“Xiao Xue…you must live well.” Her hand trembled slightly, gently caressing her cheek, but finally dropped powerlessly.
It was as if Heaven had played a cruel joke on her. Her entire Life had been kept in the dark, and only at the moment of her mother's death did she learn the truth. However, everything was already irreversible.
Her God Position shattered, and her mother died by his sword. The city walls collapsed, smoke filled the air, and the armies of the Two Great Empires invaded Spirit Hall, plundering at will. She witnessed Spirit Hall's thousand-year legacy destroyed in an instant.
Helplessness and regret could not describe the pain in her heart.
After burying her mother and the predecessors who sacrificed themselves in this war, she hid in the shadows, concealed, silently witnessing the enemy enjoy their moment of victory. What pained her most was not them celebrating victory on the ruins of the Spirit Empire, but—
In a village, a child timidly asked, “Grandpa Village Chief, have the bad guys left?”
The Village Chief comforted, “Don't be afraid, child, those Spirit Empire bad guys who tried to invade Heaven Dou will never come again.”
“They have already been defeated by Sea God.”
Grandpa, are these the people I swore to protect?
Her mother was a sinner of Spirit Hall; she placed Spirit Hall in an unrighteous position, making it a target of public criticism. She tried to save Spirit Hall, using her own methods to rule this continent, but failed to spread the glory of the Angel Soul across this land. In the end, Tang San, the Sea God, as the victor, became the faith of the continent.
Their era ended, and the story of the Shrek Seven Devils became a legend. People praised the beauty of the Sea God era, watching them ascend, yet never realizing that the devil had been unleashed.
The old order collapsed, but a new order failed to be established. The Sea God only ruled the continent with his prestige during his era; after he left, shadows quietly brewed in unseen corners.
The era of Spirit Hall ended, but the awakening of Spirits continued. Policies varied from place to place; lords only awakened their own people, and each territory had its own collection system. Some territories even did not take responsibility for awakenings, and villagers could never awaken their Spirit in their entire lives, burying countless commoner geniuses. Even if commoners in some places could successfully awaken, their talents would only become cannon fodder in the hands of the nobility.
Those commoner Spirit Masters who, during the Spirit Hall era, proclaimed they did not want to be Spirit Hall's lackeys and only wanted to be free Spirit Masters, were you truly free?
Without the existence of Spirit Hall, the truce period set by the Sea God ended. After the Sea God ascended, war between nations once again enveloped this World. However, thousands of years passed, and the Heaven Dou and Star Luo powers maintained a strange balance, neither able to conquer the other.
She witnessed Tang Sect selling Hidden Weapons, Shrek Academy producing talents, and forces left by Tang San such as the Clear Sky Sect. They were detached from the World, secretly balancing the continental situation. For thousands of years, the pattern remained Heaven Dou and Star Luo confronting each other, until the Heaven Dou Empire split into two, leading to endless wars among the three nations.
And she—
Her Life had long been extinguished, but her shattered divine seed merged with her soul, preventing her from entering reincarnation, leaving her to drift helplessly in the long river of time and space. She witnessed everything that happened in the future.
The first Evil Soul Master riot; they emerged from the shadows into the light, leaving countless families broken and ruined wherever they went. Evil Soul Masters cultivated using blood and souls, and behind every accomplished Evil Soul Master lay piles of bones.
At this moment, people began to yearn for the advent of the Angel Soul.
Yes, their clan had a natural restraint over Evil Soul Masters. Once an ordinary Angel Spirit Master cultivated to the Titled Douluo level, it would be a disaster for Evil Soul Masters. An Angel Titled Douluo, simply by the power of restraint, could easily kill a Limit Evil Soul Master.
In the era of Spirit Hall, successive Supreme Pontiffs were Angels, and there even existed Angel Limits, so Evil Soul Masters could not gain momentum at all.
However, with the failure of that war, their clan had long been hidden from the World. Occasionally, Angel Spirit Masters appeared on the continent, but they could not escape the cruel slaughter by Evil Soul Masters. Evil Soul Masters were very cunning; they would never allow an Angel Soul Spirit Master to cultivate to Title Douluo.
But the scourge of Evil Soul Masters continued, and Shrek Academy acted like a savior. They used Seagod's Light to suppress the Evil Soul Masters. Those who survived the disaster bathed in the Seagod's Light, sincerely grateful for Sea God's salvation.
However, Evil Soul Masters were like waves, one after another, endless, lasting for tens of thousands of years.
Six thousand years later, she witnessed another continent drifting from the other side of the sea. They brought ambitions similar to theirs, launched wars, and tried to conquer this continent. They gained an advantage with spirit tools, but their path to unification was forcefully curbed by Shrek Academy's powerful rallying cry. However, their spirit tools also led to the decline of the Tang Sect founded by Sea God.
The declining Tang Sect, four thousand years later, reached a new peak due to a genius who emerged like Tang San.
And in this era, the Sun Moon Empire launched a war of unification, but at the moment of impending unification, it was stopped by Tang San, who had already become a God ten thousand years ago. That young genius also eventually achieved a God Position, but he was nothing more than Tang San's lackey.
Several more millennia passed, and the continent was finally unified, but spatial rifts appeared, and beings from other planes began to invade this World. This era saw countless heroic deeds, with heroes standing at the front lines of the spatial rifts, preventing the invasion of otherworldly creatures.
What moving and tragic stories, but for some reason, they made her soul tremble, because she knew more than these long-sleeping heroes.
She knew that Tang San's father had already become a Plane Lord, and his mother had taken over the core of Life; they were fully capable of stopping this invasion, but they merely watched this catastrophe of the common people with indifference.
Her consciousness gradually wore away in the long river of time, on the verge of collapsing.
She thought of the scene at the village entrance twenty thousand years ago—
“Grandpa Village Chief, have the bad guys left?”
“Don't be afraid, child, those Spirit Empire bad guys who tried to invade Heaven Dou will never come again.”
Lambs and wolves working together to drive away a fierce tiger, how ironic.
Finally, she felt her soul reaching its end, her consciousness dissipating…
“Mother, I'm coming to find you.”
…
Qian Renxue slowly opened her eyes, looking around in confusion. She found herself in a magnificent hall, surrounded by an immortal spiritual aura that could grant eternal Life.
She did not have the feeling of a soul drifting after death; instead, she regained her body.
Subconsciously, Qian Renxue summoned her Spirit.
Fallen Angel.
Six black, three red, the configuration from back then. The side effects after her divine spark shattered were gone, but the God Position had also been stripped from her. She was now a Level 99 Limit Douluo, with quasi-god strength.
“Welcome back, Qian Renxue.”