[This is Chapter 41. Chapter 40 is under review. To avoid a break in the story, you can come back later.]
Crown Prince's Mansion.
Seeing that message, Qian Renxue finally realized Li Yuan had said it on purpose.
Her face darkened. She was so angry her chest felt tight.
"Huff... huff... I'm furious."
She tugged open her collar, letting the pale skin of her chest breathe.
How the hell did that make sense?
Were those seriously the words he had chosen?
Two men fighting, and he described it like that?
People who didn't know better would think they were having a male-male romance... What if someone got the wrong idea?
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Wow! Two men, too... Group Leader Brother, what happened next? Tell us, quick! (excited blink)]
Oh. Never mind. Someone already had the wrong idea.
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Who would've thought the Great Enshrined, always so dignified and imposing, was so... ahem, worldly in his youth?]
[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Ugh, I'm going to throw up!]
Blue Tyrant Academy.
The first thing that came to the forthright Liu Erlong's mind was the image of Flender going hard at Yu Xiaogang.
It was such a beautiful sight that she nearly threw up last night's dinner.
Disgusting.
It was torture for her eyes and her soul!
[Ice-Snow Smart: Is this how the older generation fought?]
Ye Lingling's lips parted slightly, her cheeks turning pink.
At night? Two men? A passionate embrace?
When those words came together, her innocent mind took an unprecedented blow. She was completely stunned.
Her brain's CPU overloaded and crashed on the spot.
Spirit Hall.
Bibi Dong watched the group's reactions and laughed so hard she nearly rolled off her couch.
"Hahahaha! Old man, your reputation... pfft, hahaha! It's ruined!"
She could almost see Qian Daoliu's old face turning livid while he struggled to explain himself. The thought was immensely satisfying.
"Serves you right! You didn't help me back then! You protected that beast of a son of yours!"
[Li Yuan: After that, Ah Chen and Ah Liu became the best of 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 drew a sharp breath.
Bo Saixi was that powerful?
Even two Peerless Douluo couldn't beat her?
Then how powerful must the Sea God be?!
[Li Yuan: And then it got even more dramatic. After that battle, Ah Chen fell for A-Xi, and so did Ah Liu. Both confessed to her, but A-Xi didn't choose either of them. She only said, "Whoever becomes a god, I'll marry him."]
[Li Yuan: Qian Daoliu knew he'd been rejected the moment she said it. As Spirit Hall's High Priest, he couldn't inherit a god's seat. But Tang Chen took Bo Saixi at her word. He declared that he wouldn't return until he became a god, then left.]
[And he was gone for decades, leaving our 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. He really went looking for a god because of one joking remark.]
[Li Yuan: Hold on before you get too moved. I have an unofficial account to share.]
[Ice-Snow Smart: Hm? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?]
[Child Without Parents: That had better be an unofficial account, not just something you made up!]
[Li Yuan: According to this account, Qian Daoliu didn't actually like Bo Saixi. He was just afraid she'd steal Tang Chen from him, so he deliberately claimed he liked her too. Alas, even when those best buddies went their separate ways, Tang Chen never realized what Qian Daoliu meant.]
[Li Yuan: Ah, what is love, that thing the world asks of?]
[Li Yuan: It makes lovers everywhere end up as brothers! Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds! (sobbing emoji)]
Crown Prince's Mansion.
"'What is love, that thing the world asks of?' Beautiful poetry. Who knew the Group Leader had such literary talent?"
Qian Renxue murmured to herself. Her guard dropped, and she picked up the cup on the table for a sip.
Pfft!
Qian Renxue sprayed out the water she was drinking.
Wait.
How the hell was that right?
What did he mean, lovers everywhere ended up as brothers?
What did he mean, star-crossed lovebirds?
Was that how those words were used?
Was his language teacher taught by a math teacher?
Was that an unofficial account?
It was so unofficial it barely qualified as an account!
What Qian Renxue couldn't bear most was that quite a few people in the group had started echoing the line, wrapped up in their own feelings.
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Waaaah... Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Waaaah... Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Waaaah... Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Little Fox Who Loves Teacher Most: Waaaah... Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: Waaaah... Truly, a pair of star-crossed lovebirds!]
Seeing the last two group IDs—and Bibi Dong joining in with a "waaaah," of all things—
Qian Renxue snapped. 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 treat what I said as a story. You don't have to take an unofficial account seriously.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: So that's how it is... (long-face emoji)]
[Child Without Parents: What exactly are you disappointed about? (pulling hair out)]
[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 ocean, maybe?]
[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, his Martial Soul was a trident. How did a trident end 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!]
[Li Yuan: You could just about explain why the Rakshasa God didn't help Bibi Dong. But what about Qian Renxue's ancestor? Blood is thicker than water. The first Angel God saw her own descendant struck down again and again by the Sea God descending to the mortal world. Did she feel nothing at all?]
[Li Yuan: The Sea God even set a trap in Qian Renxue's God Trial and recorded it. Qian Renxue watching Tang San, touching herself, golden liquid... Just imagine that scene.]
[Child Without Parents: Golden liquid?]
Qian Renxue was genuinely baffled.
What sort of liquid was "golden liquid"?
And what on earth did "touching herself" mean?
She truly didn't understand the innuendo. The Group Leader's wording just felt strange, though she couldn't put her finger on why.
Qian Renxue wasn't alone. Most people in the group were baffled at first.
Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong, however, understood at once.
She was undergoing a God Trial herself.
She knew that after becoming a god, the blood and fluids from one's body would no longer be mortal red and clear. They would turn 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!
"Tang San! Sea God! You both deserve to die!!!"
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