He Qing looked suspiciously at Xiang Beifei, examining him from head to toe.
This guy always felt a bit odd.
"Don’t worry, I’m a very well-behaved person." Xiang Beifei said earnestly.
The day after He Qing met Xiang Beifei, she took him to Divine Feather City. Due to his Human Race identity, He Qing was constantly worried that Xiang Beifei would do something to expose himself, remaining vigilant and on edge the whole journey.
Yet this young lad didn’t stir up any trouble in Divine Feather City. He obediently stayed by her side, except for sneaking out to stroll the snack street during the auction to satisfy his cravings, he didn’t seem to cause any mischief.
Kids, after all, liking food is understandable, isn’t it?
The only time he took action was because Cai Kun and Tang Yingxin were aggressively cornering them, leaving no room for escape, so Xiang Beifei decided to step in and eliminate them, giving both father and daughter quite a scare.
In the two months since they returned, he has been quietly cultivating here without making a fuss.
Thinking about it now, Xiang Beifei does seem to be—
A remarkably, unusually well-behaved person!
Yes, he probably wouldn’t take the initiative to stir up trouble!
So young and powerful, yet so well-behaved, is truly rare.
He Qing couldn’t help but sigh, feeling she had gained a completely new understanding of Xiang Beifei, realizing she had been overly concerned.
"By the way, my father just told me the Edge Corner Airspace is in an uproar, and he didn’t dare to disturb you while you were cultivating, so he sent me to check on you. Just when you came out, how did you manage to bring about the Broken Dao Race? When did you register at the Dao Palace branch?"
He Qing recalled her purpose for coming this time, as there were two remarkably strange names appearing on the ranking list, "Ragged" and "Broken Hat" from the Broken Dao Race, and these rankings were previously held by Tang Yingxin and Cai Kun.
But she couldn’t figure out, originally the ninety-eighth rank belonged to Xiang Beifei, logically the one hundred ninety-ninth should belong to someone else, yet somehow it became two unfamiliar people.
"I didn’t register, I’ve been quietly cultivating here this whole time."
Xiang Beifei leisurely sat on the cliff, examining the latest Earth Ranking list that He Qing handed over.
"Didn’t go? So this ninety-eighth ranking ’Broken Hat’ and the one hundred ninety-ninth ’Ragged’ aren’t you?" He Qing asked.
"Perhaps the Dao Palace’s imprint has a problem, how could one person occupy two rankings, right?"
"The Dao Palace imprint can have issues?"
"Isn’t it quite normal to have issues? Look, can’t I just tear this Dao Palace imprint off and stick it back on?"
Xiang Beifei fiddled with the ninety-eighth ranking Dao Palace imprint showing it to He Qing.
With a snap sound, the imprint was torn off, then with a swoosh, the imprint was stuck back.
Snap! Swoosh! ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ NovᴇlFir(e).nᴇt
The Dao Palace imprint, symbolizing genius honor and status, was being casually toyed with like a sticker.
She rubbed her forehead, unsure of how to refute it.
"How could it be? If Ragged and Broken Hat aren’t you, but they happened to appear, what is going on?"
He Qing looked at the utterly humiliated Dao Palace imprint with growing suspicion.
Xiang Beifei seriously stroked his chin, thought earnestly for a moment, then said: "I feel it might be because our Human Race can’t appear on the Heaven and Earth Ranking."
"The Human Race can’t appear on the Heaven and Earth Ranking?"
He Qing really wasn’t sure about this point since she had indeed never seen anyone from the Human Race on the Heaven and Earth Ranking.
"Yes, you see, the Dao Palace said no mercy for killing our Human Race, so they must be excluding us Human Race, right? Our Human Race probably can’t make it onto the list, this explains why the Dao Palace imprint can’t mark me—"
He gave another "snap" and tore off the Dao Palace imprint.
"I guess that’s how it is, the Dao Palace imprint can’t mark me, and with the Earth Ranking showing a vacancy, once Dao Palace confirmed the situation, they decided on new geniuses to replace, thus appearing with two Broken Dao Race geniuses!" Xiang Beifei confidently speculated.
His speculation was reasonable, with a seriously earnest expression, making it highly convincing.
"Is that so?" He Qing became puzzled.
"It certainly is! Didn’t you say it yourself? Geniuses on the Earth Ranking never lack, there’s never a vacancy, if geniuses are killed by outsiders, Dao Palace will find someone to replace, to provide a challenge for everyone."
"But I have never heard of the Broken Dao Race."
"A lot of races remain hidden, don’t they? Maybe they emerged recently and started to shine. Think about it, if they think Ragged and Broken Hat are the same person, how could they just let it be?" Xiang Beifei said.
He Qing was half skeptical.
What he said seems to make sense.
The Dao Palace represents authority in the Edge Corner Airspace, they handle matters without any ambiguity, such sudden unreasonable occurrences with the Heaven and Earth Ranking would certainly be corrected.
But for some reason, she felt something was odd, yet couldn’t quite explain why.
"Speaking of which, how is your insight into the Dao Stone?"
Xiang Beifei shifted the topic.
At the mention of the Dao Stone, He Qing’s eyes immediately lit up, sighing: "I really owe it to the ascension realm senior, I have carefully contemplated the Unrestrained Dao embryos hidden within the word ’No’, it’s like providing a new perspective to my Crane Dao cultivation. I realized, I seemed to have cultivated with shackles all along, now I’ve completely let go of them! That senior is truly magnificent."