Chapter 58: The First Diamond Blind Box
And just then, Qin Xuan's mind echoed with a system prompt:
[Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the 'Becoming a Father' achievement. Reward: one diamond blind box.]
"Isn't it supposed to be biological?" Qin Xuan inwardly complained.
[System prompt: Becoming a step-father is an exception!]
"Damn, this is possible too? As for this blind box, whoever wants it can have it."
[OOC warning, OOC warning. It has been detected that the host does not want this diamond blind box. It will be automatically deleted in 5 seconds. Do you want to cancel?]
"Damn, I was just joking." Qin Xuan hastily clicked cancel.
Since he was already a step-father, there was no harm in accepting it. What's more, strictly speaking, Qin was not taking over, but rather getting a buy-one-get-one-free deal. It's just that after today, for a long time to come, he would have to raise Ah Yan as his daughter.
This way, once Ah Yan grew up, he wouldn't be able to lay a hand on her. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Forget it, a daughter is a daughter. In the future, he wouldn't be short of a wife. As long as it wasn't a son, it would be fine. Otherwise, even if Dorgon came, he wouldn't be able to control it.
"You just finished giving birth, so rest more. I've ordered the kitchen to stew chicken soup with a 2-and-a-half-year-old Spirit Beast, Kun Kun. It will be delivered soon."
Placing Ah Yan back into Jing Ni's arms, Qin Xuan greeted her, then impatiently ran into the cultivation room to open the diamond blind box. After all, this was the first diamond blind box he had ever received.
The surface was crystal clear, and the built-in azure blue diamond treasure chest slowly opened. 6 golden light clusters floated out and landed in front of Qin Xuan.
"This… this is…" Qin Xuan's eyes instantly lit up. The golden light clusters converged, transforming into 6 gleaming Spirit Bones.
Each one was of extremely high quality, even surpassing the Mind Condensing Wisdom Skull, and no less than the 100,000-year adaptive left leg bone he had absorbed previously. Even if they weren't 100,000 years old, they weren't far off.
But when he reached out to touch them, and the Spirit Bone information merged into his mind, he was instantly dumbfounded.
These were 6 set Spirit Bones, similar to the Angel Suit. Each had a lifespan of 99,999 years. When used simultaneously, they could form a Spirit Bone armor and activate their quality to 100,000 years.
It could be said that, apart from not coming with a divine examination, there was almost no significant difference from the Angel Suit. In fact, to some extent, they were even better than the Angel Suit Spirit Bones. Like ordinary Spirit Bones, they had no absorption restrictions and did not require the Spirit Bone's recognition.
However, their weakness lay in the fact that they had to be absorbed simultaneously to form the Spirit Bone armor and activate their quality to 100,000 years.
Qin Xuan had already absorbed 2 pieces. It was unknown when he would be able to obtain a Spirit Bone replacement card.
"It seems I can only give them to Jing Ni."
His spirit power had broken through to level 69 a month ago. Even if he absorbed 4 of them now and then absorbed a spirit ring, his spirit power would at most be just above Spirit Douluo, definitely not reaching Titled Douluo. Moreover, these 4 Spirit Bones, which were less than 100,000 years old, would eventually need to be replaced. There was no need to create future trouble for temporary gains.
But Jing Ni was different. After 3 months of living on the Douluo Continent, her body had fully adapted to spirit power. 2 days ago, she had just reached level 74. As long as she absorbed this set of Spirit Bones and completed her spirit rings, she would definitely become a Titled Douluo.
Moreover, she would not be an ordinary Titled Douluo, but a super-strong Titled Douluo with Spirit Bone armor and the Slaughter God Domain, possessing superb assassination techniques.
With such a Titled Douluo, assassinating Qian Xunji in the secret chamber would be almost a sure thing.
Having decided the ownership of the Spirit Bones, Qin Xuan placed them into his storage spirit tool and then took out the [Mo Ya Recruitment Card] he had previously obtained.
"Once I become a Spirit Saint and Jing Ni becomes a Titled Douluo, this recruitment card will come in handy."
He decided to arrange for Mo Ya to search for Ah Yin's whereabouts.
The reason Qin Xuan hadn't used this recruitment card before was to be prepared for any eventuality, to prevent Qian Xunji from playing dirty. He might not fear Spirit Douluo, and the Titled Douluo Elders residing in the Elder Palace only obeyed the orders of Great Grand Secretary Qian Daoliu.
Qian Xunji, the most incompetent Supreme Pontiff in Spirit Hall's history, needed to seek permission from Qian Daoliu to deploy any Elder.
However, his 2 personal guard Douluo were a huge threat. Since obtaining the Slaughter God Domain, Qin Xuan was exceptionally sensitive to killing intent.
More than once, he had felt killing intent from those two, though it was very faint, difficult even for a Titled Douluo to detect. But Qin Xuan still perceived it. And he couldn't just stay cooped up in the Elder Palace all day.
This was also why he suppressed his strength when he competed with Bibi Dong in the Elder Palace. Otherwise, with his current mastery of the Horizontal Sword Technique, he could have preempted her. He wouldn't have given Bibi Dong a chance to unleash her Haotian True Body, and would have used the simple, unadorned, and perfectly combined speed, power, and accuracy of the Vertical Sword Technique for an instant kill.
Why would he play a turn-based game with the other party, dragging it out and exchanging pleasantries?
It was all to guard against the sudden arrival of those two personal guard Douluo and unpredictable dangers, thereby catching the enemy off guard.
But if he himself became a Spirit Saint and Jing Ni absorbed the Spirit Bones and broke through to Titled Douluo, it would be different.
Not to mention how strong Jing Ni would be after breaking through to Titled Douluo. Just Qin Xuan himself, upon breaking through to Spirit Saint, with both of his Domains evolving, his strength would be incomparable to his current level.
By then, even if those 2 personal guard Douluo truly came, he would completely have the power to protect himself, and even use stratagems to counter-kill them.
Another 3 months passed. Qin Xuan finally shed his Impurity. His spirit power also smoothly broke through the level 70 bottleneck.
He was only 20 years old this year, still 6 months shy of 21, making him the unprecedented 20-year-old Spirit Saint on the Douluo Continent. This was 5 years earlier than the Holy Maiden Bibi Dong and 10 years earlier than the so-called number one genius of the Clear Sky Sect in a hundred years, Tang Hao.
15 meters above the nearly 1000-square-meter cultivation room, a beautiful and peculiar long sword, enveloped in pink sword qi, flew through the air at a visible speed.
Below, Jing Ni, clad in a form-fitting purplish-red metal armor, with fish-scale-like guards on her legs and right arm, and her head covered by a red face mask, her figure curvaceous and graceful, calmly looked up at the flying sword.
"Go."
Suddenly, Jing Ni's sword finger moved, her eyes sharp as she pointed forward. The flying sword above, as if summoned, suddenly increased its speed, circling once in the air, transforming into a long rainbow, and heading straight for one of the specially made iron stakes in the center of the cultivation room.
Boom—, almost at the instant Jing Ni's sword finger dropped, the specially made iron stake, strong enough to withstand Spirit Saint-level attacks, was instantly pierced through. Then it shattered into pieces.
"How does it feel?" Qin Xuan walked over, holding little Ah Yan with a smile.
"Nourishing the sword with blood, this Sword Control Technique is truly miraculous." The purplish-red metal armor disappeared, Jing Ni exhaled lightly, raised her right hand, and the flying sword was recalled into her hand, revealing it to be the Jing Ni Sword.