"I..." Gu Yu's face flushed red as she struggled to speak. "Actually, I'm a candidate Saintess of the Black Moon Church."
She pointed to the man beside her. "His name is Shen Mo."
Chen Xi fell silent for a moment.
Just as Lin Yue was wondering what tricky question she was about to ask, the black-haired girl slowly spoke. "Wait, shouldn't his name be something like Leon Riley?"
Gu Yu hadn't expected that question. She blinked. "My branch of the family emigrated from Spark five hundred years ago. For certain reasons, the name was kept."
After explaining that, Gu Yu continued to tell them about her background.
Ten minutes later, Chen Xi and Lin Yue had finally pieced together what had happened.
Sitting in a chair, Chen Xi looked at Gu Yu, whose expression was awkward, and summed it up:
"So, you're saying that as a candidate Saintess of the Black Moon Empire, you didn't want to take part in the Saintess selection, so you secretly made your way to the Spark Empire alone."
"Then you fell in with a local First Rank Transcendent, nearly got killed by the Priest of Evil Flower, and fled all the way here, where you ran into us?"
"Did I get that right?" Chen Xi sat with her arms crossed, sizing up the blue-haired girl in front of her.
After hearing the whole story, Lin Yue was too exasperated to comment.
"No!" Gu Yu said emphatically.
"It's not that I don't want to take part in the Saintess selection. I'm just not strong enough..." Her voice gradually grew quieter. "Even if I took part, I'd only make a fool of myself..."
"As for my safety, I still have a trump card. If my life is truly in danger, I can activate that ability and