Tian Buyu's face was full of sighs and the weariness of ages.
With a trace of a sob in his voice, he said, "Seven years. Do you know how I spent these seven years?"
Chu Qing looked blank. "How bad could it have been? I once spent ten years like that—you know about those ten years. Those ten years... heh... are too unbearable to look back on!"
Hearing that, Tian Buyu cried even more miserably. "It's all your fault!"
"If you hadn't spent those ten years, I wouldn't have had to spend these seven years."
Chu Qing was stunned. "How is that my fault?"
Tian Buyu said miserably, "You spent ten years forging an Exotic Treasure Realm."
"You also tempered yourself and condensed a special Overlord title."
"I saw that you could do it, so I thought I could too."
"Then I imitated you. In fact, I wanted to surpass you."
"I used a tiny portion of the resources from the Heavenly Court treasury to hire three hundred thousand female Otherkin."
"I cultivated the Clone Path, created over a dozen clones, and forged an Exotic Treasure Realm together with three hundred thousand female Otherkin."
"For these seven years, I never slept or rested!"
"For these seven years, I..."
At that point, he choked up, unable to continue.
Chu Qing fell silent. Speechless, admiring, astonished.
He had thought himself ruthless enough.
He had never expected Tian Buyu to be even more ruthless than him.
Only after a long while did Tian Buyu stop crying.
Chu Qing said, "So your strength increased severalfold?"
"Mm!"
"So you obtained a special Overlord title?"
Tian Buyu hesitated for a moment, then muttered, "I don't know whether it counts as special."
Chu Qing was curious. "Hurry up and tell me. What is your Overlord title?"
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