The guests at the banquet felt a chill run through their entire bodies as her gaze swept over them, their scalps tingling as though they had fallen into an ice cellar.
It was as if a blade were pressed to their brows and a thousand-pound burden weighed upon them, suffocatingly oppressive.
Fortunately, her gaze did not linger long. After merely sweeping over them indifferently, she turned back to the young man in brocade before her.
Whew...
Many of the guests felt as though they had finally let out a breath.
Almost no one noticed that after she turned back, her delicate brows lifted slightly.
Naturally, Chi Jiuyu and Zhang Yunlu were not among those people.
"Senior Sister, did she notice me just now?" Zhang Yunlu looked at the Sword-Holding Maiden's retreating back.
"Yes, but don't worry. I already blocked it for you."
Chi Jiuyu stood up, tore off a chicken leg, and ate until her mouth glistened with grease, looking as though she did not take those two to heart at all.
"Just who is she?"
She could make out the young man in brocade—a seventh-layer Qi Refining cultivator with merely average foundations.
But the Sword-Holding Maiden...
Calling her a cultivator did not seem right. Her aura was clear yet weighty; she had not reached Golden Core, yet she was somewhat stronger than Foundation Establishment. In any case, she gave off an exceedingly strange feeling.
"She's just a wisp of martial aura that took human form. Nothing impressive."
To see through the true form of such a little monster, she did not even need to open her Void-Piercing Golden Pupils.
"But once she's fully nurtured, she should possess the combat strength of an ordinary Golden Core cultivator. After you activate that Principle of Recklessness of yours, you can still have