An eerie atmosphere pervaded the empty space.
Su Jiu's prolonged silence had already begun to wear Ji Jue's patience thin.
Looking at Qiao Zirong in his grasp, he tightened his grip.
Qiao Zirong's face rapidly flushed red. He felt close to suffocating, yet Su Jiu's expression remained cold.
Ji Jue suddenly smiled and loosened his grip a little. He looked sympathetically at Qiao Zirong, whom he held captive, and chuckled. "Doesn't being with a girl like her bore you?"
Qiao Zirong said, "Who exactly are you? What do you want?"
Ji Jue smiled too. "Haven't I already told you what I want? To ascend and become an immortal!"
Qiao Zirong was stunned. "You're entwined with resentful qi, and you still want to ascend to immortality?"
Ji Jue abruptly tightened his grip again, his face darkening until it seemed ink might drip from it. "What do you know?"
At that moment, Su Jiu, who had remained silent all this time, said, "From the moment you said I couldn't see through your soul, I've been on guard against you."
Ji Jue froze. So she had started that early. He studied Su Jiu's eyes thoughtfully, unaware that their unusual nature was not entirely due to the eyes themselves.
"Why?" At that moment, Ji Jue's expression truly resembled that of a five-year-old child.
"Do you know that every lie a person tells needs more lies to cover it up? From the moment you told me your first lie, I stopped trusting you.
"Once I no longer trusted you, did you think those countless holes in your story could still escape my eyes? Besides..."
At this point, Su Jiu lifted her eyes to glance at him, her gaze filled with indifference and disdain.
"There's no going back for you now. You used the Soulguiding Sect's