Great War
[As previously mentioned, you were dispirited and sought solutions everywhere.]
[Amidst your continuous collection and experimentation, you did not know how to carry on. Your physical problems could no longer be made up for by simply eating whale rubber or the like. You wondered what on earth you could do to restore your body's basic functions.]
[In the twentieth year of the simulation, you had already given up on continuing to work on your physical condition and began to concentrate on building your enterprise and enhancing your strength.]
[Ah Yin often came to look for you, but each time she returned disappointed.]
[You were already getting used to this. Your physical problems were not a matter of one or two days. If you could have resolved them, you would have resolved them long ago. Now that you had given up, it also saved you a lot of vexing trouble, freeing you from worrying about continuing the family line and finding a wife.]
[It was just that you felt Snow Empress's look at you was a bit strange. You couldn't put your finger on what the feeling was, but you didn't mind it. Ah Yin and Ice Empress had taken turns coming at you, yet you remained as steady as Mount Tai, unmovable.]
[Gradually, Ah Yin and Ice Empress also discovered that the problem wasn't with them; the problem lay with you.]
[You openly admitted it. After all, if it didn't work, it didn't work, and you had nothing to explain. Rather than keeping things ambiguous with the other party, it was better to cut off their thoughts early on and just be friends.]
[Over these past few years, your interactions with Dugu Bo had become much closer, mostly discussing some pharmacological knowledge, and you two had almost become good buddies.]
[Yet your identities were set right there. Even though Dugu Bo was much older than you, your strength and status were laid out, so Dugu Bo did not dare to overstep.]
[You felt quite helpless about this. Clearly, Su Laowu could hit it off brilliantly with Dugu Bo, so how come when it came to you, it ended up feeling like a superior-subordinate relationship?]
[During this period, you also saw Dugu Yan a few times. However, without your influence, the current Dugu Yan was still together with Yu Tianheng, and the situation where everyone betrayed her and she was left alone—as seen in Su Laowu's simulation—did not happen.]
[You didn't want to shatter Dugu Yan's illusion. Some people ought to live in illusions for a lifetime; reality was too cruel to them, and living in illusions all along turned out to be a form of protection.]
[When you were getting along with Dugu Bo at the Dugu Residence, you would occasionally run into Dugu Yan bringing Ye Lingling back. How did you and Dugu Bo, as elders, view this? Naturally, you just sat and watched.]
["Right, old man, the Ye Family seems to be a family of herbalists, doesn't it?" you asked abruptly while chatting with Dugu Bo.]
[Dugu Bo was stunned for a moment, then reminisced for a while and said, "Cult Master, that should be the case. The Ye Family has passed down the Nine Heart Begonia Martial Soul from generation to generation, which has also caused the Ye Family to walk the path of practicing medicine through the generations, so they naturally have more or less contact with medicinal herbs."]
[Hearing Dugu Bo's words, you subsequently intended to have your subordinates make contact with the Ye Family. Although medicinal herbs could hardly do anything for you, knowing a bit more was always a good thing.]
[Afterward, the Ye Family slowly began to come into contact with the West Wind Church. There were no differences between the two sides' philosophies, as both existed to save people and bring joy, and they quickly reached a preliminary cooperation.]
[As the sole decision-maker of the West Wind Church, the Ye Family had Ye Lingling make more contact with you once they learned of your location.]
[You didn't refuse, occasionally pulling Ye Lingling into the conversations between you and Dugu Bo to share some herbal theories.]
[At first, Ye Lingling was somewhat unwilling. After all, in her view, elders and the like were all stubborn old folks who loved to arrange this and that for the young people, and also loved to point fingers.]
[Yet after a short period of contact, she found that you and Dugu Bo were actually quite open-minded—well, at least that was Ye Lingling's personal feeling.]
[After all, she had never seen any decent folks go to brothels early in the morning, and to top it off, they were two old timers of unknown age.]
[You didn't care about this. You and Dugu Bo going to brothels simply meant listening to tunes and watching beauties dance, and you didn't do anything out of line.]
[In the twenty-first year of the simulation, you were eating plain meals and chatting idly with Dugu Bo. Over these years, you had almost become a permanent resident of the Dugu Residence, and occasionally Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Ah Yin would come over to check on you.]
[They originally wanted to stay, but you chased them away because you felt they were too much of a nuisance.]
"To my eyes, Su Laoliu, you're just like the fox that couldn't reach the grapes and called them sour." Su Ming felt extremely contemptuous, yet he also thoroughly enjoyed watching the show.
[Dugu Bo would also occasionally tease you for being such a grown-up yet having no idea how to find a wife. He felt that Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Ah Yin were all pretty good, but he couldn't understand why you didn't feel a thing at all.]
[Learning of this, you only smiled and didn't say much.]
[Just as you were spending your days leisurely, in the direction of Spirit Hall, a pillar of purple light soaring into the sky attracted the entire continent's gaze.]
[Bibi Dong had become a god, two years earlier than the scheduled time. You were unclear about what had actually happened in between; you only knew that this was very wrong, as Bibi Dong's godhood attainment time was far too early.]
[You didn't know that after the previous incident involving Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong subsequently discovered what kind of person Yu Xiaogang truly was, plunging her into an even more crazed state.]
[Once Bibi Dong became a god, her primary target for revenge was you. She amassed a massive army to trample the West Wind Church flat.]
[Seeing this, you went out to deal with it, accompanied by Snow Empress, Ice Empress, and Ah Yin.]
[There was no need to dwell on the strength of Snow Empress and Ice Empress, while Ah Yin had relied on absorbing the popularity gathered around you to break through to Titled Douluo in a very short time.]
[Outside the walls of Spirit Hall City, you stood in front of the three women. Ahead of you, Bibi Dong looked at you with icy eyes, with Qian Daoliu and others standing behind her.]
[Although Qian Daoliu very much wished not to let matters reach this stage, Bibi Dong had already become a god, and any attempt by him to stop her would be a case of the spirit being willing but the flesh being weak.]
["Leave her to me, and hand the remaining ones over to you guys. Ah Yin, watch yourself; if worst comes to worst, just run straight away," you instructed before confronting Bibi Dong head-on.]
[The battle between the two of you was intense. Although you currently only possessed Demigod cultivation, your true combat prowess was four times that of a Pseudo-God. Under the enhancement of your Soul Core, you fought evenly with Bibi Dong.]
[Your wind attribute was extremely pure, yet without absorbing a soul bone to strengthen yourself, you couldn't unleash that fatal strike that Su Laowu had used against Bibi Dong.]
[Every single confrontation between the two of you unleashed a wave of terrifying aftershocks. Right now, there was good news and bad news for you.]
[The good news was that in a direct matchup, you and Bibi Dong were evenly matched; the bad news was that Bibi Dong had learned from somewhere the ability to borrow the Power of Heaven and Earth, sealing you within a spatial domain to fight you in a brutal slugfest.]
[You didn't know that this was actually the Sea God colluding with the Rakshasa God, giving Bibi Dong a small reward through the Rakshasa God specifically to deal with you, this annoying bug.]
[Your battle with Bibi Dong could not be decided in a short time, and it fell into a stalemate.]