Seeing Meng Chuan back down, Meng Qi could not help feeling smug.
Loser!
Just then, a melodious female voice sounded from the apertures in Meng Qi's left hand.
"Greetings, elder brother."
Meng Chuan's expression shifted, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Following this foolish little brother of mine must have been hard on you."
"Hey, hey, hey." Meng Qi protested. "Little Sang, what are you saying? Never mind that we aren't in that kind of relationship—even if we were, I should be the elder brother here."
"How can you call him that?"
Doesn't that put me one rung below him for no reason?
Damn it, betrayed by my own Dao Companion!
"What are you making such a fuss about?" Meng Chuan scolded Meng Qi. "My sister-in-law is more than ten times wiser than you. Just listen to her."
"Great Emperor, are you a dog or what?" Meng Qi grumbled. How had he been won over so easily?
"Let me remind you: you haven't even reached Mid-Stage Creation. Suppressing you would take me just one hand."
"So watch how you speak to me."
Meng Chuan began throwing his weight around.
Meng Qi could only stick pins into a little doll in his mind. He could not fight back.
Meanwhile, in the Real World, Gao Lan held the Peerless Other Shore Divine Weapon, the Human Emperor Sword, in one hand and the half-Peerless Other Shore Divine Weapon, the Investiture of the Gods List, in the other.
Their auras intertwined. The first step toward the Human Dao's rule over Heaven was complete.
Gao Lan then thrust the Human Emperor Sword into the Heaven-Sealing Terrace and began the next step.
"Investing deities is indeed a path to greater strength in a short time," Meng Chuan said.
"Perhaps I can look into it after