Black-Skinned Qian Renxue

Star Luo Empire, Star Luo City.

"Faster, faster!"

"It took you ten whole minutes just to take down Star Luo City. Is this how Xiong Jun usually trains you!?"

Di Tian stood in midair, looking down at the army of soul beasts below. It had taken them ten minutes to finally reduce Star Luo City to complete ruin, leaving not a single person alive within it. He was deeply dissatisfied.

Normally, these Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts were not left idle. He had handed them all over to Xiong Jun for proper training.

Xiong Jun had been quite willing, of course. Who would not want free punching bags?

Di Tian opened a spatial passage, his gaze falling upon an inconspicuous small sect within the Star Luo Empire marked on the map in his hand.

"All of you, get in. Xiong Jun, this time, you go last!"

When they had attacked Suotuo City last time, Xiong Jun's massive body had blocked the entrance to the spatial passage, preventing the soul beasts behind him from leaving it at all. Di Tian would not allow such a scene to happen again.

In less than half a month, the two great empires of Douluo Continent, along with countless sects, had been destroyed by the soul beast army led by Di Tian.

Countless human soul masters had been killed or wounded. The human world now seemed shrouded in dark clouds, so oppressive that people could barely breathe.

Of the forces great and small, only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one of the Upper Three Sects, the Lower Four Sects, and Spirit Hall remained.

Within the Celestial God Ancestral Hall of the Worship Hall stood the statue of the first Angel God. It was also the inheritance ground left behind after the Angel God ascended.

Here, Qian Daoliu could wield the divine authority and divine power left behind by the Angel God. It could be said that here, he was invincible, save against gods themselves.

"These soul beasts truly came with the resolve to exterminate humanity."

The atmosphere in the great hall was oppressive to the extreme. None of the worshippers present had expected it.

What their eldest brother, Qian Daoliu, had mentioned some time ago had actually become reality. The soul beasts had emerged from the forest this time to wipe out humanity.

Qian Renxue sat in a chair within the hall. Qian Daoliu had brought her here directly yesterday. Already bewildered, she became even more confused after hearing Golden Crocodile Douluo's words.

Over the years, she had done nothing but cultivate every day. She knew absolutely nothing about the outside world.

She had only just finally come out, so why was the first thing she heard news that humanity was about to be exterminated?

And by the soul beasts whom soul masters had always regarded as prey, no less.

Qian Daoliu looked toward Qian Renxue. Seeing the deep confusion on his granddaughter's face, he could not help sighing.

"Xue'er, making you cultivate for all these years was something Grandfather had no choice but to do. Soul beasts are far beyond anything we can contend with. Their goal is to exterminate all humanity."

"The only way we can contend with the soul beasts is for you to inherit our ancestor's divine position and forcibly turn the tide with divine power."

Qian Daoliu no longer intended to hide it from his granddaughter. In the current situation, even with the Angel God's power and the Divine Artifact here, he could only hold them off for a while.

Once time ran out, humanity's fate would remain what it was meant to be. Worse still, he might not even be able to hold them back.

They possessed power passed down by their ancestors; that did not mean the soul beasts lacked such power.

Listening to her grandfather, Qian Renxue lowered her head. She did not doubt the truth of his words.

Her grandfather would not be bored enough to joke with her about something like this.

But her grandfather seemed to have forgotten that she was only in her twenties. Placing all of humanity's hopes for the future on someone barely in her twenties was unrealistic to begin with.

"I understand, Grandfather. I'll cultivate diligently." After saying that, Qian Renxue silently rose and returned directly to the room in the Worship Hall where she had lived for only nine years.

Qian Daoliu looked painfully in the direction his granddaughter had left. He did not want to see her become the gloomy person she was now, with melancholy radiating from every part of her.

But there was no other way. If not for the soul beasts, if humanity had shown some restraint and had not slaughtered soul beasts so wantonly, perhaps they would not have reached this point.

After returning to her room, Qian Renxue walked to the window. Just as she was about to draw the curtains,

she saw birds soaring freely outside the window, along with insects turning over the soil.

Her eyes filled with envy. Freedom was something she had longed for for more than a decade.

After watching for a while, Qian Renxue drew the curtains shut. At once,

the room fell into darkness. Qian Renxue lay on the bed. At some point, she had come to like such dim surroundings.

She felt that darkness was safer, because when there was sunlight, she would inexplicably begin conversing with her own shadow.

She had told no one about this, because even if she did, the only response she would receive would be to sleep it off, that a good sleep would make it better.

After sleeping, she would continue cultivating diligently...

At that moment, a wave of exhaustion washed over her. Qian Renxue's eyes slowly closed, and before long, her breathing became even.

In her dream, Qian Renxue saw the father who had died many years ago, and she also saw herself as a child.

Back then, her little face had been round and plump. Although her mother had disliked her, after finishing his official duties, her father would always come to the Worship Hall to play with her.

More importantly, back then, she had not yet become the Qian Renxue who could not leave that small courtyard and could only devote herself to cultivation.

Back then, she could wander freely through the Worship Hall and Papal Hall. Her little legs were short, but they could take her anywhere.

Outside, the sleeping Qian Renxue could not help curling her lips into a faint smile. But suddenly, that smile vanished, and even her brows furrowed tightly.

In her dream, Qian Renxue saw another version of herself.

But the other girl had black hair, wore a black dress, and even had on a pair of black stockings Qian Renxue had never worn.

What radiated from that identical girl was the childishness that had vanished from Qian Renxue years ago.

"Qian Renxue, you are yourself. You should live for yourself. What does humanity's life and death have to do with you? What right do they have to morally coerce you? Just because you're talented?"

"There are plenty of talented people. Why don't they step forward? Why do they insist that you do it instead?"

At that moment, Black-Skinned Qian Renxue suddenly spoke. She circled around Qian Renxue.

When her voice entered Qian Renxue's ears, it was practically like surround sound.

"Who are you? Why do you look exactly like me?"

Qian Renxue's gaze was wary. Faced with the other girl's alluring words, she simply let them go in one ear and out the other.

Upon hearing Qian Renxue's words, Black-Skinned Qian Renxue suddenly let out a series of silver-bell-like laughs.

Her hands slowly reached toward Qian Renxue's flawless, delicate face as she spoke gently.

"I am you, and you are me. There is no difference between us."

Then, her tone abruptly changed. "How about we leave together? Escape Spirit Hall and go somewhere no one can restrain you. There, you will not have to live that dull life of doing nothing but cultivate every day."

"And you will not have to bear the burden of that bullshit hope of all humanity."