Douluo Continent, Sunset Forest.
"Eighteen times. I've loaded my save eighteen times!"
Chu Sheng looked at the breathtakingly beautiful woman nearby. There was none of a loser's frustration on his face, only a trace of composure...
Charging headlong into adversity, tearing muscles and breaking bones, creating difficulties where none existed-he had tried it all.
Yet the Romance Lottery System still showed her progress bar at 0.
As though something had occurred to him, Chu Sheng stroked his chin thoughtfully.
"Could it be that her heart won't open up unless I take a savage beating?"
"Well..."
As a transmigrator, Chu Sheng knew quite a bit about the Douluo Continent.
He also had cheats, and more than one!
First: the Reload System.
Second: the Romance Lottery System.
The Reload System allowed him to save and load without limit.
The Romance Lottery System awarded rewards for winning over female leads and supporting characters.
Chu Sheng had transmigrated in his own body. Eighteen years old, with no martial soul or soul power, he could only milk the Romance Lottery System for all it was worth at the outset.
His martial soul, soul power, and soul rings had all come from the Romance Lottery System's "Starter Pack."
The Starter Pack offered three lottery draws. With the Reload System...
The martial soul, soul power, and soul rings he drew were the Starter Pack's ceiling, not Chu Sheng's limit!
"What scoundrel lurks there?"
Hearing that, Chu Sheng came back to his senses and looked toward that "golden glow."
This was the nineteenth time. He had exhausted all the appropriate reactions in the previous eighteen attempts.
Every attempt began with: "What scoundrel lurks there?"
Every attempt ended with... well, there was no ending.
"You talk too much!"
Chu Sheng narrowed his eyes and clenched his fists.
In the blink of an eye, crimson flames wreathed his body, and his skin shriveled as though the flames had evaporated all its moisture.
After Martial Soul Possession, the earth beneath his feet began to crack. The surrounding trees withered, rotted, and finally burst into flame.
"Nüba descends, leaving a thousand miles of scorched earth!"
This was Chu Sheng's first martial soul, Nüba, also known as Hạnba!
A mythic-grade martial soul-Nüba!
Without using a soul skill or even soul power, his martial soul possession alone turned hundreds of meters around him into scorched earth in an instant.
In hiding, two Titled Douluos exchanged a look, their eyes filled with shock.
"She Long, wh... what kind of monster is this?"
"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?"
She Long and Ci Xue stared in horror, unable to calm the turmoil in their hearts.
They had been ordered to protect their young mistress and were forbidden to intervene unless the situation became critical.
Did this count as critical?
This kid looked downright sinister-and incredibly powerful!
As she took in the scene before her,
Twenty-two-year-old Qian Renxue looked utterly bewildered, the hand gripping the Angel Holy Sword trembling slightly.
Who was he?
What was he trying to do?
Was he attacking at the slightest disagreement?
She had come to the Sunset Forest to obtain her sixth soul ring.
She had noticed him when she entered the forest.
She had assumed it was a coincidence, never imagining he would follow her all the way into the inner region!
Her identity could not be exposed, but she did not want to slaughter an innocent person either. She had intended to reprimand him and let him go...
Who could have expected him to prepare to attack her without another word!
Before Qian Renxue could say anything, something even more shocking happened.
Chu Sheng took a step forward. Crimson light flashed, and a blood-red soul ring slowly rose from beneath his feet.
Qian Renxue, She Long, Ci Xue: "..."
All three stared wide-eyed, their mouths slightly open, words caught on their tongues.
A hundred thousand year first soul ring?
"How is that possible?"
"It doesn't look fake..."
Indeed, a soul ring's appearance might be disguised, but the pressure radiating from this one could not be faked.
It truly was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring!
Red...
Red...
Still red...
By the time six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings appeared, Qian Renxue, She Long, and Ci Xue had gone numb.
The latter two were Titled Douluos, yet even their fifth soul rings were only thousand-year rings.
This young man looked under twenty, but he possessed six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings!
Just then,
"Roar!"
A tiger's roar shattered the silence.
Although the soul beasts in the Sunset Forest could not match those in the Star Dou Great Forest in quality, there was no shortage of ten-thousand-year soul beasts, or even ones tens of thousands of years old.
A Blazing Tiger around twenty thousand years old leaped out of the woods, landed midway between Qian Renxue and Chu Sheng, and let out an angry roar.
He glanced at Qian Renxue and raised a brow. A mere human Soul Master was nothing to worry about.
He turned his head and looked at Chu Sheng...
One glance was enough to freeze the Blazing Tiger in place. He stood there utterly stunned.
What color were those soul rings?
As a ten-thousand-year soul beast, he had nothing wrong with his intelligence.
He had sensed an incredibly terrifying wave of heat here and come over out of curiosity...
Could... could I still go home for dinner?
Chu Sheng glanced at the Blazing Tiger. Wasn't this an "old familiar beast"?
He should not have appeared this early. Most likely, he had been drawn here.
"Interrupting my business? Your HP is going straight to 0!"
Without using a single soul skill, Chu Sheng crouched slightly.
The next instant, he shot forward like a cannonball leaving the barrel...
Fast... far too fast!
In a single blink, the dozens of meters between them seemed to vanish, and his fist slammed into the Blazing Tiger's head.
With a thunderous bang, blood and fire sprayed in every direction.
The Blazing Tiger did not even let out a dying scream before unwillingly nourishing the earth.
At the sight, Chu Sheng paused briefly and muttered,
"Damn soul beast. He actually knows blood escape!"
Clang!
At some point, the holy sword in Qian Renxue's hand had slipped from her grasp and fallen to the ground.
Her beautiful eyes were blank, her crimson lips slightly parted.
A Blazing Tiger over twenty thousand years old had been blown apart with a bare fist?
With martial soul possession alone, neither a Soul Sage nor a Soul Douluo could do that... only a Titled Douluo could possibly manage it, right?
The young man before her looked a few years younger than she was, yet his soul power level was higher, his soul ring configuration was inhuman, and the quality of his martial soul was terrifying beyond belief...
As the Qian Family's young mistress, she had her pride and her own pace. Whoever she fell for had to be stronger than her!
Could this be love?
Qian Renxue had never imagined that anyone of her generation could surpass her in talent, soul power, and strength.
As a prodigy born with innate level-twenty soul power, she had every right to that confidence.
But today, her entire worldview had shattered!
Six Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings, and a single punch that blew apart a soul beast over twenty thousand years old without using a single soul skill...
While Qian Renxue was lost in her fantasies, a wave of heat rushed toward her.
She was completely unprepared and had no time to defend herself.
His hand clamped around her snowy neck!
It was not fatal, but it was scorching hot-even more terrifying than Solar True Fire.
The mere contact left her feeling suffocated!
Seeing this, She Long and Ci Xue blanched and cried out almost instinctively.
"You little wretch, how dare you!"
Even under the protection of two Titled Douluos, their young mistress had fallen into enemy hands without being able to offer the slightest resistance...
The mere thought made She Long and Ci Xue feel as though the sky had gone dark!
The two revealed themselves, but neither dared to attack.
They had witnessed Chu Sheng's combat prowess!
They dared not gamble on whether he would strike before they could rescue Qian Renxue.
Struggling to breathe, Qian Renxue stared straight at Chu Sheng.
Was he... here... to kill me?
Was my HP... going to hit 0?
I... I still had... my great undertaking to complete...
I... still hadn't... repaid the Spirit Hall...
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