“What?”
Li Qing thought he had heard her wrong.
[Is there something seriously wrong with Luo Qiongyan?]
[Instead of figuring out how to save your true body, why are you acting crazy here?]
Li Qing could not help rolling his eyes.
‘He knows about that too.’
‘How does this man know that my true body is in danger?’
A sharp gleam flashed through Luo Qiongyan’s eyes.
‘Could he possess the ability to divine the secrets of heaven?’
‘Ever since the path to immortality was severed, no one in this world has been capable of divining the secrets of heaven. I absolutely cannot let this young man escape.’
Luo Qiongyan stared at Li Qing with burning intensity.
[What’s going on? Why is Luo Qiongyan looking at me like she wants to devour me alive?]
‘Senior Brother, please stop spouting nonsense in your head.’
Hearing his inner thoughts, Mu Qiuxue could not help rolling her eyes at him.
“I said I want to marry you. Did you hear me clearly this time?” Luo Qiongyan asked with a captivating smile.
To everyone else, this scene was simply inconceivable.
Luo Qiongyan was a King Realm expert from the Incense Burning Immortal Valley. She had severed all romantic attachments throughout her life, and no one had ever heard of her treating any man favorably.
What was happening today was simply too bizarre.
It completely overturned everything they knew about her.
“Why?”
“Why are all the beautiful women surrounding him?”
The sight made Gu Beichen burn with rage.
“Li Qing, I will kill you!”
Gu Beichen stared coldly at Li Qing.
‘What a perfect opportunity.’
Qian Yichi’s eyes flashed. His figure instantly transformed into an afterimage as he rushed toward the bronze hall.
Buzz!
Suddenly, an overwhelmingly terrifying Dao resonance erupted throughout the void.
“Not good!”
“Someone entered the bronze hall!”
Li Qing’s expression changed drastically. Grabbing Mu Qiuxue, he immediately took a single step forward.
Divine Movement Technique: Shrinking the Earth into an Inch.
With a single step, he crossed 3,000 meters.
“That’s… the long-lost divine movement technique, Shrinking the Earth into an Inch.” Luo Qiongyan’s pupils contracted slightly.
“Fellow Daoist Li, wait for me!”
“Interesting. You can divine the secrets of heaven, and you even possess a long-lost divine movement technique. I’m becoming more and more curious about you.” Luo Qiongyan smiled radiantly, looking breathtakingly beautiful.
Her graceful body merely swayed before she disappeared from where she stood.
“Eight Desolations… Annihilation…”
A dreamlike voice suddenly echoed between heaven and earth. It seemed to have crossed the endless river of time itself, reverberating throughout the ages.
Li Qing looked back and saw an enormous black hole appear with the bronze hall at its center. It devoured the surrounding void without restraint.
[Damn! As expected of an immortal. An attack unleashed by nothing more than a remnant consciousness already possesses such terrifying power.]
[The only person in this world who could survive an attack like this is a cheating Child of Destiny.]
‘So this is the power of an immortal?’
Luo Qiongyan stared in astonishment.
‘An attack from nothing more than a remnant consciousness can already destroy heaven and earth.’
The black hole resembled a black sun, continuously expanding outward. Only after reaching a certain limit did it gradually disappear.
“That was terrifying. If Senior Brother hadn’t been here, there probably wouldn’t even be a trace of my corpse left.” Mu Qiuxue stared at the apocalyptic destruction with lingering fear in her eyes.
‘Just what kind of person is Fellow Daoist Li? Why does he know so much?’
‘And where does this strange sense of familiarity I feel toward him come from?’
At this moment, Saintess Yinyue’s heart was filled entirely with curiosity.
“Senior Brother, there shouldn’t be anyone left near the bronze hall now. I want to go back and search for opportunities. Will you come with me?” Mu Qiuxue looked at Li Qing with beautiful eyes as bright as stars.
[No one left? How could that be possible?]
[I don’t know about the others, but Gu Beichen is definitely still alive.]
[That bastard is a Child of Destiny. Anyone could die, but there’s no way he would.]
‘Child of Destiny?’
Luo Qiongyan’s expression shifted slightly.
‘So what if he is a Child of Destiny?’
Over the past several centuries, she had seen countless prodigies whose fortune surged like dragons, yet not a single one of them had ultimately ascended to the Great Emperor Realm.
Clearly, Luo Qiongyan regarded Gu Beichen as nothing more than an ordinary prodigy blessed with great fortune.
‘I’ll reconsider him if he actually manages to reach the Great Emperor Realm.’
Luo Qiongyan did not take him seriously.
[Still, that immortal corpse is connected by fate to that bastard, and I’ve already made an enemy of him. If I can ruin this opportunity for him, that should be pretty interesting.]
[So what if he’s a Child of Destiny? I have a system. I don’t need to get on his good side to become an immortal.]
[Screw it. Let’s make life difficult for this Child of Destiny.]
‘The immortal corpse is actually connected by fate to this Child of Destiny?’
Luo Qiongyan was inwardly startled.
Her true body was already a Great Emperor Realm expert. In the past, her fortune had also soared into the heavens. However, after spending so long as a Great Emperor without being able to become an immortal, her fortune had gradually begun to decline. Eventually, she became trapped within a deadly forbidden land.
Left with no other choice, her true body had used a supreme divine ability. At the cost of severe injuries, she sent a fragment of her soul into the mortal world, hoping this incarnation could obtain a portion of the world’s fortune and transfer it back to strengthen her true body.
However, human calculations could never surpass the will of heaven. The fortune obtained by her incarnation was pitifully small. It was only enough to keep her true body barely alive, but nowhere near enough to help her escape.
‘This man’s fortune is actually great enough for him to share a connection with an immortal corpse.’
‘That probably places him far beyond ordinary prodigies blessed by fortune.’
‘But so what? If he cannot become a Great Emperor, everything will ultimately amount to nothing.’
Countless thoughts raced through Luo Qiongyan’s mind.
“I’ll go take a look as well,” Saintess Yinyue added.
The three immediately moved toward the bronze hall.
Seeing this, Luo Qiongyan quietly followed behind them.
Not long afterward, the four arrived near the bronze hall.
The bronze hall still towered majestically within the void. Despite the terrifying attack from earlier, it had not suffered even the slightest damage.
[Tsk, tsk. If the brain-dead author hadn’t messed up the early settings, this bronze hall would never have appeared so soon.]
“Haha! The greatest opportunity within the Ruins of Oblivion is finally mine!”
Wild laughter echoed from inside the bronze hall.
A battered and disheveled figure stood within, staring greedily at the female corpse floating inside.
It was none other than Gu Beichen.
[That bastard really didn’t die.]
“Fellow Daoist Gu, aren’t you celebrating a little too soon?” Li Qing swept his sleeve and pulled Mu Qiuxue into the bronze hall with him.
Wisps of violet energy flowed throughout the bronze hall, filling it with an extraordinary and mystical aura.
“This violet energy…”
The moment Saintess Yinyue entered, she suddenly walked toward a corner, sat cross-legged, and began absorbing the violet energy.
[Not bad. This violet energy is precisely the treasure you need to awaken your Scarlet Yang Mystic Immortal Physique.]
[As expected of one of the female leads. Your opportunities really are extraordinary.]
[Luo Qiongyan, on the other hand, should already be dead by this point according to the original plot.]
[Although she knew that the female corpse inside the hall still possessed a remnant consciousness, she didn’t know it was an immortal corpse. She managed to trick Qian Yichi into entering first, but because she didn’t leave afterward, she died as well.]
‘What?’
‘I died?’
‘How is that possible? I’m clearly still alive…’
Luo Qiongyan suddenly froze.
‘No. I survived because of him. Everything revealed by this young man’s inner thoughts has come true one after another.’
‘The secrets of heaven…’
‘Perhaps the path to survival for my true body lies with him.’
Luo Qiongyan’s beautiful eyes instantly became as bright as stars.
“How is this possible? Li Qing, you’re still alive?” Gu Beichen stared at the four of them in astonishment.
If he had not possessed a powerful life-saving treasure, there was absolutely no way he could have survived such a terrifying attack.
“Surprised? Didn’t expect that, did you?”
[According to the original plot, only Gu Beichen and Saintess Yinyue survived in this place.]
[They’re the male and female leads, after all. Everyone knows how that works.]
[As for Mu Qiuxue, she never even made it here.]
‘Li Qing, is it? Since the survival of my true body may depend on you, then you should obediently become my husband.’
A faint smile appeared in Luo Qiongyan’s eyes, making her beauty captivating enough to steal one’s soul.