[Those two are... Bei Bei and Tang Ya? Huh? Why is there someone else with them? I don't remember this person being in the original story.]
[Whatever, probably just some unimportant extra. But seriously, Bei Bei, I just can't understand why he chose Tang Ya!]
[Not that Tang Ya isn't good enough. She's pretty, after all. It's just... wouldn't Zhang Lexuan, the Inner Court's senior sister, clearly be the better choice?]
The diary had barely updated, and the faint trace of smug satisfaction had only just appeared on Tang Ya's lips, when her expression abruptly froze.
Before she could secretly delight in Aoyao's praise, a surge of panic swept through her heart.
As Bei Bei's girlfriend, Tang Ya naturally knew Zhang Lexuan. After all, she often appeared in the role of an older sister, showing considerable care for Bei Bei in both word and deed.
But she only knew that Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan were close. She had no idea there was actually... actually something more between them?
[Speaking of which, I have to bring up that Dragon God Douluo, Mu En, and Zhang Lexuan's background. Zhang Lexuan came from a noble family in the Heaven Dou Empire. They offended another noble, and her entire family was slaughtered. After the massacre, Zhang Lexuan just happened to be the sole survivor, and she just happened to run into Mu En, who had suddenly appeared there.]
[I'm just saying... are we sure there wasn't something more going on here?]
[Although I don't think Dragon God Douluo Mu En was that kind of person, by then... he should already have fought that fierce battle with Du Bisou and been left with barely any health. Why would Mu En, in that condition, just happen to appear in the Heaven Dou Empire, right in the Body Sect's backyard, and then just happen to save Zhang Lexuan?]
[Putting everything else aside, fine, save her if you want, but why insist on making Zhang Lexuan Bei Bei's child bride? You old geezer, did you even look at their age gap? Even if you wanted to bind this genius with innate full soul power to Shrek Academy for good, surely you didn't have to do it this way?]
[Did you think the debt of saving her life wasn't a strong enough tether, so you came up with this trick?]
Far away at Shrek Academy, Zhang Lexuan shuddered at the same time as Tang Ya, who had come to Huo Yuhao's side. Their expressions shifted slightly at almost the exact same moment.
The book Zhang Lexuan held slipped silently from her hands, and a trace of contemplation and confusion appeared on her flawless, delicate face.
Over all these years, she had never doubted Mu En's motives. On the contrary, she had been filled with gratitude toward him. But after reading the diary and carefully thinking back, Zhang Lexuan belatedly began to feel a little doubt.
Had there really been more to her family's massacre back then?
And why had Mu En appeared in the Heaven Dou Empire when he had clearly been in poor condition?
Still, Zhang Lexuan did not lose her composure. She merely rubbed the space between her brows gently and remained silent.
Perhaps... what happened back then really had not been as simple as it appeared.
Tang Ya's reaction was much more direct. She glanced at Bei Bei beside her in disbelief, suddenly feeling as though her lover had become a stranger.
That senior sister of the Inner Court was actually Bei Bei's child bride!
And Bei Bei had never told her about it!
Tang Ya immediately felt deceived.
Whenever she thought of how close the two were, Tang Ya felt as though a lump had lodged in her heart, leaving her with a feeling she could not describe.
[I really can't understand Bei Bei's choice, either. I mean, Zhang Lexuan, the Inner Court's senior sister, was a mature, gentle, intelligent, beautiful older woman-and she was also the big sister who had been by his side as he grew up. Wouldn't that be irresistibly attractive to a young boy just discovering love?]
[And Bei Bei actually passed up an older woman like that to choose a girl with the potential to become an Evil Soul Master, or even the Holy Spirit Cult's holy maiden?]
At this, Tang Ya unconsciously clenched her fists, and Zhang Lexuan's image instantly appeared in her mind.
Aoyao's assessment was not wrong. Whether in looks, figure, bearing, talent, or cultivation, she had no advantage whatsoever. And in the future, she would even become an Evil Soul Master...
No!
I don't want to become an Evil Soul Master!
Tang Ya gritted her teeth, shifted her gaze away from Bei Bei, and unconsciously let it settle on Aoyao.
That diary was so miraculous. There had to be a way to keep her from straying down the wrong path!
[Enough about Bei Bei and Zhang Lexuan. Let's get back to Tang Ya. Although she'll fall and become an Evil Soul Master in the future, it's not really her fault. The problem is that her Blue Silver Grass cultivation went in the wrong direction.]
[Come to think of it, the Tang Sect really is bizarre. Just because its first sect master was Tang San, every sect master afterward has to have Blue Silver Grass as their martial soul, and they even insist on following Tang San's cultivation path. How could that possibly be right?]
[Tang San's martial soul was the Blue Silver Emperor, a martial soul almost on par with the Clear Sky Hammer. Isn't your Blue Silver Grass just a complete joke in comparison? Even without the impact of soul tools, your Tang Sect deserved to decline, didn't it?]
[And who the hell came up with adding poison to Blue Silver Grass? Isn't that just pure idiocy? What defines Blue Silver Grass? It's the most abundant plant on the continent, found practically everywhere, with incredibly vigorous vitality! Even in harsh environments, Blue Silver Grass can still grow.]
[So obviously, the direction for adding soul rings to Blue Silver Grass should lean toward the domain of life, right?]
[Oh, so it was Grandmaster Yu Xiaogang who came up with adding poison to Blue Silver Grass. Well, that explains it. Yu Xiaogang didn't know shit! Without Tang San, he couldn't even figure out his own martial soul, and all his martial soul could do was fart!]
[It's only because Tang San was a cheat user too. Otherwise, with the way Yu Xiaogang messed around, he would have screwed Tang San over sooner or later.]
[Yu Xiaogang, the man who led his students astray-pah! A grandmaster of theory... are you even worthy of the title!?]
The direction for adding soul rings to Blue Silver Grass was wrong?
Tang Ya instinctively wanted to argue back in her heart.
After all, this was the standard configuration the Tang Sect had developed over ten thousand years based on Ancestor Tang San's soul ring configuration. It was also the theory of Ancestor Yu Xiaogang, Ancestor Tang San's teacher from ten thousand years ago, who had been hailed as unrivaled in theory.
But soon, Tang Ya realized that what Aoyao had said seemed... entirely correct.
At least, she could not think of any reason to refute his words.
Blue Silver Grass did indeed possess extraordinarily vigorous vitality, and soul rings from the domain of life really did seem to be the best choice.
Could it be... that they had all taken the wrong path?
This... this was impossible!
Although Tang Ya faintly felt that Aoyao might be right, her long-held understanding made it difficult for her to accept this all at once.
It meant that everything she had always believed she knew was wrong!
Taken even further, it meant that even her previous faith had been wrong!
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