Yang Qinglan set up the barrier and kicked Li Changzhou. "Get up."
Li Changzhou opened his eyes but didn't get up.
"Just now," he rubbed his chin, speaking as if to himself, "I saw a figure identical to yours, and their facial features were seventy percent similar to yours. At first, I thought it was an illusion technique or disguise, but it wasn't."
Touching legs, sniffing scents, all were means of probing.
"It's She Ling'er, my sister." Yang Qinglan sat down on a chair, took a sip of tea, "Did she come to my room?"
"Yes. Why did she come to your room?"
"There are two Holy Daughters, Nuwa is one position."
"I understand, it's a differential election."
Yang Qinglan lowered her head and took a glance. Li Changzhou was peeking under her skirt. She pinched the hem of the skirt, lifted it slightly, and used it to cover his head.
That's right, this was the Yang Qinglan who existed when there were only two people.
"How did you find me?" Yang Qinglan asked again.
"By accident." In that moment, Li Changzhou had already comprehended Candle Yin's Divine Skills—his eyes shone brightly.
He recounted his experiences and then asked what her mission was.
"Like you, there's no mission prompt. They only gave me an identity. Currently, my guess is: I'm formally appointed as the next Nuwa."
She raised her hand to tap the head under the skirt, signaling him not to move, and continued:
"There's another possibility. We don't have a mission, or rather, the mission is to help Chang'e pass the assessment. Specifically what that is, we'll have to explore on our own."
"I'm exploring."
Yang Qinglan said irritably, "You still need to explore?!"
"'The Book of Rites: The Great Learning,' chapter three says: Renew each day, every day, and keep renewing. Review the old and learn the new."
"I'll give you something new!" Yang Qinglan pressed him down, "You've come just at the right time."
"You missed me too?"
"Yes." Yang Qinglan nodded, "But there's something more important, I want you to marry into the Nuwa Clan, to be with me."
"What am I marrying into if I'm not with you?"
"It's not that easy to be with me," Yang Qinglan leaned back, her face white as jade blushing faintly, "You must outshine everyone at the Gathering of Mending the Heavens and become the True God of the North Sea."
"I need conditions just to be with my own wife?"
"To be with your wife, you don't need conditions, but to be with the Holy Daughter of the Nuwa Clan, you do."
"Alright then, since I'm planning to vie for the position of North Sea True God anyway. Finding the way to two Immortal Mountains might require this."
"Um~, have you seen your sister, Turquoise Pool?"
"No."
"Don't worry too much. The Gathering of Mending the Heavens is a grand event of the entire wilderness, anyone with some status and strength will come, you'll meet them."
The snake elder nodded and said, "As Human Emperor, the Suiren Clan greatly influenced the wilderness. Even though the Heavenly Emperor possesses peerless Divine Skills, surpassing the Three Emperors, without the Emperor Sword, the vigilance towards the Suiren Clan cannot relax. You're right to hide your identity."
She added, "Those few people have been detained, no one knows your identity, Lady Nuwa has already agreed to your marriage into the clan."
Li Changzhou, almost dozing off from the previous part, couldn't help rubbing his hands after listening to the last sentence, "Does that mean I can start choosing girls now? By the way, in order to leave more bloodline, can I choose two or three... twenty or thirty?"
The Snake Elder rarely smiled: "Two or three thousand will do."
With a shriveled body and aged face, her smile seemed like that of a corpse, full of malice.
Anyone else would surely tremble and say that as long as they could gain the favor of a Nuwa Clan girl, they'd be satisfied.
But Li Changzhou asked further: "I can choose anyone I fancy?"
"As long as she agrees. I hope what happened last night only occurs once."
"Understood, understood!" Li Changzhou nodded vigorously, then lowered his voice and eagerly said, "Grandma, I heard... there are two Holy Daughters in the Nuwa Clan?"
Whoosh!
The Snake Elder's two bright eyes, along with the two serpent eyes on her staff, added up to four eyes all staring at him.
Li Changzhou remained unfazed, his face full of expectation.
The Snake Elder retracted the divine light from her eyes and said, "The Empress said that as long as the Nuwa Clan girl herself agrees, it's permissible."
"Great! Can I leave now? If I don't go out, how can I make them like me?"
"Go ahead."
Li Changzhou tidied up his appearance and asked, "Grandma, do you think I am appealing to the Snake Clan ladies?"
The Nuwa Clan is the Snake Clan, and the Snake Clan is the Nuwa Clan, similar to the Ming Dynasty and the Great Ming Dynasty.
"Nuwa Clan girls only fancy capable men," said the Snake Elder.
"That's simple! Let alone two or three thousand, two or three hundred thousand is no problem!" Li Changzhou set off with swagger, and as he exited the cave, he patted the shoulders of two Snake Clan warriors, thanking them for their hard work.
Inside the cave.
A green serpent thrust half its body out from the void.
"Hisssss~"
"Some promise, but not much," the Snake Elder cautiously replied in contemplation, "His aim should be to use my clan to evade the Heavenly Emperor's Order, live a life of debauchery, leave behind the Suiren Clan's bloodline in my clan, and foolishly desire the favor of a Holy Daughter, hoping his descendants will become Nuwa."
"Hiss~"
"Fear not, Empress, he is poisoned by the Hurricane Monoceros Python; if I wish for him to die now, he won't survive another moment."
"Hiss~"
"Yes, I'll continue poisoning, ensuring no mishaps occur."
The green serpent twisted its body and disappeared into the void.
The Snake Elder stepped out of the cave to find Li Changzhou already charming a Nuwa Clan girl.
The girl's face was bashfully reddened, and her serpent eyes sparkled as she listened to Li Changzhou's fluent speech, clearly having taken a liking to the man before her.
"Humph!" The Snake Elder snorted in displeasure, not at Li Changzhou but at the Nuwa Clan girl.
Li Changzhou's appearance was flawless—even in the wilderness—perhaps he could excel in taming female beasts, but as Nuwa Clan members, how could they be so superficial? Choosing a partner based solely on looks?
But it was fine.
Let these shallow women pair with descendants of the Suiren Clan, preventing harm to the truly good girls in the clan.
"You two, follow him, prevent trouble from him or to him."
"Yes!" answered the two Snake Clan warriors.
Li Changzhou practiced Divine Communication Technique while fraternizing with the Nuwa Clan, stirring up various issues, as Snake Clan girls interested in him included not only singles but also the married.
In the Snake Clan, women's status is higher than men's, so... some men were dismissed.
If not for the Snake Elder's orders, Li Changzhou would have been beaten long ago.
"...It's only been three days." The Snake Elder was incredulous upon receiving the news.
Among the women who dismissed their husbands for Li Changzhou, several were prominent Immortal Position masters she admired, truly good girls in the clan!
"Not just that!" reported the Snake Clan man with indignation, "Among the girls from various clans and tribes attending the Heaven Mending Conference, some have fallen for him too!"
He restrained himself from cursing, saying, "Grandma, this person audaciously relies on his looks; I urge you to retract your command and show him what a real wilderness man is!"
"Nonsense!" another Elder scolded in the hall, "Tomorrow is the Heaven Mending Conference; anyone causing a joke must clean the Holy Snake Mountain!"
Standing three thousand feet tall and stretching a hundred thousand miles, cleaning every inch of the Holy Snake Mountain could last a lifetime.
The Snake Clan man trembled and dared not speak further.
"Endure him for now," the Snake Elder remained expressionless, "Once he sired offspring, there will be his reckoning."
Outside the hall, cannon blasts roared, lanterns festooned, fireworks filled the sky.
Amid fireworks, various beasts and heavenly birds pulled chariots, arriving at the Nuwa Clan on the last day before the Heaven Mending Conference.