Training Arrangements

Qian Renxue pressed her lips together. She would never tell Bibi Dong the details concerning Eva and the Angel Spirit Bone. This was her final bottom line and bargaining chip.

"That isn't important." Qian Renxue turned her head aside, her voice low and weary. "What matters is that she is my daughter. She possesses unparalleled talent, and she also faces the greatest danger. I only need to know one thing, Your Holiness—are you willing to help or not?"

Qian Renxue threw the question back at Bibi Dong, but her heart rose to her throat.

She had exposed her greatest secret, revealing her weakness before this most dangerous yet intimate enemy. Everything depended on this one move.

Bibi Dong fell silent again. She slowly paced back to the throne but did not sit down. Instead, she stood with her back to Qian Renxue, staring at the enormous Spirit Hall emblem on the wall.

Her heart was far less calm than she appeared.

Qian Renxue had a child.

Like a stone cast into a deep pool, that fact sent ripples of complicated emotion through Bibi Dong's frozen heart.

It was an utterly unfamiliar feeling, mixed with shock, absurdity, and every other emotion, along with the faintest trace of something that stirred her.

By blood, that child could be considered her granddaughter.

The thought filled Bibi Dong with inexplicable irritation and resistance. She hated everything related to Qian Xunji. Qian Renxue was one such thing, and this child who had suddenly appeared even more so!

But Twin Martial Souls.

As someone who also possessed Twin Martial Souls, she understood better than anyone how difficult this path was.

The fear of being blown apart by overwhelming energy at any moment, the hardship of finding suitable Soul Rings, the loneliness of having no one to