At that moment, inside the Council Hall on the Sacred Mountain, all the senior members of Spirit Hall had gathered to witness the martial soul awakening of the Pope's son-their future Pope.
The hall was already packed, and the Titled Douluo elders all had their eyes on the little boy standing in the center.
"Ji'er, are you ready?"
Seeing Qian Xunji nod, Qian Daoliu took out the awakening tools and had him stand inside the awakening array. He was eager to discover his son's innate soul power level. As for his martial soul, it would certainly be the divine-level Six-Winged Angel. Otherwise, this brat definitely wasn't his offspring.
"Close your eyes and carefully sense your martial soul," Qian Daoliu said.
Qian Xunji closed his eyes, his expression a little nervous. A faint light appeared behind him, gradually growing brighter and spreading. First, it formed six wings, then finally took the shape of a Six-Winged Angel's phantom behind his back.
The Light Angel radiated a gentle, holy light, softly beating her six wings behind Qian Xunji.
The Six-Winged Angel, just as expected, Qian Daoliu thought.
Still a little boy, Qian Xunji opened his eyes curiously and turned to look at his martial soul, reaching out excitedly to touch it.
"Withdraw your martial soul with your thoughts. I'll test your soul power," Qian Daoliu reminded him.
After fumbling around for a while, Qian Xunji quickly got the hang of it and reluctantly withdrew his martial soul.
Qian Daoliu took out a crystal ball. "Place your hand on it."
Everyone's gaze converged on him. The Six-Winged Angel was already an exceptionally powerful martial soul, but just how high would Qian Xunji's soul power be?
Qian Xunji placed his slightly chubby right hand on the crystal ball. It instantly erupted with dazzling blue light, but the light did not fill the entire ball. It looked to be about level eight innate soul power.
The hall abruptly fell silent. Although they had prepared themselves mentally, the sight still left them deeply shaken.
What shocked them was that it was only level eight!
The Qian Family's Six-Winged Angel was a divine-level martial soul. Unlike advanced, top-tier, and supreme martial souls, whose innate full soul power was capped at level ten, its innate soul power had never fallen below level nine throughout history! There had even been countless cases of innate soul power reaching level fifteen or higher!
Yet now, Qian Xunji's level eight innate soul power seemed to declare that the Qian Family had no worthy successor! Qian Daoliu's own innate soul power had been level twelve!
"Anyone who leaks what happened today will be killed without mercy! Little Ji's innate soul power is level ten. That is what you will announce," Qian Daoliu suddenly said, his voice ice-cold.
Dressed in a platinum-colored robe and looking every bit his age, Qian Daoliu now unleashed a chilling aura. Yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red, red-nine soul rings pulsed around a Six-Winged Angel whose face could not be clearly seen, striking terror into everyone's hearts.
"As you command, Your Holiness!"
"All right, you may leave!" Seeing that the elders knew what was good for them, Qian Daoliu withdrew his angel martial soul and returned to his decrepit appearance, speaking unhurriedly.
Meanwhile, Qian Chongling had already reached the outskirts of Spirit City, unaware that Little Ji's talent was actually so poor. His eyes, still as an ancient well, carefully surveyed Spirit City. Although this was far from his first time seeing it, he could not help marveling.
Spirit City was not particularly large, but its walls had unquestionably been constructed to the standards of a capital city. Standing eighty meters tall, they looked imposing from the outside. They were also over thirty meters thick, built entirely of granite.
Most unusually, Spirit City was not rectangular like ordinary cities, but hexagonal. In other words, it had six walls in total, and everyone patrolling them was a Soul Master dressed in Spirit Hall's distinctive uniform.
Each of the six walls bore an enormous relief depicting a powerful martial soul: the Six-Winged Angel, the Clear Sky Hammer, the Golden Crocodile, the Seven Kill Sword, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, and the White Tiger.
These were also the images on Spirit Hall's tokens in this era!
After a long while, Qian Chongling finally emerged from his reverie and smiled faintly. "I'm old. I really do dwell on the past! I almost forgot to sign in today."
System, daily sign-in! Qian Chongling said inwardly.
Ding! Daily sign-in successful! Ding! Sign-in rewards issued: lifespan +1 year, strength +0.1. Current accumulated sign-ins: two days.
With those mechanical notifications sounding in his mind, Qian Chongling completed today's system sign-in without any fuss.
Seeing the rewards, Qian Chongling could not help smiling. Looks like my luck is pretty good today!
After over a thousand years of research, Qian Chongling had more or less figured out this lousy system's rules. Besides the guaranteed one-year increase in lifespan from each daily sign-in, there were accumulated sign-in gift packs for three days, five days, ten days, three months, five months, ten months, three years, five years, ten years, thirty years, fifty years, and one hundred years.
The accumulated sign-in gift packs could yield anything: major prizes such as divine seeds, divine positions, and Planetary Annihilation Cannon blueprints; middling prizes such as Million-Year Soul Rings and soul bones; or tiny prizes such as a pack of cigarettes or a drop of water. There was even a chance of getting panties belonging to Angewomon, the legendary tireless workhorse of the Digital Monster World. The better the reward, however, the harder it was to obtain.
Then Qian Chongling seemed to remember something, and excitement stirred within him. "System, open the one-hundred-year accumulated sign-in gift pack."
Ding! Successfully opened. Obtained: Chaos God Position ×1.
Seeing the message flash through his mind, Qian Chongling, whose composure was ordinarily as undisturbed as an ancient well, finally showed emotion. A divine position-it had finally arrived.
After over a thousand years of signing in, this idiotic system had finally given him a divine position. Heaven had shown him mercy!
I wonder what rank this Chaos God is. The name sounds pretty impressive, but knowing this system's usual antics, I'd better take a good look before drawing any conclusions.
Filled with anticipation, Qian Chongling opened the System Inventory.
There, resting quietly in the upper-right corner of the inventory, was a circular object shaped like two intertwining yin-yang fish.
Chaos God Position: a God King-level divine position. Activating it grants the Nine Chaos Trials, allowing you to attain the position of Chaos God King.
"Hahaha!"
It had taken over fifteen hundred years to obtain a divine position, and it was even at the God King level. Naturally, Qian Chongling laughed with uncontrollable joy. Still, excitement aside, he knew what he needed to do next.
"System, activate the Chaos God Position!"
Ding! Chaos God Position successfully activated! Ding! First Trial of the Nine Chaos Trials successfully activated: travel to the future Source of Evil and live there for five years.
Looking at the words "future Source of Evil," Qian Chongling paused briefly, a glimmer of understanding seeming to dawn within him.
Now that he had a lead on the divine trials, Qian Chongling opened the system to check his current personal attributes.
Host: Qian Chongling System: Super Sign-In System Strength: 699+1 (Peerless Douluo: 100) Intelligence: 678 (Peerless Douluo: 100) Speed: 689 (Peerless Douluo: 100) Soul power level: 99.99 (maximum level reached) Attribute-less divine power: 89 points (each point lasts one hour) Martial soul: Sixteen-Winged Chaos Angel Divine position: Chaos God Divine rank: God King Divine trials: Nine Chaos Trials (activated) Lifespan: 578,125 years Soul rings: black, black, black, black, red, red, red, red, red Skills: God-Level Swordsmanship, God-Level Cooking, God-Level Martial Arts, Grandmaster-Level Medicine, Grandmaster-Level Painting, Grandmaster-Level Calligraphy, Grandmaster-Level Tea Art.
After briefly reviewing his current attributes, Qian Chongling nodded and clicked the plus sign beside strength, changing his attributes to this.
After allocating the point, Qian Chongling looked back at Spirit City-the city that would one day be shattered by a single strike of the Asura Demon Sword wielded by that so-called Third Brother, who supposedly excelled in morality, intellect, physique, aesthetics, and labor. He could not help letting out a cold laugh.
Heh! Asura God, Sea God, we have a long road ahead of us. Let's take our time playing!
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