Gu Changqing spoke with breezy nonchalance.
But when his words fell, the Interception Sect disciples, along with Tongtian, Nuwa, and the other Sages, were utterly bewildered!
Everyone stared blankly, their brains all but grinding to a halt.
What had we just heard?
Innate indestructible spiritual light was a Primordial Divine Spirit's very life essence, the most vital foundation of their existence!
Yet Gu Changqing spoke of it so casually?
"Isn't it just a little..."
"It's not as if I'm going to eat you..."
Just listen to that!
Was that something a human being would say?!
Madness!
This fellow must have drunk himself mad!
And amid that silence...
Ancestor Hong Yun, the person at the heart of it all, finally reacted.
His rigid body trembled slightly.
His mind, left utterly blank by overwhelming shock, finally regained a sliver of clarity.
He lifted his head, his eyes brimming with tangled emotions as he stared fixedly at Gu Changqing, as though hoping to find even the slightest hint of a joke on that drunken face.
There was none.
Nothing at all.
Only a muddled, matter-of-fact look, and a trace of... impatience?
Hong Yun's heart sank to rock bottom.
Borrow my essence...
How was that any different from taking my life?
No, it was worse than taking my life!
Once his essence was damaged and his foundation in the Great Dao shaken, never mind advancing further-he might not even retain his current cultivation!
He could even fall to a lower realm, or dissolve completely into the Dao and vanish between Heaven and Earth!
This was a price no living being could bear!
But...
From the corner of his eye, Hong Yun caught sight of Ancestor Minghe nearby, his face filled with fervor and envy.
A thought began growing wildly in his heart, beyond his