[This is Chapter 41. Chapter 40 is under review. To avoid a break in the story, you can come back and read this later.]
The Crown Prince's Mansion.
When Qian Renxue saw that, she finally realized Li Yuan had said it on purpose.
Her face darkened. She was so angry her chest felt tight.
"Phew... phew... This is infuriating."
She yanked open her collar to let her pale chest breathe.
How the hell did that make sense?
Was that a normal choice of words?
Two men were fighting, and he described it like that?
Anyone who didn't know better would think they were having a Male-Male Romance... What if people got the wrong idea?
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Wow! Two men, no less... Group Leader Brother, what happened next? Come on, tell us! (excited blink)]
Oh. Never mind. Someone already had the wrong idea.
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: I never imagined the Great Enshrined, always so dignified and imposing, was so... well, worldly when he was young.]
[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Ugh, I'm going to be sick!]
Blue Tyrant Academy.
Straightforward as she was, the first thing Liu Erlong pictured was Flender ramming straight into Yu Xiaogang.
The image was so beautiful she nearly threw up last night's dinner.
It was disgusting.
It was torture for her eyes and soul!
[Ice-Snow Smart: Is that how the older generation fought?]
Ye Lingling's mouth fell slightly open, and her cheeks reddened.
At night? Two men? A Passionate Embrace?
When those words came together, her innocent heart took a blow unlike anything it had ever known. She was stunned.
Her brain's CPU overloaded and crashed on the spot.
Spirit Hall.
Watching the group's reactions, Bibi Dong shook with laughter and nearly rolled off her cushioned couch.
"Hahahaha! Old man, your reputation... pfft, hahaha! It's ruined!"
She could almost see Qian Daoliu's aged face turning livid while he struggled to explain himself. The thought felt wonderful.
"Serves you right! That's what you get for not helping me back then! For protecting that beast of a son!"
[Li Yuan: Afterward, Ah Chen and Ah Liu became best buddies. They agreed to explore Sea God Island together. Once there, they fought Bo Saixi, the island's greatest beauty, and both narrowly lost to her.]
Everyone sucked in a breath.
Bo Saixi was that powerful?
Even two Peerless Douluo couldn't beat her?
Then how powerful must the Sea God be?!
[Li Yuan: Now for the even more melodramatic part. After that battle, Ah Chen fell in love with A-Xi, and so did Ah Liu. Both confessed, but A-Xi didn't choose either of them outright. She only said, "I'll marry whoever becomes a god."]
[Li Yuan: The moment she said that, Qian Daoliu knew he'd been rejected. As Spirit Hall's Great Enshrined, he couldn't inherit a god's mantle. But Tang Chen took Bo Saixi at her word. He declared that he wouldn't return until he became a god, then left.]
[He was gone for decades, leaving our poor A-Xi to gaze at the moon and weep lonely tears every night.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Waaaah... What a touching story. Poor Sister Bo Saixi!]
[Big Cat in the Night: Senior Tang Chen was so devoted. All because of one joking remark, he really went off in search of godhood.]
[Li Yuan: Don't get sentimental yet. I have a little unofficial history to slip in.]
[Ice-Snow Smart: Hm? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?]
[Child Without Parents: You'd better mean unofficial history, not just the "history" part!]
[Li Yuan: According to unofficial accounts, Qian Daoliu never liked Bo Saixi at all. He was afraid Bo Saixi would steal Tang Chen away, so he deliberately claimed to like her too. Alas, even when the two best buddies went their separate ways, Tang Chen never realized what Qian Daoliu meant.]
[Li Yuan: Ah, what is love in this world?]
[Li Yuan: It drives all lovers to end up as brothers! What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds! (sobbing emoji)]
The Crown Prince's Mansion.
"What is love in this world? That's a lovely line. Who knew the Group Leader had such literary talent?"
Murmuring to herself, Qian Renxue let down her guard and picked up the cup on the table for a sip.
"Pfft!"
Qian Renxue spat out the water.
Wait.
How the hell did any of that make sense?
What did he mean, "all lovers end up as brothers"?
What did he mean, "star-crossed lovebirds"?
Was that how those phrases worked?
Had his literature teacher been taught by a math teacher?
He called that unofficial history?
It was so unofficial, only the "history" was left!
What Qian Renxue couldn't bear most was that several group members had started echoing one another, swept up in their own feelings.
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Waaaah... What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Waaaah... What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Waaaah... What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Waaaah... What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Waaaah... What a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
Seeing those last two group IDs—especially Bibi Dong joining in with a "Waaaah"—broke Qian Renxue completely. Her little fists clenched.
[Child Without Parents: ??? You two had better have an explanation!]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Um, Xue'er, would you believe me if I said I sent that by mistake?]
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Sister Xue'er... I-I-I did too.]
[Child Without Parents: Hmph. You'd better have!]
[Li Yuan: Hehe, all right, I'll stop messing around. Just take what I said as a story. There's no need to believe unofficial history.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: So that's how it is... (long face)]
[Child Without Parents: What exactly are you disappointed about? (going crazy)]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Huh? N-nothing.]
[Li Yuan: All right, back to the Sea God. What do you think his powers are?]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: The fury of the sea, I'd guess?]
[Big Cat in the Night: The sea has a gentle side too.]
[Li Yuan: You're both right, but he just had to take an unusual path. Before becoming a god, the Sea God's Martial Soul was a trident. How did a trident wind up connected to light and purification?]
[Li Yuan: Everyone, here's the part that gets scarier the more you think about it: the Angel God's powers happen to include light and purification too!]
[Li Yuan: Tell me, you can just about explain why the Rakshasa God didn't step in to help Bibi Dong. But what about Qian Renxue's ancestor? Blood is thicker than water. When the first Angel God saw her own descendant repeatedly struck down by the Sea God descending to the mortal world, did she feel nothing at all?]
[Li Yuan: The Sea God even set up Qian Renxue's God Trial to record her. Qian Renxue looking at Tang San, touching herself, golden liquid... You can imagine the scene.]
[Child Without Parents: Golden liquid?]
Qian Renxue was genuinely baffled.
What kind of liquid was "golden liquid"?
And what on earth did he mean by "touching herself"?
She genuinely didn't grasp the innuendo. The Group Leader's words just sounded strange, though she couldn't say why.
Qian Renxue wasn't alone. Most of the group had been baffled at first.
Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong, however, understood at once.
She was undergoing a God Trial herself.
She knew that once someone became a god, the blood and fluids flowing from their body would no longer be mortal red and clear. They would be divine gold.
The thought of the Sea God scheming against her daughter like that made her tremble with rage.
It felt even worse than Li Yuan's Big Investigation of her in the secret chamber!
"Very well, Tang San. Very well, Sea God. You both deserve to die!!!"
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