Worship Hall Visitors

"Sister Xue'er, do you have some kind of misunderstanding about me?"

"I think we should clear it up."

Inside the Great Soul Arena, as he took his seat alongside Qian Renxue, Luo Chen spoke with a wry smile.

He felt it was necessary to help Qian Renxue correct her mistake; although he resembled him, he was certainly not her younger brother.

He had absolutely nothing to do with Bibi Dong, after all...

But facing Luo Chen, who was anxious to set the record straight, Qian Renxue seemed not to notice at all. She continued to sit beside him, watching the duel between two Soul Grand Masters on the stage without even turning her head.

While watching the match, Qian Renxue curiously asked questions regarding Luo Chen's background.

These included, but were not limited to, where he came from, why he came to Nuoding City, whether he had parents, where he grew up, and so on.

Faced with these inquiries—which could be easily answered with a simple investigation—Luo Chen, knowing that lying would be futile, answered Qian Renxue truthfully.

In fact, Luo Chen felt that Qian Renxue likely already knew all of this, and that chatting with him now was merely a pretext to strike up a conversation.

By the time the soul duel ended and Luo Chen walked out of the Great Soul Arena with Qian Renxue, she was still chatting with him in a desultory manner.

She seemed to have truly come just to chat, with no intention of taking Luo Chen anywhere or forcing him to do anything.

Luo Chen was somewhat bewildered, but the fact remained that after walking a short distance together, Qian Renxue departed.

Throughout the entire meeting, the only thing that surprised Luo Chen was that Qian Renxue gave him something before she left.

"This should be something from the Worship Hall."

Watching Qian Renxue leave, Luo Chen lowered his head and opened his palm. Resting there was a palm-sized golden token belonging to Martial Soul Hall.

However, this token was not the same Elder token that Yu Xiaogang possessed; the one in Luo Chen's hand seemed to be of a higher rank.

It was not for any other reason than the fact that the front and back of the token were not embossed with the representative martial souls of the seven great sects, but rather the Six-Winged Angel, which represented the orthodoxy of Martial Soul Hall—exactly the same as his own second martial soul.

After a moment of hesitation, Luo Chen tucked it away.

Perhaps he would really find a use for it later?

Although he himself did not know if the faction under Bibi Dong would recognize this Angel token...

At this very moment, on the other side, after leaving Luo Chen, Qian Renxue immediately summoned Snake Lance Douluo and had him take her to Tiantou City without a moment's delay.

This meeting had been a spur-of-the-moment decision, and she had no substantive purpose for it.

After all, she had already reported the information on Luo Chen and all the details of her investigation to her grandfather, Qian Daoliu. Her sudden visit to see Luo Chen today was mainly just to see the child who was suspected to be her own younger brother. She had given him her token just in case—if Luo Chen truly shared her bloodline, any short-sighted individual who dared to act against him would surely think twice upon seeing the token.

After all, while the younger generation might not understand the significance of this token, anyone with a bit of seniority or strength would certainly know what a token bearing the Six-Winged Angel seal represented.

After parting ways with Qian Renxue, Luo Chen did not linger at the soul arena. He chose to return to his rented house at dusk to cultivate in seclusion.

And he stayed there for a week.

During this period, aside from his three meals, Luo Chen barely stepped out of his room, remaining in a state of meditation day and night.

Thanks to his diligent cultivation, not only did his soul power reach the peak of level 27, but his fusion with the Eight Spider Lances was further improved.

But just as Luo Chen was preparing to continue his meditation, striving to break through the level 30 Soul Elder barrier as soon as possible, he encountered someone he really did not want to see.

One evening, as Luo Chen was walking home after dinner, his path was blocked in a small alleyway.

The person who arrived was a burly man nearly two meters tall, a middle-aged man who looked like he was bursting with raw power.

Upon seeing Luo Chen, the man cupped his hands in a salute before Luo Chen could even ask who he was.

"May I ask if you are Young Master Luo Chen?"

Luo Chen: "?"

Luo Chen was somewhat dazed; he even suspected that he might have been cultivating too hard recently and was suffering from hallucinations.

He pointed at his own nose with his fingertip.

"Me? Young Master?"

"I am indeed Luo Chen, but who are you? Have we met before?"

Looking the burly man up and down, Luo Chen could not recall who this was.

With his level of perception, although he could not see through the man's identity, he could feel the formidable aura emanating from him.

In fact, at first, Luo Chen thought he had the bad luck of running into a robber, but after hearing the title "Young Master," he immediately dismissed that thought.

Then, he thought of a place he was very reluctant to mention.

"Are you from Martial Soul Hall?"

Luo Chen asked quietly, his eyes fixed on the burly man, afraid of missing any subtle clues.

Faced with Luo Chen's question, the burly man did not hide anything at all. He nodded straightforwardly and bowed to Luo Chen once more.

"Xiongyue Douluo, greetings, Young Master."

At the same time, he thought to himself that the Young Lady had likely already told Young Master Luo Chen many things in advance.

Luo Chen fell into another silence.

He seemed to understand why he was being called "Young Master"; this title didn't seem any different from Qian Renxue calling him "Miss."

Had he been inexplicably added to the Martial Soul Hall's list of their own people?

In truth, his initial fantasy had been that if Martial Soul Hall ever discovered his existence, he would be finished.

But now, thanks to a small misunderstanding, things had accidentally begun to head in a direction he had never imagined.

Gently shaking his head to clear those groundless thoughts from his mind, Luo Chen looked toward Xiongyue Douluo.

Regardless, since a Titled Douluo had come in person today, he figured he wouldn't be able to dodge this matter.

"Let me ask you a question: whose person are you in Martial Soul Hall?"

Bibi Dong, or Qian Daoliu?

This was what Luo Chen was most curious about right now.

Hearing this, Xiongyue Douluo understood Luo Chen's meaning immediately. Although he didn't know how Luo Chen could possibly be aware of the two major factions within Martial Soul Hall when the investigation results clearly showed he had never had any contact with them, he was now eight or nine parts certain that Luo Chen was the Young Master of Martial Soul Hall. As a subordinate, he should just answer whatever was asked.

That was best for everyone.

"Replying to Young Master, this one is under the Second Worship, belonging to the Worship Hall."

Luo Chen understood in his heart and nodded slightly.

Indeed, if it were Bibi Dong, it would have been the Heng and Ha Generals sent to deal with him.

"Does the Pope know about this?"

"The Great Worship has already issued an order strictly forbidding anyone from revealing your information to the Pope."