Two Girls' Heart-to-Heart

From the very beginning, Xie Yue had been watching Zijun and the other two chatting animatedly.

Resting his chin on his right hand as he leaned against the wall, Xie Yue could not help but sigh.

"Sure enough! If you're handsome and strong, you can do whatever you want! This romantic luck... I'm so jealous I could die."

Dong, dong, dong!

The dismissal bell rang, and the academy became lively once more.

In the corridors of the three-story teaching building, the students wore bright, youthful smiles.

Across the academy plaza, little groups of couples or clusters of four or five people chatting could be seen everywhere.

Yet among them was one peculiar sight.

On the path beside the garden, two girls and a boy linked arms and walked toward the academy gates in step.

"Gu Yuena, what exactly are you trying to do? Aren't you going to rule the world anymore? Aren't you going to save the Spirit... anymore?"

Zijun looked helplessly at Gu Yuena, who had hooked herself around his right arm.

"Yeah! Why are you following us? And why are you holding Zijun's hand too?"

Qian Renxue frowned slightly as she looked at Gu Yuena with displeasure.

Gu Yuena gave a dismissive chuckle, unconcerned as she countered.

"Do you know how difficult it is for a God King to have descendants?"

Zijun froze for a moment and looked at Gu Yuena, who was spouting such unrestrainedly suggestive words.

"What do you mean?" Qian Renxue asked in confusion.

Glancing at Qian Renxue, whose face practically had the words "naive fool" written across it, Gu Yuena released Zijun's arm and looked up at him, half a head taller than her.

"You didn't tell her?"

Zijun lightly tapped his cheek with one finger, considering how he should answer that question.

"It's not that I wanted to hide it from Xue'er. It's just that... isn't this a little too early for us?"

"Early?" Gu Yuena rolled her eyes, folded her arms, and continued on her own.

"Because of certain special restrictions, it is basically impossible for God Kings to have descendants, especially God Kings who were born in the God Realm."

She swept aside her silver-white hair and raised her head toward the sky, as though she could see the God Realm beyond the clouds.

"That alone is nothing. Do you know who his mother and father are?"

"I do... Xiao Jun told me before. What does that have to do with this?"

Qian Renxue's watery eyes widened, her entire being brimming with curiosity.

"By common sense, Destruction and Life are two extremes of divine power. Their relationship should make it impossible for them to complement one another, yet they gave birth to a life that possesses both of their divine powers. I simply cannot understand it."

As she spoke, Gu Yuena frowned and looked at Zijun again, seemingly hoping to get a reasonable explanation from him.

Big sis! Can't you use that intelligence of yours somewhere else?

Why are you looking at me? Don't think I'll tell you just because you're pretty!

No! I absolutely can't tell you!

"Why are you looking at me? Maybe my mother begged everyone she could before I was born and somehow got me. This is called a medical miracle!"

Zijun guiltily made up nonsense as he looked at Gu Yuena, who still showed no sign of believing him.

Zijun steeled his heart and immediately decided to carry his nonsense through to the end.

"After hundreds of thousands of years of hard work, there's bound to be one success, right? No matter how ruthless heaven is, it wouldn't make someone die without descendants! Even mortals can become gods. What's so strange about me?"

Listening to Zijun's wildly inappropriate words, both girls could not help imagining embarrassing scenes.

For a moment, a blush rose simultaneously onto both of their fair faces.

With a mischievous grin, Zijun immediately seized the chance to change the subject and continued with his dirty jokes.

"Anyway, once we become gods, we'll live longer than turtles. At worst, we'll work at it for a hundred thousand years, a million years! I refuse to believe it won't hit the mark!"

Smack!

Qian Renxue released Zijun's arm, covered her burning cheeks with both hands, and hurried ahead.

Gu Yuena's face was flushed as well. She shot Zijun a disgusted glare, then quickened her pace to catch up with Qian Renxue.

"What kind of expression is that! Why are you getting shy too? I was talking to Xue'er! Don't get any ideas about me! Hey!"

He hurried after them, following behind the two girls with a cheeky grin.

"Were the things you said during the day all true?"

Spirit Hall's rear courtyard.

Qian Renxue had invited Gu Yuena out, and the two sat on the rooftop beneath the moonlight.

"So, you're willing to accept me as a friend?"

Gu Yuena smiled gently, her fair arms resting atop her drawn-up knees.

Qian Renxue sat beside her, though no one knew what she was thinking.

Her straight, fair arms supported her against the glazed roof tiles behind her.

She tilted her head back and closed her eyes, savoring the tranquility of the night.

She nodded, then opened her eyes and gazed up at the star-filled sky.

Biting her lower lip, she asked softly.

"How did you meet Xiao Jun? And why did you approach him?"

"How should I put it? He and I should have been on opposing sides, but after getting to know him... I found that he was different, unlike other gods..."

Gu Yuena then revealed her true identity and everything that had happened in Star Dou Forest.

"What! You... you're really a Spirit Beast that transformed into a human? This... this is unbelievable."

Qian Renxue looked Gu Yuena up and down in shock.

Yet the beauty before her did not look like a Spirit Beast at all. Instead, in every gesture and movement, she seemed even more human than humans.

"It seems there are quite a few things you don't know. Ask whatever else you want. In a while, I should be heading back too."

Adjusting her posture, she clasped her folded ankles with both hands. Her beautiful purple eyes stared blankly at the courtyard where Zijun was staying.

"Going back? Are you unhappy here? Or is there something more important waiting for you in Star Dou Forest?"

Having calmed the shock in her heart, Qian Renxue asked in bewilderment.

Gu Yuena shook her head, smiled bitterly at her toes, and answered honestly.

"If the future truly is as wonderful as he says, then there isn't much point in my staying here. I might as well return and set things in order, preparing for our future cooperation."

Looking at Gu Yuena's slender shoulders, Qian Renxue could not help recalling her own childhood circumstances.

Other than her grandfather, Qian Daoliu, no one had cared for or protected her so meticulously.

Without Qian Daoliu, perhaps her circumstances would not have been much different from Gu Yuena's.

It was only that Gu Yuena possessed talent and cultivation far beyond those of her peers, something Qian Renxue could never catch up to.

"Let me introduce myself properly. My name is Qian Renxue. From now on, this place is your home too. Are you willing to stay?"

She stood up.

Qian Renxue extended her right hand and looked earnestly at Gu Yuena.

Gu Yuena was stunned for several seconds. Before she could recover and answer,

Qian Renxue took the initiative and held her left hand, as fair, tender, and smooth as a peeled egg.

Smack!

"Thank you." Gu Yuena smiled brightly and grasped Qian Renxue's outstretched hand.

Star Dou Forest.

Sensing Xiao Wu's arrival, Charm Rabbit, who had been chatting by the lake with Da Ming and Er Ming, turned to look in the direction where Tang San and the others were.