If Chi Guanguan could count even Ao Xiu among them, why couldn't she count herself?
At the desk, Chi Guanguan froze. Zhang Yuan's whisper still echoed in her ears, and she could not recover for a long while. Her cheeks turned pink at a speed visible to the naked eye.
H-he... was he flirting with me?
He definitely was!
Zhang Yuan, you scoundrel!
Chi Guanguan looked into Zhang Yuan's bright, earnest eyes. Several times, she tried to speak, but in the end, not a single word came out. She simply folded her arms, turned her head away, and deliberately avoided looking at him before giving a soft huff.
"In your dreams. This Immortal has no desire to be among them."
Zhang Yuan watched her pink cheeks and stopped teasing her. He smiled.
"All right. After all, Immortal Maiden, you're a Great Luo who Proved the Dao in the Primordial Era. Your cultivation and standing have reached the pinnacle of all the heavens of Chaos. It's only natural that you'd look down on a mud-legged bumpkin from a later age who hasn't even reached Celestial Person Perfection."
Chi Guanguan turned her head back and waved her hands.
"Oh, that's not what I meant! I'm not looking down on you. Zhang Yuan, don't sell yourself short. You're already very formidable at Late Celestial Person. Even when I was at Great Yi, I might not have been able to beat you."
She was telling the truth.
Looking over the entire history of the sha ingestion gang devoration path, one would struggle to find more than a handful who possessed Zhang Yuan's combat strength at Late Celestial Person. Only those True Lords and Great Luo who had ascended to an upper-grade golden position could rival him at that stage.
That was comparing True Lords