[The Destruction God King refused to accept it and brazenly attacked.]
[That being merely waved a hand.]
["Boom!"]
[Without any flashy moves, the Destruction God King did not even have time to scream before he was reduced to nothingness and perished on the spot!]
[The God King had been killed in a single move!]
[Tang San was terrified, while the other gods were frightened out of their wits.]
[You stared at that back, your heart shaken to the extreme. This was a true god! True invincibility!]
[You wanted to step forward and see that being's face clearly, to find out who possessed such heaven-shaking, earth-shattering might.]
[But just as you took a step forward, a graceful red figure suddenly appeared behind you like a ghost.]
[A red Flower Parasol traced a bleakly beautiful arc through the air.]
["Pfft!"]
[You only felt a chill in your chest.]
[You lowered your head in disbelief and looked at the Flower Parasol piercing through your heart.]
[Your consciousness began to fade as you struggled to turn around.]
[The person before your eyes was unexpectedly the girl who had smiled so sweetly and charmingly when she first met you, the one with the adorable rabbit ears—Gongsun Li.]
[She still wore that harmless smile, yet her eyes contained a depth of meaning you could not comprehend.]
[You were utterly confused.]
[Jixia Academy had clearly saved you, so why did this girl named Gongsun Li want to kill you at a time like this?]
[You died.]
[Simulation ended.]
The air in the study seemed to have frozen because of the horrifying simulated ending.
Qian Renxue remained in her original sitting position, motionless for a long time.
The golden panel had long since dispersed into the air, but the shock in her eyes remained branded there, impossible to dismiss.
"So powerful!"
Only after a long while did she utter those two words.
In that final scene, she had already inherited the divine position of the Angel God, standing above the heavens and looking down upon all living beings.
Yet even at such a level, before that towering being who had risen from Jixia Academy, she had still felt as insignificant as a speck of dust.
Even the Destruction God King, an existence who held supreme authority in the God Realm—
could not withstand even a casual wave of the other party's hand.
That had been a true instant kill.
"That being's cultivation had definitely reached the realm of a God King, perhaps even surpassed it... an unknown realm I cannot comprehend at all."
Qian Renxue drew a deep breath, trying to calm her wildly pounding heart.
During the first simulation, she had merely possessed a mortal body. Watching the battle of gods had been like viewing flowers through fog; she had known only that it was powerful, not why.
But this time was different.
She had witnessed that battle firsthand from the Angel God's perspective, at close range.
Precisely because she understood what she had seen, she felt even more despair—and even greater yearning.
That power had long transcended the rules of Douluo Continent, perhaps even the rules of the God Realm.
"I once thought becoming a god was the end. Now it seems I was merely a frog at the bottom of a well."
Qian Renxue laughed at herself, but the light in her eyes grew increasingly fervent.
Since such power existed in this world, it meant that so-called destiny and the so-called Asura God were not invincible.
As long as she could borrow this power, what could Tang San or the Asura God possibly amount to?
However...
Qian Renxue's brows furrowed slightly as the figure who had killed her at the end surfaced in her mind.
That girl with long rabbit ears who always carried a Flower Parasol—Gongsun Li.
"Why did that Gongsun Li kill me?"
This was the point Qian Renxue could not understand no matter how much she pondered it.
The people of Jixia Academy had clearly saved her when she was near death. Even that little girl named Cai Wenji had expended great effort to heal her injuries.
If Jixia Academy wanted to kill her, would it not have been much easier to act while she was unconscious?
Why wait until that supreme being appeared, until the gods of the God Realm descended, before suddenly striking at her from the shadows?
Moreover, that parasol strike had been far too decisive, without the slightest hesitation.
"Could it be that she fell in love with me when I visited Jixia Academy under the name Xue Qinghe?"
Qian Renxue lightly rubbed her chin, her imagination running wild as she speculated.
"Did love turn into hatred? Because I was a woman disguised as a man, did she feel deceived?"
But she immediately shook her head, dismissing that absurd thought.
"No."
Though the girl's final gaze had carried a smile, its depths had been utterly indifferent.
That was not the way one looked at a lover. It was not even the way one looked at a living person. It was more like she had been carrying out a task.
"What exactly was the reason?"
Qian Renxue irritably rubbed the space between her brows.
The feeling of having grasped a clue yet being unable to see the entire picture made her extremely displeased.
The night outside the window grew ever deeper.
The drip-drip of the water clock sounded exceptionally clear within the silent study.
"Forget it. If I cannot figure it out, I will stop thinking about it for now."
Qian Renxue rose to her feet and stretched her slightly stiff body.
The prolonged tension and the mental shock brought by the simulation had left her deeply exhausted.
Since she already knew the general course of the future, there was no need to rush at this moment.
What she needed now was calmness.
She needed an absolutely clear mind to plan each of her next moves anew.
Pushing open the hidden door of the study, Qian Renxue followed a corridor carpeted in thick red velvet, heading straight for the bathing pool deep within the bedchamber.
She had long since taken the entire Crown Prince's Mansion into her control. The old spies had already been thoroughly purged.
Apart from herself, no one dared set foot in this bedchamber at this hour.
As she pushed open the heavy carved wooden doors, a wave of warm, damp vapor washed over her.
The spacious bathing pool had been carved from a single block of white marble. Its water was pleasantly warm, and a thick layer of red rose petals floated upon the milky bathwater, looking especially bewitching.
Qian Renxue walked to the pool's edge and waved away the Soul Power barrier around her.
She raised a hand and untied the golden crown binding her hair.
Her waterfall-like golden hair instantly spilled down, draping over her shoulders.
Then came the elaborate Crown Prince's attire.
As each garment slipped away, the gentle, jade-like and graceful Crown Prince Xue Qinghe disappeared.
In her place was a perfect, delicate body that could drive the world mad and make every woman jealous.
Her skin was fairer than snow, gleaming with an ivory luster beneath the candlelight.
Barefoot, Qian Renxue stepped onto the warm jade floor and slowly entered the bathing pool.
The warm water rose over her ankles, then her calves, until it gently enveloped her entire body.
"Hah..."
Qian Renxue leaned against the wall of the pool and let out a long breath.
The warm current washed away her physical exhaustion, while the fragrance of milk and flower petals filled her nose, finally allowing her taut nerves a moment of relief.
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