Before Gu Changge, No Qualification to Jump Around — Her Convictions Are Shaken
Before Gu Changge, No Qualification to Jump Around — Her Convictions Are Shaken
“Long Teng-daren?”
Hearing the name spoken from the dragon woman’s lips, Yue Mingkong’s cold gaze shifted slightly, further confirming the identity of the dragon woman before her.
Though inwardly, she remained unimpressed.
The Long Teng she knew of had indeed possessed a fearsome reputation in her previous life, standing unrivaled among the younger generation.
After leaving the Celestial Ancient Continent and emerging into the world, he had swept through all opposition, invincible—even some ancient freaks who had broken their seals were no match for him.
But in the end, he vanished without a trace, as if evaporated from the mortal world. It remained an unsolved mystery.
Many Cultivators felt it was a great pity, believing that with Long Teng’s talent, competing for the supreme position in the future was not impossible.
Yet he had disappeared so silently, leaving people to sigh in regret.
Many believed Long Teng had stumbled into some death Forbidden Area, a Space Rift, or another world plane, becoming trapped there or perishing.
But in this life, Yue Mingkong felt it was highly likely that Long Teng had fallen victim to Gu Changge’s poisonous hand.
To this day, she still remembered a certain day in her previous life when Gu Changge had murmured names under his breath—among them was Long Teng.
Gu Changge cultivated the Immortal-Devouring Demonic Art; how could he not covet Long Teng’s True Dragon Source?
Given his nature, there was absolutely no way he would spare Long Teng.
Weng!
Her thoughts snapping back, Yue Mingkong’s expression was cold as she slammed down a palm, her pure white jade handprint crystalline and translucent.
The Emperor Technique was incomparably tyrannical. The cultivation she displayed on the surface was only at the mid-stage of the Honoured King Realm.
But the power that erupted had already reached the level of the True Enlightened Realm, leaving the many nearby Cultivators’ faces filled with shock.
It had to be said—if the dragon woman before her stood at the same realm as Yue Mingkong, she would absolutely not be able to withstand a single palm strike.
The dragon woman’s expression shifted slightly. Relying on her powerful cultivation and formidable Physique, she could tangle with Yue Mingkong.
But she was faintly falling into a disadvantage.
She executed powerful body techniques, radiance flowing around her, forcibly enduring this strike, her figure retreating repeatedly through the void.
“Long Teng-daren has ordered me to gather the many heaven’s pride daughters from the outside world this time. If you are willing to willingly follow daren, he will be very pleased.”
“A woman like you—only Long Teng-daren is qualified to possess you.”
As they fought, the dragon woman continued to coax and persuade Yue Mingkong.
A heaven’s pride daughter like Yue Mingkong was exceedingly rare even among their Lost Clans.
One might not appear even in hundreds of thousands of years.
Dragons were lustful by nature, and Long Teng had an obsessive fixation on the beauties of all races.
So the dragon woman was planning to capture the many heaven’s pride daughters from the outside world this time, to claim credit before Long Teng-daren.
She had happened upon Yue Mingkong, and even as a woman herself, she found it hard to look away, her heart somewhat stirred.
As a man, who could possibly resist?
Thus, she had struck out to capture Yue Mingkong, but hadn’t expected her to be so troublesome. After fighting for half a day, they remained deadlocked.
Yue Mingkong’s strength, like her beauty, left her shocked—even envious and jealous.
The dragon woman was moved to persuade her, speaking in the outside world’s language she was familiar with.
After all, Long Teng-daren’s talent could be called the most terrifying of their clan in a million years, unrivaled among his peers, simply sweeping all before him.
The clan’s elders even said that Long Teng-daren could contend for the title of True Dragon in the future.
A True Dragon—that was a great existence surpassing even True Immortals!
In the dragon woman’s heart, her reverence for Long Teng had reached its peak.
It was only a pity that her looks could not catch Long Teng’s eye.
“You’d best pray those words don’t reach the ears of this palace’s fiancé...”
At this moment, recalling Long Teng’s fate in her previous life, Yue Mingkong couldn’t help but shake her head slightly, a trace of mockery flashing through her originally cold expression.
Before Gu Changge, what did these so-called Young Prodigies or ancient freaks amount to?
They didn’t even have the qualification to jump around.
“Fiancé?”
Hearing this, the dragon woman’s expression changed drastically, her face taking on a look of disgust, and then she said viciously, “That fiancé of yours is as good as dead. There has never been a woman Long Teng-daren wanted who managed to escape.”
Yue Mingkong paid it no mind, calm as drifting clouds.
She was merely considering whether to reveal some of her methods and kill this annoying dragon woman.
However, in the end, she chose not to.
A mere dragon woman wasn’t worth such an effort—who knew if the dragon woman had other tricks up her sleeve.
Meanwhile, the dragon woman, knowing she couldn’t take Yue Mingkong down, prepared to leave.
This matter needed to be reported to Long Teng-daren.
The Lost Clans ruled over the many natives within the Celestial Ancient Continent, and they had long known that young geniuses from the outside world would be entering for training.
The emergence of the immortal treasure was actually just the faint radiance emanating from an immortal artifact of the Lost Clans.
This was also part of their plan to lure the many outside factions to gather here.
The Celestial Ancient Continent had been sealed for a long time, and it was time for their generation of young ones to go out and walk the world, broaden their horizons, and incidentally spread the might of the Lost Clans.
Long Teng was the leader of the current young generation of the Lost Clans.
As for the dragon woman, her strength couldn’t even rank in the top ten.
But even so, it was enough for her to look down upon the outside world’s Young Prodigies—after all, the spiritual energy and cultivation resources within the Celestial Ancient Continent were richer than those of the many outside factions.
Not to mention the countless fortuitous opportunities hidden here.
Such as Sacred Emperor stone carvings, Quasi-Nirvana Remnants... too many to count.
This made the young generation of the Celestial Ancient Continent considerably stronger than those outside.
She even felt that Long Teng-daren wouldn’t need to act personally to subdue all the young ones before her.
“Long Teng... how long can he live in this life?”
Yue Mingkong watched the dragon woman depart into the distance, but did not give chase.
Her expression appeared calm and profound—mainly because she knew... the dragon woman was doomed.
“Though I wonder if that fellow Gu Changge will think I deliberately attracted this enmity for him?”
Yue Mingkong’s phoenix eyes narrowed slightly. At this moment, she was actually speculating about Gu Changge’s thoughts based on his temperament. “A mere Long Teng—he probably won’t even take him seriously, at most treating him as prey.”
Although she had lowered much of her guard against Gu Changge, she hadn’t truly come to trust him.
Once bitten by a snake, one fears the rope for ten years.
Yue Mingkong had her own thoughts.
She knew that although her relationship with Gu Changge now seemed much closer—
Gu Changge would reveal his Taboo Demonic Arts to her, would care about her opinions, would gift her artifacts, and would even say things that moved her.
But all of this... in the end, it was only because the current her was of considerable use to Gu Changge.
Yue Mingkong was perfectly clear-headed, not completely bewitched by Gu Changge’s current demeanor.
Of course... she also very much hoped she was simply overthinking, that everything she had done in this life was a misunderstanding of Gu Changge.
She also very much wanted to stay by Gu Changge’s side, to be a virtuous helpmate, to bear his children, to help him rule the world, to overlook the myriad races of the heavens, to stand at the pinnacle of the Great Dao.
Of course, the premise being... that no “vixens” came throwing themselves at him seeking death.
Gu Changge belonged to her alone!
“Xianer’s situation...”
Soon, Yue Mingkong remembered something important. Her expression shifted slightly, and with some worry, she rushed toward the place where Gu Xianer was being hunted.
The many followers behind her followed along, a vast and impressive procession.
During this time, relying on her foreknowledge, Yue Mingkong had seized many fortuitous opportunities ahead of time.
There was even an Emperor Dao inheritance among them.
She was also planning to find an opportunity to break through her cultivation to the Partial-Enlightened Realm.
Her current displayed cultivation of mid-stage Honoured King Realm merely served to confuse and mislead.
On this point, one could say she had learned it entirely from Gu Changge.
Hong!
Divine rainbows streaked one after another, crushing across the sky!
Before long, Yue Mingkong, leading a large number of Cultivators, arrived at the region where the Ancient Sea Palace was hunting Gu Xianer.
Along the way, she hadn’t seen a single Cultivator’s figure, which couldn’t help but puzzle her.
Given Gu Changge’s temperament, it was highly likely he wouldn’t care whether Gu Xianer lived or died.
Although she knew Gu Xianer’s ordeal this time would be peril without real danger—that she would even break through her cultivation in the face of crisis—
As her future sister-in-law, how could she not worry?
Yet the scene before her was permeated with the thick stench of blood. Many mountain ranges and primeval forests had turned to dust, great fissures splitting the earth, everything collapsed to the ground.
“Princess, we seem to have heard some different news... Young Master Changge, he just left this place not long ago...”
“The Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace was also slain by Young Master Changge’s own hand.”
“Xianer-xiaojie is also unharmed. At the critical moment, Young Master Changge appeared... all the beings of the Ancient Sea Palace were utterly annihilated here.”
At this moment, a female follower behind her stepped forward and respectfully reported to Yue Mingkong.
“No wonder there’s so much blood here—so he came.”
Hearing this, Yue Mingkong was somewhat shaken. Coming to her senses, she nodded, and her heart was set at ease.
A complex emotion stirred in her heart—this was something she had never expected. Gu Changge had actually shown up to save Gu Xianer.
Even the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace had been slain here.
If she remembered correctly, the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace was ultimately killed by Gu Xianer’s own hand in revenge, which had even brought the Ancient Sea Palace’s retaliation down upon her.
Yet in this life, the Seventh Princess of the Ancient Sea Palace died so quickly?
And Gu Xianer didn’t even encounter a life-threatening crisis to break through her cultivation?
These trajectories diverged far too much.
“Could it be that I’ve truly misunderstood Changge... what exactly is he planning...”
Yue Mingkong rubbed her brow. Honestly, at this moment, her convictions were shaken.
If once was a coincidence, what about twice? Three times?
Was it because of her previous life’s experiences that her prejudice against this life’s Gu Changge ran too deep?
Had she prejudged him, assuming everything he did harbored ulterior motives?
At this moment, Yue Mingkong was even doubting whether the previous life she had experienced was real or fake.
If it was fake, then why had the experience been so vivid... every day and night, every expression and emotion, every single event—all vivid in her mind, lifelike.
If it was real, then did this life signify an Anomaly?
“Forget it. This matter will become clear sooner or later. What caused the previous life’s Gu Changge and this life’s Gu Changge to differ so greatly?”
“His attitude toward Xianer is indeed very different. After this Celestial Ancient Continent matter concludes, it seems I’ll need to find a suitable opportunity to visit the Longevity Gu Family and ask Uncle Gu.”
Yue Mingkong then left this place as well. She wasn’t content to come to the Celestial Ancient Continent and only raise her cultivation to the Partial-Enlightened Realm.
She had greater ambitions.
...
Meanwhile, in a region in the eastern part of the Celestial Ancient Continent, near the ruins of the natives.
Pu!
A black-and-white divine light swept through, containing an eerie power. The terrifying fierce beast before them instantly turned into withered bones, a ghastly sight.
A fair, handsome youth moved swiftly, finishing off the fierce beast blocking their path.
“So strong! Brother Ye’s strength truly leaves us in awe.”
This scene left the group of young men and women behind him exclaiming in shock.
They were now filled with admiration for the man ahead who went by the alias Ye Lin.
Before this, they had actually mocked him—truly they had eyes but failed to see.
“Brother Ye’s strength has truly advanced by leaps and bounds. In such a short time, he’s about to break through to the Honoured King Realm...”
The petite feather-robed woman with delicate, fair features sighed with emotion.
“Indeed, killing a Partial-Enlightened Realm fierce beast in a single strike—many Young Prodigies couldn’t achieve such a feat.”
The alluring woman in a red dress, her fox tail gleaming with luster, also smiled with pursed lips, her eyes curving into crescents, utterly captivating.
Hearing this, the young man at the front smiled with even greater satisfaction.
After all, this was exactly why he had taken the initiative to act and display his strength before everyone.
What’s the point if you don’t show off?
If you don’t show off, how can you win a beauty’s heart?
All along their journey, what they saw were majestic mountains and lush ancient forests.
Trees that blotted out the sky, requiring dozens of people to encircle their trunks, their branches gnarled and twisted.
This place was wreathed in immortal mist, clouds and rosy haze rising, brimming with abundant vitality and immortal essence.
Many powerful auras lay hidden among the mountains and ruins, Transcendent abilities interweaving, radiant light dazzling, with the aura of battle everywhere.
Now and then an ancient artifact would appear, flowing with brilliant light.
Or an ancient immortal herb, its medicinal fragrance spreading for ten thousand li.
Many Cultivators were fighting over them.
Even fierce beasts of the Enlightened Noble Realm had appeared in numbers, their strikes sending terrifying fluctuations, divine light piercing the heavens, shaking the firmament.
It was a chaotic battle—whether outside Cultivators or powerful native beings, all were slaughtering one another.
But under Ye Ling’s leadership, they had gained quite a few things, even turning misfortune into fortune, arriving here without encountering danger.
“Old turtle, tell me, is the thing the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being left for me really here? Why would it be in the natives’ territory? With my current strength, wouldn’t going there be courting death?”
At this moment, Ye Ling gazed distantly at the outline of the city in the distance, finding the situation rather thorny.
He was questioning the spirit turtle inside his pendant.
“Hmph, where else did you think it would be? Ye Ling, the Supreme Being is, after all, a figure from the Celestial Ancient Times, and skilled in the power of time. What he left for you has naturally all been calculated in advance.”
“There are many powerful beings ahead, but you are the Supreme Being’s successor—how can you lack even this much courage...” The spirit turtle inside the pendant wore an expression of disappointment at his lack of ambition.
Hearing this, Ye Ling relaxed a little. After all, the spirit turtle was reliable at times and wouldn’t set him up.
However, when it came to things related to the Ancient Reincarnation Supreme Being, the others absolutely could not find out at this time.
Ye Ling would never willingly expose this secret.
Otherwise, he would definitely become a fat piece of meat, alarming many powerful beings who would come to snatch it.
Thinking of this, Ye Ling’s plan was simple. He shot a meaningful glance at Yin Mei and Chi Ling.
To him, these two women were no outsiders.
Chi Ling and Yin Mei understood immediately, waving their hands to dismiss the group of followers.
“Ye Ling, is something the matter?”
Chi Ling asked. She actually didn’t understand why Ye Ling had taken the initiative to lead the way, only to bring them to this place in the end.
“I need to head to the ruins ahead to take care of something. If you trust me, you can infiltrate it together with me,” Ye Ling said earnestly. The two women had no shortage of methods, and having them along would mean looking out for one another.
Yin Mei’s gaze flickered slightly, and without the slightest hesitation she said, “I trust you.”
She actually already knew that at this moment, Gu Changge had long since rushed over and was not far from her.
Because of the Demonic Manipulation Urn, some of Gu Changge’s instructions could be directly transmitted to her.
Seeing Yin Mei trust him so completely, Ye Ling was deeply moved.
Infiltrating the territory of the Celestial Ancient Continent’s natives—who knew how dangerous that would be.
Yet Yin Mei hadn’t hesitated in the slightest... which showed how much she trusted him.
Soon after, Chi Ling also chose to agree. She did indeed trust Ye Ling’s character.
Thereupon, Ye Ling began explaining his plan and arrangements to them—how they could now infiltrate these ruins.
At this very moment, atop another mountain peak, Gu Changge’s figure appeared. He gazed distantly at these ruins, a strange color in his smile.
Following the trail Yin Mei had left, he had naturally found his way here quickly.
And this time, he hadn’t brought a single follower with him.
After all, at a time like this, being high-profile would be far too stupid.
“According to Yin Mei’s report, Ye Ling’s fortuitous opportunity should be hidden within these ruins. But before that, his infiltration will take some time.”
“That time is enough for me to find the ancestral tomb first and finish handling matters within.”
Thinking of this, the void before Gu Changge went weng and turned into a blur. He stepped into it and vanished in an instant.
With the experience from last time, this time was clearly going to proceed much more smoothly and familiarly.