Showing off!
This was taking showing off too far!
Had anyone else dared to utter "not worth mentioning" so casually before the two female Sages, Nuwa and Houtu would probably have been unable to resist making a few disparaging remarks.
That was an epoch-shaking feat: wresting a Chaos Supreme Treasure back from the Dao Ancestor, forcing him to cough up blood and suffer the collapse of his Dao Heart, and compelling the Heavenly Dao Will to manifest personally to rescue him!
For any cultivator, such a glorious achievement would have been enough to boast about for hundreds of millions of years!
Yet from Gu Changqing's lips, it merited only a breezy "not worth mentioning."
From anyone else, this would have been naked posturing, a pretense of composure after letting success go to his head.
But Gu Changqing was different.
Nuwa and Houtu exchanged a glance, each seeing the same thought in the other's eyes.
The indifference on this fellow's face was no deliberate affectation.
He genuinely thought it was not worth mentioning.
Because everything had been within his expectations from the very beginning.
From the seizure of the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, to Hongjun and the Elder of Chaos pouring their strength into refining it, to the awakening of Pangu's Will and the divine axe acknowledging its master-every step had been a move he laid out himself.
Since the outcome had long been ordained, there was naturally no reason to make a fuss.
At that thought, the trace of criticism in Nuwa's and Houtu's hearts dissipated.
This fellow had always been like this. They were already used to it.
At the same time, however, another thought that had lingered in Houtu's mind for a long while remained lodged in her heart like an invisible thorn, preventing her from truly putting her