Give up the Kindness Divine Trial?
Qian Renyue frowned in confusion. "Why?"
"Because you cannot pass it."
Jiu Xian'er tilted her head to look up at the sky and explained, "First, your state of mind has already changed. Even if you stubbornly insist on passing the third trial, you will only end up covered in wounds. Second, the Flower God divine lineage has awakened. Perhaps that divine position would suit you better."
"The Flower God? Is that your divine position, Mother?"
"Yes."
Qian Renyue asked, "Then why did Yaxin tell me you were a hundred-and-ninety-thousand-year soul beast?"
"I was merely a deity undergoing trials."
As she spoke, Jiu Xian'er suddenly grew sorrowful. "I always thought undergoing trials would be simple, until I met Xuan Ling. I think... I will never want to return to the Divine Realm again."
"Is there something bad about being a god?"
Qian Renyue asked aloud.
Jiu Xian'er said, "It has its blessings, and its troubles. Yue'er, once you have spent several hundred years alone in solitude, you will feel that becoming a god is no better than simply living out a human lifetime. That endless loneliness of the gods... how could it be so easy to endure? Especially when mortal and god are separated, never to meet again."
"..."
Mortal and god, separated, never to meet again.
Qian Renyue lowered her eyes slightly.
Would she and Guang Ling end up that way too?
"Mother."
Qian Renyue called softly, voicing the question troubling her heart. "Why did things turn out this way for you and Father?"
"Xuan Ling and I..."
Jiu Xian'er remained silent for a long while. She withdrew her gaze, then looked at Qian Renyue with a smile, as though she had made her peace with it. "Yue'er, in this world, you can rarely