Douluo: Enough Pretending, My Wife Is Qian Renxue

After eating, the three continued on their way.

After walking for a while, Qian Ye saw another black shadow sweep across the sky.

He immediately became alert. If the first time had been a coincidence, then the second time could not be.

Sure enough, when he raised his head and looked into the sky again, he saw something soaring high above.

Qian Ye could see clearly that it was a bird—a huge bird, around ten meters tall and roughly twenty meters long.

Its outstretched wings were especially massive, spanning about fifty meters.

"A bird! Such a huge bird!" Rou Shui cried out in shock when she saw it.

Qian Renxue immediately looked up and saw the giant bird as well. "Brother Qian Ye, that's a Giant Black Crow Peng."

Mm-hmm.

Qian Ye had recognized it long ago. "From what I can tell, this Giant Black Crow Peng is around thirty thousand years old."

"Thirty thousand years!" Rou Shui was startled.

She knew that Giant Black Crow Pengs like this possessed dragon bloodlines.

Among the bird-type soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, they were among the strongest.

Other than the three giant dragons in the central region, it ranked fourth in aerial combat strength.

Qian Ye watched the giant bird. Its neck was long and thick.

From its head down to the upper half of its neck, it was covered not in feathers but dark bluish-black scales that gleamed beneath the sunlight.

Its pair of pitch-black eyes were sharp and fierce, carrying an extremely strange, murderous aura.

Its beak was like a black iron hook, curved and pointed, gleaming with light.

Together with its wings, its body feathers, wing feathers, and tail feathers were all like steel feathers, dark bluish-black as one, shining brightly.

Overall, the Giant Black Crow Peng looked like an enormous iron bird.

The scales on its head were the symbol of its dragon bloodline.

"Brother Ye, has it discovered us?"

"I think so. And it may have already taken us for food."

Qian Renxue's golden eyes remained fixed on the Giant Black Crow Peng in the sky, showing just how seriously she regarded the fierce bird.

"Xue, I think this bird would be perfect for your fourth Soul Ring."

Qian Renxue hesitated before saying, "But Brother Qian Ye, the Giant Black Crow Peng is a thirty-thousand-year soul beast, and it is invincible in the sky. Isn't this too risky?"

"Yes, so we need to think it through carefully." Qian Ye felt that killing a thirty-thousand-year soul beast would not be a problem with his strength.

But it could fly, which made it far more difficult to deal with.

So he had no choice but to use his trump card.

This time, he would test the power of the Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul.

Qian Renxue and Rou Shui simply did not know that he was a soul master with Three Lives Martial Souls.

Still, it was not as though he could not let them know. In any case, he had already planned to tell Qian Daoliu about this secret.

He would not refuse to help Qian Renxue with her mission to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire.

Caw, caw, caw~

Just then, the Giant Black Crow Peng shot into the sky and let out several cries.

The sound waves spread through the air, affecting even Qian Ye and the others.

Creak~

Quite a few trees and leaves were shattered by the vibrations and fell to the ground.

Qian Ye quickly grabbed Qian Renxue's hand and hid with Rou Shui beneath a giant tree nearby.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's about to attack us."

As he spoke, Qian Ye stared intently at every movement of the giant bird in the sky.

Rou Shui looked at the giant bird in fear. At only Level 20, she had no chance whatsoever against a thirty-thousand-year soul beast.

Qian Renxue was better off. After all, she was already Level 40 and possessed the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul. Even in an aerial battle, she could contend with the Giant Black Crow Peng.

Giant Black Crow Peng

The Giant Black Crow Peng soul beast grew enraged, soaring into the sky before turning around and charging toward the tree where Qian Ye was hiding.

With a single flap of its giant wings, the tree was sent flying, snapping in half before crashing down.

Qian Ye did not run, nor could he run. If he did, he would expose himself.

Rou Shui was terrified. Soul Power surged through her body, and a Soul Ring rose beneath her feet.

It was a yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring, a standard configuration.

One Soul Ring had no power to resist a Giant Black Crow Peng with thirty thousand years of cultivation.

Qian Renxue also became alert, and three Soul Rings rose from beneath her feet in succession.

Yellow, purple, purple.

One hundred-year and two thousand-year rings.

Buzz~

Qian Ye said nothing more as a Soul Ring rose beneath his feet.

The moment it appeared, golden light blossomed from it, radiating a dazzling glow.

This sight shocked both Qian Renxue and Rou Shui.

Qian Ye's Soul Ring was not one of the thousand-year or Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Rings they were familiar with. It was a Crimson Gold Soul Ring.

At that moment, they saw twenty-four wings emerge from Qian Ye's back, all of them enormous golden wings.

Behind him appeared a figure nearly a hundred zhang tall, its entire body flowing with golden light. Its eyes were like bright moons hanging in the sky, and even its hair and eyelashes were golden. Behind its back grew twenty-four enormous golden wings.

"What is that?" Rou Shui asked in shock and confusion.

Qian Renxue was also dumbfounded. She had not known that Qian Ye possessed another Martial Soul. She stared at him with her mouth open, unable to say anything for a long while.

Seeing their stunned expressions, Qian Ye smiled. "Xue, Rou Shui, perhaps you two don't know this yet, but my Martial Soul is a Three Lives Martial Soul."

"To avoid unnecessary trouble, I never made it public."

"As for why I'm telling you today, you've both seen it. That giant bird in the sky is not easy to handle."

"And I trust that you'll help me keep this secret."

Qian Renxue nodded. Rather than being angry, she was delighted as she tugged at his hand.

"That's wonderful, Brother Qian Ye. I think your Martial Soul looks... somewhat like mine!"

She had wanted to say, my Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

But with Rou Shui beside them, she did not say it aloud.

Qian Ye smiled and rubbed her head. "Yes. My Martial Soul has twenty-four wings. It is the Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul."

"Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul!" Rou Shui was stunned once again.

She only knew that the Qian family had a Martial Soul called the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.

This was the first time she had seen a Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul, one even stronger than the Six-Winged Angel and with far more wings.

Not only had she never seen one—even Qian Renxue had not.

She was thrilled inside. He's so powerful. If Brother Qian Ye and I are together in the future, Grandpa won't have anything to say about it.

Just then, the Giant Black Crow Peng turned in midair like lightning, diving down to launch its second attack.

Qian Ye gave a wicked smile, not taking the Giant Black Crow Peng seriously at all.

"First Soul Skill: Eternal Sword, Angel's Judgment!"

The Crimson Gold Soul Ring on his body lit up, releasing dazzling golden light.

Immediately, golden greatswords around ten meters long descended from the sky, all stabbing toward the diving giant bird.

Qian Renxue and Rou Shui jumped in fright, fearing that those greatswords would strike them.

But their worries were completely unnecessary.

Although the attack range of the Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul's first Soul Skill extended for a hundred meters in every direction, it did not attack indiscriminately.

It was controlled by its user's will.

Whoever Qian Ye wanted it to attack, it would attack. It would not harm the innocent.

Otherwise, would it not kill all his companions too?

So Qian Renxue and Rou Shui's fear was entirely unnecessary.

Every soul master was the same. No matter how powerful a Soul Skill was, it would only strike the person the user wanted to strike.

Of course, that only applied to Soul Skills.

Golden sword shadows flashed in the Giant Black Crow Peng's eyes, and terror immediately appeared within them.

It wanted to dodge, but it was already too late.

One greatsword after another descended from the sky, piercing into its back.

Caw~

The Giant Black Crow Peng let out a miserable cry as a greatsword pierced its body.

Then came the second, the third...

The Giant Black Crow Peng never dreamed that—

Bang~

At last, its huge body slammed into the ground, sending grass and trees flying everywhere.

A massive crater was immediately blasted into the earth.

Dust filled the air.

The three dodged behind a giant tree more than ten meters away.

Only after the dust settled did they look over.

Qian Ye saw that the Giant Black Crow Peng was already on its last breath. Though still alive, it was too severely injured to move.

Rou Shui slipped behind Qian Ye, glanced toward the giant bird, and asked, "Brother Ye, is it dead?"

Qian Ye shook his head. "No, it still has one breath left."

Rou Shui smiled. This is a thirty-thousand-year Giant Black Crow Peng, comparable to an ordinary soul beast with sixty thousand years of cultivation!

She had not expected that the moment Brother Ye made a move, it would be finished.

"Brother Ye, your Twenty-Four Winged Eternal Angel Martial Soul is really powerful!"

Qian Ye raised his brows. "Yes. I'm not bragging—it truly is powerful. With a Million Year Scarlet Gold Soul Ring, it can unleash this kind of strength and kill it in a single blow."

Rou Shui nodded, her face filled with envy. Thinking of how he had Three Lives Martial Souls while she had only one, she knew she could not compare.

And he was already Level 60 in Soul Power, while she had only just reached Level 20. How could she compare?

What could she even use to compare?

Still, when she had first met Brother Ye, he had already been over Level 30, while she had possessed merely Level 3 Soul Power.

After five years, she had reached Level 20 and surpassed more than half the students in her class.

Qian Renxue stared unblinkingly at the Giant Black Crow Peng lying on the ground, a gleam flashing through her eyes. "Brother Qian Ye, Xue knew you were the best."

Qian Ye reached out and gave her butt a heavy slap, producing a sharp smack.

"You... you're so bad!" Qian Renxue twisted her hips away, a burning pain spreading through them.