353: She's just the wrong gender.

The three Old Ancestors of the Azure Profound Sect took in the thrilling scene that had just unfolded.

The Third Old Ancestor's copper-bell-like eyes bulged, and two streams of scorching white Qi puffed from his nostrils. He transmitted his voice to the other two, his tone filled with suppressed rage.

"Damn it! That old bird from the Southern Domain actually dares to bully the brats of my Azure Profound Sect! If I ever catch him, I'll beat the shit out of him!"

The Second Ancestor was relatively calm, but his eyes also turned cold. This debt would be remembered!

In the distance, Gu Changge and Xuan Yangzi stood as still as pine trees, having taken in the thrilling scene that had just unfolded.

Xuan Yangzi's hand slightly clenched inside his sleeve, and he transmitted anxiously, "Changge, Xiao Ruobai and the others..."

Gu Changge's gaze was calm. His deep eyes reflected the figure of Xiao Ruobai, who was bathed in blood while resisting the Emperor Might, without a shred of worry.

"It is fine."

His voice was flat, without a hint of fluctuation.

"If jade is not polished, it cannot become an object of value. This bit of pressure is perfect for honing his edge."

To him, as long as the Demon Lord did not harbor murderous intent and strike a fatal blow, this was the best whetstone for his Disciple.

With the Demon Lord of the Southern Domain backing down, the tense atmosphere in the arena finally began to dissipate.

However, after this incident, the relationships between the various forces had quietly changed, and the invisible barriers and hostility had deepened.

The gazes of the vast majority of people were once again cast toward the magnificent group of palaces floating in the center of the Chaos Void Realm, radiating an ancient Emperor Might.

Opportunity and danger coexisted; that was the ultimate stage.

However, at this moment, the Yaochi Holy Master, Ji Qingyi, swept her gaze, seemingly inadvertently, across the peripheral area where the Loose Cultivators were gathered.

Possessing the Taiyin Divine Body, her sensitivity to the Qi of the world and life force was sharp to the extreme.

Just a moment ago, during the thrilling instant when the Demon Lord of the Southern Domain crushed Xiao Ruobai with his Emperor Might, even though Xuan Yangzi had restrained his Qi to the extreme.

But because of his concern for his Disciple, his mind could not help but have a tiny fluctuation.

This fluctuation might have seemed no different from the fear of the surrounding Loose Cultivators to others, but to the spiritual sense of Ji Qingyi, who possessed the Taiyin Divine Body, it revealed an unusual solidity.

Ji Qingyi's dark eyebrows furrowed almost imperceptibly, like a ripple on a calm lake, vanishing in an instant.

In her perception, those two clearly only had cultivation fluctuations of the Heavenly Human Realm. Under the terrifying Emperor Might where the vast majority of peers here needed protection to survive, they appeared somewhat relaxed.

Their Qi was perfectly restrained, almost merging with the surrounding environment, but this excessive harmony, in Ji Qingyi's spiritual sense, revealed an indescribable, unfathomable disharmony.

"These two are definitely not ordinary Loose Cultivators."

Ji Qingyi's heart stirred slightly, and a faint trace of inquiry flashed in the depths of her cold eyes.

However, she did not reveal a thing, not even letting her gaze linger, as if it were just an inadvertent glance while patrolling the entire arena.

She immediately turned all her attention back to the floating palace group, her face remaining cold and calm.

And the moment Ji Qingyi withdrew her gaze, Gu Changge, at the edge of the crowd, moved his fingertips slightly.

He naturally captured the Yaochi Holy Master's seemingly inadvertent glance, as well as the fleeting ripple of inquiry in her spiritual sense.

This woman's perception was indeed surprisingly sharp.

"Should I just finish off this Yaochi Holy Master to prevent future trouble?"

Gu Changge subconsciously had this thought and casually transmitted it to Xuan Yangzi beside him.

Xuan Yangzi, who was concentrating on maintaining the appearance of an ordinary Heavenly Human Realm Cultivator, froze upon hearing this nonsensical transmission, almost breaking his cover.

He turned his head sharply to look at Gu Changge, his eyes filled with unbelievable confusion.

"What? Kill who?"

Xuan Yangzi almost blurted it out, his voice trembling even in transmission.

"The Yaochi Holy Master? Ji Qingyi?! Changge, you... she just looked over here once! Just because she looked at you, you want to kill her to silence her?!"

As soon as the words left his mouth, Xuan Yangzi was stunned himself.

That's not right! With Gu Changge's indifferent nature, let alone being looked at, even if someone stared at him, as long as it didn't involve anything fundamental, he wouldn't bother to pay attention.

How could he harbor murderous intent over such a small matter? Unless...

A terrifying guess struck Xuan Yangzi's head like lightning!

His gaze toward Gu Changge instantly changed from confusion to extremely complex shock, realization, and then deep worry and a trace of imperceptible panic?

Xuan Yangzi's gaze subconsciously swept over Gu Changge's perfect, flawless, yet always cold profile, and then associated it with the fact that for so many years, he had been alone and had not been close to women...

"Changge! You... you..."

Xuan Yangzi's voice was trembling, carrying the panic of having discovered a shocking secret.

"Tell me the truth! You suddenly wanted to kill the Yaochi Holy Master, is it because I tried to set you two up, and because she is a woman?!"

The more he spoke, the more he felt he had grasped the truth. His eyes became incomparably complex, filled with sympathy, worry, and a sense of collapse, as if thinking, "Old friend, you are actually this kind of person."

"I should have thought of it sooner! For so many years, so many female Elders and female Disciples have shown interest in you, but you didn't even glance at them! I thought you were firm in your Dao Heart and focused on the Dao, but it turns out! It turns out you just don't like women?!"

Xuan Yangzi transmitted with heartbreak, as if Gu Changge had embarked on a path of no return.

"But even if you have that preference, you can't kill her to silence her just because she looked at you! I won't set you two up anymore, okay? The Holy Master Ji is so innocent! She just has the wrong gender!"

Gu Changge: "..."

Even with Gu Changge's state of mind, he was left speechless for a moment by Xuan Yangzi's sky-high train of thought.

He glanced at Xuan Yangzi with an expressionless face.

"What on earth is in his head?"

Explaining to someone with such a rich imagination that he was noticed because his Qi leaked was clearly casting pearls before swine.

"Shut up."

Gu Changge withdrew his gaze, too lazy to pay any more attention to this scatterbrained fellow. Arguing with a fool over such a small matter was too beneath him.

"Sigh, I read too many of those violent novels in my past life, and I was almost influenced by them. It's just a small matter, not worth it."

Gu Changge suppressed the absurd thought of killing to silence her, and the spiritual energy that had been poised at his fingertips slowly dissipated.

The Yaochi Holy Master, Ji Qingyi, was completely unaware at this moment that just one glance had caused her to walk through the gates of hell.

She simply noted that trace of abnormality, and her cold gaze turned back to the Emperor Palace.

Seeing that Gu Changge did not refute (actually, he was just too lazy to bother with him), Xuan Yangzi's heart was stirred with even greater waves of shock.

His gaze toward Gu Changge's back was filled with complex and indescribable emotions, and he sighed secretly:

"It's over, it's over. Changge actually really... what should be done about this!"