Li Xun's Brilliant Life

"What was that?"

Li Qingyang's comment rang out from the Heavenly Screen, and Li Xun nearly lost it on the spot.

"What do you mean I'm a shut-in?" he shouted at the screen hanging high above, his face full of indignation. "I'm obviously hardworking! A model of self-discipline!"

Right now, he wanted nothing more than to drag that little brat out of the Heavenly Screen and teach him a lesson.

Beside him, Shui Yuerou and Li Hu could no longer hold back. Clutching their stomachs, they burst into laughter. Even Tang San nearly failed to keep a straight face. Li Xun's son really was entertaining. No wonder he was his disciple.

A faint smile even appeared on Tang Hao's usually stern face. In some ways, the child was the spitting image of his father. The same love of mischief ran in their bones.

Heaven Dou Crown Prince's Palace

Pufferfish Douluo could not help laughing aloud. "As expected of the young mistress's future child. So lively, so full of personality. What an interesting boy."

Qian Renxue had been eager to see her future sister-in-law through the Heavenly Screen, to get a sense of her temperament and consider how they might get along. She had never expected to see this laughable display from her future son first.

Embarrassment surged through her. She hurriedly covered her burning cheeks, torn between annoyance and amusement.

A faint smile touched Snake Lance Douluo's lips as well. This future young master is a little too irrepressible.

[Well, would you look at that! He called his own dad a homebody and a shut-in!]

[If he were my kid, I'd have him over my knee and give him a sound knuckle-rapping!]

[Hmph, jealous, aren't you? The man's wife is the Angel God. She's gorgeous, has an amazing figure, and her family runs Spirit Hall, the greatest power on the continent. All I can say is, Li Xun's got it way too good.]

[That's fate for you!]

[I'm dying of envy. Asura God Li Xun is powerful in his own right, and he married the richest woman on the continent. How are us workhorses supposed to live?]

[Too young to know a rich woman's worth, I mistook a young maiden for treasure.]

[A woman might slow the speed of your draw, but a rich woman will buy you a better blade.]

[Me, me, me! Brother Li Xun, look at me! I'm the future sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Will you be my husband? If you agree, the whole Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect will be yours one day!]

[Whoa... Is she openly looking for a husband on the Heavenly Screen? Is this an advertisement?]

[The future sect master of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect... Isn't that the Little Demoness?]

[Aren't you missing the point? If Li Xun goes for it, he'll become the richest man on the continent!]

[Oh, right! Damn, Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, you're going big! Betting everything on one hand.]

[Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, have you no shame? Li Xun already has a wife, and you're still trying to come between them! Have you no shame at all?!]

[What's it got to do with you? That's in the future, not now.]

[How is it none of my business? I'm his...]

[Why'd you stop halfway? Don't tell me you're the Angel God herself?]

[I'm not. I didn't. Don't get the wrong idea.]

[Well, well. Three denials in a row? Nine times out of ten, it's her.]

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Snake Lance Douluo and Pufferfish Douluo exchanged a glance, then turned together toward Qian Renxue. Her cheeks were burning, and anger smoldered in her eyes.

They were now almost certain that the abruptly cut-off comment whose author had been exposed on the Heavenly Screen had come from their young mistress herself.

[Li Yingxue wiped the table as she spoke. "Your father wasn't at all the way you imagine him. Your grandparents told me that when he was your age, he was exceptionally bright, brave, and strong-willed.

"At the time, the Li Family was nothing more than an ordinary household. But when your father was born, everything changed. At his Spirit Awakening at six, he awakened Twin Martial Souls—the Four Swords of Zhu Xian and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation Diagram—and possessed Innate Full Soul Power.

"Later, your father went to study at Nuoding Academy with your master. While there, he publicly exposed a Grandmaster who claimed his theories were unbeatable. It was also at the academy that your master met Xiao Wu, who is now your master's wife. The three of them formed a team. After graduating from Nuoding Academy, they entered Heaven Dou Royal Academy together and led that year's Heaven Dou Team to victory in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament.

"It was during that tournament, in Spirit City, that your father met your mother. They fell for each other at first sight and quickly fell in love. But your mother's family strongly opposed the match. They looked down on your father because he wasn't powerful enough yet and tried to tear the lovers apart.

"After they were forced apart, your father resolved to grow stronger. He entered Slaughter City alone and obtained the Divine Slaughter's Domain. Afterward, he braved Sea God Island with your master and their companions and received the Sea God's blessing.

"Later still, a great war swept across the continent. My brother joined forces with your mother and your master to stop your grandmother. But after the war, their differences in belief sparked another earth-shaking battle. Only after clashing did they finally make peace.

"From then on, my brother rarely appeared before the world. Instead, he buried himself in technological research. When he grew tired, he wrote music in his spare time. Most of the famous pieces now heard across the continent are his work."]

[My god! Li Xun's past was this legendary? Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power!]

[The Four Swords of Zhu Xian and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation Diagram as Twin Martial Souls? That's a dream hand right from the start!]

[He exposed Grandmaster's fraud when he was still young? Hahaha, Master Yu must've wanted the ground to swallow him whole.]

[The Nuoding Academy trio, Slaughter City, then Sea God Island? What a wild life.]

[They met in Spirit City and fell in love at first sight, only for her family to look down on him for being too weak and tear them apart. That hurts.]

[They looked down on him, so he fought tooth and nail to get stronger. This story has my blood boiling.]

[Heavenly Screen: revealing the side of the Asura God no one knew.]

[Got it. A shut-in on the surface, a man reshaping the entire continent behind the scenes.]

Inside the Worship Hall in Spirit City

Qian Daoliu and the other elders looked at one another, embarrassment plain on every face.

The Heavenly Screen had said the lovers were torn apart because they had looked down on Li Xun's strength. Thinking it through, that was exactly the sort of thing they would do.

By then, Qian Renxue would likely have been receiving the Angel God's inheritance, destined to ascend to the Divine Realm. Li Xun, on the other hand, would have been an outsider with no roots or backing, no ties to Spirit Hall, and talent they would have judged inferior to hers.

Every elder knew perfectly well that, from the Worship Hall's perspective, they would never allow an outsider to steal away the cherished jewel they had raised with such care and placed all their hopes upon.

"Ahem..."

Qian Daoliu coughed lightly, breaking the awkward silence in the hall. His aged voice rang out slowly.

"Don't dwell on it. That is still in the future. If the time comes, we simply won't oppose their being together."

"Exactly, big brother! I support this marriage with both hands!" Golden Crocodile Douluo immediately chimed in.

The other elders nodded in agreement.