Douluo: A Century-old Legend I Am the Second Uncle Chenxin

Chapter 1880 Questioning in the Heart of the Lake
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From Xue Laixi's words, it was clear that unlike the united fifteenth generation of goddesses, the relationships among these older generation goddesses were not good.

This is understandable. Xue Laixi of the Heaven Dou Royal Family, Qian Buruo of the Spirit Hall, Bo Xian'er of Seagod Island, and so on, are all leaders of super powers, and none of them are willing to submit to anyone else.

Xia Qingyun had somehow produced a small jade pot, took a sip from the spout, and the strong aroma of alcohol instantly filled the air.

She clicked her tongue, not even bothering to lift her eyelids, and said in an extremely perfunctory tone, "How should I know? For the past ten days or so, haven't I been 'condescending' to stay in this dilapidated pavilion to keep you company, this lonely old woman?"

"To relieve boredom?" Xue Laixi suddenly became sharp, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. The gauze curtains hanging at the four corners of the waterside pavilion moved without any wind. "Do I need you to keep me company? Xia Qingyun, stop flattering yourself!"

"You've been loitering here for over ten days, freeloading and sleeping here. Now, immediately, get out of here! Get as far away as possible so I don't have to see you! Today is the last day of the Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament, aren't you going to go watch it?!"

"What's so interesting about this childish game?" Xia Qingyun scoffed, took another swig of wine, raised her drunken, hazy golden eyes, glanced at Xue Laixi, and said slowly, "Old hag, you don't know what's good for you. I, the dignified head of the fifteenth generation of goddesses, have lowered myself to accompany you, the lonely head of the fourteenth generation, and you still don't appreciate it? This is a blessing that others would beg for."

"A blessing?" Xue Laixi laughed angrily. "I can't accept this blessing! Your arrival has turned the entire Tiandou City upside down, causing chaos and unrest! I've already put up with not throwing you out for the past ten days out of consideration for the thinner-than-paper-thin friendship we had!"

"The world has turned upside down?" Xia Qingyun seemed to have heard an extremely absurd joke. Finally, she was willing to take her eyes off the wine pot and look directly at Xue Laixi. There was no trace of drunkenness in her eyes, only a cold indifference.

"Xue Laixi, don't try to smear your own Tiandou City's rotten mud on me! If you keep spouting nonsense and talking nonsense, don't blame me for not caring about our 'aunt and niece' relationship and turning against you on the spot!"

The Ming Prince's Mansion has a tradition of intermarriage with the Barak royal family, and her fire-attribute mutated martial soul is also inextricably linked to the Barak lineage.

Xue Laixi's mother was from a collateral branch of the Barak royal family.

"Aunt? Niece?" Xue Laixi seemed to be completely ignited by these two words. "Aunt my foot! We're practically strangers! I should have sunk to the bottom of Goddess Lake and fed to the fish long ago! I'd rather have nothing to do with you at all!"

She gritted her teeth and said, word by word, "But you, on the contrary, delivered yourself to my doorstep and made trouble! Every mess that has been stirred up in the murky waters of Tiandou City lately, which one of them wasn't stirred up by your claws, Golden Crow Goddess?"

Xia Qingyun turned her head away and faced the vast blue lake again. She raised her small jade pot and slowly sipped her drink, adopting an arrogant attitude that said, "I'm too lazy to argue with you, you shrew."

The sound of the wine sliding down the throat was exceptionally clear in the quiet waterside pavilion.

This dismissive attitude thoroughly enraged Xue Laixi.

She slammed her hand on the stone table!

"boom!"

There was a muffled sound.

The stone table remained motionless, not even the peeled eggs on it jumped, but a scorching shockwave of soul power, like a raging wind, suddenly spread out from the center of her palm, instantly tearing apart and pushing away the water pavilion!

Inside and outside the waterside pavilion, the view suddenly became crystal clear. The lake surface was steaming with billowing white mist, the water vapor hissing as it rose.

"Pretend! Xia Qingyun, keep pretending!" Xue Laixi's voice was like a gale blowing from the far north ice plains. "First, your future granddaughter-in-law created the aura of being the strongest genius in history, directly treating our Tiandou City as the place of her coronation, stealing the limelight and spreading her fame far and wide! That's not enough!"

Her speech grew faster and faster, each word like an icicle, piercing Xia Qingyun's seemingly languid back.

"Immediately afterward, taking advantage of the attack on the Chen family mansion, they stirred up trouble in the court under the name of the 'Silver Feather Alliance,' creating that damned 'Hidden Brightness Bureau.' They were flirting with your second son, Chen Zhang, and conspired together to directly attack the Crimson Cult's Black Nether Legion, slaughtering countless people!"

"And this will intensify the Inspectorate's attack on the Bloodlust Cult, thereby triggering a conflict between the surface and underground forces of Tiandou City. And then what? Your precious son, Chen Zhang, will immediately take up the banner of the Chen family, unite with a group of hungry wolf families who have long coveted the resources of the underground world, and brazenly invade the underground world to seize control of key locations!"

Xue Laixi sneered, "This is truly adding fuel to the fire! It has completely shattered the fragile balance that has been maintained on the surface and underground of Tiandou City for over a hundred years! The entire Tiandou City is now a powder keg that could explode at any moment, and all forces have been dragged into it, their eyes bloodshot with rage."

"And you, you hang around me, trying to get my attention so they can do what they want."

She leaned forward slightly, her gaze fixed intently on Xia Qingyun's face.

"Such an intricate and tightly linked scheme! Such precise and ruthless political maneuvering, using seemingly insignificant 'accidents' as a fulcrum to find a unique way to manipulate the entire court!"

"This style, looking across the world, who else could it be but you, Xia Qingyun, the Golden Crow Goddess who can turn the world upside down with a flick of your hand, 'riding the clouds to the heavens and crying out to the underworld'?!"

The waterside pavilion was deathly silent.

Only the faint sound of startled waterbirds flapping their wings could be heard from the distant lake.

Xia Qingyun finally turned around slowly.

Instead of looking at Xue Laixi, she lowered her head and casually played with the small jade pot in her hand.

Sunlight streamed through the carved window lattices of the waterside pavilion, falling on her fingertips. She seemed to be admiring the shimmering luster on the teapot, or perhaps weighing it to see if it was heavy enough to smash open the woman's skull across from her.

“Delusion is an illness, Xue Laixi, it needs treatment.” Xia Qingyun’s words were calm and even, revealing no emotion. “The matter of Sword Lord Qinghuang was purely an accident. Even I didn’t expect it. Do you think I could have foreseen it and planned to use him as a pawn in advance?”

"An accident?" Xue Laixi scoffed as if she had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world. "Even without the Green Bamboo Sword Lord incident as a pretext, couldn't you, Xia Qingyun, have found another reason to ignite this chaos?"

"The Chen family has been biding its time for years, and the strength they have accumulated is now vastly different from what it used to be! If they make a move, which of those large and small families that rely on or follow the Chen family, or that have long wanted a share of the pie, isn't a shark smelling blood?"

"The Silver Feather Alliance is nothing more than a representative of interests that your Chen family has put forward to stir up trouble in the court. With you, the master strategist hiding behind the scenes, secretly manipulating things, it's easy for you to fish in troubled waters."

(End of this chapter)