"Little Brother Qingfeng, then watch closely."
Ouyang Feiyue was already beautiful as a flower, and after drinking, her gorgeous face became even more bewitchingly charming. Her soul-stirring eyes gazed at Gu Qingfeng as if smiling. Holding a cup of fine wine, she slowly stood up, her light gauze dress draping down naturally. Without any visible movement, a riot of colorful radiance suddenly flashed around her.
That colorful radiance seemed to condense and manifest from beneath her feet. Swish!
Another one appeared, followed closely by a third...
Three streams of colorful radiance emerged one after another, blooming like brilliant, colorful roses in an instant.
Gu Qingfeng sat there slightly leaning to one side, legs crossed, his brows faintly furrowed. When he had fought Mu Zibai and Li Zheng before, he hadn't observed carefully. Now, watching Ouyang Feiyue manifest her so-called Three-Colors Guardianship, he found it somewhat interesting.
Indeed, this so-called Color Spirit Guardianship truly contained the profound mysteries of the Great Natural Order.
One Great Natural Order guardian formed the Primordial Unity.
Two Great Natural Order guardians gave birth to the Two Polarities.
Three Great Natural Order guardians derived the Three Powers...
No wonder Huode said that nowadays, it's all about competing with the Great Natural Order Color Spirits. With this kind of thing guarding you, ordinary people really couldn't shake you.
This was just the Three Powers derived from three Great Natural Order guardians. If there were four, would that be the Four Symbols?
If five, would it be the profound mysteries of the Five Elements?
After the end of the Ancient Era, all things revived, and various thrones, legacies, and True Destinies condensed and manifested—that was the Heavens running the game.
Now that the Primordial Era had ended and all things revived, Color Spirits had condensed and manifested. It seemed this time, Mother Nature was running the game.
Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs.
Humans fight among themselves.
And among the Heavens and Earth, gods also fight among themselves.
"Little Brother Qingfeng, come on, big sister will give you three moves."
Ouyang Feiyue tilted her head back and drained the wine in her cup in one gulp, her eyes smiling as she even crooked a finger at Gu Qingfeng.
"Alright, enough. Put it away."
Gu Qingfeng gave a faint smile, waving his hand to signal her to withdraw it.
"Little Brother Qingfeng, what do you mean?"
"It's getting late. I should be going. We'll talk another day."
With that, Gu Qingfeng turned to leave.
His departure made Ouyang Feiyue freeze momentarily. She had finally coaxed and tricked this fellow here, wanting to test his true strength and probe his identity further. How could she let him just leave like this? In an instant, she flashed over to block Gu Qingfeng's path.
"Little Brother Qingfeng, how can you just say you're leaving and leave?"
As she spoke, a strange flash of crimson suddenly appeared in Ouyang Feiyue's soul-stirring eyes.
"Big sister, why are you casting a bewitchment spell on me for no reason?"
Gu Qingfeng narrowed his eyes, a playful smile curling at the corner of his mouth. "What's the matter? See how handsome I am and have some improper thoughts?"
"You..." Discovering that her bewitchment spell not only had no effect but was also seen through by the other party at a glance, Ouyang Feiyue's heart couldn't help but be greatly shocked. This Great Spirit Bewitchment Art was her most proud skill, unfailing for many years, with few able to resist it. Even an old fox like Huode who had cultivated for seven or eight hundred years couldn't withstand it. How could it have no effect at all on this guy before her?
"You what?"
Gu Qingfeng's question left Ouyang Feiyue momentarily unsure how to respond. It wasn't that she was embarrassed and didn't know how to reply, but she...
She suddenly felt her mind reacting sluggishly. For some reason, this fellow's smile was very strange, very strange...
It made her whole body go weak, made her mind go blank...
And then...
And then there was no 'and then'...
"A young girl not learning properly, cultivating bewitchment spells, and still wanting to bewitch me..." Gu Qingfeng shook his head with a smile. Just as he was about to leave, he turned back to look and asked, "Little sister, let me ask you, what did you want to know by bewitching me?"
"I...
wanted to know who you are..." At this moment, Ouyang Feiyue stood there numbly, her beautiful face expressionless, her eyes empty and vacant.
"What's it to you who I am?"
"The old master sought me out...
He said he had already found a suitable candidate to compete for the Heir Apparent position, and told me...
to help when the time comes...
I know the person the old master spoke of is you...
I investigated you but couldn't find anything at all. You seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Later, I bribed a few laborers from the Spirit Seclusion Garden and learned some of the content of your conversations with the old master. I deduced...
I deduced you might be a reincarnated person, but...
but later I felt you weren't."
"Why?"
Gu Qingfeng listened with keen interest.
"I've seen reincarnated people before, and I know that if they are reincarnated people who have already awakened, they all carry a special spiritual aura...
But you don't have it..." "You know quite a lot..." For reincarnated people, if they haven't awakened, no one can tell.
Once awakened, the soul 'comes alive' and possesses a special aura. This special aura is a kind of 'turbid' aura, contaminated when the soul passes through the reincarnation channel. All reincarnated people have this turbid aura; no one can avoid it.
"And then?"
"And then?
And then...
I became very curious to know just what kind of person you are."
"Then keep wondering..." After Gu Qingfeng turned and left, Ouyang Feiyue had already collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
...
The next day.
Yunxia Sect, Fengyun Platform.
Li Wang stood coldly and arrogantly on the high platform, eyes closed, his expression filled with deep anger.
Many disciples had also gathered around. Everyone knew that Li Wang had issued a challenge letter to Gu Qingfeng yesterday. Early this morning, they had come to watch the spectacle, all wanting to see just how formidable Gu Qingfeng's physical body was and whether he could withstand Li Wang, a Nine Halls Direct Disciple of Yunxia Sect.
Unfortunately, from morning until noon, and from noon until afternoon, as the sun was about to set behind the mountains, Gu Qingfeng still hadn't appeared. Over the past few hours, many disciples had repeatedly run to the Rear-Mountain Spirit Seclusion Garden, but still found no trace of Gu Qingfeng. The two brothers Li Can and Li Sen even led people to shout provocations at the entrance of the Spirit Seclusion Garden, yet Gu Qingfeng still didn't appear.
Some said that guy surnamed Gu must be afraid and hiding.
Yes.
Afraid.
He must be.
No matter how formidable that surnamed Gu's physical body was, in the end, he was just a mutated constitution resulting from Foundation Establishment failure. Beating Mu Zibai and Li Zheng, and even beating Li Ziheng, didn't mean he could beat Li Wang.
Li Wang had established a Colorful Foundation and erected a Color True Form. Not only did he possess Dual-Colors Guardianship from the Great Natural Order, but his spiritual power was also Dual-Colors power from the Great Natural Order. On top of that, he had cultivated the Yellow-Grade Great Wind-Thunder Sword Art to the One-Nine Realm.
Half a year ago, the might of a single sword strike from him could instantly cut three True Persons who had erected True Forms in half at the waist. Now, after half a year of secluded cultivation, who knew to what terrifying degree his strength had reached?
There were many spectators, not just inner and outer sect disciples, but also Mu Zibai, Li Qiandong, Huang Yao, Yun Hong, and Ye Hui among them. Besides them, many managing elders had also come, with True Person Feixue being one of them.
"Trash will always be trash. No matter how formidable the physical body, it's still trash. That surnamed Gu can only bully people like Mu Zibai. Faced with a true genius like Li Wang, he doesn't even have the courage to fight. With his delusions of becoming a Nine Halls Direct Disciple, he truly doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
"Exactly! That surnamed Gu is just a cowardly turtle hiding in its shell!" Tan Siru chimed in.
Standing beside the two was a handsome and extraordinary man—Zhong Tianying. He held a folding fan, looking elegant and poised. Gazing at Li Wang on the high platform, he seemed somewhat disappointed. "I heard Gu Qingfeng's physical body is extremely formidable, terrifying Mu Zibai into paralysis, crippling Li Ziheng... I originally thought there would be quite a spectacle to watch...
Who would have thought...
Heh..." "Tianying, it's still early. Come sit at my place."
"Oh?" Zhong Tianying pondered for a moment, then smiled. "Alright."
Watching the sun set and dusk descend, everyone knew Gu Qingfeng wouldn't come.
On the Fengyun Platform, Li Wang opened his eyes, his gaze filled with fury as he stared toward the rear mountain, shouting sharply, "Gu Qingfeng!
I said if you didn't come today, I would absolutely not let you leave Yunxia Sect alive! Absolutely not!
Don't think just because Elder Huode protects you, I don't dare do anything to you! Let me tell you!
It's useless!
"Hide in the Spirit Seclusion Garden all you want. It's best if you never come out for the rest of your life! Otherwise, every time I see you in Yunxia Sect, I'll beat you once! As soon as you leave Yunxia Sect, I'll definitely make you regret coming to this world!
"I know you're challenging the Trial Array the day after tomorrow! Hmph!
You just wait!"
Li Wang summoned his giant sword and swung it fiercely. Swish!
A whirlwind nearly twenty to thirty meters long condensed and manifested. The whirlwind was ferocious and mighty, with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling inside, like a thunderstorm. The thunder roared, lightning crackled, and it shot straight into the sky like a wind-thunder dragon, shaking people's eardrums painfully and filling spectators' hearts with fear.
This was the Yellow-Grade Great Wind-Thunder Sword Art!
With this single sword strike, Li Wang unleashed a full twelve profound mysteries of Great Wind-Thunder.
It was truly terrifying!
Too horrifying. The might of this single sword caused the expressions of many managing elders present to change drastically with shock.