My Heart Is So Tired

The earth slowly awoke, a glimmer of dawn breaking the silence of the night.

Morning sunlight filtered through the gaps between the leaves and fell upon the black tent.

Having eaten and drunk his fill the night before, Qian Chongling opened his bleary eyes, slowly climbed out of bed, and took his toiletries from his Soul Tool.

Half an hour later, Qian Chongling had left the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest and reached its inner region. At this pace, he would be out of the forest in another hour.

System, activate the chaos third trial! Qian Chongling said inwardly.

Ding, activating the chaos third trial...

Chaos third trial objective: take Bibi Dong as your disciple! Reward: chaos divine power fusion +10%.

Qian Chongling froze when he heard the trial objective. The previous two trials had each rewarded him with 5%. They had cost him time and brainpower for meager rewards, yet this one was simple and straightforward. He could even call it effortless.

As the Qian Family's ancestor, if he wanted to take Bibi Dong as his disciple, forget Qian Xunji-even Qian Daoliu, his grandson's grandson, would not dare utter a word of objection.

But wouldn't that mean Qian Renxue would never exist? The future Angel God would be gone?

As though it had seen through Qian Chongling's thoughts, the system spoke up on its own for the first time. "Host, are you worried that doing this will prevent Qian Renxue from existing?"

"Uh, yes."

"Wait, how do you know what I'm thinking?"

Good heavens! Didn't this system say it was just an artificial intelligence program with no other functions? What the hell was this, then? It could actually hear my thoughts?

But the system did not answer his question directly. Instead, it said, "Host, you will learn the answer to that question in the future!"

"Back to the matter at hand. Host, you believe the Angel God can only be born through Bibi Dong!"

"Isn't that the case?" Qian Chongling asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Host, you have made a basic error! What do you think of Bibi Dong's talent?" the system asked.

"Twin top-tier martial souls and innate full soul power. Pretty good!"

In Qian Chongling's eyes, Bibi Dong's talent really could only be considered pretty good. Leaving everything else aside, both Qian Chongguang and Qian Xiye surpassed her. Qian Chongguang had innate level fourteen soul power, Qian Xiye had thirteen, and Qian Chongling himself had twelve. The six-winged angel martial soul was no joke.

"And Qian Xunji? Forget it, let's skip that one."

It was not just Qian Chongling who did not want to answer that question; even the system could not be bothered to say much about it. After all, he had the worst talent in the entire history of the Qian Family, bar none!

"Then, host, what makes you think Qian Xunji and Bibi Dong could produce Qian Renxue?"

That was right. At this point, Qian Chongling froze as well.

As the saying went, dragons begot dragons, phoenixes begot phoenixes, and a mouse's offspring knew how to dig holes. With Qian Xunji's talent, it would already be a blessing if he did not drag Qian Renxue down. And they expected innate level twenty soul power? Bibi Dong alone could not possibly give Qian Renxue innate level twenty soul power.

Yet Qian Renxue really did possess innate level 20 soul power. Could it be...

"Host, remember this: Qian Renxue is the Angel God, but the Angel God does not necessarily have to be Qian Renxue!"

"I understand. In other words, as long as a descendant is born in this generation of the Qian Family, someone with innate level twenty soul power is bound to appear-the future Angel God!"

"It has nothing to do with Bibi Dong, only with the Angel God and the Qian Family's descendants!"

There was only one truth: "Qian Renxue" was very likely the reincarnation of the divine ancestor who had fallen for some unknown reason-a divine embryo! She had reincarnated in this generation to cultivate anew!

Otherwise, there was no explaining how Qian Xunji, whose talent was utter garbage, and Bibi Dong, with her innate level ten soul power, could produce a powerhouse with innate level twenty soul power!

If that really were possible, had all the previous generations of the Qian Family been a joke? Every generation had been stronger than Qian Xunji, and their spouses' talents had not been poor either. Yet what had they produced? Not a single person had exceeded level fifteen, let alone reached twenty!

"So, host, there is no need to worry about the Angel God. Just focus on being a master who has no dignity befitting his age!" the system said.

"(;｀O)o Get lost! Am I that kind of person? This is called protection. Close personal protection!"

Qian Chongling was not happy to hear that and immediately launched into a tirade against the system! But no matter how much he cursed this somewhat mutated system, it gave no response.

Left with no other choice, Qian Chongling could only mull over the conclusions he had just guessed at and worked out.

What Qian Chongling understood least about Qian Renxue was how that girl could actually fall in love with Third Brother!

Would you fall in love with someone you barely knew, who repeatedly ruined your plans, and whose father was partly responsible for killing yours?

When her undercover mission in Heaven Dou failed and Third Brother refused Qian Renxue's offer to recruit him, she had wanted to kill him on the spot. Without Old Poison and the Yang Family Broken Spear, Third Brother would have died right there!

Not long before, they had been fighting to the death. Then, without even seeing him again, she suddenly loved him so desperately that she refused to strike a killing blow? Had she lost her mind?

And all of this had happened after Qian Renxue began her divine trials! What did that mean? It meant there was something wrong with the Angel God's divine trials!

Or perhaps, because the Angel God had already died or reincarnated, a cuckoo had taken over the magpie's nest at the Angel Temple, and some god in the Divine Realm had plotted against Qian Renxue while she underwent the Angel God's divine trials.

That god was very likely the Sea God. After all, in nearly ten thousand years, only the Angel God and the Sea God had attained godhood through faith!

After all, people fought for a breath of pride, while Buddhas fought for a stick of incense. For gods, faith determined their divine power and their own strength. Naturally, the more they had, the better!

Thus, it was entirely possible that the Sea God had set his sights on the Angel God's share of faith. Besides, that bastard already had a record!

The Sea God's mount was a Demon Soul Great White Shark, and the natural enemy of Demon Soul Great White Sharks was the Evil Spirit Orca, a bloodthirsty soul beast.

That Demon Soul Great White Shark had served as the Sea God's mount for nearly a thousand years. Even without great achievements, surely that hard work counted for something? If the Sea God had wiped out the Evil Spirit Orcas, those evil soul beasts that plagued the ocean, it would not only have benefited the Demon Soul Great White Sharks but also helped keep the ocean's creatures safe!

But the Sea God had not done so. Not only had he refused to act, he had also forbidden the Sacred Pillars of Sea God Island from intervening!

What was that for? Faith, of course-to keep harvesting the Demon Soul Great White Shark Clan's faith in the Sea God.

After all, they would only pray to a god when they could not defeat their enemies or when members of their clan died!

If the Sea God was that ruthless toward his own people, what about the Angel God, who held so much faith in her hands? Given the chance, who else would he target if not her?

After that wild chain of speculation, Qian Chongling suddenly felt utterly weary at heart!

Not only did he have to guard against the Rakshasa God, who loved stirring up shit, now he also had to worry about a Sea God coveting the Angel God's faith!

And finally, he had to consider the Asura God, who loved playing nanny to Third Brother!

Otherwise, how had Third Brother come back from the dead after Bibi Dong killed him at the end? Could two mere second-level gods resurrect a being who combined a first-level god and a God King?

Give him a break. If that were really possible, God Kings were far too cheap.

Ugh, this world is too difficult. So many people have their eyes on my Spirit Hall. This is miserable!

In any case, Qian Xunji was only twelve or thirteen now, and who knew how long it would be before Bibi Dong sought a master? Qian Chongling decided to find somewhere to unwind first.

He had heard Skywater Academy was quite nice. Young girls, budding beauties, mature beauties...

Black, white-they had stockings of every kind.

Being a gatekeeper there seemed pretty good. After all, the young ladies' safety came first!

Qian Chongling rubbed his chin, and his pace suddenly quickened considerably!

(Thanks to Jia Mao, Wu Ye Tiao Deng Dao Jian Yi Sheng Fen, wed123, and all the other generous readers who cast recommendation votes.)