After Xiao Wu's emotions calmed slightly, Ning Rongrong stepped forward. A sincere smile rested on the girl's face as she held Xiao Wu's soft little hand.
"Xiao Wu, you don't need to worry too much, actually."
As soon as she spoke, Ning Rongrong stirred her mind, and the dazzling Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda rose from her palm, its body crystal-white and translucent, surrounded by emerald-green light.
Three Spirit Rings—yellow, yellow, and purple—lit up in sequence, floating around Ning Rongrong.
Then, Ning Rongrong took out her diary and opened the Ascension Platform function in the system store.
The clear number of system points flashed continuously, and the few dozen points were instantly consumed...
Under Liu Erlong's shocked gaze, the glow of Ning Rongrong's originally yellow second Spirit Ring surged. Its halo transformed layer by layer before finally becoming a clear, translucent light purple.
A thousand-year Spirit Ring!
Even though 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. Despite her vast experience, her face was filled with disbelief.
She had been worried about Xiao Wu earlier. The moment the diary's contents ended, she had rushed over to check on Xiao Wu and had not had time to look through the system store.
Ning Rongrong smiled and explained, "This is the Diary Copy's Ascension Platform function. 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 quietly appeared, and her second Spirit Ring was likewise a light-purple thousand-year Spirit Ring!
"It's just that our points are limited for now, so we can only raise our second Spirit Rings to the thousand-year level."
Zhu Zhuqing added, "The Elite Soul Master Tournament is approaching. After discussing it, Rongrong and I decided to raise our second Spirit Rings to a thousand years first..."
The boost a thousand-year Spirit Ring gave to a Soul Master's soul skills was undoubtedly enormous. Even a nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year Spirit Ring could not make up 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 while.
She had lived for decades, traveled the Soul Master world for many years, and even encountered powerful Title Douluo.
Yet even the Title Douluo of the greatest Soul Master clans 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 impossible...
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 age limits of Spirit Rings, one of the Soul Master world's iron laws. Then the rules strictly forbidding direct or indirect harm must surely be just as absolute...
If so, perhaps Xiao Wu's safety no longer required the same constant fear as before?
The heavy stone in her heart settled slightly, and Liu Erlong secretly let out a long breath.
Ning Rongrong, however, felt entirely differently. A trace of lingering complexity and loneliness hid in the girl's eyes.
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 its diary rules were!
Thinking of that line—that the causal anchor of Tang San becoming a god had already been fixed, and that locals could scarcely alter the ending of the protagonist of destiny—most of Ning Rongrong's little hopes instantly withered away.
It was not that she held much of a grudge against Tang San. It was simply that the diary revealed how, after becoming a god, she had failed to leave behind any descendants. The Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect would ultimately have no successor, and its legacy would be difficult to preserve. That had always worried her.
Although it was only a guess, Ning Rongrong's trust in Tang San had undoubtedly fallen greatly.
The greater trend could not be changed. Since doing it openly would not work, perhaps she could act in secret...
Ning Rongrong's eyes flickered as countless thoughts turned in 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 Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's foundation...
The next morning, dawn broke.
Qin Moyu rose early. Expectation hid 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, Host, for completing the first day's diary entries. You have received one Beginner Gift Pack.]
[Opening Beginner 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's spirits immediately surged, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He looked up and saw a magnificent, perfectly round sphere of light quietly floating above the diary, radiating a quality unlike the natural laws of the Douluo Plane.
"Equivalent Exchange Technology," as its name implied, used all things in the world as bargaining chips. It could create something from nothing, perform equivalent conversion, and exchange for any item of equal 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 this 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 enthusiasm after finishing a novel in his previous life!
In an instant, countless thoughts flooded wildly into Qin Moyu's mind.
Not only had he transmigrated, but even the rewards given by his cheat system included technological creations 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 high-dimensional technology. The other was far more terrifying to contemplate: the system had read the novel he wrote in his previous life...
Would an existence like the system really take notice of a novel written by an insignificant person like him?
Then his transmigration couldn't possibly be...
In any case, regardless of which coincidence it was, these matters were far too strange for the current Qin Moyu to understand.
Rather than agonize over an illusory truth, he might as well seize the tangible opportunity before him...
"Forget that for now. The Ultimate Selectable Martial Soul..."
Qin Moyu suppressed his complicated emotions, and his gaze abruptly shifted to another reward in the Beginner Gift Pack.
[Beginner Gift Pack: Ultimate Selectable Martial Soul.]
[1. Dragon God Martial Soul, God King Level Martial Soul.]
[Martial Soul details: The Dragon God commands the primordial source of creation and chaos, ruling over the two great source powers of creation and destruction.]
[At its peak, its combat power surpassed the God Realm's five supreme God Kings. It was the true progenitor of the Douluo Plane's soul beasts and dragon race...]
A God King Level Martial Soul above 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 introduction for the first Martial Soul, his heart pounding wildly.
The Dragon God, Master of Soul Beasts, king of divine beasts, was once a terrifying existence above the God Realm's five supreme God Kings. Its status was supreme, and its 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 leading directly to the supreme God King.
Yet behind that authority, the Dragon God itself also represented a heavy fate and shackle.
In Ultimate Douluo, Lan Xuanyu had shouldered the blood-soaked grievances of the entire Divine Dragon Realm in order to inherit the Dragon God's divine position. He traced ancient secrets all the way back, uncovered the truth behind the Divine Dragon Realm's destruction, and forcibly bore every karmic burden and shackle left behind by the Dragon God over countless millennia.
From beginning to end, he had to remain absolutely clear-headed and rational. He could not lose his way or fall into depravity. Not even half a step of error was permitted.
Once his state of mind faltered, Lan Xuanyu's ending would be destined to mirror the Dragon God's: either he would lose control and rampage, destroying the God Realm, or he would willingly let the Asura God split apart his divine body with a single sword strike, ending in death and utter dissolution.
Only in the end, when the Ascending Dragon Pillar and Golden Dragon Spear merged into the Dragon God Spear, did Lan... Tang Xuanyu step onto the God Star, summon the Dragon God's divine position back into the world, 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 toward becoming the supreme God King, the Dragon God.
But the price of walking that path was far too heavy. Power and responsibility 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 walk at least 800 chapters, right?
What were they cultivating for?
To live freely and do as they pleased without overstepping their bounds. There was absolutely no need to repay the Dragon God's debts or clean up the God Realm's mess.
Having figured out this crucial point, the fire in Qin Moyu's heart instantly died down. He then looked toward the remaining Martial Soul options...