Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The chicken soup’s fragrant scent pervaded the private room, filling up the room with motivative positive energy.
After drinking a bowl of chicken soup, Shen Tian felt that his exhaustion was relieved by quite a bit.
The manager at the side asked, “Young Master Shen, what do you think of the taste of our shop’s Fire Spirit Chicken Soup?”
Fire Spirit Chicken’s attribute was fire. If cooked together with herbs such as Danshen and Lingzhi, it was extremely nourishing and invigorating to one’s Yang.
Shen Tian smiled and said, “Not bad. But it’s not filling, just drinking the chicken soup. Please, go and prepare a few more dishes!”
The manager hurriedly nodded and ordered the kitchen to cook dishes.
Zhao Hao looked at Shen Tian, who was drinking the chicken soup happily and gulped down his saliva. “Brother Shen, isn’t this chicken soup for me?”
Shen Tian shook his head with a smile. “Brother Shen, you’ve misunderstood. This is Fire Spirit Chicken Soup. What you need is chicken soup for the soul.”
Shen Tian put down the bowl of chicken soup and suddenly looked at Zhao Hao with a burning gaze. “Brother Zhao! As a person who has experienced it before, I have some words for you. Hopefully, they’ll benefit you.”
Seeing Shen Tian’s solemn face, Zhao Hao became serious. “I’m all ears.”
Shen Tian stretched out his right index finger. “Firstly, failure is not fearsome. What’s fearsome is you being defeated by failure.”
Shen Tian’s burning gaze made Zhao Hao recall the things that his father had told him about Shen Tian.
Since young, he was ill-fated and destined to be alone as he brought misfortune to those around him. He had even been suffering Qi Deviation daily, almost becoming a regular customer at the imperial hospital.
However, Shen Tian did not give up cultivating. Thus, in comparison, my one-time Qi Deviation is nothing!
Shen Tian stretched out his right middle finger. “Secondly, you haven’t tried your best! How do you know you can’t change your fate?”
Change my fate!
Zhao Hao’s whole body trembled slightly.
That’s right!
My dantian is only damaged. It’s not like I died. If my cultivation was lost due to my damaged dantian, I just have to find ways to restore my dantian and cultivate again.
If there’s really no way, then I’ll think of methods to follow the Godfiend Body Tempering path. I’ll do my best to become stronger.
Brother Shen was that miserable, but he still strives to change his fate! What reason do I have to not try my best?
Shen Tian gradually stretched out his right ring finger. “Thirdly, now you’ve been humiliated as your upcoming marriage with the princess was broken off! In the future, you’ll rise up and take your revenge!”
Boom!
Humiliated as my upcoming marriage with the princess was broken off! In the future, I’ll rise up and take my revenge!
Such a sentence was like a bolt of lightning that pierced through the clouds within Zhao Hao’s heart. He also did not know why, but even though that sentence sounded so chuunibyou and embarrassing, he felt that his blood was boiling from excitement. It was as if that sentence was tailor-made for him—the battle song for him to fight against his fate and become a new him!
At that moment, when Zhao Hao looked at Shen Tian, he only felt that he was extremely close with the brother in front of him. It was as if Shen Tian was his lifelong bosom friend.
High mountain and flowing water, Boya and Ziqi1—they were just like those two!
He looked at Shen Tian with seemingly shining eyes, his gaze hot and earnest. “I agree! Everything Brother Shen says makes so much sense!”
Zhang Yunxi looked at Zhao Hao coldly, her eyes really shining, with lightning. She felt that she was being ignored.
Zhao Hao did not sense the dangerous aura in the air as he looked at Shen Tian with a burning gaze.
“Brother Shen, I seem to hit it off with you very well. Would Brother Shen be willing to become sworn brothers with me?”
Cough, cough!
Shen Tian nearly spat out a mouthful of chicken soup onto Zhao Hao’s face. “Become sworn brothers?”
Are you kidding me? The halo on your head is extremely weird, looking very messy as it’s half-black and half-gold. Who knows what that represents? It might mean, “Out of the depth of misfortune comes bliss”, or it might be that you will bring misfortune to those around you, causing their deaths?
For story plots such as MCs that had their engagement called off in the beginning, basically, their route to growing stronger would be filled with fighting. It’s simply too dangerous!
Zhao Hao’s father, the Sky-Incinerating Marquis, has gone missing in the Primordial Battlefield. Who knows if Zhao Hao will bring misfortune to his sworn brother, too?
Shen Tian secretly decided that they could become friends but definitely not sworn brothers!
Zhao Hao had already witnessed human nature’s fickleness in this period of time, so when he saw Shen Tian’s expression, he was already aware. He scoffed at himself before saying, “Brother Shen, don’t mind me. It is I that did not think things through before asking. Given my current situation, I’m not worthy of becoming sworn brothers with you.”
Sss!
Shen Tian could not help but take in a sharp breath.
This… Isn’t this the plot where the MC is looked down upon by others?
According to the normal plot, if the MC is looked down upon and ridiculed, then there will definitely be a plot reversal in the future.
F*ck! It can’t be that Zhao Hao will bear patiently, then prepare to take revenge on me because of this, right!?
At that thought, Shen Tian suddenly had an idea. He sneered and said, “If you really have such thoughts, then you are indeed unworthy.”
Shen Tian held his head high with his chest out and walked to the window coldly, looking down at Fog City. “I’m so disappointed in you!”
Within his cold voice was a great aspiration that could swallow the heavens. “My brother must have the ambitions to overcome all adversities and rise up. As the saying goes, ‘A genius will never be mediocre. Once an opportunity arises, they will rise up and succeed.’. If even you look down on yourself, how do you let others think highly of you?
“Brother Zhao, a real genius has no need to care about how others see them, not to mention worry about what others are thinking.
“Even if everyone in the world ridicules or mocks me, my heart is steeled and is impenetrable!
“Always be determined and passionate, then you will definitely leave them slack-jawed!”
Shen Tian’s words made Zhao Hao’s gaze turn hotter and hotter.
“Brother Shen is right! I am ashamed of myself!”
“Brother Shen’s heart is like steel, the body is like fire, having undergone so many adversities. However, I’m this weak! I’m really too childish!
“Hearing Brother Shen’s words is better than cultivating for 100 years. Brother Shen’s earnest advice, I will definitely keep your words in mind and dare not forget!”
Shen Tian smiled and waved his hand. “There’s no need for that, Brother Zhao. In fact, the problem of you losing your cultivation is not difficult to solve.”
At that moment, Zhao Hao’s entire body suddenly trembled. “Brother Shen, what do you mean?”
Shen Tian smiled and said, “Frankly speaking, I’ve cultivated the art of divination. From Brother Zhao’s facial features, it means that out of the depth of misfortune comes bliss. Your chance to change your fate and rise up is most likely right in front of you.”
Zhao Hao was dumbstruck. “If what Brother Shen said is true, may I know how to change my fate?”
“The cat mustn’t be let out of the bag. There’s no need for Brother Zhao to hurry. Come and drink the chicken soup first!” said Shen Tian as he gave a bowl of chicken soup to Zhao Hao with a smile.
Zhao Hao said excitedly, “If Brother Shen really knows, I earnestly request for you to tell me!! I’ve lost all my cultivation, and people despise me. I don’t want to continue like this anymore, not even one day!
“I want to restore my cultivation and take back everything that belongs to my family! I want to grow even stronger to go to the Primordial Battlefield and find my esteemed father!
“That’s right! And that princess! It’s obvious she dislikes me now that I have lost my cultivation, but she still finds excuses. She said that when she went to the Country of Fire, she saw a handsome man unmatched in his looks. Thus, she was unable to love anyone else.”
“She even said that it was not important that I was unable to cultivate, but as compared to that person, I was just too ugly!
“It’s a disgrace! It’s simply an abyss of disgrace! Not only was the engagement called off, but she also humiliated me like that! I really cannot endure such a humiliation!”
Before Zhao Hao finished speaking, the expression of the others in the private room turned extremely strange.
Zhang Yunxi’s face twitched slightly as if she was holding back her laughter. She looked at Zhao Hao and asked, “You are sure that she met that man in the Country of Fire?”
Zhao Hao sneered and said, “She said that she met that handsome man in the Myriad Spirit Garden of the Country of Fire. He’s called something like the Myriad Spirit Garden Shen Aotian.
“What a coincidence! Brother Shen, that guy’s name is quite similar to yours, and he seemed to be proficient in divinity…”
Wait, WTF!?
Zhao Hao was stunned, and he turned to look at Shen Tian’s face.
At that moment, Zhao Hao had a frightening and absurd guess.
At the same time, the door of the private room was pushed open, and the manager walked in, holding a plate of fragrant-smelling dishes.
“Young Master Shen, Fairy Zhang, sorry for the long wait. This is our shop’s specialty, Shrimp Pig Heart1!
“Please try it!”