When "God" Decides To Start Over

Trying to drip a drop of blood onto it, the blood flowed down the body of the mace and straight onto the ground, unable to be absorbed by the Spiritual Mace at all.

"What exactly is this Spiritual Mace?" Li Xiu was curious, but it wasn't the time to study it. He turned to look at the monk inside the tree hole.

He thought the voice belonged to an elderly man on the brink of death, but to his surprise, it was actually a young monk with clear eyes and delicate features.

The young monk's shock and joy had already subsided, and his calm demeanor had a stately solemnity to it.

However, the young monk had no tonsure scars on his head, just a red dot on his brow, coupled with his rosy lips and white teeth, Li Xiu's first thought was "Tang Zeng."

"Do you still want to hear my story?" the monk asked.

"Can you first tell me what your Dharma name is?" Li Xiu asked the monk with a smile.

"What Dharma name?" the monk was slightly startled.

"Aren't monks supposed to have Dharma names?" Li Xiu was puzzled and asked.

The monk chuckled, stood up and walked out of the tree hole, saying as he walked, "I'm not a monk, I'm just naturally bald."

"You're not a monk, so why is there the white hair-like mark on your brow?" Li Xiu asked, staring at the red dot on his brow.

"That's not a white hair-like mark, just a red mole," the monk paused and said seriously, "My name is Tang Tianzhen, you can call me by my name or by my courtesy name, but please don't call me a monk."

"Alright, Tianzhen." Li Xiu looked at the string of beads Tang Tianzhen was fiddling with, which looked like Buddhist Beads in any way, and then at Tang Tianzhen's dignified face reminiscent of a Buddha, he thought to himself, "Is he really not a monk?"

"Age-wise, I could be your grandfather, can't you call me in a more formal way?" Tang Tianzhen sighed.

"I don't know how old you are, but judging by your appearance, calling you an elder is not something I could bring myself to do. You can choose between Xiao Tang and Tianzhen." Li Xiu said.

"Then it's Tianzhen." Tang Tianzhen said with a bitter smile.

"Alright, Tianzhen, now should you tell me your story?" Li Xiu looked at Tang Tianzhen and smiled.

Tang Tianzhen sighed again, "The story is very complicated, let's wait until we get out of here."

"I'm not in a hurry, you can talk slowly." Li Xiu was unfazed, he was still waiting for the Demon Armor's cooldown, and as the cooling system was running, the temperature hadn't dropped, so he didn't dare to pick it up; it was too hot to handle.

"Alright." Tang Tianzhen reluctantly said, "The story roughly goes like this: I fell in love with a beautiful lady of the Everlasting Heaven. At first, the lady quite liked me too, so for her sake, I joined the Everlasting Heaven. But later, she left me for some reason and went to be with someone else, so in my sorrow, I left the Everlasting Heaven and have not had any contact with them since."

"Was it then that your hair fell out?" Li Xiu asked.

"No, I was born without hair, her leaving me has nothing to do with it, you're overthinking." Tang Tianzhen saw Li Xiu's face full of disbelief and was helpless too. Everyone who heard his story thought he went bald because of unrequited love, but he truly hadn't done that, he was just born without hair.

"Your account is too sketchy. Where's the full version of the story you promised?" Li Xiu was a bit displeased.

"That's how the story goes." Tang Tianzhen was adamant, insisting that's it.

Li Xiu realized that when Tang Tianzhen agreed to tell him the story, he didn't really expect Li Xiu to survive, and now he was evidently regretting it.

With Li Xiu staring at him silently, Tang Tianzhen showed no guilt, meeting Li Xiu's gaze as if nothing were amiss.

"I get it, a man as handsome and charismatic as you, with such smooth skin, doesn't look like he's from a poor background. There could only be one reason the lady broke up with you, I understand." Li Xiu glanced at a certain indescribable part of Tang Tianzhen and turned towards the room door, intending to open it and leave.

Tang Tianzhen's face turned red instantly, watching Li Xiu about to open the door and go out, he gritted his teeth and said, "It's not what you think, it's about my appearance."

"With your looks, you're at least close to the world's most handsome man. What more is there to explain? We are all men, we understand." Li Xiu nodded.

Tang Tianzhen's eye twitched, and he suddenly cursed, "Damn it, I said it's about my appearance. That woman said whenever she is with me, she feels like she's dishonoring the Divine Spirit, bearing too much psychological pressure to bear..."

Li Xiu was stunned, then he carefully examined Tang Tianzhen's appearance again: prominent forehead, square chin, fleshy cheeks, round drooping ears, clear eyes, and a red mole on the brow.

This really was good looking, but, according to his description, Li Xiu found his looks indeed slightly too upright, too compassionate.

"Haha!" Imagining the picture Tang Tianzhen portrayed, Li Xiu couldn't help bursting into laughter.

If you keep laughing, see what happens?" Tang Tianzhen said through gritted teeth.

Li Xiu held back his laughter, realizing it wasn't nice, and forced a calm tone, "Tianzhen, this isn't a big deal, just find a lady with better psychological resilience. I'm going out now, if you can leave, then let's leave together."

Tang Tianzhen restrained himself and followed Li Xiu out of the blue wooden house.

When Chu Jun saw Li Xiu come out, he was overjoyed, but when he saw a young monk with delicate features and rosy lips following behind Li Xiu, he was slightly startled.

"We can talk later, I'm going to swap the beads first." Li Xiu took the green leaf and made his way to the wooden house where Eighth Lord was located.