Qian Renxue also felt somewhat conflicted, as she had only been driven by pride a moment ago.
Now, looking at the Void Beast collapsed on the ground, a trace of helplessness involuntarily flashed across her eyes.
They had caught the Void Beast, but the problem was that its age was far too high!
If this little fellow really met with some accident because of her, she, Qian Renxue, would never forgive herself for the rest of her life.
Hesitation flashed in the depths of Qian Renxue's eyes, and in the end, she still reached out to press Meng Chen's shoulder, her tone turning rare in its seriousness.
"Little Meng Chen, they're right. A three-thousand-year soul beast is truly not something you can absorb right now. If worst comes to worst, we can just search for another one; at most, we'll waste a few more days, and nothing's the matter anyway."
Meng Chen looked at the worried expressions of the few people and shook his head.
He reached out his small hand to gently remove Qian Renxue's hand from his shoulder.
Then, he raised his head to look at Zhan Shan, those distinct black-and-white eyes entirely devoid of a child's mischievousness.
"Commander Zhan, believe me."
"I know my own body best. Since I dare to want it, I will certainly not make a joke of my own life."
Zhan Shan's heart trembled under Meng Chen's gaze, and the entire person froze on the spot.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Meng Chen hesitated no longer, reversed his hand to draw the short blade from his waist, and strode up to the Void Beast.
Qian Renxue instinctively wanted to reach out and stop him.
Yet after seeing the boy's resolute gaze, her outstretched hand hung frozen in mid-air.
Rip!
A cold gleam flashed, and the short blade cleanly and decisively stabbed fiercely into the wound on the Void Beast's neck, thoroughly ending the Void Beast's vitality.
"Hum!"
A cluster of dense, deep-purple radiance surged out from within the Void Beast's body.
Immediately following, countless fine spatial fragments derived out of thin air within the void, slowly condensing into a single deep-purple soul ring.
Three thousand years, a spatial-attribute soul ring.
Meng Chen sat directly beside the carcass, and the soul power within his body also began to circulate.
The first thousand-year soul ring emitted a pure purple light, rising from the soles of his feet before attaching to the Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul.
Under the traction, that massive, deep-purple void soul ring was like finding a vent.
"Young Lord!"
Zhan Shan cried out in alarm, wanting to step forward, but Qian Renxue grabbed him and stopped him.
"Don't go over! If you force an interruption, he'll only die faster!"
With the passage of time, the scenario the crowd had anticipated did not occur.
At this moment, Meng Chen's eyes were tightly shut, his expression solemn.
That strand of spatial energy, which was enough to tear the meridians of an ordinary Soul Grandmaster into pieces, indeed began to crush like thousands of sharp blades the moment it poured into his meridians.
Yet just as this energy was about to touch his bone marrow and internal organs,
the pure dragon blood hidden beneath the exterior of Meng Chen's Soft Bone Rabbit awakened abruptly.
Roar!
A dragon roar that only Meng Chen himself could hear exploded in the depths of his divine sense.
Tyrannical? Unsubmissive?
Before the qi-blood furnace of a God King who wielded destruction and the ultimate physical body, a mere wisp of a three-thousand-year soul beast remnant soul did not even possess the qualification to wail.
In the blink of an eye, it was ruthlessly crushed to pieces by the overpowering qi-blood furnace.
In the outside world, a full four hours and more had merely passed.
The purple soul ring completely stabilized, quietly pulsing at Meng Chen's feet.
Double purple!
A Soul Grandmaster with dual thousand-year soul rings!
Zhan Shan stared blankly at the scene before him, and even the Twelve Knights beside him were somewhat stunned.
A six-and-a-half-year-old soul master with two thousand-year soul rings.
Among them, one was even a three-thousand-year spatial attribute.
If this word were passed back to Heaven Dou City, I'm afraid the entire soul master world would experience an upheaval.
Qian Renxue also let out a long breath of relief.
Even she, the possessor of a supreme martial soul, had certainly not dared to make such a reckless move back when she broke through to level thirty.
Meng Chen stood up tall and straight, feeling his whole body's meridians exceptionally clear, and the power within his body had doubled and more.
More importantly, after absorbing this soul ring, an abstruse spatial power had completely fused with his martial soul.
"Little rabbit, how is it! What soul skill did you acquire?"
Qian Renxue hurried forward, just wanting to reach out and examine his body when Meng Chen suddenly split into a grin.
"Sister Qian, watch closely!"
The moment the words fell, the second soul ring at Meng Chen's feet flashed.
Swish!
Meng Chen's figure vanished from the spot out of thin air.
A sense of alarm abruptly arose in Qian Renxue's heart, and relying on her sharp perception, she violently whirled around.
Only to see that upon a giant boulder a full fifty meters away,
that small figure was already standing atop it, looking at her with a mischievous smile as he waved his hand.
No chant time! Exceeding a distance of fifty meters!
Spatial teleportation that ignored any terrain obstructions!
Qian Renxue's pupils contracted sharply; steady-minded though she was, she could not help but draw in a cold breath at this moment.
Half an hour later, the official road on the outer periphery of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Since the soul ring had been successfully acquired, the team naturally had no reason to continue pressing deeper.
Qian Renxue stood in the shade of the forest, watching the ready-to-go carriage convoy, her golden hair largely concealed by a hood.
"Little Meng Chen, I'll send you off up to here."
Qian Renxue crossed her arms over her chest, her chin lifted slightly as she once again resumed that haughty elder sister posture.
"This lady still has other trials, so I won't accompany you lot back to that Heaven Dou City."
Meng Chen leaped down from the carriage, walked up to Qian Renxue, bowed properly, and spoke with a smiling chuckle.
"Many thanks to Sister Qian for escorting us this time. If not for Sister Qian, I wouldn't have been able to get such a powerful soul ring. In the future, if Sister Qian goes to Heaven Dou City, remember to come find me at the Crown Prince's Residence; drop my name, and I'll make sure you're fed and watered to your heart's content!"
Qian Renxue laughed inwardly, unable to resist reaching out to ruffle his little head once more, her eyes carrying overflowing affection.
"Alright, go on back. Be careful on the road, and don't just follow your own whims."
Qian Renxue waved her hand, turning into a stream of light that vanished into the depths of the dense forest in the blink of an eye.
Watching Qian Renxue's departing back, Zhan Shan finally let out a long sigh of relief. Not daring to delay any longer, he hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to hurry on their journey toward the Heaven Dou Imperial City.
A day later, the Heaven Dou Empire, the Crown Prince's Residence.
Inside the side hall, the earth-dragon fire pit was still burning brightly.
Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, had long since changed back into that set of snow-white robes ahead of time, sitting upright behind the desk, save that her gaze drifted toward the hall doors from time to time.
Bang!
Accompanied by that familiar sound of the door opening,
a dust-laden figure wreathed in chilling wind rushed directly in.
"Brother Xue, I'm back!"
Meng Chen ran all the way to the desk in a flurry, launching into a rapid-fire account: "Brother Xue, you have no idea, this time in the Star Dou Great Forest it was practically unfathomable! I ran into a golden-haired big sister named Qian Renxue; she's drop-dead gorgeous, and her strength is terrifyingly strong!"
"With a single sword, she beheaded a two-thousand-year-plus earth-dragon, and afterward she even insisted on traveling with me."
Meng Chen recounted the experiences that had happened along the way with dancing eyebrows and animated gestures,
his mouth even exaggeratingly praising that Sister Qian's loyalty and might to the high heavens.
Qian Renxue sat behind the desk, looking approachable on the surface while the corners of her mouth uncontrollably curled upward, and her eyes could not conceal her complacency.
Little brat, consider you have some conscience.
Watching Meng Chen's spirited appearance, Qian Renxue put down her teacup and smiled gently.
"Listening to you put it that way, that Miss Qian is indeed a rare contemporary prodigy."
"However, since you've returned safely, are you going to show me your second soul skill then?"
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