Has Qian Renxue Returned?

Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan steadied his emotions a little. It took him a long while to recover from his earlier shock, and then he asked another question:

"Master, what realm lies above Dou Di?"

Hun Tiandi said slowly, "When an ordinary Dou Di reaches the Great Thousand World and converts all the Dou Qi in their body into Spiritual Energy, they become the equivalent of a Sovereign expert there."

"Above Sovereign, there are Earthly Sovereigns and Heavenly Sovereigns."

"Earthly Sovereigns are divided into lower, middle, and upper ranks, as well as the great perfection stage."

"One step further is the Heavenly Sovereign realm."

"Heavenly Sovereigns are further divided into Spirit Grade, Immortal Grade, and Saint Grade."

Hearing that so many realms lay above Dou Di, Xiao Yan felt his breathing quicken.

For cultivators, especially those at the very top, the most frightening thing was to find that the road ahead had come to an end.

He had now reached the peak of the Dou Qi Continent.

How could he not be excited to hear that an even broader path lay ahead?

"Master, when will that passage open?"

Hun Tiandi pondered for a moment. According to the original story's timeline, the five emperors broke through space several decades after Xiao Yan became an emperor.

Now, with his help, Xiao Yan had reached the Emperor Realm ten years early. The passage would probably open quite a few years earlier as well.

"Even I cannot give you an exact time."

"But in a few decades at most, the passage will open completely."

"Before then, we still have plenty of time to prepare."

Xiao Yan nodded firmly.

A few decades were a lifetime to a mortal.

But to experts like them, they passed in the snap of a finger.

Meanwhile, the experts of Douluo were filled with emotion when they heard about the realms beyond Dou Di.

The realm they had pursued all their lives seemed so insignificant before the Great Thousand World.

Soon, the scene on the sky screen changed again.

What appeared there made the people of Spirit Hall and the Heaven Dou Empire tremble.

For the place shown was none other than the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince's palace.

Qian Renxue slowly awakened. As she remembered it, she had just entered the technique space.

The Samsara Scripture's cultivation method had entered her mind in an incomparably overbearing manner.

It was as if a set of memories about the technique had been injected directly into her. In an instant, Qian Renxue felt she had already learned it.

With a thought, she set the technique in motion.

Then everything went black before her eyes, and when she woke up, she discovered...

Qian Renxue looked at the familiar things around her and instantly came fully awake.

"Is this the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince's palace?"

She couldn't help crying out, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.

What was going on?

How had she returned to the Douluo Continent?

She stood up and looked around, but every familiar furnishing around her told her that this was the crown prince's palace where she had lived for so many years.

But how was that possible?

She distinctly remembered that she had been trying to cultivate the Samsara Scripture.

At this moment, not just Qian Renxue, but everyone on Douluo watching the live broadcast on the sky screen was dumbfounded.

Hadn't Qian Renxue gone to the Dou Qi Continent?

Had the sky screen sent Qian Renxue back again?

The Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.

Emperor Xue Ye was overjoyed at the sight!

He hurriedly issued an order, commanding the imperial palace's guard commander to lead his finest men to the crown prince's palace at once.

Ever since the sky screen exposed the crown prince's true identity, he had felt as though thorns were digging into his back, unable to eat or sleep in peace.

Now the sky screen had actually sent Qian Renxue back with only a Dou Zhe's cultivation. Heaven truly was blessing his Heaven Dou!

In the Worship Hall, Qian Daoliu also thought the sky screen had sent Xiao Xue back.

He was overjoyed at first, but soon a bone-chilling cold shot straight to the crown of his head!

If Xiao Xue had truly returned, her Martial Soul and Soul Power were now both crippled.

If she stayed in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, she would die!

At that thought, Qian Daoliu shot into the sky.

He activated his Angel True Body and unleashed his Peerless Douluo cultivation, charging toward the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace without concealing himself in the slightest.

However, after Heaven Dou's guards surrounded the crown prince's palace, they were dumbfounded.

There was no one in the crown prince's palace at all!

The commander leading them searched every inch of the crown prince's palace, inside and out. Let alone Qian Renxue, there wasn't a soul to be found.

Emperor Xue Ye was utterly bewildered when he heard the report.

"What do you mean, there's no one there?!"

"That enormous sky screen is showing Qian Renxue standing right there in the crown prince's palace, clear as day!"

"Do you take me for a blind man?!"

The soldier sent to report was so anxious he nearly cried.

"Your Majesty, it's the absolute truth! Our men turned the entire crown prince's palace upside down, and there's no one there!"

Emperor Xue Ye refused to believe it. Led by the soldier, he went to the crown prince's palace himself and found that it was indeed empty.

But when he looked up at the sky screen, Qian Renxue was clearly standing inside the crown prince's palace!

What the hell was going on?

Inside the sky screen.

Qian Renxue was still puzzled as well.

She even suspected that her journey to the Dou Qi Continent had been nothing but a dream.

After all, appearing in another world without explanation was simply too inconceivable.

But then she suddenly discovered that what flowed through her body was Dou Qi!

The next moment, someone pushed the door open from outside.

Qian Renxue then saw Xue Qinghe walk in, followed by the two Douluo, Snake Lance and Pufferfish.

Yet the three walked straight in as though they hadn't seen Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue instinctively reached out to grab Xue Qinghe, but her hand passed straight through him as if through thin air.

Qian Renxue: ?

Everyone watching the sky screen was dumbfounded by this sight.

Inside Spirit Hall.

Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo glanced at the sky screen, then looked at each other.

Weren't the two people following Xue Qinghe in the scene none other than themselves?

But the two of them had clearly already returned to Spirit Hall!

Porcupinefish Douluo swallowed. "What on earth is going on?"

Snake Lance Douluo blurted out, "You ask me, who am I supposed to ask? It's like we've seen a ghost!"

Qian Daoliu, who had already flown halfway there, also came to an abrupt stop in midair.

He stood high in the sky, a puzzled look on his face.

Why were there two Xiao Xues in the sky screen?!

The people of the Heaven Dou Empire were dumbfounded as well.

Had a ghost appeared in broad daylight?

On the sky screen, Qian Renxue tried calling out twice and discovered that the others really couldn't hear her.

Could I be inside an illusion?

Before she could think further, she heard Xue Qinghe speak.

"Elder Snake Lance, Elder Pufferfish, how are the preparations for the palace coup coming along?"

Snake Lance Douluo hurriedly cupped his fists and reported, "Young Master, Emperor Xue Ye has already succumbed to the poison. That old bastard Dugu Bo has left the palace to seek help."

"The guards at the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace have all been replaced with our own men as well."

"We need only your command to act at once!"

"A palace coup?"

Qian Renxue frowned. She had indeed infiltrated the Heaven Dou Empire to plot the Heaven Dou Palace Coup and seize control of the empire.

But she had gone to the Dou Qi Continent before she had the chance to put the plan into action.

Could what I'm seeing now be what would have happened in the future if I hadn't unexpectedly gone to the Dou Qi Continent?