Chapter 660: How Awkward

Sensing the "yuri-esque" gazes from the several Title Douluo around her, the Mermaid Princess wished she could tear Miss Xiaobai's mouth shut.

Everyone here had the strength of a Title Douluo; if they wanted to eavesdrop and one didn't deliberately use Spirit Power to guard against it, who could stop them!

"I think she will agree."

A strange voice suddenly inserted itself between them.

Xiaobai and the Mermaid Princess turned their heads at the same time, only to see Qin Jian standing behind them, looking inexplicable.

He was even poking his head in, as if he wanted to join their discussion.

"Master," Xiaobai's face twitched: "You seem to be one of the parties involved, right?"

Qin Jian put his hand to his mouth and coughed dryly: "Can't help it, the party involved feels too awkward, I can only make small talk."

That actually rhymed...

"Then why do you think the High Priest will agree?"

When the Mermaid Princess wasn't looking for trouble, her voice was still quite pleasant to listen to.

Qin Jian smiled: "Because that is the Assessment required by the Sea God... hmm?"

His expression suddenly changed, and he then turned to look at Poseixi.

She was still smiling gently and softly as she listened to Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu's persuasion, appearing to have no hard feelings at all.

But, how could there be no hard feelings?!

"Master, what's wrong with you?" Xiaobai asked in surprise.

Qin Jian frowned and said nothing.

Poseixi's identity had always existed as the Sacrifice for the Sea God's successor; now that there was a legitimate opportunity to avoid Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu completing the Sea God Nine Trials, wouldn't she naturally go along with it?

"I know now," the Mermaid Princess suddenly clapped her hands: "He means that such a rare Sea God Nine Trials, and it being the will of Lord Sea God, as Lord Sea God's most devout believer, the High Priest will not refuse."

"That makes sense too!"

Xiaobai nodded repeatedly.

Behind the six of them, the strange expressions on the faces of Hailong, Haima, and the other four Title Douluo had never returned to normal.

What kind of bizarre development is this?

Before, they were still facing a formidable enemy, but now how did two Sea God Nine Trials pop up, and it seems Lord Sea God is even using the Assessment to play matchmaker between their High Priest and that Soul Beast King...

I don't get it!

"Mr. Qin..."

The woman's gentle and graceful voice suddenly rang out beside them.

Qin Jian turned his head and saw Poseixi standing beside him, not knowing when she had arrived.

The woman in the red robe had long hair fluttering; she was as beautiful as jade, gentle and moving.

If not for that kind of thought, she would just be one of the three Limit Douluo, and many people would keep their distance out of respect.

But since Qin Jian and she had that premise between them, they would naturally look at each other with the eyes of the opposite sex.

Thus, everything became different.

"What does Mr. Qin think of their Assessment content?" Poseixi smiled faintly.

Qin Jian turned to face her, a look of inquiry in his eyes: "Does the High Priest not want to refuse?"

"Why would I refuse?"

Looking at him now, Poseixi was already much more natural.

After all, she was a peak existence; her state of mind had long since become rounded and complete.

"For me, I have spent this entire life following the guidance of Lord Sea God. Since the God Trial content is like this, I will accept it and try it," a glimmer of anticipation seemed to flash across her face: "I also want to know... what that will feel like."

Everyone was surprised by her generosity, yet they didn't feel it was out of place; it seemed it should have been this way.

Having reached her stage, she had long since seen through her own heart and nature, remaining steadfast in what she held onto, and would not have her state of mind affected by external things.

So, living together, holding hands, what does it matter? It is just a novel experience, after all.

Hailong Douluo and the others thought they had learned the truth and were finally relieved.

"I think the High Priest cannot be unaware that once they truly pass the Sea God Nine Trials, then you..."

Qin Jian was determined to speak plainly.

He didn't want to keep guessing, adding a layer of distrust to the future.

Although his words were not completely spelled out, Poseixi still grasped his meaning.

She looked at Qin Jian, her eyes calm, as if she had seen enough of the vicissitudes of the past hundred years: "No one can be immortal; if that step is not crossed, one will be bound forever..."

"Mr. Qin..."

Poseixi was very peaceful: "If fate is such, then I do not want to deliberately make things difficult; I only want to do things in this final time that will not make me regret."

"Since the High Priest thinks so, then what else is there for me to say," Qin Jian shook his head and smiled: "It is beneficial to them, and to me, it is even... harmless."

"Then..."

Poseixi smiled as she looked at Qin Jian.

Qin Jian smiled as he looked at Poseixi.

"Whoosh..."

A breeze blew, lifting the hems of their robes... it was unbearably awkward.

At this moment, not only was Qin Jian cursing in his heart, but even Poseixi was complaining about the Sea God.

He doesn't understand the little ambiguity between men and women at all; is he playing a dating sim? First hold hands, then live together...

Many things are supposed to happen naturally!

You Sea God, you iron-straight man!

This is so awkward now that it's been laid out...

"High Priest, thank you for your hospitality during our time on Sea God Island..."

Qin Jian suddenly reached out his hand in the posture of a handshake: "Speaking of which, I don't know if you've heard of this etiquette, it's a handshake for first meetings to show friendliness."

Poseixi blinked her water-like eyes, the corners of her lips curling up quietly: "This is interesting; I didn't know friendliness could be expressed this way."

Ning Rongrong and the others were full of question marks.

How had they never heard of such an etiquette?

But Poseixi secretly praised Qin Jian's ability to react on the spot, quietly dissolving the awkwardness into nothingness.

Clearly, Qin Jian didn't think this hand-holding had any significance either; he was just completing a task.

So she reached out her hand and gave Qin Jian's a light shake: "Welcome to Sea God Island. From now on, please stay with me in the Sea God Hall. The conditions are simple, so I hope you won't mind."

Thinking to herself that this handshake was purely for welcome, Poseixi, who had never touched palms with a member of the opposite sex in her life, still inevitably trembled when she felt that strange sensation.

"So... intimate contact with someone you have good feelings for... really does feel like an electric shock..." she murmured in her heart.

Qin Jian shook her hand slightly and immediately let go: "Then I'll be troubling you."

"Hum, hum."

At this moment, golden light flickered on both Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu simultaneously.

Their auras rose rapidly, and they soon reached Level 70.

"This reward is so generous..." Qin Jian sighed.

If they had to cultivate on their own, it would have taken at least two or three years.

"So, what will the second Assessment be?" Poseixi asked.

She glanced at Haima Douluo first.

Haima Douluo's expression was better than last time, but still a bit strange.

"Hmm... the content of the second Assessment is to pass through the Sea God's Light within three months..." he said.

Poseixi breathed a sigh of relief, almost imperceptibly: "Finally, something normal. The Sea God's Light helps improve Sea God affinity and physical resilience; almost all Assessments will go through it, though the requirements vary."

"There's more..."

At this moment, Haima Douluo hadn't finished speaking: "These two young ladies participating in the Assessment are forbidden from disturbing... the cohabitation of Sea God Douluo Poseixi and the Soul Beast King Qin Jian within three months..."

Poseixi: "..."

That steel-straight-man Sea God Lord is truly endless...

(End of chapter)