Angel Divine Set

Although the Angel Lady was not yet a deity, and was currently a long way off from even reaching the Title Douluo rank, it was impossible to ignore the fact that this future Angel God was already associated with so many things related to divinity.

For instance, her god-level martial soul, the Six-Winged Angel, and her innate twenty-level Soul Power.

Or the several pieces of the Angel Divine Set already fused into her body.

There was even the Angel God Trial she was currently undergoing.

Given that these elements touched upon the level of gods, it was perfectly reasonable that the Angel Lady could generate a certain degree of resistance to his abilities.

However...

Jiang Ci'an pondered for a moment, then reached out and poked the Angel Lady's cheek.

Qian Renxue turned her head to bite him, but her teeth snapped shut on empty air with a crisp "click."

Jiang Ci'an withdrew his finger thoughtfully, then reached out again to poke her collarbone.

Qian Renxue began trying to kill this guy with her gaze.

Jiang Ci'an's hand didn't stop; it slid from her collarbone to her waist and gave it a light squeeze.

Qian Renxue's body still didn't move an inch, save for those cyan eyes that remained fixed on him. She looked like a cat backed into a corner—unable to hiss, she could only be poked and prodded at will.

Jiang Ci'an ignored her entirely, his palm moving from her waist to her arm, and from her arm to the outside of her thigh.

After testing the entire way, Jiang Ci'an reached a conclusion: only the Angel Lady's head could move.

Every other part of her was locked tight, no different from before.

Jiang Ci'an pulled his hand back, looked at the Angel Lady—whose cheeks were flushed red as she glared at him through gritted teeth—and offered a gentle smile.

"Don't worry, I'm not doing anything. I'm just checking your spirit bones."

When facing someone with a degree of self-awareness who could communicate normally, he was relatively gentle. He wouldn't issue commands at will like he did with those puppet NPCs whose consciousnesses were completely overwritten by "Indifference."

This served as a sort of self-protection mechanism.

The Virtual World was simply too realistic.

If he grew accustomed to using his abilities to do whatever he wanted without limits in the Virtual World, he would inevitably become unscrupulous in reality, bit by bit.

He didn't want to become that kind of person, which was why he always maintained restraint.

This was also why he always preferred to start with "Indifference" in the Virtual World.

Because these entities, lacking self-awareness and capable of being refreshed, were essentially puppet NPCs; he felt no psychological burden using them as materials for his experiments.

It was just like how some players would let villagers get infected by zombies, heal them, and then infect them again, repeating the process endlessly just to save a few emeralds...

It was a quintessential player mindset.

He treated Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the others as materials, blowing them up and sacrificing them over and over without any psychological pressure, simply because he viewed them as NPCs.

But now, the Qian Renxue before him was somewhat different.

This Angel Lady had her own consciousness; she could feel anger, fury, resentment, and embarrassment, and she could even bite.

All of these factors made the Angel Lady a person in his eyes, rather than a material, so his attitude was naturally a bit better.

Of course, only a bit.

Jiang Ci'an's gaze fell upon Qian Renxue once more.

Instantly, Qian Renxue felt a sense of being watched that was even more intense than before.

It was as if every layer of concealment on her body had been peeled away, and everything about her was exposed before those golden eyes, laid bare and completely transparent.

It felt as if she were standing stark naked before him.

In an instant, a surge of intense fury flooded her heart like a tidal wave.

Qian Renxue instinctively tried to mobilize her martial soul and Soul Power to cover herself, but unfortunately, both remained completely unmoved.

And those golden eyes were still able to see through everything she had.

Her initial anger was soon eclipsed by a sense of powerlessness, which in turn gave way to a clear, stinging sense of humiliation.

She gritted her teeth, staring fixedly at the strange boy before her, her eyes rimmed with a faint red.

The boy, however, ignored her completely, his hand landing on her waist and beginning to explore.

Qian Renxue's mind went slightly blank.

As if guessing what might happen next, she glared fiercely at the boy, trying to stop him with her eyes.

Yet, the boy remained unmoved.

Qian Renxue watched him, her expression shifting from initial anger to resistance, and finally, it was gradually consumed by helplessness.

In the end, she closed her eyes and bit her lip, waiting for whatever might happen next.

She would just pretend... she had been bitten by a dog.

Qian Renxue silently comforted herself.

However, after keeping her eyes closed for a good while, "..."

Why didn't she feel anything?

The humiliation she had anticipated did not arrive. Qian Renxue paused, tentatively opening her eyes, only to see that Jiang Ci'an, who had been right in front of her, was now sitting on a sofa in the distance.

At the same time, he held an antique-style pendant in his hand.

It was her storage Soul Tool.

Qian Renxue's gaze lingered for a moment, and the next instant, she saw Jiang Ci'an inject his Soul Power into the storage Soul Tool. Immediately, two spirit bones appeared in his hands out of thin air.

One was a left arm bone, and the other was a torso bone.

Both spirit bones were a pale gold, their surfaces flowing with a sacred and gentle radiance, resembling some kind of luxurious jade—warm and lustrous, yet not blinding.

That was her Angel Divine Set.

So, this guy attacked her for the sake of the Angel Divine Set?

Qian Renxue frowned slightly, feeling uncertain, but then she saw Jiang Ci'an examining the two spirit bones before him. He paused, then proceeded to press the left arm bone directly against his own left arm.

Qian Renxue: ???

Does this guy really not know, or is he just pretending?

The Angel Divine Set could only be fused by those who possessed the Six-Winged Angel martial soul, and it required extremely formidable talent.

If one's talent was insufficient, they could fuse at most one or two pieces; only she was free of such limitations.

Yet, the youth before her clearly did not possess the Six-Winged Angel martial soul. Forcing a fusion under such circumstances could only lead to failure.

However, the next moment, The instant the left arm bone touched Jiang Ci'an's arm, a golden light suddenly erupted.

There was no explosion as she had expected.

A sacred aura surged from the spirit bone like a tide, enveloping Jiang Ci'an's entire left arm in a warm and bright radiance.

Qian Renxue froze slightly.

She was all too familiar with this scene.

Every time she fused a piece of the Angel Divine Set, it was exactly like this.

But... how could this be possible?

Qian Renxue stared in a daze at his arm, which was wrapped in light, and felt a certain domain cover his arm. A moment later, the spirit bone fusion was complete.

Qian Renxue: ???

What on earth is going on!

Qian Renxue completely lost her composure.

She looked at Jiang Ci'an, her eyes filled with questioning:

"Who exactly are you? Why can you fuse with the Angel Divine Set?!"

Jiang Ci'an glanced at Qian Renxue, looked down at his own left arm, and then sighed.

"Can I say that I don't know either?"