Heavenly Retribution

Wen Xu was startled. You didn't go in? Chunchou was so pure-hearted and kind, yet he had no affinity with Buddhism? The Buddhist Sect's standards for choosing people make no sense at all.

"Nope. But Chen Zui-Zui went in. He said there was no one inside to fight him. He searched two floors, found nobody, and came right back out."

Wen Xu: ...That made even less sense.

"What about Xia Ying and Lin Congcong?"

"Senior Sister Xia Ying got an urgent message and went back to the sect. I didn't get a chance to ask her. As for that Lin guy, hmph, I wasn't going to ask him." Bian Chunchou leaned closer. "What about you, Wen Xu-Xu? How many floors did you reach? Don't tell me you cleared all nine?"

Wen Xu laughed. "You think too highly of me." If he had made it all the way through the Buddhist tower, Her Majesty the Tower Spirit would probably have forced him to become one of her "consorts," whether he wanted to or not.

"Then what kept you so long?"

I didn't expect it to take so long either, Wen Xu thought. He touched his sleeve without thinking and found... two jade-slip letters. One was familiar: the letter he had written for the Tower Spirit. The other said... Forget it. Reading that aloud would sound rather like betraying his master and ancestors.

"A private matter. Her Majesty Zhaoxia and my master have known each other for some time."

What? So the Divine Dragon really was the most formidable of them all. No wonder Her Majesty Zhaoxia had kept Wen Xu-Xu for so long. They had been catching up! "You should've told me sooner. If I'd known they were old friends, I would've praised the Divine Dragon and the Divine Venerable more