[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take":3,"chapter-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-13":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","If You Will Not Reject Me, I Wish to Bow and Take You as My Adoptive Father",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2276740,4454,"Chapter 13","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-13",13,"\u003Cp>\"General Guan, I am a man of the wilderness, not a subject of Shu. What to do is entirely up to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, the Qingsong Daoist acolyte added, \"I understand your doubt—why, after going to such lengths to find Sha Man Yu, do I treat her so lightly?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I do not treat her lightly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Though I’ve only met her once.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One glance, one word—that’s enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve already calculated her past, present, and future fate using the Innate Yi Numerology.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, as long as she remains free, she is the greater threat.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once we leave, she might emerge again to nurture another Sha Man dragon vein and forge a new Sand Empire.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But she is ultimately just a frail girl. Once caught, all her schemes collapse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In any case, you can’t simply release her in the Sand Dunes, can you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Actually, given her yearning for the Immortal Dao, once she leaves the Sand Dunes and severs ties with the Sha Man... even without much time—three or five years—should you set her free, she will never return.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, he sighed with a complex expression. \"Times have simply changed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She truly possesses innate wisdom—not a transcendent reborn, nor even possessing a past life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Today, she can civilize the Sha Man; had she been born ten million years earlier, in the primitive dawn of antiquity, her ability would not have changed—she could still civilize her people as she does now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only the era differs; the effect and achievement are worlds apart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In antiquity, had she civilizing humanity to this extent, even if she couldn’t rival the Three Sages of Humanity—Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan—she would still be a 'Sage-King of the Barbarians'... hmm, but in that age, all of humanity were barbarians; the Sha Man of today are no longer barbarians.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nowadays... ha! Forget 'Sage-King'—even you and I, ordinary mortals, if reborn into a barbarian tribe and awakening our memories, would achieve more than she does among the Sha Man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With memories from a past life, you and I—even many ordinary people—could nurture a barbarian dragon vein.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Salt-making, iron-smelting, farming, sacrifice, rites and teachings... just replicate what you remember from your past life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist’s theory required one grand premise: humanity’s civilizational development had reached its peak and could no longer rise significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he and Xiang Huchen were reborn in the wilderness, the utmost they could achieve was raising their tribe’s civilizational level to 'modern' standards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu and the Three Sovereigns of Humanity were different—the Three Sovereigns were true Saints, born in any era, inevitably elevating civilization by a great leap, even a qualitative breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu’s nature was identical to that of an 'ancient reborn'—her limit was merely the experience of her past life, except her experience surpassed the 'modern' level of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Huchen and Qingsong Daoist were 'modern people'; she was a 'future Three-Body person.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Qingsong Daoist could utter such words and believe that the Han Chinese of Nanzhan were now at their zenith—not because he was ignorant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite the opposite—he knew much, possessed great insight, hence this perspective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew the development history of the past ten million years... especially the last few hundred thousand years, during which even Nanzhan Han China merely cycled through dynasty after dynasty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today’s production technologies, such as iron smelting, are identical to those of a million years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Ren Sect’s civilizing influence has only been refined, never transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the era of the Three Sovereigns, when everything changed daily, a new dawn every day, civilization advancing at high speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With this understanding, he deemed 'Sha Man Yu'—even if a born Sage—no great threat: as long as the Qin endured, even if she wasn’t captured today, even if the Western Sha Man truly established an empire, it would merely be a repeat of yesterday’s 'Thirty-Six State Alliance'—a diminished version.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how the Sha Man developed, they could never rival Lu, the inheritor of Han Chinese heritage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the worst-case scenario would merely require the Marquis of Radiant Sun to make another journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His duty as a 'Dragon Vein Patrol Envoy' was to eliminate threats so the 'Marquis of Radiant Sun' needn’t waste time and energy on barbarian petty states in the west.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world was vast—many richer lands still awaited Qin’s conquest and civilizing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, wasn’t the Marquis of Radiant Sun transferred from the Eastern Sea front?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, in this era, 'born Sages' with innate wisdom are worthless—humanity’s Dao is flourishing, the Human Emperor reigns, heaven permits no second sun.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if the Three Sovereigns were reborn today, they’d be no more than a wise king, still firmly suppressed by our Qin Emperor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Had the karmic consequences not been too great, too injurious to heaven’s harmony, even a true Sage like the Three Sovereigns would be cut down with a single sword stroke.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, the Three Sovereigns became Sage-Kings not only through their great merit in civilizing humanity, but also because they were supreme cultivators themselves; once they stepped onto the Immortal Path, a few years of cultivation would bring them within reach of Da Luo Golden Immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sha Man Yu is no Three Sovereign—she possesses only innate wisdom, not a shred of their fortune or talent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist’s words were numerous, heavy with information; after pondering them, Xiang Huchen asked, \"Master, you say she has no past life? How can a person have no past life?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist chuckled, \"Do you think the Netherworld existed since the beginning of heaven and earth? Before the Netherworld opened and the Six Realms of Rebirth were established, was there no one in the primordial world?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You mean Sha Man Yu, like the primordial beings of ancient times, is not born from the reincarnation pathway, but is a primordial soul—a soul newly born from heaven and earth?\" Xiang Huchen exclaimed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist nodded lightly. \"Don’t be too astonished. Such cases are rare, but not unheard of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Common folk hope their children are incarnations of the Martial Star or the Literary Star, but cultivators understand the secrets of reincarnation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When a cultivator’s child takes up the Dao, they easily awaken memories of past lives, and familial bonds grow faint.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many 'purists' would rather remain childless than have offspring whose souls originate elsewhere.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially those demon immortals—they often possess innate great abilities and refuse to let their bloodline’s divine powers be stolen by outsiders.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Think about it—for a great cultivator, reincarnation is as easy as eating and drinking.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If one deliberately reincarnates into the descendants of ancient demonic beasts with great bloodline powers, a hundred or two hundred reincarnations would easily steal countless supreme divine abilities... why bother cultivating, meditating, or chanting the Huangting? Just queue up in the Netherworld for reincarnation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some extreme cultivators even created Dao arts to sever the fetus’s connection to the Six Realms of Rebirth, ensuring their offspring with their consort would be born as primordial souls without any reincarnation traces.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hence the saying: 'Cultivators find it hard to have offspring.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cultivators’ essence and blood are richer and denser than ordinary mortals’.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If ordinary mortals can bear children, cultivators willing to expend some essence can bear even more.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The difficulty in bearing offspring is purely a matter of unwillingness to compromise.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yet the Six Realms of Rebirth grow ever more popular.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Human hearts are heaven’s heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As the saying goes: 'Heaven pities the people! What the people desire, heaven must follow.'\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Netherworld’s authority over the Dao of Life and Death grows ever stronger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Many 'primordial souls' that appear are drawn by the Netherworld, 'washed clean' in the Six Realms of Rebirth, stamped with reincarnation marks, then entering fetal bodies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thus, cultivators’ offspring become even harder to conceive.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What special advantages do primordial souls have? Since there’s a term 'primordial,' doesn’t it mean better prospects on the Immortal Path?\" Xiang Huchen asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist countered, \"Before the Six Realms of Rebirth were established, did everyone in the world become Immortals?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ve heard cultivation was easier in ancient times,\" Xiang Huchen said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps true, but it has nothing to do with primordial souls—it’s simply because ancient times were primitive, cultivators were few, and heavenly treasures hadn’t yet been devoured by the old locusts... ahem, I mean the Immortal elders... yes, the elders had great fortune.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We later generations enjoy the blessings of our ancestors, receive the Daoist scriptures, and even enduring meditation is a blessing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old locusts who devoured heavenly treasures haven’t died yet!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only haven’t they died—they still occupy lofty positions in heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dare to speak ill of them, and if overheard, thunder and lightning strikes are the least of your troubles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Primordial souls, however, have less karmic entanglement—newborn souls, no past life, hence no debts from past lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, past lives can leave behind karmic debts or accumulate merit—advantages and disadvantages balance out, so no real advantage or disadvantage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you certain Sha Man Yu is a primordial soul?\" Xiang Huchen asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist sighed impatiently, \"Do you doubt my divination arts? I may not be able to summon the Netherworld’s Judge with a single talisman and directly inquire about someone’s origins and past lives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But whether one has undergone reincarnation—I open my spiritual eyes, and it’s crystal clear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For ordinary people who have passed through the Six Realms of Rebirth, I can even perform the 'Three Lives, Three Fates' technique to glimpse fragments of their first three lifetimes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"General Xiang, I’m willing to show you what your past life looked like—would you like to try? Perhaps you’ll find your descendants from your former life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, no need, Master, your divine powers are supreme—how could I dare doubt you?\" Xiang Huchen waved his hands rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I merely find Sha Man Yu too mature for her age,\" he explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Outsider’s ignorance! In Han China, there are many who become generals at eight and ministers at twelve—what’s so unusual about being precocious?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If one isn’t precocious, one isn’t even qualified to be called a genius!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s said: 'Outstanding people always display extraordinary signs; those without signs are mediocrities,'\" Qingsong Daoist dismissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master is right. I was born lowly, have seen little of Han China’s brilliance, and have judged by my own limited experience—like a frog in a well.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Huchen’s face bore genuine longing and shame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He too wished to be reborn in the glorious Han heartland!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist had no patience to continue chatting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had urgent matters to attend to and gave direct orders: \"The captured Sha Man Yu is no longer the focus. I will now sever the Sand Dune Kingdom’s dragon vein and, incidentally, locate the Hidden Dragon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once I find the Hidden Dragon, I’ll take both him and Sha Man Yu back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What to do with them is up to you—just keep them under your watch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for the remaining Sha Man, you may dispose of them as you wish—slaughter, bury alive, or ignore them entirely. Do you understand?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Huchen nodded. \"I understand. If someone occupies the latrine without using it, no one else can use it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as the Hidden Dragon lives, his fortune won’t flow to the next Hidden Dragon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you simply kill him, the Hidden Dragon is like a blade of grass—cut one crop, and the next grows easier.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moreover, mass slaughter of Hidden Dragons invites heavenly wrath and severe karmic backlash.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qingsong Daoist said coolly, \"My meaning is: you give the orders, you carry out the actions—and whatever you do has nothing to do with me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am a secluded man of the world, hoping to transcend the heavenly tribulation and become an Immortal—I wish to avoid further karmic entanglements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I understand,\" Xiang Huchen’s lips twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your servant understands,\" said Xiang Huchen, his lips twitching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting from Xiang Huchen, Qingsong Daoist walked into the forest, muttering with a sneer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After parting with Xiang Huchen, the green-pine acolyte walked into the forest, pouting and muttering to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon qi is real and tangible; killing a potential dragon may transfer its dragon qi and heavenly mandate, but it won’t vanish immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better to keep the potential dragon close, and slowly wear him down over a lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hehe, half the eunuchs in Xianyang Palace were once foreign potential dragons!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for fortune... fortune is far less real than dragon qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trusting fortune is less reliable than trusting divine powers—divine powers can determine fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don’t even mention a mere potential dragon—how many true dragons has our Great Qin slaughtered across the land?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the Alliance of the Thirty-Six States—Lord Yangyang, a mere Marquis, has already severed the heads of kings and crown princes enough to fill dozens of carts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that awaits Lord Yangyang is promotion, elevation, and even deeper imperial favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmph, in the end, fortune—even dragon qi—is merely a tool manipulated and exploited by great divine powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To think you can reverse it and determine the fate of men and dynasties—do you really believe cultivation is about waiting passively to be controlled?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, accumulated karmic debt inevitably draws the killing calamity, and the coming heavenly tribulation will be utterly terrifying... Sigh, this Daoist truly longs to become an immortal. Let the barbarians of the Western Shu handle all the dirty work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to the highly manipulable “fortune,” karma is what terrifies cultivators most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lord Yangyang slays kings like chopping melons and vegetables, yet his fortune suffers no backlash—instead, he gains promotion and raise, ascending to the pinnacle of his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect during the Investiture era—those great masters—weren’t they all overflowing with merit and fortune like dragons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the Twelve Golden Immortals, several even assisted the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors—like Yunzhongzi and Chisongzi—who were called “True Immortals of Virtue,” yet still accumulated karmic debt, incurred killing calamities, and were forced into the Nine-Curve Yellow River Array of the Three Xiao Niangniang to lose their Three Flowers and shed their saintly status to return to mortality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If even the Twelve Golden Immortals suffered thus, what of other cultivators?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortune can be toyed with, merit can be deliberately earned—but karma is hard to erase; karmic accumulation inevitably triggers a killing calamity that cannot be avoided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Green Pine Disciple turned and left; Guan Huchen followed to question him, leaving Xiao Yu alone sitting inside the clamshell, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hmm, on the surface she appeared lost in thought, but in truth she observed her surroundings with the corner of her eye, her mind racing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some armored knights glanced at her curiously, their eyes filled more with curiosity than malice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This eased her breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The incident of killing the “Gangqi Master” hadn’t been exposed—or if it had, they took it as normal battlefield slaughter, where life and death are fate, and held no deep grudge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she saw a familiar figure: an old barbarian wearing a leopard-skin apron.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That old bastard was standing with the black-armored knights, and the knights weren’t even guarding him closely... Could it be, this traitor had defected to Western Shu and become a “barbarian turncoat”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damn it... why didn’t he take her along!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uncle Chancellor...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shh, don’t call me that!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black-armored knight is watching her—he won’t be fooled by your shushing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old barbarian gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t call me ‘Chancellor.’ Little Yu, we’re slaves—don’t think foolish thoughts, don’t speak recklessly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s going on?” Xiao Yu asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—You’re usually so sharp—why are you being stupid now? In front of all these armored butchers, how am I supposed to speak?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We obey General Guan and Master Green Pine—do whatever they tell us to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>General Guan has the eyes of an immortal—he looks up to the Heavenly Court, probes down to the Netherworld—he’s a celestial descending to earth, peerless in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Green Pine’s Dao arts are unmatched, nearly immortal already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they show even a shred of mercy, for us Sand Barbarians to serve as slaves and maids is the greatest fortune.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spoke vaguely, yet still slipped out some information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eyes of an immortal... unmatched Dao arts...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu completely gave up any hope of resistance; the “Great Annihilation Dad” technique began stirring within her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Little Yu, why are you inside the clamshell?” Seeing his words drew no rebuke from the armored knights, the old barbarian grew bolder and moved closer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can hold my breath—you know that,” Xiao Yu said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old barbarian’s expression was complex. “We thought you’d fled north. We never imagined you were hiding on the dunes, just beneath the water.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—If the Liusha River had no spirits, I’d have fled north directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When pursued by Ge Qing’s squad, she deliberately fled south.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corpses of the cavalry she killed formed an arc pointing southeastward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, Zhu Tong and Zhang San chased the “killer” southward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, after entering the Liusha River, she walked along the riverbed northward, then returned to the “rice paddy” on the dunes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clamshell lay sunken in the Liusha River beside the rice paddy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t soak directly in the water—she hid inside the clamshell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clam spirit had not yet awakened—it wasn’t a true spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But its shell was truly hard, and the faint “spirit aura” it emitted could mask her human aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t you say you threw the shell away?” the old barbarian asked again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could recount the tale of “Yu the Brave of the Sand Barbarians Slaying the Giant Clam”—he naturally knew the shell’s origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he clearly remembered: after killing the giant clam, she said keeping the spirit’s remains was inauspicious, and ordered the chieftain not to take the shell, but to throw it into the Liusha River on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I did throw it away—into the Liusha River, everyone saw. This time, I just happened to find it again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Happened to...” The old barbarian’s eyes flickered with cunning; he lowered his voice. “You planned this ‘Clamshell Escape Technique’ all along, didn’t you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yu wanted to slap him hard: at a time like this, in a setting like this, was it appropriate to show off your cleverness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She glared at him, saying nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What “Clamshell Escape Technique”? It was just a modified version of the “Old Man’s” well-shelter tactic from “The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She did it even more thoroughly than the Old Man—but the Old Man escaped Li Xiangchuan, while she couldn’t escape even a few “minor soldiers.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the Journey to the West world—compared to Sun Wukong and the spirits he met, Green Pine Disciple and Guan Huchen are minor soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, she wasn’t reborn into a celestial sect of the Central Kingdom—she’s worse off than a minor soldier, more pitiful and sly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you two talking about?” Guan Huchen returned after finishing his talk with Green Pine Disciple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Daddy~~~” Seeing Guan Huchen, Xiao Yu blurted out what she’d been thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>",3141,"2026-06-20T00:29:13.334Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","77f89fc0dc34c887b9a09b64038ab164ee97ac72894701a0be80596e7186695b","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-14","if-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-chapter-12",840,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fif-you-will-not-reject-me-i-wish-to-bow-and-take-cover.jpg"]