What a Kind Brother and Respectful Sister—Why Can't She Stop Thinking About Him?
What a Kind Brother and Respectful Sister—Why Can’t She Stop Thinking About Him?
Gu Xianer’s action stunned everyone. After a moment of silence, the place erupted!
Everyone’s eyes went wide, completely unable to make heads or tails of it.
After all, this was a golden opportunity to make a name for herself!
Many disciples’ eyes turned red with envy, their breathing quickening.
She had already reached the eighteenth step?
Why not keep going? They were all anxious on Gu Xianer’s behalf.
If it were them, they would have thrown caution to the wind, paid any price, and taken one more step forward.
Because this was the one and only chance to surpass Gu Changge, to shake the world with her fame and earn the praise of millions.
Even the group of Elders couldn’t help shaking their heads and sighing, unable to understand why Gu Xianer would give up such an opportunity and instead choose to merely tie with Gu Changge.
In their view, after today, Gu Xianer’s status would be utterly transformed—being accepted as the Great Elder’s disciple was practically set in stone.
But once she missed this chance to surpass Gu Changge, there would never be a second one.
Far away on a mist-shrouded mountain peak, the Great Elder watching all of this couldn’t help but look puzzled as well.
He had witnessed Gu Changge’s earlier battle with Chu Wuji. He hadn’t expected that even Chu Wuji would now be casually crushed by Gu Changge.
Gu Changge’s strength was absolutely among the most outstanding of all the prodigies he had seen across countless years.
From now on, if he wanted to preserve the status of Skyward Schloss’s successor, he could no longer consider Chu Wuji and the others.
So he could only consider Gu Xianer.
Even if she couldn’t break Gu Changge’s record, he would still take her as his disciple.
But what the Great Elder couldn’t understand was why Gu Xianer gave up when she could have taken one more step upward. Even he couldn’t figure it out.
Could there be some other unknown matter between Gu Xianer and Gu Changge?
Or did she have some other consideration?
On the Skyward Path, Gu Xianer walked down slowly, her face peerlessly beautiful, dressed in green robes that made her look slender and delicate.
Her steps were firm, her expression calm.
She showed no regret or unwillingness over failing to break the record Gu Changge had set back then.
She took in everyone’s expressions and shook her head slightly in her heart.
She had already figured it out. The reason Gu Changge thought she could easily break this record was because he no longer cared about his old record at all.
Because if Gu Changge walked the path again now, he could absolutely reach an even higher step.
Although talent was predetermined, and many people could toil their entire lives without taking another step forward,
Gu Changge was clearly different from those people. The various rumors about him since childhood—how could they have been made up out of thin air?
Not only did Gu Changge bear her Daoist Bone, but what was his own innate talent? To this day, no one had ever seen it.
So even if she broke this record, what would it prove?
That her current talent was stronger than Gu Changge’s back then?
That was already pointless.
“Xianer, why did you stop? Your brother thinks you could have walked a few more steps.”
Watching Gu Xianer leave the Skyward Path and walk down, Gu Changge understood everything in his heart, but on the surface he shook his head with apparent regret.
He seemed to feel it was a pity that Gu Xianer had only reached the eighteenth step, as if he believed she could have gone higher.
Gu Xianer glanced at Gu Changge and couldn’t even be bothered to acknowledge him.
She had originally wanted to tell him to stop calling her Xianer—it always felt uncomfortable to hear, somehow off.
He was clearly her greatest enemy, someone she wished she could grind to dust, whose blood she wanted to drink and flesh she wanted to devour, yet she could do nothing about him. And he always loved parading in front of her, deliberately provoking her.
Her several shifus were shameless enough already.
But compared to Gu Changge, they were small fry before a great whale.
It truly proved the saying: when a person has no shame, they are invincible under heaven.
Gu Changge’s level of shamelessness was simply deranged.
If she could beat Gu Changge, she would drop everything right now and give him a vicious beating first.
“I don’t need you meddling in my business.” Gu Xianer coldly turned her head away.
“I don’t want to meddle either. But you’ve disappointed your brother. I had such high hopes for you, and this is all you’ve got?”
Hearing this, the smile on Gu Changge’s face finally faded, his tone carrying a faint mockery.
“Gu Changge, don’t think you can keep bullying me forever...”
At those words, the calm Gu Xianer had worked so hard to maintain instantly exploded again.
Like a cat with its fur bristling, she glared at Gu Changge.
What did he mean, “this is all you’ve got”?
Although she knew he was saying it deliberately.
Anyone else could say such things—just not him.
It was as if, because she didn’t do as he said and failed to meet his expectations, she was somehow in the wrong.
And it was also as if he were saying: with your measly abilities, you still want revenge? Keep dreaming.
Gu Xianer had a strong sense of pride, so naturally she wouldn’t allow Gu Changge to speak to her like that.
“What do you mean, ’don’t think’? Let me guess—you actually believe you have some kind of chance?”
The mockery on Gu Changge’s face didn’t diminish in the slightest.
That look of his made it clear: bullying you is exactly what I’m doing, and I’m going to keep doing it.
At this moment, Gu Xianer was practically exploding with rage, about to go berserk, trembling all over with fury.
No one had ever been able to infuriate her like this with just a few casual words, the way Gu Changge could.
Right now she truly wished she could immediately pull out the treasured saber her Eldest Shifu had bestowed upon her and chop Gu Changge into mincemeat.
All the disciples and Elders watching this scene suddenly fell into thoughtful contemplation.
After all, Gu Xianer seemed to have deep conflicts with Gu Changge, yet Gu Changge clearly still showed great concern for her.
From his words, it seemed he was genuinely regretful that Gu Xianer hadn’t surpassed his old record.
And the reason Gu Xianer hadn’t continued forward was probably also because of Gu Changge—out of consideration for him, she chose to stop.
Truly a kind brother and a respectful sister—a scene of harmony and warmth that even made some of the disciples who didn’t know the truth a little envious.
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Soon, news from the Skyward Path spread throughout the various Godly Islands and peaks of Skyward Schloss, causing sensation and shock everywhere.
In particular, Gu Xianer actually reaching the eighteenth step triggered an intense reaction, with many factions secretly investigating her origins.
In the end, they discovered she was indeed connected to the Longevity Gu Family, and that it involved some very significant matter.
As for what that matter was, they had no way of knowing. The Longevity Family had stood unshaken for who knew how many epochs and ages.
If they wanted to deliberately conceal something, how could outsiders possibly learn of it?
For a time, the name Gu Xianer circulated among the various great sects and became known to prodigies everywhere.
As for the incident that day where Gu Changge effortlessly crushed Chu Wuji—a fellow Young Prodigy and True Disciple of Skyward Schloss—it also shocked many people, making them feel all the more that the current Gu Changge was unfathomable.
To his peers, Gu Changge’s strength went without saying, and it placed enormous pressure on them.
Many Young Prodigies had declared that Gu Changge was absolutely a mortal enemy, not to be underestimated.
For a time, the successors of the Supreme Dao Lineages, Cults of Immortality, Ancient Royal Families, and Immortal Races across the heavens of the Inner Domain all felt considerable pressure, scrambling to seek fortuitous encounters or entering seclusion in attempts to break through.
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The Ancient Immortal Races. The territory of the Ye Family. Xuanqing Heaven.
Within a Godly Island flowing with radiant light and steaming with auspicious mist.
Inside a palace, a breathtakingly beautiful young woman in a purple dress listened to the various news coming from outside.
Her expression kept shifting—one moment dazed, the next entranced, then lost in thought—appearing quite strange.
“Xiaojie, are you still feeling guilty over that Ye Chen boy? It’s been months already. Please stop dwelling on such a small matter.”
Beside the purple-dressed girl, a beautiful middle-aged woman was trying to console her, looking quite worried.
These two were none other than Ye Liuli and Xue Yi, who had returned to the Ye Family from the Overworld.
After leaving the Tianyuan Secret Realm and parting ways with Gu Changge, they had stayed in the Overworld for a while longer and only recently returned to the Ye Family in the Beyond.
But Ye Liuli’s recent state struck Xue Yi as very strange—sometimes dazed, sometimes spacing out, as if her soul had gone missing.
When asked, she would say she was fine, so Xue Yi guessed it had to do with Ye Chen’s death—that her xiaojie was heartbroken and had damaged her spirit.
Hearing Xue Yi’s words, Ye Liuli suddenly snapped back to her senses, paused slightly, then couldn’t help asking in puzzlement, “Xue Yi, what are you talking about? Ye Chen is dead and that’s that—a little ant with ill intentions. Why would I care about him?”
At those words, it was Xue Yi’s turn to be stunned. Had her xiaojie damaged her spirit so badly that she’d even forgotten Ye Chen?
But that was fine too.
Forgotten was forgotten. Back then they had nearly offended Young Master Gu over the Ye Chen affair, and now in the Beyond one could hear tales of him every day—enough to know just how terrifying he was.
Even if Ye Chen hadn’t died back then and had eventually ascended to the Beyond, he would have been scared to death anyway.
Then, delight appeared on her face.
“Xiaojie, you’re absolutely right. He’s just a Ye Chen, a little ant. Why should you care about him?”
Ye Liuli nodded, her expression quickly calming.
But in her heart, she murmured to herself.
“Why have I been so concerned about news of Gu Changge lately? And why do I unconsciously call him Master?”
She kept feeling like she had forgotten something important.
But no matter how hard she tried to recall, she couldn’t remember.
Just then, a voice came from outside the hall.
A valiant young man walked in, tall in stature, clad in golden armor and divine robes.
He seemed shrouded in the divine light of the sun, even his hair exceptionally radiant, like a young emperor, his blood qi world-shaking and vast beyond measure.
“Little Liuli, what have you been thinking about lately? You didn’t even notice me come in?”
The young man said with a smile, giving off a very sunny feeling.
“Brother? What brings you here? Have you heard any news lately about Gu Changge, the young master of the Longevity Gu Family?”
Seeing who it was, Ye Liuli couldn’t help but smile, then asked.
The young man was none other than her brother, the current successor of the Ancient Immortal Races—Ye Langtian.
Though he had yet to emerge into the world, many legends about him still circulated among the various heavens.
He was called the Reincarnation of an Ancient Emperor, said to be one of the few who could stand shoulder to shoulder and contend with the Gu Family’s young master, Gu Changge.
At this moment, hearing his own sister ask such a question,
a sharp glint flashed through Ye Langtian’s eyes, and then he smiled without betraying anything, “Little sister, why do you bring up that Gu Changge again? A while back I heard he went down to the Overworld to search for something, and you happened to meet him.”
“And now you can’t stop thinking about him?”
Learning about this matter was easy for him—after all, he only needed to ask Xue Yi to know everything clearly.