Chapter 1: The Three Siblings of the Qian Gu Family.
Douluo Continent, Shrek City, Spirit Pagoda Headquarters.
In a room on the upper level of the Spirit Pagoda, a girl with long golden hair closed the book she was reading and looked helplessly at the boy leaning against the doorframe, blocking her way.
The girl's name was Qian Gu Huang Yu. She came to this world six years ago and was born into the Qian Gu family, the major villains in Douluo Continent III.
The boy blocking her way was Qian Gu Huang Yu's older brother in this life, the future master of the Spirit Pagoda, and the ruthless Qian Gu Dong Feng who would one day throw the Great Ivan into Shrek Academy.
"What? Planning to go find that good-for-nothing again?" Qian Gu Dongfeng curled his lip, disdainfully.
The "good-for-nothing" Qian Gu Dongfeng was referring to was naturally the eldest brother of the siblings, Qian Gu Dieting's eldest son, and the future last leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, Qian Gu Qingfeng.
Qian Gu Qingfeng was twelve years old this year, with a cultivation level of thirty-seven. Even among students of the same age at Shrek Academy, he was among the more outstanding, but within the Qian Gu family, he was no longer considered impressive.
The reason was simple: the nine-year-old Qian Gu Dongfeng had already defeated Qian Gu Qingfeng in actual combat, making the already aloof and competitive Qian Gu Qingfeng even more silent.
Looking at her brother, who repeatedly belittled Qian Gu Qingfeng as a good-for-nothing, and recalling how someone in the original story was beaten to the point of questioning their existence by Qian Gu Qingfeng twenty years later, Qian Gu Huang Yu felt a headache coming on.
Seeing Qian Gu Huang Yu remain silent, Qian Gu Dong Feng continued, "Mother already has complaints about your tendency to always side with outsiders.
"Qian Gu Huang Yu's adoptive father in this life, Qian Gu Die Ting, had many women, and they were in a competitive relationship. Although Qian Gu Qingfeng's biological mother had passed away, she was still ostracized by the others.
This was one of the reasons why Qian Gu Qingfeng disliked Qian Gu Die Ting later.
Qian Gu Huang Yu said, "Alright, he is still my older brother after all. Auntie passed away early, so we should help her, shouldn't we?"
To be honest, Qian Gu Huang Yu never understood why her older brother always harbored so much hostility towards her.
Qian Gu Qingfeng's martial soul is the Purgatory Halberd, and he hasn't inherited the Qian Gu family's inherited martial soul, the Panlong Staff. Unless he can break through to the Quasi-God realm before Qian Gu Dieting steps down as the Spirit Pagoda Master, the positions of Spirit Pagoda Master and Qian Gu family patriarch are likely out of his reach.
Although, given Qian Gu Qingfeng's personality, he might not even care.
Unlike other juniors of the Qian Gu family, Qian Gu Qingfeng's martial soul has already severed any possibility of inheriting the family line.
[Ha, the family's legitimate heir.] Qian Gu Huangyu thought disdainfully.
Therefore, in Qian Gu Huangyu's view, the best strategy for Qian Gu Dongfeng is to befriend Qian Gu Qingfeng, thus gaining an extra ally in the future.
After all, there's no fundamental conflict of interest.
[A childish squabble.] Qian Gu Huangyu silently judged her older brother's behavior.
Qian Gu Huangyu simply walked around Qian Gu Dongfeng and headed outside.
"Xiaoyu, wait!"
Seeing Qian Gu Huangyu walk away, Qian Gu Dongfeng stomped his foot in annoyance, complaining, "Really, who's your real brother anyway?!"
Meanwhile, Qian Gu Huangyu found Qian Gu Qingfeng, who was cultivating.
Qian Gu Qingfeng stopped cultivating upon seeing Qian Gu Huangyu and said, "Xiaoyu, you're about to awaken your martial soul, aren't you? Why aren't you making preparations? Why are you here looking for me?"
Although his words were reproachful, Qian Gu Huangyu understood that her older brother was expressing his concern in an awkward way.
In Qian Gu Qingfeng's view, the reason he had fallen to his current state was not only due to his mother's death and his father's neglect due to multiple women, but also because his talent wasn't enough to attract the family's attention. Naturally, he didn't want Qian Gu Huangyu to follow in his footsteps.
Qian Gu Qingfeng genuinely cared about Qian Gu Huangyu; he was just aloof, but not incapable of distinguishing right from wrong. He would naturally remember those who cared for him.
Qian Gu Huang Yu tossed her long golden hair, nonchalantly saying, "Don't worry, there's no need to worry about the martial soul.
No matter what happens, I have a way to handle it." Qian Gu Qing Feng frowned, looking at his sister who treated such a major life event as a game. "You know how worried Uncle Leng was when Leng Yu Lai awakened the Dark Phoenix martial soul two weeks ago."
The Qian Gu family and the Leng family were both prominent families in the Spirit Pagoda, so they were naturally quite familiar with each other. Qian Gu Huang Yu, Leng Yao Zhu, and Leng Yu Lai were all girls of similar age and often played together. Because she had mentioned it a lot in front of Qian Gu Qing Feng, he had naturally taken note.
Qian Gu Huang Yu shook her head, saying, "I don't think there's anything to worry about with innate full soul power. Besides, how a martial soul awakens is entirely up to fate. I've eaten plenty of rare and precious herbs since I was a child, and I've done all the necessary efforts. The rest is up to fate."
Indeed, while ordinary people had to wait for the so-called "Awakening Day" once a year to awaken their martial souls. Large families like the Qian Gu family and the Leng family can not only awaken their children's martial souls on the very day they turn six, securing a first-mover advantage, but they also enhance their innate soul power level before awakening by consuming rare and precious herbs.
Although innate soul power level is often related to martial soul and talent, soul masters have existed for tens of thousands of years, and naturally, methods to influence a child's innate soul power before awakening their martial soul have been developed. Of course, this is a closely guarded secret of the major soul master families.
For these large families, the path is already paved at the moment the child is born. As long as they follow the family's plan, they will at least achieve the configuration of a Super Douluo with a three-word battle armor, if not a Limit Douluo.
This is something that many soul masters from commoner backgrounds can never achieve in their entire lives.
Incidentally, Qian Gu Dongfeng, Qian Gu Qingfeng, and the two Leng sisters all possess full innate soul power.
Qian Gu Qingfeng was about to continue persuading her younger sister to formally awaken her martial soul when she was interrupted by Qian Gu Huangyu.
Qian Gu Huang Yu held up a lunchbox adorned with exquisite patterns and smiled, "Alright, big brother, you've been training all day, have some snacks and rest!"
With that, she opened the lunchbox, took out a cookie, and without a word, stuffed it into Qian Gu Qing Feng's mouth, silencing him before he could say anything. Qian Gu
Dong Feng, witnessing this scene at the entrance of the training room, involuntarily frowned.
That night, Qian Gu Huang Yu was alone in her room. The cool moonlight shone through the thin curtains onto her long, golden hair, reflecting starlight like a glittering galaxy.
Suddenly, a golden ripple appeared behind her, and a golden cup slowly emerged from the golden light.
Qian Gu Huang Yu carefully held up the golden cup, its reflection shimmering in the moonlight on her delicate face.
Suddenly, the girl smiled.
"After I awaken my martial soul tomorrow, who should I use you to summon?
(End of this chapter)