To behold the Heavenly Emperor was like a mayfly beholding the blue heavens! Stay strong, Boss Dai!
"Pfft-"
At those words, Jiang Wanwan could not help chuckling. She shook her head, looking at Zhu Zhuqing with the fond amusement one might show an innocent young girl.
"Little girl, you certainly are curious, but your horizons are still a little narrow."
"A mere practitioner of the Dragon Transformation Nine Changes? Someone who couldn't even defeat me-how could they possibly compare to His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor?"
"What?!"
Zhu Zhuqing instantly sucked in a breath of cold air, her steps faltering instinctively. Her beautiful eyes widened, filled with horror.
A Dragon Transformation Realm expert actually...
Couldn't even defeat this seemingly gentle, approachable Sister Wanwan before her?
And to think she had previously assumed Wanwan was just an ordinary person, and had even considered relying on her speed to force her way out...
At the thought, Zhu Zhuqing could not help giving a bitter smile.
She really was...
Jiang Wanwan paid no attention to Zhu Zhuqing's reaction. She raised her head slightly, gazing at the blue sky, clear as though freshly washed, her eyes growing distant and full of admiration.
"Zhu Zhuqing, if you had never cultivated..."
"Hearing of His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor would be like a frog in a well gazing at the bright moon above."
"But when you have cultivated diligently and are fortunate enough to set foot in the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, becoming a mighty figure, a king, a Saint whom the countless beings of this world praise and bow before in worship..."
"When you look upon His Majesty then..."
Jiang Wanwan withdrew her gaze and looked at Zhu Zhuqing, enunciating every word. "You would be like a mayfly beholding the blue heavens!"
Before cultivating, hearing the Emperor's name was like a frog in a well gazing at the moon above.
After reaching Immortal Platform and becoming an expert praised and worshipped by the countless beings of the world, beholding the Emperor's face-was like a mayfly beholding the blue heavens!
What... an enormous gulf was that?
What... an inconceivable realm!
Zhu Zhuqing stood utterly frozen, her mind blank. Only Jiang Wanwan's soul-shaking words echoed through it, over and over.
She had originally thought...
She had already overestimated His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor's strength as much as she possibly could. Only now did she understand that the limits of her imagination probably had not even touched the tip of the iceberg of his power!
For a moment, Zhu Zhuqing tightly gripped the jade slip in her hand...
Her heart filled with a young girl's boundless longing for the Heavenly Emperor she had never met.
Not only must I cultivate this Mystic Moon Goddess Scripture, I must also strive to rise within the Heavenly Court and see with my own eyes just what peerless splendor the Heavenly Emperor whom Sister Wanwan reveres so deeply possesses!
To Zhu Zhuqing now, her goal of changing the fate that forced the women of the Star Luo Empire's Zhu Family to slaughter their own sisters...
Seemed no longer out of reach!
Douluo Continent, Shrek Academy.
"That Heavenly Emperor is so imposing! Becoming an expert praised and worshipped by the countless beings of the world, then beholding the Emperor's face-like a mayfly beholding the blue heavens!"
Ning Rongrong watched the Heavenly Screen's livestream, her eyes full of wonder.
Xiao Wu also nodded instinctively. "Could that Heavenly Emperor really be very powerful?"
"Powerful?"
Yu Xiaogang's eyes remained full of disdain. He firmly believed his deductions were correct.
These people from another world really haven't seen much. Aren't they afraid of twisting their tongues, boasting like that?
When they meet a Titled Douluo from our Douluo Continent someday and remember what they said today, won't that be a slap in the face?
For a moment, Yu Xiaogang was filled with anticipation.
Only Dai Mubai...
At that moment, Dai Mubai stared fixedly at Zhu Zhuqing in the Heavenly Screen's livestream.
"That bitch Zhu Zhuqing, she... what exactly is she trying to do? Is she really going to become that so-called Heavenly Emperor's maid?!"
He saw that Zhu Zhuqing had no intention of leaving whatsoever. Instead, after reading that so-called immortal cultivation technique, she had followed the female official away in utter excitement.
It seemed she really was going to become that Heavenly Emperor's maid.
For a moment, Dai Mubai's face turned livid, his expression hideous.
He did not even know whether he was imagining it, but he felt as though a hat had appeared on his head-a green one, at that.
Someone was singing in his ears: "The celebratory wine has already been opened for you, just don't let your head swell too..."
Seeing this, Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Oscar, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong all looked at Dai Mubai with pity.
In the end.
Yu Xiaogang slowly stepped forward and patted Dai Mubai's shoulder.
A thousand words became a single sigh. "Stay strong, Mubai!"
Soon, Tang San walked over too, opening his mouth to offer some comforting words.
But he found that any words would seem so hollow at this moment. In the end, he could only imitate his teacher and pat Dai Mubai's other shoulder.
"Stay strong, Boss Dai!"
"Stay strong..."
Oscar, Ma Hongjun, Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong came next.
Seeing this, Dai Mubai forced the faintest smile onto his lips. "I... I trust Zhu Zhuqing. She must have her own ideas."
Although Dai Mubai said this, he had long since lost his earlier confidence.
After all, Zhu Zhuqing was already on her way to the Heavenly Emperor's Palace.
Dai Mubai could only cling to a little hope. After all, the Zhu Zhuqing he knew had been incredibly proud since childhood and would sacrifice anything to become stronger.
How could someone like her willingly become a maid to some native emperor?
"We're wrong. We must all have gotten it wrong. Zhuqing is still lying low!"
"Yes, that must be it..."
Dai Mubai nodded vigorously.
Star Luo Empire, deep within the Zhu Family estate.
Bang!
With a tremendous crash, a fine sandalwood desk was reduced to dust beneath violent Soul Power.
The current head of the Zhu Family, Spirit Cat Duke Zhu Hongfeng, bristled with rage, his hair and beard standing on end. His powerful Soul Douluo presence spread uncontrollably.
"Disgrace! An utter disgrace!"
He stared fixedly at the livestream on the Heavenly Screen, his eyes burning with raging fury...
It was fury at his family's dignity being trampled, disappointment that iron had failed to become steel.
"That unfilial daughter has utterly disgraced both our Zhu Family and the Star Luo Imperial Family!" Zhu Hongfeng growled.
Beside him, a beautiful woman who retained her mature charm and bore some resemblance to Zhu Zhuqing stepped forward. Confusion and worry covered her face as she gently tried to console him.
"Husband, please calm down first."
"That child Zhu Zhuqing... she's had a mind of her own since she was little... perhaps she has something else in mind?"
"Something else in mind?"
Zhu Hongfeng remained furious. "I haven't seen anything else in mind. All I've seen is my daughter, Zhu Hongfeng's daughter, the future consort of a prince of the Star Luo Empire..."
"Becoming a maid to some absurd Heavenly Emperor in an obscure native world, in front of every living being on the entire Douluo Continent!"
The more Zhu Hongfeng spoke, the angrier he became. He suddenly hurled the precious jade cup in his hand to the floor, sending shards flying everywhere.
"Our Zhu Family has no such daughter!"
"When she comes back in three months, just watch me break her legs! I'll confine her! She can forget about ever going to that Shrouding the Heavens World again, or ever stepping outside the Zhu Family's gates!"
Hearing that her husband intended to invoke family discipline, the beautiful woman grew even more worried.
She knew her husband's strength well. If he truly flew into a rage, how could that child Zhu Zhuqing endure it?
And just as those across the Douluo Continent...
Were falling into bewilderment over Zhu Zhuqing's decision to become a maid, wondering just what she had seen in that jade slip and speculating about what immortal cultivation meant...
[Second perspective: Spirit Hall Academy student, Zhang Ming (level 19)]
There had also been a change on his end.