[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Pah! I never imagined a god could do something so vile and underhanded!]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: I didn't get it at first. Now that I do, I feel sick all over.]
[Loves Eating Carrots: I can't look at the lofty, magnificent gods I used to imagine the same way anymore.]
[Single Academy-Running Housewife: Agreed.]
None of them had imagined that the Sea God, a mighty First-Class God, could have so little regard for decency and resort to such filthy tactics.
He had even made a "recording." What a disgrace to the gods!
[Li Yuan: If it wasn't a recording, then it was an illusion the Sea God deliberately created. But think about it. As a fellow First-Class God, why did he dare humiliate Qian Renxue, the heir of another First-Class God, right in front of the Shrek Seven Devils?]
[Li Yuan: Why didn't the Angel God intervene? Was it because she didn't want to? Or because she was already dead?]
[Li Yuan: Now let's look back. How did the Sea God come to possess the Power of Light and the Power of Purification, abilities tied to the missing Angel God? Isn't that a little too convenient?]
At those words, the group fell silent as a forest without birdsong.
At the Crown Prince's Mansion.
Li Yuan's bold, terrifying conjecture left Qian Renxue feeling as though thorns pressed against her back, needles lined her seat, and a fishbone lodged in her throat.
The ancestor... might already be dead?
And the Sea God's light and purification powers... might have come from devouring or stealing her powers?
If that was true...
Then the truth behind it was more horrifying than the darkest nightmare!
No wonder her grandfather had worshipped their ancestor for a hundred years without receiving a single response.
[Li Yuan: Well? It sounds outrageous... but it also makes a certain kind of sense, doesn't it?]
[Li Yuan: Think about how long the Angel God has been missing. Why did "light" and "purification," which should belong to her, appear among the Sea God's powers?]
[Li Yuan: And look at how the Sea God treated Qian Renxue. He humiliated and trampled on her without the slightest regard for the Angel God Lineage. If the Angel God were still alive, would she tolerate that?]
[Li Yuan: Tell me, would any of you allow your descendants to be displayed naked before a crowd?]
[Viper-Hearted Big Sister: Of course not! I'd kill his whole family.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Hmph. If anyone dared do that to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Grandpa Sword and Grandpa Bone would never let him get away with it!]
[Ice-Snow Smart: That's terrifying...]
[Single Academy-Running Housewife: It seems those gods high above us aren't so great after all... How filthy!]
[Li Yuan: So the only reasonable explanation is that the Angel God has fallen, and the Sea God... may well be the one who profited from it.]
At the Pope Palace.
Bibi Dong's reaction was entirely different.
Far from panicking, she felt a flicker of excitement.
"Dead? The Angel God is dead? Hahahaha! Good! She deserved it!"
She let out a low, savage laugh, sickly delight gleaming in her violet eyes.
The Angel God had been a mountain looming over her, the pillar holding up that old fool Qian Daoliu.
If the Angel God really was gone, what did Qian Daoliu have left to lord over her?
Wouldn't the future of Spirit Hall be hers to decide?!
As for whether the Sea God was the killer... why the hell should she care?
If Qian Daoliu and the Angel God Lineage came to grief, she would be delighted!
[Yandere Mad Beauty of Martial Soul Hall: @Li Yuan, keep going! I want to hear what other filthy dealings went on behind this!]
[Li Yuan: What's the rush? I was just getting to it.]
[Li Yuan: Think about this: why did the Asura God choose Tang San? Was Tang San really so extraordinarily gifted, with such remarkable bones, that he was a genius found only once in ten thousand?]
[Li Yuan: Give me a break! Compared with Tang Chen, Tang San was a mere grandson! The Asura God passed over the superior Tang Chen, who was right there, only to wait decades and choose Tang San, a body seized by an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon?]
[Child Without Parents: Could it be because Tang San had Twin Martial Souls?]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Right. Twin Martial Souls are the rarest thing in the Soul Master World.]
[Li Yuan: Twin Martial Souls? If that was what he wanted, why didn't he choose Bibi Dong? Wasn't she gifted back then? The quality of her Twin Martial Souls far surpassed Tang San's. Hers were the Twin Spider Emperors!]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Could it be because Bibi Dong is a woman, so the Asura God didn't choose her?]
At those words, the women in the group froze.
Surely not?
Could gods discriminate by gender?
Bibi Dong was startled too.
By Li Yuan's account, there would have been nothing excessive about ranking her talent first in the world back then. Why hadn't the Asura God chosen her?
Was it really just because she was a woman?
[Li Yuan: Of course not. If the Asura God discriminated against women, why would he choose Xiao Wu as the Asura Scabbard? Tang San can't bear Dual Godhood alone. He needs someone else to bear Asura's power.]
[Loves Eating Carrots: Huh?]
At Notting Academy.
Xiao Wu's delicate eyes flew wide. She didn't even notice the carrot falling from her hand to the floor.
No way.
I was following the gossip, and now I'm part of it?
Asura Scabbard?
That doesn't sound good. Did Tang San capture me in the future and turn me into a puppet?
[Li Yuan: So why didn't he choose Tang Chen or Bibi Dong? Could he really have foreseen Tang San's arrival decades later?]
[Li Yuan: Let's return to the Angel God. As everyone knows, she became a god a thousand years ago. She swept away the Fallen Spirit Masters across the world and ascended through a thousand years of faith. But light was both what raised her up and what brought her down.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Wait, was doing good somehow wrong?]
[Big Cat in the Night: I don't understand.]
[Li Yuan: Of course doing good wasn't wrong. The problem was that the Asura God is the God of Slaughter. The City of Slaughter under his control needs Fallen Spirit Masters to kill and generate faith. If there were no Fallen Spirit Masters left in the world, and not enough slaughter, how could he gather faith?]
[Just saying, is it possible the Asura God started holding a grudge against the Angel God right then?]
[Li Yuan: Now look again at how the Sea God humiliated the Angel God and Qian Renxue. The Asura God was an enforcer who broke the very rules he upheld. Don't you think there might have been a little... killing with a borrowed knife involved?]
[Everyone: ...]
Gathering faith through slaughter?
Are you sure that isn't something an evil god would do?
And killing with a borrowed knife?
An enforcer breaking his own rules?
Everyone sucked in a cold breath. A chill shot from the soles of their feet straight to the crowns of their heads.
Each revelation today was bigger—and more horrifying—than the last!
[Loves Eating Carrots: I wish I hadn't gotten curious and opened the group chat today.]
[Richest Little Heiress of Heaven Dou: Boohoo... Me too. I never thought knowing more would make me less happy.]
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