But one thing was one thing, and another was another.
Although Ye Qing was Shrek's most gifted Soul Master in ten thousand years and had even received a deity's inheritance, some rules could not be changed.
Over ten thousand years, the Sea God's Fate Matchmaking Tournament had been held time and again. Although there was no shortage of men and women who still secretly kept plenty of intimate companions after finding a match there, in public, Sea God's Fate was still Sea God's Fate.
You could only have one partner.
This represented the tradition of Sea God's Fate, and the Sea God's blessing upon the Inner Court students.
Even though Ye Qing had now become a successor to a Godhood Inheritance, possessed unparalleled strength and talent, and had become the youngest member in the Sea God Pavilion's history, Yan Shaozhe and the others undoubtedly placed tremendous importance on "tradition."
That much was clear from Yan Shaozhe's own spectacular crash. He and Cai Mei'er had gotten together at Sea God's Fate, and precisely because he had not chosen Xian Lin'er there, she had never stopped brooding over it.
She would rather find some poor sucker to pick up the pieces in a sham marriage than swallow that anger.
Without much hesitation, Yan Shaozhe told him bluntly that this was not negotiable.
For sticklers for convention like them, some things allowed no compromise. Just as only winning the championship in the continental tournament counted as defending Shrek's glory, the ten-thousand-year tradition of Sea God's Fate was no different.
If they set this precedent today, what sort of chaos would future Sea God's Fate tournaments descend into?
If you did not participate in Sea God's Fate, however many partners, concubines, sex slaves, or human playthings you kept in private were beyond their control.