"Hiss!"
After a brief silence, a wave of sharp gasps swept through the crowd.
If Xiao Yan's strength had fallen within everyone's expectations, then Xun'er revealing her cultivation as a Da Dou Shi was something none of them had anticipated.
Perhaps only Xiao Yan had suspected something.
After all, when Yao Lao had first awakened, he had briefly warned him that Xun'er was far from ordinary.
Besides, whenever Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Household, Xun'er followed him around almost every day. How could he not sense that she was deliberately hiding her abilities?
Outsiders, however, had often treated Xun'er as nothing more than a pretty ornament.
Today, she had given them a resounding slap in the face.
"As expected, Cousin Xun'er is far beyond my reach. Only Cousin Xiao Yan is worthy of her..."
At that moment, however unwilling he might have been, Xiao Ning finally accepted reality.
"This is a good thing for you!"
Xiao Yu, who had already enrolled at Jia Nan Academy and made a rare trip home that day, comforted her younger brother.
Yet whenever she thought of Xiao Yan, she could not help gritting her teeth.
But her cultivation was only at the Dou Master level now.
She probably would never be able to get him back for that incident.
If she entertained that idea, she might well end up delivering herself to that scoundrel's doorstep and letting him take advantage of her again.
On that point, Xiao Yu remained quite sensible.
So she could only swallow her defeat over what had happened back then.
Afterward, the siblings fell silent and turned their eyes back to the beautiful figure in the center of the Azure Square.
Once her test was over, the Eldest Miss of the Gu Clan walked down with unhurried grace, then