The Empress's Gigolo

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The old lady thought that she could control Ren Baqian and felt a little dispirited because she didn’t expect to fail.

Since she was too confident in the soul worm, she wasn’t prepared to handle the situation after it failed.

Ren Baqian didn’t know that he had escaped a disaster and calmed down after realizing that there was nothing wrong with him.

“I demand treatment according to my status!” Ren Baqian looked ahead and said faintly. He wasn’t looking at anyone, but simply and calmly looked forward while examining the decor of this place.

He didn’t want to look up. Although he didn’t have such high self-esteem which was why he currently had to act like this.

“Give him a spot!” The old lady collected herself, but she didn’t look very pleased. However, she had to control herself so that no one else could see anything abnormal about her.

She looked around the temple. It was too late to arrange a seat for Ren Baqian, so they could only use the statues in this place.

“The deputy temple chief of the Queyin Temple has already died. You can speak from there!”

He turned his head, looked around, and saw Wen Xiaosheng pointing to the side and saying, “It’s this one!”

It was at the outermost end of the hall.

If the statuses of the 46 statues got higher the more central they were, then Wen Xiaosheng and Ren Baqian’s spots, located at the two sides of the door, would be the two statues with the lowest statuses.

However, all of the statues’ heights were the same.

Ren Baqian climbed up the statue along its arms and legs, exerting quite a bit of force from his feet. The statue was very sturdy, and there wasn’t even a fragment of stone that fell.

“You are the chief of the Queyin Temple?” he asked Wen Xiaosheng.

Wen Xiaosheng closed his eyes and replied faintly, “Yes!”

Ren Baqian groaned lightly. Since he was the chief of the Queyin Temple and operated in the Yun Nation, the Queyin Temple should be responsible for part of the Yun Nation.

As for the deputy temple chief, Ren Baqian wondered if he had died at the hands of Wu Kai, the deputy protector general, or if he had been killed by the two lieutenant colonels.

That was about it. Since Ren Baqian currently hadn’t secured his own safety yet, it wasn’t time to talk about past issues.

Looking at the people in front, he started with a wave of ridicule.

“I’m shocked by your degeneration and incompetence!”

Everyone was enraged by Ren Baqian’s words.

As high-level members of the Heavenly Alliance, when had they been ridiculed like this before?

Strong presences hovered above the hall and slammed down upon him like waves, trying to crush him to fragments.

Ren Baqian ignored these presences and continued, “Re-introducing myself, I’m from another group of the human race! I discovered you by accident.”

The presences in the air immediately turned sluggish.

“You are from another group of the human race? What evidence do you have?”

“Where is this other group? How did you get here?”

“How large is your population?”

Everyone was able to cast aside the disrespect that Ren Baqian had shown earlier or even treated it as if they hadn’t heard it. These things were what they desperately wanted to know.

“Naturally, there is evidence. In fact, those new weapons that emerged during the wars that Dayao fought against Great Xia and Tianjing Basin should already allow you to make some guesses. Dayao also has long-range communication technology that allows people to speak to each other from several kilometers away without requiring messenger birds. Not to mention, there are also new production processes for steam cars, forging machinery, and so on.

However, you don’t seem quite up to date with the news. Or it might be like what I said: Weakness and ignorance has limited your imagination!” Ren Baqian continued to ridicule mercilessly. “Of course, it’s actually very easy for me to show you evidence. Unfortunately, when I stepped into your trap, all of the items on me were thrown away. Otherwise, I could prove it to you now.”

“In any case, you still can’t prove it!” someone said in a deep voice.

“Wrong, wrong, wrong! You don’t understand what quantum transmission is. You don’t even know what ‘quantum’ means. However, this technology isn’t perfect yet. It takes some time for a round trip transmission, which is why I’m talking to you first!”

“I don’t know what you are talking about. First, prove that what you say is true, that there is another group of humans in this world and that you come from there!” the old woman in the middle said with a cold look.

“It seems… that you wish to verify that everything I say is false?” Ren Baqian smiled. “By right, as a member of the human race, you ought to feel happy and inspired by all this news. However, I think your reaction seems a little strange?”

“After all, what you are saying is too unimaginable, so we must be cautious,” the old woman replied.

“Caution doesn’t mean rejection!” Ren Baqian said. “I’m speaking the truth—can’t anybody here tell? I had always thought that for someone to be able to live to your age, they wouldn’t be an animal… They would be able to tell the authenticity of a person’s words even if he wasn’t a human.

Besides, you’ll definitely have the chance to verify.

Would you lose anything before verifying whether my words are true?”

Ren Baqian’s words made everyone frown. One by one, their blood began to surge. There didn’t seem to be many problems with what he said, but his words were truly too blunt!

It made the crowd feel like slapping him to death.

Ren Baqian sneered in his heart. Sometimes, people tended to be quite low. The more polite he was, the more they felt like he had a request to make and the more they felt like he wasn’t credible.

However, the more one despised and trampled on them, the more they thought that his words were credible.

Especially for the identity that he was now acting out, he had to make things difficult for them.

“Back when the human race was losing ground, you retreated to this land of exile. The foreign races were also focused on you. However, apart from you, another group of people went into hiding. They didn’t have many experts, so they didn’t receive much attention as a result.”

Everyone nodded slightly. According to some circulating information, the war was pretty brutal back then with both sides getting severely injured. The human race started to pull back, but wave after wave of the foreign races continued to pressure.

Under such circumstances, it was normal for some survivors to have left without being noticed. Although the foreign races were strange, their numbers weren’t huge.

It was possible that the foreign races drove the human race to exile before heading back to exterminate the remnants.

“The ancestors of yesteryear also knew that the last thing that awaited them was extermination. They happened to be near the sea, so they built some wooden boats to escape directly from there.

They first arrived at some islands, stayed there for some time, reinforced the hastily made boats, and then headed east. They passed through hardships along the way, fought against the wrath of heaven, and eventually, with a little luck, they reached the Chaotic Star Sea.

Tens of thousands of people departed originally, but only less than half of them managed to make it.”

“Where is the Chaotic Star Sea?” someone began to ask after hearing Ren Baqian’s words.

“The Chaotic Star Sea is a place where the human race and some foreign races mingled. In fact, some other people arrived there earlier and birthed their descendants,” he explained. “In the Chaotic Star Sea, the human race received aid from a senior called Han Paopao. Many of the ancestors spent numerous years recuperating here.

However, as its name suggests, the Chaotic Star Sea was too chaotic and had too many powers. Killing was a common sight.

During this period, someone obtained a map of the continent of Valoran by chance. In the end, some people decided to set off again in search of a legendary new home.

This was the beginning of the rise of the other group of the human race!” Ren Baqian finally said.

“Rise?” everyone mumbled this word.

If what he said was true, the number of people in the other group of humans was even fewer than those who were banished to the land of exile.

Now that thousands of years had passed, had the people in the land of exile risen?

No! Although their population had increased thousands of times over, the collective strength of the human race was probably even weaker than the thousands of people from back then!

They really couldn’t imagine what Ren Baqian meant by the word “rise.”

They also couldn’t fathom the present state of the other group of the human race.

Wen Xiaosheng was the only one who was full of anticipation.

After all, he shouldn’t be the only one who got the feeling of getting stabbed several times in the heart while also beginning to doubt the meaning of life. Good things were meant to be shared!

In addition, he wanted to see their expressions later on.