Angel Divine Fire

"If she could collect the faith of the people as you do, reaching a certain threshold, she wouldn't need to!"

"Of course, spirit beasts can do it too, but they lack the powerful creativity of humans. Even if a spirit beast manages to become a god, their upper limit is not as high as ours!"

Qian Xunqian was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked her ancestor.

Just as she prepared to leave, the gentle voice of the Angel God rang out once more:

"One more thing: be kinder to the spirit beasts!"

Qian Xunqian thought of how she had led the people in a frantic expansion toward the Star Dou Forest and offered an awkward laugh. Immediately after, her consciousness began to blur.

When she opened her eyes again, she saw the Angel Statue standing silently before her and an anxious Qian Daoliu. She had returned.

"Qian'er, what happened to you just now! You disappeared in an instant; your uncle was worried to death!"

Qian Daoliu rushed over to Qian Xunqian in a panic, inspecting her from head to toe. Only after confirming she was truly uninjured did he let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh. The Angel ancestor summoned me to the God Realm just now. I fought side-by-side with her and defeated the Asura God and the Sea God. I suppose you could say I saved the ancestor!"

Qian Daoliu looked at Qian Xunqian in astonishment, his face full of disbelief.

"You, a level 70 Spirit Saint who hasn't even obtained a spirit ring, actually saved the God Ancestor? How is that possible!"

Qian Xunqian put her hands on her hips and said with a proud pout:

"Don't believe me? Uncle, just go ask the ancestor yourself!"

Watching his niece look so earnest, the honest Qian Daoliu felt something was slightly off, but he chose to believe her.

"Also! Uncle, look at the mark on my forehead. The ancestor gave it to me personally—it's the Eight Angelic Trials!"

Qian Xunqian then told Qian Daoliu about her conversation with the ancestor regarding creating her own godhood and the Eight Angelic Trials.

"In other words, in the eyes of the God Ancestor, your aptitude is sufficient to become a god, Qian'er?"

Qian Daoliu's face lit up with joy. After ten thousand years, was their Angel clan finally going to produce a god?

At that same moment, the Angel Statue emitted a sacred golden light. Accompanied by this radiance, a gentle yet solemn voice resonated:

First Trial of the Eight Angelic Trials: Sacred Flame Burning Heart: Divine Soul Tempering.

Endure continuous burning within the Angel Divine Fire to temper your soul and physical body, enhance your resistance and control over sacred power, and break through the limits of your body and will.

Reward: One God-Bestowed Spirit Ring.

Do you accept the trial?

"Yes!" Qian Xunqian answered decisively.

The statue remained silent for three seconds before the voice spoke again: As you wish.

A surge of pure divine power pushed Qian Daoliu out of the Angel Temple and closed the doors.

Golden flames began to overflow continuously from the mouth of the Angel Statue. These flames were immensely powerful, a level higher than even the Ultimate Fire!

The Angel Divine Fire surged toward Qian Xunqian, quickly surrounding her completely.

Qian Xunqian was now a human torch.

"Little Qian'er, the ancestor likes your martial soul; however, the ancestor does not like your black hair. Would you like me to dye it gold for free?"

Qian Xunqian hurriedly shouted:

"No, no! I think black suits me better!"

The Angel Divine Fire burned wildly against Qian Xunqian's soul and body, tempering her all the while.

Qian Xunqian channeled her spirit power and mental strength, drawing the Angel Divine Fire into her body and consciousness, constantly compressing it, compressing it further.

Although the process was excruciating, as a mental-type spirit master with immense mental strength, her endurance was far beyond that of an ordinary person.

Had she not lived on the Douluo Continent, her level of endurance would have been enough to compete for the position of Dragon King in places like the Asura Hall or the Dragon King Hall.

Thus, after absorbing for three days and three nights, Qian Xunqian finally compressed the Angel Divine Fire into two pure white flames—one placed within her sea of consciousness, and the other fused with her heart.

"You have fused the Angel Divine Fire with your own body, exceeding the requirements of the trial. Through the tempering of the divine fire, your physical constitution and soul strength have greatly increased. The limit for your God-Bestowed Spirit Ring is 180,000 years!"

A pure white ring, with golden silk threads evenly circling the white band, descended from the head of the Angel Statue and settled onto Qian Xunqian.

Qian Xunqian spent three hours perfectly absorbing the God-Bestowed Spirit Ring, and her spirit power reached an astonishing level 73.

At the same time, thanks to the absorption of the Angel Divine Fire, Qian Xunqian added the fire attribute to her repertoire, complementing the light attribute inherent in her Angel Eye.

Her third spirit ability, Sacred Ray, and her sixth spirit ability, Sacred Domain, now both carried a burning effect. Because it was the high-quality Angel Divine Fire, she could threaten even Title Douluo-level powerhouses despite still being a Spirit Saint.

Her seventh spirit ability, Angel Avatar, allowed her to summon a giant Angel Eye. As an external spirit ability, the eye could launch different attack effects: it could fire Sacred Rays, spew Angel Divine Fire, and even shed healing golden light.

Against spirit masters with weaker mental strength than her, the Angel Eye would constantly bewitch, assimilate, and eventually control the entire person!

For spirit masters with dark attributes, if their cultivation was within ten levels of hers, they would be struck with fear by the Angel Eye, suffering a twenty-percent reduction in combat power from the start.

As for evil spirit masters, it acted as a strict father; if the cultivation gap was within ten levels, it would show no mercy, immediately having the Angel Eye devour, purify, and convert them into fertilizer for the eye.

Bibi Dong: I was terrified at the time, fearing that if I wasn't careful, I'd be sucked right in.

One can only say there was a reason the original Bibi Dong was wary of the Angel clan; who wouldn't find this martial soul sinister?

Are dark-attribute spirit masters and evil spirit masters even supposed to play on the Douluo Continent anymore?

At the same time, Qian Xunqian gained a deeper understanding of Distraction Control. Her seventh soul skill was an external martial soul technique that required her to multitask on two separate lines.

Relying on her formidable mental power, this level of distraction control was as easy as eating or drinking for her.

She was even able to simultaneously control one Angel Eye and one hundred controllers assimilated by her domain while the Sacred Domain was active.

To be an army of one—that was exactly what this was!

However, what pleased Qian Xunqian most was that her research into external martial souls had finally seen a breakthrough today.

Previously, her ideas had been quite whimsical.

Take the future Dugu Yan as an example: Qian Xunqian's idea was to use Dugu Bo's pet, the Nine-Section Jade, to transplant Dugu Yan's martial soul onto it.

By allowing the martial soul to possess a complete physical form, the Nine-Section Jade would carry Dugu Yan's martial soul, becoming nearly one with the soul master and sharing a telepathic connection.

At the same time, the Nine-Section Jade would possess its own subjective initiative, capable of using its brain to devise combat strategies without needing Dugu Yan to control it with her mental power.

What were the benefits of this?

First, it liberated Dugu Yan.

By letting Dugu Yan focus on strengthening her physical body, she would become a power attack soul master. Furthermore, she could be equipped with soul guidance devices in the future to become a soul engineer.

The martial soul itself would function as a control type, instantly transforming her from a single control-type soul master into a power attack soul master and a control-type soul beast.

Second, by externalizing the martial soul onto the Nine-Section Jade, Dugu Yan would no longer need to endure the toxins brought about by manifesting her martial soul, effectively solving the poison problem once and for all!

As for the Nine-Section Jade, its toxicity was no less than that of a Jade Phosphor Snake, and for it, the more poison, the better.

When the time came, she would equip Dugu Yan with a Spirit Ball soul guidance device, and every time she entered a match, she could shout:

"Come out! Cuikaqiu!"