Would I Disappear If She Didn't Get Together with Qian Xunji?

Little Qian Renxue felt so lucky to have a grandfather like hers.

[A Leaf Autumn: @Spirit Hall Saintess, a Poison Spider Soul Beast would do, but a Man Faced Demon Spider that's eighteen thousand years old would be even better. It might even drop an External Soul Bone.]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: A Man Faced Demon Spider? I'll look it up.]

Young Bibi Dong immediately went to the Library Pavilion and began leafing through books.

She found an entry on the Man Faced Demon Spider:

Title: Evil Slaughterer, nightmare of small Soul Beasts.

Habitat: Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest.

Appearance: A black carapace with white markings on its abdomen forming a vicious human face, and eight tiny, eerie purple eyes beneath it;

eight spear-like legs, sharp and hard, bearing deadly poison...

Traits and combat strength: Could fight above its age class. A century-old Man Faced Demon Spider could contend with an ordinary thousand-year Soul Beast...

After reaching ten thousand years, it gained the ability to hide itself and evade Spiritual Detection. It excelled at ambushes and sneak attacks.

Weakness: The eight purple eyes beneath its abdomen were its vital points.

She immediately copied down the information and slipped it into her storage soul-tool belt.

Then she turned and left the Library Pavilion.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: @A Leaf Knows Autumn, this Soul Beast is even better than the Poison Spider my teacher told me about.]

[I'll hunt the Soul Beast you suggested.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Then I wish you a +1000% External Soul Bone drop rate.]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: I know who the Spirit Hall Saintess is! Hehe. She's level fifty right now, and the Soul Beast she's hunting is a venomous spider. I just checked: there's someone who reached level fifty at fourteen and also hunted an eighteen-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider.]

Little Qian Renxue pinched her cute, pointed chin, looking immensely pleased with herself.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Really? Then who am I?]

Young Bibi Dong was curious whether little Qian Renxue could guess correctly.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Tell us, Xiao Xue. I'm curious too.]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: She's fourteen-year-old Bibi Dong! Hehe... I guessed right, didn't I? Bibi Dong isn't my mom yet at this point!]

Young Bibi Dong froze for a second when she saw the message in the chat.

She liked what little Qian Renxue had said.

Right now, she wasn't her mother yet.

Hehe, not bad. She's pretty clever.

[Spirit Hall Saintess: If I don't get together with Qian Xunji, would you never exist? @Love-Starved Little Angel.]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: I don't know.]

Little Qian Renxue blinked her big eyes. That felt like a difficult question.

Unable to work it out, she thought of the group owner.

[Love-Starved Little Angel: @A Leaf Knows Autumn, big brother group owner, what do you think?]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: Me? That's hard to say!]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: All right. Then, big sister Spirit Hall Saintess, why don't you want to be with Qian Xunji?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ...]

[Don't you know how you were born?]

[Let's have our all-knowing group owner explain it!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: You want me to perform a miracle before everyone?]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Before the young master of Spirit Hall, actually. That's a level above performing one before ordinary people, okay? You should call yourself Sage of Knowledge!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: ...]

[That sounds awful. I'd rather be called Sage of Revelation: all truths under heaven laid bare before my eyes, with no secret left anywhere to hide.]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: What does performing a miracle before everyone mean? I don't get it.]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: It's when a powerful immortal or master displays a miracle or supernatural power before ordinary people.]

Little Qian Renxue kept an eye on the chat window while practicing Shrink Earth to an Inch. So that was what it meant.

That sounded pretty amazing.

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: The truth is, young Bibi Dong doesn't like Qian Xunji...]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: @A Leaf Knows Autumn, miracle failed!]

[A Leaf Knows Autumn: I just didn't want to show off...]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: Oh, I see. So Dad forced his love on xxx...]

Little Qian Renxue looked at the message and thought of her mother's attitude toward her.

She could guess what had happened.

Waaah...

Poor Mom. You've suffered so much.

Of course, she also wanted to know the details of what had happened between her mother and father.

But the elders, her grandfather, and her father would never tell her.

The group owner, though, could.

Still, she didn't want to ask right away. She would find a chance later.

[Love-Starved Little Angel: @Spirit Hall Saintess, I'm sorry, Mom. I misunderstood you!]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: ??? I'm not your mom! Have you forgotten I'm only fourteen, little one?]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: Bleh... I thought of you as Mom for a moment, hehe. I'll call you Little Mom from now on!]

[Spirit Hall Saintess: Call me big sister!!!]

[Love-Starved Little Angel: No, Little Mom!!]

Li Qiu found the exchange between little Qian Renxue and young Bibi Dong rather amusing.

Then he turned and walked into the dormitory.

Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Tang San, Dai Mubai, and the others all turned to look at Li Qiu.

"You really stepped in dog shit and struck gold. One martial spirit mutation, and you went from the weakest, lowest-ranking guy in the dorm to one of the stronger ones!"

Oscar had seen how completely Zhao Wuji and Li Yusong's attitudes toward Li Qiu had changed. They had even given him Gold Soul Coins. Oscar couldn't help envying him.

They looked at Li Qiu much the way they looked at Dai Mubai.

Oscar wanted to be looked at that way too, with expectation and respect.

But he was only a support Soul Master.

Now he was at the bottom of the dormitory.

Li Qiu used to be beneath him. Now Oscar's hard days were coming.

And Li Qiu's good days were about to begin.

Oscar couldn't help asking,

"Is your Second Soul Ring really two thousand years old?"

The others wanted to know too.

"Of course!" Li Qiu said, the corner of his mouth lifting.

"That can't be possible! My teacher said the optimal age for a Second Soul Ring is a little over seven hundred years. Any older and your body can't withstand it—you'd burst apart!"

Tang San treated Yu Xiaogang's words like scripture.

He was sure Li Qiu was lying.

"Your teacher?"

Li Qiu raised his eyes toward Tang San and asked, pretending he didn't know who it was.

"Of course! Yu Xiaogang—the Grandmaster who's going to be famous throughout the world!"

Tang San's face filled with pride whenever he spoke of Yu Xiaogang. Having a teacher like him felt like a blessing, like incredible luck.

His teacher's vast knowledge would make the whole world erupt in amazement and cheers.

"Oh? Then where did this two-thousand-year Soul Ring of mine come from?"

A Soul Ring slowly rose beneath Li Qiu's feet. The powerful surge of Soul Power forced even Tang San two steps back.

The blast sent Dai Mubai's, Ma Hongjun's, and Oscar's hair and clothes whipping wildly.

They all stared wide-eyed. Those truly were the Soul Power fluctuations of a two-thousand-year Soul Ring.

That powerful aura made their hearts pound with shock and dread.

"Damn it..."

Ma Hongjun gritted his teeth. He used to think Li Qiu was trash he could trample whenever he pleased.

Now Li Qiu had become a monster of a talent who could trample him instead.

Li Qiu was already beyond his reach.

No wonder Li Qiu had beaten him before.

So he had a Soul Ring of such a high age.

How infuriating.

Dai Mubai was stunned too.

After all, his Third Soul Ring was only a thousand years old.

Yet Li Qiu's Second Soul Ring was already two thousand years old,