Chapter 260 Two Qian Renxues

"Xiao Xue!"

Hearing Dark Qian Renxue call her that, Bibi Dong also cried tears of joy.

The Qian Renxue of this world was also her daughter. When Qian Renxue had called her before, she had been equally overwhelmed.

But when the Dark Qian Renxue called her now, Bibi Dong felt even more unable to contain her emotions.

Because this Dark Qian Renxue was the daughter who had experienced the final great battle with her—the daughter who was willing to sacrifice herself alongside her to save each other.

She was the one Bibi Dong had died protecting, killed by Tang San to save this very Dark Qian Renxue.

"Mother…"

After confirming that the Bibi Dong before her really was her mother, Dark Qian Renxue called out once more, then threw herself directly into Bibi Dong's arms.

"Xiao Xue…"

Bibi Dong also tightly embraced Dark Qian Renxue.

Su Mo quietly stepped back, leaving them the space to be alone.

…

Returning to the palace, Su Mo first reviewed what had happened during this time.

Bibi Dong had handled everything very well; the entire empire was developing in an orderly manner.

Under a series of imperial policies, the citizens' loyalty to the empire grew stronger and more widely accepted the empire's rule over the continent.

All spirit masters under imperial control no longer dared to blatantly ignore the empire's laws and oppress the common people like before.

Though spirit masters still held certain privileges, they could no longer arbitrarily kill or oppress ordinary people.

If a spirit master committed a crime, they would be wanted and sent to the City of Slaughter once caught.

During this period, more spirit masters had been sent to the City of Slaughter than in the previous several decades combined.

Previously, the Spirit Hall could only govern a single Spirit City, and it had been difficult to apprehend criminal spirit masters elsewhere.

Now it was different—the entire continent was under pursuit.

Naturally, more fallen and evil spirit masters were being captured.

It was precisely due to the empire's swift and decisive measures that spirit masters across the continent quickly reined themselves in and no longer looked down on common civilians.

Regarding technology, or soul devices, the empire had begun to open related technologies to the common people.

The technological level on Douluo Continent was much like the world in Naruto—many technologies had already been researched but were not yet widespread.

Su Mo certainly wouldn't allow this to continue. The popularization of technology would naturally bring comprehensive development to Douluo Continent.

As for spirit masters' abilities, Su Mo also established a Civilian Soul Technique Research Institute, encouraging some spirit masters to research soul techniques that benefit people's livelihoods instead of just focusing on combat strength.

For example, smithing masters could study how to acquire or improve soul techniques to enhance forging skills rather than just increasing fighting power.

Plant-type spirit masters could research how their soul techniques could improve agriculture.

Animal-type spirit masters could study animal husbandry.

The main goal was to comprehensively improve the living standards of Douluo Continent's residents.

Using spirit techniques only for battle was, in Su Mo's view, too wasteful.

And any spirit master who developed useful livelihood soul techniques would receive rewards from Su Mo, including money and honorary titles—essentially raising their social status to motivate more soul masters to develop such techniques.

Su Mo called these spirit masters focusing on livelihood "livelihood-type spirit masters."

The emergence of livelihood-type spirit masters delighted many who disliked fighting, since not all spirit masters enjoyed combat.

This was something Su Mo had begun doing after unifying Douluo Continent, and results had already started to appear.

The practical outcome was that people on Douluo Continent found their lives improving.

Reflecting back on Su Mo, after returning from his recent crossing, he found his body infused with much more faith power.

Gaining so much faith power naturally made Su Mo very happy.

With this, he could quickly increase his divine power.

In this world, Su Mo didn't feel urgent to strengthen his divine power, but if he needed to travel to the future timeline to confront Sea God Tang San, that would be different.

Although the four gods could definitely handle Tang San, it would be safer if Su Mo's strength were even greater.

However, most of the faith power was first used by Su Mo to enhance his time-space abilities.

Su Mo needed to secure a retreat path.

The stronger his mastery over time-space power, the more freely he could advance and retreat.

Even if unexpected situations arose, he could quickly lead Bibi Dong and the others to safety.

Refining faith power was as easy for Su Mo as drinking water, and the vast amount of faith power was quickly absorbed.

His strength further increased.

"No wonder gods love to collect faith; this faith power is incredibly useful!" Su Mo exclaimed.

Hum—

Right after Su Mo finished refining the faith power, a wave of energy suddenly shook the direction of Spirit City.

A gigantic angelic divine silhouette appeared in the sky.

Golden light rained down, the radiance of the angel spread across the world, and the entire realm suddenly felt warm.

"Qian Renxue has ascended to deity!"

Su Mo looked toward Spirit City with surprise. He hadn't expected that upon his return, Qian Renxue had already completed her divine ascension.

Next was Bibi Dong's Raksasha God inheritance.

Bibi Dong only had her final ninth trial remaining. This ninth trial required no divine spokesperson sacrifice but needed to activate an ancient formation to complete it.

Su Mo and Bibi Dong had long prepared this by setting up an ancient array in the City of Slaughter, ready to activate it by devouring those evil spirit masters.

The many evil spirit masters and fallen ones captured recently were just what they needed.

"Sea God Tang San, wait for me—I will come find you again soon!" Su Mo chuckled lightly, then his figure flashed as he instantly teleported toward Spirit City.

…

"The one who completed the Angel God inheritance is my former self…"

Dark Qian Renxue, who had just confided in Bibi Dong, looked up toward Spirit City and saw that familiar silhouette in the sky.

But now, she was different from her past self.

The angelic divine silhouette of Qian Renxue in the sky was so holy and radiant—a true Angel God—while she had transformed into a fallen angel god.

Seeing her former self truly appear before her, Dark Qian Renxue felt somewhat strange.

She also envied the version of herself in this world.

She didn't have to endure the terrible experiences she had gone through.

The only hardship she might face was the departure of her grandfather, Qian Daoliu.

"Grandpa…"

Dark Qian Renxue murmured sadly. She knew that since Qian Renxue had ascended to deity, Grandpa Qian Daoliu was certainly no longer alive.

This saddened her; she had hoped to see her grandfather again during this visit.

"Mom, let's go!"

"Su Mo has already gone; we should go too!"

Then, Dark Qian Renxue took Bibi Dong and headed toward Spirit City together.

...(End of chapter)