...
Huo Wu looked at Xuan Hao and remained silent for a long time.
She couldn't find a single word to refute it.
Because every word Xuan Hao spoke was a stark and painful truth.
Her mind was actually filled with the grand principles taught by her college teachers, such as "diligence can make up for lack of talent" and "human determination can overcome nature".
But at this moment, all these grand and impressive words were stuck in his throat.
Faced with Xuan Hao's stark and realistic arguments, those grand principles seem utterly pale, even reeking of laughable hypocrisy.
However, she was still somewhat unwilling to give up.
"What about the others?"
Huo Wu gritted her teeth and couldn't help but ask,
"Besides you, the other girls in the Royal Fighting Team 2 are ridiculously strong. I watched their matches, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Yan, and that Zhu Zhuqing... They're all about my age, or even younger than me, so how are they so amazing?"
"You're a monster, fine, but are they all one-in-a-million monsters too?"
Xuan Hao looked at her as if she were an idiot, and remained silent for a moment.
"Didn't I already make myself clear? Why are you asking such nonsense?"
Xuanhao leaned back on the sofa and said irritably, "How is their situation any different from the theory I just mentioned?"
"They come from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, the Dugu family, and the Star Luo Noble Family. This is called having a good innate martial soul and high talent."
Xuan Hao shrugged. "As for why they are now far ahead of their peers... it's because they were lucky to meet me."
"I happen to have a bunch of amazing things that can transform people, and I happen to be willing to give them to me.
They consumed the resources I gave them, their martial spirits evolved, and their soul power surged, so now they have become monsters in your eyes."
"It's still the same old story: talent plus luck.
They were just lucky to get on my good side, that's all."
Upon hearing these words, Huo Wu's expression instantly became extremely unnatural.
She sat blankly on the sofa, her eyes gradually losing focus.
If she could feel a little better knowing that Xuan Hao's strength was due to his being a mutated freak, she could accept it more easily.
But now we know that even the strength of those girls in the Royal Fighting Team 2 was only because they were "lucky enough to meet Xuan Hao"...
Huo Wu's mental state completely collapsed.
She suddenly realized that all her years of tireless cultivation and countless hours of sweating under the scorching sun for a single soul skill were nothing but a complete joke!
Others can easily erase her years of hard work and even leave her far behind by simply meeting a benefactor and eating some good food.
So what's the point of her working so hard?
Just as Huo Wu was falling into deep self-doubt and her eyes gradually became empty and desperate.
A dark shadow flashed before my eyes.
"Smack!"
A crisp, loud flick landed mercilessly on Huo Wu's forehead.
"hiss--!"
Huo Wu winced in pain, clutching her forehead as she snapped back to reality, tears welling in her eyes. She glared angrily at Xuan Hao, who had returned to his seat.
"What nonsense are you thinking about now?"
Xuan Hao looked at her speechlessly. "What's wrong? You feel unbalanced after hearing the facts?
You think the world is too dark, and that God has been unfair to you?"
Huo Wu didn't say anything, but her red eyes and aggrieved expression gave the answer.
"Please, can you stop being so pretentious?"
Xuan Hao scoffed, "When has God ever been fair?"
"You, Huo Wu, were born to be the young lady of the Blazing Fire Academy. You have been pampered since childhood, with the best teachers and the most advanced simulated cultivation environment.
You have never had to risk your life against soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest for a single gold soul coin."
Xuan Hao stared at her, "When you're enjoying resources that ordinary commoner soul masters could never access in several lifetimes, why don't you stand up and cry out that God is unfair?"
"What? Now that you've suddenly run into a few people who are luckier than you, have stronger backing, and are more talented than you, and they beat you up, you can't take it anymore?
You're starting to think that God is targeting you?"
"Everything in this world has been unfair from the very beginning!"
"If we're talking about absolute fairness, then this world shouldn't even exist!"
"Go and look at the slums on the mainland.
How many people are born, and before they even have a chance to see the world, they die from hunger and disease?
Do you think that's fair to them?"
"If we want absolute fairness, then we might as well all die in the womb, and no one should live.
That would be the fairest thing to do!"
Huo Wu's eyes were slightly red, and she bit her lip tightly.
She understood the logic; everything Xuan Hao said made sense. But…
"I know you're right."
Huo Wu's voice trembled slightly, and tears finally streamed down her face. "But... I just feel so sad."
"What's so distressing about this?"
Xuan Hao rolled his eyes. "That's not called being upset, it's just pure jealousy.
You're jealous that they're luckier than you, jealous that they met me, jealous that they obtained the power you've always dreamed of so easily."
Xuan Hao tilted his body and lay down on the large sofa.
"There's nothing shameful about this, it's perfectly normal."
Xuan Hao rested his head on one hand and looked at Huo Wu, "Because I'm jealous of you guys too."
Huo Wu froze as she wiped away her tears.
She looked up in surprise, forgetting even to cry: "You...are jealous of us?"
A peerless, ruthless god who tramples all the geniuses on the continent underfoot, a monster with a 100,000-year-old soul ring, actually dares to say he's jealous of her?
Is that strange?
Xuan Hao lay on his side, his eyes gazing into the void. His voice, which had been sharp just moments before, now carried a deep darkness and weariness.
"Everything you are born with is rightfully yours, but I have to rely on all sorts of life-risking schemes to barely obtain it."
"You think I'm strong, you think I'm superior.
But what you see is just a shell I use to disguise myself."
"I am far from being as carefree and optimistic as you appear on the surface. On the contrary, I am actually very twisted inside, you could even say I am a complete pervert."
Huo Wu listened blankly, even her breathing became soft.
"Because I want everything, but I'm also jealous of everything."
Xuan Hao's voice was soft, yet it carried a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.
"I envy others who can be pampered by their parents from a young age and live a life of luxury; while I have to fight for food with wild dogs in the muddy fields, without even a piece of clothing to cover myself, and I am so hungry that my stomach cramps every day."
"I'm jealous of others who receive unconditional love and kindness from a young age; but what about me?
Everything I want, including the so-called feelings around me now, I have to get them through scheming, coercion, and enticement step by step."
"I don't trust anyone, and I don't think anyone would love me for no reason."
Xuan Hao slowly closed his eyes.
"So, I'm jealous of everything and can't stand anything. When I see others have things that I don't have, I have an urge deep down to destroy them all."
The temperature in the room seemed to drop as he spoke.
Huo Wu looked at Xuan Hao, who was lying on the sofa, and suddenly felt that the man in front of her was like a madman standing on the edge of a cliff.
"The me you see in the ring is violent, cruel, and merciless."
Xuan Hao opened his eyes again, and within those azure eyes swirled a chilling undercurrent.
"Do you think that was something I put on to establish my authority?"
"No. That's my true self."
"Because there are many times when I look at you glamorous, self-important geniuses..."
"I really want to smash this disgusting world to pieces."
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