After Qian Renxue and Qi Lin laid their cards on the table, she completely reverted to her original appearance and took up residence in Heaven Dou Academy.
As for the Crown Prince's Residence, it was managed by a body double she had personally trained.
She had requested a Thousand Illusions Mask from Qi Lin, which was completely impenetrable to anyone below the God-level.
With no further worries, Qian Renxue began to immerse herself wholeheartedly in cultivation.
She also harbored a sense of urgency, especially after her battle with Xiao Wu.
Since returning from the Extreme North Land, Xiao Wu's spirit power had increased by two levels, now reaching sixty-eight.
After moving into Heaven Dou Academy, Qian Renxue had sparred with Xiao Wu several times, initially believing that with her God-level Spirit, the Six-Winged Angel, and a full ten levels higher in spirit power than Xiao Wu, she would undoubtedly defeat her with ease.
However, things did not go as planned.
The two exchanged blows multiple times, with neither gaining a decisive advantage.
In terms of strength, speed, and defense, Xiao Wu might have been slightly inferior to Qian Renxue, but she had already far surpassed ordinary Spirit Saints.
Furthermore, Xiao Wu's control over her spirit power had reached a masterful level, allowing her to transform it in countless ways; to Qian Renxue, it felt as if every move and every stance she made was like a Spirit Ability.
Especially when she unleashed a set of hammer techniques developed for her by Qi Lin, it was terrifyingly potent; even Qian Renxue had to evade, otherwise, a direct hit would surely result in severe injury.
The few times Qian Renxue lost to Xiao Wu were all due to failing to dodge Xiao Wu's hammer techniques.
Perhaps, their Qian family inherently enjoyed taking heavy hammers head-on!
It was precisely because she felt pressure from Xiao Wu that Qian Renxue dared not slack off in the slightest, diligently cultivating, fearing being surpassed by others.
Perhaps due to her complete immersion in cultivation, she found herself quite compatible with Zhu Zhuqing.
However, another person began to feel restless upon learning that Qian Renxue's Spirit was actually the Six-Winged Angel.
This person was none other than Zhu Zhuyun!
Zhu Zhuyun was not a fool; Qian Renxue's surname being Qian was one thing, but her Spirit also being the Six-Winged Angel Spirit clearly indicated she was a direct descendant of the Spirit Hall's Supreme Pontiff lineage.
None of this was what truly made Zhu Zhuyun's scalp tingle; it was Qian Renxue's other identity.
One must know, she was the sworn sister of Xue Qinghe, the current Crown Prince of the Heaven Dou Empire!
Had the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall reached some secret agreement?
Had the Heaven Dou Empire secretly allied with Spirit Hall already?
This was not good news for the Star Luo Empire!
Zhu Zhuyun had never considered that the Heaven Dou Crown Prince had been replaced, as it was too inconceivable.
And she had even less expected that Spirit Hall harbored ambitions of unifying the continent!
However, even after learning Qian Renxue's identity, Zhu Zhuyun still did not return to the Star Luo Empire, nor did she send back any information regarding Qian Renxue.
Who told Qian Renxue and Qi Lin that their relationship was also unusual?
If her actions were to anger Qi Lin, then the Star Luo Empire would truly be finished.
Of course, even if the Star Luo Empire were truly finished, it wouldn't matter; with her sister's connection, the Zhu family would be fine.
Moreover, Zhu Zhuyun found staying at Heaven Dou Academy quite pleasant; when Qi Lin buffed others daily, he would also include her.
Her spirit power had now broken through several levels compared to when she was in the Soul Master Competition, reaching the Spirit King level.
And amidst this ordinary routine, Qi Lin also began to work on another matter.
That was the revival of Tianmeng and Ice Empress!
Although both had sacrificed themselves for Qi Lin, their soul origins had always been preserved within Qi Lin's Spirit Sea.
Aside from Tianmeng, who slept all day, Ice Empress had been diligently cultivating her mental force using the methods Qi Lin taught her, and her mental force was now significantly stronger than before her sacrifice.
And reviving Tianmeng and Ice Empress was a trivial matter for Qi Lin.
Since he became a God, he had been able to control the rules of the Douluo World.
As long as they weren't completely annihilated, he could revive them.
However, to Qi Lin, this seemed more like a form of authority.
The power of rules he wielded was essentially provided to him by his God Position; as long as he controlled a God Position, it was equivalent to controlling this authority.
Therefore, for any deity, reviving a mortal was not difficult.
Of course, if it were to revive a deity, that would be another matter, requiring supportive deities like the Food God and Nine Colored Goddess to accomplish.
And such power of rules would be ineffective if applied to other Worlds, only applicable within the World where Douluo was located.
Just like Xiao Wu's Paragon Golden Body, which is also a rule-based Spirit Ability, allowing her to withstand any attack below the God-level even as a Spirit Ancestor.
However, if her Spirit Ability were placed in other Worlds, it might still provide defensive effects, but it definitely wouldn't offer the absolute defense it did in Douluo.
Of course, as long as they were in the Douluo World, Qi Lin, who controlled the World's rule force, directly created two physical bodies for Tianmeng and Ice Empress using his divine force.
Logically speaking, even if Tianmeng and Ice Empress were revived, at most they could only recover their strength from before their sacrifice, just like Xiao Wu in the original work.
But the current situation was slightly different from the original work.
That was, after Qi Lin created his own God Position and became a deity, all his spirit power had transformed into divine force.
In addition, each of his spirit rings had also evolved and transformed.
And Tianmeng and Ice Empress respectively represented the first spirit rings of Qi Lin's two Spirits.
Therefore, when Qi Lin revived the two of them, after injecting the spirit ring origins from the first spirit rings of his two Spirits into Tianmeng and Ice Empress's new bodies, both successfully broke through the final life barrier.
Amidst the ice-blue ethereal glow, Ice Empress transformed into a cold and stunning beauty with dark green hair, clad in an ice-blue long dress, exuding an aura of extreme cold.
And within the other glow, Tianmeng transformed into a young man with light golden hair, whose appearance seemed quite neutral, giving a sense of being neither male nor female.
Tianmeng's appearance was handsome, but a mischievous smile played on his face, giving off a somewhat lewd impression.
As soon as he was revived, he immediately burst into wild laughter.
"Hahahahaha, big brother is alive again!"
If you were to ask Tianmeng Iceworm how he felt now, it was as if he had taken a nap, only to wake up and be brought along by Qi Lin.
One word: awesome—
Tianmeng Iceworm clenched his fists, his face filled with rapture.
"Is this what it feels like to become a God?"
"It's just... too cool!"
Ice Empress spoke far less than Tianmeng, but she still couldn't hide the excitement on her face.
Initially, she thought it would take Qi Lin several more decades to become a God, even if he were to do so.
Unexpectedly, from her sacrifice to Qi Lin's ascension, it had been less than two years in total.
But Ice Empress didn't forget Qi Lin, a hint of worry in her expression.
"You've only just become a God. Reviving Tianmeng and me directly, and even letting us become Gods with you, will it have any negative impact on you?"
Tianmeng heard this and also cast a worried look at Qi Lin.
He was just lewd, not heartless.
He was equally grateful that Qi Lin could bring him to godhood.
Qi Lin smiled, "Just a small issue, it's nothing."
To revive the two, Qi Lin injected the original divine force from the two divine rings into their newly formed bodies, which allowed them to possess God-level strength upon revival.
For ordinary deities, it might take a long time to recover the original divine force in their divine rings, but for Qi Lin, it was a trivial matter; he could recover it in at most ten days to half a month.
If he went to the Dou Po World, he could recover even faster.