A Soul-Searching Question from a Professional Bricklayer: Where's the Cement?!

Zi Ji looked at the former Deity before her, tears in his eyes and his whole body trembling with excitement. Her beautiful brows furrowed slightly.

Her seductive eyes were filled with pure, undisguised confusion.

Had those few shovel blows just now damaged this guy's brain?

"Too much?"

Zi Ji parted her red lips and repeated the phrase, her tone full of strangeness.

"Humanity?"

She repeated it again, the expression on her face growing even stranger.

The Sea God was taken aback by her reaction, but very quickly, he came up with a perfect explanation on his own.

That was it!

They must have been too wary of that terrifying shop owner to speak too plainly!

It had to be that!

Thinking of this, the Sea God felt even more deeply moved. He nodded forcefully, the grief and indignation in his voice nearly overflowing.

"That's right! It's too much! It's inhumane!"

"I, the mighty Sea God, have been forced to dig dirt here. This is simply the greatest humiliation!"

"Rest assured, I will remember the kindness you have shown this god today! Once I escape..."

"Stop."

Zi Ji finally could not stand listening any longer. She raised a jade-like hand in a halting gesture. The confusion on her face had already been replaced by the pity one reserved for an idiot.

"Who told you we came to help you?"

The Sea God's impassioned speech came to an abrupt halt.

The emotion on his face froze instantly.

"Huh?"

"Our soul beast clan believes that strength determines status. The strong possess everything, while the weak serve the strong."

Zi Ji said it as if it were only natural. Then she looked the disheveled Sea God up and down, a teasing smile curling at the corner of her lips.

"In our eyes, you are