When We First Met, We Were Both Young. When We Meet Again, It Is Already the Angel's Elegy!

"Long time no see."

The wooden door squeaked open as Meng Xinghe crossed the threshold into the courtyard, his expression calm and his heart as still as water as he looked at the person before him.

She was a woman, or to be precise, a dying woman experiencing a final surge of vitality.

Her long golden hair draped down smoothly and lustrously to her waist. Her golden eyes were as bright as the sun and as clear as a mirror. Her facial features and face shape combined perfectly, outlining a breathtakingly beautiful visage. She was tall, slender, and full-figured with perfect proportions, carrying an elegant and majestic demeanor.

The complementary luxurious court dress worn on her body made her look like a newly ascended young empress, and her identity alone was enough to make people of this era pale with fright.

She was none other than the former Angel God, Qian Renxue!

"You... it's you?"

Qian Renxue's golden eyes landed on the youth. Familiar memories welled up in her heart, and her vision began to blur as she drifted back to the past in a trance.

That was an ordinary night, yet it was anything but ordinary for Qian Renxue.

Because the next day, she was to leave Spirit City and head to the Heaven Dou Empire to execute her undercover plan.

This meant she could no longer show her true face, nor could she display her Seraphim Martial Soul.

To this end, she performed a farewell to herself, taking advantage of the night to fly high into the clouds to give free rein to her final self, only to encounter a youth as handsome as a Heavenly God in the high altitude above the clouds.

Yet, in just the blink of an eye, that youth vanished, leading Qian Renxue to momentarily believe she had merely been seeing things.

At the time, she considered it ordinary, never expecting there would be a day to meet again in this lifetime.

"You are actually a Soul Beast. No wonder when we met by chance back then, you vanished in an instant, leaving me unable to find the slightest trace no matter how hard I searched."

After burning her Angel God Position, Qian Renxue was no longer the Angel God, but her set of full-match soul rings and soul bones still made her a powerful Soul Master.

When she was a young child, she could not see through the youth's identity as a Soul Beast, but now she could.

In Qian Renxue's perception, the aura of the youth before her was not particularly strong, but she sensed a trace of extremely faint, fatal danger from him.

This caused a flicker of lingering fear to flash through Qian Renxue's heart. Had the place of their accidental encounter back then not been the airspace above Spirit City, where no Soul Beast dared to act presumptuously, she feared she would have already met with misfortune.

It was just that a humanoid Soul Beast was truly an unheard-of existence.

Had Qian Renxue not been able to clearly perceive the Soul Beast aura emanating from the youth's body, she would never have believed that the other party was a Soul Beast.

Meng Xinghe's expression underwent a subtle change.

Although this trip was made for the sake of benefits, seeing the scenery stirred old memories, and ultimately emotions arose in his heart.

Crossing over to Douluo Continent, and specifically to the period of Dou I concurrent with Tang San, this should have been a good thing, but after his transmigration, he unexpectedly stopped being a human and instead became a Soul Beast—a parentless, nature-nurtured humanoid Soul Beast.

Unlike other Soul Beasts who were all in an infant form at birth, Meng Xinghe was in a youth form right from his birth. Having just figured out his identity as a Soul Beast, he bumped into Qian Renxue and was so frightened that he exerted all his strength to use his innate talent ability and fled helter-skelter, terrified that being a second too late would make him her soul ring.

Having successfully escaped, Meng Xinghe fell into deep contemplation.

He was a Soul Beast, and Soul Beasts could not become gods.

Therefore, the only way to become a god was to transform into a human, attain godhood at level one hundred as a Soul Master, and either create a divine position of his own or inherit one.

Yet the tragedy was that he was merely a newborn Soul Beast. By the time he cultivated to a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Tang San would have already become a god for goodness knows how many years.

Reality was that cruel, so there was no help for it; becoming a god in this era was impossible, and the only method was to wait—wait until the God Realm vanished, and wait until Tang San disappeared.

During this period, he had to cultivate diligently and become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast capable of transforming and recultivating.

As a humanoid Soul Beast, Meng Xinghe's foundation was extraordinary.

He possessed the primordial bloodline of Uranus, the primordial King of the Gods in ancient Greek mythology.

Uranus, the primordial God King in ancient Greek mythology, was the personification and symbol of the sky, directly controlling the entire heavenly realm. His very existence defined the spatial concept of "sky" and held absolute dominion over the heavens.

For Meng Xinghe, his innate, absolute control over the power of the sky, as well as the pure white Chiton Robe on his body, were all proving this fact.

With this backing, all he needed to do was develop stealthily and quietly await his moment.

Therefore, over the years, Meng Xinghe had always remained in the high altitude to absorb the power of the sky for cultivation. He originally thought it would take several hundred or a thousand years to possess the strength to protect himself, but unexpectedly, a turning point occurred.

Qian Renxue's inheritance of the Angel God Position caused the power of the Douluo Planet's sky to experience explosive growth.

As the incarnation of the sky, Meng Xinghe's cultivation also grew by leaps and bounds like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. In the short time from Qian Renxue becoming a god to her burning the Angel God Position, he cultivated into a ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.

A Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear possessing Behemoth bloodline could still rival a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with ten-thousand-year cultivation; he, who possessed the primordial bloodline of Uranus, would naturally excel even more.

A Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was equivalent to a ninety-fifth-rank Titled Douluo, which meant he had the strength to walk in the human world and make secret plans.

Yet he was very cautious, and only began his actions after all the original Shrek Seven Monsters had become gods and ascended to the God Realm.

And today, Qian Renxue's life had reached its end, hence his visit today.

Examining the peerlessly beautiful visage before him, Meng Xinghe smiled and said:

"Qian Renxue, I have come today to make a deal with you."

"A deal?" Qian Renxue was slightly startled, then said with self-deprecation, "A dying person like myself, how can I make a deal with you, a Soul Beast with a long and enduring lifespan?"

If it were the past, when she was still the Angel God... even then it would be impossible. How could a god make a deal with a Soul Beast?

The meaning of a Soul Beast's existence was to provide soul rings and soul bones for human Soul Masters.

"I can completely preserve your soul and leave you with the opportunity for reincarnation and rebirth, and thus we will have the possibility of a deal."

Meng Xinghe's words were very light, drifting and ethereal like clouds and mist yet present everywhere.

This casual remark landed in Qian Renxue's heart like a massive boulder crashing into a calm lake, stirring up enormous ripples and splashes.

Yet outwardly, she showed no expression, asking doubtfully:

"Preserving the soul, reincarnation and rebirth—these are things only gods can accomplish. You are merely a spirit beast; how could you manage this? And why should I believe you can?"

To this, Meng Xinghe merely shook his head. "You must live for the transaction to hold. If I could not achieve this and you were to die today, why would I bother wasting my effort to come find you?"

"Failure is not shameful; lacking ambition is truly pathetic! For thousands of years, Spirit Hall has contributed so much to Douluo Continent. Just because they became the losers, all those contributions were erased, leaving behind nothing but infamy and criticism. Are you resigned to this?"

Hearing these words, Qian Renxue gradually clenched her fists into tight balls.

Resigned? Of course she was not resigned!

She had let down her grandfather's expectations, let down the expectations of everyone who trusted and followed her, and become a disgraceful loser.

If... if the heavens gave her another chance to start over, she would absolutely never repeat the same mistakes!

"Fine!" Qian Renxue abruptly raised her head. "As long as you can preserve my soul and allow me to reincarnate and be reborn, I am willing to agree to any trade!"

"Good, the deal is struck." Meng Xinghe revealed a genuine smile and extended his hand in a friendly gesture.

Seeing this, Qian Renxue did not hesitate; she reached out her own hand and grasped his.

The Sky Power was ignited like gasoline by a flame, and sky-blue fire spread from Meng Xinghe's hand onto Qian Renxue's body, bringing her Martial Soul to manifest upon her.

Though the Angel God Position was gone, Qian Renxue's own Martial Soul remained the Seraphim.

At this moment, she looked like an angel ascending to heaven amidst flames, her body gradually turning into specks of light that dissipated, leaving behind a somewhat illusory soul with three pairs of angelic wings, as well as six soul bones radiating a pure white brilliance.

Meng Xinghe picked up the storage soul tool that had fallen to the ground, stowed the set of six angel soul bones comprising the Angel God Armor inside it, and then took out the divine artifact, the Angel Sacred Sword.

"Next, you will sleep within the Angel Sacred Sword as its weapon spirit, quietly awaiting the arrival of the right opportunity."

As his voice fell, Qian Renxue in her soul state transformed into a stream of light under the influence of the Sky Power, merging directly into the Angel Sacred Sword.

Having finished all this, Meng Xinghe gazed into the Angel Sacred Sword in his hand with deep eyes.

A set of Angel God Armor and an Angel Sacred Sword were an incredible stroke of fortune for any soul master, but to him, they were merely icing on the cake.

The Angel God Armor consisted of six soul bones originating from the same species of spirit beast, with a age as high as ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, but he had better choices and had no use for them.

As for the Angel Sacred Sword, it was merely a divine artifact rather than a super divine artifact, so he had no use for it either.

Even after obtaining these two items following Qian Renxue's death, Meng Xinghe would use them to support someone else rather than use them himself.

What suited oneself was always the best.

Whether it was the Angel God Armor or the Angel Sacred Sword, both were items of inheritance from the Angel God; apart from the original Angel God, no one was more suited to these two items than Qian Renxue.

That being the case, rather than supporting someone else, it was better to support Qian Renxue.

Another person obtaining this fortune would only have a chance at becoming a god, but Qian Renxue, having once been the Angel God, could secure a return to the position of a deity with absolute certainty as long as there was sufficient power of faith.

Most importantly, Tang San was a common enemy shared by him and Qian Renxue.

As the saying went, the enemy of an enemy is a friend; he, Meng Xinghe, and Qian Renxue were natural allies of the same faction.

Even discounting these reasons, he would have chosen to complete this transaction with Qian Renxue simply to repay a favor.

After all, the reason he was able to possess the cultivation of a ten-thousand-year spirit beast right now was because of the explosive growth of Douluo Planet's Sky Power brought about by Qian Renxue ascending to godhood.

Meng Xinghe considered himself neither a great benefactor who repaid grievances with virtue nor a heinous villain.

Repay virtue with virtue, and repay grievances with direct justice.

Though he had crossed over to become a spirit beast, he had not discarded this most fundamental rule of being human.

Turning into a spirit beast was not his own intention, but holding fast to his original heart was his choice.