"Ancestor, did Xuantian Sect have any distinctive Martial Souls? And what surname did the sect mainly use?"
Qian Ningshuang seemed to have thought of something and questioned Qian Chongling again. Xuantian, Self-Created Soul Skills, strange weapons—only a few pieces were missing from the puzzle.
"This old man does not know. I only learned that such a sect existed from my father's scattered remarks. Miss Gu Yuena should know about that, right?"
Qian Chongling awkwardly stopped stroking his beard and turned to ask Gu Yuena.
"Xuantian Sect as a whole had no distinctive Martial Soul. They had every kind of Martial Soul. As for surnames, they were all Tang. Outsiders who entered the sect also had to change their surname to Tang."
Gu Yuena answered without hesitation. Xuantian Sect had caused considerable harm to Star Dou Forest. Back then, she had been restricted by the God Realm and unable to act, but she still possessed the basic information.
Qian Ningshuang could no longer mock it. Xuantian, Self-Created Soul Skills, strange weapons, the Tang surname—the only thing missing was the Clear Sky Hammer!
"But Shuang'er, why are you asking about this?"
Gu Yuena looked at Qian Ningshuang. A sect that had been destroyed ten thousand years ago—what did its surname or representative Martial Soul have to do with the present?
"Nothing. I was just curious and wanted to know more."
"More importantly, Ancestor, what exactly did you experience in the God Realm?"
Qian Ningshuang did not continue dwelling on Xuantian Sect. What could an Evil Soul Master sect from ten thousand years ago possibly have to do with that ice-pure, jade-clean Third Giegie? At most, it was just gossip.
After all, no matter how hated or powerful Xuantian Sect had been ten thousand years ago, once Blue Silver Entanglement was added, it instantly became hilarious.
Gu Yuena did not press further. Children were curious; that was understandable. Then she, too, looked at Qian Chongling.
Qian Chongling continued stroking his beard and began recounting the subject Qian Ningshuang had interrupted. At the same time, many of Qian Ningshuang's doubts were gradually resolved through his story.
As the Angel God's successor, Qian Chongling's talent had not been much inferior to Qian Renxue's current talent. His God Trial had also been the Angel Nine Trials, but during the final trial, Qian Chongling had given up.
That was easy to understand. The final trial of the God Trial required the sacrifice of the high priest—Qian Chongling's father.
And all of this had been witnessed by the still-living Angel God. She could not accept that such an exceptionally talented junior would vanish into the river of time because of the God Realm's inheritance rules, so she personally promoted Qian Chongling to the God Realm as her God Official.
Thus, Qian Chongling arrived in the God Realm and discovered that the Angel God's circumstances were not good. Nearly the entire God Realm was hostile toward her, with the Asura God King being the foremost among them.
The reason was simple: conflicting divine authorities. The Angel God possessed the divine authorities of purification, order, justice, and judgment. Unfortunately, judgment and order directly conflicted with the Asura God King.
Conflicting divine authorities were neither necessarily serious nor trivial; it depended entirely on the intensity of the conflict. At worst, a god occupying a divine position could be driven insane and split into multiple personalities. At best, it was merely a matter of dividing authority.
The conflict between the Angel God and the Asura God King was relatively severe. It would not drive them insane, but over time, it would likely cause their cultivation to regress. Naturally, the two gods could not stand each other, and fighting whenever they disagreed was a common occurrence.
Of course, the God Realm was not the Asura God King's personal domain; there were other gods as well. The true reason the Angel God had become completely unwelcome in the God Realm was because of her divine authority of justice.
This involved the fundamental issue of gods: the power of faith. Simply absorbing the power of faith was not much of a problem; the Angel God herself had ascended through the power of faith.
The problem was that the gods of the God Realm had always believed that the more desperate a person's situation, the purer and stronger their faith would become. Thus, the lower realms managed by the God Realm could not exactly be called peaceful and prosperous, with people living and working in contentment. It could only be said that the people were miserable and wars raged everywhere.
That was something the Angel God, who possessed the divine authority of justice, could not tolerate. She had conflicts with nearly every god. Yet she was also relatively powerful even among First-Class Gods, capable of exchanging blows with God Kings. Whenever a conflict broke out, the other gods could neither defeat her nor outargue her. Over time, this righteous god's position in the God Realm became worse than that of a plague god, an Evil God.
This state of being ignored by even dogs in the God Realm suddenly worsened after the Sea God ascended. One of the Sea God's divine authorities was purification, which also conflicted with the Angel God. The Sea God had always been skilled at forming factions, directly deepening the conflict between the previously merely unwelcome Angel God and the gods of the God Realm.
Then, amid this situation where they could not stand the sight of one another and each felt the other ought to die, the war between the Angel God and the gods of the God Realm began.
The outcome of the war was unsurprising. No matter how capable one god was, she could not fight a group of gods. Even with Qian Chongling, who had already cultivated through the laws to become a First-Class God, they were still outnumbered.
In the end, the Angel God self-destructed, leaving behind only her divine position. After the Angel God's self-destruction opened a passage to Douluo Planet, Qian Chongling also self-destructed, shielding a fragment of his soul as it escaped back to Douluo Continent.
"These gods really are as hypocritical and disgusting as they were back then."
After hearing of Qian Chongling's experiences, Gu Yuena sneered and spoke with her arms folded across her chest.
"After this old man escaped the God Realm, I remained asleep until Shuang'er's influence awakened me. Then I discovered that the gods' hands had already reached Spirit Hall."
"Therefore, whether for revenge or for Spirit Hall's survival, this old man must fight the gods of the God Realm once again."
Qian Ningshuang once again confirmed the theories of the big shots in her previous life's reader group. Sure enough, the God Realm had been manipulating events behind Spirit Hall's destruction.
Still, that was not surprising. Based on Qian Chongling's description of the gods of the God Realm, it would have been stranger if they had not targeted Spirit Hall. After all, under Spirit Hall's management, Douluo Continent had only the ordinary fighting and killing among Spirit Masters, which did not fit the God Realm gods' hopes for constant warfare.
At the same time, it explained why the ice-pure, jade-clean God King Tang had allowed Evil Soul Masters to run rampant and always acted as a troublemaker whenever the continent was about to be unified.
A chaotic lower realm was what the God Realm expected.
As for the Angel God already being gone, that was not unexpected. The big shots in her previous life had already analyzed it; now, it had merely been confirmed.
Today's gossip was enormous and satisfying!
Having finally relaxed, Qian Ningshuang looked at Gu Yuena again and asked, "Sister Gu Yuena, can you answer one question for me?"
Since so many doubts about the original work had been resolved today, Qian Ningshuang did not mind resolving one more.
Gu Yuena was delighted by Qian Ningshuang's closeness. It was rare for the girl to lower her guard around them.
"Ask away, Shuang'er. If I can answer it, I certainly will."
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