After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 657: The Demonic Qi was Created by the Heavenly Dao

Chapter 657: Chapter 657: The Demonic Qi was Created by the Heavenly Dao

Quan Jinbei took several deep breaths before speaking in an embarrassed tone, "Before becoming the Defender of the City, I was actually a male model at Miss Club."

Lao Qi scratched his head upon hearing this, not quite grasping what that meant.

He looked at his brothers and voiced his confusion, "What is Miss Club?"

Lao Da held his forehead, "You don’t need to know that."

Lao Qi, driven by curiosity, couldn’t help but look towards Quan Jinbei, trying to get him to reveal more.

But Quan Jinbei averted his gaze, looking mortified.

The expressions of the others varied as well.

Nevertheless, they all believed what Quan Jinbei said.

He was a male model at a club.

With Quan Jinbei’s looks laid out in front of them, saying he was just an ordinary person was absolutely impossible.

But as a club’s male model...

Before this point, nobody would ever imagine he could be a kept man.

But now with this lead, the seven brothers couldn’t help but feel that Quan Jinbei was exactly the type to be a kept man.

Quan Jinbei’s face turned red as he observed everyone’s expressions.

He hesitated for a long while before awkwardly saying, "That’s all in the past, I’ve gone straight now. I hope you won’t look at me through tinted glasses."

Upon hearing this, Lao Qi couldn’t restrain himself from asking, "What’s wrong with being a male model at Miss Club? Why shouldn’t we look at you with tinted glasses? Could it be that being a male model involved something shameful?"

Lao Qi thought about it and found it to be the only possibility.

Quan Jinbei looked even more embarrassed after hearing this.

Lao Da observed him carefully for a long time, finally convinced that Quan Jinbei was telling the truth.

If he were lying, it would only mean he was an incredibly cunning and deceitful actor.

If Quan Jinbei truly had such acting skills, he would have become a superstar by now.

With his looks, combined with his acting skills, he could have been an international sensation.

Lao Da was confident that since he had never seen Quan Jinbei on social media, the latter couldn’t possibly be the type he had envisioned.

Thus, a conclusion was drawn.

Prior to becoming the Defender of the City, Quan Jinbei was essentially a gigolo.

Of course, this "gigolo" was not the usual kind.

Lao Qi, in his naivety, was utterly bemused by the concept.

"Just gigoloing around, right? What’s so shameful about that?" Lao Qi muttered with a disdainful smirk, "It’s not like it’s something scandalous."

As he spoke, he paused and then suggested to Quan Jinbei, "You didn’t have to go into such detail, you could have just said you were a chef."

The group of seven brothers couldn’t suppress their laughter upon hearing these words.

They had not expected Lao Qi to be so innocent.

Quan Jinbei didn’t expect it would be so easy to fool the seven of them; he felt a sense of relief and even considered the possibility of recruiting them.

After all, the Demonic Qi in the vicinity was far too dense.

It was an overwhelming project for just Shi Yaoguang and Shang Minghao to cleanse alone.

Moreover, Demonic Qi wasn’t constant.

While Shi Yaoguang and Shang Minghao were cleansing Demonic Qi, new waves of it continued to emerge.

Simply cleansing the Demonic Qi was a temporary solution, not addressing the root cause. The best approach was to find a way to plug the source of the Demonic Qi.

However...

There was still a question they needed to understand first.

That was, why was Demonic Qi being generated in a modern world like The Last Law World?

Though it’s said that Demonic Qi and Spiritual Energy are both naturally occurring substances in the world.

Yet...

There was a critical issue that could not be overlooked.

This world was not the Cultivation World.

The presence of Spiritual Energy makes sense because the world would likely collapse without it.

But the existence of Demonic Qi was unjustifiable.

A regular world should absolutely not have Demonic Qi.

To this end, Quan Jinbei decided to get to the bottom of it.

And then there was the incarnation of Heavenly Dao...

Quan Jinbei felt that Shang Minghao was not as simple as he claimed.

He must be hiding something.

He had to figure out what secrets the Heavenly Dao Incarnation was hiding.

After learning about his thoughts, Shi Yaoguang was very supportive as well.

She found it amusing yet helpless when she learned that Quan Jinbei had fooled the seven brothers, all fools.

She came in person and placed restrictions on the group of seven brothers.

Now, she could rest assured to use these seven men as labor.

Shi Yaoguang and Quan Jinbei both tacitly agreed not to tell Shang Minghao about this.

They were indeed cooperating temporarily, but that didn’t mean they would fully trust the Heavenly Dao Incarnation.

They would never neglect the precautions they needed to take.

The Heavenly Dao also knew that it probably couldn’t fool them, but for now

indeed, saving the world was more important, and other grudges could be put off for later.

...

After nearly a day, Quan Jinbei finally pieced together the clues he found into a truth.

That was

the sudden appearance of the Demonic Qi was the doing of the Heavenly Dao.

Shi Yaoguang was quite astonished when she found out.

Even though she had long known the Heavenly Dao was unreliable, she never expected it to be this unreliable.

After confirming that Quan Jinbei’s analysis was eighty percent likely to be correct, she and Quan Jinbei went to find Shang Minghao, wanting to confront him about what was going on.

Shang Minghao hadn’t expected that the two of them would discover this so quickly.

They had both discovered it, and the evidence was laid out.

Even if he didn’t admit it, it would be useless.

After hesitating, he finally admitted it.

"It’s all my fault, I was too foolish..."

Knowing he couldn’t argue his way out of it, Shang Minghao readily owned up to his mistake.

From his confession, the pair of Shi Yaoguang learned the truth.

Indeed, the Demonic Qi was truly a creation of the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao might be a weakling, but since it could become the Heavenly Dao, there must be something commendable about it.

For example

creating some Demonic Qi.

Mentioning this, Shi Yaoguang felt an urge to annihilate the Heavenly Dao on the spot.

The Heavenly Dao had gone through all this trouble just to match her up with Sicheng.

Yes.

That’s right.

The Heavenly Dao was just that stupid!

Shi Yaoguang never imagined the Heavenly Dao could be so shameless!

Didn’t it know the massive impact its actions would have on this world?

No.

The Heavenly Dao wasn’t unaware, it just didn’t care.

It didn’t care about the lives and deaths of the world’s citizens.

What it wanted was just to enjoy itself.

Realizing this, Shi Yaoguang truly began to despise the Heavenly Dao.

The Heavenly Dao knew it had made a mistake.

But now

with the great mistake already made, even if it recognized its error, there was no way to retract it.

Thus, it could only seek help from Shi Yaoguang.

Although it was unclear how Shi Yaoguang, a soul native to this world, managed to cultivate,

let alone enable those around her to cultivate, it knew that with Shi Yaoguang present, this world should not be easily destroyed by the Demonic Qi.

Shi Yaoguang looked at Shang Minghao, the Heavenly Dao Incarnation, with his crestfallen expression, and couldn’t help but snort, "You really are naive!"

Once again crestfallen, the Heavenly Dao replied, "Naivety is an instinct..."

"Hmph," Shi Yaoguang scoffed coldly, "I’m not complimenting you!"

Quan Jinbei then followed up with a question, "You say you created the Demonic Qi just to bring Yaoguang and Sicheng together. How far has this plan progressed, and where is Sicheng now?"