Qian Renxue joined the group: the system came through, but its pitfalls were real!

Holy shit!

What was going on?

At the sight, Link was shocked, but he did not hesitate. His figure flashed as he hurled himself at the window beside him, smashing straight through it and flying out of the restaurant's main hall.

Although he did not know what had orchestrated this attack, Link was not at all worried that anything would happen to Qian Renxue.

After all, two Titled Douluos, Snake Lance and Pufferfish, were always at Qian Renxue's side.

Against this group of assassins who were merely Soul Ancestors and Soul Kings, they could crush them on every front without even activating their Soul Rings.

Even so, Link had no intention of staying in the hall.

As the saying went, when immortals fought, mortals suffered.

If they went a little overboard and he became a fish caught in the calamity, it would be too late for regrets.

As they said, a gentleman did not stand beneath a crumbling wall.

As it turned out, Link could not have made a better choice.

After discovering that they could do nothing to Qian Renxue, the attackers actually turned their murderous hands on the innocent people in the restaurant's main hall.

For a time, countless people were killed or wounded inside.

By the time Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo cleared out the assassins, fewer than one in ten people in the restaurant had survived.

"Your Highness, they were Fallen Soul Masters!"

Snake Lance Douluo returned to Qian Renxue's side and reported his findings in a grave voice.

"It seems that dear uncle of mine is getting a little impatient!"

Qian Renxue merely nodded calmly at his words.

The caravan leader and many attendants had died in the attack. The Soul Master guarding the caravan had not even had time to react before dying in the sudden assault.

The guard was merely a three-ring Soul Elder, nowhere near a match for a group of Four-Ring Soul Ancestors and Five-Ring Soul Kings.

Had Link not reacted quickly enough, he might already have been one of the many corpses at the scene.

"Is this world really this dangerous?"

Link felt that he needed to find somewhere to cultivate first. Otherwise, he really would die before his campaign had even begun.

After all, he had already met Qian Renxue.

He only needed to wait until nighttime to meet Qian Renxue in her dreams and bring her into the group.

Safety first when venturing out into the world!

Link really was a little scared.

But where should he go next?

For the moment, Link really had nowhere to go.

"Little fellow, where are your grown-ups?"

Just as Link was agonizing over where to go next, someone suddenly spoke beside him.

Snapping back to his senses, Link looked at Qian Renxue's version of Xue Qinghe, who had appeared beside him at some unknown point, and inwardly panicked. When did this chick get next to me?

"Little fellow, I'm Xue Qinghe, crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire. If you have nowhere to go, you can come with me for now!"

Qian Renxue did not know why she had approached Link either. When she noticed him, her intuition had simply prompted her to make this decision.

Hearing this, Link was even more shocked.

Was he about to latch onto Qian Renxue's coattails?

But why had Qian Renxue noticed him?

Although Link knew he was good-looking, a woman like Qian Renxue... Wait, Qian Renxue really was a fool for love, wasn't she?

In the original story, Tang San's Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul had awakened and evolved into the Blue Silver Emperor, changing his innate aptitude and even making him peerlessly handsome. As a result, when Qian Renxue saw him again, she actually failed to recognize him and even secretly fell for him because of it.

All for a face!

Even after Qian Renxue became a god, there had been a time when she still could not let go of this son of her father's killer.

Now that Qian Renxue was asking him to come with her, could it be because he was good-looking?

Link did not know how to respond, so he simply kept silent and followed woodenly at her side.

Whatever her reason for having him follow her, staying with Qian Renxue at least gave him a safe space to survive for now.

Night fell.

Link followed Qian Renxue to an inn in a small town.

After dinner, Link rested briefly before continuing to cultivate the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill.

Only when the night deepened and the inn fell completely silent did Link use the Great Dream Heart Sutra's dream-entry method to intrude into Qian Renxue's dream.

In fact, if Link had possessed sufficient mental power, he would not have needed to wait until Qian Renxue fell asleep to act. The Great Dream Heart Sutra could not only enter dreams but also construct them.

But for now, with his strength still so meager, he could only adapt to the circumstances.

Upon entering Qian Renxue's dream, Link discovered that he seemingly had no need to frighten her, because the Qian Renxue in the dream was merely a pitiful, lonely little girl yearning for her mother's love.

Link merely altered his appearance a little and successfully guided Qian Renxue into dripping blood onto the Chat Group Entry Contract.

As Qian Renxue's blood fell onto the Chat Group Entry Contract within the dream, her dream shattered in an instant, and she joined the Chat Group.

The system's rewards flowed into Link's body once more.

Talent Sharing!

Cultivation Sharing!

Second Martial Soul awakened: Twelve-Winged Fallen Angel!

"Holy shit!"

"Holy shit, shit, shit!"

Link was wide awake now.

This system really came through. When there were rewards, it actually delivered!

Not only had it rewarded him with Qian Renxue's talent and cultivation, but it had also unlocked a second Martial Soul for him.

So, from now on, he had Twin Martial Souls too!

Then, as more and more members joined the group, would he gain Triple Martial Souls, quadruple Martial Souls?

With more Martial Souls, his future achievements would naturally rise to even greater heights.

Perhaps, once he had enough Martial Souls, he could even defy and slay deities with a mortal body, or attain the exalted rank of a deity without even needing a Divine Position.

It took Link a great deal of effort to calm himself down.

At the same time, Qian Renxue also noticed the Chat Group's existence and completed her Sign-In.

Compared with Xiao Wu's Soul Ring Advancement Gift Pack, Qian Renxue's Sign-In reward was even more outrageous: a Martial Soul Evolution Gift Pack!

Qian Renxue's Martial Soul was a god-tier Martial Soul, the Six-Winged Angel.

After she obtained the Martial Soul Evolution Gift Pack, her Martial Soul became a Twelve-Winged Holy Angel!

If a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul attained the rank of a deity, it would only be a First-Level God, but if a Twelve-Winged Holy Angel attained that rank, it would at least be a God King, and one of the strongest among God Kings at that.

"Welcome to the group!"

Link took the initiative to speak in the chat interface.

After Link spoke, Xiao Wu followed suit. "Welcome!"

"Thank you!"

Qian Renxue was very polite.

[To protect members' privacy, the Chat Group has enabled the nickname feature. All group members may edit their group display names!]

A line of golden text scrolled across the chat interface.

Link rolled his eyes at this.

It hadn't enabled this feature earlier, only now. Wasn't this screwing him over?

If he'd known the Chat Group allowed members to change their display names, he wouldn't have spoken just now.

Great. Now Qian Renxue knew there was someone named Link in the Chat Group.

Fortunately, Link had not spoken since joining Qian Renxue, so she did not know that he was Link.

Link immediately selected Xiao Wu, trying to have a private chat with her, only for the Chat Group to inform him that the private chat feature had not yet been enabled.

Faced with this notification, Link was utterly speechless. The system really did come through, but its pitfalls were real too.

There was nothing for it. A true man could bend or stand tall as circumstances demanded; he could only keep playing the little mute.