"***'s Rookie Competition was brimming with talent. Many contestants had unfathomable cultivation levels."
"Just wait. When the time comes, that kid probably won't even know how he got beaten to death!"
The moment Chen Xiongfei said those words, an icy voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Where is that person?"
Hearing that voice, Chen Xiongfei and his little lackey both shuddered in fright.
Chen Xiongfei hurriedly looked behind him and found someone standing there, dressed in a black cloak and wearing a bamboo hat.
Chen Xiongfei had already been in a foul mood.
Now this guy had scared him out of nowhere, making him even angrier.
He immediately cursed at the person, "Are you fucking looking to die?"
"If you want to reincarnate early, just say so. I can help you!"
For a moment, the entire tavern's atmosphere became tense as drawn swords and nocked bows.
Gu Youwei merely sneered and lightly placed one hand on Chen Xiongfei's shoulder.
In an instant, Chen Xiongfei felt as though he had been firmly clamped in iron pincers.
No matter how hard he struggled, he could not move at all!
He even felt a force of ten thousand jun descend upon his shoulder.
The bones deep within his entire shoulder began to ache violently!
It felt as though his bones were grinding against one another at high speed.
Cold sweat instantly streamed down Chen Xiongfei's face. He realized that this person was absolutely no ordinary opponent either!
"Y-you... what are you trying to do?"
Chen Xiongfei had not yet fully emerged from Gu Chen's shadow.
Facing such a strange person now, he was so frightened that he wanted to call for his mother!
Gu Youwei did not waste words.
In an icy tone, she asked word by word, "Where is the person who broke your arm?"
Chen Xiongfei had no mind left to think about anything else.
He hurriedly stammered, "At... at the Gathering Wealth Inn."
After receiving Chen Xiongfei's answer, Gu Youwei turned and left the tavern.
Watching Gu Youwei's departing figure, Chen Xiongfei still looked like he had just survived a fright.
He had lived in Immortal County for so many years, yet he had never encountered anything like today!
After swallowing with difficulty,
Chen Xiongfei said fearfully, "Damn Rookie Competition. It's brought so many monsters to Immortal County."
"These people are far too terrifying. I think it'd be better not to leave the house for a while!"
After leaving the tavern, a smug smile had already appeared on Gu Youwei's lips.
During the day, she had heard that Chen Xiongfei's arm had been broken by someone.
Under normal circumstances, such things were quite common.
Especially on the eve of the Rookie Competition, when all kinds of people had gathered in Immortal County, conflicts were bound to arise easily.
But Gu Youwei immediately sensed that something was wrong.
She had learned that Chen Xiongfei was a candidate for protector of Thunderclap Hall.
His cultivation level had even reached the Body Tempering Realm Tenth Level!
With Chen Xiongfei's cultivation level alone, ordinary people would not dare confront him head-on.
Moreover, Chen Xiongfei had Thunderclap Hall backing him. Ordinary people would be even less likely to challenge Thunderclap Hall.
Thus, Gu Youwei immediately came up with two possibilities.
The person who broke Chen Xiongfei's arm was either an exceptionally powerful rogue cultivator who did not put Thunderclap Hall in his eyes at all.
Or he had an incredibly formidable backing and was the favored disciple of some great sect.
However, disciples of great sects generally acted alongside their sect and were unlikely to stay alone at an inn.
Thus, a thought immediately surfaced in Gu Youwei's mind.
A rogue cultivator with immense strength, one who feared neither Heaven nor Earth.
That was practically the same as directly saying Gu Chen's name!
The moment she realized she had found a clue about Gu Chen, Gu Youwei was so delighted that she could barely close her mouth.
Right now, she wished she could immediately kill Gu Chen!
After these past few days of cultivation, Gu Youwei's cultivation level had stabilized at the Innate Realm.
On top of that, she had obtained the Divine Sword Chiling ahead of time. Gu Youwei felt that killing Gu Chen would be as easy as turning over her hand.
Gu Youwei had even already planned it out.
She would kill Gu Chen on the eve of the Rookie Competition and directly cut off his hopes of improving his cultivation level. That would be even more cruel!
With that thought in mind, Gu Youwei headed straight toward the Gathering Wealth Inn.
Immortal County, Gathering Wealth Inn.
In order to put out the coal in the room, Wei Qingyu had gotten herself disheveled and filthy, leaving the room in a complete mess.
Wei Qingyu's emotions had been suppressed to their limit, and they finally erupted.
"Gu Chen, I really @#￥%&*"
Wei Qingyu vented passionately for quite a while before she finally sat down by the bed, panting heavily.
She felt that if it were not for Gu Chen, she would never have needed to suffer like this!
Amid her anger, Wei Qingyu felt that she was simply too dirty.
With the Rookie Competition officially beginning tomorrow, Wei Qingyu decided that she should go take a comfortable hot bath.
With that thought, Wei Qingyu stripped off all her clothes and stepped into the wooden tub behind the screen.
In the room next door, Gu Chen opened his eyes and discovered that night had already fallen.
Before this, he had carefully experienced the divine power granted to him by the Azure Luan Blazing Fire Pill.
Gu Chen confirmed once again that this divine power allowed him to be immune to all fire-attribute cultivation techniques.
Other than that, it had no other use whatsoever.
Having clarified the divine power within his body, Gu Chen did not intend to continue cultivating.
After all, too much was as bad as too little. Besides, he was already at the first level of the Profound Gang Realm.
That was more than enough to handle a Rookie Competition.
Gu Chen then left his room, intending to head to the inn's main hall for a proper dinner.
But the moment he arrived in the main hall, Gu Chen suddenly felt that something was off.
He looked into the hall and found it packed with diners. At first glance, there appeared to be nothing unusual.
However, at that moment, Gu Chen suddenly noticed an oddly dressed person sitting in the corner, clad in black and wearing a bamboo hat.
After merely glancing at that strange person from afar, a smile immediately curled onto Gu Chen's lips.
As Gu Youwei's older brother, and since Gu Chen and Gu Youwei had been practically inseparable every moment in his previous life,
Gu Chen could not have been more familiar with Gu Youwei's aura.
He recognized at a glance that this strangely dressed person was Gu Youwei.
Gu Chen also knew perfectly well that Gu Youwei had not come here to reminisce with him.
She had come for nothing more than to kill him.
But there were simply too many people who wanted to kill Gu Chen.
The reincarnations of the nine Empresses, along with enemies from every direction—there were simply too many to count.
With that thought, Gu Chen ordered a bowl of pork noodles from the waiter and sat down directly across from Gu Youwei.
At that moment, Gu Youwei could not help but freeze.
She did not understand why Gu Chen insisted on sitting in front of her when there were clearly so many empty seats in the inn.
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