Chapter 83 - Drastic Times Require Drastic Measures (1/2)

The goddess of love listened to Hong Bao's story and nodded now and then. After Hong Bao arrived at how Shun Tao had resolved to confront the heavenly emperor, she even sighed. Sure enough, the goddess of love understands the worries of a woman's heart! She'll certainly help me.

”That really is a tragic tale”, the goddess of love judged. ”He needs help indeed if he wants to stay alive. Hong Bao, be honest, are you willing to do anything for him?”

”Of course! Shun Tao is the love of my life!”

The goddess of love nodded. ”That's good then. There is indeed something that can be done.”

”Tell me! I'll go do it at once!”

The goddess smiled. ”Keep calm. The thing I can propose is indeed a solution, but … it's a little risky. Not only might you not succeed, you might even fail with preparing what is necessary already.”

”At least I can try …” Hong Bao grew doubtful. The way the goddess of love talked, this seemed to be a really complicated thing. Maybe … I could ask someone for help? The goddess of love offered her advice without me having to ask. This must be heaven helping me! If it is something really hard, there will certainly be someone coming forward, right?

Hong Bao finally made up her mind and nodded solemnly. ”I will try. However hard it is, I'll try for Shun Tao's sake!”

”Alright. Then let me tell you: The key lies with that god who reincarnated in the mortal world. He is the root of the problem.”

”Mn!” Hong Bao nodded. Finally someone who understood the essence! Not like that Leng Jin Yu who was only biased. The goddess of love was way smarter than him. It definitely was the crown prince's fault!

”If it's like this, of course, this can only be solved through that god. You don't know much about the trials, don't you?”

”No, only a bit.”

”Then let me tell you: There are many different kinds of trials and no god would attempt all of them in one mortal life. There might be some gods who take on more than one trial each lifetime but nobody ever took every trial. So, not passing in one lifetime is actually not as bad as that friend of yours made it out to be. That god would just have to be called back to the nine heavens, learn a bit more and then he could attempt another try.”

”So we can just call him back?” That easy? Why didn't Shun Tao think of that? He is such an intelligent man! He should have known there was such an easy way out!

”Well, this might not seem like much to you, but it is still something done seldom. Most of the time even if there are some slight mishaps the gods will be able to pass at least one trial at the end of the mortal lifetime. So no trip there is ever truly wasted. But if that god is really as untalented as you said … it wouldn't make much sense for him to stay there. He definitely needs some more education.

The problem is rather that there is no easy way of calling him back. After all they did reincarnate as a mortal already. They can only return if their souls are set free.”

”Then how do you do that?”

”Of course, you'd have to kill them.”

”Kill them!” Hong Bao clasped her hands over her mouth. How cruel! ”Is there no other way?”

The goddess of love sighed. ”You're such a nice girl. Of course you would ask this. Well, it's not like there isn't any. It is just … the other possibility would be much harder for you to accomplish and you only have time until tomorrow. Are you sure that would be such a good idea?”