After explaining some things, Gu Qing left the cave dwelling after hugging and pinching Xian'er for quite a while.
"Hehe."
Xian'er, now in a different embrace, wriggled even more happily. She liked Zhi Meng's aura and her fragrant, soft embrace.
Xian'er giggled "hehe" and caught a strand of blue hair with her little chubby hands.
Zhi Meng withdrew her gaze and looked at the giggling Xian'er, couldn't help but show a smile on her lips. She touched her round little head and pinched her chubby cheeks.
"Xian'er is a good girl. Wait for your mother to seize the Star Dao Lineage, then I'll raise you to grow up."
After speaking, she placed Xian'er in the immortal flower warm bed.
Zhi Meng thought for a moment. When she thought about having to go and deal with Jiang Yu hypocritically next, and having to work with her for a long time to scheme for the Star Dao Lineage, Zhi Meng's face showed discomfort.
Thinking of Gu Qing's attitude toward Jiang Yu made her even more uncomfortable.
Gu Qing absolutely refused to be her accomplice, surely not because he was unmoved by Jiang Yu's beauty.
This rebellious disciple dared to tease even her, so he definitely had lecherous thoughts, and quite big ones at that.
Zhi Meng felt that Gu Qing probably couldn't bear to ruin Jiang Yu's dao heart. After all, Jiang Yu had taught Gu Qing for many years, not just as master and disciple but even more than that.
"But since this disciple doesn't stop me, it must be that I'm ten thousand times more important to him than Jiang Yu. Once I take down Jiang Yu, perhaps this disciple will reluctantly go along with it." Zhi Meng thought to herself.
On the other side, Gu Qing strolled leisurely through the void, stepping onto a flying boat.
Many prodigies looked at him curiously, seeing Gu Qing's incomparably handsome face, the profound dao rhyme exuding from his body, like a deity, his every move displaying an invincible aura.
Everyone couldn't help but show expressions of admiration, then shook their heads regretfully.
Such a heaven's favorite, unfortunately, heaven was jealous of his talent, and he was about to fall.
They had countless connections with the Star Dao Sect and naturally knew about the struggle for Dao Lineage between the lower realm and the Star Dao Sect.
It could be said that Gu Qing entering the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm was simply seeking his own death.
Only by staying beside the strongest Profound God, You Kui, might there be a slim chance of survival.
However, looking at Gu Qing's relaxed and calm appearance, it was as if he was fearless of the Star Dao Sect's targeting.
Could he have countermeasures?
Should they go and try to establish a relationship with him?
After all, Gu Qing was a heaven's favorite with the bearing of an Immortal Emperor.
If Gu Qing could survive this calamity, he would surely soar to great heights.
"Junior Brother Gu, would you like to travel with me?"
Many holy maidens as beautiful as celestial fairies, their faces like peach blossoms, looked at Gu Qing and extended invitations.
Their beautiful eyes were both excited and expectant.
"Thank you, but I have other matters. We'll meet again if fate allows." Gu Qing smiled at the crowd of heaven's favorite daughters.
Each of these heaven's favorite daughters was as beautiful as a celestial being, with graceful appearances and elegant figures.
Their auras were powerful, with mysterious dao rhyme flowing around them, their transcendent temperament like true immortals.
Such heaven's favorite daughters were surely goddesses who shook the world, possessing countless fans.
Yet they were making invitations to him, their shy faces blushing.
Gu Qing couldn't help but sigh to himself, truly living up to the saying "where there are fragrant flowers, butterflies will come on their own."
He hadn't even done anything yet, and a female bodhisattva had already invited him. If not for his strong will and important matters, he probably would have already become a dewy junior brother.
"Hmph."
Someone snorted unhappily, looking at Gu Qing with jealousy and resentment in their eyes.
Clearly, they had been triggered.
The goddess he had shamelessly pursued wouldn't even give him a glance, yet she was showing favor to Gu Qing again and again, almost offering herself to him.
He couldn't help but be triggered.
The little bit of goodwill he had for Gu Qing instantly disappeared, leaving only resentment as he thought to himself: "It's good that Gu Qing is dead. People like him shouldn't exist in this world."
"He's just a dead man. Senior sister, you don't need to pay him any mind." A handsome youth said to his own senior sister with a sour tone.
"Hmm?"
The holy maiden with a peach blossom face looked coldly.
"Uh, I'm sorry, senior sister. It was my mistake." The young man's face changed, and he hurriedly lowered his head to apologize.
Star and Moon, as the holy maiden of the Star Dao Sect, was not only incomparably beautiful and transcendent but also a monstrous genius, an undefeated peerless prodigy.
Her temperament was cold and domineering, her methods ruthless and decisive. For those who dared to oppose her, she was always decisive in killing.
Even among fellow disciples, she showed no favoritism.
No one knew how many shameless pursuers she had killed off.
Even the terrifying Holy Son Yaoguang hadn't received a good look from Senior Sister Star and Moon.
Pu Jianfei had originally thought that Star and Moon was single-minded in her dao path, with no interest in men, so he had been quite pleased.
Others couldn't get the beautiful and powerful Star and Moon, and although he couldn't get her either, he could always stay by her side.
How was this different from a dao companion? It wasn't different at all.
However now, Star and Moon was actually showing affection for Gu Qing.
The more Pu Jianfei thought about it, the angrier he became, his mind going wild.
Gu Qing was someone they had to kill. How could Star and Moon fall for him?
"Manage yourself."
"You are not allowed to follow me from now on."
Star and Moon said coldly.
She most disliked people who stirred up trouble. Those who had no ability but didn't know how to work hard, using belittling others to gain inner satisfaction.
No matter what Gu Qing was like, he was the peerless prodigy of the Immortal Realm, destined to amaze an era. It wasn't up to a small Pu Jianfei to comment on him.
Before, she had thought Pu Jianfei was not bad and keeping him by her side could help her handle some matters she couldn't deal with herself.
But now, it seemed Pu Jianfei was no different from others.
"Senior sister." Pu Jianfei looked up, disbelief in his eyes as he looked at Star and Moon.
He had fought and risked his life for Star and Moon, thinking he was special in her heart, that she had feelings for him.
But now, she was driving him away over a single sentence.
How could Senior Sister be so ruthless to him?
"Get lost if you don't want to die."
Xing Yue didn't even spare him a glance, her gaze obsessively fixed on Gu Qing.
In her eyes, Pu Jianfei had always been nothing more than a subordinate she could command; if he was gone, she'd just find another.
But Gu Qing was different.
She had never seen such a handsome man, especially the invincible aura about him that deeply captivated her spirit.
Xing Yue thought: 'So handsome. Junior Brother Gu is even more handsome than Senior Brother Yaoguang. And Senior Brother Yaoguang's so-called detached, ethereal demeanor is as boring as an old man. Unlike Junior Brother Gu, he's spirited and full of vigor, radiating masculinity—exactly my type.'
The other favored daughters of heaven shared the same thoughts as the Holy Maiden of Xing Yue, their beautiful eyes both shy and boldly staring at Gu Qing.
After all, opportunities like this only came once—who knew when they'd get to see Gu Qing again?
Yaoguang, the Holy Son standing on the Starlight Pavilion, looked down at the flying boat with an indifferent expression, when suddenly his brow furrowed as he felt countless malicious intentions sweeping toward him.
He was puzzled.
He hadn't done anything.
Who could possibly harbor such ill will toward him?
"Junior Brother, come with me. It'll take three days to reach the flying boat. You should rest first."
Chu Yao approached with an alluring grace, her pretty face smiling like a blooming flower.
Gu Qing hummed in response. Three days would be just enough time for him to refine the Creation Blue Lotus Cauldron.
"Wait."
Pu Jianfei called out to Gu Qing, his eyes filled with hatred.
"Gu Qing, you're just an ordinary disciple. Why did you ignore us when you saw us? Do you look down on us?"
"Who are you?"
"You..."
Gu Qing's calm tone completely humiliated Pu Jianfei.
He was one of the top ten direct disciples, and he had been sharpening his blades, preparing to make a move against Gu Qing.
Yet Gu Qing didn't even recognize him?
"You've gone too far!" Pu Jianfei shouted angrily. "I am one of the top ten direct disciples. Shouldn't you have come over to pay your respects?"
Gu Qing had caused him to lose his Senior Sister—a grudge that could never be reconciled.
Even without his sect's orders, he would still have to kill Gu Qing.
"That's right."
"Gu Qing, just because you're a crude cultivator from the lower realms doesn't mean you can ignore the rules."
At that moment, two more people stepped forward.
They were Xie Dongchang and Zhu Shirong.
Both were top ten direct disciples, at the ninth level of the Divine God Realm, their auras terrifying. The star-like Dao rhythms they exuded, with their Dao laws reflecting like a starry universe, were overwhelming.
"If you want a fight to the death, I, Gu Qing, will gladly accompany you. No need for these pointless words."
Gu Qing couldn't be bothered to waste his breath. If these three dared to make a move, he wouldn't mind killing them ahead of schedule.
"Hmph."
The three of them sneered in amusement.
"Gu Qing, don't tell me you think that just because you killed Cheng Yang with a single punch, you're qualified to be on equal footing with us? How ridiculous."
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