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"Enough, enough. You'd better stop crying. How big a matter can this be? Doesn't the High God behind you protect you?" I asked. Bai Ruoqi sighed at that and said, "I... My High God is currently being squeezed out by other factions. I only have two paths left now: either do my job in the Divine Court properly, or be assigned to patrol the borderlands. But I can't even do my work in the Divine Court well... I originally planned to finish your mission and then apply for an external patrol assignment, but I never expected this to happen..."
"I see. No wonder you weren't as overbearing as those other immortals, grabbing people at the drop of a hat and all that. But have you never considered becoming the guardian immortal of a realm? That would buy you some extra time to breathe." I had secretly guessed as much. Bai Ruoqi had acted vicious and domineering all the way here, but she had never truly possessed the confidence to back it up. So her support had collapsed. Her High God was drowning in trouble and had no time to spare for her, while she was searching for a way out herself. That was why she had come to the Nine Provinces Realm to capture me while adopting the attitude that it was better to avoid unnecessary complications. She hadn't used force against me, but the more cautious she was, the more mistakes she made. After running into someone like me who caused such a ruckus, she had completely lost her footing.
"I... I passed the assessment. It's just that the realm I guarded back then was relatively small, and time flowed quickly there, so it didn't delay me for very long. Of course, I didn't earn many divine office