Nine Spirit Primal Saint

A young but clear voice echoed through the grand hall.

Bibi Dong's expression turned cold. "Do you know what you're refusing?"

"I do." Lie Xu lifted his eyes, his gaze clear and keen. "I'm not interested in the position of pope."

"I want to walk a path that belongs only to me. I'll fight for whatever I want."

His words fell.

Bibi Dong looked at him deeply, then gave a cold snort.

"Hah! Fine. You'd better know what you're doing!"

She said no more and turned to leave.

Inside the Worship Hall, everyone was still struggling to hide their shock. That was the Holy Son—the future pope...

Under everyone's gaze, Lie Xu stepped out of the awakening formation and hurried toward Mighty Lion Douluo and Xiao Xue below.

"Brother Xu, your Martial Soul is amazing! Now we can cultivate together again."

Qian Renxue instinctively linked her arm with Lie Xu's.

Lie Xu tilted his head and smiled at Qian Renxue. "That's right. I can cultivate with Xue'er again."

Lie Yan grabbed Lie Xu, so excited he could barely speak coherently. "Xiao Xu, tell Grandpa quickly. What exactly is your Martial Soul? How can it be so special?"

The others in the Worship Hall turned to Lie Xu as well, their eyes full of questions.

Lie Xu smiled slightly and stirred his Soul Power.

Buzz—

After a brief ripple in space, a palm-sized golden lion appeared at his feet. It had a tiger-like face and a fluffy coat, and let out a childish "roar."

Qian Renxue's eyes lit up. She immediately lunged forward and hugged it. "So cute!"

Everyone froze.

How had the nine-headed giant lion that had just pressured heaven and earth turned into such a tiny little thing?

Seeing the bewilderment on everyone's faces, Lie Xu slowly began to explain:

"Grandpas, my Martial Soul is called Nine Spirit Primal Saint. It's an evolved variant of the Blazing Mad Lion."

He had understood the name of his Martial Soul the moment it awakened.

"Fourth Grandpa's Martial Soul is a top-tier Beast Martial Soul. Brother Xu's Nine Spirit Primal Saint is an evolved form of the Blazing Mad Lion. That means his Martial Soul is the same rank as mine—they're both god-level Martial Souls!" Qian Renxue said excitedly.

Lie Xu pinched Qian Renxue's cheek. "That's right. Our Xue'er is so clever."

"And my Martial Soul isn't an ordinary Beast Martial Soul. It can leave my body, has flesh and blood, and possesses its own consciousness. When it's outside my body, it doesn't consume any of my Soul Power unless it's fighting."

Golden Crocodile Douluo drew in a sharp breath. "A Martial Soul that can leave the body? I remember that Yu Xiaogang, the son of Yu Yuanzhen, the sect master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, has one too. But it can't remain outside his body for long, much less become completely corporeal like this!"

"So it's like a Soul Beast that can be summoned at any time?"

The Worship Hall's enshrined elders were now all dumbfounded. They couldn't stop grumbling to themselves. A high-quality Martial Soul was one thing, but this was just too outrageous! Was there any justice in the world? Any law?

Before the enshrined elders could recover from their shock, Lie Xu continued, saying something even more astonishing. "My Martial Soul is also a little different from yours..."

"What? There's more?!"

Everyone exclaimed in unison. They were nearly numb by now and even felt like crying. This was too unfair.

Seeing their reactions, Lie Xu felt awkward too. Under the disgruntled stares of several Super Douluo, he braced himself and continued.

"It has two forms," Lie Xu said. "Normally, it takes the form of a young lion. In battle, it transforms into its nine-headed true form."

"Perhaps because it mutated from the Blazing Lion Martial Soul, it was born with the Ultimate Light attribute. Absorbing a Soul Ring with the light attribute can awaken it."

"And every time I advance ten levels, I'll awaken a new attribute. When all nine heads awaken, there'll be nine attributes. If I absorb a Soul Ring with an Ultimate Attribute, the attribute I awaken will be an Ultimate Attribute."

Boom—

That was even more shocking than the Martial Soul Awakening itself.

Nine attributes? And they could all be Ultimate Attributes?!

Nothing like this had ever appeared in the entire history of Douluo Continent!

For an ordinary person to have even one Ultimate Attribute was already good fortune. What's more, Martial Souls with Ultimate Attributes generally cultivated very slowly in the early stages, let alone one with nine of them.

Amid their shock, everyone couldn't help feeling worried as well.

Qian Daoliu looked at Lie Xu, his gaze incredibly conflicted. "Your Martial Soul has already gone beyond every rule that exists in Douluo Continent."

Lie Xu smiled without answering.

He knew that the true potential of his Martial Soul was far more terrifying than they could imagine.

This was the Nine Spirit Primal Saint!

As the saying went: "The primal essence of the origin, the wondrous essence of the nine suns; reaching upward to the three sages, and downward through the nine springs..."

This was his one-of-a-kind fortune. Nothing like it could ever appear on this continent again. Even the Soul Spirit System created by another child of destiny ten thousand years later couldn't compare.

"By the way." Lie Xu looked at Qian Renxue, who was playing with the little lion.

"Xue'er, give him a name."

"Then I'll call him 'Xiao Jiu,'" Qian Renxue said after a moment's thought.

"Good. We'll go with Xue'er's choice. From now on, he'll be called Xiao Jiu."

Seeing that Lie Xu had agreed with her suggestion, Qian Renxue couldn't help smiling. Xiao Jiu rubbed against her arm in her embrace, as docile as a kitten.

Watching the two of them and the lion, everyone was filled with emotion.

The Spirit Hall was about to give rise to two future gods.

Qian Daoliu took a deep breath and spoke solemnly. "From today onward, the two of you will be the most important young members of the Worship Hall. No one is to neglect you. Resources will be provided to you first."

"Yes!"

The six enshrined elders answered in unison...

After leaving the grand hall, Lie Yan was still beaming, grinning from ear to ear as if he'd just married off his son.

Lie Xu raised his head and gazed at the sky beyond the hall.

The sunlight was just right.

He knew that from this moment on, his name would gradually spread across Douluo Continent.

And his journey in this other world had only just begun...

After leaving the Worship Hall, they returned to the gardens on the back hill.

Qian Renxue still held Xiao Jiu in her arms, bouncing along the way, happier than ever.

Lie Xu followed quietly behind her, a gentle smile on his lips. This was the kind of childhood he believed the heir to the Angel God should have.

Sunshine, kindness, and an unwavering hope for tomorrow...

Watching the carefree girl before him, he couldn't help remembering the first time they had met.

Back then, Qian Renxue was just over two years old.

She had sneaked out of the Worship Hall and wandered the streets of Spirit City. When she saw a sweet soup stall, she was so tempted that she couldn't move, but she'd forgotten to bring any money.

He had just been planning to secretly test whether Whale Rubber was viable. Passing by, he saw her and paid for her sweet soup, then gave her a bag of gold coins and told her to remember to bring them whenever she went out.

The sweet soup in her hands attracted several vicious dogs. Qian Renxue was driven into an alley and cried in fright.

He had been waiting for Chi Yuan outside an apothecary when he noticed something was wrong in time and rescued Qian Renxue from the pack of vicious dogs. Then Chi Yuan arrived and killed every one of them. That was how the two of them escaped without serious injuries.

That day, Qian Renxue clung tightly to his neck and cried, "Mom doesn't want me, Dad is gone, and Grandpa lies to me..."