Chapter 194: A One-and-Only Bloodline
Spirit City, Hall of Worship.
Qian Daoliu stood with his hands behind his back before the colossal statue of the Angel God, his golden eyes fixed on the heavenly curtain where the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's phantom hovered, his brows knit deep.
Beside him, Qian Renxue—freshly returned from the Heaven Dou Empire and restored to her true appearance—was equally grave.
The pride and confidence befitting an inheritor of the Angel God Bloodline had always shone from her stunning face.
Now a deep worry blanketed it.
"Grandfather…"
Qian Renxue spoke softly, a barely perceptible weight in her voice.
"I never imagined that even a Divine Rank Bloodline would only place eighth… Although the Deep Sea Demon Whale King evolved postnatally, he is still a Divine Beast."
She paused, drew a breath. "Then our Angel God Legacy Bloodline may not be optimistic."
"Perhaps… it will struggle to reach the top three."
For the first time, doubt crept into her heart about the ranking of the Bloodline she had always taken pride in.
Until now she had believed that as a descendant of a First-rank Deity, the God of Angels, her Bloodline should be supreme on the Douluo Continent.
But the heavenly curtain's ranking had shattered that conviction.
Inside, Qian Daoliu was equally shaken!
Yet he was, after all, a Limit Douluo who had lived more than a century, the High Priest of Spirit Hall.
His Heart-Nature cultivation far exceeded Qian Renxue's.
He turned slowly, meeting the worry in his granddaughter's eyes, and said in a low voice, "Xue'er, there's no need for alarm."
His voice was steady and forceful.
"Look carefully at the heavenly curtain's reasoning."
"The Deep Sea Demon Whale King's Bloodline ranks eighth not because a Divine Rank Bloodline is weak, but because it was Acquired through postnatal evolution; its Foundation is insubstantial, and its Origin is not top-tier."
He lifted his gaze to the curtain, eyes sharp. "Our Angel God Bloodline is an Innate inheritance from a First-rank Deity!"
"Its Origin rank is exalted, the Legacy complete, the Foundation firm."
"It is absolutely not comparable to the Acquired Divine Beast Bloodline of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King."
Qian Renxue's worry lessened at his words!
But unease still lingered… Sea God Island, Sea God Hall.
Bo Saixi stood before the statue of the Sea God!
Normally, possessing the Sea God Bloodline, she maintained calm confidence.
Now even she could not keep her composure.
In her ocean-deep eyes were reflected the phantom of the Deep Sea Demon Whale King and the word "eighth."
"The Deep Sea Demon Whale King, after breaking through a million years, became a Divine Beast!"
Bo Saixi murmured, a trace of emotion in her voice.
But the ranking concerned her more.
"An Acquired Divine Beast Bloodline, and it only places eighth!"
For the first time, solemnity surfaced on her exquisite face.
"Then the Sea God Bloodline…"
She knew better than anyone that the Sea God had become a First-rank Deity through self-cultivation and gathering faith.
The Sea God Bloodline inherited from him was an Innate Divinity Bloodline of exalted rank.
Yet seeing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King's eighth-place result, a strong unease rose within her.
"The hidden Bloodline legacies on the Douluo Continent are more terrifying than I imagined."
Bo Saixi gazed into the distance.
"The heavenly curtain's judgment seems to leap beyond this era's framework, pointing straight at a Bloodline's primordial Origin and Law height!"
She had believed the Sea God Bloodline would easily secure top-three, even vie for second.
Now… her confidence wavered.
"And… Big Dipper Academy…"
Thinking of that mysterious existence, her eyes flickered with depth… Under the gaze of every living being on the continent, tension peaking!
"Rumble—"
The dark-gold light on the heavenly curtain flowed again, converging on seventh place.
The light slowly condensed into the slender, stunning figure of a woman.
Ice-blue hair cascaded like a waterfall; her skin outshone snow; her beauty seemed unearthly.
She wore a gown woven from countless ice crystals, snowflakes and tiny shards dancing around her.
The phantom exuded no ferocity or majesty, only a cold, proud, pristine chill and a harmony with nature.
A grand voice rang across the world with unique cadence:
[Douluo Continent bloodline inheritance ranking, 7th place: Ice Sky Snow Maiden Bloodline]
[Origin]: Not a conventional Soul Beast Legacy; formed in the Far North when heaven-and-earth forces, ultimate cold, the Ice and Snow Law, and a wisp of spiritual essence converged and gestated for hundreds of millennia into the Ice Sky Snow Maiden. This Bloodline is a creation of nature, bearing the complete authority of the "Ice and Snow Law," a unique, irreproducible Bloodline on the Douluo Continent.]
[Current prominent inheritor: Snow Empress (ruler of the Far North, a special life-form whose combat strength within the Far North rivals Divine Rank experts).]
[Reason for ranking]: Origin unique—a creation of nature; purity and Law affinity unsurpassed on the continent, with limitless potential in a suitable environment. However, the Bloodline is absolutely singular, cannot reproduce naturally, and depends on the Far North; outside it, power drops sharply. Overall assessment: seventh place.]
[Ranking rewards]
1. Authority deepening: Snow Empress's control over ice and snow permanently increases by 15%.
2. Divine Artifact bestowal: awarded the "extreme cold divine scepter," forged from Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow and a thread of Ice and Snow Law Origin, greatly amplifying ice-snow skills.
3. Clansman embryo: granted one "Ice Sky Snow Maiden embryo" (condensed from ultimate cold and fragments of the Ice and Snow Law, in deep slumber). Infusing ice-snow energy or placing it in extreme cold will hasten hatching. Upon emergence, it will become a second Ice Sky Snow Maiden with independent consciousness and full affinity for the Ice and Snow Law.]
…Seventh place: Ice Sky Snow Maiden Bloodline!
Representative: Snow Empress!
The entire Douluo Continent was stunned by this unexpected ranking!
Countless Soul Masters and Soul Beasts stared at the proud, beautiful phantom and the glaring word "seventh."
For a moment no one knew how to react.
"The Ice Sky Snow Maiden, the Snow Empress, only seventh?"
"A creation of nature! Complete authority over the Ice and Snow Law! In the Far North she rivals a god… and she only ranks seventh?"
"The curtain calls it a unique, irreproducible supreme Bloodline… and this one-of-a-kind being can't even enter the top five?"
"The rewards are huge! A Divine Artifact! And a clansman embryo! She'll never be alone again!"
"If a heaven-crafted being like the Snow Empress is only seventh… what monsters fill the top six?"
"…"
Every heart was struck by a sense of absurdity.
Who could have imagined
that a legendary being nearly as eternal as the world itself wouldn't even touch the threshold of the top five?
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