After Xiao Wu's emotions had calmed slightly, Ning Rongrong stepped forward with a sincere smile on her face and took Xiao Wu's soft hand.
"Xiao Wu, you don't need to worry too much either."
As soon as she spoke, Ning Rongrong stirred her thoughts, and the dazzling Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda rose from her palm. It was crystalline white throughout, wreathed in emerald-green light.
Three Spirit Rings—yellow, yellow, and purple—lit up in succession, floating around Ning Rongrong.
Immediately afterward, Ning Rongrong took out her diary and activated the Ascension Platform function in the system store.
The clear number of system points flickered continuously as the mere few dozen points were instantly spent...
Under Liu Erlong's shocked gaze, Ning Rongrong's originally yellow second Spirit Ring suddenly shone brightly. Its halo transformed layer by layer before finally becoming a clear, translucent light purple.
A thousand-year Spirit Ring!
Even if it had only barely crossed the thousand-year threshold, it was still a thousand-year second Spirit Ring!
"Rongrong, what exactly is going on?"
Liu Erlong's pupils contracted sharply. Even with her vast experience, her face was filled with disbelief.
Earlier, she had been worried about Xiao Wu. As soon as the diary content ended, she had rushed over to check on Xiao Wu and had not had time to look through the system store.
Ning Rongrong smiled. "This is the Ascension Platform function of the Diary Copy. It can consume points to raise a Spirit Ring's age limit without any requirements."
Zhu Zhuqing, standing nearby, nodded at the right moment. Her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul silently emerged, and its second Spirit Ring was also a light-purple thousand-year Spirit Ring!
"It's just that our points are limited for now, so we can only raise the second Spirit Ring to the thousand-year level."
Zhu Zhuqing added, "With the Elite Soul Master Tournament approaching, Rongrong and I discussed it and decided to raise our second Spirit Rings to a thousand years first..."
A thousand-year Spirit Ring provided an enormous boost to a Soul Master's soul skills. Even a nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year Spirit Ring could not make up for that gap.
"If that's the case, then this... really is possible."
Liu Erlong stared blankly at the two light-purple thousand-year second Spirit Rings before her, unable to calm herself for a long time.
She had lived for several decades and roamed the world of Soul Masters for many years. She had even seen powerful Titled Douluo.
Yet even the Titled Douluo of top Soul Master families could only have yellow hundred-year Spirit Rings for their first and second Spirit Rings.
Today, she had truly lived long enough to see the unimaginable...
Amid her shock, the ironclad rules of the Diary System suddenly flashed through her mind.
The Diary System was so powerful that it could forcibly rewrite even the ironclad rule of Spirit Ring age limits. The rule strictly forbidding direct or indirect harm must surely be just as absolute...
If that was so, perhaps Xiao Wu's safety no longer needed to be a cause for such constant anxiety?
The weight in her heart eased slightly, and Liu Erlong secretly let out a long breath.
Ning Rongrong, however, felt completely differently. Her eyes held an inescapable trace of complexity and loneliness.
The power of the Diary System was something that even she, the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, could not comprehend at all.
And the more powerful and omnipotent the Diary System was, the more it proved how absolutely unshakable the diary's rules were!
The moment she recalled that sentence—that Tang San's karmic anchor to godhood had already been set, and that locals could hardly alter the fate of the protagonist chosen by destiny—the little thought in Ning Rongrong's heart instantly withered by more than half.
It was not that she had such a great issue with Tang San. It was simply that the diary had revealed that after becoming a god, she had failed to leave behind any descendants, and that the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would ultimately have no successor, making it difficult for its legacy to continue. That had always worried her.
Though it was only a guess, Ning Rongrong's trust in Tang San had undoubtedly fallen by a great deal.
The greater trend could not be changed. Since doing it openly would not work, perhaps she could act in secret...
Ning Rongrong's gaze flickered as countless thoughts ran through her mind.
She had already made up her mind. At the very least, she would persuade her father to stay away from Tang San. Perhaps that could preserve the foundation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect...
The next morning, dawn broke.
Qin Moyu got up early. Expectation gleamed in his eyes as he opened his diary.
After an entire night, the Diary System had finished calculating the rewards for the first day's diary entries.
[Congratulations to the host for completing the first day's diary entries. You have obtained one beginner's gift pack.] [Opening beginner's gift pack. You have obtained the following rewards: Ultimate Selectable Martial Soul ×1, God-bestowed Spirit Ring ×5, "Equivalent Exchange Technology."]
"What? Equivalent Exchange?!"
Qin Moyu immediately perked up, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He looked up and saw a gorgeous, perfectly rounded orb of light quietly floating above the diary, emitting a quality unlike the laws of heaven and earth of the Douluo Plane.
As its name implied, "Equivalent Exchange Technology" used all things in the world as bargaining chips, creating something from nothing, converting value equally, and exchanging it for any item of equivalent value.
This was a technological creation truly developed by a higher-dimensional civilization!
What truly shook Qin Moyu to his core and made his scalp tingle was not the heaven-defying function of the technology itself, but its origin.
This was not a product of the Douluo Plane at all. It was a novel setting he had casually written down in a burst of youthful excitement after finishing a novel in his previous life!
In an instant, countless thoughts flooded Qin Moyu's mind.
Not only had he transmigrated, but even the rewards given by his cheat system included technological creations that he had once designed in his own writing.
A coincidence?
Qin Moyu silently considered that possibility.
One coincidence was that the system encompassed everything and had happened to include this higher-dimensional technology. The other possibility was far more terrifying upon reflection: the system had read the novels he had written in his previous life...
Could a system like this really take an interest in the novels of a nobody like him?
Then his transmigration might not have been...
In any case, no matter which coincidence it was, these matters were far too bizarre for Qin Moyu to understand at his current level.
Rather than agonize over an elusive truth, he might as well seize the solid opportunity before him...
"Forget that for now. The Ultimate Selectable Martial Soul..."
Qin Moyu suppressed his complicated emotions and abruptly shifted his gaze to another reward in the beginner's gift pack.
[Beginner's Gift Pack: Ultimate Selectable Martial Soul:] [1. Dragon God Martial Soul, God King Level Martial Soul.] [Martial Soul Details: The Dragon God governs the primordial chaos of creation, commanding the two primordial forces of creation and destruction.] [At his peak, his combat power surpassed the five supreme God Kings of the God Realm. He is the true progenitor of the soul beasts and dragon race of the Douluo Plane...]
A God King Level Martial Soul above even a god-level Martial Soul, comparable to the supreme God King, the Dragon God?
"The Dragon God Martial Soul... Isn't this the path Lan Xuanyu was destined to take in the later stages of Ultimate Douluo?!"
Qin Moyu stared at the first Martial Soul description, his heart pounding wildly.
The Dragon God—the Master of Soul Beasts, the king of divine beasts, a terrifying existence that had once stood above the five supreme God Kings of the God Realm. His status was supreme, and his combat power unmatched throughout the ages!
Qin Moyu would be lying if he said he was not tempted. Across the entire Douluo Plane, no Soul Master could refuse the Dragon God's inheritance or the path that led directly to the supreme God King.
But behind that authority, the Dragon God itself also represented a heavy destiny and shackle.
In Soul Land IV: Ultimate Douluo, in order to inherit the Dragon God's divine position, Lan Xuanyu had borne the blood-soaked grievances of the entire Divine Dragon Realm. He traced ancient secrets all the way back, uncovered the truth behind the Divine Dragon Realm's destruction, and forcibly took on all the karma and shackles the Dragon God had left behind over millions of years.
From beginning to end, he had to remain absolutely clear-headed and rational. He could not be lost, and he could not fall. Not even the slightest misstep was permissible.
Once his state of mind faltered, Lan Xuanyu's ending would be destined to mirror that of the Dragon God: either lose control and destroy the God Realm in a rampage, or willingly have his divine body cleaved apart by Asura God's sword and meet death and oblivion.
Only in the end, when the Ascending Dragon Pillar and the Golden Dragon Spear fused into the Dragon God Spear, could Lan... Tang Xuanyu set foot upon the God Star, summon the Dragon God's divine position to descend once more, and become the second-generation Dragon God.
If he truly chose the Dragon God Martial Soul, he would be destined to embark on the path of reaching the supreme God King, the Dragon God.
But the price along the way was simply too heavy. Rights and responsibilities had always been equal.
Not to mention anything else, Lan Xuanyu had spent 1,794 chapters walking the path of the Dragon God's divine position. If Qin Moyu chose the Dragon God Martial Soul, he would have to go through at least 800 chapters, right?
What were we cultivating for?
To live freely and do as we pleased without crossing the line. There was absolutely no need to repay the Dragon God's debts or clean up the God Realm's messes.
Having figured out this key point, the fire in Qin Moyu's heart immediately died down. He then looked toward the remaining Martial Soul options...
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