[Great Sun Divine Authority: World-Illuminating Divine Crow], Qian Renxue's Departure!

"Little lady, holding it in must be hard, mustn't it?"

Leng Yaozhu rested her fair cheek on one hand, reclining lazily on the sofa with a teasing smile in her beautiful eyes.

"The more you suppress that yearning from your martial soul origin, the worse the backlash feels. Don't you want to let it all out?"

She snapped her fingers.

An invisible barrier of spiritual power instantly rippled outward like water, sealing off the entire lounge.

"Go ahead, release it and become one." Leng Yaozhu smiled at Qian Renxue, whose entire body had gone rigid.

"I guarantee that even if you two punch a hole through the heavens in here, nobody outside will sense the slightest trace of your aura."

Lu Xuan looked at the girl before him, her breathing quick and her eyes filled with shock.

Without another word, he calmly extended his right hand.

Qian Renxue stared fixedly at Lu Xuan's small, somewhat youthful hand, her chest heaving.

Her mind raced.

Her identity had been completely exposed.

The other party had even named Spirit Hall's Qian Family. Continuing her disguise was pointless.

As long as Xue Qinghe outside did not discover it, what did it matter if they performed martial soul fusion here...?

Besides, wasn't this precisely what she most wanted to confirm?

She stopped resisting the pull and slowly extended her own hand, pressing her palm firmly against Lu Xuan's.

"Humm—!!!"

A clear, piercing cry rang out.

A phantom Six-Winged Angel radiating boundless sacred power soared from behind her, as though it had broken out of a cage and could not wait another moment!

She no longer suppressed her martial soul, and the phantom Six-Winged Angel appeared as though it could hardly wait.

At the same time, the Three-Legged Golden Crow behind Lu Xuan let out a soul-shaking cry.

In an instant.

Dazzling golden light exploded outward.

It swallowed both their figures completely.

Ultimate solar truefire and pure sacred purification power collided violently in midair.

Yet neither repelled the other. Instead, they entwined and fused wildly, blending as seamlessly as milk and water!

[Great Sun Divine Authority: World-Illuminating Divine Crow]

The radiance reached its peak, instantly lighting the entire room as brightly as day.

Even the air warped violently beneath the terrifying heat and sacred pressure.

Their figures had vanished completely.

An enormous bird emerged proudly amid the golden light.

It retained the noble, domineering form of the Three-Legged Golden Crow, but six immense wings of sacred light spread from its back!

Above its head, a golden halo resembling the Angel God's divine ring slowly revolved.

The Golden Crow's solar truefire and the angel's sacred purification power fused perfectly.

They transformed into a special kind of flame!

The flame made no savage roar as it burned, yet it exuded an absolute, domineering power capable of erasing all evil and matter at their very roots!

Leng Yaozhu suppressed the aura emanating from the Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

"What a domineering fusion skill... all right, end it now!"

Watching the surrounding furniture begin to melt away, Leng Yaozhu immediately urged them to stop.

Golden light flashed abruptly, and the giant bird dissipated.

Lu Xuan and Qian Renxue reappeared where they had stood.

"Very good, very good!" Leng Yaozhu clapped softly and chuckled, her gaze moving between them.

"Did anything change in your soul power while your martial souls were fused?"

"Yes!" Lu Xuan released her hand, carefully sensed the lingering effects within his body, and nodded.

"I felt my soul power circulate noticeably faster during the fusion!"

"So did I!" Qian Renxue said, a little excitement in her voice.

"Exactly!" Leng Yaozhu smiled at Qian Renxue like a fox luring an innocent little rabbit.

"If you two could cultivate together, your soul power would advance a thousand miles a day."

"What do you think, little lady? Want to come along with our Xiao Xuan?"

Qian Renxue froze for a moment, a clear flicker of conflict crossing her eyes.

The pleasure of cultivating with such perfect compatibility was an irresistible temptation for any Soul Master.

But reason soon quelled the struggle in her eyes.

"I'm sorry, but I can't yet!" Qian Renxue took a deep breath, regaining her cool composure.

"I still have something extremely important to do, and I can't leave. But..."

She looked straight into Lu Xuan's eyes and said earnestly:

"If you'll be staying in Heaven Dou City for a while, I'll find a way to come to you myself."

"I have to go. Until next time!"

With that, Qian Renxue turned without the slightest hesitation, pushed open the door, and left.

Neither Lu Xuan nor Leng Yaozhu stopped her.

"Tsk, what a shame." Leng Yaozhu looked at the door as it closed again and shook her head regretfully.

"With a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, you two are practically a match made in heaven!"

"And hers is a divine martial soul like the Six-Winged Angel, too. Xiao Xuan, didn't you want to ask her to stay?"

"I did, but we need to learn to respect other people's destinies."

Lu Xuan sat back down on the sofa, picked up a glass of water, and took a small sip, his tone calm.

"If she understood her own importance and talent, she wouldn't have come to the Heaven Dou Empire to be a maid!"

Although soul power fusion could accelerate cultivation.

If the other participant's heart was elsewhere, forcing them to stay together would not lead to anything good.

"That's true."

Leng Yaozhu nodded in wholehearted agreement, unable to resist complaining.

"I think I know why—I think I understand why Spirit Hall in your era lost the future war of the gods."

"Instead of keeping such a gifted Soul Master close and pouring every resource into properly nurturing her."

"They tossed her into an enemy nation for some undercover mission? They turned a massive advantage into a disadvantage! What an incredible way of thinking."

Through Leng Yaozhu's firsthand experience of this era.

She had originally been unable to understand why Spirit Hall, which enjoyed considerable prestige across the continent.

And possessed such deep reserves of strength, had ultimately fallen into such a miserable state.

In this era, under Spirit Hall's rule, there was no scourge of Evil Soul Masters.

Compared with ten thousand years later, this was practically paradise on earth!

Moreover, awakening a martial soul was free.

Subsidies were available once one's soul power reached certain levels.

It was extremely friendly to commoner Soul Masters!

Both heaven's timing and the terrain's advantages favored Spirit Hall.

Putting together everything she had seen so far, she had identified the most important missing element: harmony among its people.

She stood up and finished the fruit in her hand:

"Let's go. It's time we headed back, too."

Lu Xuan nodded, and the two left the Great Soul Arena.

Inside a private box.

Xue Qinghe quietly listened to Qian Renxue's entire report.

As he looked at the imperial token she handed back, a trace of disappointment he could not conceal flashed in his eyes.

"He wouldn't even meet me?" Xue Qinghe sighed and tucked the token back into his robes.

"What a shame... such an astonishing young genius."

"Never mind. Since he isn't interested, we mustn't force it and risk making ourselves unwelcome. Let's go."

Xue Qinghe stood. His visit to the Great Soul Arena today had been for the purpose of recruiting this Golden Crow whose reputation was soaring.

Since the person himself had clearly refused, he had no reason to remain.

Inside another private box.

Salas slowly stood up.

He paid no attention to the subsequent matches in the arena, reaching up to straighten the platinum robes that symbolized his status.

After watching this battle.

Salas had made his decision.

He would send someone to follow this Golden Crow.

Once they confirmed his address, he would report the information to his superiors.

Although, up to this point.

He still had not uncovered a single clue about that mysterious red-haired female Titled Douluo.

Reporting information about a rare, peerless genius like Golden Crow to Spirit City would nevertheless be a major achievement.

His merit would offset his failure.

At the very least, His Holiness the Pope probably would not rebuke him again for his incompetence.