First Visit to Songhe Mountain

Gu Baihong's violent emotional shift seemed to have stirred Su Mingyue, who had remained frozen like a sculpture nearby.

This female Great Scholar, holding a scroll in her hands, finally moved.

First, she slowly turned her head.

Her pale eyes, betraying no change in emotion, swept indifferently over Gu Baihong's face, slightly twisted by jealousy and hatred, before settling on Ye Li's calm, unruffled face.

Her gaze lingered on Ye Li for a moment.

There was none of Gu Baihong's venomous resentment within it, nor anything resembling the Eldest Princess's admiration. Instead, it carried the scrutiny of someone who had discovered rare research material.

"Is something wrong?" Ye Li raised an eyebrow slightly.

Baiyue's voice transmission introduced her to him at the proper moment, and he quickly learned that this Great Scholar Su was a renowned High-ranking Venerable within the academy.

Back then, she had even made an exception to take Gu Baihong, whose temperament had failed to meet the standard, as her personal disciple, stirring heated discussion on all sides.

"Nothing."

Su Mingyue shook her head slightly.

After withdrawing her gaze, her pale fingers lightly tapped the yellowed scroll, and the relevant words immediately appeared upon its pages.

No one knew that this scroll, whose records only she could read, had long been filled with research regarding [the extreme forms of righteous qi].

The section taking up the most space concerned the effects of those with extreme temperaments cultivating Vast Righteous Qi.

"Heh." Ye Li gave a soft laugh.

No longer paying attention to the strange academy master and disciple, he merely glanced in Gu Baihong's direction before swiftly withdrawing his gaze.

It was as though he had not noticed that dense killing intent at all.

After smoothing away the smile at the corner of his mouth, he turned