Maple City

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen worried that Li Changqing cared about Gu Yuena, but they were overthinking it.

Li Changqing waved a hand. "You've misunderstood. That woman and I happened to end up at the Xiao Family together. Don't read anything into it. Forget taking a Heavenly Flame from her—even if you asked me to kill her, I wouldn't hesitate for a moment."

"But I do have a question. Do you know how Gu Yuena found the Heavenly Flame? As far as I know, she shouldn't have known anything about it."

Xiao Yan quickly realized that Gu Yuena was the name of the woman who had taken the Heavenly Flame. He explained:

"According to what we've learned, the Snake-People Tribe has been searching for something in the desert. We think they were after the Heavenly Flame too. We just don't know why that woman got to it first."

Li Changqing folded his arms and rubbed his chin.

He already had an answer in mind. Gu Yuena had probably gotten the information from the Snake-People Tribe.

There was only one thing he couldn't figure out. Given Medusa's personality in the original story, she probably wouldn't have handed over information about the Heavenly Flame so easily.

Either Gu Yuena had struck a deal with the Snake-People Tribe, or she had used her strength to cow the entire tribe, leaving Medusa no choice but to obey her and reveal what she knew about the Heavenly Flame.

Li Changqing leaned toward the latter. Gu Yuena was no easy mark.

If Li Changqing hadn't been far stronger than Gu Yuena, bringing her from the Douluo Continent to the Dou Qi Continent alone would have been enough to get him killed several times over.

At that thought, Li Changqing looked at Xiao Yan and said evenly,