As he spoke, Tang Yu's hand had already touched Qian Renxue's knee, then slid along it toward her thigh.
"Don't... don't touch my leg!"
"You hooligan, take your filthy hand away!"
"Don't want me to? That just makes me want to even more!"
Tang Yu's hand continued upward, and Qian Renxue completely panicked. "No! No! You can't!"
Yet he ultimately did not move any farther inward. Instead, he changed direction and continued upward, reaching Qian Renxue's waist before moving higher.
"Not there! Not there either!!"
"Not there, and not here either! Hey, get this straight! Right now, I'm the one being rude to you!" Tang Yu would not really do that; he was merely trying to scare Qian Renxue.
Very soon, his hand seized Qian Renxue's chin, and he continued teasing her. "This little face is quite pretty too."
Qian Renxue really had been frightened.
But she immediately glared coldly at Tang Yu. "Tang Yu! Do you think subduing me means you're safe? Today, I brought two Title Douluo-level experts with me. Try bullying me again!"
Tang Yu forcefully pinched Qian Renxue's chin, slightly lifting her face as a wicked smile appeared on his own. "Heh, then why don't you think about why the Title experts you brought still haven't come in to save you?"
Qian Renxue's heart jolted.
The next second, the sounds of powerful attacks came from outside.
Qian Renxue understood. Snake Lance and Pufferfish had been held back, and her current fate would be entirely at Tang Yu's mercy.
"Right now, there's nothing you can do no matter what I want to do to you!" Tang Yu leaned close to Qian Renxue's ear and teased her.
Tang Yu could clearly feel Qian Renxue's heartbeat, as well as the faint fragrance wafting from her body.
"Damn it!" Qian Renxue bit her lower lip, both ashamed and furious.
Panic appeared once more on her icy face. "Tang Yu! How dare you! I am the Young Master of Spirit Hall, a member of the Six-winged Angel Clan. Do you really dare oppose me with nothing but the backing of the Clear Sky Sect!"
"If you dare bully me, your Clear Sky Sect will follow in the footsteps of the past!"
"Threatening me? What I, Tang Yu, fear least in this life is threats! Do you think I don't dare?!" Tang Yu moved his face closer, looking utterly domineering.
Qian Renxue was incomparably flustered inside, but her face still carried a threatening look. "I'm warning you! My grandfather is a Rank 99 Limit Douluo, and Spirit Hall has multiple high-ranking Title Douluo consecrates. Try bullying me again!"
"So what!"
"Then I'll try!"
Tang Yu directly kissed her hard.
"Mm!!~"
"You!!!" Qian Renxue's lips were completely sealed. Her eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the domineering youth before her, unable to imagine that her First Kiss had been stolen just like that.
At that moment, her mind seemed to go blank, and her entire body went weak.
"You hooligan!"
After several dazed seconds, Qian Renxue finally reacted and bit Tang Yu's lip hard enough to break it.
Tang Yu pulled his lips away, and fresh blood dripped onto Qian Renxue's lips.
Qian Renxue collapsed weakly to the floor from the kiss.
At that moment, Pufferfish and Snake Lance's screams came from outside again. "Aah, aah, aah~"
It was obvious that Tang Tian had already beaten them into a disadvantage.
Tang Yu finally stopped teasing her and got to the point. "Qian Renxue, let me tell you the situation now. The two Title Douluo experts you brought can't save you, and they can barely protect themselves."
"And if you provoke me again, be careful, or I'll have my way with you!"
"After all, I'm young and reckless, full of youthful vigor and fire. And you're so breathtakingly beautiful. If I lose control, I might do something even more excessive to you."
"You... you!"
Qian Renxue was finally afraid.
She also realized that Tang Yu had definitely come to this meeting with other intentions. Her face flushed red as she asked, "What exactly do you want?"
"My goal is simple. First, find a way to get me the Heaven Dou Empire's national treasure, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud."
"Second, you and Spirit Hall are not to cause me any more trouble. Let me finish participating in the Soul Master Competition without a hitch."
"You think Qian Renxue will still let you off after what you did to me today?!" Qian Renxue looked aggrieved, like someone who had been wronged.
Tang Yu smiled. "From the time you declared yourself dead and infiltrated the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace until today... hmm, it's been fourteen years, hasn't it?"
"You, the Young Master of Spirit Hall, wronged yourself by disguising yourself as a man and infiltrating the imperial palace. You painstakingly maintained this disguise for fourteen years. Do you really want all those years of effort to go to waste?"
"I..."
No one knew how much grievance and bitterness Qian Renxue had endured for the Heaven Dou infiltration plan.
She had given up her own life, her gender, and her preferences, forcing herself to be a man and do things she did not want to do.
She had also given up all her youth.
This was the labor of her heart.
How could she willingly allow so many years of effort to be wasted?
"I already told you that the Clear Sky Sect has no intention of becoming enemies with Spirit Hall. Whether you infiltrate the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace or seize Heaven Dou Imperial Power has nothing to do with me."
"As long as I can smoothly finish the Soul Master Competition, win the championship, and leave, I can't be bothered exposing you." As Tang Yu spoke, he finally released Qian Renxue, stood up, and pulled away from her.
Qian Renxue was someone who could obtain Angel's Nine Trials, become a Level One Main God, and inherit the God of Angels.
Yet she had wasted her talent infiltrating the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
If not for that...
At twenty-three, she probably would have become a god within a year or two, and using divine power to lead Spirit Hall in unifying the Douluo Continent would have been effortless.
Had she not come to the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace and begun the nine trials early, the two great empires of Star Luo and Heaven Dou would not have stood a chance at all.
But there was nothing to say about that.
After all, Tang Yu stood from a god's perspective. To them, the Six-winged Angel Clan possessed a god-given martial soul, so every soul master of the Six-winged Angel Clan had Innate Soul Power of Rank 20.
More importantly, the Six-winged Angel Clan had been passed down for tens of thousands of years. Who knew how many geniuses had appeared among them?
Yet not a single one had ever qualified to inherit a God Position.
Even someone like Qian Daoliu had been unable to obtain the angel inheritance, so how could they have known that Qian Renxue could become a god?
As far as Tang Yu was concerned, exposing Qian Renxue and letting her return to cultivate and become a god early was worse than letting her continue infiltrating the imperial palace and delaying the time it took for her to become a god. That way, she posed far less of a threat.
"Aah, aah~"
"Aah, aah~"
At that moment, Snake Lance and Pufferfish's screams outside grew even more intense.
Qian Renxue did not want Snake Lance and Pufferfish to be beaten to death. Gritting her teeth, she agreed verbally first. "Fine! I agree!"
"Don't agree so nicely out loud, then pull something behind my back." Tang Yu warned, "I can ensure your identity won't be exposed. But if Spirit Hall attacks me, then even if I'm already dead, your disguised identity will immediately be made public."
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