"Xun'er, are you all right? How did you get into a clash with the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan?"
The man named Lei Dong asked Gu Xun'er with concern written all over his face. Then he looked ahead, sizing up the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan. When he saw Feng Qing'er's exquisite, flawless face, a barely perceptible flicker of admiration crossed the depths of his eyes.
After her bloodline transformation, Feng Qing'er possessed a beauty fit to topple a nation, falling only a shade short of Gu Xun'er. But the admiration in Lei Dong's eyes soon faded, replaced by intense hostility.
When Gu Xun'er was young, she had not spent all her time with the Xiao Clan in Wutan City. Whenever the Gu Clan had matters to attend to, she would return through the Spatial Passage that the clan had specially built near the Xiao Clan, connecting it to their Clan Territory.
On one such occasion, after returning to her clan, Gu Xun'er had accompanied Gu Yuan to a Coming-of-Age Ceremony held by the Lei Clan. That was the day Lei Dong awakened the Lei Clan's god-grade bloodline. Introduced by their elders, he met Gu Xun'er for the first time.
Although Gu Xun'er's features were still youthful then, not yet fully blossomed, she was already as transcendently beautiful as a pristine azure lotus. Anyone could foresee the city-toppling beauty she would become. From his very first glimpse, Lei Dong had been stunned as though he had seen a celestial maiden. He decided that he would marry no one but Gu Xun'er and begged his father, Lei Ying, the Lei Clan's patriarch and an eight-star peak Dou Sheng, to arrange their match.
Naturally, Lei Ying would not refuse his own son's request. Joining the two clans' god-grade bloodlines in marriage would be an