Ganlong Venerable!

You Su suddenly turned her head!

A female fairy was smilingly sizing him up.

The female immortal was dressed in an extremely gorgeous traditional dress from the Northern Ao Continent, with tassels adorning every detail. Her eyebrows were like distant mountains shrouded in mist, her eyes were like autumn waters brimming with tears, and a faint smile played at the corners of her lips, as if she were mocking something, or perhaps excited about something.

With a slight raise of her hand, the surrounding air seemed to freeze, and an indescribable pressure emanated from her, causing You Su to involuntarily hold her breath.

You Su found it hard to describe the feeling; while she felt a chill from the bottom of her heart, she had to admit that it brought her an extremely strong visual enjoyment.

The land of the Northern Ao Continent is covered in ice and snow, and the people's clothing, like that of the rest of the world, is mostly black, white, and gray. But at certain times, the people here will unleash their long-suppressed pursuit of color and matching. A few days ago, Qianhua Venerable told You Su that no matter how expensive the clothes sold at the Qianhua Pavilion are, they are not as expensive as the traditional sacrificial garments that have been passed down from the tribal period in the Northern Ao Continent.

This breathtaking beauty, coupled with the overwhelming fear that welled up within him, left You Su stunned and speechless.

He suddenly had a strong intuition that this was the top of the Heavenly Immortal Ranking — the Ganlong Venerable!

"Does the wandering god often use the guise of a blind man to so brazenly stare at women?"

The Fairy parted her lips slightly, but her voice was no longer androgynous; it was a clear female voice, exuding a strong sense of majesty and integrity, and of course, a hint of condescending playfulness.

"That sound came from you?!" You Su immediately drew his sword and stood at attention, his brows furrowed in a cold stare.

The Fairy's lips parted again, but her voice once more reverted to that unpleasant, androgynous tone:

Are you talking about this?

You Su was immediately stunned and lost his composure, his grip on the sword loosening slightly.

"I used to be so poor that I often swallowed ice and snow, and over time, my throat was damaged by the cold. Dongxu gave me a complete transformation, but I didn't want to lose this voice, so I deliberately kept it."

The voice remained androgynous, the beautiful fairy tilting her head back as if to show You Su her snow-white neck, but then naturally switched to a clear female voice for the next sentence:

"Nice to meet you, I hope I didn't frighten you, Yu Shenzi?"

You Su's hands trembled slightly. He was increasingly confused about his current situation, his mind was in turmoil, and his feelings were a mixture of emotions.

"You are the Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace!" You Su gritted her teeth.

"You are the sinner You Su," the female immortal replied with a smile.

"Rescue it!"

"Who?" the female fairy asked, knowing the answer already.

"You know who I'm talking about!" You Su was almost hysterical. "Rescue it, and I'll give you what you want!"

"What is it?" the female immortal asked back, then answered herself, "Oh... you mean the Heavenly Awakening Spiritual Light? You think I did all this for that unverifiable Heavenly Awakening Spiritual Light you have?"

Hearing the other party's teasing tone, You Su was startled.

"Don't be so arrogant, my divine child. I want the spiritual light in your hand, it's just a matter of course. Whether you have it or not, or whether it's real or not, is not that important to me. I already stand at the pinnacle of humanity. As long as the heavens don't awaken, I will remain here. Why should I have to fly up to the heavens?"

Upon hearing this, it was as if lightning flashed through You Su's mind, and he felt as if something had collapsed.

Opinionated...

He realized he had made a huge mistake, a mistake that he could only make because he was who he was!

The female immortal moved with light, graceful steps, and You Su subconsciously stepped back, just as Bai Ze had been at a loss when he questioned him before.

"I can tell you, it's true! If you save it, you won't just be one of the most powerful people in the world, you'll be the number one in the entire continent!"

You Su suddenly stopped in her tracks, no longer forced back by the other party's imposing manner.

"It's beyond saving..."

The female immortal raised her long eyes and looked at the viscous Black Well that was constantly bubbling.

"I won't save him. Even if you asked me to ascend to heaven and exchange my life for his Heavenly Awakening Spiritual Light, I still wouldn't agree. The reason is simple, does Your Highness know what it is?"

You Su bit his lower lip. He knew very well that the other party was also a member of the Evil Warding Department and knew that he had once been the chosen Divine Child of the Evil Warding Department of the Central Yuan Continent. Her repeated use of "Divine Child" after her appearance was not out of respect, but to better mock him!

"The answer is simple: because I want it dead..."

The fairy's lips curved upwards, her beauty as radiant as a peacock spreading its wings.

As soon as the sound faded, the sound of a sword striking the ice followed immediately, the Ink Pine Sword ringing out with a tinkling sound.

You Su realized how terribly wrong she had been, and she also understood the reason behind the other party's strong mockery.

Because he was too arrogant, after the battle on the South China Sea Immortal Island, he no longer just vaguely sensed that his destiny was extraordinary, but confirmed it. When you realize that the world will change drastically because of your choices, even the most ordinary person will not remain unaffected.

Coupled with his current situation of being surrounded by enemies, and his inherently cautious and xenophobic nature, he harbored a sense of distance from everyone, always feeling anxious that he might become someone else's target.

But he then realized that the world didn't revolve around him; many eyes were on him, but not everyone.

The other party's target was never him, but Bai Ze, the fool who treated him as a friend. He was just a passerby who accidentally entered this vortex, but he had a persecution complex and thought that everyone was after him, which led to his misunderstanding of Bai Ze.

"You weren't after me, you were after it all along, right...? So it doesn't matter whether You Su was with it on the snowfield or not, you just grabbed me while you were trying to catch it."

You Su asked intermittently, as if she dared not know the answer.

"Not bad." Ganlong Venerable chuckled lightly, his tone still playful. "I only discovered this after I captured you; it also brought me such a generous gift. Your life is the most valuable thing in the entire Five Continents right now."

You Su clenched his fists tightly, blood seeping from his palms.

Why did you do that?!

He suddenly looked up, his fierce gaze seemingly penetrating through Glass Mirror and Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace. This caused the beautiful fairy to raise her delicate eyebrows slightly, as if she were seeing for the first time that even ants could bite.

"Of course, it's all for now. You misunderstood a stupid, tongue-tied little Divine Beast, forcing it to act like a child, hoping to use violence to stop you from talking, but not wanting to really hurt you. In the end, you drove it to a dead end, so it had no choice but to jump in there to prove its innocence."

The Palace Lord of Dragon Seeing Palace was rubbing salt into You Su's wounds, reveling in the process of destroying You Su's mentality.

You Su gasped for breath, his anger reaching its peak, not only at the wicked woman who had manipulated him, but also at himself who thought he was the center of the world.

Looking back now, how ridiculous he was for exposing Bai Ze's "conspiracy" so clearly. He thought himself clever and had seen through countless underhanded tricks, but this time, his blindness and arrogance were on full display.

"Actually, I should thank you. Without you, Bai Ze wouldn't have so easily sought his own death. I really didn't expect it to have such deep feelings for you. I've been deceiving it for so many years, yet I couldn't let it be so eager to defend itself."

The stunningly beautiful fairy spoke leisurely, as if she had accomplished a major life event with great pleasure, while plunging You Su into grief and regret was like a snack to prolong her sense of satisfaction.

She leaned forward slightly, her eyes, which seemed to see through everything in the world, fixed on You Su with a mixture of amusement and pity.

"You are the 'first to act, then to report' divine son of the Central Yuan Continent. Your deeds are kept secret, and few in the other four continents' Evil Warding Department know of them. But I am the head of the Evil Warding Department of the Northern Ao Continent, and I know all about your deeds in the Central Yuan Continent. Therefore, I understand you far better than you think. If we disregard your current status as a stray dog, your resume alone is the most dazzling junior I have ever seen in my life."

"It's a pity you can't make it public, and you're naturally low-key, so your fame remains hidden. But being low-key doesn't mean you're not proud. I've been your age too, and I was very proud, and I still am. So I understand what a young person like you is thinking. You are the center of the world, but unfortunately, the five continents were never created for any one person..."

"So when I recognized you, I suddenly had a brilliant idea. Now you've only lost a useless friend, which is much better than what I did back then. When I realized this, the price I paid was far more painful than yours."

The Ganlong Venerable talked to himself, indulging in his own wonderful ideas.

Although she was mature and beautiful, she spoke with the air of an elder, as if it was her doing that helped You Su endure this hardship.

"Actually, if it weren't for you, it wouldn't have been the one stuck in the oil cauldron. I originally wanted to kidnap its new friend to make it willingly die, but that would be too easy for it. It would feel gratified by its own sacrifice, dying a happy death. But to die because of your misunderstanding is true despair. Its body is dead, and its heart is dead too."

Ganlong Venerable stared intently at the enormous Black Well, his eyes gleaming with excitement.

"Bai Ze is destined by Heaven; killing him with your own hands will surely incur divine punishment. To avoid this punishment, you have meticulously planned to make him seek his own death. Why?"

You Su really couldn't understand why she would harbor such deep hatred for a Bai Ze that was content with its lot.

"Don't you have anyone you absolutely must kill?" Ganlong Venerable countered.

You Su sighed, Ink Pine Sword flew back into his palm with a whoosh, where he gripped it tightly.

"There used to be some, but I killed them all. Then they disappeared for a long time, but now..."

You Su aimed the tip of his sword at this peerless female immortal who stood atop the mortal realm:

"There's one again."

However, Ganlong Venerable seemed completely unconcerned about You Su's threat, making no reaction whatsoever; instead, his smile deepened.

"This is inside the Kong Yuan Divine Mountain. Guess what that well connects to? It connects to the deepest darkness beneath the earth... Now that I think about it, besides that unreasonable woman, you were the first southerner to come here."

The people of the Northern Ao Continent habitually refer to all people from the other four continents as "Southern People".

You Su didn't care about this 'honor', but said firmly:

"You are the one who ordered the Snow Mastiff Sect to move the Divine Radiance Stone from outside the North Pole Snowfield."

Upon hearing this, Ganlong Venerable finally shifted, and she suppressed even a hint of contempt. She turned to look at You Su, somewhat surprised that You Su knew about this matter, but more than that, she remained calm and composed, as if everything was under her control.

"Chen Yi, the sect leader of the Snow Mastiff Sect, had never actually met his employer, but based on the voice, he always assumed that the person who gave him the orders was a man. However, that voice was actually another voice of yours."

"You haven't heard the sounds he heard, so how can you be so sure?" Ganlong Venerable asked, intrigued.

"I understand the value of Divine Radiance Stone. The fact that so many Divine Radiance Stones have gathered here suggests that they were likely collected from the coastlines of various parts of the Northern Ao Continent."

You Su recounted the events, he finally connected the two events and understood why the person behind the scenes could control everything so effectively.

"For some reason, the stones hidden in the Azure Mountain Cave can't be used here, so you tricked Bai Ze into keeping them for you. You said you've been lying to it for years, and in the story it told me, you were the one who made it realize how important these stones are."

After speaking, there was a brief silence.

Ganlong Venerable sighed softly, "The Divine Child truly lives up to his reputation... It's not your fault that your youthful spirit was manipulated; rather, it's because you're too clever that I was able to use you. If you were a little less intelligent, you might not have even suspected it."

She turned gracefully, her face turning cold, sending a chill down one's spine.

"Unfortunately, these secrets cannot save you; on the contrary, they will make you a dead man."

You Su lowered his body, as if he was ready to fight against a top expert.

"I have some dealings with Lotus Sword Venerable, and I hope she won't blame me for killing her disciple."

Ganlong Venerable's words seemed to carry a hint of apology, but more so a sense of helplessness towards fate.

As soon as he finished speaking, You Su, who was still waiting for an opportunity to strike, was suddenly pierced by several ice spikes!

Blood gushed from his limbs, staining the ice surface red. A cry of pain echoed from within the ice palace, but You Su forcefully broke free of the ice, a powerful sword intent brewing around him. He rarely made mistakes, but he knew very well that the most important thing to do after making a mistake was not to wallow in self-pity, but to find a way to make amends!

"You think you can even muster sword intent in front of me?"

Ganlong Venerable looked at the swirling air currents around him with a hint of surprise, thinking to himself that it was no wonder that Lotus Sword Venerable had made an exception to accept him as a disciple, but judging from her posture, it seemed that she had no intention of dodging at all.

Sword intent poured forth like a dragon!

Ice spikes suddenly rose up in front of Ganlong Venerable, but they also cracked inch by inch under the sword intent, splashing up large shards of ice, like dense snow.

Even so, after the dust settled, Ganlong Venerable remained standing still, with only the tassels on his body fluttering in the wind.

Ganlong Venerable looked at You Su, who was standing there in a daze, sighed, and said softly, "What a pity," before preparing to kill him.

But the next moment, she seemed to realize something!

She turned her head again and saw that the real You Su had already jumped into the viscous Black Well.