Night fell.
Hu Liena (Zhu Qinglian) finished washing up and closed her bedroom door. She was supposed to undergo special training tonight, since the tournament began tomorrow.
Instead, she had hidden in her bedroom, using an impending breakthrough in her soul power level as an excuse.
She took a palm-sized jade box out of her Storage Soul Tool.
As soon as she opened it, a fragrance wafted into her nose.
Hu Liena froze for a moment. The flower inside the jade box looked far too much like Chrysanthemum Douluo's martial soul, the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum.
This was a sky-reaching chrysanthemum.
Was there some connection between the two?
Hu Liena recalled what her younger sister Zhu Zhuqing had told her through a voice transmission.
"Big Sister, take this sky-reaching chrysanthemum in secret. It should raise your soul power level. You're already twenty-one, but your soul power is only at level fifty-two. Your aptitude really is a little too poor."
"You're the one with poor aptitude!" Resentment flickered in Hu Liena's eyes. She was clearly already a young prodigy within Spirit Hall.
Yet her own younger sister had actually called her aptitude poor.
But then she thought of Zhu Zhuqing's talent. Her younger sister had only just turned fourteen, yet her soul power level had already reached fifty-seven.
"What a freak."
Hu Liena (Zhu Qinglian) had never watched any Douluo Continent anime, so her knowledge of the Douluo Continent was still limited to Spirit Hall.
Thinking of the things her younger sister had specifically warned her about, Hu Liena (Zhu Qinglian) grew irritated. According to what her sister had told her,
she would actually be reduced to a mere bit player later on.
Seething, she swallowed the sky-reaching chrysanthemum in one gulp.
**"Like hell I'll believe that! How could I possibly