Chapter 454: Sovereign God (1/2)

”So, this is like a ticking time bomb?” Xue Wei asked, with a bit of solemnity in his eyes. ”It will attack whenever it wishes, and then I will have to fight not only the outside factors but also against my own body?”

”Pretty much,” Lan smiled. ”Look at it as a way to temper your body and your mind. But keep in mind, that if you die, the Monarch Piranha Flower will also die, so the likelihood of it taking over during a battle is quite small.

”Of course, that does not mean that it is impossible. It could happen, but the chance is not very big.”

”And you led us here to meet the Monarch Piranha Flower for what reason again?” Xue Wei could not help but ask with a bit of annoyance.

”Oh, it was to test your skills,” Lan answered. ”The Monarch Piranha Flower was even more shrewd than I had expected, attacking you like this. I had not expected it to conjure a seed and take root in your heart. It is indeed unfortunate, but make the best out of it.”

Xue Wei knew that if Lan wanted to, he would be able to remove the Monarch Piranha Flower's seed from his heart, but he also knew that he was not likely to do so if he asked.

He was not a dumb person. He knew that Lan had some purpose for getting close to him, and the more time they spent together, the more puzzled Xue Wei became.

He did not think that Lan wanted him dead, but at the same time, he was causing him to experience danger after danger, and he was not going to help out. Even now, when he faced a deadly threat, Lan was smiling and speaking of it as if he was discussing the weather.

It was clear that Lan did not hold affectionate feelings for Xue Wei. Sometimes, like now, where they experienced dangers due to Lan's arrangements, Xue Wei had a weird sense of feeling that Lan hated him.

But moments later, Lan would do something that made it possible for Xue Wei to survive, and if he hated him, why would he help him? It was puzzling, and Lan was an enigma that Xue Wei could not understand.

This was also why he was not willing to ask for help. He was confident that Lan would not help him, at least not before his life was truly hanging by a thread.

Looking at Xue Wei, Lan did indeed have mixed emotions.

On one hand, he disliked him. On the other hand, he admired him and found his personality very likable.

But Xue Wei was a halfbreed. He was a mixture of different races, something that had been forbidden ten thousand years prior, and in these ten thousand years, he had become the only one successfully born.