At those words.
An uncanny, deathly silence fell over the entire Biyou Palace.
Sect Master Tongtian's hand remained in the position where he had just slammed it onto the jade table. His entire body froze.
Nuwa and Houtu, two Sages of peerless grace, also stood rooted to the spot, motionless.
The three Sages simply stared at one another, eyes wide.
They were stunned.
Utterly stunned!
Hide inside the world within the Chaos Bead?
What kind of outrageous talk was that?!
They were three exalted Hunyuan Sages-the sovereign of the Earth Dao, the Lord of the Human Dao, and the Jie Sect Leader!
With the Profound Gate working its schemes in secret and shaking the foundations of the Primordial World, their thoughts had been on finding the mastermind, setting the chaos right, and protecting this world!
Yet when it came to Gu Changqing, good grief, he wanted to flip the table and quit the game outright?
If they couldn't win, they should run?
What kind of nonsense was that?!
For a moment, even though the three Sages had lived through endless ages and their hearts had long become as still as ancient wells, their heads buzzed. They simply could not keep up with Gu Changqing's thinking.
Sect Master Tongtian opened his mouth as though he wanted to speak, but not a single word came out.
The towering fury in his chest was instantly extinguished, as though a bucket of ice water had drenched him from head to toe.
No, it had not been extinguished.
It had been replaced by an even more outlandish emotion.
A sense of... incomprehensible, indescribable absurdity.
A long while passed.
A long while.
Houtu was the first to recover. An expression caught between laughter and tears appeared on her cool, aloof face.
She gently shook her head