Angel Douluo held a dossier containing records of all the geniuses who had appeared on this year's Awakening Day.
On the first page of that dossier was none other than Meng Xinghe.
Looking at the photograph in the dossier, Angel Douluo's body trembled slightly. She slowly raised a hand and removed the Bronze Mask from her face. Her hood slipped down with it, revealing beneath the sunlight her breathtakingly beautiful features and a cascade of golden hair.
Her fingertips gently brushed over the child in the photograph, and her peerless face filled with deep nostalgia.
"Xinghe, it's been twenty thousand years. We... have both become human!"
"You saw what I looked like as a child, but this is the first time I've seen what you looked like as a child."
That was right. This Angel Douluo was none other than the reincarnated Qian Renxue!
Twenty thousand years ago, when Meng Xinghe had still been a Soul Beast, he had preserved Qian Renxue's soul intact.
Ten thousand years ago, Qian Renxue awakened from the divine artifact Angel Sacred Sword and, with Electrolux's help, transformed into a Wraith-Type Soul Beast.
In this era, Qian Renxue, a million-year Wraith-Type Soul Beast, had taken human form and cultivated anew, regaining her human identity. She had also joined the Holy Spirit Cult and become the head of the Inquisition.
Because she had been a million-year Soul Beast who had taken human form to cultivate anew, Qian Renxue had changed from a Soul Master with a single Martial Soul into one with Twin Martial Souls—and both were Angel Martial Souls!
When she transformed into a Wraith-Type Soul Beast, Qian Renxue had received the Heavenly God Bloodline Meng Xinghe bestowed upon her.
After Qian Renxue took human form and cultivated anew, that portion of the Heavenly God Bloodline manifested when she awakened her Martial Souls.
The Angel Martial Soul's three pairs of wings had become six pairs—twelve wings.
Twelve-Winged Seraph!
Twelve-Winged Dark Angel!
The twin Twelve-Winged Angels of Light and Darkness were Qian Renxue's current Twin Martial Souls.
With the foundation she had accumulated during ten thousand years as a Soul Beast, coupled with her cultivation experience as the Angel God, she could have advanced by leaps and bounds, breaking through to Titled Douluo or even Super Douluo before the age of twenty, then reaching Limit Douluo before twenty-five.
However, Qian Renxue had not blindly pursued rapid growth in Soul Power. Instead, she proceeded step by step, refining the foundation of every realm until it could be improved no further before breaking through into the next one.
Back then, Meng Xinghe, who had yet to take human form and cultivate anew, asked Qian Renxue why.
Even if she wanted a stable foundation, there was no need to be so excessively meticulous.
Qian Renxue's answer to that question was:
"Because of Tang San!"
Afterward, Qian Renxue recounted the events of the past.
Long, long ago, she, as the Angel God, had lost to Tang San, who had only just inherited the Sea God's Divine Position.
They had both been gods, yet the Angel God had lost to the Sea God.
Regarding that outcome, Tang San said it was because she had gone from Soul Saint to God Rank in less than five years, relying on tremendous external aid to improve her cultivation during that process and thus leaving her foundation unstable.
Meanwhile, he, Tang San, had endured countless hardships in those same less-than-five years, passed trial after trial, and steadily raised his cultivation to God Rank step by step, giving him an incomparably solid foundation.
That was why, despite the Angel God and Sea God being deities of the same rank, she had lost to him.
Meng Xinghe: ...
What a Tang San. He truly had no shame!
Why couldn't Qian Renxue's Angel God defeat your Sea God? Did you really have no idea why?
What unstable foundation? That was clearly the difference in their accumulated foundation before becoming gods.
Qian Renxue had only the Seraphim Martial Soul, giving her Martial Soul foundation of only nine soul rings, while Tang San had Twin Martial Souls, with a Martial Soul foundation of eighteen soul rings.
Those eighteen soul rings had also come with endless fortuitous encounters. Every one of them was over fifty thousand years old, including the soul ring of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, numerous hundred-thousand-year soul rings, and even one million-year soul ring.
The same was true of their Soul Bone foundations.
The Angel God Armor Qian Renxue inherited was certainly excellent. Every piece was a ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year Soul Bone, all from the same type of Soul Beast. Once fully absorbed, they could even resonate and raise the Soul Bones' age to one hundred thousand years.
But that depended on who she was being compared to.
As for Tang San's Soul Bone foundation, although his head Soul Bone was the roughly fifty-thousand-year Wisdom Skull formed from condensed spiritual power, after fusing with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, it was no weaker than a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.
His other Soul Bone slots held four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones, one million-year Soul Bone, and one External Soul Bone.
It could be said that whether in soul ring foundation or Soul Bone foundation, Tang San utterly crushed Qian Renxue in every respect.
That enormous disparity in foundation before becoming gods was the true reason Qian Renxue had been unable to defeat Tang San.
As for that nonsense about an unstable foundation, Tang San really had the nerve to say it.
Yes, Qian Renxue had gone from Soul Saint to God Rank in less than five years, but hadn't you, Tang San, done the same?
You went from Soul Emperor to God Rank in less than five years. You weren't any better than Qian Renxue.
If Qian Renxue's foundation was unstable, then wasn't yours, Tang San, even more unstable and unbearable?
People had always seen those fifty steps away laugh at those one hundred steps away. Seeing those one hundred steps away laugh at those fifty steps away was truly rare.
For that reason, after cultivating anew, Qian Renxue's cultivation speed was only a little faster than that of ordinary geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power.
However, Qian Renxue had no need to compete for the title of genius. Slow cultivation held no impact for her. Instead, she immersed herself in the fresh insights of cultivating through another life and the pleasure of growing stronger.
This step-by-step improvement gave her a sense of security and composure she had never possessed in her previous life.
At the same level, her strength in this life far surpassed that of her former self.
Thus, in her battle with Yun Ming back then, she had defeated that lofty Atlas Douluo head-on in a fair and square fight.
Qian Renxue admitted that, in terms of talent alone, Yun Ming surpassed her.
But no matter how gifted Yun Ming was, he had accumulated only one lifetime's worth of experience, while she had already lived through her third life.
Her first life had been as the Angel God.
Her second life had been as a Wraith-Type Soul Beast.
Her third life was her current self, born with the twin Angels of Light and Darkness.
If the accumulations of three lives still could not defeat Yun Ming, who had lived only one, then she might as well smash her head into a block of tofu and die.
After all, because of the Twelve-Winged Dark Angel Martial Soul, she had inherited her mother's legacy.
Her own legacy as the Angel God, her mother's legacy as the Rakshasa God, the legacies of two deities combined with the accumulation of three lives—given such a profound foundation, how could she possibly lose to Yun Ming, who had lived only one life?
If there was anyone among humanity worthy of her attention as an opponent, it was only Xinghe, who had taken human form and cultivated anew, and the Master of Soul Beasts, who had done the same.
Because her second life had been as a Soul Beast, Qian Renxue's view of Soul Beasts had changed drastically.
Previously, she had believed that the purpose of Soul Beasts was to provide soul rings and Soul Bones for human Soul Masters.
But after spending ten thousand years as a Soul Beast, she no longer thought so.
After her spiritual sight improved, Qian Renxue discovered that Soul Masters could plunder the power of Soul Beasts to strengthen themselves, while Soul Beasts had to face Heavenly Tribulations when breaking through their age limits.
Heaven could not possibly be so unfair. Therefore, someone had deliberately arranged this.
And that person could only be a deity—an extraordinarily powerful deity. They had altered the natural laws of Douluo Planet, not only placing shackles upon the Soul Beast race, but also making it possible for any non-human life here to be transformed into a Soul Beast.
Yet Xinghe had taken advantage of this very point, allowing Electrolux to use the laws of this world to transform her from a human soul into a Wraith-Type Soul Beast.
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