Wuhun City, the Pope's Palace.
Qian Renxue's boudoir.
Qian Renxue stood at the windowsill, her long golden hair cascading down like a waterfall, her beautiful eyes, like shimmering purple gemstones, never leaving the Shark Blade in her hand.
Although only six months had passed,the girl had grown considerably taller, her face imbued with a maturity that belied her age.
"It's been six months, and I wonder how Big Brother is doing."
Qian Renxue's long eyelashes trembled slightly,her heart swaying with the leaves outside the window.
She knew Lan was an assassin.
An assassin who failed in a mission would undoubtedly face punishment from the organization, perhaps even death.
She was afraid,afraid of losing.
For the past six months, she had repeatedly seen a figure standing in front of her.
And his voice,lingering in her memory. "
Little kid,don't be distracted.
" "Big Brother!?"
Qian Renxue snapped back to her senses and glanced around.
Her expression was one of surprise and anxiety,like bamboo shoots longing for rain.
However,
when she looked back suddenly, he was nowhere to be found.
The breeze outside the window swayed the leaves, making them rustle.
It was the sound of the wind.
Qian Renxue didn't know how many times she had hallucinated, how many times she had expected something, and how many times it had been disappointed...
"Xiaoxue, are you thinking about him again?"
A steady and gentle voice came from behind her.
Qian Renxue turned around and looked at the figure in front of her.
"Grandpa."
Qian Daoliu looked at his granddaughter's sad face and hugged her in his arms with heartache.
Since the soul beast riot half a year ago,
Qian Renxue often stood alone at the windowsill in a daze,always holding the shark blade.
Later, under Qian Daoliu's questioning, Qian Renxue finally told the story.
Because her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, was the person she trusted most in this world.
Qian Daoliu learned about Lan's existence.
At first, Qian Daoliu was furious when he heard that Lan was here to assassinate Qian Renxue.
It wasn't until Lan rescued Qian Renxue and gifted her his weapon that Qian Daoliu finally let down his guard.
As one of the continent's three greatest Douluos, he naturally understood how deadly this weapon could be for an assassin.
But Qian Daoliu didn't want Qian Renxue to become attached to an assassin.
After all, assassination was a dangerous profession, and one could be killed at any moment.
Furthermore, judging by the assassin's intent on Qian Renxue, he was either a Tiandou or an assassin secretly trained by the Xingluo Empire.
He and she were destined to be impossible.
They couldn't even be friends.
But over the past six months, Qian Daoliu had suddenly noticed a change in his granddaughter.
He couldn't describe the feeling.
It was like a sunny day after a rainy day.
Qian Renxue was much more positive in her daily life, even practicing harder.
A glimmer of hope shone in her eyes.
It was obvious that this change in Qian Renxue was due to that assassin.
This was precisely what worried Qian Daoliu.
Because of that assassin, Qian Renxue seemed to have begun to love life.
But he also didn't want to see Qian Renxue shed tears of pain in the future.
Qian Daoliu gently stroked Qian Renxue's head and smiled, "Xiaoxue, don't be sad."
"If that guy is really as talented as you say, their organization wouldn't be willing to kill him."
According to Qian Renxue, the young man had killed the Ten Thousand Year Ghost Tiger with a single strike, his strength was undoubtedly on par with a Soul Sage, or even a Soul Douluo.
Throughout the history of the continent, such a genius had probably never appeared before.
Even Qian Renxue, with her innate full Soul Power at level 20, might not have been able to achieve this at her age.
"By the way... Grandpa has some clues about him."
Upon hearing Qian Daoliu's words, Qian Renxue immediately looked up, a flicker of excitement across her beautiful face.
"Really?
Grandpa?!"
Qian Daoliu felt a slight pang of pain at the sight of his granddaughter caring so much about a man, and his heart was filled with bitterness.
They say that girls grow up and cannot be kept.
But his granddaughter was still so young, and she had been abducted by that bastard.
If he caught that bastard, he would definitely teach him a lesson.
Qian Daoliu nodded gently, looking at the shark blades in her hand.
He spoke, "The weapon he left you is called Phantom Blue Shark Fins.
They come in a pair, capable of slicing through iron like mud. They were crafted by Lou Gao, one of the three greatest master craftsmen of his time."
"It's said that the Star Luo Emperor commissioned Lou Gao to forge them at great expense."
"And coupled with that, he has a shark spirit that's never been seen before."
"Grandfather speculates that he's a killer secretly trained by the Star Luo Empire, and hailed from a remote sea city."
"I can't believe the Star Luo Empire acted so swiftly..."
Qian Daoliu's eyes narrowed slightly, a sharp glint in his gaze.
The Spirit Hall had always been a thorn in the Star Luo Empire's side.
If it weren't for the Spirit Hall's checks and balances, the Star Luo Empire, with its might, would have long since crushed the Heaven Dou Empire and unified the continent.
It's no wonder the Star Luo Empire sent assassins to kill Qian Renxue.
The young man who assassinated Xiaoxue was no simple figure.
Qian Renxue's identity was top secret.
It's likely that Qian Renxue's discovery was connected to that young man.
And he even managed to get the Star Luo Emperor to custom-make a weapon just for him.
"Star Luo Empire, Bianyuanhai City..."
Qian Renxue's eyes lit up, and she happily skipped out, clutching the Shark Blade.
"Hehe, thank you, Grandpa!"
"I'm going to practice!"
"Big Brother, you must wait for me."
"Xiaoxue will find you soon."
Qian Daoliu watched Qian Renxue's bouncing back, a faint smile on his face.
On the sea.
Lan didn't seek a ship to cross the sea.
Instead, he summoned his spirit to transform into a shark, sprinting across the surface, riding the wind and waves as if it were flat ground.
For Lan, returning to the sea was like returning home.
The ocean perfectly unleashed the power of his deep sea breath.
Ordinary ships were far inferior to Lan's deep sea breath in terms of speed.
However, Lan had been training and carrying out missions on Black Ice for years.
Aside from the occasional trip to the sea when he needed a spirit ring, he hadn't had the opportunity to touch the ocean at all.
This was, in fact, the first time he had ever experienced such freedom on the sea.
Lan loved this feeling.
Lan's spirit rings are arranged in a pattern of yellow, yellow, purple, black, black, and black.
The first two yellow spirit rings have a faint tinge of purple, indicating they are about to surpass the millennium mark.
The remaining spirit rings are also well beyond the maximum age limit.
Lan's absorption of spirit rings on the ocean has intangible benefits, allowing him to absorb limit spirit rings exceeding at least 50% of his own strength.
Furthermore, these spirit rings appear to grow with the growth of his martial spirit.
From the beginning, Lan's first two centenary spirit rings were merely ordinary centenary spirit rings.
As Lan's strength grows, his martial spirit state, and the age of his spirit rings all increase!
While the growth is extremely slow, this completely defies the theory of spirit rings!
This also means that Lan's future limit will be extremely high!
A Titled Douluo with ordinary spirit rings is as powerless as a baby compared to a Titled Douluo with nine red rings.
This is the absolute dominance wrought by spirit rings.
Titled Douluos with 100,000-year spirit rings on the Douluo Continent are all among the most powerful!
"At my rate, we should be able to reach Seagod Island in two days, huh?"
"What's that?"
Lan gazed into the distance.
He saw dark clouds covering the sea, a violent storm, and red lightning flashing across the ocean.
Raging waves surged hundreds of feet high, like the end of the world, oppressive and heavy!
And the cause of this apocalyptic scene was actually hundreds of soul beasts tearing at each other!
(End of Chapter)