"Let me take a look at my precious divine weapon first." Qian Ran remembered that, besides the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, he also had the divine weapon, the Angel Holy Sword.
This was a genuine divine weapon! A divine weapon on the same level as the Sea God Trident!
And his system bro seemed to have mentioned that this big sword came with some hidden perks!
He took the Angel Holy Sword out of the system space and poured Soul Power into it. A golden slash of sword Qi burst forth, directly severing two trees ahead, each so thick that it took three people to encircle it. The cuts were as smooth as mirrors.
"Not bad. This divine weapon should be at its strongest after I become the Angel God, right? Only divine power can bring out the Angel Holy Sword's greatest might!"
"But where am I supposed to obtain the Angel God's inheritance? Even the divine core of Qian Renxue, the last Angel God, was shattered. For all I know, the inheritance might have been cut off too."
Just as Qian Ran was grumbling, a golden figure emerged from the Angel Holy Sword.
So beautiful, and a mature beauty at that!
The woman looked barely past twenty, with skin fairer than snow, a straight nose, slightly slender phoenix eyes, and a breathtaking face carrying a hint of commanding majesty. A tiny Six-Winged Angel brand rested between her brows.
Her golden eyes were as calm as still water. She wore a long golden court dress, a one-piece garment that seemed woven from gold thread, without excessive decorative patterns, its style simple and elegant. Her long golden hair hung loosely down her back. At that moment, the golden-haired beauty was also looking at Qian Ran in astonishment.
This person was...
"Qian Renxue?" Qian Ran was utterly astonished.
Holy shit, was this the hidden perk the system mentioned?
As expected of the system. It really got me.
Qian Ran, who had thought Tang Ya was beautiful, now felt that Qian Renxue was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was simply too gorgeous. Both her face and her figure surpassed Tang Ya's by a considerable margin. Of course, the most important thing was her bearing. Having once become a god, Qian Renxue possessed a sacred, inviolable quality.
And that quality made an audacious thought spring into the mind of someone as lustfully brazen as Qian Ran all the more readily.
The system really treated her well, even bringing Qian Renxue here. If I played my cards right, wouldn't I have a chance to win Qian Renxue over?
"How much time has passed?" Sensing the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul within Qian Ran, Qian Renxue was also delighted. She had been asleep all these years, and Qian Ran had awakened her.
"Ten thousand years have passed since the God War. Spirit Hall has been gone from the continent for ten thousand years. The sacred ground for Soul Masters on the continent now is Shrek Academy. Many of the continent's powerful figures were trained there. The Heaven Dou Empire split in two, becoming the Heaven Dou Empire and the Dou Ling Empire, while the Star Luo Empire remains intact. Besides those, there's also a Sun Moon Empire..."
Qian Ran told her everything he knew about this period of Peerless Tang Sect.
Ten thousand years had passed. Everything remained, yet the people were gone.
After hearing him out, Qian Renxue was filled with melancholy. The Spirit Hall Empire had lost, and Spirit Hall no longer existed either.
"To think even Evil Soul Masters could establish a major sect on the continent. How laughable." Qian Renxue smiled bitterly. Back when Spirit Hall still existed, there had been almost no Evil Soul Masters anywhere on the continent. The Qian Family's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul was the most powerful light Martial Soul, the bane of Evil Soul Masters. Moreover, Spirit Hall had held information on Soul Masters in every part of the continent at the time. Once an Evil Soul Master was found, they would be exterminated outright. Evil Soul Masters had no chance whatsoever to rise.
"Senior Qian Renxue, didn't you fall back then?" Qian Renxue was still alive. That was unquestionably good news for Qian Ran. Qian Renxue knew Tang San very well, which would also be a great help when he dealt with Tang San in the future. With a former Angel God helping him, she could also share her experience of becoming a god. On his road to defeating Tang San, he had gained another ally-and a wife. He simply did not dare call her his wife outright yet, or Qian Renxue would beat him to death. Of course, if Qian Renxue were to trample him mercilessly with her beautiful feet in black stockings, that was not entirely unacceptable either.
"Back then, as my divine core shattered, I used all my strength to pour my final trace of divine power into the Angel Holy Sword. Then I offered my body as a sacrifice and became the Angel Holy Sword's sword spirit. As long as the Angel Sword remains, my divine soul will never be extinguished."
The current Qian Renxue was much like an artifact spirit.
"So that's how it is."
Qian Ran understood perfectly. After all, Tang San had been impossible to kill back then, so it was perfectly normal for the Angel God Qian Renxue to have a few fallback measures.
"I can help you grow stronger, but I have a condition." Qian Renxue stared intently at Qian Ran. She wanted to find a successor to help her defeat that person. Naturally, she would choose Qian Ran, someone of the angel lineage!
"What condition?" Qian Ran swallowed.
"First, help me rebuild Spirit Hall. Second, help me kill Tang San." At the mention of Tang San's name, Qian Renxue's breathtaking face instantly turned cold, her eyes brimming with murderous intent.
Back then, she had spared Tang San so many times.
Yet once Tang San seized his opportunity, he did not give him a single chance. What a ruthless man.
He had actually wanted her cultivation to remain stuck at rank eighty-nine Soul Douluo for the rest of her life, never able to turn her fortunes around. Heh...
Qian Renxue had long since seen Tang San's true face.
Tang San had known full well that, stripped of her cultivation, she would struggle to take even a single step after Spirit Hall's destruction. She might even be captured by people with ulterior motives and treated as an exquisite doll. Yet he had done it anyway.
Grandfather, Mother, Consecrator Golden Crocodile...
She had let them down, let down the tens of millions who had placed their faith in Spirit Hall, and let down the officers and soldiers who had fought for the Spirit Hall Empire!
Hatred buried for ten thousand years made Qian Renxue wish she could flay Tang San alive. If not for her softhearted mercy back then, the continent's history would long since have been rewritten.
Throughout her years inside the Angel Holy Sword, her guilt toward them and her hatred for Tang San had tormented her constantly.
She had chosen to cling to life in the hope that one day she would find an opportunity to kill Tang San.
This time, she would never make the same mistake again.
"I promise."
Seeing the breathtakingly beautiful and noble Qian Renxue suddenly become like this, Qian Ran could not help feeling a pang in his heart. All the filthy thoughts in his head vanished, leaving only tenderness for Qian Renxue.
He was also a fan of Douluo I, and he had watched the story of Tang San's era more times than he could count. Spirit Hall's ending had indeed been tragic.
But that made sense too.
With Spirit Hall breached, as its Holy Maiden, perhaps only this could preserve the last dignity of taking her own life. Otherwise, she would likely have been treated as spoils of war and suffered a fate worse than death. Qian Renxue could sacrifice herself to the Angel Holy Sword, but Hu Liena had not been so fortunate.
Thinking of Spirit Hall's ruling power, then hearing Qian Renxue's account, Qian Ran sighed inwardly.
His heart ached for Qian Renxue. Qian Renxue really had spared Tang San many times. The last time, in the Star Dou Great Forest, Qian Renxue had clearly had an opportunity to kill Tang San before he reached Sea God Island. In the end, after being wounded by Tang San's Guanyin's Tears, she had stopped, wanting to wait until Tang San became a god and fight him fairly.
Fairness?
Where was the fairness in any of it?
After Tang San died, the gods of the Divine Realm had helped revive him. When Qian Ran first saw that part of the story, he had been unable to hold back a curse. Why did the Divine Realm help Tang San but not Qian Renxue and the others? It was downright beastly behavior. Even with so many cheats, he still could not win, and in the end, he even had the Asura God and the other gods of the Divine Realm helping him.
Under those circumstances, it would have been strange if Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong could win.
They had agreed not to interfere with the lower realm, yet they revived Tang San again and again, helping him grow stronger again and again. Heh, the damned Divine Realm. Given how biased the Divine Realm was, even if Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong had killed Tang San again during the God War, Tang San could still have been revived.
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