Something Big Was Coming

In the great hall, Fang Yu wailed inwardly.

Does this woman have bat ears?

But now that things had come to this, pretending to be deaf would only make him look guiltier.

He sprang up from the throne as if there were springs beneath him. Where was the composure of a Nascent Soul Ancestor now?

"Cough, cough!" He cleared his throat, trying to recover some of an ancestor's dignity, but his voice still wavered slightly. "Well... Li Huayuan, have everyone outside... disperse! Say that this ancestor has, um... suddenly gained an insight and urgently needs to enter seclusion to study the profound principles of heaven and earth! No visitors today!"

He deliberately raised his voice, giving it a rigid, unquestionable edge, yet he did not dare glance toward Nangong Wan by the hall entrance.

Li Huayuan and the elders exchanged looks. They all found their ancestor's state especially strange today, but they hurriedly answered, "We obey Ancestor's decree!"

The hall doors slowly closed, shutting out the astonished, humiliated, and intensely curious gazes of the Moon Concealment Sect's female cultivators outside.

Before the gap fully closed, Nangong Wan's cool eyes locked tightly onto the flushed figure inside the hall, his gaze darting away. The storm raging in her heart nearly burst from her chest.

A conspiracy! An enormous conspiracy!

This thought instantly filled Nangong Wan's mind like boiling water struck by tumbling stones.

It was him! It had to be him! That voice, that white light from the severed arm, and that guilty look like he wanted to burrow into the ground! What Ancestor Fang? What fucking Nascent Soul? This was clearly Fang Tie Zhu, that bastard who pretended to be weak while hiding his strength!

*No wonder... no wonder! A Qi Refining Stage cultivator ascending to Nascent Soul in one