"You really are the Superpower Knight!" The middle schooler stared at Lu Bai with shining eyes.
"To be honest, I don't know any Superpower Knight. I was born long before that."
Lu Bai took a sip of his Fat Nerd Happy Water and spoke in a voice almost like a recitation: "In ancient times, chaos reigned, and heaven and earth had yet to part. All was vast and murky, unseen by any. Then Pangu shattered the primordial void, and from that moment, the clear and turbid were divided..."
The two middle schoolers sat on their little stools, growing more and more excited.
They couldn't quite understand what those words meant, but somehow that only made Lu Bai seem more mysterious and powerful.
"What happened next? What happened next?" one of them pressed.
"...I walked across the earth and saw that the world was desolate, so I took the name Desolate. I spread the gospel among the ancient people, and, little by little, they began to call me the Heavenly Emperor..."
...You could say that I, Desolate Heavenly Emperor, have let everyone down except Yun Yun of the Star Dou Great Forest. It was all because Yun Shan arranged a marriage and insisted that Yun Ling marry Xiao Wu, which led Tang Shan to steal Shi Hao's million-year soul ring to save Xiao Wu. Otherwise, Shi Hao would have had nine red rings and one blue-gold ring...
"...Eventually, I grew tired of these trivial matters and decided to disappear from the world. But because I once made a pact with the earliest humans, the later generations of the Illuminati concealed my deeds, referring to me internally as—the Old Ruler."
The two middle schoolers patiently listened to Lu Bai's "introduction."
The one nicknamed Chicken Neck wore a strange expression.
He discreetly nudged