Chapter 173: Bai Yuan and Qian Renxue

the Star Dou Great Forest.

Qian Renxue looked at the bronze mask on Bai Yuan's face; on her absolutely beautiful face, she revealed a strikingly lovely smile.

Bai Yuan said: "Do you think using force is a major matter or a minor one? Do you think if I use force on you, it's rude or not?"

His gaze was calm, his eyes dark as night, he just quietly looked at Qian Renxue, his voice without a ripple.

On Qian Renxue's flawless face, she still wore a picture-perfect smile; she said solemnly: "Using force is a major matter, but removing the mask is a minor matter; using force to remove the mask is neither big nor small."

"As for you using force on me, I don't find it rude at all; in fact, I have a little anticipation in my heart."

Bai Yuan listened, not knowing how to retort Qian Renxue; he began to use his spiritual power to secretly outline the patterns of their respective formations.

After all, Gu Yue Na couldn't possibly come out to help him.

Thus Bai Yuan continued to stall for time: "Expectation? What expectation? Expecting me to ruthlessly toy with you? Do you have a masochistic tendency? The last time we met, why didn't I notice?"

Qian Renxue was neither angry nor annoyed; she gazed at Bai Yuan with a smiling gaze, the light flowing in her golden eyes as she said: "If you want, you can, because you are qualified to be the man on me."

Bai Yuan feigned surprise: "Shouldn't you be thinking of yourself being on top? As a god, you have no ambition or lofty aspirations."

Qian Renxue still smiled narrowly: "If you like, that's fine; I don't care whether I'm on top or bottom, I only care whether the face beneath your mask is him."

Bai Yuan sighed, then smirked: "Now I actually wish I were the master, after all being able to take a god as a mount—why not? You agree, right?"

Qian Renxue didn't respond to Bai Yuan's words; she merely lifted her gaze to look at the sun gradually moving toward the center of the sky, then turned her eyes back onto Bai Yuan.

Qian Renxue said bewilderedly: "Actually, I'm quite doubtful in my heart right now."

Bai Yuan's curiosity was piqued, and to stall for time he asked: "You, the mighty God of Angels, what do you have to be doubtful about?"

Qian Renxue said to herself: "What I'm doubtful about is, if you're not Bai Yuan, then the person I like—is it Bai Di, or Bai Yuan, or perhaps both of you?"

Bai Yuan's dark eyes showed no emotional fluctuation as he said: "Liking both master and disciple at the same time? You seem quite flirtatious!"

Qian Renxue shook her head: "Perhaps I've always felt you are Bai Yuan; during the Angel's Ninth Trial, when I was about to pass and saw you remove your mask, it was Bai Yuan."

Bai Yuan, hearing this, seemed intrigued: "The Angel's Ninth Trial? About to pass? You wouldn't have done something indescribable to that illusory master, would you?"

Qian Renxue still shook her head: "He reminded me to rely on myself, and that wasn't really him, so I held back, but I still came to understand my own heart, which is why I urgently came to find you, wanting to remove your mask."

A flicker of realization crossed Bai Yuan's heart; through Qian Renxue's account, he also roughly understood her experience passing the Ninth Trial.

That is, Bai Yuan faced—he was a person with no flaw in his state of mind, and on him was a set of divine artifacts, the Angel God.

Qian Renxue as she is now is absolutely not comparable to the disabled Abyssal Holy Lord after possessing the Deep Sea Demon Whale King.

Her overall strength has definitely reached the Nascent Soul mid-stage.

Thus Bai Yuan continued: "Qian Renxue, you actually don't need to be obsessed; I'm a married man, whether I remove the mask or not, and whether I'm the master or not, it has nothing to do with you."

Qian Renxue said lightly: "Then you should just remove the mask to let me give up; but your current concealment only makes me more convinced you are Bai Yuan; as for the wife matter, if you are him, I don't care."

Bai Yuan said speechlessly: "You don't care that I mind, my wife also minds, so you should just go back where you came from and not harm our friendship."

As they spoke, Bai Yuan couldn't help but put his hand to his forehead.

Qian Renxue's gaze, however, became strange.

"You're actually a wife-dominated man?"

Bai Yuan's face beneath the mask darkened slightly.

Qian Renxue's face, however, showed a look of realization: "Besides, you're probably no match for your own disciple, being controlled by her is quite normal."

Initially Bai Yuan and Mu Jun went ahead, then later five of them walked together, hanging onto him from behind, coming up from the rear; Qian Renxue naturally guessed the identity of the wife Bai Yuan spoke of.

Bai Yuan instantly flared up, wanting to retort but immediately realizing it was wrong; he said lightly: "A senior brother isn't a match for a junior sister—that's normal; I'm just older than her…… Actually I'm not older, I just became her disciple earlier."

Qian Renxue momentarily couldn't think of how to continue the conversation; she had deliberately mentioned master and disciple just to test, yet still discovered nothing.

After thinking, Qian Renxue said: "Bai Yuan, take off the mask; I know it's you—if you really aren't him, why won't you remove it?"

Bai Yuan seemed unwilling to explain, or perhaps changing the subject, he said: "Let's still talk about the second thing you mentioned when you came to find me—what is it?"

Qian Renxue's lips curled up a perfect arc as she said: "If you take off the mask, I'll tell you what it is."

Bai Yuan remained silent, just quietly looking at Qian Renxue there—after all, he was just stalling for time, speaking or not made no difference.

Qian Renxue also didn't speak again; the two of them just stood there, silently gazing at each other, waiting for time to pass second by second.

During that time, Gu Yue Na also in secret dispersed all the Soul Beasts within a radius of tens of thousands of meters, driving them far away.

Finally, as the sun was about to reach the exact center of the sky, Qian Renxue suddenly spoke softly: "That matter should be very important to you, concerning the life and death of all of you, but to me it's not that important—do you really not want to hear it?"

Bai Yuan's heart skipped a beat; he was fully aware that Qian Renxue's words were certainly not idle talk, because she would likely not deceive herself.

But Bai Yuan could not possibly remove the mask, for doing so would surely anger the God of Destruction and the God of Asura, thereby triggering unpredictable events.

After thinking, Bai Yuan suddenly chuckled: "Qian Renxue, I and my master have misjudged you—I didn't expect you to be such an ungrateful wretch."

Hearing Bai Yuan's words, Qian Renxue couldn't help but furrow her brows, asking: "How did I become an ungrateful wretch? I never thought of being your enemy, nor did I ever intend to harm your life; I only wanted to confirm your identity."

Bai Yuan smiled: "Originally, the master sent you a hundred-thousand-year-old Soul Beast for you to re-cultivate; on your deathbed, when your foundation was unstable in the Spirit Hall, he sent Di Tian to help you, and not long ago I also gave you five pieces of hundred-thousand-year-old soul bones."

"And now, you have this kind of information that could threaten my life; not telling me right away would be bad enough, but you're even using it to threaten me."

"Such behavior—what else could it be but being an ungrateful wretch?"

(End of chapter)