327: Chapter 327 Don't call me by my name, I find you disgusting!

After Xiao Chen roared those two platitudes, he realized the atmosphere around him was wrong.

The gazes of those tens of thousands of female cultivators had completely shifted from initial shock and disgust to killing intent.

The Sword Qi permeating the air scraped against his cheeks, causing a stinging pain.

He panicked.

In his desperation, Xiao Chen's gaze swept over the crowd, casting his last glimmer of hope toward Guan Linger, who was standing behind Cao Kun.

"Linger! Linger, save me!"

Xiao Chen felt as if he had fallen into a deep river and had grabbed the last piece of driftwood.

He screamed at the top of his raspy, broken voice.

"I am your Brother Xiao! Hurry, take me away from here!"

In his eyes, she was his childhood sweetheart, the high and mighty Goddess of the Guan Family from the Spirit Realm!

She was at the Mahayana Stage!

As long as she was willing to act, as long as she was willing to protect him, absolutely no one in this Lower Realm could stop them!

However, facing Xiao Chen's shrill pleas for help, Guan Linger felt not a shred of pity; instead, she stepped back three times in disgust.

"Shut up!"

Guan Linger's pretty face was cold as ice.

Her clear, ethereal voice trembled slightly with anger and disappointment.

"Don't call my name, I find it filthy!"

These words struck like heavy hammers, smashing hard against Xiao Chen's already shattered Dao Heart.

He froze, looking in disbelief at the beautiful young girl who once had eyes only for him.

"Linger... you, what did you say?" Xiao Chen's voice trembled, unable to believe his ears.

"I said, I find you filthy!"

The more Guan Linger spoke, the more nauseated she felt, and the disappointment suppressed in the depths of her heart erupted at this moment.

She pointed at Xiao Chen on the ground and mercilessly tore away his last shred of dignity:

"Xiao Chen, you are despicable, shameless, and have no bottom line! Failing to compete in wealth at the Treasure Pavilion and then sneakily attacking others out of anger was one thing; I just assumed that after being exiled to the Lower Realm, you were triggered and your Heart-Nature had changed drastically."

"But look at yourself now!"

Guan Linger took a deep breath, her chest heaving:

"For the sake of a mere Opportunity in a Lower Realm Secret Realm, you have actually discarded even a man's dignity!"

"You swallowed a Yin Pill, turned yourself into a woman, and put on a pitiful act to exploit the sympathy of these innocent female cultivators just to save your own life!"

"Are you still the Xiao Chen who was once high-spirited and had an unyielding backbone in the Spirit Realm?"

"You are now just a clown who, for the sake of survival and profit, can abandon all bottom lines and even cast aside your own gender!"

Guan Linger's eyes turned red; it wasn't from pity, but from regret over her own blind obsession in the past.

"I, Guan Linger, must have been blind to ever believe that someone like you could make a comeback!"

"I must have been blind to beg Supreme Elder Zhan Hong to open the boundary wall just for a despicable hypocrite like you, traveling all this way to the Lower Realm!"

Her tone became unprecedentedly resolute and cold.

"From today on, our relationship is severed; we have nothing more to do with each other! Whether you live or die has nothing to do with me!"

These words were spoken with resounding force, echoing over the Taiqing Immortal Mountain.

Not only did it completely pass a death sentence on Xiao Chen in Guan Linger's heart, but it was also heard clearly by the tens of thousands of Taiqing Palace female cultivators, igniting the emotions of the entire crowd.

"Well said! A piece of trash like this who has no bottom line doesn't deserve to live!"

"He actually dared to ask this Fairy to save him? He should go take a look at his own pathetic state!"

"Disgusting! Absolutely disgusting!"

The curses of the female cultivators surged like a tsunami, directed straight at Xiao Chen.

Meanwhile, standing to the side, Cao Kun's lips curled upward; he was feeling incredibly satisfied.

He loved this kind of drama where a scumbag was torn apart in front of everyone.

Especially since this scumbag was a Child of Luck whom he had been rubbing into the dirt.

Cao Kun took half a step forward and, with great naturalness, extended his right hand to wrap his arm around Guan Linger's slender waist.

The sensation was warm and soft, as if she had no bones.

Guan Linger instinctively wanted to break free, but upon feeling the strength in Cao Kun's arm and an inexplicable sense of security, she bit her red lips and finally gave up resisting, letting Cao Kun half-embrace her.

"Oh, Young Master Xiao."

"So, the reason you were shouting so loudly just now, and the source of your final confidence, was my personal maid?"

"What a pity."

Cao Kun spread his hands, wearing a helpless expression.

"It seems she has no intention of helping you."

"Tell me, you've sunk to this point, even your own childhood sweetheart finds you disgusting; what's the point of you living?"

Boom!

Cao Kun's words, designed to kill and destroy the heart, combined with his intimate pose holding Guan Linger, became the final straw that broke Xiao Chen's sanity.

Xiao Chen slumped onto the ground.

He couldn't accept that his "white moonlight"—the one who used to follow him around calling him Brother Xiao, whom he had always regarded as something in his pocket, and who had been devoted to him—would actually say such heartless words in front of tens of thousands of people.

"Pfft!"

Overcome with rage and despair, Xiao Chen looked up and spat out a large mouthful of foul-smelling black blood. His sanity completely collapsed at this moment.

"Bitch! You fickle, promiscuous slut!"

The broken Xiao Chen pointed at Guan Linger and began to curse hysterically.

"In the Spirit Realm, you pretended to be pure and untouchable, but once you reached the Lower Realm, you actually stripped off your clothes and knelt to serve a native Devil Head!"

"You are his maid? You are not even as good as the bitch dog guarding the gate of Taiqing Palace!"

"You worn-out shoe! You've already slept with him, haven't you? What right do you have to lecture me!"

"Even if I, Xiao Chen, die, I will not let this pair of dogs go, even as a ghost!"

The vicious curses echoed over the plaza. No one could have imagined that a man, when driven to a dead end, could say such base and filthy words to the childhood sweetheart who had once come to save him.

Hearing such unbearable insults, Guan Linger's delicate body trembled.

The image of the once high-spirited and gentle "Brother Xiao" in her mind shattered completely into dust and drifted away with the wind.

Even the last shred of fantasy vanished into thin air. A clear tear slid silently from the corner of her eye.

Not because of sadness, but because she felt that her obsession over the past few years was simply ridiculous.

Like a little cat that had suffered all kinds of grievances and finally saw reality clearly, she shed all her disguises and stubbornness.

She weakly leaned her face against Cao Kun's broad shoulder and closed her eyes.

At this moment, she just wanted to find someone to rely on.

Cao Kun felt the beauty leaning against him in his arms, with a faint, lingering fragrance around his nose, and he was overjoyed.

Being a homewrecker like this was truly fulfilling.

Now, her becoming his obedient Jade Beast was just around the corner!

[Ding! Detected that the Child of Luck, Xiao Chen, has been abandoned by his allies and broken ties with his love interest! Dao Heart completely shattered!]

[Congratulations to the Host! Phase Two of the hijacking mission has been successfully completed!]

The System's crisp notification sound rang happily in Cao Kun's mind.

[Task rewards are being calculated...]

[Congratulations to the Host for receiving 15000 task points as a reward!]

[Current task points balance: 94900!]

Cao Kun was delighted; the reward had finally arrived!

However, the System's notification sound hadn't finished yet.

[Ding! Detected that the Host completed the mission extremely well, completely destroying the Child of Luck's mentality, triggering a hidden critical hit reward!]