The next day.
Dazzling sunlight fell across Qian Renxue's bed. Still groggy, she slowly woke, her head aching terribly. But when she sensed the surge of soul power within her, she suddenly realized something was wrong.
She discovered that it wasn't just her soul power that had soared; other aspects of her body had changed drastically as well. Although she hadn't cultivated during her years undercover, she had still been a level seventy-nine Soul Saint, just a step away from becoming a Soul Douluo.
Now, however, her soul power had definitely reached the level eighty Soul Douluo threshold-and gone far beyond it. She estimated that she might even have reached level ninety.
Then there were her vitality and blood energy, which were at least ten times stronger than before. Finally, there was her Angel Martial Soul. She could sense that it had undergone a tremendous change, but she couldn't quite put the feeling into words.
She felt that her martial soul had become purer. The sacred power within her felt exactly like that of the Angel God her grandfather worshipped.
What on earth happened?
"Elder Pufferfish, Elder Snake Lance, what happened last night?"
Qian Renxue rose and fixed the two men with a burning gaze. When she saw their evasive eyes, her suspicions only deepened!
When neither man answered for a long time, Qian Renxue flew into a rage. "In my capacity as the Saintess of Spirit Hall, I order you to tell me exactly what happened last night."
"If you won't tell me, I'll abandon the mission right now and go back to the Great Enshrined!"
Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo were both horrified. No one knew better than they did how much Spirit Hall had invested in this undertaking, or how much Qian Renxue had sacrificed.
They also knew her temper very well. She meant what she said. If they refused to tell her, Qian Renxue might truly do exactly that.
Left with no choice, Snake Lance Douluo finally began to speak. Although Huo Yuhao had instructed him not to tell her, he could no longer keep silent. "Last night, Qian Renhan came here! He..."
"My brother? He's not dead? He even came to see me?"
Qian Renxue was instantly overjoyed. Her eyes opened wide, clearly shaken by Snake Lance Douluo's words.
Snake Lance Douluo's heart lurched. Qian Renhan hadn't been dead before, but now he was dead beyond all doubt-not even a scrap remained.
"The Saint Son... His Holiness the Saint Son was indeed alive. After coming to see you, he left..."
"He left?"
Amid her immense joy, Qian Renxue felt endless regret. Yet she still sensed that something was wrong.
Qian Renhan had disappeared for ten years. He had suddenly returned, only to leave without saying a single word to her? And neither the increase in her cultivation nor the strengthening of her bloodline could have been accomplished easily.
"You still won't tell me the truth? What exactly did my brother do? Where did he go? Where did all this cultivation of mine come from?"
Under Qian Renxue's relentless questioning, Porcupinefish Douluo and Snake Lance Douluo finally buckled and told her everything.
A short while later, Qian Renxue trembled, bloody tear tracks staining her face. Three pairs of golden angel wings unfurled behind her, and without the slightest concern for anything else, she flew straight out of Heaven Dou Imperial City toward Spirit Hall.
Douluo Continent, the world of Peerless Tang Sect!
The frail figure standing before the small mound in the hills behind the White Tiger Duke's Mansion suddenly opened his eyes.
In just an instant, Huo Yuhao's bearing became completely different from before. Even though he still wore coarse cloth and his body remained painfully frail, he gave off a sharp, extraordinary presence!
His eyes held a wealth of stories.
Huo Yuhao let out a long breath, then drew in a deep lungful of the fresh air around him. Only then did he feel a trace of reality.
Only then did he feel that he hadn't just been dreaming-that everything that had happened in the other world was real.
His existence in this world was real, too.
In that single instant, he had experienced an entire life-a life spanning more than twenty years.
In this life, he was kind and weak, without even the strength to truss a chicken. Forget killing a person; he didn't even dare kill a chicken.
But in the other world, he had been a brilliant young prodigy, decisive in killing. Though he had been a little too softhearted, he would stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
The versions of him in both worlds were him, yet neither quite seemed to be. Now he was simply confused, unsure which one was truly himself.
Was this what they called post-mission aftereffects?
How was he supposed to bear all these memories?
But just as countless thoughts swirled through Huo Yuhao's mind, the system's voice rang out.
"Reward settlement beginning. Your overall rating for this mission is: Pass. Please cast the Sacred Cups to obtain your rewards." "The first Sacred Cup round remains a bonus round, so you may cast them in your own world. However, from the second mission onward, both the Sacred Cups used to lower difficulty and those used to obtain rewards may only be cast in the mission world."
This requirement was actually the system's way of curbing Huo Yuhao's heaven-defying luck on Douluo Continent. After all, Huo Yuhao was the child of destiny during the Peerless Tang Sect era, so his luck was maxed out in that period.
Casting the Sacred Cups in this world was no different from cheating. The first round was a bonus round, and even the system couldn't interfere, but that would no longer be allowed afterward.
"There are many rewards available this time, and you may obtain up to nine. Each Sacred Cup cast can randomly grant one reward. These rewards are essentially items you obtained in the mission world, as well as items that could appear in that world. Any of them may drop; everything depends on luck." "Currently available rewards: no reward, Level 10 Soul Power, martial soul: Six-Winged Angel, martial soul: Six-Winged Blood Angel, martial soul: Glazed Divine Fire Eyes, soul bone: Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, Hundred-Thousand-Year Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone, Hundred-Thousand-Year Sky Azure Bull Python Soul Bone, Dugu Bo's inner core, Dark Demon Evil God Tiger inner core, Angel God Fragment, one Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, ... Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, Thousand-Year Soul Ring, hundred-year soul ring, Asura Domain, Angel Domain, Storage Soul Tool, one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, ..." "Your rating is Pass, so your Sacred Cup casting success rate will be reduced by fifty percent. Good luck."
Huo Yuhao was already dumbfounded, stunned by these rewards. Apart from the Angel God Fragment and a few domains, all the other rewards were things he had once possessed.
And now they were practically within his grasp.
Was this the advantage of starting with nine Sacred Cups?
Huo Yuhao was certain that without his nine-Sacred-Cup start, he could never have obtained such powerful random rewards.
What a shame. He wouldn't have such good luck in his next life. This first run really had been a godlike start.
But his mission rating was only a Pass? A Pass reduced his chances by fifty percent-how many ratings were there in total?
"System, how many levels are there in the overall rating?"
That was what Huo Yuhao asked!
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