Luofan must have caught a deity's attention!

A short while later, Xue Qinghe received the news and jogged over to Luofan, his attention wholly captured by the purple soul ring on his martial soul.

"How is this possible?"

Xue Qinghe leaned closer to the martial soul, his gaze fixed intently on the Exquisite Tower.

Even seeing it with his own eyes, he still found it hard to believe.

He had helped Luofan hunt for his first soul ring. It had come from a four-hundred-year-old soul beast, and Luofan had absorbed it right before his eyes.

Yet now it had turned into a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring?

"Luofan, why has your soul ring become a thousand-year one?" Xue Qinghe turned his gaze to Luofan and asked.

"Your Highness, I don't know either. Its age just increased on its own!"

Luofan had no intention of telling anyone about his golden trait.

In short, Luofan's position was clear: My soul ring's age has increased. I can't hide that, so I might as well admit it!

But if you ask me why it happened, I don't know either!

"Was your martial soul always like this?" A flicker passed through Xue Qinghe's eyes as he asked another question.

"No. When I awakened it, it was actually a trash martial soul with a harmful mutation. My innate soul power was zero, too, so I didn't qualify to become a soul master!" Luofan shook his head.

That answer matched what Xue Qinghe had learned through his inquiries!

"Then why did your martial soul become like this? And how did you get innate full soul power?" Xue Qinghe continued.

"I don't know either!"

Luofan shook his head again, a bewildered expression on his face. "It just happened all of a sudden, for no reason. I felt my martial soul change, and I had innate full soul power, too!"

Xue Qinghe did not suspect Luofan of lying. For a six-year-old child to have no idea why his martial soul and innate soul power had undergone such dramatic changes seemed perfectly natural.

And now his soul ring had actually risen from the hundred-year level to the thousand-year level?

This situation felt somewhat familiar to him.

"Luofan, whatever the reason, this isn't a bad thing. If you can't figure it out, don't dwell on it!" After a moment of silence, Xue Qinghe spoke.

"Yes, Your Highness!" Luofan readily nodded, presenting himself as someone who never wasted energy agonizing over things.

"Luofan, we've known each other for less than a month, but I feel as though we've been friends forever. Calling me Your Highness sounds too distant. From now on, call me Brother Xue!" Hearing how Luofan addressed him, Xue Qinghe looked somewhat dissatisfied.

"All right, Brother Xue!" Luofan nodded obediently.

After showing Xue Qinghe that his soul ring had become a thousand-year one, Luofan could clearly feel that he valued him even more!

Before, Xue Qinghe might have seen him as someone with the potential to become a Titled Douluo, worth investing in!

Now, however, he clearly wanted to groom him into a trusted confidant!

Luofan thought that was fine, too!

As long as he demonstrated enough value, others would attach ever more importance to him. Simple and straightforward—perfect!

"Why do you think Luofan's soul ring turned into a Thousand-Year Soul Ring on its own?" After Luofan left, Xue Qinghe suddenly spoke!

Then Porcupinefish Douluo stepped out of the shadows. "I've only seen descriptions of soul rings increasing in age like this in ancient texts!"

"Oh? What did they say?" Xue Qinghe raised his eyebrows slightly and pressed him.

"According to legend, deities leave behind divine trials. Those who complete them receive corresponding rewards, which can include an increase in the age of their soul rings!" Porcupinefish Douluo replied.

"Yes, I've seen descriptions like that in ancient texts as well!" Xue Qinghe nodded, confirming that Porcupinefish Douluo's thoughts matched his own!

A soul ring's age was fixed. Increasing it directly? That was clearly beyond mortal power!

"Your Highness, do you mean Luofan has... has undertaken a divine trial?"

Seeing Xue Qinghe's reaction, Porcupinefish Douluo looked stunned.

"A divine trial? Probably not. But raising his hundred-year soul ring to a thousand years, turning a trash martial soul with a harmful mutation into a Nine-Story Pagoda with a beneficial mutation, and changing zero innate soul power into innate full soul power—none of these things could be accomplished by mortal power!"

Xue Qinghe first shook his head, his brow thoughtful, then continued, "So Luofan must have caught a deity's attention!"

Luofan? He had caught a deity's attention?

Porcupinefish Douluo was stunned by Xue Qinghe's deduction.

Why would a deity take an interest in a child like him out of the blue?

But Porcupinefish Douluo could think of no reason to refute it.

Indeed, without a deity watching over him and secretly helping him, the things that had happened to Luofan were impossible to explain.

Qian Renxue had always believed herself to be the greatest genius on the entire continent!

Why? Because she had attracted the Angel God's attention from birth, and was even the only person on the continent born with level-twenty innate soul power.

Her grandfather had always told her that she was destined to inherit the Angel God's divine position!

But now? Luofan was very likely being watched over by a deity as well.

In Qian Renxue's eyes, that made Luofan the only genius on the continent who could stand alongside her!

She had to keep such a genius firmly in her grasp. In the future, perhaps she and he would meet in the Divine Realm.

Teacher, oh, teacher. Even you can misjudge someone. The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda evolved into a nine-story Exquisite Tower. What expression would you make if you knew the person you drove away could evolve his martial soul?

Thinking of how Luofan's Nine-Story Golden Exquisite Pagoda had evolved from the seven-story Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and had changed from a purely supportive tool martial soul into one with offensive power, Xue Qinghe's lips curved slightly.

He rather looked forward to seeing the regret on his teacher's face.

But immediately afterward, Xue Qinghe issued orders that all information about Luofan must be kept under tight wraps.

Not only must the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect be kept in the dark, but even that woman Bibi Dong in Spirit Hall must not find out.

Little Brother Luofan belonged to him now. He would never allow the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to poach such a talent back.

Even if that woman Bibi Dong tried to poach him, he would not give her any opportunity.

"Suppress!"

Returning to the little courtyard where he lived, Luofan focused on a huge rock. With a slight shift of thought, he hurled the Exquisite Tower from his palm!

The Exquisite Tower expanded as it flew, growing to roughly three meters tall before smashing down onto the boulder!

With a boom, the boulder shattered into dozens of pieces!

"It's so big! The soul ring's age increased, and this soul skill's attack power increased along with it!"

He did not even need to look at the shattered rock. Watching the Exquisite Tower, which had once grown to only two meters tall, now reach three meters, Luofan nodded silently!