At these words, disbelief and shock flickered in Jiang Jing's eyes, yet not a hint of joy accompanied them.
"M-Master, you intend to leave this place?"
Her words stumbled slightly, but Yuan Longxuan offered no reply.
"Then... what about me? Master, will you abandon me?"
Jiang Jing's mismatched blue-and-green eyes stared vacantly at Yuan Longxuan as he lounged carefree in the sunlight. In her heart, she could not comprehend....why?
"That depends entirely on your own wishes. Truth be told, I dislike forcing anyone."
Yuan Longxuan rolled over and glanced back at Jiang Jing, who stood behind the sofa.
Noticing his gaze upon her, her heterochromic pupils grew flustered, and her small hands fidgeted uncertainly.
"What I did to you back then was only to ensure you settled down and behaved.
As for the golden mark on your forehead, it was merely a precaution to prevent you from harming Xue Ke and the other girls."
Here, his tone shifted subtly.
"But remember this: I bought you purely out of pity.
It would have been tragic for someone like you to fall into the hands of those corrupt nobles. That is all."
As Yuan Longxuan's words sank in, Jiang Jing fell silent. She knew, deep down, that every word was true.
"And don't assume that refined, middle-aged man who arrived with your mother is any kind of saint.
I've known him for over twenty years.
For him to bid two million gold soul coins against me, your mother must have agreed to whatever demands he made."
His voice drifted softly into her ears, though confusion clouded her eyes.
"He is the sect leader of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect—a thorough businessman through and through.
Do you truly believe he stopped bidding because he lacked the funds?"
"No. He simply decided you weren't worth the price. Perhaps your mother signed away your rights in a contract...that's the only reason he was willing to pay for you at all."
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Hearing this, Jiang Jing's eyes widened in shock. After all, at the auction, her own mother had been urging her to go with that middle-aged man!
"I heard every word between you and your mother clearly.
Of course, that old fox Ning Fengzhi heard it too. But as you saw later, he didn't dare show the slightest attitude in front of me."
Yuan Longxuan stretched lazily and slowly stood up, shifting his gaze to the little cat girl, Jiang Jing.
"You come from a noble background, so you should understand full well what goes on among the nobility. In super sects like the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect or the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect, the things that happen are merely magnified infinitely compared to what occurs in minor noble families like yours."
"But Tianshui Academy is still very pure. Aside from me as the team leader, everyone else here is a girl."
After all, in Tianshui Academy, there was only his small team made up of his dozen or so wives.....and more often than not, it was those little girls who made the first move on him.
Yawning, a trace of sleepy tears appeared at the corner of Yuan Longxuan's eyes.
"Just as I told you back at the auction: behave yourself and don't cause trouble, and I won't do anything to you.
Everyone has the right to choose. Here, I will give you sufficient fairness and freedom."
He was feeling drowsy. Though he was now a near-divine being with cheats, habits from his previous life still made him inexplicably sleepy in the afternoons.
"If there's nothing else, go back and rest. I need my afternoon nap."
Yuan Longxuan issued the dismissal. After all, he had plans to visit Bibi Dong that night.
By now, Bibi Dong was very close to godhood, and he knew full well the temperament of that old fellow, the Asura God.
He suspected that Bibi Dong's ninth trial might be unusually simple.....perhaps even allowing her to ascend to the God Realm early to inherit his position as the Enforcement God.
When he had returned to Spirit City after more than a decade away, Bibi Dong had told him everything that happened on the Road to Hell.
Thanks to absorbing a complete set of ferocious beast soul bones and taking immortal herbs that sublimated her martial soul, she had forcibly broken out of the illusion set by the Rakshasa God.
Later, as she departed, she finally met the Asura God as she had hoped and received his divine trials.
Over the years, Bibi Dong had approached these trials with a deliberately unhurried, perfectly steady attitude.
Yet during the seventh trial, the Asura God appeared in person, delivering the super-divine Asura Sword into her hands and declaring that trial complete.
To this, Bibi Dong had replied that she still needed to wait for her husband....she couldn't finish the trials and ascend to the God Realm so quickly.
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