Chapter 292: Chapter 292 I Disagree with This Marriage Proposal
"Is this the young nephew you mentioned?" Lin Shen asked, pointing at Tian Xin with a puzzled look on his face.
Lin Shen had always thought that Tian Xun's young nephew would be a little child, so he was surprised to find that he was actually a grown adult Celestial.
"Yes, this is my young nephew, Tian Xin." Tian Xun replied with a headache, never expecting that these two would start fighting upon meeting each other.
"Auntie, I do not agree to this marriage arrangement." Tian Xin shouted at the top of his lungs.
What a joke, his dearest aunt, the one who understood and knew him best in the family, the most exceptionally talented, how could she be with such a lowlife.
"Tian Xin, stop making a scene. Your aunt's husband doesn't even know you, it wasn't on purpose. You two will have to get along well from now on." As he spoke, Tian Xun pulled Tian Xin aside and said, "You should have let us know before coming, then this accident wouldn't have happened. Come on, I have prepared a gift for you; you will definitely like it."
Regardless of whether Tian Xin was willing or not, Tian Xun just dragged him away, and even said to Lin Shen, "Lin Shen, we'll be eating later. Let's give Tian Xin a warm welcome."
"Alright." Lin Shen agreed with a smile.
After all, he hadn't suffered any loss, so naturally, he wouldn't mind having another big nephew. However, this meant that his plan to steal Tian Xin's bow would have to be shelved.
"Aunt, how can you find a Human to be my uncle? And even if you were considering a Human, it couldn't be someone so low-level, such a vile lowlife..." Upon arriving at the Paradise Palace, Tian Xin immediately entered persuasive mode, unable to accept Lin Shen as his uncle-in-law no matter what.
Just thinking he had to call Lin Shen, that scoundrel, 'uncle' made Tian Xin feel dizzy, nauseous, and wanting to throw up.
"Did you have a grudge against him before?" Tian Xun asked, handing over a healing potion to Tian Xin.
"That's beside the point. You're a Great Nirvana, and he's just a measly Human Mutator; how could he be worthy of you? Aunt, if you have to choose, at least find someone of the same rank," Tian Xin said indignantly.
Tian Xun just looked at Tian Xin without saying a word, and soon, Tian Xin could no longer stand it and surrendered, "Alright, I admit, I have a bit of personal vendetta against him, but it's not because I have a personal grudge that I don't agree with this match. I sincerely think he's not worthy of you, aunt."
"Tell me in detail, how did you end up making an enemy of him?" Tian Xun insisted, his tone suggestively unreceptive to Tian Xin's previous words.
"Aunt, are you even listening to me? With your qualifications and abilities, it would be a piece of cake to find a Great Nirvana. Why lower your status for someone like that..." Seeing that Tian Xun was silent again, Tian Xin had no choice but to recount the whole process of how he became an enemy of Lin Shen.
Of course, while recounting the story, Tian Xin beautified his own image just a little and vilified Lin Shen's a bit more.
"So, you're saying that after fighting him so many times, you've never won? Even when his level was lower than yours, you still took the loss?" Tian Xun knew exactly what to focus on.
"Aunt, I already said that was because I was injured beforehand. If I hadn't been seriously wounded and my skills hadn't been used up, I would have taken care of him long ago. He is nothing but a despicable, shameless, cunning lowlife..." Tian Xin immediately raised his voice once more.
"I see, you're not as smart as he is," Tian Xun said, as if having an epiphany.
"Aunt, are you even listening to what I'm saying? When did our conversations become so difficult? It wasn't like this before," Tian Xin felt he was about to go mad.
"But isn't that what you've been implying? You can't beat him in a fight and you got outsmarted by him. Doesn't that mean you're not as capable or as smart as he is?" Tian Xun said with a chuckle.
"Before I met him, if I hadn't been injured first, he would have died eight hundred times over by now," Tian Xin was on the verge of losing his composure.
"So before you battled him today, you weren't injured, right?" Tian Xun looked at Tian Xin and spoke seriously.
Tian Xin suddenly fell silent, and after a long while, muttered, "I hadn't anticipated that his Fist Power could injure someone from a distance, that was a sneak attack."
"Be careful, you know that just because I'm not a Pureblood Celestial, our family members may not say it out loud, but deep down, they never really considered me one of them. The only ones who truly treat me as family are you and mom, even my father, your grandfather, looks down on me deep inside."
"Little aunt, who cares what they think, as long as we are family, that's enough," Tian Xin hurriedly said.
"Little aunt knows she hasn't spoiled you for nothing, so I really need your support right now," Tian Xun said gravely, "To speak frankly without modesty, even though I'm not a Pureblood Celestial, finding a Great Nirvana Pureblood Celestial to be your uncle isn't difficult for me."
"Exactly, little aunt, I always thought you deserved someone better," Tian Xin chimed in immediately, adding his two cents.
"Then do you know why I didn't choose such a Celestial and instead chose Lin Shen?" Tian Xun countered.
"It must have been that kid sweet-talking and deceiving you, little aunt, you must not fall for his tricks, that kid is very cunning."
Tian Xun laughed, "Do you think your little aunt is an idiot or blinded by love? That a man can deceive your little aunt just with a few words?"
"Of course not, little aunt, you're not that kind of person, so why did you choose Lin Shen?" Tian Xin was utterly baffled.
Tian Xin was well aware that Tian Xun was neither an idiot nor blinded by love.
If Tian Xun were such a person, she wouldn't have been able to occupy a seat in the Celestial Court as a half-blood.
Keep in mind that before Tian Xun, there had been no half-blood Celestials with a seat in the Celestial Court, which alone speaks volumes about Tian Xun's capabilities.
Aside from Tian Xun, there were only three other seats occupied by their family in the Celestial Court.
"It's because I see great potential in Lin Shen, his future achievements might not stop at just Great Nirvana," Tian Xun said earnestly.
"Not just Great Nirvana… little aunt… you're perhaps overestimating him too much… what makes him…" Tian Xin was inwardly shocked.
To achieve the Nirvana Body, even among the Celestial Race, is an extremely remarkable feat.
That Tian Xun believed Lin Shen's future achievements would surpass Great Nirvana surprised Tian Xin immensely.
"He's merely a Mutator, his journey is still far off, how can you be so sure he will reach that level? Little aunt, you need to think this through, there are not a shortage of geniuses in our Celestial Race; on the contrary, there are too many.
Yet many of these geniuses don't even make it past the Nirvana Level, he's a Human Mutator…" Tian Xin became serious, his opposition to Tian Xun and Lin Shen wasn't just based on a personal grudge against Lin Shen.
He knew all too well that so-called geniuses were nothing until they grew into powerful figures.
Present-day powerhouses were the real deal; those with the potential to become powerhouses in the future were mostly illusions.
Unless they were like Di Esi, men fated by heaven to become strong, but how many Di Esi's were there in the universe?
"Believe in your little aunt, his future achievements are truly boundless," Tian Xun said with a burning gaze.