"I see. In that case, stay here with us for now. We happen to be short one researcher."
After hearing from Nan Qiuqiu what Nan Shuishui had said, Chen Ping immediately realized that Nan Shuishui had most likely sensed or noticed something, which was why she had deliberately taken this opportunity to send her daughter to Shrek.
There was nothing unusual about Nan Qiuqiu being competitive and enjoying bets to determine who was better.
But both in the original story and now, Nan Shuishui had explicitly forbidden Nan Qiuqiu from returning to the sect until she fulfilled her promise. That could only mean Nan Shuishui had realized she might not be able to protect her daughter.
Chen Ping felt that the danger Nan Shuishui had foreseen, the one that would leave her unable to protect her daughter, probably was not the Sun Moon Empire secretly sending people to capture contestants during the later stages of the tournament. Otherwise, she should not have ended up captured and imprisoned afterward.
What she had truly foreseen was that the Heaven Dou Empire simply could not stop the Sun Moon Empire's army from driving straight into its territory, and that Dragon City, where the Heavenly Dragon Sect and Earth Dragon Sect were located, would most likely end up flattened in the Sun Moon army's advance later on.
It was precisely because she had foreseen this that Nan Shuishui had seemed so unreasonable and stubborn, insisting that a loser had to honor her bet and that Nan Qiuqiu had to fulfill her promise before returning, no matter what.
In reality, she had been leaving a safeguard for the Rouge Dragon Martial Soul's inheritance. If the trouble she foresaw truly came, Nan Qiuqiu, who had followed Shrek's people back to Shrek, would be extremely safe, at