Showing Sincerity

After resolving the trouble Bo Saixi had encountered, Lu Jin looked toward the door again.

Qian Xunji held his body ramrod straight, though he walked with a limp.

Lu Jin said playfully, "Great Enshrined, aren't you afraid I'm just toying with you?"

Qian Daoliu cupped his fists. "You possess nine Divine Rings, each at least a million years old. Even if you were only toying with us, it would be our honor."

"You certainly know what to say." Lu Jin smiled. "Where were we just now?"

"My teacher, the secret chamber, and me..." Bibi Dong said faintly, the respect in her eyes gradually fading as she looked at Qian Xunji.

I treated you as my teacher, and in the end you forced me to bear your child. You really are a beast!

Qian Xunji gave a dry cough. "Dong'er! How could your teacher be that sort of person?!"

Then he bowed to Lu Jin, though his face twisted slightly from the pain as soon as he bent over. "Senior, it's true that I act overbearingly, but I'm certainly not a lustful degenerate. Dong'er is a child I watched grow up. I could never do something so beastly to her. Could there have been some misunderstanding?"

"There really is a reason." Lu Jin nodded, his gaze falling on Bibi Dong beside him. "This fine disciple of yours is a love fool. She fell in love with someone she shouldn't have. Even the destruction of your Spirit Hall can't be separated from your ungrateful disciple's love-struck foolishness."

The destruction of Spirit Hall?!

Hearing the subject that concerned him most, Qian Daoliu hastily cupped his fists. "Please tell us the details, Senior!"

Lu Jin glanced at Ah Yin out of the corner of his eye. She had finished going through the books she needed and was staring straight at him.

He stood and stretched. "I can tell you, but I need to see your sincerity too. Let's leave it here for today. I'm taking Ah Yin to cultivate."

With that, Lu Jin got up and left the library with Ah Yin.

Qian Daoliu didn't dare utter a single complaint. He bowed and said, "Farewell, Senior."

After Lu Jin left, Qian Daoliu said gravely, "What do you think about this?"

"Father, what Senior spoke of might really be something that could happen in the future." Qian Xunji pondered for a moment, looking at Bibi Dong apologetically. "Although I don't know why I would do something so beastly, when Senior told me I would force myself on Dong'er, I felt an unprecedented sense of relief, as though someone had lifted a massive boulder of fate that had been weighing me down."

With Lu Jin gone, Bibi Dong silently retreated behind Qian Daoliu. "Great Enshrined, I feel the same way."

Qian Daoliu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "I do too... Senior wasn't shooting arrows without a target. If we continue along our current course, I'm afraid destruction will be hard to avoid."

A long silence fell over the library.

"Enough!" Qian Daoliu waved a hand. "Xunji, arrange for people to start building the statue at once..."

"All right!" Qian Xunji had just taken a step when a question suddenly occurred to him. "Father, who are we supposed to sculpt?"

That question stumped Qian Daoliu too.

That's right. Senior only said to build a statue, but who are we supposed to sculpt?!

"Prepare the materials first." Qian Daoliu rubbed his brow. "We must show Senior our sincerity!"

"I'll go prepare them right away!"

Bibi Dong ran off even faster than Qian Xunji, leaving him looking thoroughly perplexed. "That girl acts like I'm asking for her life whenever I tell her to cultivate. Why is she so eager today?"

Qian Daoliu gave a snort. "What do you think, Secret Chamber Douluo?"

Qian Xunji drew in his neck and hurried out of the library.

Bibi Dong went to find Yue Guan and Gui Mei. "Elders, there's something I need you to do."

The two cupped their fists. "Please command us, Your Highness!"

Bibi Dong nodded. "Elder Yue, collect some high-quality jade, at least three meters long, to sculpt a divine statue."

"A divine statue?" Yue Guan was a little bewildered. "Your Highness, is Spirit Hall opening another branch hall?"

Bibi Dong shook her head. "It's what Senior wants. In any case, just go collect it, as much as you can!"

"As you command!"

Bibi Dong then looked at Gui Mei. "Ghost Elder, your task is even more pressing than Elder Yue's!"

Gui Mei braced himself. "Tell me, Your Highness. For Spirit Hall, I would not shrink from ten thousand deaths!"

Bibi Dong nodded, her face solemn. "Now, immediately find every secret chamber in Spirit Hall that you can get to, then seal them off one by one!"

"Uh... what???"

Don't let me be secret-chambered, never let me be secret-chambered... It would be a lie to say Bibi Dong wasn't panicking. She was no match for her teacher, so all she could do was seal up every secret chamber!

Lu Jin took Ah Yin to Spirit Hall's Mimicry Training Ground.

It had to be said that Spirit Hall's foundations really did run deep. This Mimicry Training Ground alone was leagues ahead of those at Spirit Hall Academy.

With Lu Jin there, Ah Yin sat cross-legged at ease and tried meditating and practicing breathing exercises.

Lu Jin watched for a long while, then murmured, "The breathing methods native to Douluo Continent really are a bit too weak..."

Spirit Hall's Form Condensation Meditation Method was considered one of Douluo Continent's best native breathing methods, but its rate of absorbing Soul Power particles still left something to be desired.

How about trying to take Tang San's "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record" from the future?

Lu Jin searched the threads of fate across the entire Douluo Continent and finally locked onto the thickest one, only to discover that it was also entangled with Ah Yin's.

"Did I give you people too much face?" Lu Jin snorted and raised his hand, severing the connection of fate between Tang San and Ah Yin.

He had thought Tang San would disappear as a result, but instead, the thread connected to another, linking it to Tang Hao's thread of fate.

"Interesting. Does the child of destiny have to descend?" Lu Jin curled his lip and couldn't be bothered to concern himself with it. He only wanted to create a god.

Whether Tang San came or not had nothing to do with him, as long as he didn't get in the way of his path to creating a god.

After some thought, Lu Jin followed Tang San's thread to find the fate of the Tang Sect behind him.

If he remembered correctly, the Tang Sect was merely a second-rate sect confined to Bashu, not one of the major sects in Tang San's original world.

Since he could use the threads of fate to connect to the Tang Sect, he could naturally locate the other powers in its world as well.

Sure enough, Lu Jin traced the Tang Sect's thread upward and found the Azure Dragon Hall, a top power in its world.

Lu Jin narrowed his eyes. "My guess was right. Let's see what superior cultivation methods this Azure Dragon Hall has."

Lu Jin examined the threads of fate one by one and finally settled on the Azure Dragon Hall's strongest breathing cultivation method, "Heaven and Earth Contend, Yin and Yang Great Compassion Rhapsody."

Seeing the name, Lu Jin was visibly stunned for a moment. "As expected of the floor tiles of fantasy, but it's enough. After all, the system hasn't given me any way to exchange for cultivation methods. Tang San's 'Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record' can already deliver a dimensionality-reduction strike to Douluo Continent, so this 'Great Compassion Rhapsody' will only be stronger."

He manipulated the threads of fate to connect himself to "Heaven and Earth Contend, Yin and Yang Great Compassion Rhapsody." Before long, he would obtain the cultivation method.

Fate Weaving could only manipulate the course of fate; it couldn't directly retrieve objects from a distance.

After doing this, Lu Jin didn't immediately stop manipulating fate.

Since I'm already here, why not trip up the future Tang San?

He raised his hand, intending to sever Tang San's fate of secretly learning the "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record." But to his dismay, no matter how he cut the threads, there was always one that would deliver the "Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record" to Tang San.

"The child of destiny really is a little interesting..."

Since tripping him up was useless, Lu Jin couldn't be bothered to continue.

By that logic, even if Tang San died, a new "Tang San" would appear. It was better to leave the original alive; at least there wouldn't be too many variables in the future.

Inside Spirit Hall.

Qian Xunji's face was covered in dark lines. "Elder Gui Mei, explain yourself. Who told you to seal off the secret chambers?!"

Gui Mei scratched his head. "Your Holiness, Her Highness the Saintess told me to do it. I was wondering why she wanted them sealed off too."

Hearing that Bibi Dong was responsible, Qian Xunji's face twitched.

As Gui Mei's heart bobbed up and down, Qian Xunji finally spoke. "Forget it. Let her do as she pleases!"

A few days later, Yue Guan had collected enough materials.

Qian Daoliu brought Qian Xunji to see Lu Jin again. "Senior, who would you like the statue to depict? Yourself?"

"Me? There's no need to sculpt me," Lu Jin said. "She'll be here in a while. You'll know then."

Qian Daoliu nodded. "You've seen Spirit Hall's sincerity. Could you continue the prophecy from where you left off?"

"A prophecy? I suppose it counts as one. Where did we leave off?"

"The secret chamber..."

Bibi Dong's tone was full of resentment.

The corner of Qian Xunji's mouth twitched. You remember it so clearly. Thanks for the effort, Dong'er, my good disciple!

Qian Daoliu changed the subject. "I'd like to know what happened to Qian Xunji after that."

Lu Jin tapped the table, and Bibi Dong understood at once, pouring him a cup of sugar water.

"Qian Xunji? He died." Lu Jin took a sip of sugar water. "Bibi Dong killed him with her own hands."

"Huh? I... me?" Bibi Dong pointed at the tip of her nose again.

So your Sister Dong is that fierce in the future? Teacher is a Titled Douluo, and I can still kill him?