"I still haven't explained things clearly to Mom." Back in her bedchamber, Qian Renxue sat before the mirror, listlessly dangling her legs.
On the way back, she had fiercely reflected on herself. How could she have said something like that to her mother? How could she have called her mother scary, a monster?
Mom was clearly... clearly...
Well, Mom was Mom!
"Sigh, Mom isn't still angry with me, is she?" Recalling the furious look on her mother's face when she left, Qian Renxue felt a little uneasy.
She had thought that sharing her good news with her mother would make her happy. Who could have expected things to turn out like this?
Should she go back to the Papal Hall and explain everything properly to her mother? The thought surfaced in Qian Renxue's mind.
"You silly fool!" A somewhat speechless voice rang beside her ear.
"Who?"
Startled, Qian Renxue immediately sprang up from the dressing table. Her previous gloom vanished as her large eyes nervously scanned her surroundings.
Once she saw that she was the only one in the bedchamber, Qian Renxue immediately realized something. She asked in delighted surprise, "Lord Heavenly Dao, is that you?"
"So you haven't gone completely stupid!"
The next instant, Qian Renxue vanished from where she stood.
Depths of Heaven.
Opening her eyes, Qian Renxue saw Lu Chen watching her with a faint smile, and her eyes lit up.
"Lord Heavenly Dao, it really is you!"
"If not me, then who?" Lu Chen smiled.
Qian Renxue said excitedly, "Lord Heavenly Dao, you're truly incredible! You actually made three ten-thousand-year soul beasts offer sacrifices. I..."
"Alright, sit down first."
Seeing Qian Renxue so agitated, her little mouth chattering nonstop, Lu Chen lightly waved his hand.
"Eh?"
Interrupted by Lu Chen, Qian Renxue finally noticed the scenery around her.
All around her grew exotic flowers and rare grasses that never withered through the four seasons, with Vermilion Immortal Peonies scattered among them. At the center of the flower garden, a clear spring gurgled forth, its waters carrying specks of starlight. At a glance, it was clearly extraordinary!
Around the garden perched birds competing in splendor, along with immortal cranes that occasionally let out crisp calls.
What a paradise beyond the mortal world!
Having grown up in Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue was utterly mesmerized by the sight.
Just then, a gentle breeze swept through, carrying the garden's floral fragrance against Qian Renxue's little face. She instinctively closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and said dreamily:
"It feels so nice!"
"Not bad, right?" Lu Chen asked with a smiling gaze as he watched Qian Renxue's blissful little expression.
To transform this area and make it more comfortable to look at and live in, Lord Heavenly Dao had spent an entire minute on it!
That showed just how much care he had put into it—and how precious and rare this flower garden was!
"Lord Heavenly Dao, it wasn't like this when I came here last time, was it?" Qian Renxue opened her eyes and looked around like a curious child.
The last time she came, the scene had also been incredibly wondrous, unlike any place in the mortal world. But compared with the view before her now, it still fell a little short!
The scenery she had seen last time was too monotonous. Clouds, nothing but clouds. Though they had different colors and contained different auras, weren't they still just clouds?
Unlike now—this was so beautiful~
All you know are clouds... Lu Chen glanced at Qian Renxue speechlessly. Too vulgar! Too lacking in common sense! Completely mortal taste!
"I spent some time carefully creating this flower garden. The previous scenery here was rather monotonous, so I added some decoration to cultivate the spirit."
Lu Chen gave a casual explanation, then said, "Alright, sit."
He wasn't like Qian Renxue, who could go on and on about this flower garden and completely forget the important matter at hand!
She clearly hadn't even finished praising and thanking him, Lord Heavenly Dao, yet she had forgotten so quickly?
Was her head filled with nothing but this flower garden?
Tsk!
"Oh, r-right!"
Reminded by Lu Chen, Qian Renxue finally pulled her gaze away from the surrounding scenery and turned it toward where they were.
The two of them were inside an azure jade-glass pavilion. At its center stood a stone table large enough for two people to drink tea together.
After glancing at the teapot and cups on the table, then at Lu Chen's expression, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck Qian Renxue. She said at once:
"Lord Heavenly Dao, let me pour you some tea."
"Mm."
Lu Chen nodded slightly, casting a somewhat surprised look at the diligent Qian Renxue as she stepped forward. She wasn't as foolish as he had originally thought.
Qian Renxue picked up the teapot and approached. As she poured tea for Lu Chen, she secretly studied Lord Heavenly Dao from the corner of her eye.
When she saw Lu Chen's flawless face and upright bearing like a green pine, her little heart skipped a beat!
Eh? Why did Lord Heavenly Dao look so handsome?
Strange, she had clearly been looking at him just now...
Eh? What did Lord Heavenly Dao look like just now?
Qian Renxue's mind crashed.
Drip.
"You spilled it."
The calm voice sounded beside Qian Renxue's ear. It carried no emotion, yet it instantly brought her back to her senses.
"Ah!"
Seeing the tea spilled across the tabletop, Qian Renxue jumped in fright. She hurriedly set down the teapot and looked at Lu Chen with a little fear.
"I'm sorry, Lord Heavenly Dao. I didn't mean to."
"It's fine."
Lu Chen naturally knew Qian Renxue had not done it on purpose. He also knew that her earlier daze had been caused by him, so he did not mind. With a light wave of his hand, the tea stains on the tabletop vanished without a trace.
Qian Renxue's cheeks flushed crimson. She had never imagined that her attempt to curry favor would end like this. She was truly too stupid!
Still, thankfully Lord Heavenly Dao was magnanimous and did not mind. Otherwise, she would have been in real trouble!
After putting away the teapot, Qian Renxue hurried back to her little stone stool and lowered her head as if she were too embarrassed to face anyone.
"..."
Hadn't he already said it was fine?
Lu Chen lightly shook his head. "Raise your head first and drink the tea in your cup. It was prepared for you."
"Ah?"
Qian Renxue raised her little head and saw that the teacup had already been filled. Her already-red cheeks turned even redder!
She had actually made Lord Heavenly Dao pour tea for her personally. It was far too embarrassing!
Still, Qian Renxue obediently listened to Lu Chen. She lifted the teacup and drained it in one gulp!
"Ah! So hot!"
The instant the tea entered her stomach, a warm current spread from her abdomen. It then surged rapidly toward her brain and spread throughout her body, waves of heat rising from Qian Renxue.
After she turned into a "steam princess," the Angel Martial Soul and three black soul rings tinged with red emerged one after another, pulsing in a strange rhythm as though they were continuously tempering something.
Lu Chen watched Qian Renxue calmly for a while. Only after confirming that she was fine did he shift his gaze toward Spirit Hall in the lower realm.
"Is the Angel God really dead? Such a huge commotion has happened to the inheritor of the Godhood it chose, yet there hasn't been the slightest reaction. Could it really be gone?"
Lu Chen wanted to test the Angel God's Inheritance Grounds, but after thinking it over, he decided against it.
In any case, Qian Renxue was in his hands. Whether the Angel God was dead or not did not matter much.
At most, it was merely a minor First-Level God!
Within the Douluo Realm, he could suppress it with a flip of his hand!
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