Brooding in the Ice Prison

"You... You knew and still let that man take advantage of you? Gu Huaibei, had your brain turned to water back then?"

Jiang Lingyin was furious.

Gu Huaibei's face was pale, and she remained silent.

"Junior Sister Gu, who was this man? How dare he ruin your path? Tell us, and we'll go settle the score with him!"

The First Peak Master said angrily.

Everyone turned their expectant gazes toward Gu Huaibei, hoping she would reveal the man's identity.

Gu Huaibei slowly shook her head.

"You won't say?"

Jiang Lingyin took a step forward, closing the distance between them. Her willow brows shot up, and she demanded fiercely, "Why are you covering for him? He ruined your path—that's no different from trying to kill you. Do you understand?"

Gu Huaibei lowered her head.

Images of the two of them relying on one another through the Ice Cave Storm and weathering the crisis together surfaced in her mind.

A moment later, the scene shifted to their passionate entanglement inside the cave.

After a night of passion worth more than a thousand pieces of gold...

The images in her mind changed again. A Cold Nether Spider had traveled thousands of miles to the Ninth Peak, bringing twenty top-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills.

These scenes lingered in her heart, weaving together into a vast web.

She hadn't regretted it then, and now, she regretted it even less.

So what if her path was severed?

With twenty top-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills, she still had hope of breaking through to the tenth level of the Nascent Soul Realm!

But she couldn't tell outsiders any of that.

Top-grade Li Fire Ice Marrow Pills were too astonishing. If word got out, countless people would fight to get their hands on them!

"Senior Sister Gu,