Chapter 33: Meeting Qian Renxue

Zhou Heng sat cross-legged on the bed in the room arranged by the steward and began to cultivate silently.

Just as Zhou Heng was cultivating, a figure arrived in the room where Zhou Heng was, bringing with it a light breeze that also startled the cultivating Zhou Heng awake.

Zhou Huan opened his eyes and immediately saw a figure in a black robe standing by a chair not far away.

Seeing that Zhou Huan had woken up, the figure spoke in a cold, hollow voice: "His Highness the Crown Prince calls for you; follow me."

Without waiting for Zhou Huan to say anything, the black-robed person turned, walked to a window, pushed it open, and channeled soul power to leap out.

Zhou Huan was not worried about his own safety and followed immediately; after jumping out of the window, Zhou Huan mobilized his soul power to keep up with the black-robed person.

The two did not converse, merely running one after the other.

Not long after, Zhou Huan followed the black-robed person to the front of a room.

As soon as the black-robed person arrived before this room, he walked inside.

At the same time, he looked at Zhou Huan, who was following behind, and said: "Keep up, His Highness the Crown Prince is waiting for you inside the room."

Zhou Huan shrugged, made no other movements, and walked directly into the room after the black-robed person.

As soon as Zhou Huan walked into the room, he saw the figures of two middle-aged men; he did not see the figure of the black-robed person, who had presumably already left.

The one wearing a gray robe embroidered with snake patterns had a face exposed, with a snake tattoo on his forehead.

The other middle-aged man was burly and muscular, with blood-red hair and an intimidating aura.

Zhou Huan bowed to the two and said: "I am Zhou Huan, greetings to the two Title Douluo."

Of these two middle-aged men, the one with the snake tattoo on his forehead was the Snake Spear Douluo, whose martial soul was the Golden Snake Spear, a level 92 Power Attack System Battle Spirit Master.

The other was the Blood-colored Puffer Douluo, also at level 92 soul power, but he was a Control System Title Douluo whose martial soul was the Blood-colored Puffer, belonging to the poison-type Spirit Beast.

The strength of these two was not weak; they were sent by Qian Daoliu to protect Qian Renxue's safety and, at the same time, to obey Qian Renxue's orders and carry Qian Renxue away to safety when necessary.

However, at the thought of this, Zhou Huan could not help but complain internally: two Title Douluo escorting a possessor of a God-level Martial Soul to infiltrate a country that did not even have a single Title Douluo.

And the infiltration failed; the key was that the God-level Martial Soul possessor had twenty levels of soul power the moment the martial soul awakened.

Yet, after infiltrating the Heaven Dou Empire for many years, by the time the failure forced a retreat, the person was twenty-nine years old and only a level 70 Soul Saint.

This was a possessor of a God-level Martial Soul who had twenty levels of soul power upon awakening; from the age of six until leaving at twenty-nine, a total of twenty-three years of cultivation, yet only reaching a level 70 Soul Saint.

Zhou Huan truly could not understand how such a situation could possibly happen.

In the Spirit Hall, the person was groomed by Qian Daoliu as the next Pope; in the Heaven Dou Empire, the person was a Crown Prince; neither place lacked cultivation resources, yet in twenty-three years, the person only reached the level 70 Soul Saint cultivation base.

Zhou Huan could not figure it out: did Bibi Dong use soul power to attack Qian Renxue while giving birth, causing Qian Renxue to be born with defects?

Or was it that the rampant corruption in the Heaven Dou Empire forced Qian Renxue to fight against local nobles while cultivating, thus delaying the cultivation speed?

All of this was merely a fleeting thought in Zhou Huan's mind; less than a second had passed in the outside world.

Just as Zhou Huan was thinking about these things, the two Title Douluo, Snake Spear and Blood-colored Puffer, were also very surprised that Zhou Huan could so easily call out their identities.

"Kid, are you someone sent by the Spirit Hall? Why were you sent here, and who is your master? Tell us everything." Snake Spear Douluo asked Zhou Huan in a majestic voice.

To get an answer from Zhou Huan, Blood-colored Puffer Douluo cooperated by releasing some soul power pressure, suppressing it onto Zhou Huan's body to force Zhou Huan to say everything he knew.

Zhou Huan took a token out of his Storage Soul Guidance Device; the front of the token was engraved with seven patterns, including the Angel Wings, the Golden Crocodile King, and the Cyan Simurgh, representing the seven Honorary Elders currently in the Offering Hall.

On the back of the token were the engravings of nine soul rings: yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, red; this was the soul ring configuration of the Grand Pontiff in the Offering Hall. (The author made this up; it was not written in the original work.)

When the two Title Douluo, Snake Spear and Blood-colored Puffer, saw this token, they knelt on one knee and bowed to Zhou Huan.

At the same time, they said: "Snake Spear/Blood-colored Puffer, greetings to the Highest Offering Token of the Offering Hall; please give us your orders, my lord."

Zhou Huan merely displayed the token, then put it back into the Storage Soul Guidance Device and said to the two Title Douluo, Snake Spear and Blood-colored Puffer: "Your Excellencies, please rise. I am a disciple taught by the seven Honorary Elders of the Offering Hall. Coming to Heaven Dou City this time is, first, to see my senior sister who is lurking in Heaven Dou City—Qian Renxue.

Second, it is to join the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to get close to someone there. I would like to ask my senior sister for a favor to arrange this matter for me."

Snake Spear and Blood-colored Puffer looked at each other, feeling that they might have knelt too quickly just now; as Title Douluo, they did not necessarily have to kneel, but because of a single token, they had knelt directly, which was truly losing face.

However, even now, the two of them did not doubt the authenticity of the token in Zhou Huan's hand.

After all, not everyone knew about the Highest Offering Token of the Offering Hall, and the aura of the soul ring engravings on the token, as well as the details of the martial soul patterns, were not fake, so this token must have been given to him by the Honorary Elders.

This proved that Zhou Huan must be a disciple of one of the Honorary Elders; as for being a joint disciple of all seven Honorary Elders, the two of them still found it hard to believe.

Zhou Huan looked at their incredulous expressions but said nothing more; as long as they did not hold him back, it was fine.

Snake Spear and Blood-colored Puffer soon reacted, and Blood-colored Puffer said to Zhou Huan in a gentle tone: "Little friend, please wait a moment; I will go call the young master now."

After speaking, Blood-colored Puffer channeled his soul power, flashed, and disappeared from the spot; it seemed he had gone to find that cheap senior sister of his.

Sure enough, it was just as Zhou Huan had expected.

More than ten minutes after Blood-colored Puffer Douluo left, Qian Renxue, who was pretending to be the Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, was brought by Blood-colored Puffer Douluo and appeared out of thin air in the room.

Qian Renxue looked at Zhou Huan, who appeared to be a youth of only eleven or twelve, and a complex look flashed in her eyes.

"Junior brother, I wonder which Honorary Elder is your master; could you tell me?" Qian Renxue asked Zhou Huan, a person from the Spirit Hall, gently.

Upon hearing Qian Renxue's words, Zhou Huan knew that what he had said earlier—that all seven Honorary Elders were his masters—had not been believed by her.

Thus, Zhou Huan directly took out seven tokens from his Storage Soul Guidance Device; these seven tokens each represented one of the Honorary Elders in the Offering Hall. After Zhou Huan took out the seven tokens, Qian Renxue, Snake Spear, and Blood-colored Puffer all stared dumbfounded at the seven tokens in Zhou Huan's hands.

"You really are the disciple of the seven elders; how on earth did you manage that?" Qian Renxue was now very curious about Zhou Huan and asked with a face full of astonishment.

None of the three, Qian Renxue, Snake Spear, and Blood-colored Puffer, thought to investigate the matter; after all, the aura on the tokens could not be faked, and no one could perfectly simulate the auras of six Super Douluo and one Limit Douluo without being detected by two Title Douluo.