Chapter 259 : You Rock, Highgod! 9 (1/2)

Shi Sheng enunciated each word loudly, allowing everyone present to hear her words perfectly.

She summarised what had happened in a few short words: Yue Yao got drunk and ended up making a mistake, tying her and Cang Lan together, which nearly caused her to fail her tribulation to become a Highgod.

It was well known throughout the Heavenly Realm that Yue Yao was a klutz; she’d committed a lot of mistakes in the past. However, since people found her clumsiness rather cute—and her attitude when apologising was very sincere—no one really blamed her.

She’d only started making enemies amongst the female immortals after she became close with Cang Lan all of a sudden.

But no one expected for her to have committed such a monumental mistake—this wasn’t an issue that could be resolved with just a few words.

Everyone’s gazes towards Yue Yao turned strange.

“I didn’t mean to…” Yue Yao tried to defend herself in a small voice.

“If I kill you and then say I didn’t mean to, can you come back to life and forgive me?”

“But aren’t you perfectly fine?” Yue Yao still persisted with this belief.

Shi Sheng raised her brow. “What if I’d failed my tribulation? What would you say then? That I wasn’t worthy of being a Highgod anyway, that I can only blame myself for my failure—so it wasn’t your fault?”

‘I can’t take it! I(lz) wanna chop this FL up!’

The thought had only just formed, yet Shi Sheng already had her sword drawn.

“Qing Guan, what are you doing?!” Cang Lan immediately stood in front of Yue Yao, shielding her.

Shi Sheng flexed her wrists, a slight, malicious smile slowly forming on her lips. “I’m testing this theory of mine: if what she says is true, then she should forgive me after I kill her.”

Yue Yao trembled in fear. She was just a minor immortal; even 10 of her would not be a match for a Highgod. ‘If Qing Guan really wants to kill me, I won’t even have a chance to resist!’

Yue Yao’s eyes swivelled as her thoughts spun. She seemed to have thought of something, for her eyes lit up.

“All the Highlords of the Heavenly Realm are supposed to guard their own red strings! They’ll only hand them over to me when it’s necessary, so why would yours end up with me?”

“Idiot,” Shi Sheng coldly spat out her reply before her figure blurred and shot towards Yue Yao.

Cang Lan intercepted Shi Sheng. “Why don’t you explain why your red string was with Yue Yao?”

“Brains are nice to have. I hope you’ll grow one.” Shi Sheng’s blade swept towards Cang Lan and forced him to retreat, giving her room to leap towards Yue Yao once again.

“Do you have a guilty conscience?! You put your red string in my place yourself, so how can you blame me?!” Yue Yao anxiously cried.

Shi Sheng’s blade fell without the slightest hesitation. Having suffered under this sword’s might before, Yue Yao’s body lost all strength and fell to the ground the moment she caught sight of the coldly gleaming blade. Her limbs were frozen in fear. She could only watch, terrified, as the blade descended.

“Oof…” A muffled grunt sounded beside her ear.

She found herself in someone’s arms, her vision blocked off.

“Highgod Cang Lan…” Yue Yao’s voice was trembling. ‘He…blocked it for me.’

Shi Sheng hadn’t expected Cang Lan would use his body to block the blow meant for Yue Yao either. However, after her initial surprise, she simply continued stabbing down.

‘If you’re going to deliver yourself to me(bbb), wishing to be killed, then I’m not going to be compassionate!’

Shi Sheng’s ferocious manner left the crowd gaping.

‘Mommy, Highgod Qing Guan is too fierce! Why doesn’t Highgod Cang Lan fight back?

…We haven’t seen a battle between Highgods before.

Highgod Cang Lan, don’t be so passive!

Get up! Fight back!’

No matter how hard they wished it, Cang Lan didn’t show any signs of retaliating against Shi Sheng’s attacks.