"What happened?"
Under the sky screen, the spectators were curious.
But two people alone turned pale, panic and worry overtaking them.
That little clinic was all too familiar.
"No, Ah Yin, my Ah Yin!
You haven't met me yet!"
Tang Hao roared. That was Ah Yin's little clinic, where he and his elder brother had met her during their travels.
At the Clear Sky Sect, Tang Xiao stood alone on a mountaintop, his heart uneasy.
"Third sister!"
On the sky screen, Ye Qingxian was curious too, and murmured a question.
"What is it?"
"Madam Pope, His Holiness the Pope has discovered a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast.
In all the world, I'm afraid only His Holiness the Pope has spiritual power strong enough to spot a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast on the ground from high in the sky."
Yue Guan answered respectfully, and surprise immediately spread across Ye Qingxian's pretty face.
A Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast?
That was somewhat beyond her experience.
"Madam Pope, as Soul Beasts cultivate, they face a heavenly tribulation every hundred thousand years.
If they fail to weather it, they are reduced to ashes.
But once a Soul Beast reaches a hundred thousand years of cultivation, it can choose to take human form and cultivate.
A Titled Douluo can see through a transformed Soul Beast's identity.
At that point, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is very weak, but killing one will still yield a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and a Soul Bone."
Seeing Ye Qingxian's confusion, Yue Guan explained in a low voice.
But his explanation was also broadcast beyond the sky screen.
The spectators were green with envy.
A transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast-even if you couldn't absorb its Soul Ring, you were guaranteed a Soul Bone at the very least!
"His Holiness the Pope said he wouldn't kill that Soul Beast. He must be planning to keep her captive until Madam Pope needs her, then kill her.
Boo-hoo, Ye Qingxian, do you even know how to be Madam Pope?
Let me handle that hard job."
"Fuck, you're ugly as hell and you've got a dick. Stop disgusting us!"
On the carriage, Xiao Wu watched the sky screen, her body trembling slightly as she instinctively huddled close to Tang San.
But Tang San hadn't noticed anything unusual about Xiao Wu at all.
This was also the first time he had learned that a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could take human form and cultivate.
His teacher had never told him that.
On the sky screen.
Inside the little clinic, a girl in blue curled up in a corner, panic on her face.
She had never expected a powerful human to discover her only half a year after she left the Blue Silver Forest.
And he was the strongest of all humans, the current Pope, Qian Xunji!
It was over. She was done for.
Ah Yin's heart turned to dead ashes. As for Qian Xunji's claim that he wouldn't kill her, she didn't believe it for a moment.
"You had best come out on your own."
Gui Mei spoke, his presence eerie and his Soul Power fluctuations almost spectral.
Although it was still more than twenty years before the original timeline, his cultivation had already reached level 95.
Moreover, his Martial Soul was of higher quality, and he had more Soul Bones.
A moment later, Ah Yin slowly emerged. She had a divinely beautiful, classical face untouched by worldly dust.
Her brows were like distant ink-dark mountains, slender and long, with an innate nobility.
Her eyes were clear as sapphires, glimmering with warmth and tolerance.
She had a straight, delicate nose and skin like congealed cream, with a trace of girlish youth still lingering between her brows.
She wore a long blue dress, golden threads cinching her waist to a slender line and outlining the graceful curves of her tall figure.
A fresh, natural fragrance could be clearly scented on her, and her rich aura of life was clean and pure, somewhat like Ye Qingxian's.
But Ye Qingxian was more innocent, a girl next door.
Ah Yin, on the other hand, carried a nobility etched into her very bones and blood, a presence reserved for an emperor.
"Qingxian still lacks a personal maid. You will stay at her side.
With me here, no one will dare set their sights on you."
Qian Xunji spoke, and Ah Yin smiled bitterly. "Do I have a choice?"
"A wise person knows when to yield to circumstances. As long as you don't seek death, no one will be able to kill you."
Qian Xunji said no more. Holy light lifted them all up and carried them back onto the Azure Plume Eagle Emperor's back.
"Yue Guan, go to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and fetch the Living Gold Jade Bamboo."
Surprise crossed Yue Guan's face. He glanced at Ah Yin, then respectfully accepted the order. "Yes!"
The Azure Plume Eagle Emperor shot into the clouds once more. Qian Xunji raised a hand and touched Ah Yin between the brows, planting a spiritual imprint.
"Don't think about running away. You should know what a Peerless Douluo is capable of."
Ah Yin said nothing, and there was not the slightest smile on her flawless face.
Under the sky screen, Tang Hao wept bitterly. "Ah Yin, my Ah Yin.
Why didn't you hide better? How did that beast find you?
Why didn't you wait until I appeared?
Damn Qian Xunji, damn Spirit Hall! I, Tang Hao, cannot live under the same sky as you!"
Sunset Forest.
A golden dragon-crocodile phantom shook heaven and earth as it engaged someone in a fierce battle.
"Spirit Hall, aren't you being too overbearing?
The Immortal Herbs produced by the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well... my Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect doesn't want them anymore!"
Yu Yuanzhen turned and left, twice as fast as he had come.
Qian Daoliu's angel Martial Soul towered above Sunset Forest. In the distance, the members of the Clear Sky Sect hesitated, not daring to take another step forward.
The Peerless Douluo Qian Daoliu had come in person. What the hell was there left to fight over?
Unless Tang Chen returned, who could withstand a single strike of Qian Daoliu's sword?
Not to mention there was also Golden Crocodile Douluo, who was Level 98.
They couldn't afford to offend them, couldn't afford to offend them.
Gui Mei and Chrysanthemum Douluo also arrived belatedly. Upon seeing the projection of the Great Enshrined's Martial Soul, they steeled themselves and went to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
"Yue Guan, you've come at just the right time."
Qian Xunji glanced at Yue Guan, then began putting him to work.
Yue Guan didn't hesitate in the slightest, his face alight with excitement. As for these immortal-grade treasures, never mind having a chance to obtain one-even seeing them with his own eyes would leave him with no regrets in this life.
In the sky screen's timeline.
In the Pope's Palace, Ye Cangshui had already been settled in Spirit City, leaving only Qian Xunji, Ye Qingxian, and Ah Yin in the hall.
Ye Qingxian stood before the steps, her moon-white gown trailing to the floor. She was terribly ill at ease and didn't dare raise her head.
Ah Yin, on the other hand, was quite relaxed. She felt she didn't have long to live; sooner or later, she would die anyway.
Without waiting to be invited, she found herself a seat. Her bearing complemented the majestic Pope's Palace, and she did not seem out of place in the slightest.
Qian Xunji ignored her, his gaze settling on Ye Qingxian. "First, absorb the Twelve-Grade Holy Light Lotus.
Then absorb the Two-Hundred-Thousand-Year Yin Yang Fish Torso Bone."
"Yes!"
Only after receiving her instructions did Ye Qingxian begin to move.
The Twelve-Grade Holy Light Lotus was brought out, and Ah Yin's gaze instantly shot toward it.
What kind of herb was that? It actually carried the presence of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, yet it had no sentience.
Moreover, the white lotus was rich with life, and would be of great benefit to her as well.
Unfortunately... she herself could only be a tonic. How could she possibly be qualified to eat one?
Ah Yin sighed softly, lamenting the unfairness of fate.
Qian Xunji glanced at her, his lips pressing together slightly, but continued to ignore her. He simply watched Ye Qingxian take the white lotus and absorb its medicinal power.
At last, unable to sit still any longer, Ah Yin couldn't resist asking, "Your Holiness, may I ask what you intend to do with me?"
If she had to die, then so be it. Better a quick death than living in fear.
"Didn't I already tell you? Qingxian lacks a personal maid. If you behave well, you won't have to die."
"Hmph, easy for you to say.
When her body can withstand a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, I'm afraid that will be the day I die."
Ah Yin felt she saw things more clearly than anyone.
She didn't know, however, that Qian Xunji's way of thinking did not belong to this world.
Ah Yin's Soul Ring and Soul Bone? They were indeed well suited to Ye Qingxian.
But alive, Ah Yin was also suited to bearing children.
He needed to raise one God King and five First-Level Gods.
If Ye Qingxian and Ah Yin were properly nurtured, becoming First-Level Gods would be no problem for them.
Between the two of them, they had to bear him at least three children.