With the Ancient Black Phoenix seemingly dead, Ning Rongrong left without even a farewell, leaving the Silver Dragon King and others present somewhat at a loss.
The Silver Dragon King and Di Tian brought the group from Spirit Hall to Tokisaki Kurumi's side.
"Kurumi, Ning Rongrong left?"
Dragons are proud creatures, not to mention the Silver Dragon King, half of the former Dragon God.
Even she, hailed as kind and wise, was proud to the extreme at her core. Even without deliberate display, it could faintly be seen in her every move.
But the current Tokisaki Kurumi wasn't considered a soul beast, and with Ning Rongrong's special nature, Gu Yuena's tone treated her as an equal.
"Sigh!" Tokisaki Kurumi glanced at the Silver Dragon King and the others, then sighed. "The Ancient Black Phoenix broke free from the seal in the Extreme North to come here. As for how it came, I think you know better than I do."
"But in the Extreme North, there's its broken body and the portion of soul that was shaved off."
"Just now, the Ancient Black Phoenix's dying words made the master worry that something unexpected might happen."
"Unexpected, what unexpected?"
Before Gu Yuena could ask, Qian Renxue looked over curiously.
"What unexpected could there be?" Tokisaki Kurumi spread her hands. "I don't know! But it can be deduced. At most, it's leaking aura through the seal or something. A primary god's aura is enough to draw the God Realm's attention."
The Ancient Black Phoenix wasn't one of those secondary gods in the God Realm, but a true primary god above level 130.
Though weakened a lot in the seal, defeating it this time had relied heavily on clever tactics.
"God Realm..." Gu Yuena's fine brows furrowed tightly. "If discovered, it'll be trouble."
"This is your affair. Even if you die, don't drag my side down." Tokisaki Kurumi shrugged, points of luster gathering in her hand. Soon, a radiant treasure pagoda condensed in her palm.
"Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda!" Qian Daoliu exclaimed directly.
"No need to be so shocked. I'm now part of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Besides, the master's martial soul detaching to be used by me is normal."
"Because there's no need to deliberately conceal it anymore, so letting you know doesn't matter."
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan didn't fear Spirit Hall, even Qian Daoliu was no exception.
Of course, Gu Yuena still needed caution—she was, after all, a primary god. If not for worrying about alerting the God Realm, killing that remnant soul just now, even if injured, wouldn't have been difficult for her.
The light on the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda grew brighter. Moments later, golden small light orbs appeared around the pagoda body.
"Here, this thing back to you."
Looking at the golden light orb flying before her, the Silver Dragon King didn't reach to take it, instead falling silent for a moment.
"This is your spoils of war. You don't need it?"
"That's the Dragon God..."
"Stop, Gu Yuena. We don't want to get entangled in your affairs. The Dragon God's dragon soul has too much karma; our little Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan can't bear it."
Tokisaki Kurumi grumbled,
"And we're not like Spirit Hall, with little, middle, and old love-brained ones."
"Little, middle, and old love-brained?"
Qian Renxue's mouth twitched. What was this Dark Devilgod Tiger implying?
"Heh, guess?" Tokisaki Kurumi chuckled. "Qian Daoliu still has lingering feelings for Bo Saixi, no need to say about Bibi Dong—you all know the story. As for Qian Renxue..."
"Tsk tsk tsk~" Tokisaki Kurumi shook her head and didn't continue.
"Say it, why don't you say it." Qian Renxue's brow twitched.
"Hehe, that's another world's matter. If you call it a parallel world!" Tokisaki Kurumi laughed. "Mentioned it over in Tian Dou. Whether you know, I don't know."
"Then I'll make it clearer!"
"The current Tang San has traces of the future, and... he's a God King."
"With his relation to your Spirit Hall, the final outcome of the continental struggle, no need for me to say more, right!"
"You mean, our Spirit Hall loses?" Qian Daoliu's voice was shocked.
The Second Consecrator Golden Crocodile had passed related information, but not as explicit as Tokisaki Kurumi.
"Who knows! The master and I are just beginners in space-time powers; what we see isn't much."
"That world's development isn't necessarily this one's."
"But ah, Qian Renxue, your final outcome is..."
"Wait, don't say more!" Gu Yuena suddenly erupted with powerful aura, forcing Tokisaki Kurumi back several steps. "Don't affect Qian Renxue's mindset."
Unclear what Tokisaki Kurumi planned to say, but what followed definitely wasn't good.
"Oh? I say Gu Yuena, you're afraid?" Tokisaki Kurumi spread her hands.
"The master isn't here; indeed, I'm not your match. But do you have the confidence to keep me here?"
"Moreover, you should know better than me. The so-called Fall to Heaven, if even one's own darkness can't be faced..."
"Why do you think you have a chance to grasp a thread of survival in the 150th-level God King realm?"
"Just relying on that remnant Dragon God soul beside you?"
"Dark Devilgod Tiger, you're going too far!"
Di Tian stepped forward, releasing terrifying soul power. The raging pressure blew at Tokisaki Kurumi's red-and-black gothic lolita long skirt.
"Di Tian, do you even have the qualification to contend with me now?" Tokisaki Kurumi took a step forward, and the space-time around Di Tian instantly froze.
The next moment, Di Tian was like struck in the chest by an invisible fist, flying straight out.
"Pfft—"
Crimson blood sprayed from his mouth.
Di Tian clutched his chest, his face showing an incredulous expression.
"You... this is impossible!"
"You've become a god?"
Not just Di Tian—even Bing Di and Xue Di beside him were incredulous.
Remember, back in Wind Snow Valley, Tokisaki Kurumi had said she had only barely crossed the 99th-level threshold, still some distance from godhood.
"God, perhaps!" Tokisaki Kurumi neither admitted nor denied. "Logically, I have no need to tell you this, but that Ancient Black Phoenix gave a pretty big boost to my strength."
"Plus the master didn't explicitly forbid revealing, so I'll tell you some truth."
"Moreover, to truly complete Spirit Hall's transformation..."
"Gu Yuena, compared to the Dragon God's half-body with incomplete memories and little understanding of human Soul Masters, the master and I have analyzed martial souls far beyond your imagination."
"To complete the transformation, relying solely on power's Fall to Heaven is completely insufficient."
"The important part is the other end—that is, the state of mind."
"Qian Renxue currently doesn't have the potential you imagine."
"How is that possible? Little Xue's aptitude is the best among all generations of the angel clan." Qian Daoliu retorted.
"Aptitude—you mean the Angel God's fragment?" Tokisaki Kurumi sneered. "That thing, compared to the Evil God Pearl I once obtained—the bead after an Evil God's fall—what's the difference?"
"So-called potential is vessel..."
"And the cause of this isn't Qian Renxue herself, but you, the servant of the Angel God, and a certain Bibi Dong, the former Rakshasa God inheritor who was fooled into losing her way."
"I really don't understand what you were thinking, sending child-era Qian Renxue to infiltrate Tian Dou."
"That might make her mindset smoother and tougher, but it lacks the nature to charge forward courageously."
"Even if I say this, you wouldn't understand!"
"Qian Daoliu, think about how you broke through to quasi-god?"
"You... you mean!!!"
"That's right." Tokisaki Kurumi laughed. "It was after you learned you were schemed against by both the Asura God and Rakshasa God that you generated that spirit of no longer being decadent."
"Qian Renxue, because of decades of lurking, developed instincts, but doesn't possess these."
"Like me controlling time and space simultaneously, but during my Dark Devilgod Tiger period, I was just borrowing the Evil God Pearl to operate."
"Now, the one truly mastering this power isn't me, but my um, somewhat unreliable master."
"Though, she often wanders out like me and bumps into Limit Douluo casually."
"But isn't that also a kind of luck?"
"Alright." Tokisaki Kurumi clapped her hands, pulling back everyone's gaze. "Now I'll tell you Qian Renxue's final outcome."
"Perhaps this thing you'll understand better."
With that, a white incandescent light orb appeared in Tokisaki Kurumi's palm, then slowly flew before Qian Renxue.
"This is..."
"Fate, destiny, and karma—this is a fragment from another world entangled with you. Of course, it's just another world. The choice is still yours."
"In any case... hm?"
Tokisaki Kurumi's fine brows furrowed slightly, her gaze turning to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda in her hand. Helplessly, she said:
"This master, without me around for a bit, can't get anything done!"
"If not for me helping, she'd sooner or later get caught and made an example of."