Six-Winged Angel! The Peerlessly Beautiful Qian Renxue!

At the other end of the swamp.

Tang Shuo was leaning behind a tree in boredom, waiting for his prey to take the bait.

Suddenly, his eyes snapped open.

A vast, sacred aura, as though it could cleanse all filth from the world, swept forth from the depths of the swamp.

The Black Jade Ants he had placed on the rocks instantly turned to ash.

Immediately afterward, he could clearly sense the entire Corrosive Poison Marsh erupting into turmoil.

Every poisonous creature, regardless of size or strength, seemed to have been drawn by something fatal—or to have encountered an irreconcilable mortal enemy—and crazily charged toward the source of that aura.

Even the Nine-Heart Toad he had been waiting for, perhaps hidden deep within some mud pit, leaked a trace of restless aura before turning and heading in that direction.

Tang Shuo's expression instantly turned strange.

This uniquely holy aura of the angel martial soul...

Could it be Qian Renxue?

No.

Shouldn't she have been safely playing the role of Crown Prince Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou Imperial City right now?

Why had she come to the Corrosive Poison Marsh in the Star Dou Great Forest?

Tang Shuo was filled with doubts, but for the sake of finding the Nine-Heart Toad.

Without another word, he moved like lightning and immediately rushed toward the source of the aura.

A moment later.

When Tang Shuo pushed aside the last clump of poisonous vines scorched black by holy light, the sight before him made even him lose focus for a moment.

It was a woman.

A woman beautiful beyond compare, and powerful beyond compare.

In the center of the swamp, Qian Renxue floated in midair, holy light flowing around her like rippling water.

Behind her, three pairs of enormous golden wings slowly unfurled. Their span stretched dozens of meters, nearly blocking out the sky above the swamp.

Her fitted silver-white holy armor perfectly outlined her tall, graceful figure, with a slender waist and straight, long legs.

Every inch of exposed skin was flawless and pale, seemingly covered in a faint pearly glow.

Her face was even more beyond reproach, sacred and proud, beautiful and majestic.

Peerless beauty.

Those were the only two words Tang Shuo could produce in his heart.

Qian Renxue chanted coolly, her body transforming into a streak of golden light that instantly pierced through dozens of swooping flying poisonous creatures.

With a flick of her jade-like hand, countless crescent-shaped golden light blades swept out.

A wave of shrill cries instantly rose from the swarm below. Severed limbs and green poisonous blood splattered everywhere, creating a gruesome sight.

The holy radiance around her possessed a natural, crushing suppression over these sinister poisonous creatures.

But.

There were simply too many poisonous creatures drawn in by her martial soul's aura!

Thousands upon thousands, densely packed and seemingly endless.

As soon as one wave was slaughtered, even more surged from the mud pits, charging forward without pause.

"Pfft—"

"Hisss—"

At last, several ten-thousand-year poisonous scorpions and centipedes slipped through the blockade of light blades and spat several streams of dark green venom from their mouths.

The venom tore through the air, crossing the barrier of holy light.

It accurately splashed onto her sacred, pristine angel armor and her snowy, slender legs.

"Sizzle—"

A wisp of green smoke rose.

Several drops of dark green venom rapidly dissolved the outer layer of sacred soul light on her immaculate holy armor and snow-white legs.

An intense burning sensation struck her at once.

For the first time, Qian Renxue's face paled slightly.

This poison was no ordinary venom. It could actually penetrate the defense of her angelic holy light.

Once her soul power shield was completely broken and the poison entered her bones, the consequences in her current state would be unimaginable.

She could not wait any longer.

Before her defenses were completely breached, she had to slaughter every last one of these beasts.

The coolness in Qian Renxue's eyes instantly turned to resolve. The three pairs of golden wings behind her shone brilliantly, nearly turning the entire swamp as bright as day.

She pressed her hands together before her chest, and a massive judgment sword formed from ultimate holy light slowly began to take shape above her head.

However, just as the giant sword of holy light was about to fall.

The black mud pit beneath her suddenly exploded without warning!

A blue-green giant python as thick as a water barrel opened its blood-filled maw, large enough to swallow a cow, and lunged for her waist with foul-smelling venomous saliva dripping from its mouth.

The timing of the ambush was viciously precise.

It came at the exact instant when she was gathering her ultimate attack, her old strength spent and new strength not yet born.

This blow was impossible to evade.

At that critical moment.

A figure stepped out of the forest shadows like a ghost.

"First Soul Skill, Solar Corona Divine Wheel."

A calm yet clear voice reached Qian Renxue's ears.

The next instant, a dazzling halo interwoven with gold and crimson erupted behind that person. Ancient, mysterious sun runes flowed endlessly across it, like a condensed blazing sun descending upon this place.

Buzz—!

Tens of thousands of fine golden-red rays, thin as cow hairs, burst outward in every direction from that figure.

Wherever the rays passed, those fearless poisonous creatures, whether thousand-year or ten-thousand-year beasts, had their bodies instantly pierced through. Then, ignited by the Solar True Qi clinging to the rays, they turned to charcoal in the blink of an eye.

The battlefield was cleared in an instant.

At the same time, that figure did not pause in the slightest. Moving like lightning, he lunged toward the peerlessly beautiful figure swaying in midair.

Under Qian Renxue's stunned pale-gold gaze, Tang Shuo wrapped an arm around her soft, boneless waist and pulled her into his embrace.

"Dong—!"

An ancient bell toll, as though it came from primordial antiquity, resounded between heaven and earth.

A phantom of a simple, unadorned great bell in the color of chaos instantly expanded, tightly enveloping the two of them.

Upon the bell's phantom, totems of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, plants, and trees flickered into view, radiating supreme might capable of suppressing everything.

In an instant.

Whether it was the blue-green giant python's fatal bite, the venom and poisonous needles spewed by the remaining poisonous creatures, or the corrosive miasma permeating the heavens and earth...

Every attack and every toxin vanished without a trace the moment it touched the bell's phantom, melting away like ice and snow.

Holding Qian Renxue, Tang Shuo used the force of his leap to plunge straight down into the mud pit below.

"Splash!"

Black sludge sprayed in every direction.

The angel who had once been holy, noble, and inviolable was covered in filthy swamp mud in the blink of an eye.

But the Eastern Emperor Bell's defense was absolute.

The few strands of Serpent Emperor's Venom that had nearly broken through Qian Renxue's final soul power barrier and were about to invade her snow-white skin were forcibly stripped away by an invisible force and sealed outside the moment the bell's phantom formed.

Within the bell's phantom, she had not suffered the slightest real injury.

Qian Renxue lay dazed in the mud pit, staring at the man pressing down on her.

It was Tang Shuo.

She had never imagined that they would meet again under such a bedraggled, even somewhat humiliating, circumstance.