"Have to say..."
"Your Luo God Clan elders..."
"Sure have a lot of ideas..."
Outside the hall, Lu Yuan had been walking around and taking in the sights. As he listened to the argument inside, along with those Ghost Ideas that no human being should have been capable of coming up with, he paused for a moment before offering the most flattering assessment he could manage.
This was already the limit of what he could think of.
It was both polite and factual.
After all, praise itself was not difficult. Praise divorced from the facts was practically fabrication, and that happened to be one of Lu Yuan's specialties. But praise that took the facts into account was exceptionally difficult.
If he were to put it less nicely...
What the hell were these ideas?
Couldn't they compromise?
Did they have to go to such extremes?
Although Luo Tianshen's logic was not wrong—no swindler would admit to being a swindler—he really was Xiao Yan's Junior Brother!
Though he did not particularly like that title.
He preferred fellow townsman.
Xiao Yan had never called him Junior Brother, either.
They generally addressed each other according to age, with Xiao Yan calling him Lu Ge.
Even the fellow townsman background was omitted.
As for why this new form of address had spread through the Myriad Heavens, strictly speaking, it had to do with the definitions of many terms. Take the word fellow townsman, for example. Without knowing the truth, plenty of people naturally mistook it for someone from the same hometown.
Where was Xiao Yan's hometown?
In the eyes of everyone in the Myriad Heavens—
The answer was Dou Qi Continent.
However, while Dou Qi Continent was smaller than the Myriad Heavens and not even as large as Sky Luo Continent, one of the Ten