Qian Daoliu looked at the gift pack's rewards, feeling positively delighted.
A slot for a second martial soul! That meant he could have twin martial souls in the future too!
Twin martial souls! Two martial souls, two sets of soul rings-couldn't he cultivate his second martial soul to make up for being unable to use his current one?
The Six-Winged Angel Peak Combat Power Trial Card lasted two hours, enough for him to deal with a major crisis.
And finally, the Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Pills...
These were useless to him right now. His first soul ring was already black, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring aged 13,140 years. These pills only worked on soul rings under ten thousand years old; they had no effect whatsoever on those above that age.
But once he accumulated more of them, he could use them on the younger generation. With these pills, they could simply seek out soul beasts suited to their martial souls, perhaps even disregard soul ring age entirely.
If a ring's age was a little low, swallowing a few more pills would raise it.
Of course,
Nothing could be better than giving them to Bibi Dong, who had just become his disciple.
After all,
This was a nurturing system. When he cultivated his nurturing target, the system would award returns based on the results.
He just wondered what those returns would look like. Would the multiplier be high?
With that thought, Qian Daoliu took out a pill without any hesitation and turned to Bibi Dong.
"Dong'er, your teacher doesn't have anything particularly good. Let me bestow this pill on you!"
A strange look flashed through Bibi Dong's eyes as she gazed at the pill in Qian Daoliu's hand, and he happened to catch it.
Qian Daoliu had his own thoughts about that. You never guarded against Yu Xiaogang when he deceived you, but now you know to be cautious.
"Don't worry, Dong'er. Your teacher obtained this pill recently. Taking it will add a thousand years to any of your soul rings that are under ten thousand years old!"
Seeing Bibi Dong's concerns, Qian Daoliu explained.
"What?!" ×7
Bibi Dong, Golden Crocodile and the other Enshrined, and Qian Xunji, whose speech was still slurred, all exclaimed.
After hearing Qian Daoliu's explanation, Bibi Dong smiled sheepishly, then accepted the pill and lifted it to sniff. It had a delicate fragrance. She then swallowed it, and as it melted in her mouth, its fragrance left her feeling relaxed.
"Guide this energy into your first soul ring." Qian Daoliu's voice rang out while Bibi Dong was still savoring the medicinal fragrance.
Then Bibi Dong felt a vast surge of power well up within her body and hurriedly directed it into her first soul ring.
Six soul rings immediately appeared around Bibi Dong: one yellow, three purple, and two black.
Seeing that Bibi Dong's second soul ring was purple, everyone found it rather amusing. She herself was an example of someone who had broken those supposed soul ring age limits, so how had Yu Xiaogang managed to deceive her?
Soon, everyone saw purple begin to emerge within the Yellow Soul Ring, slowly spreading throughout it until it finally became a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
[Congratulations, host. Bibi Dong has successfully taken a Soul Ring Age Pill, triggering a 10× return reward: Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Pill ×10.]
Qian Daoliu's eyes lit up as he heard Sister System's notification in his mind.
So that's how it works.
Then Qian Daoliu took out another pill. "Take this one too."
"Teacher..." Bibi Dong looked at her new purple soul ring, then gazed at Qian Daoliu with misty eyes.
Bibi Dong then took the second pill and guided its energy into her second soul ring as before. Although that ring was already purple, its color grew a little deeper.
[Congratulations, host. Bibi Dong has successfully taken a Soul Ring Age Pill, triggering a 6× reward: Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Pill ×6.]
Hearing the notification, Qian Daoliu felt even happier. "Good, good! Just what I'd expect of our Spirit Hall's Holy Maiden."
"Again!"
Qian Daoliu brought out all the remaining pills at once. Golden Crocodile and the others stared, their eyes wide with envy.
"This..." Bibi Dong stared incredulously at the pills Qian Daoliu offered her, momentarily unsure whether she should accept them.
So this is the Great Enshrined of Spirit Hall? He gives away so much in one go.
This new teacher spoils me far too much.
"If I'm giving them to you, take them. Do you think the Great Enshrined of Spirit Hall would begrudge a few pills?"
"All right. Thank you, Teacher." Overwhelmed by his favor, Bibi Dong accepted the pills and began taking them one by one.
[Congratulations, host. Bibi Dong has successfully taken a Soul Ring Age Pill, triggering a 10× return reward: Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Pill ×10.] [Congratulations, host... triggered a 5× return...] [Congratulations, host... triggered a 6× return...] [Congratulations, host... triggered a 3× return...]
System notifications sounded one after another as the ages of Bibi Dong's soul rings soared. Soon, her first, second, third, and fourth soul rings had all become black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
Black, black, black, black, black, black.
Six black soul rings appeared before everyone's eyes.
Golden Crocodile and the others once again cast envious looks her way.
"Big Brother, you're truly my own big brother!" Golden Crocodile approached with a grin, rubbing his hands together.
"Hmm?" Qian Daoliu came back to his senses and saw his brothers staring with eyes green with longing.
"Oh, come on! The way you're looking at me is giving me the creeps!"
"Hahaha! Big Brother, you know we can't undergo divine trials. How could we not be tempted by this?" Lion, the Fourth Enshrined, said heartily.
Hearing Lion's words, Qian Daoliu turned to the lifelike Angel God Statue in the hall. Spirit Hall's Enshrined were unlike those of Sea God Island. On Sea God Island, a divine trial would descend as long as someone resonated with the Sea God's Light; the Angel God, however, only responded when choosing the Great Enshrined or the successor to her godhood inheritance.
Gazing at the statue, Qian Daoliu thought of a possibility: their goddess might already have fallen. After all, Asura and the Sea God had been helping Tang San all along! Otherwise, she should at least have lent a hand during the final showdown! Besides, the original Qian Daoliu had prayed here for decades. Surely she should have given some response!
Qian Daoliu also searched his memories. Although his current self had little faith in the Angel God, the old Qian had been her devoted fan! Yet in his memories, the Angel God had never offered any response.
Returning from his thoughts, Qian Daoliu looked at the brothers who had braved life and death alongside him. "Don't worry. I won't forget my own brothers."
As he spoke, Qian Daoliu took seventy pills straight out of the system's storage space.
Bibi Dong had taken thirty-three pills in total, and the returns had earned him a total of one hundred and sixty Thousand-Year Soul Ring Age Pills. Seventy was only a small portion to him.
"Ten each. Divide them among yourselves!"
"But these pills can only increase the age of soul rings under ten thousand years. Once they exceed ten thousand years, you can't use them anymore."
"Decide for yourselves how you want to distribute them."
Qian Daoliu spoke calmly.
He certainly wanted more pills like these, but he had only just bound himself to the system, and his hands were still empty.
"It's fine, Big Brother. Even an increase of just a thousand years is already a lot. This isn't a divine trial, after all," Golden Crocodile said at once.
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