. Most of that time was spent obtaining the Soul Skill. Soul Skills were engraved onto the Spirit Ring, and that engraving process required a great deal of time.

But Qian Ningshuang was different. She had a cheat. The process of engraving the Soul Skill had been handed over to the Holy Sword Durandal, a Supercomputer. It could be completed as quickly as possible.

And could she possibly tell them about the Holy Sword Durandal?

"Forget it if you don't know. What Soul Skill did you obtain? Show us."

Qian Renxue stared at Qian Ningshuang with a faint smile. Her act had been far too fake. Still, since Qian Ningshuang did not want to say anything, Qian Renxue would not press her.

"The skill is called Glory. Its effect is to add fire elemental properties to Abyss Flower's attacks."

Seeing the expression on Qian Renxue's face, Qian Ningshuang's scalp tingled. Before anyone could say anything else, she directly activated her Soul Skill.

Qian Ningshuang hurled Abyss Flower toward an unidentified tree ten meters away. With a thunderous boom, the tree split apart, and flames had already begun to burn at the point where it cracked.

Everyone watched the scene before turning their gazes back to Qian Ningshuang in unison, their eyes filled with astonishment.

"Haha, this skill is strong, right?"

Qian Ningshuang drove the recalled Abyss Flower into the ground, planted her hands on her hips, and struck a pose that screamed, I'm so strong.

Qian Renxue looked at Qian Ningshuang expressionlessly, while the three elders seemed hesitant to speak, as though they wanted to ask something but found it difficult to open their mouths.

Tian Yao, on the other hand, carefully chose her words.

"It's certainly very strong. It's rare for a first Soul Skill to cause such destructive power. But Xiaoshuang, can you tell me where the fire attribute in your Soul Skill came from when neither your Martial Soul nor the Spirit Beast you hunted has a fire attribute?"

The proud expression on Qian Ningshuang's face instantly froze.

She had nearly forgotten about that. No matter how outrageous a Spirit Master's Soul Skill was, it could not possibly create an unrelated attribute out of thin air when neither the Martial Soul nor the hunted Spirit Beast possessed that attribute.

Qian Ningshuang's Soul Skill was so outrageous because the Holy Sword Durandal had long ago set up her skills. Up through level forty, including level forty itself, the skills she could obtain were Glory, Dea Anchora, Star Anchor, and Palatinus Equinox. They were Bianka's four sets of armor from her past life. She could obtain one set every ten levels, and her memories of using that armor would also synchronize with her own memories.

Of course, these four sets of armor were watered-down versions of watered-down versions. She likely would not be able to control the originals before becoming a god.

As for the Soul Skills after level forty, the Holy Sword Durandal had not told her about them. But from the looks of it, she had already made preparations.

"I-I don't know either."

Qian Ningshuang once again forced herself to try muddling through by acting cute.

"Everyone, be careful! Something's happening!"

Tian'e's sudden shout interrupted Tian Yao, who had been about to continue questioning her.