"I thought she, Wu Yin, was the Mother Goddess. Turns out she really isn't."
"She is the embodiment of Lu PingAn's Logic. Judging from the result, she absorbed the Mother Goddess's power rather than actually being the Mother Goddess."
"Doesn't that mean Lu PingAn has already assimilated the Calamity Beast? He turned the Calamity Beast into one of his subordinate paths and made its individual into a subordinate god?"
"You really dare to say that. Aren't you afraid he'll come after you? But you're quite accurate. You could say Lu PingAn ate that Calamity Beast."
"You'd better mean ate in the physical sense."
Some things were difficult to conceal, especially before these big shots who knew the trade.
But while they were discussing serious matters, the old geezers' conversations could easily drift toward more salacious topics.
Especially when it involved rumors concerning a "senior/junior" whom everyone in the industry had heard of to some extent.
And, as it happened, those rumors were probably true.
Still, considering Lu PingAn's age and Big Cat's record, if it were really made public, Big Cat's reputation would probably be the thing to suffer. It had already been rotten because of her overly extreme professional conduct; this time, it would be for the even more delicate matter of her personal tastes.
What had been exposed directly, however, was not Lu PingAn's undisguised relationship with Chris. Big Cat was the one who had actively concealed things and pretended they were master and disciple. At this point, surprisingly, she still cared quite a bit about saving face.
At the very least, she would not openly walk around with a "young man" less than a tenth of her age.
In a sense, even now, Big Cat still lived a thoroughly conflicted life—and she would vent that resentment on