Meanwhile, far overseas, the Sea God Island was battered by surging waves.
Inside a side hall of the Sea God Hall, Bo Saixi leaned by the window, gazing out at the ceaseless waves as she lost herself in thought.
A trace of lingering bewilderment and distress clouded her peerlessly beautiful face.
The Sea God's utterly outrageous proposal kept echoing in her mind.
If he couldn't win, he'd marry her off and use her beauty to win over the Angel God.
What in the world was that supposed to mean?!
Had Lord Sea God been driven mad by the Angel God in the Divine Realm, to the point that he'd started spouting nonsense?
Just as her thoughts churned, that familiar, imposing divine sense—now plainly suppressing a surging fury—once again exploded in her mind like a clap of thunder:
"Bo Saixi! Come to the main hall! Right now!"
Bo Saixi's heart tightened. Daring not to delay, she quickly gathered her thoughts.
She rose, straightened her appearance, then hurried out of the side hall toward the main hall of the Sea God Hall.
When she stepped into the grand, spacious hall, thick with the scent of the sea, her heart sank at the sight of the Sea God's face appearing in the water screen.
Poseidon's once valiant, dignified face was now so gloomy it looked as though water might drip from it.
Fury blazed in his sea-blue eyes, and the veins at his temples twitched.
The divine power swirling around him was extremely unstable, with faint illusions of storms and thunder flashing into view.
That expression...
It was at least ten times worse than it had been three days ago!
Bo Saixi's heart gave a thump, and a wave of deep helplessness and confusion rose within her.
She could rack her brains all she wanted, but she still couldn't figure it out.
What on earth had that Angel God done this time to provoke such universal outrage and make Lord Sea God this furious?!
He looked as though someone had dug up his ancestors' graves and stolen his wife...
No, judging by the way he looked, this was worse!
The worst part was...
Whenever Lord Sea God got riled up by the Angel God, he turned around and dumped all his fury and stress on her, his poor representative!
Wasn't that just bullying an honest person?
Of course, she only dared to grumble about it frantically a thousand times in the depths of her heart. She wouldn't let a hint of it show on her face.
She hurried to the center of the hall, bowed respectfully to the furious Sea God in the water screen, and asked in a cautious voice, "Lord Sea God, you summoned your subordinate in such a hurry. Is there... some new order?"
Bo Saixi would have been better off not asking. Her question was like a spark landing on a powder keg.
Poseidon, in the water screen, suddenly widened his eyes.
His chest heaved violently, as if a volcano that had been suppressed for a long time had finally found an outlet.
He roared at Bo Saixi with earth-shaking fury, his voice making the entire Sea God Hall seem to hum:
"Orders? What the hell kind of orders are there left to give?!"
The sudden roar made Bo Saixi's eardrums ache. She instinctively took half a step back, her face full of shock.
The Sea God's voice twisted with his extreme anger, becoming an almost unhinged bellow:
"That shameless bitch of an Angel God is about to steal him away! Steal him away! Do you understand?!"
"What?"
Bo Saixi was genuinely stunned this time. Her small mouth fell open, disbelief written all over her stunning face.
Stolen away?
Ye Qing?
By the Angel God?
Th-that couldn't be possible, could it?
It had only been three days!
Even if the Angel God had godlike powers, that child didn't seem like someone who could be swayed so easily.
And besides...
She steadied herself, pushed down her shock, and carefully chose her words. "Lord Sea God, please don't rush to conclusions. Could there... be some misunderstanding? Your godhood is in no way inferior to the Angel God's, whether in the nature of its divine power, the completeness of its inheritance, or its potential for future growth. Everyone knows that. That child... there's no reason for him to switch sides so soon, is there?"
She was truly baffled.
If the Angel God's godhood were several ranks stronger than the Sea God's, then Ye Qing choosing the better one would only be natural.
But the two deities had the same origin. Their strength was evenly matched, and each had its own advantages. There was no question of one crushing the other.
What reason did Ye Qing have to abandon the right path for the wrong one in such a short time?
What sort of irresistible offer had the Angel God made?
"Misunderstanding? My ass, it's no misunderstanding!"
Bo Saixi's words only made the Sea God angrier.
He gritted his teeth. Every word seemed to be forced through them, packed with endless frustration and fury:
"Fine! My godhood isn't inferior to that bitch's! But... you'd never dream of what that crazy Angel would do to poach someone! How shameless she could be! How low she could stoop! How... how utterly deranged she could get!!!"
Bo Saixi was stunned by the Sea God's unprecedentedly vicious words and furious state.
At the same time, that damned curiosity in her heart had been thoroughly piqued.
She blinked her pretty pale-blue eyes, and an expression mingling nervousness, anticipation, and tell me already, just how outrageous was it? appeared on her face.
She gazed eagerly at the Sea God in the water screen, waiting for him to continue.
Obviously, nobody could resist a juicy bit of gossip—not the God Kings of the Divine Realm, and not a woman like her who had lived for nearly a hundred years.
Under Bo Saixi's intensely curious gaze, the Sea God's face flushed red with fury and an indescribable sense of humiliation.
He took a deep breath, as though summoning every last bit of his strength, before squeezing from his throat the words that struck him as utterly absurd, infuriating, and downright unbelievable:
"That... that bitch!"
He was practically shrieking:
"To poach him... she actually... actually told that child..."
Bo Saixi held her breath, silently waiting for him to continue.
The Sea God's eyes bulged like copper bells. His voice shot up, cracking as he shouted:
"She'd give herself to Ye Qing... as his wife!!"
"Listen to that! You'd better fucking listen to me!"
"Is that something a normal person would do? No! Is that something a normal god would do?! Huh?"
"I have an early class!"
Boom!
The moment the Sea God's words fell, Bo Saixi felt as though a bolt of thunder weighing ten thousand jun had struck her square on the crown of her head!
She stood utterly frozen, as if she'd turned into a flawless statue.
Her usually wise, composed deep-blue eyes were now wide and round.
Every emotion in them was swept away in an instant.
All that remained was an endless, utter blankness.
Her brain felt as though it had been forcibly formatted, grinding to a halt as all thought ceased.
The Sea God's furious roar still echoed faintly through the spacious hall, but she could no longer make out what he was saying.
Only that one sentence remained, like a curse, repeating itself in the center of her blank sea of consciousness, blazing brighter and bolder with every loop:
"The Angel God... to poach him... would actually... give herself to Ye Qing... as his wife..."
Bo Saixi: "..."
She felt her worldview, her understanding of the gods, her sense of ethics, her sense of decency...
Every belief she had once held firm came crashing down in that instant, shattered so completely that not a scrap remained.