Chapter 271 : You Rock, Highgod! 21 (2/2)

In the case of Yin-Yang Gu, after intercourse, the Gu in the male’s body wouldn’t enter the female’s—it would just enter a hibernation state to evolve. During this period, the male would need her to supply energy for him.

And once the Gu finished evolving, the male had to kill off the female. Otherwise he would always be under her influence in the future.

Conversely, if the female wanted to be the one in control, she had to kill off the male before the Gu evolved. Essentially, this Gu allowed only one to survive.

Afterwards, the survivor would initially feel as though they had increased in strength. But in the later stages…every time they used their power, they would receive a backlash. This would carry on until the Gu completely devoured whatever power was left in their body.

“Dunno, but she seems rather smug.” San-San’s pinched his fingers together as he raised his pitch in an attempt to mimic Yue Yao’s tone, “‘Go call Qing Guan! I want to see her!’ Hmph! Does she think she can see Boss just because she wants to?”

Shi Sheng swept her gaze over him, whereupon he immediately stopped with the orchid hand[1] nonsense.

“Just say I’m not here.”

‘Of course nothing good can come from FL-sama knocking at my door. I’d(bbb) be an idiot to see her.’

“Alrighty!”

San-San immediately ran out.

The moment he left, Dong Jing entered. “I saw an immortal outside just now.”

“En,” Shi Sheng answered in a carefree tone. “Finished fighting today?”

“No. The immortals suddenly retreated.” Dong Jing unceremoniously picked a teacup off the table and helped himself to some tea.

“A sudden retreat, followed by the F—Yue Yao suddenly running over to my place. They’re playing at something alright!” Shi Sheng laughed coldly.

‘I’m curious. Did the FL finally grow a brain and decide to play the plotting game with me?’

Dong Jing gulped his tea down in an uncultured manner before speaking in a confident tone, “She should have some bargaining chip up her sleeve.”

“It’s just our red strings; what kind of bargaining chip could she have?” Shi Sheng scoffed coldly.

Tying two people’s red strings together created a mutual attraction between them, making it easier for them to get together. However, this wasn’t the only thing determining whether or not they would become a couple. There were other external factors at play as well.

Had this not been the case, there wouldn’t be so many unhappy couples in the world.

“Red strings?” Dong Jing appeared rather surprised. “What red strings?”

“She tied us together with our red strings but did something else to them that made her confident I’d submit to her.” Since Dong Jing was personally involved in this matter, Shi Sheng felt he had the right to know.

Dong Jing’s eyes narrowed. After a short moment of silence, he spoke, “No wonder I don’t want to kill you.”

Shi Sheng, “…” ‘That’s all?’

“Why was your red string with her?” This was what Shi Sheng was more curious about. After all, Dong Jing was once a Highlord, so he should have had his red string with him even after leaving the Heavenly Realm.

All of a sudden, Dong Jing raised his head to look at Shi Sheng. His calm gaze became somewhat probing. “Before your mother fell…did she not tell you anything?”

Shi Sheng searched Qing Guan’s memories again without finding anything relevant, so she shook her head. Qing Guan had been quite young back then, having only just reached her first century…

‘Hey, wait a second! Weren’t we talking about red strings? How come the topic changed to Qing Guan’s parents?’

“Then do you know about the fact that I was just a step away from being promoted to a Highgod?”

“En.” Everyone in the Heavenly Realm knew about this matter, they just weren’t clear about the reason behind it. There were all sorts of speculations, but none of had any real evidence behind them.

Dong Jing lowered his head, his voice low as he spoke, “It was because of Yue Ning.”

‘Yue Ning? Don’t recognise that name. Never heard of it before. But people with the surname Yue have around an 80-90% chance of being related to the FL…’

[1] This is a hand gesture in traditional plays that looks like this: