"Tang Chen, I finally beat you once!" Qian Daoliu's face was full of smiles, and his entire being radiated ease and joy.
His obsession with defeating Tang Chen had actually run far deeper than his obsession with Bo Saixi.
Back when Bo Saixi tactfully rejected him and said she liked Tang Chen, he had basically let go already. There was only a tiny bit of unwillingness left in his heart.
Otherwise, he would not have reacted so mildly to Lu Yuan and Bo Saixi being together. He understood that Bo Saixi had never liked him. After all, he was Qian Daoliu, an Ultimate Douluo of his generation. He still possessed the grace he ought to have.
So after struggling with it for a while, he chose to let go, just as he had done back then.
Yet he had always kept Tang Chen, his lifelong rival, in his heart. After losing to Tang Chen, he promised never to set foot in the Clear Sky Sect again. In fact, he had kept that promise.
There was naturally no need to mention the original timeline, where the Clear Sky Sect had not been destroyed at all. Even in the current timeline, Qian Daoliu had never appeared throughout the entire process of wiping out the Clear Sky Sect. It was Lu Yuan who sent Long Xiaoyao to lead the men who went up the mountain and destroyed it.
Thus, Qian Daoliu himself was indeed a man who kept his word.
As for those who claimed that, in the original timeline, Qian Daoliu had not touched the Clear Sky Sect because he feared Tang Chen would return to take revenge on Spirit Hall after becoming a god, that was utter nonsense.
When someone had vanished without a trace for decades, no normal person would