Beside Lan Yu, Qian Renxue suddenly asked, "What exactly was that story about the Red Shoes you mentioned?"
"Oh, you're interested? Then I'll tell you.
It was about a pair of cursed red dancing shoes. A little girl thought they were beautiful, and vanity drove her to put them on.
Then the little girl began dancing against her will. She couldn't stop at all, and in the end, she died of exhaustion."
"That's an outright horror story."
"You can see it that way, sure. At heart, it's a fairy tale warning children not to be vain or touch other people's things without permission.
Never mind children-even some adults can't resist meddling with other people's things. They'll be punished just the same."
Qian Renxue rolled her eyes at Lan Yu.
"You just stole the Divine Realm Core. Is it really appropriate for you to say that?"
"The Divine Realm Core doesn't belong to anyone. What's wrong with me taking it to use?"
"That's sophistry!"
Bo Saixi also chimed in.
"They won't keep dancing like this forever, like in the Red Shoes story, will they?"
"They could. They're God Kings, after all. Even if they danced until the end of time, they wouldn't exhaust themselves. They could become a permanent performance in the Divine Realm.
Those three over there could take turns, too. What do you think?"
Lan Yu smiled at the Life God King, the Kindness God King, and the Evil God King. To the three of them, his smile was scarcely better than a devil's.
"I'm willing to support you as ruler of the Divine Realm. All I ask is that you stop humiliating and tormenting them like this."
"Life God King, you still don't seem to understand the situation. As the victor, I don't need your support.
Instead, you