Giving Myself a Thumbs Up for My Cleverness, Pulling Aggro onto Gu Changge
Giving Myself a Thumbs Up for My Cleverness, Pulling Aggro onto Gu Changge
Boom!
Gu Xianer’s gaze was icy cold. Wings of light manifested behind her as she rapidly closed in.
Her small, jade-white hand clenched into a fist, her blood energy astonishing, and she smashed it straight down.
Pale golden blood energy pierced through everything—she was practically a peerless ferocious beast!
“What...”
The young prodigy of the Flood Dragon Clan was somewhat shocked. She hadn’t expected Gu Xianer to suddenly appear right in front of her. That speed was terrifying—it was as if she had vanished into thin air.
Pfft!
She quickly activated her Transcendent abilities to resist. The webbing on her arms transformed into sharp heavenly blades capable of slicing through anything, intending to counter Gu Xianer’s punch.
But the next moment, the sound of cracking bones suddenly rang out.
Accompanied by a scream, she was sent flying backward, her expression filled with utter horror and disbelief.
The arms she had used to resist were shattered by Gu Xianer’s single punch. That small fist landed on her body and nearly blew apart half of her torso.
This scene made many Cultivators in the distance suck in a cold breath. Although this girl in green looked delicate, her power was simply too astonishing.
“A bit troublesome.”
The young prodigy who had attacked frowned and couldn’t help but retreat a few steps. His cultivation was stronger than Gu Xianer’s, yet he had gained no advantage from that exchange.
This shocked him and gave him a sense of frustration.
As a Young Prodigy—and one of the upper-middle tier at that—he actually couldn’t prevail against a mere little girl in green.
The young female prodigy who had attacked alongside him had it even worse—her body had been pierced through, blood gushing out.
Gu Xianer had repelled both of them with a single strike, yet her expression didn’t improve in the slightest. Instead, it grew even more grave.
Because the white mist was far too dense, seemingly endless.
It contained the ancient Array Patterns laid down by these sea clans, blotting out the sky in every direction.
For the sea clans, this terrain had become even more suited to their style of battle.
“Utter trash!”
In the sky, a blue figure charging forth on a golden battle horse stood proudly at the horizon, her gaze cold and disdainful. Seeing this scene, she spoke icily.
Her aura was simply too powerful.
Though her figure didn’t appear tall, she was more intimidating than those sea clan members standing at the horizon like small mountains.
In her hand, a long spear flowed with golden light, its aura soul-stirring—the aura of the Peak Honoured King Realm on full display!
The Seventh Princess didn’t personally join the fray. She merely sat at the horizon like a hunter, her gaze cold and mocking, intending to watch a grand show of a cat toying with a mouse.
“Seize her for me!”
The Seventh Princess issued the order again, still not acting herself. If she didn’t inflict torment and despair upon her enemy this way, it would be hard to soothe the pain of her younger brother’s murder.
If she didn’t kill the girl before her, the vengeance for her brother’s death could never be quenched.
“Damn it, how dare you destroy my body.”
The young female prodigy of the Flood Dragon Clan was furious, with a trace of lingering fear. Her body had nearly exploded, and now she was healing in the distance, attempting to reconstruct it.
She had underestimated Gu Xianer’s strength. She never imagined it would come to this—her Physique was no match for her opponent’s.
So she had suffered a huge loss right away.
Soon, with an ugly expression, she charged at Gu Xianer once more.
At the same time, the other young prodigy revealed his true form, bearing down to kill. His massive fish body rumbled across the sky, emitting terrifying, heaven-shaking sounds.
In an instant, that area was filled with dense, countless rays of light—thousands upon thousands—all transforming into blue runes, becoming bolts of lightning and rain-like mist that enveloped Gu Xianer.
A great battle erupted. Violent energy poured out madly, like stars exploding one after another.
Under such fluctuations, many of the younger generation couldn’t withstand it and could only flee far away.
“Fighting two at once, and even gaining the upper hand—this girl in green is too strong. No wonder she could kill wave after wave of the sea clans’ people...”
“What a pity. She offended someone she shouldn’t have.”
The many young people nearby were all shocked by this.
But some lamented, and naturally, some gloated over her misfortune.
“Pfft...”
Finally, under the combined assault of the two Young Prodigies plus the attacks of the other sea clan members,
Gu Xianer’s face paled. With a wah, she spat out a mouthful of blood, her slender body falling toward the mountain range behind her like a kite with its string cut.
“Kill!”
“She’s injured—this is our chance!”
The sea clan experts were overjoyed. Even the two Young Prodigies’ eyes gleamed as they unleashed their strongest techniques, preparing to take Gu Xianer down right then and there.
Boom rumble rumble!
In an instant, the area was submerged in sky-filling radiance. Under such light, all the Cultivators couldn’t help but shut their eyes, finding it unbearably blinding.
“Now’s the time...”
However, at that moment, watching the crowd charge in to kill her, a trace of triumphant scheming suddenly appeared in the eyes of the flying-backward Gu Xianer.
Her momentum halted instantly. In her pale hand appeared a glittering golden talisman, from which surging fluctuations emanated.
It was a dazzling sword light, its killing intent terrifying.
Though it wasn’t her trump card, it was a talisman treasure she had obtained back when she was knocking people out with clubs—one containing a single strike of True Enlightened Realm power.
Now, erupting suddenly, it instantly caused the expressions of the sea clan creatures before her to change. Many of them directly collapsed, their bodies splitting apart within it.
“What a cunning little wench. All the more reason you can’t be allowed to live.”
Suddenly, the Seventh Princess on the golden battle horse let out a cold snort, her eyes like lightning, staring at the golden sword talisman in Gu Xianer’s hand.
“Chi!”
She waved her hand. The golden halberd sliced through the sky, tearing apart the firmament and piercing straight through the void in an instant.
Pfft...
Gu Xianer’s expression changed drastically. She hastily protected herself with a top-grade defensive artifact, but her body still shook violently, her face turning pale, all color draining from it.
Even the golden sword talisman in her hand, which she had been about to activate, instantly exploded into fragments.
“Sss! That was just a casual strike!”
“So powerful—she could definitely slay a True Enlightened Realm existence!”
Facing this strike from the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace, everyone in the distance was horrified. The weaker ones’ legs went soft, nearly fainting from fright.
The Ancient Sea Palace was the absolute overlord of the Endless Sea, ruling over countless sea clans, and this Seventh Princess was said to possess the makings of invincibility.
Before this, no one had ever seen her appear.
Seeing her today truly left every Cultivator stunned.
This so-called makings of invincibility was no empty boast. Looking across all the Young Prodigies, who else had broken through to the Peak Honoured King Realm at her age?
And a casual strike from her contained battle power at the True Enlightened level.
Even the Gu Family’s Young Master, hailed as a True Celestial Being, probably wasn’t this strong, right?
Young Prodigies were already the cream of their generation, and this Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace was clearly the cream of the cream.
The slender, delicate girl in green before her was absolutely no match for her.
Moreover, before this, the girl in green had been besieged and hunted by numerous sea clan members—her cultivation was no longer at its peak.
This was clearly unfair to her.
And among the many members of the younger generation, no one stepped forward to help her. She faced the Seventh Princess—who had numerous followers—all alone.
How was she supposed to fight this?
This was simply bullying!
By now, quite a few young men felt pity and tenderness toward the girl in green.
That breathtakingly beautiful little face was stained with blood, and that cold expression stirred their compassion.
No matter where you go, looks matter.
“Sigh, if only my strength were a bit greater. If I stepped in to save the damsel right now, maybe...” one young talent couldn’t help but shake his head.
“I heard her surname is also Gu. But it seems the Gu Family’s Young Master hasn’t shown up—he clearly doesn’t want to get involved.”
“This girl in green is said to have a complicated relationship with the Gu Family’s Young Master—seemingly enemies, yet seemingly not. That’s why many Skyward Schloss disciples don’t dare to help her.”
“Yeah, what if it angered the Gu Family’s Young Master? You’d end up pleasing neither side—just plain bad luck.”
Around the mountain peaks, quite a few Cultivators discussed in low voices, holding differing views on the matter, sighing with emotion.
It wasn’t that the girl in green wasn’t strong!
She simply lacked the time to grow. Otherwise, facing the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace wouldn’t necessarily be hopeless.
This made everyone feel it was a pity.
“So young, yet so cunning and cruel. You cannot be allowed to live.”
The Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace sat upon her golden battle horse, the golden spear falling back into her hand, pointing distantly at Gu Xianer as she spoke coldly.
Her followers, including the two Young Prodigies who had stepped forward, returned with shame on their faces. They had nearly fallen for her trick just now.
If the Seventh Princess hadn’t suddenly intervened, they would likely have been severely injured right there.
Thinking of this, the way they looked at Gu Xianer carried a gloomy malice.
Today, in front of so many people, trying to capture a girl whose cultivation was far below theirs—not only had they failed, they’d nearly been seriously injured, even killed.
It made them lose all face. A stifled fire burned in their hearts; they wished they could fight Gu Xianer hundreds more rounds and slaughter her.
“Oh, I can’t be allowed to live? I don’t see what’s so great about you either—you’re just throwing your weight around.”
At this moment, Gu Xianer flew up from below, her voice very calm.
She stood in the air, her bare feet whiter than snow, her hair dancing, her dress fluttering—like the most perfect sprite crafted by the heavens themselves, possessing both an immortal air and the charm of the Great Dao.
Young in age, yet her features were breathtakingly beautiful, like a peerless immortal blossom standing tall in the void.
The discussions of the surrounding Cultivators all fell upon her ears.
At this moment, she appeared unusually calm. Though a trace of blood hung at the corner of her mouth, she showed no fear at all.
She recalled her shifus’ words, various thoughts flashing through her mind, and instead settled into calm.
If it really came down to it, she would just have to use those few extremely precious artifacts.
The thought that she might actually have to do this pained her—she who had always loved amassing wealth like a little miser.
Calculating this debt back and forth, Gu Xianer somehow ended up pinning it on Gu Changge’s head again.
“Throwing my weight around? Interesting.”
At this point, the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace was perfectly composed, looking as though she had Gu Xianer completely in her grasp. She was in no hurry to kill her, instead speaking with mockery and ridicule in her eyes.
“If you weren’t relying on your cultivation being higher than mine, what would any of you amount to?” Gu Xianer said indifferently.
“Because my cultivation is higher than yours, I’ll kill you. Is there a problem with that?”
Hearing this, the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace couldn’t help but sneer, as if she had heard the joke of the century.
“No problem. Just don’t let me surpass you in cultivation someday.” Gu Xianer looked at her calmly as well.
“You won’t get the chance. No one can save you today. When you killed my brother, did you ever think about this, little girl?”
Hearing this, the Seventh Princess’s eyes turned cold as she recalled the scenes she had witnessed when searching the ferocious beast’s soul.
Her younger brother had been cruelly killed by this little girl before her—his body collapsing, and amid his screams, even his Primordial Spirit was ground into oblivion.
Such methods could only be called ruthless.
“He deserved to die, that’s all,” Gu Xianer said flatly.
She had felt some regret before, thinking she had been a bit impulsive about the matter, but now she was perfectly calm.
With a sister like this, a brother of that character would have been killed by someone sooner or later anyway.
“You’re courting death...”
Hearing these words, the Seventh Princess’s face turned cold, her gaze growing even more frigid. On her normally indifferent face, it appeared rather sinister, even somewhat twisted.
Those followers familiar with her all knew how much she doted on her younger brother.
She had intended to bring him along to the Celestial Ancient Continent to seek fortunes, but who would have thought that in a moment of carelessness, he would be murdered.
This enraged the Seventh Princess. She wouldn’t let Gu Xianer die so easily—she would make her suffer endless torment.
“You’ve hunted me for so long. Now I’m standing right here—do you dare kill me?”
At this, a faint mockery appeared in Gu Xianer’s eyes as she asked in return.
“I know your surname is Gu. I know you’re the disciple of Skyward Schloss’s Great Elder. But so what? If I want to kill you, who can stop me?”
The Seventh Princess sneered repeatedly, looking at Gu Xianer as though looking at an idiot, completely unable to fathom how she could still be so composed at a time like this.
Could she have some other card to play?
She was the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace—killing her would be effortless.
A life for a life was only right and proper during this trial on the Celestial Ancient Continent.
“If you kill me, my brother Gu Changge won’t let you off. You’ll die an even worse death than me.” At this point, Gu Xianer grew even more composed, simply borrowing Gu Changge’s tiger skin to wear as her own banner.
And while she was at it, pulling a bit more aggro onto Gu Changge.
If things really went south in a moment, she would just use a secret treasure to tear open the space here and leave.
Anyway, when it came to screwing over Gu Changge, she wouldn’t feel the slightest bit guilty.
Besides, she knew Gu Changge wouldn’t care about her. At this point, she held no expectations.
“Gu Changge...”
“You’re actually bringing him up?”
The Seventh Princess hadn’t expected Gu Xianer to say such a thing at this moment. She couldn’t help but let out a derisive laugh.
“Don’t think I don’t know that you and Gu Changge actually harbor deep enmity between you. He’d care whether you live or die? And even if Gu Changge did show up, so what? Do you think I’d fear him? I’d actually like to see just how much truth there is to this so-called True Celestial Being.”
The Seventh Princess’s gaze was cold. Her words showed she had already seen through Gu Xianer completely. If she didn’t want to make her despair slowly, she wouldn’t have bothered saying so much.
Hearing this, Gu Xianer also let out a derisive laugh, then said lightly, “You’re nothing but an outsider. Where do you get the confidence to make wild claims about the relationship between me and Gu Changge?”
“If you dare lay a finger on me, you’ll definitely be killed by my dear brother. If you don’t believe me, feel free to try. He’s only been held up by some matter right now—otherwise, he’d have rushed here long ago...”
She couldn’t help but want to give herself a thumbs up for her own cleverness.