Ning Fengzhi recalled the situation from several years ago. At that time, the Heaven Dou Empire still had four princes.
Crown Prince Xue Qinghe had only been the second-ranked prince and had no chance at the position of crown prince at all.
Of course, what Ning Fengzhi found most difficult to read was not Xue Qinghe himself, but the woman by his side back then, Xue'er.
Xue'er, Qian Renxue.
Or rather, in the current Heaven Dou royal family, only Xue Beng remained. Even Xue Qinghe had already been secretly dealt with.
Although Ning Fengzhi did not know how Qian Renxue had managed to conceal her identity for so many years and sit securely in the position of crown prince under Xue Qinghe's identity, he also knew that it was most likely the work of that mysterious Great Worship.
Ning Fengzhi kept these thoughts to himself and did not share them with Sword Douluo or Bone Douluo.
Although the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had been drawing very close to the Heaven Dou Empire recently, compared to the Heaven Dou Empire, Ning Fengzhi leaned more toward Heavenly Path Academy.
Therefore, before Heavenly Path Academy made its stance clear, Ning Fengzhi would not alert the enemy unnecessarily.
At the end of the day, this was the royal family's own internal affair. As an outsider, he truly could not interfere.
Left with no choice, he shifted his attention to Ning Rongrong, who was standing nearby with a sullen expression.
"Elders, each of you take a set of three-character battle armor and return to seclusion to refine it," Ning Fengzhi said.
He then walked over to Ning Rongrong. She looked up.
"Father."
"Rongrong, what's wrong? Who dared to make our little princess unhappy?"
"Hmph."
Ning Rongrong turned her small face to the side, yet she still remembered to take out the items she had prepared for her elders from her storage soul tool.
"This is the fairy herb Nine-Colored Tulip. After Father consumes it, your martial soul can evolve into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda."
"And this is a sixty-thousand-year soul bone rewarded by the Martial Soul Ranking. I have already absorbed a soul bone of the same position, so I'm giving this one to Father as well."
Looking at the items Ning Rongrong handed over, Ning Fengzhi smiled with deep satisfaction.
"All right, stop smiling already. This is a fairy herb that can evolve Father's martial soul. Hurry up and take it."
Ning Fengzhi accepted the fairy herb and soul bone. The obsession he had carried for his entire life, his fixation on breaking through the limits of his martial soul, unexpectedly faded quite a bit at that moment.
"Good. After I finish watching the top ranks of the Martial Soul Ranking, I will begin absorbing the fairy herb."
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Hall of Offerings.
After seeing Qian Renxue appear on the ranking, Qian Daoliu was so excited that he wept openly.
"Xue'er made the ranking. Good. Wonderful!"
"I never imagined that her innate twenty levels of soul power were not merely bestowed by the Angel God. I never would have guessed that she was actually the reincarnation of the Angel God herself."
However, Qian Daoliu quickly lost his smile.
That was because he knew the Angel God's history all too well.
Creating a god position, eradicating fallen soul masters, establishing Spirit Hall with one's own hands, and then ascending to godhood after creating a divine position.
Yet even such a peerless figure, reborn into the world, still could not rank within the top five on the continent?
This alone showed how terrifying the number of geniuses in this era truly was.
...
Pope Hall.
As Bibi Dong looked at Qian Renxue on the ranking, a trace of warmth flashed through her cold eyes, only to be swiftly drowned out by even greater resentment, returning her expression to its usual indifference.
Elsewhere, Qian Renxue had already awakened. Her gaze was no longer as utilitarian as before. Instead, it was calm like an ancient well, revealing a composure far beyond her age.
"I… actually survived and was reincarnated. Damn that Asura God, a sanctimonious hypocrite."
The Angel God cursed inwardly, then began to consider the current situation.
The Martial Soul Ranking was something she had never heard of before, yet it was also her opportunity.
The small angelic sword at her brow grew even more brilliant. That source power was absolutely beyond what a first-tier god's origin could achieve.
"My divine position actually broke through its shackles. As long as I stabilize my foundation, I can raise the rank of my divine position to the level of a God King. And my martial soul truly evolved."
Inside the carriage, Qian Renxue did not activate martial soul possession. Instead, relying on her extreme control over soul power, she compressed it into her palm.
A humanoid figure appeared, bearing six pairs of wings for a total of twelve wings.
The ultimate fire and ultimate light of the martial soul had even surpassed the concept of ultimate itself.
Seven pitch-black soul rings encircled the Twelve-Winged Sacred Light Seraph.
"Xue'er, are you all right?"
Before long, a divine sense transmission sounded in Qian Renxue's mind. She deliberately suppressed the majesty and aloofness she had developed over countless years in her previous life and reverted to being Qian Renxue once more.
"Grandfather Golden Crocodile, you're here."
"Yes. This old one came on the Great Worship's orders to protect you. What is the purpose of your current journey?"
"Xue Ye sent me to negotiate with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect."
Golden Crocodile Douluo hesitated.
"Grandfather Golden Crocodile, I have already recovered my memories of my previous life. That plan back then was a mistake from the very beginning."
"I intend to fake my death at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, allowing them and the Heaven Dou Empire to turn on each other."
"Good. With me here, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect is nothing to fear."
…
After the sixth rank was announced, the Martial Soul Ranking continued to generate the fifth rank, which was soon revealed.
[Martial Soul Ranking Fifth: Praying Angel]
[Holder: Ya Li (Heavenly Path Academy)]
[Evaluation: Praying Angel, God King-level martial soul, the number one healing-type martial soul on the continent. She once saved hundreds of thousands of civilians by herself. The martial soul carries the power of the prayers of the masses.]
[Reward: Due to cultivation having reached the Quasi-God realm and martial soul quality being God King–level, all soul ring years are increased by fifty thousand years. Bestowed the status of successor to the Life Goddess, one of the Five Great God Kings of the God Realm.]
In an instant, the entire continent was shaken. Everywhere, people discussed the Praying Angel martial soul.
Qian Renxue looked at the Martial Soul Ranking's evaluation of the Praying Angel and nodded inwardly.
A martial soul formed by the power of the prayers of the masses was absolutely a one-of-a-kind existence on the entire continent.
"The status of successor to the Life Goddess? The rewards from this Martial Soul Ranking are truly extravagant."
...
Pope Hall.
Bibi Dong looked at the Praying Angel martial soul with disgust. She now held no goodwill toward the word angel at all.
"One of the Five Great God Kings' successors?"
The sense of crisis in Bibi Dong's heart intensified. First there was the Sea God, then Tang Chen who had completed the eighth trial of the Asura God.
Now there was her own daughter, the reincarnation of the Angel God, possessing God King potential. And then there was Ya Li, who had directly obtained a God King inheritance.
Compared like this, among the god inheritors, it seemed that only she herself was the weakest.
...
God Realm.
The Life Goddess sensed something and cast her gaze directly upon the Douluo Continent, locking onto the woman named Ya Li.
"I never thought that after so many years, the first suitable successor for me would appear on the Douluo Continent."
"Xiao Zi, I intend to pass my divine position to that girl. Look at the man beside her. He is even more outstanding than you were back then."
The God King of Destruction held his scepter and followed the Life Goddess's gaze.
At first, he felt somewhat unconvinced. But when he saw the dense divine essence surrounding Yun Ming, he was genuinely startled.
"This boy is indeed extraordinary. He is only one step away from creating his own divine position."
"And this divine position is actually at the God King level."
A hint of scheming emerged in the Destruction God King's heart. The Destruction Godhead was itself a God King-level divine position, and every generation of the Destruction God King had contemplated further elevating it.
Today, the Destruction God King saw an opportunity.
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