"I... I suddenly don't feel very well. I-I'll go back and rest first!"
She threw out that excuse in a panic, not even daring to look at Gu Sheng again. She fled as though running for her life, her figure quickly vanishing around the stairway corner.
Gu Sheng watched her hurriedly retreating back, raising his brows slightly in confusion.
He had only wanted her to collect the jade slip of the Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter and ask about her father's situation while she was at it. Why had she reacted so strongly?
After exchanging a few more simple words, everyone dispersed. Gu Sheng also returned to the quiet chamber Myriad Treasure Hall had arranged for him. Gu Yuanyuan and Qi Diao Yaoyao had been assigned the room next door to rest.
Inside the quiet chamber, Gu Sheng sat cross-legged, yet did not begin cultivating immediately.
He recalled Su Youwei's aura in the hall earlier. It had given him an inexplicable sense of familiarity, as though he had encountered something similar somewhere before, but he could not remember it for the moment. Her origins seemed clear enough, yet the timing of her ending up here was a little too coincidental.
"I'll have Yaoyao keep an eye on her for now and see what she does next."
Having settled on a plan, Gu Sheng no longer dwelled on the matter.
With a flip of his palm, a warm-textured jade talisman, blank and without a single inscription, appeared in his hand.
Then, with a thought, the vast spiritual power within his sea of consciousness surged forth, condensing at his fingertips into an invisible, intangible yet incomparably sharp spiritual-power brush blade.
Gu Sheng closed his eyes and began carefully engraving the contents of the Divine Forging Hundred Refinements Chapter into the jade talisman