"My foolish younger brother!"
"Before I left back then, I warned you never to take a female disciple named Bibi Dong, but you still refused to listen to your brother!"
"Why were you so unwilling to heed advice? If you had listened to me even once, you wouldn't be dead and buried here now."
"Ha, kind words can't save a ghost determined to die!"
Inside the cemetery where generations of the Six-Winged Angel Clan were buried.
Qian Xunye stood before the tombstone of the previous Spirit Hall Pope, Qian Xunji, shaking his head repeatedly.
Memories of the past flashed through his mind one by one, leaving him filled with both love and hate for this younger brother.
Qian Xunye was a transmigrator.
He was also Qian Xunji's biological older brother.
The eldest son of Qian Daoliu, the Grand Consecrator of Spirit Hall.
He was two years older than Qian Xunji. They had grown up together, so there was naturally some affection between them.
When he was six years old,
Qian Xunye awakened a Dark Angel martial soul, one completely opposed to the holy light attribute of the Six-Winged Angel martial soul.
It possessed an ultimate attribute!
Ultimate darkness.
It was easy to imagine that a dark angel was unwelcome within the Six-Winged Angel Clan, regarded as an outcast among their kind.
Even then, Qian Xunye had sensed that his father Qian Daoliu's paternal love for him was gradually fading.
Two years later, his younger brother Qian Xunji awakened the Six-Winged Angel martial soul.
From then on, Qian Daoliu poured nearly all his paternal love, care, and resources into Qian Xunji.
Furthermore, because Qian Xunye possessed an ultimate attribute, his cultivation was extremely slow in the early stages!
The period from Level 30 to Level 70 was particularly grueling. Raising his Soul Power Level was extraordinarily difficult, and it was not long before he was surpassed by Qian Xunji, whose martial soul had awakened two years later than his.
Under such extreme favoritism, the accumulated grievances and unfairness broke Qian Xunye's heart, until he could no longer endure it.
Thus, at the age of fifteen, Qian Xunye voluntarily accepted a mission outside Spirit City, faked his death, and left forever.
He vanished from the continent and never returned.
Before leaving, he had warned Qian Xunji not to accept Bibi Dong as his disciple. Yet Qian Xunji had failed to take it to heart, and things still unfolded according to the plot in his memories.
Now, thirty-seven years had passed.
Fifty-two-year-old Qian Xunye had already reached the Title Douluo realm.
Yet he still looked like a young man.
While Qian Xunji had long since been buried.
Had Qian Xunye not suddenly activated the system ten days ago, perhaps he would never have returned to Spirit City for the rest of his life.
Nor would he have appeared again!
"Though I, Qian Xunye, hold resentment toward Spirit Hall and the Six-Winged Angel Clan, little brother, I have never blamed you." As he withdrew from his thoughts, killing intent gradually welled up in Qian Xunye's eyes. "Now you are dead, killed by your disciple Bibi Dong, yet that old bastard Qian Daoliu not only failed to avenge you, he even let Bibi Dong take the Pope's throne!"
"Hahaha, ridiculous! Truly ridiculous!!"
"Now that your brother has returned, if that old bastard won't avenge you, I will! I'll make that ungrateful disciple of yours, Bibi Dong, pay the price!!"
Qian Xunye's killing intent grew increasingly intense. He turned and looked toward the vast Pope's Palace ahead, preparing to head there. "Thirty-seven years... Pope's Palace..."
"I, Qian Xunye, have returned!"
Just then, he spotted a cute blond girl approaching from afar.
With tears and snot streaming down her face, the girl walked toward Qian Xunji's tombstone.
"Hm? The aura of a Six-Winged Angel. She's around nine years old. Heh, this must be my foolish younger brother's daughter, Qian Renxue?"
The newcomer was none other than Qian Renxue, the young mistress of Spirit Hall.
Seeing this, Qian Xunye concealed himself in the shadows first, watching his niece Qian Renxue with great interest.
"Wuwuwu, why? Why does she always treat me this way! Why is she so cold and indifferent toward me? What did I do wrong for her to hate me so much?~"
"Now she's even forcing me to go to Heaven Dou Palace to carry out the Infiltration Plan. She says that as the young mistress of Spirit Hall, I must shoulder the mission and responsibility of my position. If I refuse, she'll call me useless, weak, and irresponsible!"
"I, Qian Renxue, am not like that. I'll prove my worth to her!"
"So, Father... Xiaoxue... Xiaoxue may not be able to come see you for a long time, wuwuwu~"
Qian Renxue sat before Qian Xunji's grave and wept bitterly.
"Oh? Where did this little crybaby come from?"
Qian Xunye's voice suddenly rang out.
Qian Renxue hurriedly wiped her eyes and looked around. "Who! Who's speaking!"
A cloud of black mist swept over.
Qian Xunye's figure slowly emerged from the darkness.
Qian Renxue quickly turned around and saw a handsome but cold-looking young man in his thirties, dressed entirely in black. She stared at Qian Xunye warily. "Who are you? Why are you in the cemetery of my Angel Clan?"
Qian Xunye looked relaxed as he spoke bluntly. "Who am I? I am your father Qian Xunji's biological older brother. That makes me your uncle!"
"Ah? U-Uncle!?" Qian Renxue froze.
Looking closely, Qian Xunye really did resemble her father.
But she had never heard that she had an uncle!
Qian Renxue became even more wary, refusing to believe he was truly her uncle. "Hey, stop lying. My grandfather only had one son, my father. Where did this uncle come from? I've never even heard of you!"
"Never heard of me? Hehe, is that so?" Qian Xunye smiled mockingly. "After I left, was everything about me erased? Even the younger generation of the Angel Clan no longer knows I existed."
Although Qian Xunye had not been favored by Qian Daoliu, he had still once been the young master of Spirit Hall and had lived in the Pope's Palace for a full fifteen years.
Even after thirty-seven years, someone should have remembered him. Yet now, even his own niece did not know she had an uncle.
It was obvious that Qian Daoliu had erased all traces of his former existence.
He had deliberately made everyone forget that there was once a man named Qian Xunye in this world!
"Old bastard! Old bastard, is my existence truly such a disgrace to you? You actually wanted the world to forget me. Hehe, forget it." Qian Xunye shook his head with a laugh. He had long stopped caring.
He had returned today for only two things.
First: to complete the task required to activate the system.
Second: to avenge Qian Xunji by killing that ungrateful wretch Bibi Dong!
And the task to activate his system concerned Qian Renxue.
[System Activation Task: Change Qian Renxue's fate, end the Infiltration Plan, prevent Qian Renxue from going to Heaven Dou Palace. Reward: Source of the Dark Night.]
Qian Xunye's Innate Soul Power was Level 20, yet his cultivation had been extremely slow in the early stages due to his ultimate attribute.
But once he broke through Level 90, his cultivation speed would return to the level of a genius.
Thus, even without the system, Qian Xunye was confident that he could eventually cultivate beyond Level 98. However, he was not satisfied with that, because no matter how powerful a Title Douluo was, death would eventually come.
He wanted to become a god!
And only the system could possibly help him enter the realm of gods!
Therefore, he had to change his niece's fate, stop the Infiltration Plan, and keep Qian Renxue in the Pope's Palace to cultivate properly.