Qian Renxing said disdainfully, "What a useless grandpa. It's just some rumor, isn't it? As a man, you have to face it bravely!"
"No, who do you think started that rumor? You did! You were the one who spread it all!!"
Qian Daoliu was speechless at his own dim-witted grandson.
Who did he think had reduced him to this state? It was him! It was this dim-witted grandson of his!
Now all of Spirit City knew he "couldn't perform," and people were even donating whale rubber to him.
He no longer dared even imagine going outside. Just picturing the scene made his scalp prickle. It was simply more terrifying than death!!
"Shouldn't a man take responsibility for his words and actions? Xiao Xing!!"
Qian Daoliu gripped Qian Renxing's shoulders with both hands and stared straight into those eyes, as sagacious as ever. Tears filled his own eyes as he said, "You used my name as a guarantee and bought so much whale rubber. Don't you owe me an explanation?! If I die wronged, I won't let you off even as a ghost!!"
Qian Renxing chuckled away. "Ehe~ You couldn't bear to leave me even after dying? Grandpa, I'm not that wonderful~"
"I wasn't trying to praise you!"
Qian Daoliu was on the verge of a breakdown. "Remember already, Xiao Xing! You bought whale rubber at the Spirit Hall Chamber of Commerce with the black card I gave you. You even used my name as a guarantee to have stocks transferred from all over the continent! Now everyone outside is spreading rumors that I can't perform, and they're even donating whale rubber to me. My lifetime of good name is about to be ruined!!"
"Huh? That's a rumor? But doesn't Grandpa really have trouble performing?"
Qian Renxing was puzzled. "I deduced through rigorous reasoning that Grandpa couldn't perform anymore. Why are you lying, Grandpa?"
"I perform just fine!! I really do perform just fine!!!"
Qian Daoliu was so frantic he nearly cried. "Why do you always think I can't perform? Your father was born to your grandma and me! You're my own grandson too!!"
"But the past is the past, and the present is the present. You can't lump them together, can you?"
Qian Renxing retorted, "Besides, if Grandpa can perform, won't you find a new wife someday? Then I'll have a younger uncle or aunt, and the inheritance won't fall into my hands either. Wouldn't a dim-witted child like me have nothing but a miserable life ahead?"
"So that's it. As long as I swear not to give you a younger uncle or aunt, and leave you my whole inheritance when I die, you'll be willing to help prove my innocence, right, Xiao Xing?"
Qian Daoliu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He finally knew why this dim-witted grandson wanted him to be unable to perform.
"Ohhh~ You really get it, Grandpa~"
Qian Renxing sighed with feeling. "The struggle of lions has always been this way. This world is just that cruel~"
"You're supposed to say, 'The struggle of heirs has always been this way'!"
Qian Daoliu no longer knew whether his dim-witted grandson was genuinely dim-witted or merely pretending.
He immediately swore an oath, treating a dead horse as though it were still alive. "I, Qian Daoliu, swear to heaven that as long as my grandson Qian Renxing helps prove my innocence, everything I leave behind after my death will go to my grandson Qian Renxing. I'm a rich man, you know!!"
"Ohhh, my rich grandpa~"
At the words "rich man," Qian Renxing's eyes immediately lit up. "I'll definitely help prove my rich grandpa's innocence!!"
"Come on out, my little ride! Let's go clear up the rumors for Grandpa together!!"
Qian Renxing immediately grew excited.
As his soul incantation ended, a gleaming tricycle appeared before him.
He leaped up and immediately straddled the tricycle.
"Woohoo, takeoff! Watch me ride my tricycle straight toward Zhuge Liang's four-wheeled carriage!!"
On his tricycle, Qian Renxing was practically Superman. He shot through the Holy Son's Hall's gates like the wind and lightning.
As it happened, he was already bored of staying in his Holy Son's Hall. Qian Daoliu's request was practically a pillow delivered just as he grew sleepy.
"Wait, how did he vanish already?"
Qian Daoliu was shocked. He had never expected Qian Renxing to disappear in the blink of an eye on that shabby vehicle. "Hurry after him! It would be bad if anything happened to the boy!!"
With that, Qian Daoliu and Mighty Lion Douluo hurried after Qian Renxing's receding figure as he rode his tricycle.
"Wait, what just shot out?"
Sisi, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue, who were standing guard outside the Holy Son's Hall, froze. Then their expressions changed drastically. "Oh no, His Highness the Holy Son has run off again! After him!"
Qian Daoliu and Mighty Lion Douluo chased up ahead, while Sisi, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue followed behind.
For a time, none of them could catch Qian Renxing, letting the boy race like the wind and lightning all the way to the Spirit Hall Chamber of Commerce.
With a beautiful drift, he plunged straight into the crowd, making it even harder for Qian Daoliu and the others to find him.
At that moment, the Spirit Hall Chamber of Commerce was bustling with activity.
Countless Soul Masters from Spirit City had rushed over upon hearing the news, all to keep a hero like the Great Enshrined from shedding tears after shedding blood. They had come to donate whale rubber to him!!
"Great Enshrined Qian Daoliu is one of the two towering peaks of our Soul Master World, and a pillar of our Spirit Hall!"
Someone shouted excitedly, holding a dark yellow crystal. "When I heard that the Great Enshrined was suffering such inhuman torment, I simply couldn't bear it. I want to donate a piece of whale rubber!!"
Wait, what exactly are you getting so excited about? I really must thank you!!
Qian Daoliu looked speechlessly at the excited man, feeling as though he had taken an arrow to the knee. What did he mean, suffering inhuman torment? He had always been a real man!!
By now, his face was covered with a black hood.
To think that he, Qian Daoliu, Invincible in the Sky, who had always been open and aboveboard, had now fallen so low that he dared not go outside without a hood. Who could have imagined it?!
"Ohhh, thank you very much for your whale rubber. Put it in the pot!"
A childish voice rang out. There was a huge pot-no, a child carrying a huge pot.
Wait, Xiao Xing, aren't you just dim-witted? How do you have innate divine strength too?! How on earth did you lift such a huge pot? And where exactly did you even find a pot this big?!
Qian Daoliu wore a remarkable expression. Where had his dim-witted grandson gotten such a huge pot, and what on earth was he planning to do?!!
"What a huge pot! Hahaha-"
Mighty Lion Douluo, meanwhile, looked thoroughly gratified. "Didn't I say the young master was no ordinary person? Strong enough to shoulder a pot, blessed with innate divine strength-the young master's future is simply limitless!"
"All right... gasp, it's His Highness the Holy Son!!"
The man had just placed his whale rubber in the pot when he discovered that the child beside this enormous pot was actually His Highness the Holy Son of Spirit Hall.
Upon seeing Qian Renxing, he grew even more excited. "Your Highness, please deliver this piece of whale rubber to the Great Enshrined. It contains my heartfelt respect for him!!"