Qian Xunji's Reputation is Ruined

Any Sea Spirit Master capable of attaining a Black-level assessment possesses the potential to become a Titled Douluo. If these individuals did not participate in the Sea God assessment and were instead nurtured with ample resources, they would all be able to break through to the Titled Douluo realm by the time they reached their seventies or eighties.

To produce thirty-one Titled Douluos over a century of cultivation—this number easily surpasses the total count of Titled Douluos within Martial Soul Hall.

The scarcity of Titled Douluos on Sea God Island is ultimately due to the excessively high mortality rate of the Black-level assessment.

What shocked Bo Saixi the most was that, aside from Qian Daoliu, Martial Soul Hall possessed five other Titled Douluos with cultivation levels exceeding rank 95.

Why five? Because one of the elders had been dispatched by Qian Daoliu to guard the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well is incredibly dense, making it a top-tier cultivation treasure land where Spirit Masters can accumulate spirit power several times faster than in the outside world.

Once an elder has accumulated sufficient spirit power there, they return to the Worship Hall, staying near the Angel God Statue to calm their minds, meditate, and attempt a breakthrough.

Given the extreme heat and cold of the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, unless one has consumed the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, or possesses a top-tier martial soul, it is difficult for an ordinary Spirit Master to endure the environment for long, let alone cultivate and break through in peace.

Bo Saixi's spiritual power scanned the Douluo Hall, quickly identifying the five Titled Douluos with strength exceeding rank 95: three at rank 96, one at rank 97, and one at rank 98!

Bo Saixi was not surprised that a rank 97 Titled Douluo could appear on the continent, but how could a rank 98 exist?

According to the cultivation system she understood, after reaching rank 95, the time required to advance each subsequent level is measured in centuries. It takes one hundred years to go from rank 95 to 96, and another hundred years from 96 to 97. Unless there is a special opportunity, it takes at least two hundred years to reach rank 97.

Advancing from rank 97 to 98 requires a full three hundred years, and the leap from 98 to 99 demands six hundred years of unceasing, arduous cultivation.

She roughly gauged the age of that rank 98 Titled Douluo; he did not seem to be over two hundred years old. How could someone of that age reach such a realm? Even if they had cultivated day and night from the moment they left their mother's womb, it would be impossible. Could it be that this person, like the Sea Spirit Masters participating in the Sea God assessment, had received a reward from the Angel God?

It should, perhaps, likely, possibly, be the only explanation.

Precisely because she observed so many high-level combatants in Martial Soul Hall besides Qian Daoliu, Bo Saixi chose to be polite first...

"Thank you for the compliment," Qian Daoliu said. "Guests have arrived; would you like a cup of tea?"

"No."

The smile at the corners of Bo Saixi's mouth vanished. Her eyes narrowed, her expression turned stern, and she demanded, "Qian Daoliu, you destroyed the Clear Sky Sect, didn't you?"

Qian Daoliu was not surprised by Bo Saixi's question; he knew she had feelings for Tang Chen.

"That fellow Yue Guan is truly careless. A guaranteed kill, overwhelming strength, and the tracking of the Speed Clan members—yet he still let the rats escape."

Seeing that Qian Daoliu felt no shame, Bo Saixi's tone grew more furious. "Qian Daoliu, you have committed wanton slaughter without a shred of remorse. You are unworthy of being the Great Elder of the Angel God!"

"Are you truly not afraid that Tang Chen will return to destroy your Martial Soul Hall? You should be able to sense Tang Chen's spirit power; he is still somewhere on this continent."

Inside the Douluo Hall, Golden Crocodile and Dugu Bo retreated to the side, watching silently as Qian Daoliu argued with the mysterious woman. Based on the fluctuations of spirit power, one could guess that this woman was definitely a powerhouse on the same level as Qian Daoliu.

Qian Daoliu sneered and said, "A sect like the Clear Sky Sect, which slaughters spirit beasts for spirit bones, depletes the vital resources of the Spirit Master World, and cares nothing for future generations—to use an analogy, they are the same as the Evil Orca King and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King in the eyes of your Sea God Island, a scourge of the ocean."

"They even have the gall to fall in love with a hundred-thousand-year transformed spirit beast. If my Martial Soul Hall did not eliminate such a scourge of the continent, I would be the one unworthy of being the Great Elder of the Angel God. If Tang Chen returns, I will risk my life to wipe him out all the same."

"How is that possible!?"

Upon hearing this, Bo Saixi immediately retorted. She had met Tang Chen, spent time with him, and heard from Tang Xiao about Tang Hao, who had sacrificed everything—leaving his sect and standing alone against Martial Soul Hall—for the sake of a hundred-thousand-year transformed spirit beast. In her mind, the men of the Clear Sky Sect were all filled with masculine spirit, deeply filial, upright heroes, and utterly devoted. How could they possibly commit such heinous acts?

"Qian Daoliu, don't think you can fool me. Your son defiled Tang Chen's granddaughter. Your family has committed such beastly acts; do you think I would believe your words?"

"If Tang Chen and his kin truly killed, they must have been killing spirit beasts that were endangering the continent, just like the Evil Orca King and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King."

Before the words had even faded, the elders of the Worship Hall and the Elder Hall, along with Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, all turned their gazes toward Qian Xunji, who had stood up from the Pope's throne with a twitching face.

Good heavens, is His Holiness the Pope really that depraved? Tang Yuehua is Tang Chen's granddaughter, and Tang Chen is of the same generation as the Great Elder. That means, by seniority, His Holiness the Pope is Tang Yuehua's uncle.

Furthermore, Tang Yuehua was the Great Elder's personal maid. For His Holiness the Pope to actually lay a hand on her—this is too... too, too, too shameless... he has no bottom line.

No wonder the Great Elder suddenly had Tang Yuehua leave the Douluo Hall to open the Moonlight Pavilion. So that was the reason? After all, having a woman his son had played with stay by his side as a maid—what would that look like? Qian Xunji may be shameless, but Qian Daoliu still has a reputation to maintain.

"Who is spreading rumors to slander my name?!!"

Qian Xunji was furious, so angry he could have jumped. How could he possibly have done such a thing? Although he had kept himself clean for nearly a decade, he wasn't someone who would just eat anything.

Tang Yuehua was a woman in her thirties, a useless person with only rank 9 spirit power. A Titled Douluo could crush her with the slightest touch. How blind would he have to be to touch a woman like that?

The maids who served his daily needs all had spirit power levels higher than Tang Yuehua, and their beauty was not inferior to hers in the slightest.

"That was merely a lie I fabricated to justify the eradication of the Clear Sky Sect. I deceived the Clear Sky Sect; Tang Yuehua is perfectly fine and is still an untouched maiden."

Qian Daoliu felt he had to defend Qian Xunji; after all, the matter was baseless. Otherwise, Qian Xunji's reputation would be utterly shattered, blackened beyond repair.

Sigh, a tiger father with a dog for a son. There is nothing the Great Elder can do about having such a perverted son as the Pope; he can only keep finding excuses to patch things up for him.

Qian Xunji breathed a sigh of relief, but the vast majority of the elders and senior officials thought to themselves, not entirely believing Qian Daoliu's words. Why? Because Qian Xunji had a prior record.