In Douluo, there is a way to die.

Chapter 97 (First Order) The Saint's Battle (4000)

"The Holy Sons and Holy Daughters of our Spirit Hall have always been candidates for the next Pope," Guangling Douluo said in a high voice, as if he would rise up in rebellion at any moment. "Who is Bibi Dong? Ji'er... we've already let go of our past grudges by letting her become Pope, and yet she's still thinking of interfering in the next Pope's position?"

He was not paying attention and almost let the cat out of the bag about what happened that year. At the critical moment, Qian Daoliu glared at him and made him hold it back. Fortunately, Qian Renxue's attention was all focused on the matter of the "saint" and she did not notice the unnaturalness in his tone.

"...Is it that girl?" Qian Renxue's tone seemed very calm, so calm that no emotion could be heard, and also a little cold.

Yin Lan could feel her unconsciously exerting force on his hand.

Over the years, because she personally carried out the undercover plan, Qian Renxue was not in Wuhun City, but she still kept in touch with the elders through letters and understood the situation in the Wuhun Palace.

Although Qian Daoliu wanted to conceal it at first, the fact that "the Pope of the Spirit Hall accepted a disciple" could not be concealed. Less than a year after Qian Renxue left the Spirit City, Bibi Dong accepted a girl named "Hu Liena" as her disciple.

Of course, rather than saying she is a disciple, judging from Bibi Dong's attitude of taking good care of her, it is better to say that she has adopted a goddaughter.

Qian Renxue's original intention in carrying out the undercover plan was to attract her mother's attention and pray for her approval, hoping that one day she would say to her, "You are worthy of being my daughter," and receive motherly love from her. Therefore, in her eyes, Hu Liena was just like her martial soul, a fox who stole the motherly love that should have belonged to her.

Seven years had passed, and she had thought she had let go of that ridiculous feeling and was working wholeheartedly for the cause of the Spirit Hall. However, when she learned today that Bibi Dong wanted to make that girl a saint, bitter emotions still welled up in her heart.

I am unwilling... I am so unwilling.

...That's... mine!
"Xiaoxue, don't overthink it. When will Bibi Dong decide the next Pope?" Guangling Douluo was a little afraid of her reaction and said quickly, "That Hu Liena is worthy of being the Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall? Pah!"

"Old Five is right. Besides, who among our families doesn't have an outstanding disciple? Who isn't more qualified to be the Holy Son or Holy Daughter than Hu Liena, who doesn't even have full innate soul power?" Golden Crocodile Douluo also said quickly, "The position of Holy Daughter of the Spirit Hall can only belong to Xiaoxue!"

The worshippers immediately started to talk at once and comfort him in kind voices.

Yin Lan glanced at Qian Renxue. The priests said so, but the Spirit Hall in history was indeed courageous and really gave up the position of the Spirit Hall Saint. No one knew what the situation was.

It can only be said that the Spirit Hall has great enlightenment, and adopted the most correct policies as early as the era of Dou Yi: recruiting spirit masters from all over the world, setting up spirit master subsidies, spending resources to cultivate talents, and allowing spirit masters from other families to take power.

Don't treat Bibi Dong and Hu Liena as outsiders. If Yu Xiaogang's mess hadn't happened, she would indeed be trained to be the Pope. If Tang San hadn't existed, Hu Liena would also have been trained to be the Pope. Everything about the Qian family was just a prelude to Qian Renxue's deification. Once Qian Renxue fails to become a god, she can only be the next high priest.

It's just that the Spirit Hall had the misfortune of running into Tang San, which led to the collapse of the situation. Tang San was a man with feudalism in his mind. He didn't understand the effect of this policy at all. He only knew how to reverse civilization and even didn't allow civilization to unify. Otherwise, you would be "imitating the Spirit Hall" and "treasonous."

The funniest thing is that in the era of Douluo Four, due to the disappearance of the God Realm, King Tang was finally unable to interfere in the lower world, and the Douluo Star civilization was finally unified. The Douluo Federation also used this policy. They could not erase the gap between ordinary people and soul masters, but this policy would give the greatest support to all families that have the potential to become soul masters. The grassroots have their own soul masters, and geniuses will be trained regardless of their background. The backgrounds and martial souls of all the people at the top are different.

It took until the era of Douluo Dalu 4 to complete the unification of the planet, and the policies of the Spirit Hall in the era of Douluo Dalu were still used. King Tang Shenwang was a bit too humorous.

You can even see this policy in the Tang Sect during the Douluo Dalu III era and the Shrek Academy during the Douluo Dalu II era.

During the era of Douluo II, the Tang Clan used a large amount of resources to train Blue Silver Grass Spirit Masters, which drove away other members. Coupled with the strong invasion of spirit guides, it declined. However, if they had spent those wasted resources on recruiting talented spirit masters and trained a few Titled Douluo, even if their hidden weapons were rubbish, the Tang Clan would only be the target of various forces to win over, instead of being destroyed by a group of people who were not even strong enough to become Soul Sages.

Because the Shrek Academy in the Douluo II era occupied this position, and the soul guides of the Shrek Academy were not very good either. However, it was through this policy that he recruited talents and used resources to train the talents into Titled Douluo, who entered the Sea God Pavilion, forming a positive cycle and eventually became the object of competition all over the world.

The Tang Clan of the Douluo Dalu II era was able to revive by recruiting members from outside the family, such as the Shrek Seven Devils of Huo Yuhao's generation. Therefore, the Tang Clan of the Douluo Dalu III era learned from this lesson and began to use its resources to cultivate talented members. It also allowed members from outside the family who were not surnamed Tang and did not have the Blue Silver Grass spirit to become the leader of the Tang Clan, thus becoming one of the top forces in the Douluo Dalu III era.

Although the Spirit Hall of the Dou Shi Yi era was destroyed, you can still see the shadow of its policies in any era, such as Dou Shi Yi II, Dou Shi Yi III, and Dou Shi Yi IV.

In this era, the Spirit Hall may not be a perfect organization, but without the Spirit Hall, it is absolutely impossible.

Cooperating with the Spirit Hall, whose policies are already mature, is much easier than for Yin Lan to build a force from scratch.

But speaking of it, Hu Liena’s talent is indeed not very outstanding?

Yin Lan was wondering what the reason was that made the Spirit Hall give up the position of the Holy Maiden. At this moment, the door of the hall was pushed open again.

"Second Priest, you are wrong. Since when did our Spirit Hall rely on innate talent to decide the Holy Son or Holy Daughter?" A soft and pleasant voice came from behind. Yin Lan looked back and saw a woman wearing a luxurious black robe inlaid with gold patterns, a nine-curve purple gold crown on her head, and a jeweled scepter in her hand walking in slowly.

"The current Saintess of our Spirit Hall cannot hesitate," the woman said softly, her face elegant and noble, but her words were somewhat specious. "Although Nana does not have innate full soul power, hard work can make up for shortcomings in cultivation. She has still reached the level of Soul Venerable at the age of twelve, and is not much inferior to some geniuses with innate full soul power. How can I not compete for the position of Saintess?"

"...Shit," Guangling Douluo hesitated, glancing at Qian Renxue. The fragrance brewing in his mouth was suppressed again. "She's still a Soul Master at just twelve years old, and Xiaoxue is already a Soul King before she's even seventeen. Is it possible that your disciple can already reach the level of a Soul King at seventeen? If Xiaoxue hadn't carried out that lousy 'stealing country plan', do you think you'd have had a chance to covet the position of Saintess?"

"So the 'Plan to Steal the Nation' hasn't been completed yet, has it?" The woman still maintained a gentle smile on her face, but without even glancing at Qian Renxue beside her, she repeated what she had said before, "The Spirit Hall Saintess can't delay."

"Bibi Dong! You!" Guangling Douluo was so angry that he put one leg on the chair and was about to stand up and take action. Ice flowers began to condense beside him.

"Fifth Brother!" Qian Daoliu reached down and calmed the fluctuations in the spirit power around Guang Ling, then looked at Bibi Dong, "If she wants the position of Saint Maiden, fine, let that girl compete with Xiaoxue herself." "She's five years older than Nana, which is a bit too unfair. Can she sit comfortably with the position of Saint Maiden obtained like this?" Bibi Dong frowned slightly and repeated her words again, "Besides, the 'stealing the country plan' is not yet complete. The Saint Son and Saint Daughter of the Spirit Hall have always made public appearances to the spirit master world. Will she come back to be the Saint Maiden, or go to the Heaven Dou Empire to continue being the Crown Prince?"

"Damn it, are these the only two sentences you can say?" Guangling Douluo was so angry that he laughed, and the other priests couldn't help but start shouting and cursing.

Even though Yin Lan was still at the scene and the first contact between the two sides was in such an embarrassing situation, the priests really couldn't swallow this humiliation and had to fight for what Qian Renxue deserved. For a while, they argued with Bibidong until their faces turned red and their necks became thick.

Qian Renxue lowered her head and looked at her toes. She thought she was mature enough, but after hearing those words, the bitter feeling in her heart became stronger and stronger.

——She doesn’t care about you at all. If that’s the case, what are you expecting?
——She doesn’t love you at all and has never had you from the beginning, so stop having unnecessary fantasies!
——Now she wants to take away what belongs to you. You shouldn’t remain silent. It should belong to you!

Qian Renxue vaguely felt that her mind was a little dazed. She had occasionally felt this way since Yin Lan developed her bloodline last time. This time, she even had the illusion that there was another self talking to her.

A hint of red flashed in the azure eyes hidden by the bangs, and the edges of the long golden hair seemed to be stained with an ominous paleness.

"Quiet!" Qian Daoliu's voice rang out, his serious tone exploding in everyone's ears, shocking everyone into alertness. He glanced coldly at Bibi Dong, then finally fixed his gaze on his granddaughter. "Bibi Dong, I'll give you one chance, but the final decision rests with Xiaoxue."

As long as Qian Renxue gives up the plan to steal the country and decides to fight for the position of the Saint, then don’t say that he didn’t give her a chance. If Hu Liena can win from Qian Renxue’s hands, the position of the Saint will be hers!

Upon hearing this, Bibi Dong turned her gaze to Qian Renxue, who had remained silent the entire time, for the first time. She clenched the scepter in her hand, and an indescribable complex emotion flashed across her pearly eyes.

"I……"

——Go and take back what belongs to you!
"I'm going to complete my plan to steal the country," Qian Renxue raised her head, the red light in her eyes disappeared, and she looked at Bibidong without flinching, her eyes full of stubbornness, "I don't want the position of the Saint Girl!"

Hearing her reply, Bibi Dong gripped the scepter tighter. She pursed her lips, as if she wanted to say something but didn't know how to start.

"Xiaoxue, calm down..." The priests hurriedly persuaded her.

"No, I've made up my mind. I wouldn't bully a little girl. Bibi Dong, listen carefully," Qian Renxue coldly looked at the woman who should have been her mother. "That little fox got the position of Saint because I, Qian Renxue, didn't want her anymore. I gave it to her as alms!"

After she finished speaking, she protected Yin Lan behind her and glared at Bibi Dong fiercely to prevent her from suddenly losing her temper. Several priests also stood up at the same time.

But Bibi Dong was obviously stunned for a moment, and did not get angry as everyone expected. Instead, she held the scepter silently, turned around and was about to leave the hall.

So that's how it is... This is how Hu Liena got the title of Saint. Qian Renxue voluntarily gave up the opportunity to compete for it.

Yin Lan raised her head and looked at Qian Renxue, who was standing in front of her, her body still trembling slightly. From then on, this star who should have shone in this era became silent and unknown. She put on the mask of Prince Tiandou, used an identity that did not belong to her, and lived a life that was completely opposite to her six-winged angel martial spirit that represented light and honor. She lived in the shadows all her life, as if this person did not exist in the world.

Until the end of his life, he made his presence felt in this world, letting the world know that there was a sinister, cunning, and evil Angel God who was killed by the mighty, virtuous, upright, and kind Lord Sea God! He refuted the ambitious Spirit Hall and saved the world!
Yin Lan suddenly felt as if she had realized that she should do something when she came to this world.

My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is from my true heart.

There is no need to use "justice" to make a hypocritical package.

Is there a reason? No reason, I don’t need one. I just want to do it. It’s the right thing to do, so I do it.

"If you won't fight for it, then I'll do it for you." Yin Lan held Qian Renxue's hand tightly and moved to stand in front of her. His small figure squeezed into Qian Renxue's sight. "This is the first time I've heard that the Spirit Hall's Saint Sons and Saint Daughters aren't determined by talent. So what else could they be determined by?"

Bibi Dong stopped and looked back. A girl with long blue hair tied into a ponytail came into her sight. To be honest, she had never noticed this child before.

"Your Holiness, if you think it's unfair that Sister Xue'er is five years older than your disciple, then I'll fight for the position of Saint. Is that okay?" Yin Lan held Qian Renxue's hand and raised it, "I'll fight for this position on behalf of Sister Xue'er!"

"Well said! Second Miss!" Guangling Douluo kicked his legs and stood directly on his seat, his face flushed and his expression excited.

"Who is this?" Bibi Dong was not annoyed by Yin Lan's rash defiance, but looked at Qian Daoliu.

"The descendant of an old friend." Qian Daoliu did not intend to explain, but it was obvious that he also hoped that his granddaughter would one day stand in the sun as the "Holy Maiden of the Spirit Hall".

"Okay, then let's meet at the training ground tomorrow morning." Bibi Dong looked at Yin Lan seriously and left again.

Qian Renxue stared blankly at the petite girl in front of her who seemed to occupy her entire sight.

Her figure is reflected in those eyes, one blue and one red.

(End of this chapter)