At the Sea God Festival, the holy city teemed with people like the sea. The surrounding spectators chattered endlessly, creating a deafening din.
Fang Yuan stood amid the crowd, carefully observing these candidate saintesses, his gaze deep and shadowed.
In his plan, he would choose one of them and support her ascent, making her the saintess of this generation.
"Support a saintess into power?"
"That's right. This time, Clan Leader Hanchao of the Cold Tide Tribe had gone to great lengths to support Miss Qiu Shuang."
After receiving the confirmed intelligence, Xie Hanmo's Blue Scale and Red Scale Guards exchanged looks, each seeing the other's heavy concern.
In the hall, Fang Yuan sat to one side, secretly gritting his teeth. His expression was not pleasant either.
Previously, Xie Hanmo had resisted the Inspector to protect Fang Yuan, causing the rumors to ferment ever more fiercely. In the end, the Merfolk Holy Court had reconvened the Sea God Festival to select a saintess.
"This is a scheme. They saw that Lady Saintess was kindhearted and would not abandon me, so they created this situation." Fang Yuan sighed toward the heavens, feeling that he had dragged Xie Hanmo down.
Xie Hanmo glanced lightly at him and smiled. "Fang Yuan, you need not blame yourself. If we had abandoned you back then, there would have been rumors saying that I was cold and heartless. It would still have struck at my prestige."
"Lady Saintess, at a time like this, you need not comfort me." Fang Yuan gave a bitter smile. "The severity of those two kinds of rumors is completely different. We have spent no short time together—how could I not understand the intricacies here?"
Xie Hanmo smiled. "All right, let us not speak of this. Talking about it does nothing for the