Bringing Back a Saintess, the Gu Maiden Wants to Feed Me Poison on the Spot?

Thirty miles outside Heaven Dou City. An abandoned manor.

Qian Renxue stood amid broken walls, her golden hair scattered by the night wind.

A cold moon was reflected in her pale golden eyes.

The coded message she had received three days ago contained one set of coordinates and one time.

She had shaken off every accompanying guard and told Spirit Hall she was leaving to train.

Su Chen made no sound when he landed.

But Qian Renxue immediately turned around—the [Angel Martial Soul] escaped her control, releasing a gentle golden glow.

It was not vigilance.

The moment she saw him, her breath caught for half a beat.

He had changed.

His face was unchanged, but that presence of his—from a blade drawn from its sheath, he had become a mountain that had no need to be drawn.

The wisp of [Fallen Heaven Power] deep within her fell completely silent the instant Su Chen stepped within thirty paces.

The erosion that had once required him to deliberately release his aura to suppress was now subdued simply by his standing there.

Qian Renxue felt every meridian in her body relax.

A complete, long-lost peace.

Her eyes burned.

She bit her lower lip.

"You broke through." Her voice remained cool, but the end of it trembled ever so slightly. "Nine rings. A Titled Douluo."

Su Chen nodded.

He took a seven-colored, gold-inlaid [Scale Crystal] from his robes—a fragment scattered when the Ancestral Qilin's true spirit shattered.

"Wear it close to your body. The Ancestral Qilin's auspicious power can suppress the Fallen Heaven factor for a long time. Even if I'm not around in the future—you won't lose control."

Qian Renxue stared at the Scale Crystal without reaching for it.

"You knew?" Her voice dropped low enough for only the two of them to