An Opportunity to Repair His Relationship with Ximen Lang

"Qi Lin, what happened between you and Ximen Lang? Did you two have some kind of falling-out?"

In the end, Lian Feng still asked the question.

In fact, ever since Qi Lin joined the Super God Academy, she had been listless all day.

Aside from her daily training, she was as quiet as a bottle gourd.

Du Kao and Lian Feng saw it all and were anxious inside.

But this was ultimately a matter between the two of them. Besides, they had already promised not to force the issue.

Yet day after day passed. Until the Suo Dun incident, Ximen Lang had not said even a single word to Qi Lin from beginning to end.

That was what finally made Du Kao unable to sit still.

They had already examined Suo Dun. He was unquestionably a Third Generation Beast Body.

Ximen Lang had subdued him with a single finger!

It would be a lie to say they were not envious, especially since Ximen Lang was favorably disposed toward Huaxia.

But the problem was that the Super God Academy had fallen out with Ximen Lang.

Speaking of which, Du Kao felt rather ashamed. The matter of Qiang Wei testing Ximen Lang last time had been done at his prompting.

Although he had never personally said a single word about it, who was Qiang Wei? His daughter! Did he not know his own daughter's personality?

So, now that things had reached this point, it was impossible for him to wash his hands of it.

He had also been trying to repair his relationship with Ximen Lang, but he had never found a good opening.

Then Qi Lin appeared.

And now, even this connection through Qi Lin was about to be severed. How could he not be anxious? More importantly, he had now seized another opportunity to repair his relationship with Ximen Lang.

After thinking it over, he set his sights on Lian Feng again.

"Lian Feng, I'm assigning you another task."

Lian Feng: "..."

That was how this conversation came about.

"I have nothing to do with him. You're overthinking it!" Qi Lin said irritably.

Lian Feng was no fool. The moment she heard the faintly reproachful tone, she understood.

"Is it because I was there last time?"

After saying that, she nodded firmly.

"Looks like that's indeed the reason."

Then she apologized to Qi Lin.

"Qi Lin, I'm sorry. I was too rash last time."

"What does it have to do with you? It was him... Forget it, I don't want to talk about this anymore! I have nothing to do with him!" Qi Lin was starting to lose her temper too.

"Qi Lin, I hope you can understand. We truly had no ill intentions toward you."

Qi Lin gave her a look that clearly said, Do you think I believe you?

Lian Feng felt even more awkward under that gaze.

"Even if you can't... at the very least, we can still be friends. There's no problem with being friends, right? Really."

After saying that, Lian Feng added weakly,

"We had no choice. Apart from you, we really have no way to get a word in with him."

"Whose fault is that? It's yours..."

"It was our fault. We don't deny it. We've always wanted to apologize, but you saw it yourself—he never gave us the chance."

"Didn't he say he wouldn't cause you trouble?"

Lian Feng let out a quiet sigh.

"If we had any other choice, who would be willing to grovel? That man is too powerful, and the angels are even the overlords of the universe. Even if he truly doesn't cause us trouble, all it would take is for him to show the slightest trace of disgust for us to be unable to take a single step."

"He's not that petty!" Qi Lin waved her hand.

"But we want more..."

Left with no choice, Lian Feng revealed the truth.

"He has the angels backing him. Even a little something that slips through his fingers would be enough for the entire Earth to benefit endlessly..."

Although those words were shameless, that was the reality. It all depended on how one looked at it.

Qi Lin was helpless as well.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want me to do? Let me make this clear first: I won't help you if you directly ask him for things."

Lian Feng was delighted.

"You only need to get along well with him. We absolutely won't force you to do anything else!"

"We've even thought of an opening for you!"

As she spoke, Lian Feng brought up a surveillance feed. In the footage, several little angels were wantonly casting various ninjutsu over the sea. The scene was astonishing.

"You and A Jie—yes, A Jie. From the few times they've interacted, he seems to admire A Jie quite a bit."

"You aren't going there to question them about anything. You're just making inquiries. Yes, inquiries. Ask a few questions and establish initial contact. That's all."

"If the target resists, terminate immediately..."

In the afternoon, after being nagged at by Lian Feng all morning, Qi Lin finally set off with A Jie.

Inside the villa, Ximen Lang and Leng sat in the Head Seat, while three little angels accompanied them nearby. A Jie and Qi Lin sensibly took the guest seats.

"Go ahead. Why are you here?"

A Jie gave Qi Lin a look, signaling for her to speak first and build some rapport.

Unexpectedly, Qi Lin immediately said something shocking.

"It's about you casting fireballs, water balls, and things like that over the sea yesterday. The Super God Academy wants to ask you about it."

That one sentence gave A Jie quite a scare. He thought,

My goodness, you've got the priorities backward! Building rapport is the real goal, and making inquiries is just an excuse. You've completely mixed them up!

Leng raised her brow at that.

"Monitoring?"

A Jie hurriedly spoke up.

"Absolutely not! Absolutely not! This angel, you've misunderstood! De Nuo No. 3 accidentally captured some footage. We're only here to make inquiries, with absolutely no other intentions."

Even Ximen Lang could not stand to watch anymore.

"This is legitimate work. You can be a little more forceful."

Ignoring A Jie, Ximen Lang continued,

"Regarding yesterday's incident, we apologize. Those girls did indeed get a little carried away yesterday."

As he spoke, he glared at the few little angels.

"For the negative impact they caused you, I apologize to you on their behalf. We'll compensate you for all losses according to their value."

A Jie hurriedly followed up on the subject.

"You're too serious, Mr. Ximen. You're too serious. The beautiful angels were in international waters at the time, in a deserted area, so the impact goes without saying. As for the losses, that's even more out of the question."

"Then what are you here for?" Ximen Lang was also somewhat baffled.

What exactly did they come here to do? And why are they acting so deferentially? What are they trying to pull?

"We came here this time specifically to apologize for the unpleasantness last time."

"Oh, so it was about that?"

To be honest, if A Jie had not brought it up himself, Ximen Lang would have almost forgotten about it.

He waved his hand.

"Let bygones be bygones. I already taught Du Qiangwei a lesson, so let's drop it."

"Mr. Ximen is truly magnanimous. However, although Ximen Lang doesn't mind, our leader, Mr. Du Kao, loses sleep every night whenever he thinks about the inconvenience we caused you last time. He wishes he could present himself before you with thorny branches on his back to beg forgiveness..."

Ximen Lang was speechless. This kid really will say anything.

"Really? Then why didn't he come?"

"Well... actually..." A Jie was also at a loss. Big Brother, I was only saying it. Don't take it seriously.

"All right, let's leave it at that. Let's talk business."

"Ahem, well, aside from apologizing, we also wanted to invite you to visit the Super God Academy and offer your guidance..."

P.S. There will still be four updates today, with an extra one for our sponsor, Weiwei. But please let me take a breather. Those two extra chapters will probably be posted tonight.

Lord Yan the Demon Natsu, I really can't manage four updates today. Can I owe you yours and make it up tomorrow?

Lord Queen Keisha Is the Best, you... the day after tomorrow, then. I'll make yours up the day after tomorrow.