Her eyes suddenly turned icy to the bone, like ten-thousand-year-old frost!
A faint yet exceedingly cold and obscure aura slowly spread from her body!
She looked at Gu Sheng, her voice no longer carrying the slightest trace of sweetness, leaving only icy killing intent.
"Gu Sheng... you're courting death!"
Inside Fallen Plum Cottage, the atmosphere instantly dropped to freezing point!
Killing intent burst forth from Xia Furong's eyes, and that cold, obscure aura locked firmly onto Gu Sheng like a venomous snake flicking its tongue!
Bai Yu looked as though she faced a formidable enemy. Cool moonlight flowed around her body, and her jade hand had already settled on the hilt of the sword at her waist!
Xia Furong, third on the True Disciple Ranking, was actually a hidden pawn planted by Nether River?!
The news was far too shocking!
Just as the tension reached its peak and a battle seemed ready to erupt at any moment, the cold killing intent in Xia Furong's eyes swiftly receded. In its place was a... complicated, inscrutable emotion. There was wariness, calculation, and even... a sense of shared misery?
She suddenly smiled, her smile like melting ice and snow, yet carrying a strange quality that made one's heart tremble.
"Junior Brother Gu, what sharp perception and cutting words. Furong... admires you."
She slowly withdrew that cold aura. Her gaze swept over the vigilant Bai Yu before finally settling on Gu Sheng. Her voice returned to its earlier ethereal sweetness, though it now carried an indescribable deeper meaning.
"However, you guessed half of it right, and half of it wrong. I do have ties to the Boundless Sect, and I truly am... unable to act of my own will. But spying on Elder Bai Yu? Waiting for an opportunity to strike? Heh..."
She gave