"Why would I kill you?"
Qian Renxue tilted her head and asked, puzzled.
Huh? She wasn't going to kill me?
Realizing there'd been a misunderstanding, Chen Qi gave a goofy grin.
"Haha, Master, I was just joking."
Qian Daoliu frowned and looked at Chen Qi, his expression stern. "You're a Martial Soul. Why can't Xue'er put you away?"
Chen Qi looked at Qian Daoliu and slowly formed a question mark.
You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask? If I had a choice, I wouldn't have come to Douluo Continent!
Just thinking about all the hopeless romantics in Spirit Hall, not to mention Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, that dead master-and-disciple pair, gave Chen Qi a headache.
Chen Qi grumbled furiously to himself. Being a transmigrator without any freedom was bad enough, but the worst part was ending up in Douluo Continent. Back in the day, he'd been San Shao's number-one hater.
"Um, Grand Elder, if I say I don't know, would you believe me?"
"How do you know who I am?"
???
Wasn't everyone in Douluo Continent supposed to be simple-minded and obsessed with romance?
How had Qian Daoliu immediately spotted the flaw in his words?
If he angered Qian Daoliu, even being Qian Renxue's Martial Soul wouldn't get him off the hook.
Chen Qi's mind raced, and he quickly came up with an explanation.
"Grand Elder, hear me out—no, I mean, let me explain. I'm Master's Martial Soul, so of course I have some of her memories."
Hearing this, Qian Daoliu nodded. It was only natural for a Martial Soul to gain some of its master's memories.
Seeing that, Chen Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief. His life was safe—for now.
"Then, Grandpa, what should we do with him?"
Qian Renxue stepped forward and asked.
Qian Daoliu thought back to when Qian Renxue had appeared behind him just now, and Chen Qi had instantly teleported to her side.
That meant Chen Qi could only stay by Qian Renxue's side. And the fact that she couldn't put him away, despite him being her Martial Soul, was just absurd.
"Ah, I'm afraid you'll have to put up with him, Xue'er."
Qian Renxue pointed at herself.
Huh? Me?
She looked at the figure beside her, who was half a head taller, and felt a sudden wave of misery.
He didn't look like a good person.
If he took after her mother, wouldn't that be a disaster?
"Grandpa, are you really sure you trust Xue'er with this?"
Qian Daoliu clearly hadn't understood what Qian Renxue meant. He patted her shoulder and said earnestly, "Grandpa believes in you. You'll take good care of your Martial Soul."
Qian Renxue gave Qian Daoliu a disdainful look. That conversation had gone completely off the rails!
"Hmph! I'm not talking to you anymore, Grandpa."
With that, Qian Renxue hurried toward her room on her little legs.
Chen Qi, still recovering from his brush with death, was forced to keep teleporting to Qian Renxue's side.
"Stop following me!"
"Miss, it's pretty obvious I'm not doing this on purpose."
Chen Qi was close to tears. As a Martial Soul, he couldn't get more than three meters away from his master. There was nothing he could do about it.
"Ding! Detected a change in Qian Renxue's Favorability. Current Favorability: 0/1000. Warning: Favorability is too low. Host, please raise it as soon as possible."
At the sudden system notification, Chen Qi nearly died laughing. Had he committed some unforgivable crime? One minute he was dead, the next alive. Why not just get it over with?
In the main hall of Pope Palace, the current Pope, Bibi Dong, sat with dignified poise.
She wore a resplendent papal robe that brought out her regal aura to the fullest.
Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei knelt respectfully before her.
"Your Holiness, something went wrong with the young mistress's Martial Soul Awakening today," Gui Mei said.
Bibi Dong's eyes lit up at his words. She hurriedly asked, "Did she awaken my Martial Soul?"
Yue Guan shook his head and added, "She awakened a Six-Winged Angel, but it's somewhat different from an ordinary Martial Soul."
Bibi Dong was puzzled. No matter how special a Martial Soul was, it was still a Martial Soul. It couldn't possibly be a person.
"The Six-Winged Angel she awakened has a mind of its own. It's just like a living person."
So it really was a person!
Was she losing her mind, or had the world gone mad?
Bibi Dong rubbed her aching temples and thought of her old flame, Yu Xiaogang. His Martial Soul was some kind of external Martial Soul, like a little piglet. If no one told you it was a Martial Soul, you'd never guess.
Perhaps Qian Renxue was facing the same situation, with an external Martial Soul just like Yu Xiaogang's.
But why? Why did the Qian Family get to have something that belonged to Xiaogang alone?
Bibi Dong grew angry, and her hatred for Qian Renxue deepened.
"What's her Innate Soul Power?"
"Level twenty."
What?
Level twenty!
Could something like that even happen in the Soul Master World? Even the most gifted person could only have a maximum Innate Soul Power of level ten.
Bibi Dong's eyelid twitched. This defied Brother Xiaogang's Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul!
Because they lacked a Soul Ring, no matter how monstrous their talent, they couldn't break through the level-ten limit.
But Qian Renxue was a freak among freaks. She'd shattered that rule and become a once-in-a-lifetime genius.
But why? Why should the Qian Family get all the credit? Why couldn't the child be hers and Yu Xiaogang's?
Bibi Dong was sure that if she and Yu Xiaogang had a child together, that child would be countless times stronger than Qian Renxue.
It was all because of the Qian Family that she couldn't marry her beloved Brother Xiaogang.
She clenched her teeth, her hatred for the Qian Family and Qian Renxue only growing.
"You two, keep watching her. Report any information to me at once."
Qian Renxue's room stood beside a lake somewhere within Spirit Hall. Qian Xunji had once built it for her with his own hands.
She entered the room, carelessly tossed aside her gorgeous clothes, and was left wearing only her thin, comfortable nightclothes.
She glanced at Chen Qi, her shadow, and sighed. "You may be my Martial Soul, but you still have to follow the rules. Understand?"
Chen Qi nodded. He'd just gone to great lengths on the way back to raise her Favorability. If he did something wrong and made it drop again, he might as well just die.
"Don't worry, Master. I'd never offend you."
"You'd better not. I'm going to take a bath. Keep yourself busy in the room."
With that, she headed toward the bathroom.
Left alone, Chen Qi curiously looked around Qian Renxue's room.
It wasn't particularly large. Compared to the villas worth tens of millions in his previous life, this place was tiny.
There was just one bathroom, one study, and a living room that opened straight into the bedroom. You could see from one end to the other at a glance.
Qian Renxue's bedroom was nothing like the ones Chen Qi imagined women would have. The bed was unmade, clothes were scattered everywhere, and there were leftovers on the table.
If someone told him Qian Renxue had come from another world, Chen Qi would believe it.
He was just about to take a look at the study when his vision suddenly went dark, and his thigh felt wet.
Chen Qi looked down and saw a large expanse of snow-white skin before him.
Qian Renxue stared at the man who had appeared out of nowhere, her face red.
She'd just run the bath and was getting ready to enjoy it when that wretched Chen Qi popped out of nowhere and saw her naked.
Chen Qi's mind went blank. By modern standards, wouldn't he end up strung up on the national power grid?
When Chen Qi still didn't leave and kept staring where he shouldn't, Qian Renxue finally lost her temper. She pointed at him and shouted, "You perverted creep! Get out!"
"Ding! Detected a change in Qian Renxue's Favorability. Current Favorability: -100/1000. Warning, warning! The host's Favorability is too low. Raise it immediately! Raise it immediately!"
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