I had to admit, he did look somewhat the part, apart from being noticeably slimmer than the other members of the Wu Clan.
Nuwa smiled, finding it rather amusing.
But Fuxi, standing beside her, felt more and more that something was off. At first, he'd thought their conversation was just an exchange of information.
Why did it seem stranger the longer he watched?
He couldn't shake the feeling that he was the outsider standing off to the side.
Fuxi hurriedly cleared his throat twice. Nuwa's smile faltered, and she realized that she and Chu Xuan seemed to have grown rather close rather quickly.
That was right. This fellow didn't seem to care about rank, and he could even joke around. He was much more interesting than her elder brother.
Ignoring her brother's resentful stare,
she smiled and thought for a moment. She still wanted to ask him a few more things.
Then, all of a sudden—
Above them!
Rumble—
A charred, horrifying head fell from the sky. The Great Luo laws broke, and a Great Luo corpse plummeted down.
Great Luo Immortals were notoriously hard to kill. Even decapitation—or being reduced to dust—wouldn't be enough to end their lives.
Yet at that moment, the severed head was like a severed Great Dao.
The Dao Fruit shattered; the laws were cut apart.
Utter annihilation.
This meant the enemy had been absolutely crushed.
Only overwhelming power could sever someone's Great Dao without even needing to destroy their origin or shatter their Dao Fruit.
And end their life.
A Great Luo Golden Immortal had fallen outside the Wu Clan's territory.
Then a second, a third, and a fourth!
Four Great Luo Golden Immortals in all plummeted from the sky.
Several Ancestral Shamans descended with more than twenty Great Witches in tow. Not one of them had been injured or killed.
Most crucially, one of the Ancestral Shamans was a Quasi-Saint—and it wasn't Dijiang.
It was Zhurong!
One of the Twelve Ancestral Shamans!
A new Quasi-Saint!
Fuxi and Nuwa fell silent, watching the scene in shock and with complicated feelings.
Though the Wu Clan had no souls and couldn't listen to the Dao, they could still find their own path to Quasi-Sainthood.
The Wu Clan truly had heaven's favor.
And it was Chu Xuan who had suggested this: the Wu Clan should gradually reveal its Quasi-Saint strength.
Otherwise, if they all appeared at once later, it would cause even bigger problems.
Zhurong was the first to "emerge."
Zhurong descended with a hearty laugh.
"A few measly Great Luo Golden Immortals dared to spy on the Wu Clan? They were asking for death!"
"Still, it's a shame one Great Divine Ability User got away. He was fast."
"He took one hit, though. He'll need at least tens of thousands of years to recover!"
Hearing Zhurong, Nuwa lost any inclination to speak.
Chu Xuan didn't try to strike up a conversation again, either.
Leaving an impression was enough.
There was plenty of time.
Houtu had left to secretly deal with some Great Divine Ability Users. With nothing else to do, Chu Xuan had simply struck up a conversation on a whim.
But though Chu Xuan had fallen silent, someone else came over to speak with him. Among the Ancestral Shamans who'd returned, a tall, coldly beautiful figure wreathed in some kind of ice law glanced at her and brightened.
She spoke at once.
"Chu Xuan, there you are!"
"Did my little sister leave you behind?"
"Come on, let your Ancestral Shaman take you out for some fun!"
Then, right under Fuxi and Nuwa's utterly bewildered gaze,
Xuanming hooked an arm around Chu Xuan and tucked him against her side. Ignoring the softness pressing against him, she grinned and started dragging him somewhere else.
Chu Xuan looked utterly helpless.
Fuxi and Nuwa exchanged baffled looks.
Fuxi had thought he was already open-minded enough to befriend a Taiyi Lesser Shaman.
He hadn't expected Chu Xuan's everyday life to be like this.
Casually putting his arm around an Ancestral Shaman.
Impossible to understand if you weren't part of the Wu Clan!
Nuwa, however, noticed the details. A blush touched her lovely face as she watched the two figures disappear, pressed tightly together.
"They really were pressed together, weren't they? She was practically squashing him!"
Nuwa's heart raced. She had no idea what she was imagining.
Even Great Divine Ability Users were born of the primordial Dao and served as vessels for it. But since they were divided into male and female, there were naturally differences between them.
### The Scheme to Frame Kunpeng, and Xuanming Ancestral Witch's Visit!
As Xuanming carried Chu Xuan away from the Wu Clan's inner territory, he immediately returned to his natural form.
He even had time to appreciate the Ancestral Shaman's softness.
But before he could savor it for long, the coldly beautiful woman shoved him away and lifted her chin with a proud smile.
"Little brother, you've been naughty!"
Chu Xuan didn't mind.
"I'm the victim here. Xuanming, you were the one who kidnapped me!"
Seeing how utterly shameless Chu Xuan was, Xuanming smiled. She was just as carefree. It was true—she didn't really mind. Otherwise, she wouldn't have done that. She'd just found it amusing.
When she realized she couldn't get the better of Chu Xuan, she instead grabbed his arm again with a smile.
"Well, then? Who's better, me or my little sister?"
Chu Xuan hesitated, then gave an answer befitting his professional standards as a strategist.
"Without investigating firsthand, I can't give an informed opinion!"
Xuanming smiled knowingly.
"Oh? Then why don't you investigate?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Xuan reached out.
Xuanming's cheeks immediately flushed, and she dodged him.
He really was going to do it!
It was fine if she made the first move, but she couldn't handle it when someone else did. The Wu Clan might be carefree in everyday life, but when it came down to it, they could get shy.
That was only natural. The Dao distinguished men from women. If it were as simple as mating for the sake of having children, the Ancestral Shamans would have had offspring long ago.
Even Ancestral Shamans needed to feel something.
Xuanming instinctively changed the subject.
"Little sister's out there making her move!"
"Want to go with her?"
That did catch Chu Xuan's attention.
He was tempted.
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