"Uh, Miss..."
At her words, Yang Hao's expression twisted with unease. He began hesitantly, unsure how to voice what was on his mind.
"Hmm? Is there something else?"
Seeing Yang Hao fidgeting like this, Gu Xun'er knitted her delicate brows and spoke in a low voice.
Yang Hao drew a deep breath, then spoke with trepidation.
"Yes, Miss. For this trip to the Pill Tower, the elders have decided to send Young Master Gu Jing along..."
Gu Xun'er's beautiful eyes instantly narrowed, and an intense murderous intent spilled from them.
"Gu Jing..."
Gu Xun'er half-closed her eyes, gazing out at the ruined, devastated landscape within this space. Her rosy lips parted slightly as she murmured, her faint voice steeped in killing intent.
Gu Jing had originally been rather unremarkable. Although he was a direct-lineage clan member, the son of a Dou Sheng clan elder, and possessed an eighth-tier bloodline, he seemed utterly dim beneath the dazzling radiance of Gu Xun'er's god-grade bloodline.
In recent years, however, Gu Jing's name had spread throughout almost the entire Gu Clan. Several years earlier, he had left the clan and vanished without a trace. Even the Dou Zun guard accompanying him had disappeared. One could well imagine how furious the Gu Clan had been at the time, yet even a Dou Sheng's personal intervention had failed to uncover his whereabouts. In the end, the matter had simply been left unresolved.
Just when everyone believed Gu Jing had died, he had returned to the clan alone a year earlier. For some unknown reason, his bloodline had been purified into a god-grade bloodline, making him the second person in a thousand years to possess one, after Gu Xun'er.
The news had exploded like a bomb, throwing the entire Gu Clan into an uproar, and Gu Jing's