Holy angel? Fallen angel?

"Am I really that great? How come I didn't know?"

Qian Ran himself was baffled. He had simply tired himself out running, and he couldn't bear to see Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao so exhausted.

Especially Xiao Xiao. She had such delicate skin and was still a little girl. If training roughened her skin, it would be a tremendous loss to the world of little girls. As an aspiring lolicon, Qian Ran would never allow that to happen.

What the hell did it matter to him whether anyone in class got eliminated? Still, accidentally helping them grow stronger counted as a good deed.

But there was no reason to turn down such a good reputation.

That's right, I'm just that gentle and kind. Come fall for me, everyone!

"Hurry up and get some rest. By my reckoning, once the holy light wears off in a little while, you'll all be too tired to get up. Run back to the dorms while it's still working. Collapsing here later won't be a pretty sight." Qian Ran spoke very seriously. With training this intense and so many people, he certainly couldn't turn them all into tireless warriors.

Sooner or later, every debt had to be repaid.

Everyone's expression changed drastically at his words, and they hurried toward the dorms.

"Qian Ran, here."

Xiao Xiao held up a bottle of ice water in her little hand and offered it to him. She had just run to the nearby shop to buy it.

"Thanks." Qian Ran took the water and drained it in one go.

He hadn't expected Xiao Xiao to take such initiative.

But she had been the same in the original story, actively pursuing Wang Dong'er and being fooled for ages by her disguise as a boy. Now Qian Ran was the most dazzling person in class, and they had already interacted before, so Xiao Xiao expressing her feelings for him seemed perfectly normal.

Qian Ran tilted his head back to drink. His bobbing Adam's apple made both Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao blush. There was an indescribable charm about him at that moment, drawing secret glances from many girls, who then imagined who knew how many erotic comic scenarios.

"Class Monitor Qian Ran, see you tomorrow." Seeing him finish the water she had given him, Xiao Xiao happily skipped away by herself.

"Xiao Xiao sure treats you well!" Wang Dong'er felt a sour pang inside. Xiao Xiao had bought water for Qian Ran alone. Anyone with common sense knew what that meant!

"What can I do? I'm just that charming. What am I supposed to do about it?" Qian Ran put his arm around Wang Dong'er's shoulders and led her straight toward the dorms.

At this stage, the new students essentially had only Zhou Yi as their teacher. Apart from her exceptionally harsh training, the other classes were mostly coasting along, waiting for the new student assessment in three months.

More precisely, only those who passed the assessment three months later would count as first-year students at Shrek Academy. Strictly speaking, they weren't students of Shrek Academy yet.

"You jerk, if you take your womanizing too far, you can forget about ever seeing me in pretty dresses again!" Wang Dong'er pouted and gave a little snort. Qian Ran was already a womanizer, and now so many people liked him.

There probably wasn't a single girl in Class One who would refuse to be his girlfriend.

"Hey, Dong'er, do you have to be that ruthless?" Qian Ran's mouth twitched. Her threat was far too vicious. He still wanted to see her swaying her waist and hips in white stockings and a miniskirt.

"Hmph. Who told you to keep making me angry?" Wang Dong'er pursed her lips. Of course, she was only saying it. If she stayed angry with Qian Ran all the time, those vixens would snatch him away.

"Dong'er, you've always come first in my heart. I swear!" Qian Ran promised.

"Hmph! Big liar!"

"Hehe. Actually, I was only trying to scare you. Why are you so afraid of me? Don't tell me you really are planning to do lots of things that would betray me?" Suspicion filled Wang Dong'er's eyes.

"Impossible! I haven't! I'm not! Don't make things up!" Qian Ran hurried to stop her from pursuing the subject. He was determined to build a harem, so he was destined to go against her hopes.

He couldn't give up an entire garden for the single flower that was Wang Dong'er.

"I'm going to shower. Stop holding me. I'm all sweaty and sticky." Wang Dong'er was drenched in fragrant sweat and had long since found it hard to bear. Seeing the dorm room right ahead, she ran toward it with long strides.

"How about..." Watching Wang Dong'er prepare to enter the bathroom, Qian Ran couldn't help having another wonderful idea.

"What are you trying to do?" Wang Dong'er pursed her little lips and folded her arms across her chest. She knew his wicked thoughts perfectly well. Hmph, he just lusts after my body, doesn't he? I won't let him have his way!

He was just making eyes at Xiao Xiao, too. Hmph!

"Ahem. Nothing. Go wash up. I'll shower after you." Qian Ran smiled sheepishly. He had wanted to enter the bathroom with her and experience the life of a debauched monarch.

"Go find your Senior Tang Ya. Or your little sister Xiao Xiao. Your little sister Xiao Xiao likes you so much, I'm sure she'd be delighted if you went to see her." Wang Dong'er turned her head aside and pouted haughtily. She was a little jealous. Xiao Xiao's beauty was every bit a match for hers.

"Don't be like that. Right now, you're the only one in my heart," Qian Ran said very earnestly.

"Like hell I believe you! I'm going in. You're not allowed to come in or peek! Otherwise, I won't speak to you again." Blushing, Wang Dong'er hurried into the bathroom. Looking at her beautiful reflection in the mirror, she felt unbearably shy.

What's wrong with me? I almost fell into Qian Ran's trap and let him have his way.

She didn't believe for a second that he would do nothing to her if they entered the bathroom together!

That guy was the biggest lecher.

"Fine, then we won't shower together." Qian Ran wasn't particularly disappointed. After all, he hadn't intended to make Wang Dong'er accept so much all at once this quickly. Wasn't he just testing the waters? Still, he really didn't dare go too far with her for now.

Wang Dong'er had protective restrictions placed on her by Tang San. Normally, if Qian Ran dared kiss her, they would activate and repel him. Yet he didn't know why they hadn't activated when he kissed her back then. Perhaps the system or Qian Renxue had secretly helped.

After washing up, Qian Ran sat on his bed and began cultivating.

He hadn't slacked off in his cultivation these past few days.

With the immense soul power he had accumulated over those days, he easily broke through to rank twenty-five.

Cultivating soul power hadn't been his focus these past few days. Otherwise, at his cultivation speed, he would already have advanced several ranks. He had been busy refining Electrolux's undead power, and with Qian Renxue's help, everything had gone smoothly.

With his help, Tang Ya's blue silver grass martial soul was developing toward an evil martial soul. Wasn't the same true of him? His angel martial soul had already begun showing faint signs of mutation.

He reckoned that once its transformation was complete, no one would be able to recognize it as a six-winged angel anymore.

Let's finish this in one push.

Qian Ran murmured inwardly. Over the past few days, he had all but finished refining Electrolux's evil power in batches. Now he would integrate it completely into his angel martial soul in one push. With Qian Renxue's previous experience, there shouldn't be any major problems. Besides, she was watching him the whole time, making an accident even less likely.

"What an evil power."

Wang Dong'er woke from cultivation and stared toward Qian Ran in horror.

A terrifying evil presence suddenly erupted from him. That malice instantly made even her develop violent, bloodthirsty thoughts. This evil presence was powerful enough to affect people's minds.

She hurriedly released her light goddess butterfly martial soul to resist that terrifying evil power.

"What is this?"

"Doesn't Qian Ran have a six-winged angel? Why does his martial soul have this presence that only evil soul masters possess?"

If the person before her hadn't been the familiar Qian Ran, she would almost have thought a powerful evil soul master had suddenly appeared in the dorm room!

Light-type soul masters were all highly sensitive to an evil soul master's presence. Qian Ran's felt evil to the extreme. That power, filled with decay, evil, and sin, even affected Wang Dong'er's mind somewhat.

Fortunately, her martial soul was the light goddess butterfly.

Wang Dong'er was worried about Qian Ran's condition. Dark gray power swirled around him, its pure presence of death giving her the illusion that he had just crawled out of a pile of corpses.

Electrolux was the undead calamity, the Death God. He could be called both the forefather and the nemesis of evil soul masters.

Behind Qian Ran, the angel martial soul possessed his body.

The appearance of golden light representing light and holiness considerably weakened the oppressive atmosphere in the room.

Under Wang Dong'er's utterly horrified gaze, the gray and golden powers did not clash like fire and water, but instead coexisted in a peculiar way.

At that moment, Qian Ran's martial soul also began to change.

All his original angel soul power gathered on the angel martial soul's left side, while the evil undead power occupied the right.

Qian Ran seemed to have been divided in two: half holy, half evil; half light, half darkness.

"Ah!"

The intense pain of fusion brought beads of sweat dripping from Qian Ran's skin. Even if Electrolux's power wasn't so averse to the presence of light, it was ultimately necromantic and undead power, incompatible with the six-winged angel like fire and water.

But the pain didn't last long and soon faded.

Gradually, the two powers stabilized.

The six-winged angel martial soul, filled with both wickedness and divinity, looked so bizarre.

Like Qian Renxue, he had finally mastered that intoxicating power.

One side was a holy angel; the other, a fallen angel.

Qian Ran spread his hands. As soul power surged, a holy flame of light blazed in one hand, capable of bringing light and hope to the world. In his other hand appeared an evil Undead Flame, its cold, deathly stillness enough to chill anyone who saw it.

"My soul skills should have changed too." With a thought, Qian Ran lit up the first soul ring beneath him, and countless streams of light elemental power gathered toward his hand.

If he used the holy angel's power, his first soul skill remained unchanged.

But after the holy light power in his hand dispersed and he activated his first soul skill again, strange gray power appeared in his hand. He clenched it into a fist. If he threw this punch, its pure power of death would probably be astonishingly destructive.

Though the principles of the soul skills remained the same, the different attributes of the powers gave each skill many possibilities. Holy light angel power had a dissolving property, constantly dissolving an opponent's soul power during combat. Undead spirit power carried an evil, terrifying devouring force that could invade the body and corrode an opponent's flesh.

His angel martial soul had two hundred thousand year soul rings. Each hundred thousand year soul ring possessed two powerful soul skills.

But now, Qian Ran effectively had eight soul skills!

The same soul skill produced completely different effects when used with holy angel power versus fallen angel power.

If he combined the holy angel power represented by the left side with the fallen angel power represented by the right while releasing a soul skill, wouldn't that effectively give him four more soul skills?

For now, however, Qian Ran couldn't use both powers simultaneously.

Merely maintaining their balance within his martial soul for the time being was already good enough. He didn't want to conduct such dangerous experiments yet.

"Qian Ran, what happened to you? Why has your martial soul become like this?" Wang Dong'er was completely dumbfounded.

The six-winged angel could be called the world's strongest light-type martial soul, but now...

Although that pure, holy presence of light remained, his martial soul now also possessed a pure undead power.

"I had a fortunate encounter earlier and obtained this necromantic ability. Then I suddenly had the idea of integrating these powers into the six-winged angel. I never expected it to succeed." Qian Ran shrugged. He didn't want to tell Wang Dong'er about Electrolux yet.

Mainly because her father, that bastard Tang San, was far too underhanded.

Who knew whether Tang San had left some method on Wang Dong'er that he knew nothing about?

He was no match for Tang San yet, so he had to be as careful as possible.

"Are you crazy? You've got some nerve!"

"How could you take a risk like that? What would I do if something happened to you?"

As Wang Dong'er spoke, tears began streaming uncontrollably down her face.

She had been worried to death just now. She had thought Qian Ran had suffered some mishap and had even been ready to find a teacher for help. Fortunately, he was fine. Otherwise, she would have had to remain a widow for him. Become a widow at her age? She refused!

Wang Dong'er threw herself into Qian Ran's arms and sobbed. The sight of her, like pear blossoms drenched in rain, made his heart ache terribly.

Qian Ran felt helpless. He didn't want to work so hard at cultivation either!

But Dong'er, if I don't cultivate diligently, how am I supposed to take on your father later?

I'm pushing myself this hard for our future!

"Don't cry. Aren't I perfectly fine? I'd never do something without confidence. I tried it many times before, so I only did this because I was sure there wasn't much danger." Qian Ran comforted her, holding her tightly and feeling the softness and fresh, post-bath fragrance of the girl in his arms.

"That still isn't okay. Anyway, you can't take risks like this again." Wang Dong'er lifted her tear-reddened eyes, sniffed her delicate little nose, and gazed deeply at him.

She had been terrified that he would be in danger, constantly feeling as though he was about to leave her. Her heart had truly hurt then. She never wanted to experience that feeling again.

If becoming strong required Qian Ran to keep taking risks, she would rather he were an ordinary person.

Qian Ran coaxed Wang Dong'er as though soothing a child, taking a long time to settle her down. Then, by himself, he slowly began testing his power. It could be said that, without using his holy light angel power, he could now pass as a proper, powerful evil soul master!

In terms of combat ability, evil soul masters were quite formidable. With this connection, he no longer had to fear meeting evil soul masters while traveling the continent. If those lunatics from the Holy Spirit Cult learned of his current condition, they would probably revere him as

Perhaps he would even have a chance to form a bond with Ye Xishui, that legendary woman of the continent. Powerful herself and the beloved of two Limit Douluos-bowing his head to her seemed rather gratifying.

If an accomplished beauty like Ye Xishui wore nude stockings, she would probably be quite alluring.

Nude stockings were another kind Qian Ran rather liked. They simply suited mature women better.

White stockings for little girls, black stockings for commanding beauties, nude stockings for beautiful mature women.

Having already decided on dual cultivation with both commanding beauties and little girls, he actually had no resistance to those mature older women either!