Chapter 690: When I Grow Old

"You, changing the subject."

As they walked, Poseixi suddenly tugged on Qin Jian's ear.

"I didn't..." Qin Jian said innocently.

Poseixi let go and said with a faint smile, "I asked you at the beginning what you would do when I grow old, so how did we end up talking about these people playing matchmaker?"

"Sister," Qin Jian took her hand and said earnestly, "I won't let you grow old. You will surely remain this young forever, believe me."

Poseixi was visibly stunned: "Not let me grow old..."

She was silent for a long time before sighing, "Qin Jian... without obtaining the approval of the Sea God, I can never become a god... and thus cannot maintain my youth..."

Qin Jian smiled slightly upon hearing this: "Sister, there is someone younger than you who said, 'If I want to become a god, why do I need an Inheritance?' Sister's talent is no worse than hers; it's just that for these decades you haven't thought to do so, instead binding yourself to the Sea God Position."

"If I want to become a god... why do I need an Inheritance..."

Poseixi murmured, speechless.

"If you were not the High Priest of Sea God Island, if you hadn't received the Top Eight Trials from the start, perhaps you would have walked another path, a path to become a god on your own..."

Qin Jian laughed: "The Sea God could create his own God Position, why can't you?"

Poseixi sighed in a low voice: "Creating one's own God Position, how is that easy? That person you speak of is truly a remarkable individual; who is she?"

Qin Jian smiled: "I'll take you to meet her when there's an opportunity."

"Someone with such grand spirit is rare to find even in one era, her status must also be extraordinary..."

Poseixi paused suddenly, then looked at Qin Jian with slightly strange eyes: "Could it be that Female Pope you mentioned?"

Qin Jian: "......"

Seeing his reaction, Poseixi knew she had guessed correctly.

"So she is your woman..."

Poseixi remained silent.

Although she had never shown it, as a Limit Douluo, how could she not have her own pride?

But now Qin Jian had clearly told her that there was another person in this world with talent no lower than hers, whose spirit was even higher than hers, and this person was actually also his woman, which dealt a significant blow to her proud heart...

"Such a remarkable woman... how could she... fall into the love between a man and a woman..." Poseixi was somewhat bewildered.

Qin Jian chuckled: "Aren't you the same?"

"Emotion has nothing to do with status, position, or age. It comes from the depths of our hearts, a longing and love that arises uncontrollably..."

He smiled very naturally, but the words he spoke moved Poseixi: "Just like what you kept asking earlier, what I would do when you grow old... I can tell you with certainty that when you grow old, nothing will change..."

"External appearances are merely a threshold. If one steps past it, then emotion takes the lead. Ten years, a hundred years pass, and such emotions are enough to make two people inseparable. So, even if we grow old, what of it?"

Qin Jian looked into her eyes and said: "At the very least, our spirits have already undergone Fusion, and can never be separated again."

"Is that... true..."

Poseixi looked at him blankly: "Is that... the kind of emotion you want?"

Qin Jian nodded: "What I want is a love that remains unchanged for ten million years, not fleeting pleasure or external appearances."

Poseixi was silent for a long time.

The two walked all the way, holding hands, toward the Sea Sacred Pillar.

"Qin Jian... I find it hard to believe... that a man as fickle as you would actually want that kind of emotion..."

Poseixi suddenly spoke softly, with a hint of a smile: "However, I will verify it myself."

Qin Jian squeezed her soft, boneless hand and raised his sword-like eyebrows: "How will you verify it?"

"First, by holding you in the palm of my hand," Poseixi reached out to grab Qin Jian's face, looking very controlling, but her smile was so soft: "Then, after a hundred or a thousand years, see how you treat me, or..."

Her hand changed from grabbing to a gentle caress, bringing a cool sensation to Qin Jian's cheek: "Or, when I am truly old one day, perhaps I will be able to see... to see if what you said is all true..."

"Bang!"

Just at this moment, a firework suddenly shot into the sky, blooming in the night sky like a giant flower that had suddenly opened, stunning the entire night.

Qin Jian and Poseixi subconsciously looked up.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Countless fireworks shot up from the seven cities of Sea God Island, turning the dark night into daylight and illuminating everyone's faces until they sparkled.

"The time has come."

Poseixi suddenly smiled slightly: "I didn't expect us to talk for so long; without realizing it, the sky has turned dark."

"What time?"

Qin Jian saw everyone gathered around the Sea Sacred Pillar, their faces filled with hope and anxiety, and suddenly understood something: "Is it what you said, that the Sea Sacred Pillar is going to bestow marriages?"

Poseixi nodded silently, then formed a heart shape with her hands, and a brilliant blue light flashed and vanished.

"Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!..."

A series of seven humming sounds rang out, and all seven Sea Sacred Pillars lit up with a faint pink glow, bringing a touch of beauty and longing.

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..."

Countless white beams of light descended from the sky, enveloping nearly a thousand people. They vibrated at different frequencies, guiding the men and women being matched to come together.

"According to the degree of compatibility in both parties' wishes, the Sea Sacred Pillar will grant a marriage grade of white, Yellow, Purple, black, or red. The higher the grade, the more compatible the two are," Poseixi explained to Qin Jian.

"Is it really that accurate?" Qin Jian asked curiously.

Poseixi smiled and shook her head: "It only increases the possibility that the two can continue together. Who can guarantee that two people can be perfectly compatible? All it can guarantee is the maximum possible chance."

"Swoosh!"

At this moment, the Yellow light beams began to light up.

Compared to the somewhat disappointed crowd chosen by the white light beams, many people under the Yellow light beams raised their faces in smiles.

Because the Yellow grade only numbered a hundred people, which was fifty pairs.

"At this rate, by the time we get to Purple, there will only be ten left? Black will probably be gone, and red will be even more..." Qin Jian said, speechless.

Poseixi nodded: "How could people ever be perfectly compatible? Being compatible to fifty or sixty percent is already quite a lot, and that can reach Purple; seventy or eighty percent is Black, and as for ninety percent Red, I personally feel that it is impossible to exist."

Seeing that there were indeed only four pairs of Purple light pillars left, Qin Jian could not help but agree with her words to some extent.

"Then do you think the two of us will be compatible?" he asked with a smile.

Poseixi unconsciously squeezed her hands: "I... don't know... the difference between us is too great; our races are different, our life experiences are vastly divergent, I worry... that we have no compatible parts at all..."

"That is impossible."

Qin Jian shook his head without hesitation: "If we were not compatible at all, then we would never have been able to reach this point today."

Poseixi raised her eyes, the light in the depths of them strange and gentle: "Then let us give it a try..."

(End of this chapter)