196: Love at first sight, love that lasts a lifetime

Mu Bingyun spoke, her words clear and calm, without a hint of emotion.

She didn't even look at Qin Wudi; those ice-blue eyes were fixed on the direction of the Imperial Carriage from start to finish.

These brief words were like icicles, ruthlessly stabbing into Qin Wudi's heart.

The color instantly drained from his face, and the pride and grace he had barely maintained vanished without a trace.

He felt as if his blood had frozen at this moment.

How could those 37°C lips utter such absolute zero words?

"No... impossible..."

Qin Wudi's lips quivered, his voice as dry as sandpaper, "Senior Sister... you..."

He shook his head violently, unwilling to believe it, his eyes filled with struggle and pleading as he tried to find a hint of a joke or pique on Mu Bingyun's expressionless face.

But reality was cruel.

It was true; her eyes only ever held that guy he had always despised.

"Senior Sister!"

His voice suddenly rose!

"You can't do this! I've liked you for ten years!"

"A full ten years!"

"From the first day I entered the sect and saw you... you were the only one in my eyes!"

"All my efforts were to be worthy of you! How can you... how can you treat me like this?!"

He took a step forward, wanting to grab Mu Bingyun's hand, but was forced back by an invisible cold Qi.

His face began to contort, his innate pride torn to shreds, leaving only a hideous unwillingness and malice.

"Why? Why him?"

Qin Wudi almost roared, his voice echoing in all directions.

"He's just an outcast!"

"In what way is he better than me?"

"In terms of background, I am of the Qin Clan's direct line, while he is a discarded bastard! In terms of talent, I possess the Double Pupils and the Supreme Bone within my body, while he is just a lucky bastard with the Supreme Double Pupils!"

"In terms of strength, I am already at the Early Stage of the God King realm, while he has only just entered the Heavenly God realm! How is he worthy of you?"

"Mu Bingyun, tell me!"

"In what way is he better than me?"

This sudden turn of events instantly ignited the already noisy Border Wasteland.

Almost everyone stopped talking and looked toward the Heaven Mending Sacred Sect's camp in shock.

The Disciples of the Heaven Mending Sacred Sect were even more dumbfounded, looking at their unattainable Saintess in disbelief.

"Wudi! What are you doing?"

A cold yet majestic female voice rang out, suppressing the clamor in the field.

At the front of the Heaven Mending Sacred Sect's camp, a beautiful woman in a plain white palace dress frowned slightly and looked at Qin Wudi.

She appeared to be in her thirties, with her hair piled high, skin like cream, and a face reflecting the mature charm and dignified aura of years of experience.

She was the contemporary Butian Sect Master!

At this moment, this mature and beautiful Sect Revered Master had a hint of displeasure and confusion between her brows.

She knew her Disciple Qin Wudi; although he was arrogant, his obsession with Mu Bingyun was real.

She just hadn't expected Qin Wudi to lose his composure so much on such an occasion.

"Revered Master!"

Qin Wudi seemed to grab onto a lifeline, turning abruptly and bowing to his Revered Master.

"Please be the judge! Senior Sister... she actually disregarded the Sect Rules and fell for someone from another sect!"

"This is a major taboo!"

"I ask Revered Master to strictly punish Senior Sister according to the Sect Rules!"

He deliberately emphasized the words "Sect Rules."

The Heaven Mending Sacred Sect's rules were strict, especially for the Saintess, who was required to be focused and dedicated to the Great Dao.

While love wasn't absolutely forbidden, the punishment for involvement with someone from another sect, especially a relationship that might affect the Sacred Sect's interests, had always been extremely severe.

At best, it was facing a wall in reflection; at worst, it was having one's cultivation stripped, or even being forced to sever the threads of emotion and having related memories forcibly erased.

A look of ruthlessness flashed in Qin Wudi's eyes, and his heart roared.

"Mu Bingyun!"

"Since I can't have you, then I'll destroy you!"

"Even if you're locked in the Ice Palace and suffer all kinds of torture, even if your threads of emotion are severed and you become an emotionless Puppet, I will never let you be with that outcast!"

The surrounding crowd was in a complete uproar.

"My god! Fairy Bingyun... has she really fallen in love? And with an outsider?"

"The Heaven Mending Sacred Sect's rules are extremely strict; if the Saintess is involved with an outsider, it's a serious crime!"

"It's over, it's over, is my Fairy going to be punished? Which bastard stole our prize cabbage!"

"Who else could it be? To make Qin Wudi lose his composure like this, who else could it be but the one on the Imperial Carriage?"

"Qin Wushang?! The Supreme Double Pupils? Holy crap, what kind of divine development is this? First in the grand competition, the Chu Yuehua's Disciple, and now even Fairy Bingyun..."

"Waaa, I don't believe it! How could my Bingyun like someone else! Qin Wushang, you and I cannot coexist under the same sky!"

The sounds of discussion surged like a tide, and countless gazes moved back and forth between Mu Bingyun and Qin Wushang on the Imperial Carriage.

High in the sky, atop the Imperial Carriage.

The Chu Yuehua's originally indifferent and cold, beautiful face was covered with a layer of frost at a speed visible to the naked eye upon hearing Qin Wudi's words.

She slowly turned her head, her Phoenix eyes, which seemed to contain moonlight and ice spirits, staring unblinkingly at Qin Wushang beside her, her gaze sharp as a knife.

A woman's intuition, especially regarding someone she cares about, is sometimes terrifyingly accurate.

She was almost instantly certain that the wild boar who had uprooted the Heaven Mending Sect's ice cabbage was her own audacious Rebellious Disciple!

"Ahem..."

Qin Wushang's scalp felt numb under that bone-chilling gaze, and he coughed twice, trying to ease the awkwardness.

"Revered Master... why are you looking at your Disciple like that? Is there... something on my face?"

"Is it you?"

The Chu Yuehua's red lips parted slightly as she uttered three words.

"It couldn't be..."

Qin Wushang forced himself to remain calm, trying to bluff his way through.

"Although your Disciple is indeed as handsome as a jade tree, suave, dashing, and exceptionally talented—practically the Dream of Nine Hundred Million Girls..."

"But that person is Mu Bingyun, known as the ice block! How could she possibly feel anything for your Disciple..."

His voice grew quieter and quieter because the Chu Yuehua's gaze was becoming more and more dangerous, and... he himself was inexplicably feeling a bit guilty.

The madness in the cave uncontrollably flashed in his mind... those cold yet fiery lips... "Hmph."

The Chu Yuehua let out a cold snort from her nose.

The Butian Sect Master did not immediately respond to Qin Wudi but instead turned her gaze toward Mu Bingyun, whom she treated as her own.

She looked at Mu Bingyun's still calm and emotionless face, a hint of complexity flashing in her beautiful eyes.

She knew this Disciple too well!

Her nature was cold, and her heart was cold!

This was even more so after she Cultivated the Legacy Cultivation Technique; she didn't even smile for her.

"Bingyun."

"Is what Wudi said true? Have you... truly fallen for an outsider?"

A subtle anger also rose in the depths of her heart!

The little white cabbage she had raised for so many years had been uprooted by a pig right under her nose, and she hadn't noticed at all?

Who was this pig? She would definitely drag that fellow out and snap his head off herself!

Under the focus of countless gazes, Mu Bingyun slowly raised her head to meet her Revered Master's gaze.

Her expression didn't change at all, remaining calm.

"To answer Revered Master, it is true."

Her words clearly reached everyone's ears.

"In my heart, there is indeed someone I belong to, and that is Qin Wushang."

She paused, a faint light seemingly shimmering in her ice-blue eyes, her tone still calm.

"I fell in love with him at first sight, and my devotion will not waver in this life. I... have no regrets."

"Boom!"

If there had been an uproar before, then at this moment, the entire Border Wasteland seemed to have been hit by a heavy bomb, completely exploding!

"She admitted it! She really admitted it!"

"Qin Wushang! It's really Qin Wushang!"

"Waaa... my Fairy Bingyun! Why couldn't you see reason!"

"Dad! Mom! I've been dumped! Let your concubines come and comfort me!"

"Get lost! I need comforting myself! There's no turn for you, you rebellious son!"

"But... this kid Qin Wushang is indeed a Prodigy. Being with Fairy Bingyun isn't exactly a disgrace..."

"The Heaven Mending Sect's rules are strict; there's going to be a good show now! Let's see how the Butian Sect Master handles this!"

Everyone thought that in the face of her Revered Master's questioning and the authority of the Sect Rules, Mu Bingyun would at least explain herself, remain silent, or perhaps even deny it under pressure.

But no one expected her to just admit it so directly.