How Could Anyone Be This Upright?

Qian Daoliu shattered the glass bottle and took out the paper inside.

He spread it on the table, and the great enshrined gathered around to read its contents.

For a long while, no one spoke.

They seemed to be digesting its contents, their brains frozen in a crash.

"Big Brother, has Xiao Xue been pushed too hard? Is she starting to talk nonsense?"

Golden Crocodile was the first to speak.

Azure Luan nodded in agreement.

"Exactly, Big Brother. Who does Bibi Dong think she is? Even if us old fellows brought Xiao Xue back, what could she do about it? If you ask me, you're just too upright!

"Not only did you let her send Xiao Xue somewhere so dangerous, you let her hold up Xiao Xue's cultivation!"

Guang Ling said nothing, while Lion kept rubbing his head.

"I recognize every word here, so why can't I understand them when they're put together?"

"What does she mean by two Limit Douluos? What does she mean by establishing close cooperation with soul beasts? And what's a soul spirit?"

"Big Brother, is the world changing too quickly? Have us old men stayed shut away so long that we don't know anything anymore?"

"And what's this confirmed divine inheritance supposed to be? Are there gods besides the Angel God?"

They exchanged bewildered looks. Unable to make up their minds, they could only turn to Qian Daoliu before them.

Qian Daoliu had fallen silent as well, though he did believe the part about a divine inheritance.

After all, his dear little Xixi was the Sea God's Great Enshrined...

If a divine inheritance was involved, plenty of the other things made sense.

But what was this soul spirit technology?

Would a divine inheritance include something like that?

So, although Qian Daoliu appeared deep in thought, he actually had no answers either. He had no fewer questions than the other enshrined.

In the end, he made up his mind.

"I'll take you there. Show me the way. I'd also like to see for myself just what this divine inheritance that appeared out of nowhere is like."

He grabbed Snake Lance by his clothes, unfurled his Six-Winged Angel, and flew straight toward the Sunset Forest outside Heaven Dou City.

Bibi Dong watched Qian Daoliu leave with Snake Lance. She had been waiting for Snake Lance to come down so she could put him under pressure and teach him a proper lesson, but now she stopped.

Damn it, damn it, damn it! Why does the whole world have to stand against me? You're all at fault! You're all sinners!

Since she had yet to reach the entrance of the Worship Hall, she was still on the Spirit Hall's main avenue, with people walking nearby.

Bibi Dong could only scream and shout inwardly in fury.

With the help of Qian Daoliu, a Limit Douluo,

Snake Lance's return journey went extremely smoothly. They reached the Sunset Forest in just three hours.

Following his directions, the two headed toward the rundown village.

Snow Empress was already waiting at the village entrance.

The moment Qian Daoliu entered the Sunset Forest,

the divine power she had gained from her God Trial, along with her Limit Douluo cultivation, told her that a powerful expert had arrived.

She recalled the Great Enshrined Lin Xiao had mentioned.

So she grabbed Lin Xiao, who was cultivating nearby, and brought him to the entrance.

Lin Xiao looked at the six wings in the sky.

For some inexplicable reason, he suddenly craved grilled chicken wings.

He could not help sucking back his drool.

Qian Daoliu landed before them and looked at Snow Empress.

Strong. Very strong. Incredibly strong!

That was his first impression, as well as an instinctive physical reaction.

He was not inside the Spirit Hall now, so he could not use the Angel Holy Sword or draw upon much angel divine power.

At this moment, he was merely an ordinary level 99.

Even with his god-level martial soul, the Six-Winged Angel, and an extraordinary soul ring configuration of eight black rings and one red,

Qian Daoliu still believed he would likely be no match for the mysterious ice-wielding woman before him.

But after spending so long inside the Worship Hall without venturing out, he was deeply curious and eager to fight Snow Empress.

Snow Empress sensed Qian Daoliu's gaze as well.

She glanced at Lin Xiao, then nodded slightly and took the lead in flying into the sky.

Xuan Zi appeared beside Lin Xiao to serve as referee.

He would also keep their battle from affecting Lin Xiao.

After all, however outrageous Lin Xiao's advantages were, he was still only level 65.

He could not yet withstand the shockwaves of two Limit Douluos so easily.

"Qian Daoliu, of the Worship Hall."

He unleashed his Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, and eight black rings and one red rose around his feet.

His brows furrowed slightly.

The woman before him did not seem to have released her martial soul, nor could he see any soul rings.

"Snow Empress."

Snow Empress answered softly, and her true form as the Heavenly Snow Woman manifested.

"A soul beast!"

Qian Daoliu instantly understood her identity. He knew the Spirit Pagoda had established cooperation with soul beasts.

But he had never imagined their cooperation ran this deep.

Faced with a soul beast this powerful, Qian Daoliu hardly dared imagine what level Snow Empress's cultivation had reached.

Over five hundred thousand years?

No wonder the Far North was known as a forbidden zone for humans. Even now, the Spirit Hall had never truly explored its depths.

At the same time, he detected a trace of divine power.

He understood that the soul beast before him was either an inheritor or held a position like his own.

But the important question was-

Qian Daoliu glanced at Lin Xiao out of the corner of his eye. How did this brat coax her into coming back with him as his wife?

"I'll tell you after the fight."

Lin Xiao gave the two a thumbs-up and smiled.

Qian Daoliu steadied his mind and focused on the opponent before him.

The sky took on an eerie dark gold hue, and the Six-Winged Angel hovered motionless behind him.

He had unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar right from the start.

Then the six wings shuddered violently, and a dazzling pillar of light shot down from above Snow Empress's head.

It was Angel Divine Light, radiating a sacred, inviolable pressure that melted the ice and snow.

As a god-level martial soul, the Six-Winged Angel

possessed three ultimate attributes. It could also be called a monster of raw stats.

Snow Empress raised her head slightly. Neither dodging nor evading, she lifted her delicate hand.

A powerful shockwave, interwoven with ultimate ice and snow, blasted straight into the Angel Holy Light.

It was Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.

Without using angel divine power or the Angel Holy Sword, Qian Daoliu was utterly outmatched by Snow Empress as she was now.

A single exchange was enough to reveal a measure of the gap between them.

After shattering the Angel Holy Light, Great Cold Without Snow surged into the sky without losing any force, unleashing a series of sonic booms.

Then heaven and earth changed color. Snow Empress loosely curled her left hand, and an ice-blue longsword appeared out of thin air.

Its blade was crystal clear, but a cold gleam shone at its tip.

The intense ice and snow seemed ready to freeze even space itself.

Snow Empress stepped forward, tearing through space. Her entire figure became an ice-blue afterimage as she teleported behind Qian Daoliu.

An overwhelming sense of danger struck, and Qian Daoliu instinctively wanted to fly away.

But for some reason, he instead suddenly conjured a holy sword and took the blow head-on.

Snow Empress's right eyebrow rose slightly.

"Why didn't you run?"

Having taken an Emperor Sword strike head-on, Qian Daoliu was in poor condition and looked somewhat worn down.

He shook his head.

"I've lost! I could have dodged that strike at the very last instant. But you could clearly have avoided my opening Angel Holy Light at full power with ease, and yet you chose to take it head-on. If I then dodged this move, that would be rather dishonorable."

Snow Empress found it almost unbelievable. How could anyone be this upright!