Standing on the awakening platform, Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo sensed the aura of death and turned their eyes toward Zhao Su as well.
As Qian Renxue radiated her sacred aura, the aura of death grew increasingly dense.
Sensing the steadily intensifying aura of death, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul abruptly opened its tightly shut eyes.
An even stronger Divine Aura radiated from it.
That increasingly powerful aura of death could not be completely extinguished, not even by the Divine Aura emanating from the Six-Winged Angel.
This powerful aura of death made even Qian Renxue, who was enveloped in the Divine Aura, feel a tremor of dread.
Even the two Titled Douluos, Snake Lance and Pufferfish, were somewhat shocked and stood ready to intervene covertly at any moment.
"Carrying such a powerful aura of death... could he be an Evil Soul Master?"
Qian Renxue stepped down from the awakening platform and came before Zhao Su, gradually intensifying her Divine Aura in an attempt to completely extinguish this aura of death.
And thoroughly purify Zhao Su while she was at it.
"Stop slapping labels on people at the drop of a hat. I'm telling the truth. My Martial Soul is far stronger than yours!"
With his hands clasped behind his back, Zhao Su looked at Qian Renxue, who was enveloped in a sacred aura, and spoke casually.
"Hmph. What a bold claim."
Hu Liena spoke up as well, striding toward Zhao Su.
"Nana, forget it. He's just putting on airs. Why bother quibbling with an idiot?"
Yan, who followed behind Hu Liena, spoke up too.
"Exactly. Talking to a filthy beggar is a waste of breath!"
"Kid, leave now, or you won't be able to leave later!"
"Hahaha! That might be the funniest joke I've heard in my entire life."
With the Golden Generation taking the lead, everyone around them instantly joined in the mockery.
After all, in these people's eyes, the Golden Generation of Spirit Hall would one day be invincible.
Their words grew increasingly vicious.
In the end, they even descended into personal attacks.
"You're all toads at the bottom of a well, unable to see how vast the sky really is. Everything I said was true. If you don't believe me, there's nothing I can do!"
"Fine. In that case, awaken your Martial Soul right now, and then we'll fight!"
Ever since she was little, Qian Renxue had been taught that her family's Martial Soul would always be invincible!
Proud as she was, she would never allow anyone to insult her Six-Winged Angel.
"Sure. I'm just afraid you won't even get a chance to attack!"
Zhao Su spoke without a trace of concern.
"You have no idea what you're getting yourself into!"
Although Hu Liena and Qian Renxue had never gotten along because of Bibi Dong, she still knew how powerful the Six-Winged Angel was.
Seeing Zhao Su treat the Six-Winged Angel with such disdain, she could not help sneering.
"Enough nonsense. Let me show you what a truly powerful, invincible Martial Soul looks like!"
As he spoke, Zhao Su stepped onto the awakening platform.
"Fine. I'll give you that chance. Uncle Snake Lance, awaken his Martial Soul yourself!"
Qian Renxue had immense confidence in her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
She did not believe that someone who had appeared from who knew where could awaken a Martial Soul stronger than her Six-Winged Angel.
"In that case, I'll help awaken your Martial Soul myself!"
Snake Lance Douluo was actually eager to see what sort of Martial Soul Zhao Su would awaken.
The aura of death Zhao Su had just emitted reminded him of what he had sensed from Bibi Dong after she returned from Slaughter City with the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
Yet the aura of death Zhao Su released was purer and stronger than the one within the Divine Slaughter's Domain.
"Put your hands on the blue crystal ball!"
Snake Lance Douluo instructed Zhao Su.
Zhao Su nodded, reached out, and placed his hands against the blue crystal ball at the center of the awakening platform.
The moment Zhao Su's hands touched the blue crystal ball...
At first, the blue crystal ball only emitted a sparse scattering of golden specks.
"Hmm?" Snake Lance Douluo murmured at the sight. "Only rank-two Soul Power?"
"So he's just trash after all!"
Standing below the awakening platform, Qian Renxue sneered.
Qian Renxue lost interest in watching any further, unwilling to waste time on a piece of trash like Zhao Su.
Just as she turned to leave, a startled cry drew her gaze back to the awakening platform.
"Look! His Soul Power is rising! Those golden specks are growing denser!"
The golden specks grew increasingly dense.
Gradually, they became a golden radiance that seemed on the verge of taking solid form.
In an instant, it enveloped the entire hall.
Even the powerful Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo felt a trace of fear rising in their hearts.
That powerful aura of Soul Power even surpassed their own auras as rank-ninety-two Titled Douluos.
The strength of one's Soul Power and Martial Soul were intimately connected.
They could hardly imagine what kind of powerful Martial Soul such formidable Innate Soul Power would give rise to.
That powerful aura of Soul Power alone made even Snake Lance Douluo, who stood on the awakening platform, feel an urge to kneel in worship.
Snake Lance Douluo forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart.
He activated the six black spiritual stones on the platform used to awaken Martial Souls.
He could hardly wait to see what kind of Martial Soul Zhao Su would awaken.
With a thought from Zhao Su, a miniature humanoid model flew out of the system interface.
Then it entered his body.
Afterward, the golden radiance surrounding his body began to disperse.
As the golden radiance dispersed, a phantom appeared behind him.
It looked much like the phantom of Qian Renxue's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul when it first appeared.
But Qian Renxue's Martial Soul phantom was white, while Zhao Su's radiated golden light from head to toe.
As the phantom grew increasingly solid, everyone's eyes widened.
However, Qian Renxue's Martial Soul was a female angel, while Zhao Su's was a male angel.
"Is that... a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul?!!!"
"Could he be the previous Supreme Pontiff's illegitimate son?"
"Impossible. This is impossible."
"That's not a Six-Winged Angel! Look at the wings on his back!"
As the Twelve-Winged Angel absorbed the golden radiance, the angelic wings on his back continued to multiply.
With every additional pair of wings, the angel's solemn, sacred aura grew stronger.
Soon, the wings on his back exceeded the Six-Winged Angel's six wings.
"An Eight-Winged Angel?"
"No, they're still increasing! A Ten-Winged Angel!!!"
"A Twelve-Winged Angel!!!"
Only when the wings on his back reached six pairs did they finally stop multiplying.
By then, the Twelve-Winged Angel had absorbed all the golden radiance, and his entire body gleamed with gold.
The golden light he emitted filled everyone present with reverence.
Even when the strongest Martial Soul, the Six-Winged Angel, awakened, it had never made them feel this way.
Mixed into that reverence was a trace of life force that soothed their entire bodies.
Waves of solemn power radiated outward.
It seemed capable of purifying the souls of everyone present.
Those who had already awakened their Martial Souls felt a warm current emerge within their bodies, increasing their Soul Power.
Those who had not awakened their Martial Souls also felt a warm current unlocking the potential within them.
It also influenced the emotions of those nearby.
An urge arose in their hearts to bow in worship toward Zhao Su.
It was as though the figure standing there was not Zhao Su, but a true Angel God.
It was not over yet.
Above the Twelve-Winged Angel's head, a golden halo gradually took shape.
The moment the golden halo formed, the Twelve-Winged Angel's tightly closed eyes began to open slowly.
Instantly, a solemn, sacred aura radiated outward, bathing the entire hall in gold.
It even shrouded all of Spirit Hall in a sacred, auspicious aura.
Qian Renxue stared at the Twelve-Winged Angel radiating golden light, disbelief filling her eyes.
Before she could react, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul she had just withdrawn emerged from her body on its own.
It hovered behind Qian Renxue, and another unbelievable scene unfolded.
The Six-Winged Angel behind Qian Renxue slowly knelt in worship before the Twelve-Winged Angel hovering above the awakening platform.
Under her Martial Soul's influence, even Qian Renxue could not help dropping to her knees.
Everyone present was dumbstruck, and the silence throughout the hall was almost frightening.
"The Six-Winged Angel is too weak. You don't even deserve to fight me!"
The corners of Zhao Su's lips lifted as he looked toward the kneeling Qian Renxue and spoke softly.
At that moment, not a single voice of doubt remained.
Everyone, including Hu Liena, silently bowed their heads beneath the sacred aura emanating from the Twelve-Winged Angel.
They displayed their devotion.
In a bedroom within the Papal Hall, Supreme Pontiff Bibi Dong abruptly opened her eyes while cultivating.
She looked toward the great hall radiating that auspicious aura.
Her eyes filled with shock and confusion.
Bibi Dong quickly rose and headed toward the great hall.
In his secluded cultivation chamber within Douluo Hall, Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu was also roused by the sacred, auspicious aura.
A hint of confusion likewise appeared in his eyes, followed by a smile as he murmured, "Has Xue'er awakened her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul?"
In Qian Daoliu's mind, the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul was exclusive to their Qian Family on the Douluo Continent.
What he did not know was that, from this moment onward, the Six-Winged Angel was no longer the strongest Martial Soul.
At that thought, Qian Daoliu also rose and headed toward the great hall.
The other enshrined elders of Spirit Hall emerged from seclusion one after another and gathered at the great hall.
Even several elders of the Elder Hall left their secluded cultivation chambers, something they almost never did.
They all believed that Qian Renxue had awakened an Angel Martial Soul surpassing every Six-Winged Angel of past generations.
They believed Spirit Hall's true leader had appeared.
But when they arrived at the great hall...
And saw Zhao Su standing on the awakening platform, with the Twelve-Winged Angel radiating a sacred, auspicious aura behind him...
Disbelief appeared on all their faces.
"A Twelve-Winged Angel?!!!"
As a rank-ninety-nine Peerless Douluo and the eldest member of the Qian Family, Qian Daoliu naturally knew more than the others.
When he was little, he had once heard his father mention it.
At the continent's beginning, when the Angel God first descended upon the Douluo Continent, she had been a Twelve-Winged Angel.
But this Twelve-Winged Angel's descendants could not withstand the powerful Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
Thus, the Twelve-Winged Angel Martial Soul had degenerated into the Six-Winged Angel.
Even so, the Six-Winged Angel remained the strongest Martial Soul on the Douluo Continent.
A god-tier Martial Soul with an innate Angel Domain.
While everyone marveled in disbelief, none of them knew that, besides this Twelve-Winged Angel, Zhao Su's body contained...
Another Martial Soul.
Perhaps this Martial Soul was the one he had been born with, the one he should have awakened.
As this Martial Soul within Zhao Su gradually manifested...
Two utterly opposing auras appeared in the great hall at once.
The solemn, sacred, auspicious aura purified the soul, inspiring a reverence that permitted no desecration.
Yet mingled within it was an aura of destruction and death.
It made fear rise involuntarily in people's hearts.
A dense black mist likewise began to gather and take shape behind Zhao Su.
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