Heaven Dou Empire, Crown Prince's Eastern Palace.
Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, sat in the study, drinking black tea.
After years of living undercover, she had long since grown used to keeping her feelings buried.
In her eyes, in five more years, the Heaven Dou Empire would be hers.
Just then, a gold-embossed diary appeared on the desk.
Qian Renxue's gaze darkened as she looked up and scanned her surroundings.
"Elder Pufferfish?"
"Elder Snake Lance?"
There was no response from the shadows.
The two Titled Douluo assigned to protect her had somehow failed to notice the diary's arrival.
Qian Renxue's heart tightened. She used her Soul Power to open the diary.
Before long.
Bang!
She crushed the jade teacup in her hand, and hot tea ran between her fingers.
Yet she didn't even glance down.
...Going undercover in the Heaven Dou Empire? Wasting twenty years of her youth...
...Falling in love with Tang San under an intelligence-lowering halo, then having her divine position shattered. What a miserable sight!
"You bastard!"
Qian Renxue's expression darkened, and her disguise began to waver.
Six brilliant golden angel wings unfurled behind her, their sacred radiance instantly lighting up the entire study.
"I'd fall in love with Tang Hao's son?"
"That useless trash who has a blood feud with Spirit Hall?"
Qian Renxue clenched her fingers, her chest rising and falling.
"What a disgrace!"
"Even if I die—even if I jump from here—I will never spare that Tang San a second glance!"
She was the Angel God's successor, and a prodigy of Spirit Hall.
Yet the diary had written her off as a lovesick fool, and even claimed that her divine position would be shattered.
She couldn't possibly tolerate that.
Notting Academy, Su Hang...
Qian Renxue gritted her teeth, unable to suppress the murderous intent in her eyes.
"You'd better pray this is just a prank."
"Otherwise, I'll make you pay."
"Elder Snake Lance!"
A blue-black figure appeared in the study.
"Go to Notting Academy at once."
"Investigate someone named Su Hang."
"I want to know what he eats and drinks every day, and everyone he meets."
Qian Renxue's voice was low, but simmered with fury.
Star Dou Great Forest, Lake of Life.
By the lake, a girl in pink with a long scorpion braid sat on a rock.
She swung her legs and spoke toward the lake.
"Daming, Erming, I've made up my mind."
"I want to see the human world."
"I can't hide in the forest my whole life, can I?"
The water rippled.
A huge bull's head rose from the lake.
The Sky Azure Bull Python spoke in a deep voice.
"Sister Xiao Wu, the human world is too dangerous."
"It's full of greedy Soul Masters."
"With your current cultivation, if you go there and your identity is exposed, you won't survive for long."
The Titan Giant Ape beside them let out a low growl and nodded repeatedly.
"Aw, don't worry."
"As long as I don't use Soul Power, no one can see through my disguise."
Before Xiao Wu could finish speaking, a gold-embossed diary suddenly appeared in her arms.
She looked down at it, her face filling with curiosity.
"Huh? What's this?"
"Daming, is it a gift from you?"
Xiao Wu opened the diary.
Before long, the smile vanished from her face.
Her little face paled, and her hands began to tremble.
The words in the diary made her chest tighten.
...Fooled by Tang San until she couldn't tell up from down...
...Forced into a soul sacrifice, denied even the chance to reincarnate...
...Daming and Erming hunted by Spirit Hall, then forced to sacrifice themselves as Tang San's Soul Rings...
...Her whole family turned into a stockpile of Soul Rings and Soul Bones for Tang San's ascension to godhood!
"N-no... That's impossible..."
Xiao Wu clutched the diary, her eyes reddening in an instant.
Tears fell onto the pages.
A soul sacrifice.
Daming and Erming killed.
And then they'd become a stockpile of Soul Rings for that Tang San.
She was naive, but she wasn't stupid.
The diary was far too detailed.
Especially the identities of Daming and Erming—no one in the human world should have known about them.
"Sister Xiao Wu, what's wrong?"
The Sky Azure Bull Python sensed that something was amiss, and its voice grew urgent.
"Daming... Erming..."
Xiao Wu looked up, her voice tight.
"We can't go."
"I can't meet that Tang San."
"We'll die. We'll all die."
"Who is Tang San?"
"Sister Xiao Wu, who's bullying you?"
"I'll tear him to pieces right now!"
The Titan Giant Ape pounded its chest, shaking the trees in the forest.
"There's no time to explain!"
Xiao Wu wiped away her tears and hugged the diary tight.
She stared at the name signed at the bottom.
Notting Academy, Su Hang.
If this Su Hang could know the future in advance, he must have a way to change it all.
"Daming, Erming, I'm going to find someone."
"Don't follow me. Take care of yourselves."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Wu dashed into the forest.
She headed toward Notting City.
"Su Hang, you have to wait for me."
"I absolutely refuse to become a Soul Ring."
Notting Academy, Dorm Seven.
Su Hang wrote the final line and closed his diary.
System notifications rang out one after another in his mind.
[Ping! The diary has triggered extreme anger and shock in Bibi Dong. Favorability +10%, with intense attention shifting from negative to positive.] [Ping! The diary has triggered intense murderous intent and curiosity in Qian Renxue. Favorability +5%.] [Ping! The diary has triggered extreme panic and intense dependence in Xiao Wu. Favorability has broken through 20%, and she is rushing over to throw herself at you.] [Congratulations, host! Your first diary entry has been tremendously effective, triggering a chain of critical rewards!] [Beginner's gift pack issued:] [Reward One: God-level Mutated Martial Soul, Chaos Thunder Shadow Dragon. It possesses the dual attributes of ultimate strength and ultimate thunder, and exerts absolute bloodline suppression over all Beast Martial Souls.] [Reward Two: Innate Full Soul Power, Level 20.] [Reward Three: One God-Given Soul Ring. Its age will automatically match the host's physical limits.]
"Holy crap!"
Su Hang's eyes widened, and he leaped up from the rickety bed.
He'd struck it rich.
Chaos Thunder Shadow Dragon.
Even the name sounded way better than Yu Xiaogang's farting pig.
And there was level-twenty Innate Full Soul Power, plus a God-Given Soul Ring.
"Fuse it now!"
Su Hang shouted in his mind.
Boom!
A powerful force exploded inside Su Hang.
His bones crackled, and his muscles tightened.
Dark purple lightning raced across his skin, radiating a sense of oppression.
Dragon Might surged from Su Hang, pressing down on all of Dorm Seven.
The work-study students huddled in the corner buckled at the knees and dropped to the floor one after another.
They couldn't even lift their heads.
"Aaah!"
Su Hang gritted his teeth and bore the pain of the God-Given Soul Ring.
He could feel his physical limits being pushed higher, layer by layer.
A hundred years.
Five hundred years.
A thousand years.
Two thousand years.
At last, the tearing sensation stopped.
A deep purple Soul Ring rose from beneath his feet.
Black demonic patterns curled around its edge, radiating danger.
His First Spirit Ring—a two-thousand-year Purple Ring at the limit.
If Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang saw this, his so-called Ten Core Competencies would probably be turned upside down on the spot.
Su Hang opened his eyes, lightning flashing in them.
He clenched his fist, feeling the explosive power surging through his body.
The corner of his mouth curled upward.
Just then.
Bang!
The dormitory door, which Su Hang had just partly repaired, was kicked off its hinges again.
An upperclassman in a fancy uniform walked in, followed by seven or eight lackeys.
"Wang Sheng, you useless piece of trash, are you dead or not?"
"If you don't pay up today, I'll throw all you penniless wretches' bedding into the cesspit!"
The visitor was Notting Academy's school bully.
Xiao Chenyu.
Su Hang looked up.
His lightning-filled eyes fell on Xiao Chenyu.
"Another one looking to die."
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