Gu Changge Didn't Expose Her — This Time We've Really Caused a Huge Disaster
Gu Changge Didn’t Expose Her — This Time We’ve Really Caused a Huge Disaster
“Not good!”
“Ji Qingxuan is dead set on killing me, this is bad...”
Wang Xiao, who was activating that artifact, bore the brunt of it. With a muffled grunt, he spat out a mouthful of blood, his mental connection severed as he suffered the backlash.
His face turned pale, unable to believe it.
Ji Qingxuan, who normally dared to be angry but never dared to act against him — where on earth did she get the nerve to actually try to kill him today?
“Old Xuan, save me!”
At this point, Wang Xiao couldn’t care about anything else. He roared into the void, intending to call for reinforcements.
Relying on his own strength, he definitely couldn’t handle Ji Qingxuan. At a time like this, aside from his Dao Protector, no one could save him.
“Still trying to call for help?”
Ji Qingxuan’s delicate brows furrowed, her voice cold as if devoid of any warmth.
Her jade hand beckoned once more, and the long sword flew out, blooming in the void — tens of millions of sword lights erupted, surging down to drown everything below!
This scene instantly alarmed the many Cultivators and beings on this street, for the commotion was simply too astonishing.
Many transformed into divine rainbows and flew into the sky, gazing at this place from afar, deeply shocked.
Numerous buildings and pavilions were struck by the aftershocks at the first moment, reduced to ruins.
No one had expected that someone would actually dare to fight within the Imperial Capital of the Vermilion Bird Empire.
During this period, the Vermilion Bird Emperor had just issued an order forbidding any fighting or conflict, seeking a peaceful environment for the Vermilion Bird Imperial Capital.
Many also knew that the legendary Young Master of the Gu Family was currently in the Vermilion Bird Empire.
So they understood the Vermilion Bird Emperor’s actions.
“Who are these two? They’re actually fighting right here? This disturbance is terrifying...”
“Judging by their age, they shouldn’t be old. Could they be prodigies of the True Immortal Academy?”
“Compared to them, all our years of cultivation feel like they went to the dogs.”
“So this is what a prodigy is. Otherwise, why would there be such a gap between them and ordinary people?”
Many Cultivators were utterly shocked, monstrous waves surging in their hearts, yet also bitter, deeply feeling the gap between themselves and true prodigies.
Quite a few immediately connected this to the prodigies of the True Immortal Academy.
Besides such prodigies, who else could possess such terrifying strength at such an age?
The commotion here was tremendous, reaching the depths of the imperial palace almost immediately.
“Eight zero zero” Many prodigies who had yet to leave this place, in their shock, all transformed into divine rainbows and rushed over one after another.
“That voice — it sounds like Junior Brother Wang shouting? What happened to him?”
Chu Hao, who was conversing with the Vermilion Bird Emperor, couldn’t help but frown. After all, his cultivation had already reached the Sacred King Realm, so he heard Wang Xiao’s cry for help almost immediately.
Although he didn’t much like this Junior Brother whose temperament was somewhat unruly and arrogant,
if something happened to him in the Vermilion Bird Empire, neither he nor the Vermilion Bird Empire behind him could bear the consequences.
Thinking of this, Chu Hao sighed and could only go take a look.
“Father Emperor, I’ll go see what’s happening.”
With that, Chu Hao stepped out, left the place, appeared outside the imperial palace, and headed toward the source of the voice.
“Stop!”
Meanwhile, Wang Xiao, who was fighting Ji Qingxuan,
heard this voice and his face lit up with joy. He shouted, “Old Xuan, save me! Ji Qingxuan has gone mad — she actually wants to kill me!”
From the void, a grim-faced Old Xuan appeared. His cultivation was at the Upper Sacred Lord Realm, only one step away from the Sacred King Realm.
The moment he descended, terrifying Sacred Lord Realm pressure enveloped all directions of heaven and earth, his divine might vast and boundless, like an ancient god in fury.
The sky changed color, winds and clouds reversed, and above the Imperial Capital of the Vermilion Bird Empire, terrifying phenomena instantly appeared.
A being of the Sacred Lord Realm, in a small nation like the Vermilion Bird Empire, was an existence on the level of a founding ancestor.
One who would only appear when facing the greatest of crises.
So the descent of a Sacred Lord — and one at the Upper Sacred Lord Realm at that — created a commotion of unimaginable magnitude!
“Sss!”
“That’s a Sacred Lord!”
“To actually draw out a Sacred Lord — this is too terrifying...”
Many Cultivators and beings changed expressions drastically, their souls trembling, awe welling up within them, unable to resist the urge to bow and kneel in that direction.
“Old Xuan, quickly seize her for me. She’s truly gone mad today.”
Seeing Old Xuan, Wang Xiao couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then he revealed a cold, vicious expression, staring fixedly at Ji Qingxuan with a “you’re dead” look.
In his view, Ji Qingxuan had gone mad today — otherwise, how could she do something so insane as trying to kill him?
But now that Old Xuan had appeared, naturally there was nothing more for Ji Qingxuan to do.
“Miss Ji, do you know what you’re doing right now?”
However, Old Xuan did not strike immediately.
Instead, he looked coldly at Ji Qingxuan, waved his sleeve, and a burst of hazy yellow light erupted.
Immediately after, a bright yellow gourd, wreathed in chaotic mist, rose and fell within his sleeve, carrying the power of creation itself.
If Ji Qingxuan didn’t give a proper answer, he would certainly act, using this gourd to suppress and capture her.
“And who are you? The strong bullying the weak?”
Ji Qingxuan’s expression remained icy cold, utterly fearless. Instead, she said coldly, “I don’t know where you got the nerve to actually dare attack me.”
“If Gongzi learns of this, even if you’re a Sacred Lord Realm existence, you won’t escape death.”
“Gongzi...”
“Ji Qingxuan, what do you mean by that?”
Old Xuan frowned. His first reaction was that something must be wrong with Ji Qingxuan’s head today, for her to say such inexplicable things.
Meanwhile, the many Cultivators and prodigies who had rushed over nearby couldn’t help but feel shocked upon hearing this.
Even a Sacred Lord wouldn’t escape death?
This woman in white certainly had a big mouth — who exactly was she?
Quite a few people’s expressions shifted slightly. Someone recognized Ji Qingxuan and said with a trembling voice, “This young lady... seems to be the one by Young Master Changge’s side?”
The speaker was a tall man covered in scales, a prodigy of the True Immortal Academy who had yet to head to the Eternal Overcast Battlefield to fight the Yin Spirits.
He had once glimpsed Gu Changge from afar, and at that time, there seemed to be such a woman in white standing by Gu Changge’s side.
Because this woman in white was truly breathtakingly beautiful, he had looked a few more times, which was why he had some impression of her.
However, his words were quickly drowned out by the shocked discussions of the other Cultivators nearby.
Not many heard him clearly.
“This is bad, something big is about to happen.”
This prodigy’s face turned slightly pale. Thinking of the possible consequences of this matter, his figure hurriedly moved, leaving the place.
But midway, he suddenly thought of something and quickly headed toward the imperial palace, feeling that such a matter should be reported.
Otherwise, when Young Master Changge assigned blame later, how would he explain having been at the scene?
“Old Xuan, stop wasting words with her. Ji Qingxuan is dead set on killing me today...”
In the field, Wang Xiao spoke again, his voice exceptionally gloomy. He had sustained considerable injuries while fighting Ji Qingxuan.
“You’ve mistaken me for someone else. I’m not this Ji Qingxuan you speak of.”
Hearing this, Ji Qingxuan’s delicate brows remained tightly furrowed, her voice cold enough to seep into the bone marrow.
“Still pretending at a time like this? I see you won’t shed tears until you see the coffin. Old Xuan, attack!”
Wang Xiao sneered coldly and ordered.
Weng!!
The moment his words fell, Old Xuan nodded and said no more, choosing to act.
He waved his sleeve, and the bright yellow gourd was immediately sacrificed forth, swelling against the wind, wreathed in chaotic mist.
Terrifying Sacred Lord Realm pressure bore down, and Ji Qingxuan instantly became like a lone leaf of a boat in a vast sea, liable to be capsized at any moment.
Her face couldn’t help but turn pale.
Yet Ji Qingxuan’s eyes remained calm and cold.
Chi!!
The next moment, from the mouth of the gourd, Sword Qi burst forth, expanding to the size of a mountain peak, terrifying beyond measure, wrapped in endless killing intent, splitting even the dome of heaven open.
“Not good, retreat quickly!”
“A Sacred Lord’s strike simply overturns heaven and earth — this is no longer something anyone else can withstand!”
All the Cultivators and prodigies changed expressions drastically, their figures transforming into divine rainbows as they hurriedly evacuated the area.
They didn’t want to be touched by even a wisp of the aftershock — the slightest contact meant utter annihilation of body and soul.
Pu!
At this moment, Ji Qingxuan’s expression also changed. She hadn’t expected Old Xuan to be so ruthless, employing such a terrifying killing move. Fortunately, she had quite a few life-saving items on her, and at the critical moment she crushed a jade talisman.
A mass of hazy white light emerged, blocking this strand of Sword Qi for her.
But Ji Qingxuan was far from unharmed. She was sent flying directly, smashing through swathes of buildings and pavilions.
Her internal organs were nearly shattered; she coughed up fragments of viscera, her countenance growing even paler and bloodless.
“Something’s strange.”
“Why is she completely unafraid, without even a trace of regret or worry? Could it be she’s intent on seeking death?”
At this point, Old Xuan also sensed something was off. Ji Qingxuan didn’t care about his strike at all. In his view, all of this seemed like a trap?
Could something have happened, and Ji Qingxuan intended to seek death?
Thinking of this, his movements involuntarily halted.
“Does Ji Qingxuan really want to die?”
Wang Xiao frowned, an ominous feeling rising in his heart at this moment.
Weng!!
Just then, from the sky above, a golden divine rainbow descended, as if transforming into a great road reaching the heavens — it was Chu Hao, rushing to this place.
“Junior Brother Wang, what happened?”
His face full of doubt, he asked Wang Xiao, who stood nearby with furrowed brows. The moment he heard that cry for help, he had rushed over.
But it seemed he was still half a step too late.
Looking at things now, Wang Xiao was fine, nothing wrong with him at all — after all, an Upper Sacred Lord Realm Dao Protector was here.
So who was trying to hurt him?
“Senior Brother, I don’t know why either. Junior Sister Ji seems to have gone mad today. I merely stopped her to ask about something, and she acted like she wanted to kill me.”
“If Old Xuan hadn’t intervened in time, I’m afraid I would have fallen victim to Junior Sister Ji’s vicious hand.”
Wang Xiao explained, positioning himself as the victim, his words full of confusion and bewilderment, putting on an appearance of complete ignorance.
“Junior Sister Ji went mad?”
Chu Hao was stunned. The moment he heard this, he instinctively thought it impossible.
He knew Ji Qingxuan’s character quite well. If Wang Xiao hadn’t done something truly outrageous, how could she have attacked him?
Gone mad?
That was just an excuse Wang Xiao had come up with.
Ji Qingxuan’s current situation in her family was actually not good.
Thinking of this, Chu Hao sighed, feeling the matter had become thorny and troublesome. Should he blame Wang Xiao at a time like this?
That was clearly unrealistic.
“Senior Brother, what happened? Why are you all here?”
Just then, a clear, cold voice tinged with confusion rang out. An absolutely beautiful woman walked over from the distance, her expression somewhat puzzled.
Her lovely face was lustrous as jade, shimmering with moving radiance, her skin whiter than snow, like the most perfect masterpiece of the heavens.
The moment they saw this woman, whether Chu Hao, Wang Xiao, or Old Xuan, all couldn’t help but freeze, eyes wide, momentarily speechless.
Many of the Cultivators who had been watching nearby were also dumbfounded. Some even rubbed their eyes, wanting to check if they were hallucinating.
Wasn’t this the woman who had just been struck by the Sword Qi and smashed into the ruins?
How had she appeared again, completely unscathed — and even wearing a different set of clothes?
No!
This was a different person — she just looked exactly the same!
At this moment, many people realized.
“Junior Sister Ji, you’re fine — that’s wonderful. I was afraid something had happened to you.”
Seeing the approaching “Ji Qingxuan,” Chu Hao couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. As long as she was fine.
He hadn’t yet noticed the shocked expressions of Wang Xiao and Old Xuan, assuming the earlier commotion had merely been loud and that Ji Qingxuan hadn’t met with any mishap.
“Junior Sister Ji...”
“Then who was that woman just now who looked exactly like you?”
Wang Xiao was completely dumbfounded at this point, unable to help murmuring the question, his brain struggling to process it...
How could there be two identical Ji Qingxuans?
Who was the woman who had tried to kill him just now? He had never heard of Ji Qingxuan having a twin sister.
“A woman who looks exactly like me?”
“Ji Qingxuan” was also astonished upon hearing this, and asked in return, “How do you know I’m looking for such a person?”
“This...”
Hearing this, Wang Xiao’s expression froze. He suddenly felt things turning very bad. Combined with what that woman in white had said earlier,
that ominous, uneasy feeling once again enveloped his heart.
So it wasn’t that Ji Qingxuan had changed clothes — it was another person who looked exactly like her, and he had mistaken her for Ji Qingxuan.
Quickly, Wang Xiao figured it out, the whole sequence of events instantly becoming clear.
“Young Master, something seems off. We really seem to have mistaken the person...”
Old Xuan’s voice also grew heavy. In this place, the Vermilion Bird Empire, prodigies gathered, all from the True Immortal Academy.
So young, yet with such strength — the other party’s background was surely not low.
“What exactly is going on?”
Chu Hao frowned and couldn’t help asking.
At this point, he somewhat understood too — Wang Xiao and Old Xuan had mistaken someone, taking a strange woman for Ji Qingxuan.
“Where is that woman?”
“Ji Qingxuan” — that is, Su Qingge — also asked with a face full of astonishment at this moment, looking very anxious.
In fact, she had watched everything Ji Qingxuan did just now, which left her feelings complicated.
She hadn’t expected Ji Qingxuan to be so ruthless, not hesitating to use a self-harming ploy — that sword strike just now was not easy to endure.
From this, one could also see just how much Ji Qingxuan hated Wang Xiao, to choose such a method.
Hong!!
However, just as everyone was discussing animatedly, utterly shocked,
suddenly, from the distant sky, streak after streak of divine rainbows came speeding over, vast and mighty, their momentum astonishing, making heaven and earth tremble.
The young man at the forefront, white robes fluttering, transcendent and otherworldly, seemed shrouded in divine light, as if heaven, earth, and the universe all revolved around him.
“It’s Young Master Changge!” A sharp-eyed Cultivator couldn’t help exclaiming.
“I didn’t expect this matter to actually alarm Young Master Changge. Now there’s going to be a good show.”
“I just wonder what Young Master Changge is here for? Could he also have come to watch the show?”
Many Cultivators were incomparably shocked, never expecting such a fight would attract Gu Changge.
During this period, news of Gu Changge’s arrival in the Vermilion Bird Empire had already spread.
Almost everyone knew he was temporarily residing deep within the imperial palace.
“So this is Young Master Changge...”
“My first time seeing him.”
Su Qingge also looked over with an astonished expression, seemingly not noticing at all the rather unpleasant expressions of Old Xuan and Wang Xiao.
“Why would even he be alarmed?”
Chu Hao frowned deeply. For some reason, he always felt this Gu Changge was not as gentle as he appeared on the surface.
“Young Master, could it be...” Old Xuan’s voice grew heavy, the ominous feeling in his heart growing ever more intense.
“Impossible. What status does Gu Changge have? He’s probably just passing by. If that woman in white had a connection to him, how could she have no one protecting her?”
Wang Xiao shook his head in denial, saying this as if explaining to himself, comforting himself.
Although he was a direct descendant of the Hidden Wang Family, compared to Gu Changge, his status was inferior by more than a hundred and eight thousand miles.
Even some of Gu Changge’s followers held status far more exalted than his.
However, the next moment, Wang Xiao’s heart shook violently, his face gradually turning pale.
The divine rainbow in the high sky descended toward this direction, and the nearby Cultivators and prodigies all hurriedly made way upon seeing it.
Gu Changge’s expression was calm. The moment he landed, he fixed his gaze on Su Qingge, then nodded and said,
“Good that you’re fine.”
Su Qingge put on a stunned look, then asked in confusion, “Is Young Master Changge speaking to me?”
Even so, waves of warmth flowed through her heart.
In her view, Gu Changge must have heard that she had fought a Sacred Lord Realm existence and thus rushed over.
He had simply mistaken her, disguised as “Ji Qingxuan,” for herself.
But this also showed that Gu Changge had not distinguished between her and Ji Qingxuan’s identities.
“What do you mean?”
Gu Changge’s eyes narrowed slightly. In his eyes, although Su Qingge had changed her dress and hair ornaments, her Fortuity points hadn’t changed at all.
So the woman before him was actually Su Qingge.
What was she trying to do?
But quickly, Gu Changge recalled the Fortuity-line mission regarding Su Qingge — it seemed to concern her origins.
Since it was about her origins, it must be related to her family.
In other words, Su Qingge wanted to pull a switcheroo, an escape plan?
It seemed she had encountered a sister who looked exactly like her in the Vermilion Bird Empire, which was why she came up with this method to get away?
Almost in an instant, Gu Changge guessed Su Qingge’s purpose, but he didn’t expose her.
Since Su Qingge had her own plans, Gu Changge couldn’t be bothered to interfere. After all, she was the Successor of Demonic Arts — she couldn’t stay by his side forever, and that way she couldn’t realize her maximum value anyway.
“I didn’t expect this young lady to look exactly like my maid.”
“It seems I mistook you for someone else.”
Then, Gu Changge smiled faintly, said nothing more, and turned to walk in another direction.
But upon hearing these words, the faces of Wang Xiao and Old Xuan instantly turned pale, devoid of all color, cold sweat drenching their entire bodies.
They hadn’t misheard.
Those words were spoken by Gu Changge himself — Ji Qingxuan looked exactly like his maid.
“It’s over...”
“This time we’ve really caused a huge disaster.”
Even though Old Xuan was a Sacred Lord Realm existence who looked down upon countless Cultivators, at this moment he felt his back go cold, his limbs turn weak, a chill shooting straight from his tailbone to the top of his skull.