Perhaps because he had drunk too much cola, Jiang Yan went to the bathroom before setting off.
When he came out of the bathroom, he found Qian Renxue wearing a stiff expression, her face looking rather unpleasant.
"What's wrong? I was only gone for a moment. Did you start arguing again?" Jiang Yan teased.
"No, Ancestor just watched some short videos, and then she ended up like this." Ye Guyi came up to Jiang Yan's ear and spoke quietly.
"Short videos?"
Jiang Yan froze briefly, thinking, What short video did Qian Renxue come across to get her this fired up?
Just then, Qian Renxue happened to spot Jiang Yan as well and angrily demanded an answer.
"Jiang Yan, tell me, what do they mean it's entirely my fault Spirit Hall lost to Tang San? What did I do wrong?"
As she spoke, Qian Renxue took out her phone and showed Jiang Yan the short video on it.
Jiang Yan took it and looked. Almost everyone in the comments was cursing Qian Renxue, saying things like Tang San would have died eight hundred times over if she hadn't been softhearted.
Others said that Spirit Hall clearly had ten thousand ways to win, yet Qian Renxue insisted on taking the only path that led to defeat.
After watching for a while, Jiang Yan put down the phone and spoke.
"Actually, there's some truth to what they're saying."
"What truth could there possibly be? Spirit Hall lost, and it's all my fault?" Qian Renxue shot back.
"For example, during the Heaven Dou Incident, you could clearly have used your advantage in troop numbers to eliminate Tang San quickly. Why did you let him stall for time?" Jiang Yan asked.
"I only... wanted to bring Tang San over to my side!" Qian Renxue retorted. "Tang San had such heaven-gifted talent. What was wrong with trying to bring him over?"
"The problem is, the hatred between Tang San and Spirit Hall was already as deep as the sea. There was no way to bring him over. Even then, you still wanted to try? Even at the cost of Chrysanthemum Douluo's and Ghost Douluo's lives?" Jiang Yan demanded.
"Trading the lives of two Titled Douluos for a pledge of allegiance you couldn't even be sure was genuine?" At this point, Jiang Yan couldn't help griping, "Romance Continent really is terrifying."
At that moment, outside the Sky Screen, inside Spirit Hall, Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo were both numb with shock.
They knew absolutely nothing about this!
"Qian Renxue actually wanted to trade my life and Old Ghost's for Tang San's allegiance? What gave her the right?" Chrysanthemum Douluo raged indignantly.
He had bent his back and exhausted himself in Spirit Hall's service, only to meet an end like this!
"Was it because we attacked Tang San in the Star Luo Great Forest? But that was on His Holiness the Pope's orders!" Ghost Douluo said, his heart chilled.
To think that they were distinguished Titled Douluos, and had been loyal to Spirit Hall ever since Qian Xunji became Pope.
Yet in the end, they had actually been reduced to pawns that could be discarded at will...
But at that moment, the ones panicking most were still Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo!
Rather, it was Spirit Hall's lower and middle ranks!
After all, if Spirit Hall could casually discard even Titled Douluos, weren't lower- and mid-ranking Soul Masters like them practically no different from cannon fodder?
For a time, everyone in Spirit Hall was on edge!
Meanwhile, within the Sky Screen, Qian Renxue retorted.
"Even if I hesitated during the Heaven Dou Incident, how could I possibly hesitate again afterward? Once I knew Tang San wouldn't submit to Spirit Hall, would I still think of bringing him over?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yan nodded emphatically. "On that point, you really are right."
"It's precisely because you let Tang San go more than once that those readers judge you that way."
"What? I let Tang San go again afterward? When?" Qian Renxue asked.
"After you became the Angel God, you intercepted Tang San on the outskirts of Star Dou. At the time, Tang San was only a Titled Douluo. Killing him would have been effortless for you."
"But because you wanted to bring Tang San over to your side, you made a bet with him, which led you to hold back repeatedly during your fight," Jiang Yan said.
"So why exactly did I keep letting Tang San go over and over?" Even Qian Renxue herself couldn't figure it out.
"What else could it be? Romance Continent was doing its thing," Jiang Yan said.
"What does that mean?" Qian Renxue didn't quite understand.
It wasn't just Qian Renxue. Neither Ye Guyi nor Leng Yaozhu understood.
Even the many Soul Masters watching the Sky Screen didn't understand.
How had their perfectly good Douluo Continent become Romance Continent?
"Never mind. Once your understanding of Douluo Continent's plot is deep enough, you'll naturally understand what Romance Continent means," Jiang Yan said with a smile.
This Romance Continent really was hard to explain in words. The relationships were too tangled.
Afterward, they finished gathering their things and headed out with Jiang Yan.
Since Jiang Yan lived in a residential complex, his car was parked in the underground garage.
So Jiang Yan led Qian Renxue and the other two to the elevator.
Qian Renxue and Ye Guyi had clearly never seen an elevator before, and asked curiously, "What's this?"
"This should be an elevator. It's an iron box that moves up and down," Leng Yaozhu explained.
"Huh? Your era already had these things?" Qian Renxue suddenly asked.
She realized that although they were all people from Douluo Continent, Leng Yaozhu seemed to understand everything, while she and Ye Guyi understood nothing.
"Yes. We had televisions and elevators in our era. We're probably going to drive something like a soul-powered car now, right?" Leng Yaozhu looked at Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan nodded. "But we don't have Soul Power here, so it's just called a car."
"Then without Soul Power, how do you power this car?" Leng Yaozhu asked.
"The cars here fall into two types. One is fuel-powered cars, and the other is new-energy cars, or electric cars," Jiang Yan explained as the elevator descended.
"None of you have Soul Power now, and the rules of this era are different from those on your Douluo Continent. Being strong doesn't mean you can do whatever you please, so you'll need to rein in that Douluo Continent way of doing things," Jiang Yan specifically reminded them.
Since Jiang Yan had mentioned similar things before, all three women nodded without any questions.
A short while later.
A ding rang out.
The elevator arrived at the underground garage, and Jiang Yan led them over to his car.
He was getting ready to take them to a nearby shopping mall.
"Well, I'm not short of money now anyway. I'll have to find a chance to buy a new car," Jiang Yan muttered to himself.
Naturally, this was Ye Guyi's and Qian Renxue's first time seeing a car, and their eyes were filled with curiosity.
Inside the Sky Screen Livestream Room, Yan Shaozhe was full of disdain for this kind of Soul Tool.
[Yan Shaozhe: Can this car thing really work? If you ask me, it's not even as good as a horse-drawn carriage!] [Yu Xiaogang: Exactly! If you ask me, this car thing is simply inferior to a horse-drawn carriage!] [Qiangu Dongfeng: You two ignorant fools are killing me. Just look around. Who rides in horse-drawn carriages these days? Do you ride in an oxcart?] [Yan Shaozhe: No matter how advanced cars become, horse-drawn carriages will never be phased out!]
But when Jiang Yan drove the car outside, Yan Shaozhe was utterly dumbfounded.
Outside, there were cars almost everywhere, with not a single one of those supposed horse-drawn carriages in sight...