Blue Star!
Qian Renxue pressed a hand to her heart as she listened to Xiao Ran recount all the brainless things she had done. Her intolerance for stupidity was about to flare up. Had she really been that foolish?
"I'd already become the Angel God. If I'd kept hunting Tang San, how could he have had time to complete the Sea God Nine Trials?"
Xiao Ran explained at an unhurried pace.
"You were too principled. Once you chased him to the coast, you stopped. You insisted on waiting until Tang San became the Sea God so you could fight him fairly."
Hiss!
Qian Renxue sucked in a sharp breath. Why hadn't she just killed Tang San? Waiting for him to become a god was asking for trouble.
Xiao Ran went on. "After hunting in the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San still needed one final Soul Ring for his Clear Sky Hammer. His target was the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King."
"It was a million-year Soul Beast that could become a god if it survived its tenth heavenly tribulation. Tang San had a hard time fighting it, but the Asura God apparently pulled a few strings, and the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King died."
"After absorbing its million-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, Tang San returned to Sea God Island and successfully began the Ninth Trial of the Sea God Nine Trials."
Xiao Ran paused there. When he looked at Qian Renxue, a trace of pity entered his eyes.
"The Sea God was a shameless old bastard too. During Tang San's Sea God Nine Trials, he broadcast your Angel Nine Trials to Tang San. Tang San, Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, Oscar, Dai Mubai, and Ma Hongjun all saw what you went through."
"You, Angel God Qian Renxue, became a joke."
"The previous Angel God had vanished, and you had no one to protect you. Other gods could even toy with the contents of your trials as they pleased."
Qian Renxue froze. Her beautiful face turned cold as frost. The Sea God had broadcast her ninth Angel Trial for others to watch and meddle with.
So... that golden liquid...
"I'll kill him!"
Qian Renxue spoke in a fury, like a lioness driven mad. Her golden eyes brimmed with killing intent so thick it could not be dissolved.
It was almost tangible!
And that him...
Without a doubt, she meant the previous Sea God!
Douluo Continent!
Somewhere awash in shifting, seven-colored light!
A blue figure looked toward a red figure, his voice carrying the glee of someone who had caught another by the tail.
"Asura, so my Sea God Successor had your help when he hunted the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. I really must thank you!"
He laid particular stress on "my Sea God Successor," as though reminding the Asura God that Tang San already belonged to someone.
But what they saw next made the red figure turn a razor-sharp gaze on the blue one, as if his eyes were swords that could pierce him through.
"Sea God, so you tampered with the Angel God's succession and interfered with another god's inheritance. You have some nerve. As one of the five members of the God Realm Committee and a God of Law Enforcement in the Divine Realm, I will not let you run wild!"
The blue figure trembled. His broad shoulders slumped in surrender, and his voice turned ingratiating.
"Haha, Asura, I was only joking. The Angel God is a good friend of mine. Naturally, I was happy she had a successor to her divine position. I only thought I'd help assess her. Besides, I didn't actually do anything..."
Under the red figure's increasingly piercing stare,
the blue figure surrendered completely.
"There's only one Tang San. How we split him is up to you."
Only then did the red figure withdraw his gaze and give him a way out.
"I'll pretend I know nothing about this."
Heh... what a filthy under-the-table deal!
The Demonic Whale Sea!
"What? I died at a human's hands, and he absorbed my Soul Ring and Soul Bone?"
"The Asura God pulled the strings..."
The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King churned restlessly through the Demonic Whale Sea, raising waves that reached the sky. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, and dark clouds blotted out the heavens, as if the end of the world had come.
"I haven't become a god yet. I haven't settled accounts with that bastard Poseidon. I cannot die! Gods... One day, I'll overturn the Divine Realm and tear those hypocritical gods to pieces."
Spirit Hall!
Qian Daoliu's face twisted with rage. The composure he had managed to maintain finally cracked.
The Angel God was so noble and pure. As her Divine Servant, he had always prided himself on his chivalry.
So it was true: the kind were trampled. Even gods suffered the same fate.
That bastard Sea God had taken advantage of the misfortune that befell their Angel God. He had dared interfere with the Angel Lineage's succession.
Xue'er, Grandpa was wrong. Only today have I realized just how wrong I was. The Angel Lineage cared too much about honor, while some bastards have no shame at all!
The Sea God and the Asura God both helped Tang San cheat his way through inheriting a divine position. They even interfered with your succession as the Angel God!
If the Angel God were still here, would we have suffered such bullying?
I'll take my complaint to the God Realm Committee... Damn it. The Asura God is the one with law-enforcement authority on the committee.
Wouldn't that be like bringing a complaint before the very god I'm accusing...?
Angel God, the Divine Realm has grown this dark. Was it right or wrong for me to pour everything I had into making Xue'er the new Angel God and sending her there?
For a moment, Qian Daoliu felt deep doubt about his decision.
Did that rotten, dark Divine Realm deserve an Angel God so pure by nature?
Blue Star!
After her anger ebbed, Qian Renxue wrapped her arms around her knees and curled into a ball. Her lips pressed tightly together, and hurt filled her face. She looked like a little girl who had been bullied past endurance.
To be precise, she really had been bullied past endurance.
With no one to stand behind her, Qian Renxue's usual brilliance gave way to a fragile, helpless air.
Xiao Ran sighed and forced a smile.
"Don't be sad. Let me share some good news."
"The Deep Sea Demonic Whale King who was killed had a wife. She emerged ten thousand years later and called herself the Demon Empress."
"To avenge her husband, the Demon Empress utterly destroyed Sea God Island. She slaughtered every Sea Soul Master on the island and every Demon Soul Great White Shark guarding its waters."
"Does that cheer you up a little?"
Qian Renxue blinked and asked in confusion, "Wasn't Sea God Island the site of the Sea God's inheritance? Once Tang San became the Sea God, wouldn't he protect it?"
Xiao Ran gave a cold laugh. "What did Tang San have to do with Sea God Island? He was a Soul Master from the continent and a student of Shrek Academy."
"After Tang San became the Sea God, he spread the Sea God's divine power over Shrek Academy, allowing it to endure on Douluo Continent for tens of thousands of years."
"As for Sea God Island, Tang San never cared about it. He wasn't from there, after all. Otherwise, it wouldn't have fallen later."
"I told you before: Tang San was a hypocrite through and through, with one set of rules for himself and another for everyone else!"
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