Group Level-Up: Little Qian Renxue Joins

Seven days passed quickly.

The chat group reached LV2.

Young Bibi Dong sought out Li Qiu to chat every day.

She sought him out while eating, sleeping, cultivating, bathing, and even relieving herself.

They talked about everything from geography to the past, present, and future.

In short, she was curious about everything, like a little child full of questions.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Seven days have passed on my end. You can enter a draw today. Excited?]

[The group has reached LV2. You can invite a second member!]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Excited! Super excited!]

[You get two draws?]

[Who will the new member be?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Yeah, I have two draws.]

[The new member is random. Usually, it's someone from Douluo's past or present. They might be from the past, or from the world I'm in now. I don't know who it'll be.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Oh.]

As Young Bibi Dong looked at the chat window, another window popped up.

[Congratulations! You ranked first in activity and have earned one draw.]

[Draw now?]

She reached out a delicate hand and tapped "Yes."

The next moment, countless treasures flashed across the translucent window before her.

[Congratulations! You have obtained the movement technique Shrinking Earth to an Inch.]

The window before Young Bibi Dong shimmered. An ethereal figure appeared within it, took one step and emerged ten meters away, then took another and appeared a hundred meters away. Immortal grace seemed to drift around the figure, and the movement technique was profoundly mysterious.

So this was Shrinking Earth to an Inch?

What a heaven-defying Self-Created Soul Skill!

It was practically teleportation.

What an amazing movement technique.

She loved it.

A flood of mysterious knowledge poured into her mind.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: I drew the Shrinking Earth to an Inch movement technique. What about you?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: I haven't started yet. Congratulations...]

[Congratulations! You have earned two draws.]

[Draw now?]

Li Qiu saw the window before him and immediately tapped "Yes."

The draw began.

Treasures, cultivation arts, Soul Bones, and more raced across the window.

Soon, it stopped.

[Congratulations! You have obtained a Level-Two Soul Guidance Furnace. The Soul-Guide Furnace will level up alongside its host: level two at Soul Grandmaster, level three at Soul Elder.]

[The host may design blueprints and feed in the corresponding rare metals to manufacture Soul Tools.]

Li Qiu found a device the size of a ten-inch tablet before him. Its screen was for designing a Soul Tool's shape. Once the design was finished, a tap would draw in the metal. Then the device would project the design onto the ground and produce the Soul Tool like a 3D printer.

This was pretty advanced.

Nice.

Then he drew again.

[Congratulations, host! You have obtained the Spirit Refining Art.]

Li Qiu's eyes widened at the words "Spirit Refining Art."

It was widely recognized as the strongest spiritual cultivation art in A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, an existence that was practically a bug.

Cultivating its first layer doubled divine sense; the second quadrupled it, and the third increased it eightfold.

But it had one fatal flaw—

Once cultivation began, it could not be abandoned halfway through.

If the cultivator failed to make progress within a certain time, they would go mad and lose control.

The reason was that the soul grew too quickly to remain in harmony with the body—"spirit and flesh out of accord."

In the Spirit Realm, Han Li had once temporarily lost control after going too long without the fourth layer of the art and had slaughtered his way across the seas.

The thought thrilled Li Qiu. Spiritual power was Tang San's specialty. Now that Li Qiu had this, wouldn't he soar to the heavens? He could crush that Little Scumbag and leave him to rot in the dirt.

Then a flood of mysterious knowledge surged into his mind. His head felt ready to burst.

But he knew it was knowledge of the Spirit Refining Art.

[Congratulations! The group has reached LV2 and unlocked the photo feature.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ??? Well? What treasures did you get? I want to grow stronger, and I need your help! We can trade.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: I got a Level-Two Soul Guidance Furnace. As long as I have rare metals, I can design whatever Soul Tool I want. I also got a heaven-defying art that boosts spiritual power—the Spirit Refining Art. The first layer doubles it, the second quadruples it, and so on... But it has a flaw...]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: That sounds amazing! Trade your Spirit Refining Art for my Shrinking Earth to an Inch movement technique?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Sure! You send yours first!]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Okay... Shrink Earth to an Inch...]

Li Qiu had not expected young Bibi Dong to send over the contents of Shrinking Earth to an Inch without a moment's hesitation.

He sent her the Spirit Refining Art in return, then ate a piece of Whale Rubber. His body needed to grow stronger too.

Otherwise, when he cultivated the Spirit Refining Art later, he would be in serious trouble if his body could not keep up.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: The Spirit Refining Art is ridiculously powerful!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Shrink Earth to an Inch is powerful too.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Let's grow stronger together! Let's rule our own times and worlds!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Deal. Oh, the group's unlocked a photo feature.]

[Tap those three dots. You can choose to take a selfie or a photo.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Oh, let me see.]

Young Bibi Dong immediately tapped the three dots. Options appeared, and there really was a photo feature.

She tapped it, and a selfie view appeared. She was inside a frame, with several buttons above it.

Under Li Qiu's guidance, she quickly learned how to take a selfie.

She accidentally sent it to him.

Li Qiu's eyes lit up at Young Bibi Dong's photo, and he immediately saved it.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: You're seriously gorgeous...]

He even sent a lecherous emoji.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ...I sent that by accident. How do I delete it?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: No idea.]

[The feature to randomly invite a second member has been unlocked.]

[Invite now?]

Li Qiu immediately tapped "Yes."

['Love-Starved Little Angel' has joined the chat group.]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: What's this window in front of me? Why do I have this thing? Wow... I can send words with it too! This is so fun... Haha...]

[Huh...]

The name told Li Qiu who it was: Qian Renxue. But she was so lively, just like a little girl, nothing like the aloof Qian Renxue of the present. Could this be a very young Qian Renxue?

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Hi, little angel. I'm the group owner. My name's Li Qiu, I'm twelve, my Martial Soul is the Five Elements Pearl, and I'm at the advanced Black Academy. What about you?]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: Hello! My name is Qian Renxue. I'm six, my Martial Soul is the Six-Winged Angel, and I have level-twenty Innate Full Soul Power.]

Young Bibi Dong was surprised. Another person from Spirit Hall had joined—someone from the Angel Clan, no less, and from the Qian Family. Was she from a time before Bibi Dong's, or a time yet to come? Bibi Dong was curious. Why did the girl feel strangely familiar, as though there were some inexplicable connection between them?

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Who's your father?]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: My dad is Pope Qian Xunji, and my grandfather is Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu.]

The corners of Li Qiu's mouth lifted. This was interesting. He had never expected fourteen-year-old Bibi Dong and six-year-old Qian Renxue to end up in the same chat group. It felt novel.

Young Bibi Dong's eyes widened. Qian Xunji's daughter. Qian Daoliu's granddaughter.

This...

This...

[Spirit Hall Saintess: What's your mother's name?]