Auntie...
Qian Renxue could barely bring herself to say it, because she knew Ye Qingxian and Ah Yin were both younger than her.
But by rights, she still had to call them auntie.
Qian Renxue was very well-behaved, and Ye Qingxian and Ah Yin were both kind, treating her as their own daughter.
In their eyes, Qian Renxue was simply too pitiful.
Her mother had killed her father. How was a child supposed to cope with that?
...Original timeline...
Countless spectators had grown numb, each sitting cross-legged.
"Bright Jade Technique, eternal youth, eternal youth, eternal youth... Ah, how was anyone supposed to cultivate this?
"Can I practice it just by sitting like this?"
Deep in the mountains.
Tang San had already sent Xiao Wu away. He looked at the sky screen. "Dad, we can't learn this Bright Jade Technique.
"Techniques like this all have mental cultivation formulas. You can't master them just by looking at the surface.
"Besides, eternal youth is nothing but an exaggeration.
"A Peerless Douluo can still look like a young girl at a hundred. That's true eternal youth."
Tang San knew full well that so-called internal techniques weren't something anyone could learn on a whim.
Beside him, Tang Hao was also meditating, but had made no progress.
"Is this technique really that miraculous?
"Once you master it, Soul Power is generated on its own, flowing endlessly, and the more you use, the more you have?"
Tang Hao wanted it. He really wanted it.
Qian Xunji had even snatched his wife away. What was wrong with secretly learning his Bright Jade Technique to recoup some of his losses?
Why wouldn't it let him learn it?
Tang Hao was at his wits' end. He could only give up and continue on his way with Tang San, heading for the Blue Silver Forest so Tang San could undergo his Martial Soul Second Awakening.
But just as the two were about to set off, Tang Hao suddenly grew alert.
"Tang Hao, where do you think you're going?"
An evil presence swept over them, and a woman whose lower body had transformed into a hideous spider appeared in an instant.
"I never would have guessed. A disciple of that good-for-nothing Yu Xiaogang is actually the Clear Sky Douluo's son.
"What a surprise.
"This time, let's see where you can run!"
Bibi Dong had also been surprised when Yue Guan told her the news, and had promptly set out in person.
"Dad!"
Tang San's expression was tense. The configuration of Bibi Dong's Soul Rings was terrifying.
Though not as formidable as Qian Xunji's, her five Soul Rings started at ten thousand years, and one of them was a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.
"Twin Martial Souls!"
In this world, only Bibi Dong, with her Twin Martial Souls, could achieve that.
"You and my teacher were deeply in love. Why are you trying to kill each other?"
"My dad helped you gravely wound Qian Xunji, so you could get your revenge.
"You should be thanking him!"
Tang San spoke, but the mention of Yu Xiaogang and Qian Xunji made Bibi Dong even more agitated, and she struggled to control her emotions.
"Yu Xiaogang is nothing but trash. I, Bibi Dong, would fall for anyone before I fell for him!
"My teacher wronged me, but I cannot wrong him.
"I'll avenge him!
"Kill!
"Kill Tang Hao!"
At Bibi Dong's command, Yue Guan and Gui Mei, who had already appeared, immediately unleashed their ultimate move.
"Two Forms Stillness Domain!"
At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Yue Guan and Gui Mei had received Qian Daoliu's permission to each consume an Immortal Herb.
By now, their Soul Power had long since broken through to Levels 96 and Level 97, respectively.
When they used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill again, its effect was on an entirely different level.
"Ring Detonation!"
Tang Hao didn't dare hesitate for an instant. He knew full well how terrifying the Two Forms Stillness Domain was, and he knew what it meant for Bibi Dong to take action herself.
"Sixth Soul Skill! Space-Rending Abyss Slash!"
Bibi Dong directly unleashed the skill of her Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, slashing out the instant Tang Hao detonated his ring.
This time, she was determined to kill Tang Hao!
But the Clear Sky Sect's Ring Detonation simply defied all reason.
The Two Forms Stillness Domain was blasted apart by sheer force, and even her Abyss Slash was smashed to pieces.
However, the attack was comparable to a clash between Level 98 Super Douluo. Even its shockwaves were more than Tang San could withstand.
Aah!!!!
"Xiao San!
"My Xiao San!"
Tang Hao had also lost an arm. Grief-stricken, he dragged Tang San's nearly broken body away at speed.
Tang San had fallen completely unconscious. One of his arms had been shattered by the shockwaves, and he had lost a leg as well.
Tang Hao spat three sheng of blood and felt drowsy himself, but he didn't dare let his guard down in the slightest.
If he passed out again, then out here in the wilderness, they would come to no good end even if Bibi Dong didn't pursue them.
But Heaven Dou City was still too far from the Blue Silver Forest.
Tang Hao and Tang San had originally been in no hurry, so they had yet to cover even half the distance.
Dragging his gravely injured body along, Tang Hao trudged onward, but still failed to make it to the Blue Silver Forest before collapsing to the ground.
And to avoid Spirit Hall's eyes and ears, Tang Hao had taken a route through remote places.
...Sky screen timeline...
On Sea God Island, Bo Saixi left on her own after delivering the food.
Ye Qingxian and Ah Yin didn't dare ask her to stay. After thanking her, they practiced the Bright Jade Technique with Qian Renxue.
As Qian Xunji had instructed, the Bright Jade Technique was the foundation, and they had to grasp its basics as quickly as possible.
And since they already had Soul Power, they made rapid progress with the basics of the Bright Jade Technique.
The boundless sea.
Qian Renxue traveled in fits and starts. After an unknown length of time, she finally arrived at a lone island far out at sea.
The island wasn't large, less than ten kilometers across, but quite a few avian Soul Beasts lived there.
"Blazing Light Sacred Luan, why haven't you come out to greet me?!"
Qian Xunji halted in the air above the island. His Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul manifested hundreds of zhang tall, and a sacred presence spread out.
The next moment, a sacred radiance likewise soared into the sky from the island.
It was a luan bird, blazing gold from head to toe and shimmering with dazzling light. Its body was enormous, its wingspan nearly a hundred zhang. From afar, it looked like a small sun.
"It's you!"
The Blazing Light Sacred Luan spoke in a soft, delicate female voice, the kind of mature woman's voice that set the heart at ease-smooth, low, and full of magnetism.
As her voice faded, she transformed into a woman, golden hair falling over her shoulders and a long dress wrapped around her graceful figure. Her eyes were like blazing suns, and her face was sacred beyond compare.
...Original timeline...
"Holy shit, a beauty! I want to cuddle!"
"Is that a Soul Beast or a human? Her holy light attribute is actually such a perfect match for the Angel Martial Soul.
"Could she be the Seventh Soul Ring His Holiness the Pope found for Qian Renxue?"
"Such a beautiful woman is actually a Soul Beast, and they're even going to kill her to make her a Soul Ring.
"What a shame.
"If nothing else, let me comfort her for a couple of days."
Spirit Hall.
Qian Daoliu had been watching the sky screen ever since Qian Renxue was chosen by it, and he had been deeply worried.
Later, when his son scolded him, he didn't get angry.
He really had been too indecisive, thinking that because his strength was unmatched under heaven, he could sit steady on the fishing platform.
And with Xiao Xue's talent, she still wasn't a Soul Saint even now. She really had been ruined by her upbringing.
"The Blazing Light Sacred Luan was recorded in our ancestor's notes. It is the Soul Beast most compatible with the Angel Martial Soul.
"This Blazing Light Sacred Luan is about to undergo her four-hundred-thousand-year heavenly tribulation, which makes her no different from a Four-Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
"But what can be done to let Xiao Xue absorb her Soul Ring?
"And I wonder if she's still around twenty years later."
Qian Daoliu was tempted. He continued watching the sky screen to see how Qian Xunji got Xiao Xue to absorb this Soul Ring.
If it really could be done, he wouldn't mind searching for her out at sea himself.