“Little White Flower? No way!” Lin Xin’s eyes widened instantly, his dark green hair flung back, as he looked at Sima Xian as if he were a monster.

Not just him, but everyone except Zhang Fangfang looked at Sima Xian with the same shock. They all knew who Sima Xian’s “Little White Flower” was.

Feng Ling’er, the future heir to the Saint Alliance Auction House.

Wang Yuanyuan and Chen Ying’er repeated Lin Xin’s words almost in unison, “No way.”

Who was Feng Ling’er? She was the heir to the Saint Alliance Auction House! Once she inherited the auction house, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say she would be the wealthiest person in the entire Temple Alliance. Although the auction house and the Saint Alliance had inextricable connections, even as a manager, she would still control terrifying wealth.

What’s more, Feng Ling’er was a stunning beauty with a pure, ethereal aura. Who would have thought that Sima Xian would actually succeed?

Sima Xian looked so smug that he practically looked down his nose at the sky. “What do you mean, ‘no way’? This priest is handsome, suave, dashing, and mighty. Although I don’t have hair, my heroic spirit has deeply attracted my Little White Flower. We are a match made in heaven, a natural fit. She loves me to death! Hahahaha.”

Han Yu put his arm around Lin Xin’s shoulder and said to him, “Don’t you think this guy deserves a beating?”

Lin Xin nodded in emphatic agreement. Not just them, but everyone except Long Haochen and Zhang Fangfang looked ready to pounce.

Sima Xian’s smile vanished instantly, and he crossed his arms. “What, what are you going to do?”

Wang Yuanyuan shouted, “Confess right now, or do you want us to force you?”

“Don’t! I’ll confess, okay?” Faced with the “silver might” of the crowd, Sima Xian immediately gave in. He dropped his smug look and honestly said, “Listen to me, it’s like this. Didn’t I return to the Priest Temple? With the Holy War starting, who knows if there’s even a future? Maybe I’ll die at Zhennan Pass in a few days. So I thought, even if I die, I should give her an explanation! I promised her when I left. So, I wrote her a letter. And then I wholeheartedly threw myself into the Holy War.”

“But who knew, after a while, when I was immersed in the daily hard battles, she actually wrote back to me. Although she scolded me in the letter, she told me to live well. Immediately, I felt a surge of courage, and my combat power skyrocketed! I don’t know how much demon blood my Ball of Light has been stained with every day. It was so exhilarating. This Discipline Priest isn’t just for show.”

“Get to the point,” Cai’er said, tapping her Death Scythe and looking threatening.

Sima Xian hurriedly ended his bragging. “I didn’t dare to dream that Little White Flower would accept me, but it was still a good start! Yao Ge taught me that if you try, you have a chance, but if you don’t try at all, the chance of success is zero. Then I wrote her another letter, writing about my situation at the Exorcist Pass. From then on, we started exchanging letters. And I have to say, while I was fighting the demons at Zhennan Pass every day, all I could think about was my Little White Flower. This made me cherish my life even more. Strangely enough, in this situation, my strength grew rapidly, and my mentality was not affected by the war at all. Maybe it’s because I had something to look forward to.”

“Then, as we chatted in our letters, I found that Little White Flower seemed to have a little something for me too. Then I worked hard, mentioned it, and she didn’t reject me. She even said she would come to Zhennan Pass to see me. Hehe.”

“She really went?” Lin Xin asked eagerly.

Sima Xian said smugly, “Of course. And she went several times. Didn’t you teach me that to pick up girls, you have to be bold, careful, and thick-skinned? The first time she went, she sneaked onto the city wall and saw me heroically fighting the enemy. Hehe, I was really lucky that time. In our Zhennan Pass, there’s a female mage who always works with me and has a thing for me. After repelling a demon attack, she came over to wipe my sweat. And then, Little White Flower appeared…”

Speaking of this, a look of lingering fear appeared on his face, clearly showing that the situation at the time had scared him. At least it was extremely awkward.

“Guess what Little White Flower did then?” Sima Xian said mysteriously.

Lin Xin said, “Isn’t it obvious? She walked over and slapped you hard, called you scum, and turned to leave.”

“Tsk!” Sima Xian said disdainfully, “Do you think everyone is as petty as you? My Little White Flower is magnanimous, her heart is as big as the ocean. When she suddenly appeared, and with that girl beside me, I was so embarrassed. I wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. Even fighting a demon god one-on-one would be better than that situation!”

Chen Ying’er chuckled and said, “Then your thoughts at the time were similar to Yao Ge’s, weren’t they?”

“Uh…” Sima Xian said helplessly, “Don’t expose me, okay? Listen to me. Anyway, at that time, I felt a tingling in my scalp, like being caught by the teacher for doing something wrong when I was a kid, even worse. But what I didn’t expect was that Little White Flower didn’t get angry at me. Instead, she gracefully walked to my side, also took out a handkerchief, and gently wiped the dirt off my face. Then she took my arm and said to the female mage, ‘Thank you for taking care of my baldy.'”

“I was stunned at the time, just standing there, completely dumbfounded. At this moment, the demons attacked again, and a wolf demon was thrown onto the city wall by a trebuchet, right next to us. He slashed at Little White Flower with his knife. I didn’t think much about it at the time, and quickly pulled her away, using my back to block the knife for her. Damn, that wolf demon was really cruel, the knife cut into my muscle, and it was difficult to pull it out later. I directly gave it a Ball of Light, a metal ball hitting a flesh ball.”

“Little White Flower told me later that she was originally planning to get angry at me. But when she saw me instinctively blocking the knife for her, she couldn’t get angry anymore. As for the rest, I won’t tell you. Anyway, I’m extremely happy.”

Han Yu murmured, “How could this be? Sima actually succeeded?”

Sima Xian’s smug look returned. “Why can’t I succeed? I’m telling you, I now deeply understand what it means that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t look at my Little White Flower, who looks delicate and is always like a proper lady. But deep down, she doesn’t like handsome guys. She only likes tough guys like me.”

Lin Xin pointed to the Ball of Light in his hand. “So, Little White Flower helped you get this thing?”

Sima Xian smiled, “Of course. She was worried about my safety. And I can’t leave the battlefield. The first time she came to see me, she prepared the materials and brought three master-level blacksmiths from our alliance. She asked them to reforge the Ball of Light for me. The name hasn’t changed, but the power of this thing is much stronger than before.”

As he spoke, Sima Xian raised his Ball of Light and slapped the side of it with his right hand. Suddenly, a window opened on the side of the Ball of Light, and the core that flickered with purple lightning reappeared.

The purple light swirled inside, still not very clear, but the surging spiritual power fluctuations were quite intense.

Sima Xian said, “The current Ball of Light is completely tailor-made for me. The main material contains a lot of alloys, I can’t remember the names, but I remember there was Mithril and other metals. Besides that, there are many precious metals. Then it formed its body. Then, there’s a magic array inside, made by a Law God, using six level-ten lightning-type demon beast magic crystals. Little White Flower said that lightning-type magic crystals are rare, and even in the Saint Alliance Auction House, there are only a few level-ten ones. She used them all for me. As for other changes, they’re all in the production. Anyway, the power of the current Ball of Light is much stronger than before. The Purple Illusion Divine Lightning Cannon, Purple Lightning Frenzy, and Purple Lightning Coagulation that I used before were all created by me after the Ball of Light was improved, combined with my own abilities. Amazing, right!”

Long Haochen, who had been listening quietly, said, “In that case, your Purple Illusion Divine Lightning Spiritual Stove should have evolved at least once. And the backlash is not so strong anymore. It should be related to another epic-level equipment on you.”

Sima Xian was much more honest in front of Long Haochen. “That’s right, only Boss has such discerning eyes, seeing the secret on me at a glance.” As he spoke, he tore open his priest robe, revealing his firm chest. He was wearing a scarlet soft armor close to his body. The soft armor emitted a faint orange-red glow, obviously also an epic-level equipment.

“This is called the Scarlet Dragon Armor. Little White Flower said that it was made from the soft skin of the lower abdomen of a real Scarlet Dragon, refined by a special method. It has a very strong defense effect. At the same time, it can greatly reduce any negative attributes. Although it has no amplification effect, it is especially suitable for me. The backlash from my Purple Illusion Divine Lightning Spiritual Stove can filter out at least 80% of it. In this way, I can use it more easily. Moreover, because I use it more often, my tolerance for the Purple Illusion Divine Lightning Spiritual Stove is constantly increasing. After eating the Anaconda Body Tempering Pill made by Yao Ge, plus the lightning body tempering, my external spiritual power should be around thirty to forty thousand now.”

Lin Xin stared at the two epic-level equipment on Sima Xian and murmured, “Marrying a rich wife really saves you decades of struggle!”

(To be continued)