Douluo Continent: Peerless Angel Qian Renxue

Chapter 322 Another Millennia-Old Plan

Lin Mengtong didn't seem too surprised, but nodded slightly: "I've been there. And you should have guessed, my previous identity was where I perished. I remember Xiao Ye once told you about Lin Xi."

The little devil paused for a moment: "So, your martial soul should be the Evil Eye Spider King, not the Demon Spider, right?"

Lin Mengtong nodded: "My original martial soul was the Soul-Devouring Spider King, which came from the fragments of a godhood that scattered across the continent after your mother's fall. The Rakshasa God that your mother inherited actually utilized the Soul-Devouring Spider King martial soul more, because comparatively speaking, it has more evil attributes than the Death Spider King, and is more compatible with the Rakshasa Godhood."

The little devil nodded, showing little emotion. This was also the reason for her appearance; the little angel had asked her to confront Lin Mengtong.

The current situation no longer allows them to continue playing coy. With Moon's fall, Shrek will soon find out, and war may very well break out at any moment.

"I joined Shrek Academy when I was young, which was thousands of years ago. As you should know, Shrek City was built on the site of the Spirit Hall. However, they demolished the original Spirit City and rebuilt it, moving it from the original Six-Winged Mountain to the plain next to it, which is why it is closer to the Star Dou Great Forest."

The little devil said, "I know that. Get to the point."

"This might bring up your painful past. On that plain, there once stood a city called Jialing Pass. You and your mother perished there," Lin Mengtong said slowly. "Shrek City was built there to suppress the fragments of the Rakshasa God's divine position that once fell there. I was born in Shrek City, and fortunately, I received the blessing of those fragments, awakening the Spider King's martial soul."

"Because I awakened my martial soul in Shrek City, I wasn't treated as an evil soul master," Lin Mengtong said with a self-deprecating smile. "The martial soul I reported was called Devouring Demon Spider, and I was admitted to Shrek Academy because of my outstanding talent."

"Then, you discovered the origin of your martial soul and collected other scattered fragments of divine positions, thus achieving a second awakening of your martial soul?" the little devil asked, frowning.

"That's right. Later, when I entered the Golden Tree to cultivate, I accidentally discovered other fragments of the Rakshasa God's position that were suppressed under the tree's roots. The tree with the attributes of holiness and light was planted there for this purpose," Lin Mengtong said. "However, because of the connection between my martial soul and those fragments, I secretly collected some without being discovered. Through those fragments, my martial soul evolved into the Soul Devouring Spider Emperor, and I learned the true history."

"After that, I escaped Shrek Academy during a mission of the inspection team and came to the Heaven Dou Empire at that time. I began to cultivate in seclusion and planned the split of the Heaven Dou Empire." As she said this, Lin Mengtong seemed to have returned to her appearance thousands of years ago.

Qian Renxue straightened up. In a sense, Lin Mengtong had accomplished the plan to seize the country that she had failed to complete back then.

"After the Spirit Empire failed, the original kingdoms and duchies all returned to the original two empires. I found the Barak Kingdom at that time. They were relatives of the original Heaven Dou royal family, so they were the perfect people to be leaders. While controlling the royal family at that time, I continued to cultivate. Finally, when I was forty years old, I reached level ninety-nine and then came out of seclusion to implement the Heaven Dou split plan."

Forty years old, level ninety-nine, under the single martial soul of the Soul-Devouring Spider Emperor, this is indeed remarkable.

"So, the current Heavenly Soul Empire was originally the Barak Kingdom." The little devil nodded. She had researched the royal families of the three major empires in the east, and what she said matched Lin Mengtong's. "And then? How did you manage to live for so many years?"

"Unfortunately, I failed. After the incident, Shrek Academy and Tang Sect suppressed the war, but the Heavenly Soul Empire had already been established, and they couldn't forcefully wage war against an empire. However, it was from that time that Shrek began to control the royal families of the three kingdoms." A hint of killing intent flashed in Lin Mengtong's eyes. "I was publicly executed, but unfortunately, they didn't know that I was saved by the will of the plane the moment I was executed."

Qian Renxue's pupils contracted: "A dimensional spirit? It saved you?"

"That's right, you didn't expect that, did you? Because it also secretly gathered some fragments of the Rakshasa. I saw that little spider on your crystal coffin back then," Lin Mengtong said slowly. "So I knew I would be saved before I was beheaded, and I was fearless."

Damn it, how did this dark history of hers get found out! Qian Renxue began to consider whether to threaten Lin Mengtong to prevent her from revealing that she had once been lying in a coffin.

"It explained your origins to me. Because my body didn't turn to ashes like yours, I recovered in less than a thousand years. The reason your dimensional consciousness fell into slumber after your resurrection this time is because it granted me an ability called Blood Transfusion."

"Is this the reason for your longevity?" "Yes, I gained the ability to transplant the bloodline of soul beasts into my own body, and thus achieved immortality. When I returned to the continent, I spent nearly a hundred years taking control of the Holy Spirit Cult. By then, the Sun and Moon Continent had already collided with us, and I found the Evil Eye Clan in the Demon Forest of the Sun and Moon Empire and reached a cooperation agreement with them."

"Thus, I completed the experiment of fusing with the bloodline of a soul beast, and my martial soul evolved into the Evil Eye Spider Emperor. I gained the longevity ability of a soul beast, and because of the spiritual power brought by the Evil Eye clan, my consciousness and body can be synchronized without any disharmony," Lin Mengtong said calmly. "So my true cultivation level has always been demigod. However, in order to hide my true identity, I have been constantly creating situations of feigned death and using my abilities to disguise my cultivation level. Even you couldn't see through it back then."

The little devil thought to himself, "Your disguise is really impressive. You can even fake your bone age. You're much better than me."

"As for the issues behind the Holy Spirit Cult, I think I don't need to say more," Lin Mengtong added.

The little devil nodded: "So, the Holy Spirit Cult's ascension techniques are also yours?"

"That's right," Lin Mengtong said slowly. "Because of my special status and my demigod cultivation, I have been secretly collecting the fragments of Rakshasa that Shrek City has been suppressing for thousands of years. Those fools only think that the purification of the Golden Tree is working. But with just that tree and the sacrificed souls of Limit Douluo, it is impossible to suppress the fragments of Rakshasa."

"Then I placed the collected fragments at the headquarters of the Holy Spirit Cult, where they periodically produced immortal spiritual energy, which I used to conduct experiments on the techniques of spiritual ascension and spiritual gathering." Lin Mengtong said expressionlessly, "In the end, I succeeded. This was also at the request of the plane's spiritual consciousness, which naturally knew that the conflict between soul masters and soul beasts would inevitably lead to the imbalance of the entire plane, or even its destruction."

"Then, what about the Demon Emperor?"

"I named her Gana, the wife of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King, my last trump card. I found her in the southern sea of ​​the Sun Moon Empire and used spatial magic to bring her back to the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters, allowing her to slowly recover. If it weren't for your appearance, her true birth would have been ten thousand years later," Lin Mengtong said.

"Although I don't know what would happen, the dimensional consciousness is unaware of her being raised. Because the southern ocean has been stripped away, the Sea God sent the Sea Douluo to search for the Demon Emperor's whereabouts on the continent. But he didn't expect that the Demon Emperor was in some dark place."

Qian Renxue nodded slowly; she had received so much information from this conversation.

In a sense, Lin Mengtong was the second plan of the plane's consciousness. If he hadn't been rescued, perhaps she would have been the last trump card of the Douluo plane.

However, she could only keep hiding herself, constantly changing her name and identity in the course of history, because if her true identity were exposed, it would really invite the enforcers of the gods to descend to the mortal realm.

No wonder she was able to foresee her arrival and then have Teacher Ye Xishui pick her up at Hansong Cliff. It's probably because they had met once before and she left something like a mark on her.

"Thank you." The little devil paused for a moment. "But, is my mother's consciousness also with you?"

"Through studying the materials of the Holy Spirit Cult, and combining them with my own cultivation, I began experimenting on myself to see if there was any possibility of immortality. At first, I conducted human stimulation experiments, stimulating my own body and strengthening it through various means, including using rare and precious materials, and even exchanging the bloodline of a soul beast. This cost me an arm, but I finally found some ways to achieve immortality. In this way, I continuously changed myself and promoted my own evolution, making myself neither human nor ghost, but I actually lived for another thousand years. This greatly boosted my confidence. It can be said that no one is more familiar with the human body than me, especially the body of a god-level powerhouse. Later, I realized that I had gone down the wrong path from the beginning. In fact, I should have pursued a higher level of life energy. Only in this way could I truly live longer. In fact, the human body is ultimately composed of two parts: the body and consciousness. Since I had already gone down the wrong path, then I had to find a way that was more suitable for me."

The above is from chapter 1672 of Douluo Continent IV, so I won't excerpt it again. This paragraph is the most important.

Qian Gu Qingfeng survived for ten thousand years thanks to this technique of the Holy Spirit Sect. Even Tang Wulin at the time could not see it and could only guess.

This part is the author's own and his friends' speculation and reasoning about the entire Douluo Continent novel. The fact that the Grand Elder found the Demon Emperor is from an encyclopedia entry, so its accuracy is not guaranteed, given the numerous plot holes in the original text.

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