Qian Renxue, You Wouldn't Want Anyone Else to Know Your Identity, Would You?
Sure enough, the moment those words came out, Qian Renxue's release of Sacred Flame faltered for an instant.
"Do you think I'd believe a liar like you? How utterly ridiculous!"
Qian Renxue suppressed the yearning in her heart and forced herself to rebut Yang Xingchen calmly. She could guess that he was saying all this to distract her.
"Oh, so in Miss Qian Renxue's eyes, I'm someone whose mouth is full of lies!"
"Alas, I sincerely wanted to resolve the questions that have plagued you since childhood and create an opportunity for you and your mother to reconcile."
Yang Xingchen's voice rang out behind Qian Renxue again, feigning regret. This time, it sounded so close that he seemed to be speaking right against her ear.
This is bad, Qian Renxue thought as she whipped her head around, only to discover that another ice mirror had appeared behind her at some unknown point.
Then the ice mirrors multiplied endlessly like lines spreading into a plane. Within a few breaths, Qian Renxue was surrounded by ice mirrors again.
Yang Xingchen activated the Frost Nightmare Ice Mask and secretly used Satiated Frost Heart Peering. He could now sense the enormous fluctuations in Qian Renxue's emotions.
What he had just said to Qian Renxue had worked. As long as he kept tossing out information, her psychological defenses would collapse without a fight!
"Besides, aren't you curious why your father, Qian Xunji, died at the hands of Tang Hao, who was only a Soul Douluo at the time?"
To avoid making Qian Renxue resistant by continuing to reveal matters concerning Bibi Dong, Yang Xingchen immediately shifted the subject to Qian Xunji.
"Shut your mouth!!!"
Qian Renxue was already irritated by the seemingly endless ice mirrors she had to blast apart. With Yang Xingchen's beguiling words added to that, she erupted.
As a child, Qian Renxue had also tried to get answers from elders like Qian Daoliu, but they had either laughed it off or avoided answering.
Everyone seemed to shut her out, concealing the truth.
But she wanted to know why, every time her mother saw her, her eyes held nothing but icy killing intent or endless disgust.
With her emotions completely out of control, Qian Renxue suddenly felt warmth on her face and instinctively reached up to touch it.
Without realizing it, she had already begun to cry.
"Qian Renxue, do you really not want to give an answer to the child you once were, who suffered so many grievances?"
"Even if that answer turns out to be different from what you imagined, it would still be better than running away from Spirit Hall and impersonating the Heaven Dou Empire's crown prince to escape it."
At that moment, Yang Xingchen's figure appeared in Qian Renxue's somewhat blurred vision, and he held out a hand to her.
Having regained a little of her reason, Qian Renxue pushed his outstretched hand away and turned her head aside, asking in a slightly trembling voice:
"What do you want? I don't believe you went to all this trouble to tell me these things purely out of kindness!"
Qian Renxue had to admit that the person before her had broken through her psychological defenses with just a few words.
More importantly, he seemed like a worm in her belly, knowing every answer to every question she wanted to ask.
Seeing the clear change in Qian Renxue's attitude toward him, Yang Xingchen knew his plan was already halfway to success.
Next, he needed to bind Qian Renxue to his boat and forge a firm alliance between them.
"What I want is simple. I want to cooperate with you, the future inheritor of the Angel God Godhood!"
Had it been someone like Ning Rongrong instead, Yang Xingchen would have had little desire to cooperate. After all, her influence on later events was too small.
But Qian Renxue was different. She could be considered a major driving force behind later events, and her existence was also connected to Tang San and Bibi Dong.
As the current crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, she had every opportunity to dispose of the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, thereby cutting off Tang San's journey to Sea God Island.
Without the blessing of the Sea God Godhood, taking the Asura Demon Sword from the parasitized Tang Chen would be as difficult for Tang San as ascending to heaven!
Of course, there was still the possibility that the Asura God would act privately and forcibly interfere with the Asura God Trial.
But without divine affinity, Tang San would probably be turned into the next King of Slaughter the moment he obtained the Asura Demon Sword.
Thus, even if the Asura God intervened, Tang San would still have to go through the Asura God Nine Trials anew to gain divine affinity.
At the same time, Qian Renxue was also the daughter of Bibi Dong, the Rakshasa God. As long as Qian Renxue handled things well afterward and farmed more affection from Bibi Dong, there was a chance.
Even if she could not dispel Bibi Dong's desire to destroy the entire continent, she should at least be able to delay Bibi Dong's descent into madness and destruction of the continent.
That way, even if the future Battle of Jialing Pass still broke out, these matters would affect it and delay it.
For him, who had yet to obtain a Godhood Inheritance, that meant he would still have ample time to develop.
"Cooperate? Based solely on information whose truth I can't immediately verify? I don't think that's quite enough."
Her eyes still a little red, Qian Renxue did not immediately agree to Yang Xingchen's terms.
Cooperation was far too unstable, and judging by his manner, Yang Xingchen clearly already wanted to take something from her.
If all she received was information she could inquire about herself, their contributions would not be equal at all!
"To think Miss Qian Renxue, the Angel Inheritor, would be so greedy! But for the sake of our smooth cooperation, I'll throw in another piece of information."
Yang Xingchen looked at Qian Renxue with feigned helplessness. He had already anticipated that this information might only tempt her rather than make her willing to cooperate.
That was why Yang Xingchen had prepared additional information concerning Qian Daoliu, whose place in Qian Renxue's heart was far more important than Bibi Dong's or the others'.
"Since you haven't yet undertaken the Angel God Trials, you probably don't know the conditions for beginning the Ninth Trial, do you?"
"Heh, what, could an outsider like you actually know the contents of our Angel God Inheritance?"
Qian Renxue had thought Yang Xingchen would say something valuable or give her something of value.
Instead, Yang Xingchen, a heretic tainted with the presence of the undead, was actually going to tell her, the Angel Inheritor, about the contents of the Angel God Trial.
Truly laughable!
"To begin the Angel God Ninth Trial, Qian Daoliu, as the Angel God's high priest, must sacrifice himself to open the inheritance gate leading to the Angel Temple."
"After entering the temple, the Godhood Inheritor must undergo the Seven Emotions Trial and face the emotions within their heart before they can inherit the Angel God Godhood."
If anyone asked why Yang Xingchen remembered the Angel God Ninth Trial so clearly, it was undoubtedly because of the scenes involving Qian Renxue and Tang San during the God Trials in the original story.
Making someone inexplicably indulge in fantasies about their enemy was probably something only this Angel God Ninth Trial could accomplish.
For a long time after Yang Xingchen finished explaining the Angel God Ninth Trial, Qian Renxue said nothing, merely standing there in silence.
After quite a while, when Yang Xingchen was growing bored with waiting, Qian Renxue finally spoke.
"I agree to the cooperation you proposed! But what you mentioned earlier, the reason my mother despises me-tell me every last word!"
There was no helping it. As the most important person in Qian Renxue's heart and the only light in her life, Qian Daoliu was someone she could not simply disregard.
Even if what Yang Xingchen had just said was only a lie, that was still a better bargain than being completely unprepared when her grandfather truly sacrificed himself.
Besides, Yang Xingchen could only want to cooperate with her for one of two things: power or money!
As it happened, neither of those things was particularly costly to her, the crown prince of the Heaven Dou Empire and the young master of Spirit Hall.
With a little careful maneuvering on Qian Renxue's part, given Yang Xingchen's talent, which of those could she not satisfy?