The Three Titled Douluo

"Big sister."

Qin Yuan called out to her again.

Qian Renxue's body shuddered. For the first time, panic showed in her eyes. She forced down her turmoil and smiled stiffly.

"Xiao... Yuan, what are you talking about? I'm your cousin..."

"Before I turned three, I always slept with you. I remember it very clearly." Qin Yuan smiled. "I've always known that my big sister was a celestial beauty."

Qian Renxue trembled even harder. Her hands clenched into fists, her knuckles turning white.

"You were only three back then. You must be remembering wrong. I'm not..."

"Why hide it from me, big sister? You know I would never betray you. Even if I had to stand against the whole world, we would still be one."

Qin Yuan looked earnestly into Qian Renxue's eyes.

Those words, like a confession, sent her heart fluttering wildly.

She slowly unclenched her hands, then reached out and affectionately pinched Qin Yuan's cheek.

"You remember things from before you were three? You really are my Xiao Yuan."

Her voice was no longer a man's, but a gentle, melodious, magnetic woman's voice.

"I want to see what you really look like, big sister," Qin Yuan said.

"All right." Qian Renxue led Qin Yuan into the room.

The door closed.

Qian Renxue went behind the screen and shed her disguise. When she emerged, Xue Qinghe was gone.

In her place stood a breathtakingly beautiful woman.

Her golden hair fell like a waterfall, her slender brows were dark, and her golden eyes shone as brightly as autumn waters. Her red lips were alluring and full, her skin as fair and smooth as jade, and her figure graceful and shapely.

Qian Renxue gazed tenderly at the young man she had raised herself.

The young man looked at the big sister who had raised him with adoration and longing in his eyes.

Qian Renxue stepped forward and pulled him into her arms, burying him against her soft chest. Nostalgia filled her voice.

"It's been so, so long since I held you like this. In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed. You've grown up. You're a big boy now."

Qin Yuan savored the warmth he hadn't felt in years, the familiar fragrance of his childhood filling his nose.

Only after a long while did they part.

Qin Yuan held out the Lovesick Heartbreak Red with both hands.

Qian Renxue accepted it with a gentle smile.

She spat out a mouthful of heart blood, which splashed onto the Lovesick Heartbreak Red.

The black stone slipped quietly to the ground.

The flower bloomed.

Qin Yuan touched his damp lips, walked out of the East Palace, and returned to his courtyard with a smile.

He went back to his room, flopped onto the bed, and rolled around happily.

After a long while, he finally lay still, grinning.

"I'll rest for a day. Tomorrow, I'll go hunt for a Soul Ring!"

Night fell.

Dawn broke.

Qin Yuan donned the Golden Dragon Mask, transformed into Ling Tian, and Teleported straight to the East Palace to find Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue stared at 'Ling Tian,' who had suddenly appeared before her.

"What is it?"

This was the first time Ling Tian had taken the initiative to seek her out.

"I'm going to hunt for a Soul Ring," Qin Yuan said.

"All right." Qian Renxue nodded. "I'll send a Soul Saint to go with you."

"That's not enough." Qin Yuan shook his head. "I want a Titled Douluo to accompany me."

Qian Renxue fell silent.

She thought he was being rather presumptuous. A Titled Douluo wasn't someone he could simply demand.

Did he really think his unparalleled talent gave him the right to be so rude and brazen with her?

Who did he think he was? Only Xiao Yuan could act like that in front of her.

"I want to hunt for a Soul Ring at least seventy thousand years old!" Qin Yuan said, each word distinct.

Before coming, he had first visited Dugu Bo and used Dugu Bo's pressure to gauge roughly how much he could withstand.

"What?" Qian Renxue froze, thinking she must have misheard.

"You..." Qian Renxue was silent for a long time before asking hesitantly, "You should have only just reached level forty, right?"

Qin Yuan thought it over, then nodded. "I'm a little special."

Special? What kind of Soul Master was special enough to absorb a Soul Ring over seventy thousand years old as their fourth?

Qian Renxue's eye twitched.

"I hope you can send two Titled Douluo. I want to hunt only the very best Soul Beasts, and I'm afraid one Titled Douluo won't be enough," Qin Yuan said seriously.

Qian Renxue considered it carefully.

"If you really can absorb a Soul Ring over seventy thousand years old as your fourth, then all right."

With that, she clapped her hands.

"Porcupinefish, Snake Lance."

"Miss." Two figures appeared out of thin air.

"You both heard him. This peerless prodigy wants to absorb a seventy-thousand-year Soul Ring as his fourth. Go with him," Qian Renxue said.

Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo both twitched violently at the corners of their mouths.

A Soul Ring over seventy thousand years old as his fourth? Why not just reach for the heavens?

He was probably just showing off to attract Miss's attention.

They figured that Ling Tian had been so bewitched by their own lady's peerless beauty that he'd lost all sense.

"What a clown."

The same judgment arose in the hearts of Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo.

In the end, however, both Titled Douluo obeyed Qian Renxue's orders and left Heaven Dou City with Qin Yuan, heading for the Star Dou Great Forest.

Just outside Heaven Dou City, they spotted an old man in a dark green robe in the distance.

Dugu Bo.

Qin Yuan walked up to Dugu Bo, with the astonished Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo beside him, and smiled.

"Now we're sure to be safe."

The three Titled Douluo fell silent.

Three Titled Douluo had been dispatched to hunt a fourth Soul Ring. Even an emperor of the empire wouldn't get that kind of treatment.

"Old Poison, you actually let this kid recruit you?" Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo clearly knew Dugu Bo.

The circle of Titled Douluo was tiny, and Dugu Bo knew them as well. After a moment of silence, he said, "Young Qin asked me to come. He even spent a favor."

Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo froze.

Their lady had asked Ling Tian to get to know Qin Yuan privately, but they hadn't expected that, after only half a year, Qin Yuan would be willing to spend a favor owed by a Titled Douluo for Ling Tian!

When had Ling Tian and Qin Yuan gotten so close?

Qin Yuan smiled without saying anything, then set off with the three Titled Douluo for the Star Dou Great Forest.

In an era when Ferocious Beasts like Di Tian stayed hidden, this force was powerful enough to run rampant!

On the first day, the four encountered a top-tier Soul Beast with tremendous strength, but it was only forty thousand years old. Qin Yuan rejected it without hesitation.

The second day brought nothing.

On the third day, they found a fifty-thousand-year-old one. He still didn't want it.

Qin Yuan was terribly picky.

It wasn't until the seventh day that they finally found a Soul Beast Qin Yuan was satisfied with.

It was a gigantic bear covered in dark golden fur, standing over seven meters tall. Its eyes were devoid of all feeling, cold and cruel.

Dark golden fur covered its entire body. Its arms were especially thick, and its broad, powerful shoulders were like a city wall.

At the ends of its two thick arms were razor-sharp, dark golden claws, each over a meter long.

When it spread its powerful arms, its claws merely swept through the air with its body, yet they still made a faint hissing sound.

A seventy-thousand-year-old Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear!

It spotted Qin Yuan and the others, its cruel, bloodthirsty eyes turning toward them as it sensed the powerful auras of three Titled Douluo.

But it wasn't afraid.

Instead, it roared and charged forward with heavy strides.

Like a mountain, it came crashing toward them with a rumble.