Douluo Dalu: Transforming Soul Rings into Soul Veins

In Qian Daoliu's line of sight, the scene a few meters away was truly a little speechless for him.

He even suspected if Lin Feng really had some kind of fetish, to want every single one of his confidantes to have a different hair color, in order to satisfy his strange collection hobby.

Qian Daoliu shook his head, throwing these absurd thoughts out of his mind. He noticed that when Lin Feng's group had approached the Goddess of Life, Qing Xuan, a trace of surprise had flashed in Qing Xuan's eyes, but she had soon returned to her calm.

"Goddess of Life, I never thought you would personally descend to the lower realm," Gu Yuena spoke first, her voice carrying a trace of vigilance.

Qing Xuan smiled faintly. Her gaze lingered on Gu Yuena's body for a moment, then turned to Lin Feng. "I have descended to the lower realm this time mainly to see Lin Feng's growth, as well as the impact of the 'Innate Soul Evolution Art' on the Douluo Continent and the girl who may become my successor."

"As for the others, they are all just unexpected interludes, including you. So there's no need to be so vigilant towards me," Qing Xuan's voice was gentle. Her gaze then projected onto Qian Renxue's body, a trace of surprise flashing in the depths of her eyes as she thought to herself.

So that's how it is. She herself has taken the anchor point of the divine trial in her hands. No wonder the one in the divine statue is gone. In that case, she can "reduce the burden" of her own divine trial.

Now she should have already passed the first trial. I just don't know how she has changed the content of her divine trial within a controllable range.

It should be more rewards, a lowering of difficulty, or the like? It can't have become a game to satisfy her own preferences, right?

Qian Renxue raised her eyebrows, capturing the change in her expression at the first moment. A faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

She took a step forward and stood side by side with Lin Feng, saying to Qing Xuan, "The Goddess of Life, is it?" She circled around Qing Xuan and then nodded with a serious look.

"Your appearance and figure are indeed worthy of the name of a goddess. I just don't know if your personality also matches the image of a goddess. Are you truly not malicious towards us?"

Qing Xuan pursed her vermilion lips and looked at Lin Feng with some speechlessness. She had ninety percent reason to suspect that it was this stinking fellow who had led Qian Renxue astray.

As the alternative reincarnation of the first-generation Seraphim's divine soul, Qian Renxue's temperament should have been proud and holy. How could she be so frivolous and teasing, to even dare to tease a God-King of the Divine Realm whom she had just met on a matter such as appearance?

"You are indeed no longer her," Qing Xuan said quietly.

"Who? The first-generation Seraphim? By the way, for helping to collect her divine soul and delivering it to the Angel statue for nourishment, many thanks to you."

Qing Xuan shook her head with a smile. "That's not necessary," a complex look appeared in her eyes. "What I did was just a helping hand to an old friend within my power."

"But your change has indeed surprised me a little. Perhaps this is precisely the wonder of a reincarnated soul. In addition, I have indeed not come with malice."

"A change? Tell me, what was the first-generation Seraphim like? I don't have many of her memories, only a little bit."

"She was a promising, newly-ascended god, and she herself had the potential to become a God-King. Who would have thought she would suddenly disappear without a trace? It was only hundreds of years later that her death was confirmed. The matters related to her were also only in the time after she had ascended to the Divine Realm."

"Proud and pure, just and merciful. The first-generation Seraphim illuminated the Douluo Continent with her light. Her heart was full of respect and love for life. She was a person in my Divine Realm who could rarely be called a friend."

Qing Xuan shook her head. "The past is like a floating cloud. Since you are already a new individual, there is no need to care about the past. If you really want to know about her past in the Divine Realm, I can tell you later."

"Alright then," Qian Renxue nodded. Her memory only had the part from the battle with the Asura God and the Sea God until her fall. To be honest, she was really a little curious about the stories that had happened after the first-generation Seraphim had ascended to the Divine Realm.

"Mmm," Qing Xuan glanced at Bibi Dong, Ling Yuan, and Ah Yin.

The successor of the Rakshasa God, the origin martial soul of the Fire Phoenix, the reshaped hundred-thousand-year Blue Silver Emperor. She clicked her tongue in her heart. This fellow has really gathered the top-tier powers and geniuses of this Douluo Continent around him. They are all women with the posture of becoming a god. And, all of them are his wives.

I don't know, one day when he announces his marriage and holds his wedding, how many people on the Douluo Continent will be so shocked their mouths can't close, how many people will beat their chests and stomp their feet, secretly grieving.

At this time, Gu Yuena spoke up. "Can we talk alone for a while?"

Lin Feng frowned, looked at Gu Yuena with confusion, and then immediately said, "I will accompany her." He looked back and said, "You all wait for a moment first."

Qing Xuan nodded. Gu Yuena waved her fair hand, and a black spatial rift had already appeared. The three of them slowly stepped into it. The moment the spatial rift closed, all the noise from the outside world was cut off, leaving only the quiet place where the three of them were.

Looking at their held hands, Qing Xuan's gaze was strange. "I really didn't expect that the Silver Dragon King would choose to become a partner with a human."

Gu Yuena smiled faintly. "Is it strange? You don't understand what a partner is. You and that God of Destruction have been so-called 'husband and wife' for so many years, but to this day, I'm afraid you haven't even had skin-to-skin contact, let alone nurturing a new life."

"The characteristics of the God of Destruction's divine power are truly a cancerous tumor for you."

Qing Xuan's brow raised lightly. "You don't have to use such a deliberate mockery to try and provoke my anger," her voice was calm and indifferent. "The relationship between me and the God of Destruction is not something you can understand."

"And, the feelings between partners are far from being something that can be summarized by simple physical contact or the nurturing of offspring."

"Between you and Lin Feng, perhaps you have your unique emotional bond, but this does not mean that everyone needs to follow the same pattern."

Gu Yuena chuckled lightly, her two arms wrapping around Lin Feng's, a trace of amusement flashing in her eyes. "Oh? In that case, you are quite insightful on matters of affection. Then, can you tell me what is the true feeling of a partner?"

Seeing Gu Yuena leaning on Lin Feng's body without a care for others, and thinking of how she and Destruction had never been like this, Qing Xuan's gaze dimmed slightly, but she soon returned to her calm. "To be in each other's company is love. Nothing else matters."

Hearing this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Gu Yuena's mouth. "You are wrong, Life. It seems that as the Life God-King, who masters the laws of life, your understanding of love is not much deeper than mine."

Gu Yuena's words carried a trace of teasing, but her eyes were abnormally serious. "The true feeling of a partner is not just being in each other's company and relying on each other, but even more so the meeting of minds and the fusion of souls."

"It can make two independent individuals become more complete beings in each other's company. Between my Xiao Feng and I, it is just like this."

Lin Feng continued, "No matter how the wind and rain change, we can support each other and advance together. It transcends the boundaries of race, status, and even life and death. It is a selfless dedication and also a mutual achievement."

"To think what she thinks, to worry about what she worries about, to be happy for what makes her happy. When difficulties come, to be able to be selfless for her. Besides the element of companionship, the meeting of minds and physical contact are indispensable. When your lover talks with you, and has intimate physical contact with you, your heart should be joyful."

"Although you and the God of Destruction have been together for tens of thousands of years, perhaps you cannot be called a true 'husband and wife'. You have not even done the most basic hand-holding between lovers."

"How can you experience the kind of bone-deep bond and tacit understanding? I'm afraid that when you are together, what you have more of is just discussions on the affairs of the Divine Realm," Lin Feng's words carried a trace of emotion.

Hearing this, Qing Xuan's expression moved slightly. She had to admit that although she was a God-King of the Divine Realm, possessing endless power and wisdom, on this road of emotion, she also had her own regrets and incomprehensions.

Her sandalwood mouth opened slightly, her gaze flickering a few times. "What you have said also has some truth. In the long years of the Divine Realm, Little Zi and I have mostly been fighting side by side."

"Jointly guarding the peace of the Divine Realm, but we have overlooked the deeper emotional communication between each other," she shook her head. A pity that their two divine powers were mutually exclusive, destined not to be able to do those things.

"But I don't care about this kind of thing. So-called physical contact, and even further things, for me, I have no interest at all. Companionship is enough," Qing Xuan said.

Although she said so, her gaze still lingered on the hand Lin Feng had wrapped around Gu Yuena's waist for a while, and then she quickly moved her gaze away. "Then, what do you want to talk to me about? If it's to ask about my attitude towards the soul beast clan, Lin Feng should have already told you."

Gu Yuena chuckled lightly. "It won't hurt to ask a little more, will it?" Her expression turned serious. "You think, for humans on the Douluo Continent to advance by obtaining soul beast soul rings, is it right or wrong?"

"With the development speed and growth speed of humans, the demand for soul rings is getting larger and larger. As humans grow, soul beasts die out. In the long run, the decline of the soul beast clan is an inevitable fate."

"I don't believe that you, as the Life God-King of the Divine Realm, have not seen this point. Then, may I ask how you view this phenomenon? Or, what plans does the Divine Realm have for this?"

Qing Xuan sighed lightly, her gaze becoming deep.

"What you have said is indeed a problem. This relationship between humans and soul beasts, to a certain extent, is a part of the ecological balance of the Douluo Continent. However, when this balance is broken..."

"When the human demand for soul rings exceeds the reproduction speed of soul beasts, then this relationship becomes a threat, posing a serious challenge to the survival of the soul beast clan."

She paused for a moment and continued, "It's not that the Divine Realm hasn't noticed this point. But the ecological balance of the Douluo Continent is not something the Divine Realm can easily interfere with."

"Don't tell me anything about gods being unable to interfere with the lower realms. If the soul beast clan dies out, the humans of the Douluo Continent will also have their path cut off."

"I don't believe the Divine Realm would let a planet lose the possibility of giving birth to a god. Not to mention, this is the Douluo Star, one of the foundations of the Divine Realm," Gu Yuena interrupted.

Qing Xuan shook her head. "Indeed so. But the Divine Realm has now already restricted soul beasts from becoming gods, and the rule of humans hunting soul rings to advance is also very difficult to change. We can only seek a path outside of changing the current rules."

"This is also a problem that has been troubling me all along. For the current Divine Realm, the survival of the soul beasts on the Douluo Star may not be within their scope of consideration, and they have never thought about this matter."

"But I have deduced that with the current development trend of humans and the trend of the decrease in the number of soul beasts, it should still be tens of thousands of years before the crisis of the number of soul beasts not being enough for humans to hunt will erupt."

Gu Yuena frowned. "Do you know that tens of thousands of years is just your current deduction? Who knows if humans will suddenly have another explosive development, causing this deadline to arrive ahead of time."

"And, I am very unhappy with your word 'hunt'. As the Goddess of Life, shouldn't you also treat soul beasts as a part of heaven and earth? If soul beasts can only continue a trace of their bloodline under this situation, and can only be used as human soul rings, don't you think this is a very sad thing?"

"I'm sorry," Qing Xuan gently spat out these three words. "It was my inappropriate use of words. If you are displeased by this, I deeply apologize. It's just as I said, besides a few people including me, the Divine Realm actually doesn't care about this matter."

Her tone carried a trace of helplessness. "Most of the gods are more concerned with the stability and order of the Divine Realm, rather than the ecological balance of the lower realms. This is also one of the reasons why I am observing Lin Feng. His talent is very high. When I first saw him, he was just a Soul Ancestor, yet he was already able to condense Soul Veins for others."

"The 'Innate Soul Evolution Art' is even more so a skill he started creating when he was nine. I have seen the possibility of solving this problem in him."

"It's just that I didn't expect that he would have already entered into this kind of relationship with you, the current common lord of soul beasts," her gaze flowed between Gu Yuena and Lin Feng.

"At that time, I had also just happened to think of the problem between soul beasts and humans and had not paid much attention to it. And now, having descended to the lower realm, with you two successively telling me, it has made me also a little panicked and moved."

"Lin Feng, your thunder tribulation back then should have been the 'Creation Law Tribulation', right? With the 'Innate Soul Evolution Art' as I know it, if it's just helping others to condense Soul Veins plus the specialty of the Soul Veins..."

"It shouldn't have reached this level. Your current development of the skill, what step has it reached?"

Lin Feng chuckled lightly. "I've already said, if you want to know, you can just slowly watch during these days in the human world. A year's time, we can all get to know each other well."

"By the looks of it, you still have some doubts about me?" Qing Xuan said with a smile. "Alright then," she raised her hand and waved lightly. An emerald-green light overflowed from her palm, transforming into a figure identical to this incarnation.

It transformed into specks of fluorescent light and slowly rose to the sky. Her aura suddenly dropped, and after reaching the level of a second-level god, it steadily stopped.

"How about it? This is my sincerity."

Lin Feng nodded. "I've seen it."

Qing Xuan's brow raised. "Three words, and that's it? You don't have to show your sincerity?"

Lin Feng said with a smile, "As you said, companionship is enough. In the time that follows, you can just witness it with your own eyes."

Qing Xuan gritted her teeth. She really felt this fellow was getting more and more annoying. Damn it. But why can't I hate him...

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Outside, Ah Yin looked at Qian Renxue thoughtfully. "Xue'er, I suddenly thought of a very strange question. I don't know if I should say it."

"Hmm?" Qian Renxue looked over with confusion. "What question? If you want to say it, just say it. Is there anything we can't say to each other?"

Ah Yin came to Qian Renxue's side with some shyness and said in a low voice, "If the Goddess of Life is the collector of the first-generation Seraphim's remnant divine soul and the creator of the matter of arranging for it to be nourished in the Angel statue, then to a certain extent, although there is no blood relationship, does she count as your mother in this life?"

"Wha—" Qian Renxue's eyes widened. She glared at Ah Yin with shyness and annoyance. "Don't talk nonsense!"

"I also just happened to think of it..." Ah Yin's expression was strange.

Qian Renxue shook her head. "That's not the case."

I finally have one less mother. Now Bibi Dong is my sister. And now suddenly a fellow has popped up and become my mother through some strange logic?

Sisters... mother and daughter...

A strange feeling arose in Qian Renxue's heart. So strange. This "mother" wouldn't also become a sister, would she...