Chapter 39: Top-Tier Martial Souls, Eternal Sword
[After returning to the Martial Soul Temple, Qian Renxue followed you into a stable period of cultivation. With the help of the spiritual herbs, her cultivation speed increased rapidly, and her foundation became even stronger than you expected.]
[Recently, there's been news circulating on the continent about the former disciple of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, Yu Xiaogang, known as the Master, successfully overcoming his Martial Soul deficiency, breaking through to level 30 and becoming a Soul Ancestor. He was then accepted back into the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect. You weren't surprised by this, as his success was entirely reliant on your guidance. However, what he doesn't know is that this advancement came at the cost of his life force and Martial Soul potential.]
[In just one year, Qian Renxue broke through once again, reaching level 50 in soul power. With your assistance, she successfully absorbed a 36,000-year-old fifth soul ring, advancing to become a Soul King. Due to absorbing a soul ring across year limits again, the immense energy contained within the soul ring helped her advance two levels.]
[With the help of the Five Elements elixirs you concocted, you completed the attributes of your Martial Soul, further enhancing it to become a powerful Martial Soul comparable to around level 8 innate soul power. Moreover, you discovered that with the completion of the Five Elements, your Seven Kill Sword Martial Soul began to exhibit a sense of perpetual vitality as expected. The strength of your Martial Soul also strengthened your spirit and cultivation aptitude, speeding up your cultivation.]
[Two years later, with the dual effects of spirit medicines and Martial Souls, you successfully reached level 40. After obtaining a ten-thousand-year soul beast with extreme water attributes, you absorbed its soul ring to advance to the fourth-rank Soul Sage.]
[At the same time, Chrysanthemum Douluo Yueguan also successfully broke through to level 96. His compatibility with the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum was surprisingly good. Without even ingesting it, he comprehended the true meaning of his Martial Soul through visualizing and contrasting with the physical object, achieving a breakthrough.]
[A year later, Qian Renxue completely absorbed the medicinal power of the Narcissus Jade Skin and Bone, reaching level 60 in cultivation. With the assistance of the Martial Soul Temple, she killed a ninety-thousand-year-old Golden-eyed White Crane and absorbed its sixth soul ring to advance to the Soul Emperor.]
[In the following five years, you fully developed the potential of Qian Renxue's Divine-tier Martial Soul with innate level 20 soul power. With the further improvement of her aptitude due to the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone, she ascended to level 70. Then, as promised, Bibi Dong provided intelligence on a hundred-thousand-year soul beast and dispatched several elders to help Qian Renxue kill it. Subsequently, at the age of less than 22, she became a seven-ringed Soul Saint, with the seventh soul ring being an astonishing hundred-thousand-year soul ring. However, due to the Angelic Set, she did not absorb the corresponding soul bone but entrusted it to you.]
[After Yueguan Douluo Yueguan swallowed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, his cultivation further advanced to level 97, just one step away from level 98. With the cooperation of Ghost Douluo, even a peak-level 98th-ranked Douluo would have to be wary.]
[You didn't need a divine attribute soul bone yourself, but in order to break through quickly and have an additional self-defense ability in the future, you absorbed the right leg bone that Qian Renxue had previously entrusted to you. The accompanying immense energy successfully helped you achieve a breakthrough in the following six months, reaching level 50 in cultivation. After absorbing the soul ring of a soul beast with extreme wood attributes, your Five Elements Sword Soul achieved preliminary perfection and was able to rival the top-tier Martial Souls with full innate soul power.]
[During this period, you took advantage of the visit of Dugu Bo to return the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum to him, while also giving him the Daffodil Jade Flesh Bone to deliver to Chen Xin at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School for temporary safekeeping. According to him, Chen Xin had also broken through to level 97 by this time, and his combat power far exceeded those of the same rank.]
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Interlude mode was in effect, and time passed swiftly, with everything steadily progressing on the foundation laid out by him, without encountering too many surprises along the way.
After all, in this world, there was no variable like Tang San, the transmigrator.
Therefore, during this process, Su Cheng didn't actively interrupt the proceedings to intervene.
Everything that needed to be done had been done; now, all that remained was to await the final battle.
"Finally, the moment of reckoning has arrived..." Su Cheng muttered to himself as he examined the newly rejuvenated sword martial soul in his hand.
The longsword in his hand was now vastly different from before; anyone who saw it would not deem it a trash martial soul.
The sword was three feet and three inches long, with a blade width of one inch and two centimeters.
At first glance, it seemed unremarkable, but the more one looked, the more one would sense its profoundness.
The thin, sharp blade gave off a sense of weightiness and indestructibility, full of contradictions yet harboring a strange harmony.
Su Cheng's fingers lightly traced the spine of the sword, and the colors of the sword body changed, with white, black, blue, red, and yellow hues flashing alternately.
As the colors changed, the shape of the sword body also underwent subtle alterations.
"The Five Elements rotate, perpetually renewing. From now on, I shall call you the Eternal Sword," Su Cheng declared.
After admiring it for a moment, he stowed away the martial soul.
Now, his own strength was secondary; the key to victory lay in Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong.
"The game has reached its endgame. Bibi Dong, are you prepared?"
[T/N: Poor Bi bi Dong (ToT).]
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In the center of the Martial Soul City's Douluo Hall stood a towering statue, reaching up to ten meters in height, adorned entirely in brilliant gold.
Three pairs of wings spread out behind it, while it held aloft a massive golden sword pointed straight towards the sky. And around that golden sword, there seemed to be a faint layer of golden flames swirling.
At this moment, in front of this colossal statue, knelt a figure.
Wavy hair cascaded down her back, reaching all the way to the ground, while her hands formed a peculiar gesture in front of her chest: thumbs interlocked, index fingers pressed together, and the remaining six fingers spread out on either side, resembling the wingspan of a six-winged angel.
With closed eyes, her delicate face exuded reverence, and a faint halo enveloped her form.
It was Qian Renxue, now possessing the cultivation of a Soul Saint.
"Are you prepared?" resounded a voice, dignified yet calm, echoing through the Douluo Hall.
Qian Renxue remained unmoving, neither speaking nor stirring, maintaining her posture in silence.
A golden radiance surged forth, and a thousand illusions of flowing movements appeared between her and the massive statue. As these illusions gradually became clearer, the surrounding golden light intensified noticeably.
Especially the colossal statue of the six-winged angel, where the golden flames emitted from the sword in its hand stretched for over a dozen meters, imbuing the area with an indescribable sense of sanctity.
With a lifted finger, Qian Renxue beckoned, and the golden flames released from the sword behind the statue descended from above, completely enveloping her body.
As the golden flames swirled, Qian Renxue's body was gently lifted within the radiance. In front of her, nine golden screens gradually materialized.
Upon seeing these nine screens, a special gleam flickered in the eyes of the illusionary figure.
"The Nine Trials of the Angel..."