Her gaze suddenly turned sharp as a blade. She was no longer looking at Situ Qingfeng, but locked firmly onto the "servant" who had kept his head lowered all along. Her voice was cold and stern, like clashing ice.
"You! Raise your head! Tell me, where did this jade token come from?! Gu—Qing—yun!"
She practically gritted out those final three words, enunciating each one. Her voice carried rage suppressed to the extreme, along with a trace of incredulous alarm!
With his identity exposed outright, Gu Sheng's hand holding the teacup paused slightly. Then, he slowly raised his head.
On that ordinary, unremarkable face, his eyes were like bottomless cold pools. Calmly, he met Nangong Yuexia's gaze, which seemed ready to spew flames.
He gently set down the teacup, utterly unhurried, as though the pressure enveloping him—enough to make an ordinary Heavenly Martial Realm warrior's bones crack—did not exist at all.
He rose to his feet and calmly faced Nangong Yuexia, his tone indifferent.
"Elder Yuexia, it has been a long time. It seems that after lurking in the Purple Cloud Divine Sect for decades, you did not rise to the position of elder through luck alone."
Those words exploded beside Nangong Yuexia's ears like thunder, causing her pupils to shrink sharply! This was one of the deepest secrets in her heart!
"So you really aren't dead!"
True energy surged around Nangong Yuexia. Tangible purple radiance condensed in her palm as killing intent openly engulfed Gu Sheng.
"You still dared to appear before me?! Do you know how much investigation and suppression I endured after the Town South King died, all because of your former ties to you and that girl Mu Xue?! I almost..."
"You cannot kill me."
Gu Sheng cut her off directly. His tone remained calm, yet it