Chapter 213
“Of course, it’s not just that,” Liang Pozhou said. “The first condition is that you must promise not to seek revenge against my descendants. Only if you agree to this will I reveal the location of Miya's bones and how to use them to evolve your divine gifts. But if you want the dragon scales, you’ll need to agree to another request of mine.”
**Chapter 275: Your Caution is Your Shackles**
Yu Xunge countered, “How do you know that his bones can evolve divine gifts? Can it evolve the gifts of all players, or just mine?”
Liang Pozhou replied, “It can only evolve your divine gifts. I learned this through a certain item.”
Yu Xunge asked, “What item?”
Liang Pozhou chuckled, “No need to play dumb. Since you found your way here, you must have received its assistance.”
Unable to help herself, Yu Xunge took a step back. “What other requests do you have besides not seeking revenge against the Liang family?”
Liang Pozhou said, “After you’ve used the sea demon’s bones, bring them to me. I want to use them to resurrect.”
One flaw after another was seamlessly covered by Liang Pozhou.
If he had claimed that Miya's bones could evolve divine gifts based on research from the institute, she would have been suspicious. If such a valuable item could upgrade gifts, why wouldn’t he leave it for his descendants? Even if the Liang family hadn’t awakened their divine gifts at that time, they could have kept it as a collection.
If Liang Pozhou’s second request hadn’t been about resurrecting himself, she would have doubted his intentions. How could a man who profits from the sea demon and sells it to pharmaceutical companies be so selfless? After being petrified at the bottom of the sea for so many years, was it really just to help his descendants reconcile with their enemies?
His openness and the information he provided were compelling.
Yu Xunge asked, “How do we make this deal?”
Liang Pozhou answered, “In the cabinet to your three o'clock, there’s an old tooth from a sea demon pup that you can use to swear an oath. From this moment on, you will no longer harm the Liang family, and I will tell you the location of the sea demon’s bones and how to use them to evolve your divine gifts. Once you bring me Miya's bones, I will give you the dragon scales. Of course, I will also swear an oath.”
Yu Xunge firmly refused, “I can refrain from taking action against her or the Liang family regarding my grievances with Liang Yuchuan, but if the Liang family attacks me first, I won’t just sit back and do nothing. Even if our grudges are settled, I will never allow Liang Yuchuan’s eye, which I’ve already blinded, to heal.”
Liang Pozhou replied, “I know her problem isn’t with her eye. Fine, I can use my abilities to help you solidify her current state. As long as you don’t take action against the Liang family, I can curse her so that her current injuries cannot be healed by any means.”
Yu Xunge fell into a long silence, her heart sinking deeper.
He had actually seen through her test, knowing that Liang Yuchuan’s injury wasn’t her eye. Did he truly know everything?
Moreover, Liang Pozhou’s schemes and greed, the journey of betrayal he had undergone, the “truth” that was just right in his words, and the layers of reactions in their conversation all revealed the cunning and composure of a man who had endured hardships for half a lifetime and rapidly risen in a short time.
Even this story seemed to echo the words on the statue: “A choice without regret, a life betrayed.” In Liang Pozhou’s mouth, wasn’t it the sea demon that had betrayed him? He would never regret betraying the sea demon.
He had motives and purposes; he wanted to collaborate with Yu Xunge, both for his descendants and for himself.
Everything, everything was just so perfectly aligned!
Even the **Malicious Detector** hadn’t gone off.
It was as if every thought of Yu Xunge fit seamlessly with his.
Every statement he made gave Yu Xunge a sense of “this is how it should be.”
But it was precisely this perfection that alarmed her. There couldn’t possibly be someone whose every thought was perfectly in sync with hers, nor could there be someone whose every statement managed to evade suspicion.
It was like someone believing in the inherent goodness of human nature, while Yu Xunge thought that human nature was generally selfish, with the only difference being that some people disdain to disguise it, while others prefer to hide it deep within. Thus, she trusted the words of true villains more.
The ever-cautious Tu Lan quietly asked Yu Xunge in her heart, “Is there something wrong? Isn’t the problem with your enemy not her hands or feet?”
Yu Xunge replied, “It’s hard to say.”
She planned to withdraw for now; since she sensed something was off, why rush to make a decision?
However, just as she took a step back, a countdown clock appeared above Liang Pozhou’s head, and it was surprisingly long—three minutes.
Yu Xunge: …
You just kept talking to me, and now you’re adding a time limit! And on top of that, you have a time effect.
Liang Pozhou sighed, “I’ve been asleep for 73 years just to wait for you. My time to awaken is limited. Once I fall back into slumber, waking up again will come at a cost. If I can’t be resurrected then, I’ll have to sleep for a hundred years.”
Yu Xunge turned to leave.
“Isn’t that enough?!”
“A deal this fair, the evolution of divine gifts, the dragon ancestor’s reverse scales—doesn’t that tempt you?”
“Is the enmity between the Liang family and you truly irreconcilable? Haven’t you already taken your revenge?”
“The answer given by the Mind Catcher is that Miya's bones can resolve your grievances with the Liang family and allow your divine gifts to evolve. What are you so wary of? What are you hesitating about?”
“The path to the heavens is right before your eyes, the opportunity to evolve your divine gifts is right in front of you, yet you hesitate, shrink back, and doubt everything. Any flaw will be magnified in your eyes, and even a lack of flaws will seem like a flaw…”
“Do you think your actions at this moment are cautious? Rational? Calm? No! This is cowardice!!”
“You think you’re weighing gains and losses, but one day, the moments you spend weighing those gains and losses will be enough to make you lose everything!”
“You fear oversights, fear risks, fear failure! Your caution is your shackles!”
“Do you think that true strong people grew up hiding in the sewers? No! It’s blood, it’s relentless forward motion, it’s about destroying everything in their path, not about being overly prepared and waiting for every risk to be eliminated before taking action.”
Yu Xunge stood quietly in the corner, listening to Liang Pozhou’s final words. Her gaze lowered, her eyes hiding emotions that others couldn’t comprehend. In the dim light, in the deep sea, behind the transparent water shield, her face was obscured.
Liang Pozhou’s tone was intense, as if Yu Xunge had committed some heinous act.
The three minutes eventually came to an end.
In the final moments, Liang Pozhou shouted, “Is this still not enough to make you believe me?! Do you even have a heart?!”
Then, time hit zero, the clock vanished, and the cabin returned to darkness.
When Yu Xunge used her detection skill on the crystal coffin again, she found she could no longer gather any information.
Tu Lan had held her breath since Liang Pozhou began his tirade. Yu Xunge’s emotions were so heavy that she didn’t dare move. Now sensing Yu Xunge relax, she cautiously leaned in and whispered in her ear, “What should we do?”
Yu Xunge said, “I have one… no, two guesses that need to be confirmed.”
**Chapter 277: You Old Dog, What Right Do You Have to Call Me This Cute Little Dog?!**
After briefly closing her eyes to gather her thoughts, she said to Tu Lan, “You need to rewind time twice.”
Tu Lan complied, and time quickly flowed back to 250 seconds earlier.
At that moment, Liang Pozhou was just saying, “...From this moment on, you will no longer harm the Liang family, and I will tell you the location of the sea demon’s bones and how to use them to evolve your divine gifts. Once you bring me Miya's bones, I will give you the dragon scales. Of course, I will also swear an oath.”
Yu Xunge appeared to struggle, beginning to pace the room, clearing her mind, and gave the same response as before: “I can refrain from taking action against her or the Liang family regarding my grievances with Liang Yuchuan, but if the Liang family attacks me first, I won’t just sit back and do nothing. Even if our grudges are settled, I will never allow Liang Yuchuan’s eye, which I’ve already blinded, to heal.”
But at the same time, as she turned her back to Liang Pozhou, she cleared her mind, took out the **Mind Catcher**, and gripped it tightly. With a casual wave of her hand, she hit the “Big Adventure or Truth” that appeared above the hand bone—game on!—the hand bone firmly grasped her hand.
However, before she could form any thoughts, the hand bone that had been tightly gripping her right hand suddenly loosened.
From within the crystal coffin, Liang Pozhou said, “You don’t need to test me. I know that Yuchuan’s eyes aren’t actually blind; her problem lies with her ears.”
Yu Xunge tightened her grip on the sea demon’s hand bone!
So that’s it… it really is true!!!
She had initially planned that once the Mind Catcher held her, she would think to herself: this is a great opportunity for a test. Perhaps Liang Pozhou was just trying to deceive her. She didn’t believe that the **Life Resume** would leave out the fact that she had destroyed Liang Yuchuan’s ears.
But before that thought could fully form, time was rewound to just before the game began!
This indicated that Liang Pozhou not only had the ability to turn back time! He could even read her thoughts!
And his “perfection,” his “lack of flaws,” were all tested through repeated time reversals!
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