Jiang Lianqiu laughed by the end of it himself.
"So that's why you've been drawing Star God fanbooks everywhere?" Sparkle rolled around on the ground laughing. "Could it be that the God of Joy got sick of everyone in the tavern constantly making dirty jokes about Star Gods and inventing rumors about them, so he cut that part of the concept off from the Path of Elation and discarded it?"
Xu Zhao: "..."
She really did not want to admit it.
But drawing Star God CP books really was ridiculously addictive...
"In short, it was your extremely special nature of existence that caused Guiji to misjudge your identity at first."
Jiang Lianqiu smiled.
"Of course, I think what truly confirmed to him that his guess was wrong was discovering that he could actually use your existence to infiltrate the Tree of Existence."
"This isn't a place one can just casually come to. Not even Guiji could do it. But if you were here, Guiji could slip in through your concept of Elation—yet in his understanding, the reason became that you were both masks abandoned by Star Gods, so he could reach the Tree of Existence through his connection with you."
PS: Actually, from the beginning—and even now—I thought Xu Zhao was, in a sense, another kind of Aha. Like Guiji, she was part of Aha. Guiji was an Aha who had been corrupted and fallen, while Xu Zhao was an Aha who had not been corrupted.
PPS: Yeah, one was Aha of Benevolence, and the other was Aha of Righteousness.
What Aha Saw Back Then
While the three of them were still digesting the information Jiang Lianqiu had revealed, he turned and flicked his fingertips at the unconscious Guiji lying on the ground.
A tiny flame flew from his fingers.