36: Chapter 36 Night Meeting Goddess [Part 1]
After leaving the room, Lin Hao let out a long sigh of relief!
It was too oppressive!
Lin Cong alone was enough for him to handle, and with Goddess Yileina added to the mix, he had almost wet himself in fear.
However, the moment he thought of Goddess Yileina's words, his face immediately lit up with excitement.
"Great! I can participate in the Six Clan Selection. As long as I can get a decent ranking, the family will allocate more resources to me. Who knows, I might actually have a chance to advance to B-rank!"
"If I can truly advance to B-rank strength, then a seat among the upper echelons of the Lin family might just be within my reach!"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but clench his hands into fists.
"No, I have to intensify my training. There are only six months left until the Six Clan Selection. After six months, I need to be at least at D-rank to secure a good ranking among all those geniuses!"
At this moment, Lin Hao felt a sense of urgency.
Immediately, he hurried out of the school in a rush!
He had to go home immediately, tell his parents about these things, and ask them to help him prepare more training resources!
At the same time, in Room B1807 of the Chenxiang Garden residential complex, Ling Yichen slowly opened his eyes.
A faint smile slowly spread across his face as he whispered, "Six Clan Selection? Interesting!"
It was no surprise that he knew about the Six Clan Selection, because everything that had happened to Lin Hao was his doing.
The tentacle on Lin Hao's chest had evolved from a Worm.
Moreover, to make Lin Hao suffer a bit more, he had deliberately let the Worm tentacle crush his sternum!
Consider it revenge for Tian Yingying.
Of course, the truly interesting part was yet to come.
"Lin Hao, I'm looking forward to your performance. Don't let me down!"
Ling Yichen whispered again, then withdrew his attention from Lin Hao.
The pawn that was Lin Hao had already been placed; even without his direct control, Lin Hao would still play his intended role.
He got up and stretched, then immediately headed toward Ye Qingzhu's home. Before he even entered, he heard the sounds of several girls giggling inside.
Ling Yichen hesitated for a moment but decided not to go in.
The girls were having a good time, and as a man, he wouldn't be able to fit in, so it was better to let them play by themselves.
Immediately, he turned back to his own home, turned on the television, and watched the news casually.
Soon, a news segment caught his attention.
"The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here again. Every household will be holding moon worship activities once more. I wonder who will be lucky enough to receive the blessing of the purple moon this year!"
Watching this news, Ling Yichen's brows slowly furrowed!
He couldn't help but look up at the sun outside the window.
It was only two or three in the afternoon. The sun hanging in the sky should have been a scorching, dazzling orb that one couldn't look directly at; however, the sun Ling Yichen saw was one that emitted a faint white halo, and surrounding the outer edge of the sun were two purple rings.
Not only the sun, but the moon in this world was similar to the sun; it emitted a faint white light and also had two purple rings surrounding it.
This couldn't be compared to Earth's blazing sun and silver moon at all!
"The sun and moon in this world were already abnormal to begin with, and now there's also this thing called a purple moon?"
Ling Yichen only felt it was eerie.
He had an intuition that this purple moon was not a good thing!
"Forget it. Today is already August 13th, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is in two days. I'll know what's going on then."
Ling Yichen didn't dwell on it and changed the channel to continue watching TV.
That afternoon, Ling Yichen lay idly at home, and this made him feel very happy.
Because this was the life he had once desperately craved.
During the six years he was imprisoned, he constantly missed these good days of doing nothing, eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating.
And now, he was finally living that kind of life.
He didn't feel bored at all; he only felt great.
After having dinner at Ye Qingzhu's house and lingering there for a while, he returned alone.
Ling Yixuan had been kept behind by Ye Qingzhu to spend the night at her place.
According to Tang Juan, Ye Qingzhu had wanted a younger sister since she was little, but unfortunately, Ye Songtao and Tang Juan had no plans for a second child.
So her wish had always gone unfulfilled. The appearance of Ling Yixuan fulfilled all her requirements for being an older sister, so she cherished Ling Yixuan even more than Ling Yichen did, wishing she could just have her parents adopt her!
Fortunately, Ling Yichen lived right across the hall, and the two homes were only separated by a corridor about two meters wide. Whether she slept at his place or Ye Qingzhu's place wasn't an issue, so Ling Yichen agreed to let Ling Yixuan stay.
This also earned Ling Yichen high praise from Ye Qingzhu, who complimented him on being a reasonable person and an awesome older brother.
To this, Ling Yichen smiled without a word.
After returning to his own home, Ling Yichen lay down on the bed and turned his head to look out the window.
It was already eight or nine in the evening, and his window happened to have a view of the moon surrounded by purple rings.
Thinking of the news he heard in the afternoon, he couldn't help but take a few more looks at the moon, especially those two purple rings, which seemed to have some kind of magic that drew his gaze.
But as he watched, he suddenly felt a bit sleepy, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he uncontrollably closed his eyes slowly.
But the next second, he opened them again.
He yawned, turned over, and intended to find a more comfortable position to sleep.
However, just as he turned over, he unintentionally saw the alarm clock on the nightstand!
1:20!
He was stunned for a moment, momentarily thinking he had seen it wrong.
1:20? Wasn't it just after 8 o'clock?
He rubbed his eyes and looked carefully; it was indeed 1:20.
He furrowed his brows sharply, got up, walked to the window, and looked at the residents in other buildings of the complex.
He discovered that basically all the lights were out as people had gone to sleep, with only a sparse one or two households still having lights on.
"Huh... Did I really fall asleep and sleep for nearly four or five hours? Why didn't I feel anything at all?"
Ling Yichen was full of confusion and was just about to turn back to his bed.
Just at this moment, a figure appeared in his field of vision.
To be precise, he saw a figure appear on the rooftop of a high-rise building in the distance, and Ling Yichen even clearly saw who it was!
"It's her?"
"Why would she appear on the rooftop at this time?"
With these doubts, Ling Yichen couldn't help but stand by the window, quietly gazing at that figure.
Under the pale moonlight, a slender and beautiful figure was standing on the edge of the high-rise rooftop, facing the moon with her arms spread wide, looking exactly like Rose from Titanic!
It was precisely because she was facing the moon, and because the moon's light was not dim, that Ling Yichen was able to see clearly who she was.
It was none other than Goddess Yileina!
"What is she doing?"
Ling Yichen couldn't quite understand her actions.
Standing on the rooftop in the middle of the night, doing such a strange action—if it had been an ordinary person standing there, Ling Yichen would have thought she was depressed and preparing to jump off the building.
But that was Yileina, a goddess from Sky City; she absolutely would not jump off a building to commit suicide.
Moreover...
Even if she really jumped down, she might not necessarily die.
"Forget it, why bother about her!"
Ling Yichen yawned again, preparing to go back to sleep.
However, just at this moment, Ling Yichen suddenly saw a bizarre scene.
He saw strands of purple radiance descending from the high sky in the void, landing on her.
This time, Ling Yichen became completely interested.
He took a step forward, pressing close to the window glass to look, wanting to see clearly what that purple radiance was and where it came from!
Soon he had the answer!
That purple radiance was coming from the purple rings surrounding the moon!