Don't Hit Me, I'll Confess Everything!

[You have fully simulated all identities of the "Three-Eyed Golden Lion." The Simulator has Reorganized the two major functions: "Reorganize" and "Branch Line."]

[Reorganize: Due to your insufficient understanding of the simulated target, established simulation routes will not change because of your actions. You must manually Reorganize them to display the Simulated Life after your interference.]

[Branch Line: Once you gain sufficient understanding of the simulated target, you can unlock simulated characters connected to the target.]

Di Tian:?

"What did that mean?"

"It just showed up out of nowhere?"

[Simulatable Targets and Future Identities!]

[Three-Eyed Golden Lion (Imperial Lucky Beast, Wang Qiu'er, Tang Wutong) [Reorganize] [Branch Line]]

[Silver Dragon King (Gu Yue, Na'er, Spirit Pagoda Master...)]

[Emerald Swan (Bi Ji)]

Di Tian tried selecting the Auspicious Beast's Branch Line to see whether he could simulate the lives of characters connected to her.

He needed to observe things from different perspectives as well.

[The Auspicious Beast's understanding of you is insufficient.]

Di Tian frowned slightly.

What was understanding?

If it had been favorability, he might have understood, but what the hell was understanding?

Knowing someone?

Di Tian searched through the Simulator, yet still failed to understand what it meant.

[Would you like to display understanding?]

"Display it!"

After Di Tian selected it, several lines of text appeared in the Simulator.

[Three-Eyed Golden Lion (Understanding: 30)]

[Silver Dragon King (Understanding: 30)]

[Bi Ji (Understanding: 70)]

Di Tian:???

"Bi Ji understands me the best? What's going on?"

Staring at the incomprehensible information, Di Tian casually lifted the Auspicious Beast, who had been staring wide-eyed at the Golden Hawksbill Turtle beside her, apparently competing out of boredom to see who would blink first.

With one claw, he grabbed the back of her neck and lifted her up.

The Auspicious Beast met a pair of golden eyes and instinctively shrank her neck.

"Di Tian, I didn't run away! I didn't sleep either! I was properly guarding the Golden Hawksbill Turtle!"

She covered her face with both paws, terrified that Di Tian was about to beat her again.

She had heard from other soul beasts that human women had a few days every month when their moods became unpredictable and they turned extremely irritable.

She suspected Di Tian was like that.

Otherwise, why had she gone from being treated like a treasure to being utterly despised?

"Auspicious Beast, what's my name?"

Auspicious Beast:?

The Auspicious Beast stared at Di Tian with a pair of bewildered eyes, unable to react.

Seeing her pathetic look, Di Tian had not been angry at first, but suddenly became furious.

It seemed he had spoiled her too much. As an Auspicious Beast, no one had ever dared do anything to her, so she had developed this kind of personality.

How was she anything like a Fierce Beast?

And what Fierce Beast would fall in love with a human?

Of course, Di Tian had already forgotten about the two Fierce Beasts from before, as well as his future Lord.

"Answer me!"

"Di... Tian?"

[Understanding +1]

Di Tian snapped, "Why are you saying my name like it's a question!"

"Di Tian!" the Auspicious Beast answered rather decisively.

Di Tian had definitely been possessed!

Yes! It had to be that!

Di Tian was not like this!

She remembered that humans seemed to have some sort of Ten Great Beast Kings ranking.

The tenth one was called Yao Ling?

She had never seen him and did not even know what kind of soul beast he was.

Could he have possessed Di Tian?

The Auspicious Beast had heard countless strange and fantastical stories, and suddenly felt as though she had discovered something.

"It's over."

"The soul beasts are finished!"

"Di Tian has been possessed!"

"Big Sister Bi Ji, come back quickly!"

Di Tian had no idea what the Auspicious Beast was thinking. He was still pondering what understanding actually was.

"Could this be the simulated target's understanding of me?"

"What are you muttering about?" Di Tian asked again. "What race am I?"

The Auspicious Beast's eyes darted around. Was possessed Di Tian asking this because he wanted to familiarize himself with Di Tian's identity, impersonate him, and completely replace him?

So she cautiously tested, "White Dragon King?"

[Understanding -5]

Di Tian's face turned green. He raised his fist and instantly punched the Auspicious Beast on the head.

"Ow~"

A large bump immediately swelled up, and tears streamed from the Auspicious Beast's eyes from the pain.

"Your name is Di Tian. You are the current clan leader of the Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King race, ranked first among the Ten Great Beast Kings, the Lord of Soul Beasts, one of the Nine Dragon Kings, the supreme ruler of the Star Dou Great Forest, with nine hundred thousand years of cultivation. You like muttering about The Lord the most, and you hate seeing Xiong Jun the most. Wan Yao Wang respects you on the surface, but curses you as brain-dead behind your back. Big Sister Bi Ji likes you, but she is jealous of how well you treat Big Sister Zi Ji. Big Sister Zi Ji only wants to cultivate and surpass Big Sister Bi Ji as soon as possible, replace her at your side, and her dream is to defeat you and make Dragon Babies with you. Your old lover seems to be hidden beneath Life Lake, but none of them dare ask about her. Oh, right, Scarlet King likes you too..."

After getting punched, the Auspicious Beast became obedient again.

Her little mouth chattered nonstop as she tried to tell him everything she knew.

Di Tian's face changed from green to black.

"Stop, stop, stop! What are you even talking about?!"

"What do you mean Bi Ji likes me? What do you mean Zi—no, wait? What is Scarlet King thinking?"

The Auspicious Beast had said it all in one breath, practically frying Di Tian's CPU.

Scarlet King was male. Like him, my ass!

Wait?

Bi Ji liked me?

At this point, Di Tian still did not know that Bi Ji liked him.

Bi Ji had been secretly in love with him.

After becoming a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, soul beasts could either cultivate anew into humans or take human form, gaining thoughts closer to those of humans and no longer placing as much importance on race as before.

But Bi Ji liking him was something Di Tian had never expected.

"Bi Ji? The Emerald Swan?"

Di Tian suddenly remembered Bi Ji when she was young. She had not been weak, and she had quite the mouth on her. Every day, she talked about peace among soul beasts, always saying, "Stop fighting, all of you. Can't everyone sit down and talk things out properly?"

If he had not intervened, she would have nearly ended up in the mouth of a Ten-thousand Year Soul Beast.

She often liked helping weaker soul beasts, longing for a day when the Soul Beast Clan would live peacefully together without war.

Di Tian had only thought she was overly naive. The Soul Beast Clan followed the law of the jungle, where the weak were prey to the strong. Herbivorous soul beasts might be more accepting of such ideals, but could she make carnivorous soul beasts stop eating meat?

He only thought Bi Ji was ridiculous and foolish.

Yet when he saw her kindness, he also felt that it was a rare quality among soul beasts, so he sheltered her.

To him, it had merely been a casual act.

From then on, no soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest dared target her.

As time passed, she rescued more and more soul beasts, and an increasing number gathered around her. She began calling together her surviving clansmen, bringing the few remaining Emerald Swans to her side and leading them through the Star Dou Great Forest to fulfill her long-cherished wish.

When Di Tian saw the many soul beasts surrounding Bi Ji, he stopped looking after her. After all, he had only come out for a stroll after staying in the Core Circle for too long, to see how the beasts were doing. He had happened to encounter this little thing and kept her company for a few days.