Xu Qing, You Little Nobody, Aren't Allowed in the House! The Titan Snow Demon's Fifth Time...

"Actually, I sneaked in from the Heaven Dou Empire..."

After she finished, she warily checked their surroundings again, then continued:

"Smuggling myself in was so expensive! I spent all my money, and I even had to pawn my sword to buy citizenship in the Sun Moon Empire!!"

Ye Guyi clenched her tiny fists and swung them twice in midair, furious.

"That was a Level 3 Soul Tool!! Those unscrupulous merchants only offered me five hundred Gold Soul Coins for it!"

"Ugh... luckily, Sister Shangguan lent me some Gold Soul Coins, so I managed to get my citizenship sorted out. Hehe... don't tell anyone else, okay?"

Otherwise, I'd be done for. They'd throw me in prison, then lock me in a secret room...

"Shangguan Ying'er? You've already joined the Ordinary Alliance?"

When Xu Qing heard the name Shangguan, he thought of Shangguan Ying'er from the Ordinary Alliance.

In the original story, six years later, during the match between the Ordinary Alliance and the Xishui Alliance, Ye Guyi chose to reveal her Holy Angel Martial Soul so she could eliminate the Evil Soul Masters...

Without Dai Dog's appearance, the outcome went without saying.

All courage, no brains.

But then again, a person willing to risk her life to uphold justice...

Wasn't that purity itself?

If only she had even a tenth of the cunning of Yan Shaozhe, the owner of the Bright Phoenix Martial Soul...

Uh... actually, forget that.

"Yeah! How did you know? Hmph, Sister Shangguan's really nice!"

"When she found out my Martial Soul was the Holy Angel, she even told me not to reveal it."

But this didn't really count as revealing it, right? It was all for the sake of eliminating Evil Soul Masters.

Ye Guyi lightly bit her straw. She'd already finished her drink, but kept chewing on it out of habit.

"Today was supposed to be the day Sister Shangguan arranged a place for me to live. Let me tell you, I've already picked out a house."

Her eyes immediately lit up, and she excitedly started describing the house she'd been talked into buying with a ten-year loan.

Where the front door was, where the bedroom was, where the bathroom was, where the back door was...

"The address... the sunlight... and blah blah blah..."

...How had this girl survived until now? Was this really the sort of thing she could tell people?!!

"What do you think? There's one most important place in this house!!"

"That's the basement!"

"You don't need to tell me about the basement."

Had the Angel sequence's zero-pollution standard reached this point!?

Ye Guyi stopped in front of a villa and looked back at him smugly.

"Even if you want to know, I'm not telling you."

Then she clasped her hands together, turned around, and smiled at Xu Qing with her head tilted.

"I'm finally home! Thank you, benefactor, for escorting me all the way!!"

"You said we were going our separate ways, but you still followed me. You say one thing and mean another, huh?"

"?"

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow but said nothing. He walked to the right side of Ye Guyi's house.

"Is it possible that this is my house too?"

"Goodbye, my angel next door."

"Xu Qing, there's an evil aura about you, and a holy one too."

Ice Empress leaned against the doorway, looking the young man up and down.

In her mouth was the Mystic Ice Marrow Popsicle Xu Qing had just given her as a toll.

"Let me in, you scorpion who can't even tell who owns this house."

"Until you air out those smells on you, I, the Empress, won't let you in."

Ice Empress spoke with righteous conviction. Her nostrils twitched as she sniffed the scent Little Angel had left behind, her expression turning strange.

"Tsk. Especially that woman's scent, so strong it's practically overflowing. Xu Qing, your willpower really is feeble."

"Although I haven't been in the Sun Moon Empire long, I'm naturally gifted, know how to use tools, and am good at gathering information."

She held up two fingers, a card pinched between them. It was a VIP private-room card from the Ordinary Alliance.

Xu Qing hadn't gone today, so the Ordinary Alliance had no choice but to put his paid order on hold.

And since he wasn't replying to messages or answering calls, they'd had to mail his reservation card to the address he'd provided.

"Ugh..."

Ice Empress looked at Xu Qing as if he were some nobody.

"With behavior like this, it's hard for me, the Empress, to trust your promises."

Smack!

Xu Qing used the Flick Finger Divine Skill on Ice Empress. She instantly lost her composure, staggered back again and again, and cried out in pain.

"Ow..."

Xu Qing stepped past the girl clutching her head and flopped onto the sofa. New messages kept popping up on his Soul Tool communicator.

He didn't need to look to know who they were from, so he didn't.

"I'm off to punish the wicked and uphold justice, save a lost girl, and wipe out an evil organization."

Pfft... Hahahaha! That's the funniest joke I've heard in years.

Ice Empress laughed without restraint, then left the living room to cultivate in her room.

Xu Qing also closed his eyes and began meditating.

Even geniuses had to work hard at cultivation.

Two months flew by just like that.

Among other things:

The angel next door caught Xu Qing suppressing two girls; Ice Empress accidentally walked in on Xiao Meng pinning Xu Qing against a wall; Xiao Meng spied on the angel arranging to meet Xu Qing; and plenty of other amusing incidents...

Their delights could be shared in a glance, but never put into words.

As for the reaction to the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult? There wasn't a peep.

"Finally... I've made it this far."

Xu Qing felt the deep Soul Power surging within him and glanced at Ice Empress, sprawled on the sofa eating a popsicle.

"You're really slacking off, Ice Empress. Seeing you like this makes me wonder whether you're even qualified to be my companion."

"Mmm... whatever you say. Four levels in two months, even with me helping you meditate..."

She sat up because popsicle was dripping onto her face. It was sticky and uncomfortable.

"But how exactly did you manage that kind of speed?"

"Was it that bug's life energy...? But there shouldn't be much left, right? You said Star Dou had used it as a living battery for ten thousand years."

"Yeah, its life energy has been completely exhausted."

Xu Qing stood and stretched hugely. His aura was rock-solid, without the slightest hint of instability!

"It used everything it had to help me."

What a loyal bug!

"Speaking of that bug, it disgusts me. Good thing it's dead now, and so thoroughly dead that not even a scrap of its soul remains."

Ice Empress hopped from that sofa onto Xu Qing's enormous sofa, curled up in a corner, drew up one pale pink leg, and stretched her crystal-clear toes. Then, curious, she asked:

"How did you get it to make such a pure soul sacrifice?"

"Who knows? I just took out some Mystic Ice Marrow and kindly offered it a bite. Then the bug went completely mad."

Xu Qing's pupils reflected the figure leaning closer to satisfy her curiosity. He continued:

"You have no idea what it looked like. It scared the hell out of me. I tossed the Mystic Ice Marrow onto the ground, and it wolfed it down like a stray dog that hadn't eaten in days."

"After it finished, it went even crazier. It kept shouting things I couldn't understand, then started glowing all over and began its sacrifice."

"Did Star Dou drive it insane...?"

Ice Empress tilted her head from side to side, staring at Xu Qing's profile, but couldn't see anything unusual.

"Mmm... so are you still going to hunt A-Tai's kin for your fifth ring?"