Angel Soul Skills

Sure enough, as Qian Renxue's expression twisted in pain and sweat poured down her face, the phantom of an Angel Martial Soul appeared behind her.

The Angel Martial Soul erupted with dazzling white light and utmost holy power of light, surging toward the Light Unicorn spirit ring that was struggling and resisting.

Sensing the ultimate light and holy power radiating from the Angel Martial Soul, the Light Unicorn spirit ring was like a wanderer far from home hearing the call of their homeland.

It immediately gave up struggling and abandoned all resistance.

Not only that, the power within the Light Unicorn spirit ring, like a wanderer yearning to return home, continuously poured into Qian Renxue. It followed the path of her soul power through her meridians, transforming into soul power she could control at will.

Qian Renxue seized the opportunity to frantically absorb and refine the power of the Light Unicorn spirit ring, turning it into her own foundation.

Her originally distorted expression immediately softened, while the bulging veins exposed on her skin gradually faded as she smoothly refined the Light Unicorn's soul power.

Meanwhile, Qian Renxue's aura steadily grew stronger, and her soul power continued to increase.

Half an hour later, Qian Renxue had completely refined the final trace of the Light Unicorn's soul power.

Qian Renxue opened her eyes, and dazzling light burst forth from them.

This light carried holy power and the power of light. Everywhere it passed, all darkness and filth were purified.

After Wang Chen's Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul absorbed a spirit ring, it had gained no soul skill. He wanted to know what soul skill Qian Renxue would obtain after absorbing a fifteen-thousand-year Light Unicorn spirit ring.

After Qian Renxue came back to her senses, Wang Chen asked, "Young Mistress, what is your fifth soul skill?"

Qian Renxue summoned her Angel Martial Soul and explained, "My fifth soul skill is Angel Descent. It enhances all attributes."

As soon as she finished speaking, Qian Renxue used her fifth soul skill.

In an instant, Wang Chen saw a golden angel phantom merge with Qian Renxue's body.

All of Qian Renxue's attributes were enhanced, and a Holy Light Domain spread out around her.

Standing beneath Qian Renxue's Holy Light Domain, Wang Chen sensed that the holy light within it possessed large-scale suppression, purification, and restraining effects against evil martial souls.

Qian Renxue then explained, "Actually, the soul skills of the Angel Martial Soul are the same for every generation of Six-Winged Angel inheritors. This was a rule established by the ancestor, the Angel God.

"The only difference is the power of the soul skills.

"The spirit rings I've absorbed are older than the conventional limit, so the enhancements I receive are greater."

As though afraid Wang Chen would not understand, Qian Renxue continued, "Before becoming a god, the Angel Martial Soul's nine soul skills are as follows:

"The first soul skill is Angel Assault.

"Angel Assault is a skill that combines offense and defense."

As she spoke, Qian Renxue clenched her right hand into a fist and punched toward a tree some distance away.

Wang Chen sensed that when Qian Renxue used Angel Assault, a golden halo condensed around her fist, while a shield of light protected her body.

The light shield carried a holy aura and dissolved shortly after striking the tree.

Yet before it dissipated, Wang Chen could sense the holy power of light contained within it.

If fallen soul masters or dark-attribute soul masters were struck by it, they would definitely be suppressed by this holy power of light.

What an offense-and-defense skill. As expected of a god-tier martial soul—its ability to enhance attributes is far beyond that of ordinary martial souls, Wang Chen praised inwardly.

"The Angel Martial Soul's second soul skill is Angel Wings."

As she spoke, Qian Renxue unfurled a pair of golden angel wings. Gaining the ability to fly, she rose directly from the ground.

At the same time, Wang Chen noticed that Qian Renxue's flight differed from that of ordinary birds. In places with light, she could even perform short-distance teleportation.

To be honest, Wang Chen was truly a little envious.

When he thought of his own Alchemy Furnace Martial Soul, which did not have a single soul skill, he felt rather miserable.

Qian Renxue said, "The Angel Martial Soul's third soul skill is Angel Light Feathers."

As she spoke, a golden angel phantom formed around Qian Renxue. Its six wings shook loose countless feathers of light, granting her the ability to launch group piercing attacks.

A feather of light brushed past Wang Chen, and he sensed the purifying power contained within its pure light soul power.

Light feathers condensed from pure light soul power, possessing the attributes of purification, stealth-breaking, and evil-dispelling. They really are formidable, Wang Chen praised inwardly.

Qian Renxue continued her demonstration. "The Angel Martial Soul's fourth soul skill is Sacred Sword. Sacred Sword increases purification effects by 300%."

As she spoke, a longsword condensed from holy power of light appeared in Qian Renxue's hand.

Holding the longsword, Qian Renxue slashed toward the distance.

Wang Chen saw that Qian Renxue's strike directly severed all the trees within several dozen meters. The soul power clinging to the trees continuously emitted holy light.

A high-damage soul skill capable of wide-area attacks. It's more than a little stronger than those ridiculous soul skills like Mother Entanglement, Mother Cage, and Mother Poison, Wang Chen thought in shock.

After demonstrating the five soul skills, Qian Renxue landed on the ground and put away her Angel Martial Soul and Angel Holy Sword. "I'm only level fifty-three right now, so I can't demonstrate the later soul skills.

"I'll show them to you when I have the chance in the future."

Wang Chen looked at Qian Renxue and said, "When you use your soul skills, how does your soul power change? Could you use a similar method and let me research comparable soul skills in pill form?"

Wang Chen had always been preoccupied with gaining soul skills. With Qian Renxue here now, he took the opportunity to ask.

Qian Renxue said awkwardly, "When I want to use a soul skill, I simply use it. I've never carefully sensed the changes involved."

Wang Chen was a little disappointed. It seemed that soul skills bestowed by gods and those acquired by absorbing soul rings were difficult to study.

In the future, he would need to focus on soul skills self-created by others.

Self-created soul skills definitely came with detailed insights, allowing one to understand the circulation of soul power, methods of exerting force, and so on.

Wang Chen believed that he would certainly be able to research self-created soul skills. He had that confidence.

Qian Renxue said, "From now on, I need to devote more time to cultivation. Otherwise, Wang Chen will surpass me sooner or later."

Thinking of Qian Renxue's plan to steal the country, Wang Chen asked, "Young Mistress, since you intend to focus on cultivation, why not abandon the plan to steal the country and cultivate in peace? Once you grow strong enough, unifying the Douluo Continent would be no more than a simple matter."

Qian Renxue explained, "Ever since our ancestor achieved the Angel God position twenty thousand years ago and ascended to the God Realm, there have been many extraordinarily talented members of the Angel Family, but not a single one was able to inherit the divine position.

"Some ancestors once tried to unify the Douluo Continent through force. However, whenever Spirit Hall was on the verge of success, the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest and Sunset Forest, along with the sea soul beasts of the ocean, would invade human territory and attack Spirit Hall, causing Spirit Hall's plan to unify the Douluo Continent to fail.

"Spirit Hall could defeat the Upper Three Sects and Lower Four Sects, and it could suppress the two great empires. But when faced with invasions by the soul beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and the ocean, Spirit Hall alone could not handle them.

"Moreover, there is a force in the ocean no weaker than Spirit Hall. They, too, do not wish to see Spirit Hall unify the Douluo Continent."

Wang Chen's heart sank. When the soul beasts from the Star Dou Great Forest, Sunset Forest, and the ocean all rioted and invaded the human world, was it because they sensed the immense pressure Spirit Hall would exert upon them after unifying the Douluo Continent, or was there a god behind it all?

And the force in the ocean was the Sea God Pavilion.

The Sea God worshipped by the Sea God Pavilion was calculating and liked to keep bandits around to bolster his own importance.

Fearing that sea soul masters and sea soul beasts would not actively offer their faith, he deliberately allowed the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, the Deep Sea Tiger Whale Clan, and others to remain as opponents to the Sea God Pavilion.

From time to time, he drove the Deep Sea Tiger Whale King to slaughter marine creatures, letting the Deep Sea Tiger Whale King emerge every so often to intimidate all life in the ocean.

This ensured that marine creatures and sea soul masters would always remember that the Sea God had protected them, so that they would offer up the power of faith.

This alone showed that the Sea God regarded humans and ocean soul beasts as mere tools from which to harvest faith, rather than sincerely wanting to help sea soul masters and marine creatures.

The Angel God, however, would strike down any fallen soul master she encountered with a single sword. To protect humanity, the Angel Legion established by Spirit Hall had always suppressed evil soul masters and guarded the gateways against soul beast invasions, helping humanity fend off the soul beasts' attacks.

The disasters suffered by sea soul masters were controlled by the Sea God Pavilion, and the salvation of marine creatures was likewise the Sea God Pavilion's doing. The Sea God was the hand behind both.

The disasters of the Douluo Continent were caused by evil soul masters and soul beasts. The Angel God, Spirit Hall, and the Angel Legion merely responded passively; the Angel God had never manipulated evil soul masters into launching invasions.

The difference between the Sea God and the Angel God was plain to see.

Furthermore, the Sea God seemed dissatisfied with the Angel God. In the original work, he had even maliciously interfered with Qian Renxue's Angel God trials.

That also explained why the Sea God Pavilion and the Sea God did not want Spirit Hall to unify the Douluo Continent.

Having thought this through, Wang Chen changed the subject. "Since you were going to carry out a plan to steal the country, why not choose someone below you to do it? Why send you, Spirit Hall's greatest genius and an heir qualified to inherit a divine position, to carry it out instead?"

Qian Renxue sighed. "For one thing, there were only a few people at the time suitable for infiltrating and carrying out the plan to steal the country.

"Besides, I didn't know back then that I was qualified to inherit a divine position, so I chose to carry it out personally."

Although Qian Renxue's explanation was reasonable, Wang Chen still felt that sending the possessor of the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, an inheritor of Spirit Hall with innate full soul power at rank twenty, to carry out this sort of spy mission was a complete and utter blunder.

Would it really have been difficult to have a Spirit Hall elder skilled in spiritual power distort the thoughts of a Heaven Dou Empire prince?

With the Heaven Dou Empire's royal family not even possessing a single Titled Douluo, how could they possibly notice that the prince's mind had been distorted by a Titled Douluo skilled in spiritual control?

If they wanted to be more aggressive, they could even directly distort Emperor Xueye's thoughts, making him lean toward Spirit Hall and distance himself from the Upper Three Sects.

Then, under the pretense of an exchange of benefits, they could grant several duchies to Spirit Hall.

Once the time was right, they could summon all those opposing them throughout the Heaven Dou Empire back to Heaven Capital City and kill them together in a single stroke, eliminating the problem once and for all.

Wouldn't that solve the problem of being unable to seize the Heaven Dou Empire?

As for the changes within the Heaven Dou Empire, Spirit Hall could directly mediate if the Star Luo Empire invaded.

In any case, Spirit Hall had stepped in to mediate wars between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire more than once or twice. It was an old and familiar issue, and resolving it would not be difficult at all.

Still, Wang Chen was neither a member of the Angel Family nor part of Spirit Hall's upper ranks. He had no authority and could not change Spirit Hall's strategy.

This time, once he became Spirit Hall's Holy Son and secured his position, he would definitely change these unbelievably idiotic practices of Spirit Hall.

After Qian Renxue absorbed her fifth soul ring, She Long brought Qian Renxue and Wang Chen to the Offering Hall.

As for Porcupinefish, he remained in the Heaven Dou Empire to handle the final stages of the plan to steal the country.

Offering Hall.

Qian Daoliu looked at Wang Chen, whom Qian Renxue had brought with her, and frowned as he asked, "Xiaoxue, who is this young friend? Why did you bring him to the Offering Hall?"

Qian Renxue was currently carrying out the plan to steal the country in the Heaven Dou Empire. Her information was of the utmost importance. Aside from Snake Spear Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, who protected Qian Renxue, only the seven offerings of the Offering Hall and Qian Renxue herself knew about it within Spirit Hall.

Qian Renxue explained, "This is little brother Wang Chen. He is eight years old and a rank forty-three Soul Ancestor."

Wang Chen circulated his soul power and revealed his four soul rings: purple, black, black, and black.

The pupils of the Offering Hall's seven offerings instantly contracted.

"A thousand-year first ring and a ten-thousand-year second ring."

Light Feather Douluo's hand, which had been playing with his hair, suddenly trembled, and he nearly tore out a strand of his own hair.

Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile Douluo, Azure Luan Douluo, Lion Douluo, Light Plume Douluo, Thousand Jun Douluo, and Demon-Subduing Douluo all stared fixedly at Wang Chen, as though they wanted to inspect every pore and every cell of his body.

They all wanted to know how Wang Chen had done it. At the same time, they wondered whether there was a god behind him.

And if there was, which god stood behind Wang Chen?

Guang Yu Douluo grabbed Wang Chen's hand. "Little one, the moment I saw you, I felt especially close to you, as if you were the disciple I'd lost many years ago. I want to take you as my disciple. Are you willing?"

Thousand Jun Douluo said, "Guang Yu, what do you mean, you feel close to him? Wang Chen is clearly a child of our Qian Gu Family who was left outside. He is obviously the biological grandson of Qian Gu Qianjun. My own grandson should naturally be taught by me."

Golden Crocodile Douluo said, "This young friend Wang Chen clearly looks like an inheritor of a divine position, with a god standing behind him. I'm afraid your hopes of taking him as a disciple will be in vain."

Qian Daoliu nodded and asked, "Young friend Wang Chen, are you an inheritor of a god?"

Qian Daoliu knew that some inheritors of gods would bear striking and unique marks on their foreheads to prove their identities as inheritors. This was meant to spare them unnecessary trouble.

However, some gods did not leave marks on the inheritors of their divine positions.

But that did not mean those gods did not care about their inheritors. They simply chose to protect them in secret.

When the inheritors of their divine positions faced mortal danger, they would also intervene to save them.

In the eyes of Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile, and the others, Wang Chen's soul ring configuration had to be related to a god.

Other than a god, no one could possibly give Wang Chen such a heaven-defying soul ring configuration.

Wang Chen possessed the Divine Spark Seed and the Dream God Divinity. Strictly speaking, his soul ring configuration truly could not be separated from a divine inheritance.

Wang Chen nodded and looked at Qian Daoliu as he admitted, "This grandfather is correct. I indeed received an inheritance of a divine position."

Although Wang Chen's Divine Spark Seed had been compensation from the system, and the Dream God Divinity was an inheritance left behind after the Dream God's failed possession—

It did not matter whether Wang Chen had been favored by a god. What mattered was whether he possessed a divinity and whether he could inherit a divine position.