Chapter 60: Senior, This Joke Is Not Funny at All

Chapter 60: Chapter 60: Senior, This Joke Is Not Funny at All

Looking at the solemn expression on the man’s face, Xia Nan felt a strong impulse.

She really wanted to ask Su Han if it was appropriate to say something that was suffocating her inside.

Of course, after weighing the current situation, Xia Nan ultimately decided not to court death.

After holding it in for quite a while, Xia Nan finally caught her breath. She looked at Su Han, who was putting on the airs of a transcendent expert, and found it almost unbearable to watch.

"Then, Senior... what happened next?"

"What do you mean, what happened next?"

"I mean, that female senior agreed to be your girlfriend first to cultivate feelings with you. What happened after that?

"Did you two eventually... become Dao companions?"

This question seemed to strike a sore spot for "Wang Jiantong." A hint of sadness flashed across his eyes before he shook his head despondently. "No."

Xia Nan felt a burst of satisfaction in her heart. "Did that senior ultimately fail to... develop feelings for you?"

She originally wanted to ask if the woman simply despised him to death, but then she remembered the fact that this man had just knocked all her companions unconscious with a blunt stick, one strike at a time.

Knowing that the man before her was definitely not some righteous, magnanimous senior expert, Xia Nan ultimately changed her phrasing, trying to be as tactful as possible.

Su Han glared at her. "How is that possible? When I was young, I was suave and striking. Back when I was begging for food, I don’t know how many daughters of noble houses fell in love with me at first sight, swearing they wouldn’t marry anyone else. I never granted them their wishes.

"Countless beauties kept to their empty chambers for my sake, remaining unmarried for life. Some even joined the Sumeru Sect, spending the rest of their lives accompanied only by ancient idols and oil lamps.

"During the few months we spent together, she actually fell deeply in love with me.

"However, before we could confess our feelings to one another, the Supreme Dao suffered a sudden, catastrophic change. She rushed off to support them, and she never returned."

Listening to Su Han’s deadpan boasting, Xia Nan couldn’t help but blush on his behalf.

It took her a long time to snap out of her daze. She looked at Su Han and asked, "Then why didn’t she come back?"

Su Han shook his head. "Who knows? We were so deeply in love, yet she left and never returned. She didn’t even send a single letter back.

"I think... she most likely died."

Xia Nan was speechless.

She thought, "Just how skewed is your self-perception to cultivate such inexplicable confidence?

"Leaving and never returning means she died? Could it not be that she never fancied you in the first place and was desperate to stay as far away from you as possible?"

Of course, she wouldn’t dare say this out loud even if her life depended on it.

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Nan still couldn’t suppress her curiosity.

"Then... Senior, could you tell me that female senior’s name?"

"Her name?"

Su Han was in a bit of a bind. Regarding names, last time he had used his Guo Jing alt account, so he casually made up a confidante named Rong. But right now, his name was Wang Jiantong!

He thought, "Heaven knows if Wang Jiantong has a wife, and if he does, what her name is. It’s not like I can summon Qiao Feng and ask him for his master’s wife’s name.

"If I just make one up, and I coincidentally choose a name that belongs to an actual person in the Supreme Dao, that will just bring more trouble. If this person exists but is already dead, there will be no evidence, which is fine. But what if the person is still alive? Wouldn’t that be incredibly awkward?

"Therefore, I absolutely cannot give a real name. However, a title is a different story..."

"She was injured by an enemy back then," Su Han said. "To protect me, she didn’t tell me her name from the very beginning.

"After her injuries had somewhat recovered, I once saw her treading on water, gliding across the waves like an ethereal fairy. I couldn’t help but be mesmerized."

"So, did you give her an exclusive name? Like... Lingbo?" Xia Nan asked.

Su Han shook his head. "I did give her a name, but it wasn’t Lingbo."

"Oh?" Xia Nan thought for a moment. "Then... could it be Ruoxian?"

Su Han shook his head again.

"Piaoran?"

Su Han shook his head again.

"Then... it can’t possibly be Tashui, right?"

Su Han rolled his eyes. Was his naming sense really that terrible?

"Luo God."

Xia Nan was speechless again.

Luo God?

Treading on water, gliding across the waves like an ethereal fairy.

Did these phrases have anything to do with the name Luo God?

As a native of this world who had never heard of the *Ode to the Luo God*, she really couldn’t make the connection. She genuinely couldn’t fathom what kind of mental gymnastics were required to come up with the name Luo God based on those completely unrelated words...

Wait... wait a minute!

What Luo?

What God?

What did Senior say he named her?

"...Se... Senior, what did you say... you called her?"

Seeing the expression on Xia Nan’s face—like she had just seen a ghost—Su Han’s heart skipped a beat. He couldn’t help but feel a similar dread.

He thought, "Does this girl... actually know someone named Luo God?

"In that case... I might have no choice but to silence her.

"After all... my image as a transcendent expert can’t be ruined. If anyone shatters my persona, I’ll have to send them on a trip down the path of Reincarnation."

Though he thought this, Su Han’s face didn’t show the slightest hint of abnormality.

"Luo God. Do you know her?"

"Luo God..."

The look of utter disbelief on Xia Nan’s face deepened. "Senior, you must be joking, right?"

When she asked this, her tone was incredibly cautious, as if she were terrified of waking someone from a dream.

Su Han glanced at her, feeling emboldened. "What’s there to joke about? I’ve always called her Luo God."

Xia Nan stared at him in disbelief.

Shooting Su Han a deeply eccentric look, Xia Nan took a deep breath.

"This junior’s name... is Xia Nan."

Su Han looked at her in confusion, not understanding why she was suddenly introducing herself so solemnly, but he politely nodded anyway.

Paying no mind to his reaction, Xia Nan continued, "This junior comes from the Xia Family of the Central State."

Su Han felt puzzled again. Was the Xia Family of the Central State very famous? Should he pretend to have heard of them?

With these thoughts in mind, Su Han maintained his composure and simply nodded.

Xia Nan spoke again. "Thirty thousand years ago, the Xia Family was merely a minor family in the Central State. We were vassals of the Supreme Dao, and the outstanding direct disciples of every generation would join the Supreme Sect."

At this point, Xia Nan cast an odd glance at Su Han. "The ancestor who single-handedly transformed the Xia Family from a ninth-rate minor family into a thirty-thousand-year lineage was named Xia Jin."

Glancing at Su Han again and seeing that his expression remained unchanged, Xia Nan sighed softly.

"Ancestor Xia Jin was the most outstanding genius the Xia Family had seen in thirty thousand years. She entered the Supreme Sect at the age of eleven and reached Divine Sea Perfection by twenty-three.

"In order to firmly tie the Xia Family to the Supreme Dao’s chariot, the Patriarch of the Xia Family at the time—Ancestor Xia Jin’s father—made a terrible mistake. He betrothed Ancestor Xia Jin to the direct descendant of a Celestial Human Realm patriarch in the Supreme Sect who was poised to reach the Creation Realm.

"Ancestor Xia Jin seemed very opposed to this marriage. To escape it, she continuously took on sect missions that required her to travel, thus avoiding any meetings with her fiancé.

"During a mission to Youzhou, Ancestor Xia Jin went missing for three years. The family, and even the sect patriarchs, searched Youzhou multiple times to no avail.

"Just when everyone thought Ancestor Xia Jin had met with an accident, she suddenly returned three years later.

"Upon her return, Ancestor Xia Jin had already reached the Immortal Platform Realm.

"Afterward, she unleashed astonishing potential. She went into secluded cultivation for thirteen years, and the moment she emerged, she broke straight into the Celestial Human Realm.

"Shortly after Ancestor Xia Jin emerged from seclusion, the late-stage Celestial Human patriarch—the one whose descendant was betrothed to her—sought her out, hoping she would marry his descendant as soon as possible.

"No one knows what they discussed, only that a massive battle broke out between them shortly after their conversation.

"What completely exceeded everyone’s expectations was that Ancestor Xia Jin, who had just stepped into the Celestial Human Realm, actually suppressed the Supreme Sect’s late-stage Celestial Human patriarch.

"After being suppressed, the Celestial Human patriarch lost all face and was too ashamed to ever bring up the marriage arrangement again.

"As a result of that battle, Ancestor Xia Jin subtly began to be secretly referred to as the strongest Celestial Being.

"Initially, many doubted this title, but after Ancestor Xia Jin repeatedly suppressed multiple experts at Celestial Human Perfection, no one voiced any further objections.

"Even though the marriage alliance with the Supreme Sect’s promising Celestial Human patriarch failed, Ancestor Xia Jin herself had broken through to the Celestial Human Realm and could suppress late-stage experts right from the start.

"Naturally, no one in the family dared to mention the marriage ever again.

"Under the deterrence of Ancestor Xia Jin’s prestige, the Xia Family enjoyed several thousand years of rapid, golden development.

"During that time, several Celestial Beings emerged in the Xia Family, catapulting us from a bottom-tier minor family into a first-rate faction.

"However, what took everyone by surprise was that Ancestor Xia Jin—who had reached the Celestial Human Realm before the age of fifty, earned the title of strongest Celestial Being upon entry, and was universally recognized as someone destined to reach the Creation Realm, if not higher—

"found her cultivation completely stagnant after reaching Celestial Human Perfection in less than a century.

"Until her lifespan was exhausted, she never managed to break through the barrier and step into the Creation Realm."

Su Han was utterly speechless.

He thought, "So, you’re telling me this story... you’re not about to tell me that your ridiculously overpowered Ancestor Xia Jin has something to do with the Lingbo Fairy I just made up, are you?"

Seeing Su Han’s slightly moved expression, Xia Nan knew he had grasped her meaning.

She nodded at Su Han. "This junior’s ancestor—Xia Jin—went into seclusion immediately after returning from her three-year disappearance. When she emerged, she had achieved the Celestial Human Realm.

"And after reaching the Celestial Human Realm, my ancestor gave herself a title. It was... Luo God."

Su Han froze.

"After becoming a Celestial Being, my ancestor would travel to Youzhou every few years, seemingly searching for someone. But every time she went to Youzhou, she returned disappointed, as if the person she was looking for was no longer there."

Su Han remained frozen.

"After reaching Celestial Human Perfection, my ancestor’s combat power rivaled that of Creation Realm experts. The Xia Family’s prominence was unparalleled, and no one dared to offend us.

"Thereafter, my ancestor left the Xia Family ancestral grounds and went into seclusion by a small river in Youzhou.

"My ancestor gave that river a name. She called it... Luoshui."

Su Han was petrified.

He thought, "So, are you trying to tell me that the person Cao Zhi encountered all those years ago was actually your ancestor from thirty thousand years ago?"

However, just as Su Han couldn’t help but inwardly curse, Xia Nan’s tone suddenly shifted.

"So... Senior, you must have heard my ancestor’s story before, right?"

Su Han blinked. "??"

"Even though my ancestor passed away twenty thousand years ago, the title of the strongest Celestial Being has always circulated throughout the Central State.

"Therefore...

"Senior, this joke of yours is not funny at all."

Su Han didn’t know what to say.