"How is that possible?!"
"I don't believe it!"
Hu Liena's eyes widened. The Charm she was so proud of had been broken so easily by the little fellow before her.
Even her brother and Yan couldn't have done that!
The Charm technique of her Demon Fox Martial Soul had no effect whatsoever on the little fellow before her.
Gu Wuchen put away the Dustless Sword and looked at Hu Liena. "I was only saying it. Do you have to be so pessimistic?"
Hu Liena said aggrievedly, "How can that be the same? This is the first time I've felt so defeated, and it was because of you. I feel like my ten-odd years of cultivation have all been for nothing."
I'm done for, I'm done for. If Teacher finds out, won't I be punished again?
At least Teacher isn't here now. Once I get back, I'll quietly tell her I won.
As she was still counting on her luck, a voice suddenly sounded beside her ear, terrifying her.
"Nana, is this the result of all the hard cultivation you said you'd been doing lately?"
Hu Liena turned around stiffly and saw that Bibi Dong had come in person.
"T-Teacher."
Bibi Dong reached out and flicked her lightly. "When I asked how your cultivation was going, you said you were getting excellent results. Yet you couldn't even charm a six-year-old child."
"Go back and cultivate properly. Don't come out again."
Hu Liena covered her forehead and nodded dejectedly.
It wasn't that she hadn't been working hard at her cultivation. Gu Wuchen was clearly immune to Charm.
"Pope, what are you doing here?"
Qian Daoliu looked at Bibi Dong, who had come here, without the slightest hint of cordiality.
Bibi Dong chuckled. "I naturally came to watch the sparring match. I didn't expect Nana to lose so easily. Gu Wuchen, was it? You really have surprised me."
As Hu Liena's teacher, he naturally knew her abilities well enough. What he had just said was only meant to make Hu Liena cultivate harder.
As for the six-year-old Gu Wuchen, Hu Liena, who was about to become a Soul Elder, should not normally have had her Charm broken so quickly, and he might even have been charmed. Yet he had indeed broken it.
Could it be that the minds of sword users are all free of distracting thoughts?
In this world, apart from Sword Dao Chen Xin, there was no one who could cultivate a Sword Martial Soul to its peak.
He had also sensed last night's towering Sword Intent in the unseen depths. Could Gu Wuchen have an Innate Sword Body as well?
Just how did those two Titled Douluo in the Far North raise this child?
"Your Holiness, if there's nothing else, please leave," Gu Wuchen said.
Bibi Dong sneered. "Young Master Gu, could it be that I'm not welcome here?"
"It's not that you aren't welcome. It seems we can only sit down and talk when we're doing business. At other times, there doesn't seem to be any conflict of interest between us."
He had no desire to deal with a madwoman like Bibi Dong.
"I really am curious. Is your mind truly free of distracting thoughts?"
Bibi Dong spoke meaningfully and left the Elder Hall, taking the aggrieved little fox with her.
After the two left.
Only then did Qian Daoliu walk over to Gu Wuchen and ask what it had felt like when Hu Liena charmed him just now.
"It was like being dragged into an illusion, where she used all sorts of methods to charm you. But I shattered the illusion with a single stroke of my sword."
"To sum it up in one sentence, Charm doesn't seem to work on me."
That was what Gu Wuchen said.
"Is that so?"
Qian Daoliu now had a preliminary understanding. He could only say that Hu Liena's Charm was powerful, but it seemed to have caused scarcely a ripple in Gu Wuchen's heart.
"Wuchen, go back and rest."
Gu Wuchen nodded and returned to his residence.
He had just sat down when a breathtaking figure embraced him from behind.
"Little Wuchen, you actually withstood her Charm. Come on, tell me, was it because you thought she wasn't as pretty as Sister Xue, so you weren't charmed?"
The Snow Empress poked out her head and rested her chin on Gu Wuchen's shoulder, speaking with the hint of a smile.
The moment she finished, she blew a breath of warm air into Gu Wuchen's ear.
The previously calm Gu Wuchen's expression instantly faltered.
"Sister Xue, what nonsense are you talking about? I broke the Charm because of my own state of mind, not because of you," Gu Wuchen explained.
The Snow Empress chuckled. "Is that so? Why don't I believe you? You're only six. No matter how strong you are, you couldn't possibly be strong enough to ignore that Charm outright."
"Little Wuchen, good children don't lie. Watch Sister have her way with you."
The Snow Empress extended a pair of snowy-white legs from beneath her white dress and clamped them around Gu Wuchen, who was trying to escape.
"Sister Xue, what are you going to do?" Gu Wuchen froze.
Why is the Heavenly Snow Woman, the Snow Empress, different from what I imagined? She's acting like a complete female hooligan.
"Why, let you feel Sister Xue's love, of course."
"Dame!!!"
"Sister Xue, you can't!"
Late that night, Gu Wuchen lay on the bed, wanting to cry but having no tears. His frail little body was no match for the Snow Empress before him.
Isn't she messing with me?
He had nearly suffocated, yet the Snow Empress was still lying beside him with a mischievous grin.
How infuriating!
"Little Wuchen, this is called relaxing after a battle. If you like it, Sister Xue can do this often."
Gu Wuchen rolled his eyes. "I don't want it. You're throwing my Dao heart into turmoil."
"Little Wuchen, you're embarrassed, aren't you? What do you mean, throwing your Dao heart into turmoil? It's not like Sister is some little fox from deep in the mountains," the Snow Empress said with a coquettish laugh.
Has Little Wuchen been reading too many stories?
Am I not much better than some little fox from deep in the mountains?
An idea flashed through Gu Wuchen's mind. He looked at the Snow Empress and asked, "Didn't you only come here through soul power? How did you know about some of my battles?"
"Well!"
"Of course, it's because Sister Xue stays in your Sea of Consciousness. Whenever I don't want my soul to go back, I stay in your Sea of Consciousness."
The Snow Empress explained.
Gu Wuchen was startled. "What? Doesn't that mean you can see everything I experience?"
"Yes. Otherwise, how would I know so much?" the Snow Empress said earnestly. "Sister Xue is protecting you, keeping you from being bewitched by those bad women."
"Aren't you the bad woman?" Gu Wuchen said irritably.
"If I were, Sister would devour you completely right now and leave you unable to get out of bed every day."
The Snow Empress changed her tone, becoming like a whispering little devil who seemed truly capable of doing it.
Gu Wuchen trembled with fear. "Sister Xue, let's forget it. I'd like to live a few more years."
"Look how scared you are!" the Snow Empress said with a coquettish pout.
Unable to resist laughing a few times, she did not return to the Sea of Consciousness. Instead, she stayed in the room and began telling Gu Wuchen how to use her power.
"Sister Xue, use your power?"
"That's right. I'll give you the ability to fight across cultivation realms, Little Wuchen. Take that little fox just now: as long as you master Sister Xue's abilities, defeating her will be no trouble at all."
The Snow Empress sat up, her tone earnest and serious.
"I'm deeply bound to you, and I have quite a few abilities. Feel them carefully, Little Wuchen!"
"Let me show you, or do you really think Sister Xue is made of mud?"
I have to put on a proper display. Otherwise, Little Wuchen will really think I only want to bully him.