Hu Liena was genuinely scared silly.
If Li Qinglian had not already become the Holy Son and stood on equal footing with her, she might have started investigating whether he was an Evil Soul Master.
No, this method seemed even more evil than that of an Evil Soul Master!
"What's wrong? Afraid I'll hurt you?"
Li Qinglian tilted his head toward Hu Liena, a faint curve lifting at the corner of his lips.
"I'm not afraid. I just think it's a little disgusting."
Hu Liena clenched her fists and spoke softly.
This had been refined from Wang Peng's body!
Looking at the cyan orb in Li Qinglian's hand, which resembled both a fruit and a pill, she truly could not make sense of it.
She understood even less what kind of person Li Qinglian really was.
"Still, this is the first time you've given me something, so I'm definitely taking it!"
Hu Liena took a deep breath and snatched the fruit from Li Qinglian's hand.
Hu Liena opened her mouth and put it inside.
Inside the prison cell.
A long silence fell, leaving only the sound of their breathing.
Li Qinglian watched Hu Liena, wanting to see what changes would occur in her.
The instant the fruit entered her body, Hu Liena's beautiful eyes widened.
Pure life energy washed through her body.
"Ah."
"So comfortable!"
Hu Liena let out a seductive moan, then quickly shut her mouth.
Her pretty face flushed crimson.
She felt as though her body had encountered a spring rain. Her previous exhaustion was swept away, and her entire body had never felt so comfortable.
At the same time, vast spiritual energy surged into her mind.
Hu Liena's spiritual power was also rapidly increasing.
This was Li Qinglian's second ability: he could absorb the energy of dead living beings and form it into Death Fruits.
What Li Qinglian obtained by killing Wang Peng was spiritual energy and life energy.
The Death Fruit Hu Liena swallowed was composed of vitality and spiritual power, both of which were the purest form of energy and carried no side effects.
Plants were different from animals.
Plants produced yields.
The fruits, juices, and other things produced by plants all had their uses.
The Life Divine Tree was the most representative example. Even First-Level Gods wanted to obtain its Water of Life.
As a divine tree corresponding to the Life Divine Tree from afar, the Death Divine Tree produced Death Fruits!
However, the yield of Death Fruits was controllable. If Li Qinglian did not understand a fruit's effects, he could simply accelerate the growth of some smaller fruits.
For example, the one Hu Liena had swallowed could increase her spiritual power and vitality. However, the increase would not be too great; at most, it could raise Hu Liena's spiritual power by around twenty percent.
Fortunately, as long as Li Qinglian wanted to mass-produce them, he could provide as many as needed.
"Li Qinglian... ahhh..."
"You're truly amazing."
Hu Liena opened her eyes, pink light flowing through her fox-like gaze.
Her eyes were clearly much brighter than before.
Hu Liena excitedly threw herself onto Li Qinglian.
She was simply too excited!
Her spiritual power—her spiritual power had actually increased by so much!
For Hu Liena, who was practically half a spiritual-type Soul Master, nothing could excite her more than this!
Improving spiritual power was far more difficult than improving Soul Power!
For spiritual-type Soul Masters, with the same Soul Power, the greater their spiritual power, the stronger their soul skills would be.
Yet in this world, there was no particularly good method for cultivating spiritual power. Even ten thousand years later, cultivating spiritual power was troublesome. Tang San's son-in-law, Huo Yuhao, had also relied on absorbing Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's spiritual power to cultivate it.
Even if methods for cultivating spiritual power existed, ordinary Soul Masters simply did not have the time to cultivate it.
For Soul Masters, cultivating Soul Power was always the most important thing.
But now, merely by eating one fruit given to her by Li Qinglian, her spiritual power had increased by twenty percent!
Heavens!
"Mm... Qinglian."
"I want more."
Hu Liena looked at Li Qinglian with her beautiful eyes and spoke excitedly.
"Sister Nana, how about you get off me first?"
Li Qinglian did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Oh. Sorry..."
Hu Liena's pretty face burned as she quickly jumped down from Li Qinglian.
She lowered her head, not daring to meet Li Qinglian's gaze.
"Spiritual-type Soul Masters are too rare. Those among them who commit crimes are even rarer. If I get this kind of fruit again, I'll definitely give it to you."
"That's true. Li Qinglian, you'd better use this ability less often. Otherwise, I'm really afraid you'll become an Evil Soul Master." A trace of worry flashed through Hu Liena's beautiful eyes.
This ability was simply far too inconceivable.
None of the Evil Soul Masters she had seen were this powerful.
But if an ordinary person possessed such power, how many could resist abusing it?
"Don't worry about that. I won't use these abilities to slaughter innocents. And I'm different from Evil Soul Masters."
Li Qinglian had only sought out death-row prisoners to test his ability.
If he truly wanted to create a perfect Death Fruit, would it not be better to go to the Far North and find that Sky Dream Ice Silkworm? There were also those top-tier soul beasts...
However, Death Fruits did not improve Li Qinglian himself much. At most, he would use them for certain people close to him, helping them improve the quality of their Martial Souls.
He would use the remaining energy to increase the age of his Soul Rings.
"So this is the Li Qinglian you mentioned?"
Within the void, a clear female voice rang out softly, like wind chimes brushed by a gentle breeze.
The woman who spoke stood above the clouds. Her pure white gown seemed woven from moonlight, faint golden patterns embroidered along its hem and flowing with a soft glow through the void.
She had long silver-white hair, with tiny specks of light faintly drifting between the strands, as though the galaxy had been crushed apart and scattered through her hair.
Her appearance was incomparably beautiful, yet unlike the warmth of the Goddess of Life, her beauty carried a clear, distant quality. She was holy and lofty, making others unable to harbor even the slightest profane thought.
She was the Goddess of Kindness.
One of the Five Supreme Gods of the God Realm, she stood alongside the Goddess of Life as one of the female God Kings most renowned for benevolence.
At her side, a woman clad in golden divine armor and bearing six wings bowed her head respectfully. She was the Angel God.
"Yes, Goddess. This is Li Qinglian, whom the Goddess of Life personally brought to Spirit Hall. I suspect his origins..."
After countless internal struggles, the Angel God had ultimately decided to report this matter to the Goddess of Kindness.
She was a god under the Goddess of Kindness and had to remain loyal to her. As for whether she might offend the other God Kings, she had no choice now.
It was better than thoroughly offending her own superior!
"The appearance of this Martial Soul..."
"He is also a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast..."
Although Li Qinglian was a transformed soul beast, his rank was too high for even a Titled Douluo to see through him. Yet the Goddess of Kindness saw through him with ease.
So where exactly had Li Qinglian come from?
!!!
And although she could see many similarities between Li Qinglian and the Goddess of Life, their powers were completely different.
The Goddess of Life's energy was gentle and flourishing, like spring wind and rain.
But Li Qinglian's energy...
The Goddess of Kindness's gaze narrowed slightly.
It was a pure, ultimate dark side.
It carried the stillness of all things reaching their end, the solemnity of every living being walking toward its final destination.
"A little sinister... but not quite evil..."
"How strange!"
The Goddess of Kindness frowned.
"Goddess, have you heard a saying? A saying widely spread in the human world."
Seeing that the Goddess of Kindness still looked so innocent, the Angel God reminded her helplessly.
"What saying?"
"Beware of fire, beware of thieves, and beware of your best friend."
The Goddess of Kindness's beautiful eyes widened.
???
No way! That's too outrageous!
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