Qiandao Liu? Qian Xunji? Why Do They Talk with a Regional Accent? Testing the Waters-Hoping for Follows

Dugu Xue was speechless and couldn't help asking in return, "Guess how old my granddaughter is?"

"Uh... I don't know!"

"My granddaughter, Dugu Yan, is twenty-one years old, minus one month. But last month, she just broke through to Level 86!"

Dugu Bo: Σ(⊙▽⊙"a!

Shocked!

"Senior, are you joking?"

"Do I have that kind of time to joke with you? My other pair of twin grandchildren are fourteen and a half this year, and they're already about to break through to Soul Emperor!" Dugu Xue gave the dumbfounded Dugu Bo a disdainful glance, then continued digging up Immortal Herbs while fishing for information from him.

A stalk of Ink Jade Divine Bamboo went into the Soul Tool.

Dugu Xue: "What? Your world only has a dozen or so Titled Douluo in total?"

A Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone went into the Soul Tool.

Dugu Xue: "What? The Tiandou Empire doesn't even have a single Titled Douluo? I... Come on, tell me, how has the Tiandou Empire managed to exist under the oppression of Spirit Hall? How have the other major sects allowed a useless empire like Tiandou to sit above them?"

Dugu Xue simply couldn't imagine how a country without a single Titled Douluo could rule an entire empire without anyone rebelling. Had those powerful sects transcended the secular world?

As he thought about it, Dugu Xue decided it had to be because these people had surpassed those in his world in their level of thought! It had to be: focused solely on cultivation, indifferent to worldly affairs!

Otherwise, it made no sense at all!

Who would let a Heaven Dou Imperial Family that wasn't worth a damn sit above them and take a dump on their heads?

In his world, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family had several powerful enshrined elders. Together with the Star Luo Empire and the other major sects, they could stand against Emperor Qingtian! But Emperor Qingtian was exceptionally talented, and in the end, he still unified the Douluo Continent!

Then another stalk of Aromatic Silk Beauty went into the Soul Tool.

Dugu Xue: "Wait! You said, who's the pope in your world? Bibi Dong? What about Emperor Qingtian? Oh, no, I mean, Pope Qian Heqing?"

"Qian Heqing? Who's Qian Heqing?"

"You don't know him? Or... you've never even heard of Qian Heqing? Spirit Hall's Pope Qian Heqing! Qiandao Liu's most talented son! Qian Xunji's big brother!"

"I've really never heard of Qian Heqing." Dugu Bo shook his head blankly, thinking, Qiandao Liu? Qian Xunji? Why do they talk with a regional accent?

"You've never heard of him? This... This... What about my Emperor Qingtian?"

Dugu Bo's bewildered expression didn't seem fake. Dugu Xue was stunned for a long time before finally accepting reality!

So this world didn't have Emperor Qingtian!

"No Emperor Qingtian... and this world's overall strength is so weak... I feel like I could sweep across the Douluo Continent all by myself! Then flatten the Sun Moon Continent..." Dugu Xue muttered to himself.

Beside him, Dugu Bo was confused. Why has this man been saying 'your world' from the very beginning? And why does he keep praising someone called Emperor Qingtian...

After that.

Dugu Xue didn't spare even the medicinal herbs Dugu Bo had planted. He swept through them like a swarm of locusts, leaving not a single blade behind! Even the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass were carefully packed into boxes with special properties that counteracted their attributes.

Watching Dugu Xue sweep up every medicinal herb in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo felt a pang of pain. But to obtain Immortal Herbs from a powerful expert, he had to grit his teeth and bear it!

"Senior, um... You mentioned alchemy. What does alchemy mean?"

This concerned the flaws in his and his granddaughter's Martial Souls, so Dugu Bo wanted to understand.

Dugu Xue froze, then asked in return, "You don't know alchemy? It's what an alchemist does when refining pills!"

Dugu Bo's neck stiffened as he slowly shook his head.

"Ah... Your world really is backward! Without Emperor Qingtian, you're truly good for nothing!"

Hearing the words "your world" again, Dugu Bo couldn't help asking, "Senior, what do you mean when you keep saying 'your world'?"

At that, Dugu Xue didn't hide anything. To recruit his counterpart from this world, he had to let them know about Emperor Qingtian and the other world!

"It means that your world and the world I live in aren't the same!"

Dugu Bo: "..."

Dugu Xue explained, "You can think of them as two different worlds! The two worlds are very similar. Both have Spirit Hall, the Tiandou Empire, and the Star Luo Empire! Both also have Angel Douluo, Clear Sky Douluo, the Upper Three Sects, and the Lower Four Sects. And I'm the you from the other world!"

"The you from another world? You mean..."

Dugu Bo wasn't sure what to make of it, so Dugu Xue finished for him. "I'm you, and you're me! You can also think of us as twin brothers! Understand?"

"Twins?"

Dugu Bo found it hard to take in so much information all at once.

Dugu Xue continued, "The biggest difference between our two worlds is that in my world, there's an exceptionally gifted Emperor Qingtian!"

"Gulp."

Dugu Bo swallowed and cautiously asked, "Can you tell me about Emperor Qingtian? You keep saying he's incredibly powerful..."

"Sure!"

Dugu Xue gathered his thoughts and began, "Emperor Qingtian was extraordinary from birth!"

"At the age of six, Emperor Qingtian awakened the Twin Martial Souls of the Twelve-Winged Archangel and the Tribulation-Crossing Green Lotus. His Innate Soul Power was Level 30! At twenty-two, he broke through to Titled Douluo and took over as Pope of Spirit Hall!"

"During his twenty years in office, Emperor Qingtian purged the City of Slaughter and executed Evil Soul Masters! He wiped out the Wolf Bandits! He brought Sea God Island under his command! He also created the method of self-condensing Soul Rings, completely freeing the Soul Beast forests! Then Emperor Qingtian created countless Martial Path techniques and distributed them across the entire continent!"

"Every ordinary person on the continent—that is, the commoners you speak of—lacks Innate Soul Power, but they can cultivate Martial Path techniques! Then they can convert their inner strength into Soul Power, and every single person can become a Soul Master!"

Dugu Bo's pupils contracted sharply, and his heart raced.

Dugu Xue's gaze burned as he continued, "After gaining the joint recognition of all the continent's inhabitants and Soul Beasts, Emperor Qingtian went into seclusion for ten years! Then, at fifty-two, he emerged, broke through to Level 100 Soul Power, and condensed a divine position. After that, it took him only one month to unify the continent and establish the Immortal Court! He took the title of Emperor Qingtian!"

"After unifying the continent, Emperor Qingtian discovered an even larger continent far across the sea, called the Sun Moon Continent!"

"So Emperor Qingtian created a teleportation array, crossed the ocean, and brought the Sun Moon Continent under his command!"

"Later, Emperor Qingtian went alone to the Divine Realm and put an end to its turmoil!"

"It's been twenty-one years since Emperor Qingtian became a god! Now, his ranks are filled with peerless generals and powerful experts! His reign is more prosperous than ever!"

"A year ago, Emperor Qingtian had a sudden insight and realized that, besides our world, there were other parallel worlds! So he exhausted all the resources of the Douluo Continent to build three World-Crossing Gates and three World-Crossing Crystals! He did it to bring true liberation to the other worlds!"