"Actually, I snuck in from the Heaven Dou Empire..."
After saying this, she warily scanned her surroundings before continuing:
"Smuggling myself in was so expensive! I spent all my money, and to buy Sun Moon Empire residency papers, I even had to pawn my sword!!"
Ye Guyi fumed, clenching her pink fists and swinging them through the air twice.
"That was a Level 3 Soul Tool!! Those unscrupulous merchants only gave me five hundred Gold Soul Coins for it!"
"Sigh... but fortunately, Sister Shangguan lent me some Gold Soul Coins, which finally settled the residency issue. Hehe... don't tell anyone else, okay?"
Otherwise, I'll be done for; I'll be thrown into prison and locked in a secret chamber...
"Shangguan Ying'er? You've already joined the Pingfan Alliance?"
Hearing the name 'Shangguan', Xu Qing recalled Shangguan Ying'er from the Pingfan Alliance.
In the original timeline, six years later, Ye Guyi would choose to reveal her Holy Angel Martial Soul during a competition between the Pingfan Alliance and the Xishui Alliance in order to eliminate evil soul masters...
If Dai Dog hadn't appeared, the outcome would have been self-evident.
Courageous but reckless, But then again, for someone who would risk their life to uphold justice, Doesn't that feel quite pure?
If only she had one-tenth of the cunning of Yan Shaozhe, that possessor of the Bright Phoenix Martial Soul...
Uh... never mind, forget I said that.
"Right! How did you know? Hmph, Sister Shangguan is very kind!"
"After finding out my Martial Soul was a Holy Angel, she even warned me not to expose it,"
Though, this doesn't really count as exposing it, does it? It's all for the sake of eliminating evil soul masters.
Ye Guyi lightly bit her straw; even though she had finished the drink, she still habitually chewed on it.
"Today was supposed to be the day Sister Shangguan arranged a house for me. Let me tell you, I've already picked it out."
Her eyes lit up, and she excitedly began describing the house she had been swindled into taking a ten-year loan for.
Where the front door was, where the bedroom was, where the bathroom was, where the back door was...
"The address... the natural lighting... blah blah blah..."
...How has this kid survived until now? Is this the kind of thing you just tell people?!!
"How does it sound? This house has one most important feature!!"
"And that is--the basement!"
"You don't need to tell me about the basement."
Has the Angel sequence's zero-pollution reached this level already!?
Ye Guyi stopped in her tracks, standing before a villa, and looked back triumphantly.
"Even if you wanted to know, I wouldn't tell you."
She then pressed her palms together, turned, and tilted her head at Xu Qing with a smile.
"Finally home! Thank you for escorting me all the way, benefactor!!"
"You said we were going our separate ways, yet you still followed me. You're being hypocritical."
"?"
Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, said nothing, and walked to the right side of Ye Guyi's house.
"Is there a possibility that this is my house, too?"
"Goodbye, neighbor Little Angel."
"Xu Qing, you have an aura of evil on you, as well as an aura of holiness."
The Ice Empress leaned against the doorway, her gaze sweeping up and down over the youth before her.
In her mouth, she held the toll fee Xu Qing had just handed her—a Mystic Ice Marrow popsicle.
"Let me in, you scorpion who can't tell who the master of this house is."
"I won't let you in until you've aired out that scent on you."
The Ice Empress spoke righteously. Her nostrils flared slightly as she sniffed the scent left behind by the Little Angel, her expression shifting.
"Tsk, especially that exceptionally rich female fragrance. Xu Qing, your willpower is truly pathetic."
"Although I've only been in the Sun Moon Empire for a short time, I am naturally gifted, know how to use tools, and am skilled at gathering information."
She held up two fingers, between which was a card—the VIP box card for the Pingfan Alliance.
Xu Qing hadn't gone today, so the Pingfan Alliance had no choice but to put his paid order on hold, On top of that, he hadn't replied to messages or answered calls.
I had no choice but to mail the appointment card to the address provided by the guest.
"Sigh..."
The Ice Empress looked at Xu Qing as if he were nothing more than a small fry.
"With a style like this, it is hard for this Empress to trust your promises."
Snap!
Xu Qing unleashed the Flick Finger Divine Skill at the Ice Empress. She instantly lost her composure, retreating step by step as she let out a cry of pain.
"So painful..."
Xu Qing walked past the girl clutching her head and slumped onto the sofa, his soul guidance device buzzing with a constant stream of new messages.
I don't need to look to know who it is, so I won't.
"I'm off to punish evil and promote good, to save a lost girl and destroy an evil organization."
"Pfft... Hahahaha, that is the funniest joke I have heard in years."
The Ice Empress laughed wantonly before leaving the living room to return to her room for secluded cultivation.
Xu Qing also began to close his eyes and meditate.
Even a genius must work hard at cultivation.
Two months flew by just like that.
There was no shortage of interesting events:
The angel next door caught Xu Qing suppressing two women, the Ice Empress accidentally walked in on Xiao Meng pinning Xu Qing against the wall, Xiao Meng spying on the angel's date with Xu Qing, and so on...
The beauty of it all can only be understood, not described in words.
As for the reaction to the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult? There was not a single ripple.
"Finally... I have arrived here."
Xu Qing felt the deep Soul Power surging within his body and glanced at the Ice Empress, who was lounging on the sofa eating ice cream.
"You are truly slack, Ice Empress. With an attitude like this, I really doubt whether you are qualified to be my companion."
"Mmm... whatever you say. Breaking through four levels in two months, even with this Empress assisting your meditation..."
She straightened up, feeling uncomfortable because a drop of ice cream had landed on her face, leaving it sticky.
"But how on earth did you achieve such speed?"
"Is it the life energy of that bug... though there shouldn't have been much left. Didn't you say it had been drained by Star Dou like a power bank for ten thousand years?"
"Indeed, its life energy has been completely exhausted."
Xu Qing stood up and stretched his body, his aura not the least bit unstable, but incredibly solid!
"Its entire value was used to fulfill me."
That bug was a real stand-up guy!
"Speaking of that bug, this Empress finds it disgusting. It's a good thing it's dead, and it died so cleanly that not even a scrap of its soul remains."
The Ice Empress hopped from her sofa onto Xu Qing's oversized one, curled up in a corner, pulled up her pinkish-white calves, and stretched out her crystalline toes, asking curiously:
"How did you get it to perform such a pure soul sacrifice?"
"Who knows? I just took out the Mystic Ice Marrow and kindly offered it a bite, but the bug went crazy,"
Xu Qing's pupils reflected the figure leaning in to satisfy her curiosity as he continued:
"You have no idea what that scene was like; it scared the life out of me. I just tossed the Ice Marrow on the ground, and it acted like a starving stray dog, devouring it greedily."
"After it finished, it went even more insane, shouting things I couldn't understand, then its whole body started glowing, and it began the sacrifice."
"Driven mad by Star Dou...?"
The Ice Empress tilted her head from side to side, staring at Xu Qing's profile, but she couldn't discern anything.
"Hmm... so, are you still going to hunt A-Tai's kin to serve as your fifth ring?"