"Thanks for the compliment."
Yun Zhilan gave a disdainful smile. Ever since she had fallen from Cloud Platform, she had dressed as a male cultivator. It was not because she hated being a female cultivator, nor because she cared about the helplessness of having been drugged with Heart-Ensnaring Powder on Cloud Platform. Rather, after her defeat, she had sensed an indistinct feeling of being watched from the shadows. Due to her Spiritual Root and cultivation technique, she was exceptionally sensitive to others' prying eyes.
At that time, the only person she had offended on Cloud Platform was Huang Qixuan. Yun Zhilan was a very clever person, and she immediately realized that since Huang Qixuan had dared to openly use Heart-Ensnaring Powder on Cloud Platform, he must have had backing within the city. At the time, Wang Li and she were merely Golden Core cultivators. How could they possibly contend with him?
To lull him into complacency, she pretended that the incident of being drugged with Heart-Ensnaring Powder on Cloud Platform had filled her with Heart Demons. After recovering from her injuries, she directly began dressing as a male cultivator, as though she had come to loathe her identity as a female cultivator ever since. After maintaining this disguise for several months, Wang Li and she finally left Pingshui City safely.
It was not until this year, when she encountered a fortuitous opportunity and advanced to Nascent Soul, that she thought she had gained the power to personally kill Huang Qixuan. Yet she had not expected—
"Ten years have passed, and you still haven't formed a Nascent Soul. You're far more useless than I imagined."
Those words had clearly struck Huang Qixuan's sore spot. Rumors in the streets said that he had become irritable because he had searched in vain for