A gentle breeze brushed across Qian Renheng's face, stirring his golden hair. He looked at Qian Renxue, who sat there with wide, pleading eyes and a pitiful expression.
He knew his little sister was upset mostly because of his absurdly unfair cultivation speed.
More importantly, he usually looked like he was loafing around, as though he never cultivated seriously.
Yet his cultivation speed was so fast. That enormous contrast was simply too crushing a blow for the little girl.
She had clearly worked so hard at cultivation, spending nearly every day refining Soul Power.
Yet her cultivation speed was still inferior to someone who loafed around? Anyone would collapse over that, let alone six-year-old Qian Renxue.
"Ahem~" Qian Renheng cleared his throat twice, stepped before Qian Renxue, and reached out to gently rub her gleaming golden hair, smiling.
"Xiao Xue, it's not that your brother is keeping secrets and refusing to teach you. It's that you can't learn my method."
Qian Renheng said earnestly, "Some talents are possessed from the moment a person is born."
"Even if others rack their brains trying to learn them, they won't know where to begin."
Hearing her brother's humblebragging, utterly punchable remarks, Qian Renxue's large eyes filled with unwillingness.
"Why?" Qian Renxue raised her fair little face to look at her brother, pouting as she asked, "Xiao Xue wants to learn too! I want that miraculous method where my Soul Power level shoots up without needing to sit in meditation and cultivate!"
"Just tell me, Brother. Xiao Xue really... really wants to work hard. Xiao Xue really wants to become stronger. I want it so, so badly. I don't want Brother to leave me so far behind!"
Seeing Qian Renxue's stubborn, eager-to-learn expression, Qian Renheng smiled helplessly. He knew he had to lay all his cards on the table today, or this little girl had no idea how long she would remain depressed.
"Alright, Xiao Xue. Since you want to know, Brother will broaden your horizons today!"
Qian Renheng stepped back half a pace and called out, "Come out, both of you—Ming Ji, Chun Xing!"
The moment he spoke, an inky black streak of light shot out from Qian Renheng's right ear.
At the same time, a vibrant golden-green radiance flew from his left ear.
After leaving Qian Renheng's body, the two lights began expanding wildly in midair. In the blink of an eye, they transformed into two peerlessly beautiful, graceful figures as tall as ordinary people.
They were none other than the Death Angel Ming Ji and the Life Angel Chun Xing.
"Hehe—"
The moment Chun Xing emerged, she seemed brimming with inexhaustible energy. At once, she spotted Qian Renxue sitting on the stone.
She raised her fair little hand and waved at her, smiling. "Hey~ Little Sister Xiao Xue, long time no see."
Ming Ji beside her still carried herself with the cool aloofness of an ice-cold beauty. She said nothing, merely smiling at Qian Renxue.
"Sister Ming Ji? Sister Chun Xing?"
Watching the two women fly out of her brother's ears, Qian Renxue was immediately dumbfounded. Her large eyes blinked twice.
She knew that Ming Ji and Chun Xing possessed independent intelligence and could even speak.
After all, Qian Renheng had never intended to hide the fact that his Martial Souls could talk.
But Qian Renxue had already witnessed Martial Souls revive the dead and even make plants grow ten thousand times faster. Martial Souls speaking? That did not surprise her.
But what did any of this have to do with her brother's incredible cultivation speed? Otherwise, why had he suddenly released Sister Ming Ji and Sister Chun Xing?
Looking at the baffled expression on his sister's face, Qian Renheng smiled and pointed at the two beautiful figures beside him.
"Xiao Xue, this is the core secret I wanted to tell you, and the true reason why your brother seems not to cultivate diligently, yet leaves you far behind in cultivation speed!"
Qian Renheng had no intention of hiding it any longer. They were family, after all; she would learn sooner or later.
He patiently explained, "Xiao Xue, you know that Brother's Martial Souls are different from the Martial Souls of every Soul Master on the Douluo Continent, right?"
Qian Renxue nodded in wholehearted agreement. Her brother's Martial Souls were more than merely different from everyone else's—they were worlds apart!
The ability to remain in Detached Martial Soul form outside a Soul Master's body for extended periods was already outrageous enough. Not to mention that Martial Souls could chat like people?!
"This is the key point I want to make. My Twin Martial Souls, Ming Ji and Chun Xing..."
He looked at his two obedient, peerlessly beautiful Martial Souls, an unmistakably smug smile on his face.
"They are fundamentally different from other people's Martial Souls. Most Martial Souls are inanimate, and even beast Martial Souls are the same. But they are different."
"For some reason, my Martial Souls mutated. They possess extremely high independent intelligence, and they can cultivate by refining the ambient Soul Power between heaven and earth on my behalf, thereby increasing my cultivation!"
"Hm? To put it plainly, they cultivate on their own. I don't have to do anything, and my Soul Power level rises."
"What?!" Qian Renxue's azure eyes widened round, while her cherry lips opened wide enough to fit an egg!
She could not help wondering whether she had slept poorly last night and was now hearing things.
"Brother? You didn't misspeak, did you?" Qian Renxue's voice rose sharply in astonishment. "A Soul Master's Martial Soul... can cultivate in place of its Soul Master?!"
Qian Renheng crossed his arms and nodded. "Other people's Martial Souls definitely can't, but mine can. Because they are Detached Martial Souls with extremely high intelligence, they can cultivate Soul Power using a Soul Master's cultivation methods just like real people!"
"This should count as one of the special abilities of Detached Martial Souls. Detached Martial Souls have many wonderful uses; I've probably only discovered twenty or thirty percent of them."
"As long as I leave Ming Ji and Chun Xing outside, they can refine the ambient Soul Power between heaven and earth for me day and night. In the end, all that Soul Power will be fed back into my body!"
"In other words, even if I lie in bed all day sleeping and do nothing, my cultivation speed will still be more than twice yours..."
As he spoke, Qian Renheng raised two fingers and waved them before Qian Renxue's stunned eyes.
Then he raised a third finger. "If I become just a little more diligent and cultivate every day like you do, with the three of us cultivating as one, my cultivation speed will be more than three times yours!"
He looked at Ming Ji and Chun Xing and said emotionally, "Having them is my honor and my pride!"
"Hehe—" Chun Xing smiled. "Meeting Master is our honor too!"
Though Ming Ji said nothing, she nodded as well, meaning the same as Chun Xing. Without their master, they would never have been born.
Qian Renheng nodded at that, then continued looking at Qian Renxue. "Xiao Xue, do you still think that when Brother doesn't sit in meditation and cultivate every day, I'm just being lazy? No!"
"Actually, your brother is cultivating intensely twenty-four hours a day. It's simply that Ming Ji and Chun Xing are the ones responsible for refining Soul Power."
"And I free up that precious time to develop powerful Self-Created Soul Skills and absorb more of the vast knowledge of the Soul Master system in the Library Hall!"
"This is called a reasonable division of labor and balanced planning!"
In Qian Renxue's eyes, Qian Renheng's figure gradually became greater. Was this her brother?!
They had clearly come from the same womb, so why was her brother so outstanding that it defied all reason?
Even his Martial Souls were so absurdly overpowered that they could refine Soul Power for him twenty-four hours a day!
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