As Qing Chen listened to Qing Jie ramble on, his heart jolted.
Not because she was still alive, but because her depths were unfathomable!
A hundred years ago? She could already give him a Marrow-Devouring Gu.
What did that mean?
Qing Chen thought back over his own cultivation history. At that time, his combat strength had probably only been at the pseudo-core level!
A Marrow-Devouring Gu! That thing approached peak third tier during its growth stage!
And Zhao Ningyi... something she casually tossed out could have easily crushed his past self to death?
In other words, a hundred years ago, the combat strength Zhao Ningyi controlled had been at least at the peak Golden Core level.
Considering how casually she could give away a Gu Insect like that, she should at least have possessed pseudo-Nascent Soul combat strength!
Qing Chen's breathing quickened almost imperceptibly for an instant, countless images flashing through his mind;
-that young lady from Ford City, dressed all in red, clinging obsessively with a touch of madness, even somewhat lovesick... her "May You Become an Immortal" by Sea City...
Other than that, she seemed to have shown no particular qualities of a powerful cultivator.
How could she possibly possess such power?
And where had she obtained it?
Back when he had heard that both his brothers and Zhao Ningyi possessed spiritual roots, Qing Chen had already been deeply shocked.
Possessing a spiritual root made someone one in a thousand!
Immediately afterward, an even more terrifying thought surfaced:
If she could control Gu Insects of that level a hundred years ago, what about now?!
More than a hundred years had passed!
Growing at such a bizarre speed, could she now... already control fourth-tier Gu Insects?
Terrifying beings equivalent to Nascent Soul cultivators? Perhaps even beyond the early stage?