Chapter 1716 - 871: Working with Such People

Chapter 1716: Chapter 871: Working with Such People

That feeling of one’s thoughts being pulled by invisible threads became incredibly clear at this moment! He suddenly looked up, a mix of shock and anger bursting forth from his eyes.

"Is it Qidiao Yaoyao?! Did she use a Gu?!"

"Hmph, your reaction isn’t too slow."

Gu Sheng’s tone remained calm, yet carried a barely perceptible warning.

"It’s just some ’Heart-drawing Gu’ that subtly and gradually amplify your inner hesitation and compromise tendencies. Invisible and formless, hard to detect, but not exactly a deadly move. If not for your mind being swayed by external pressures, this Gu worm of hers might not have influenced you so easily."

Upon hearing this, Situ Qingfeng’s face turned blue and then white, filled with both fear and a sense of being ridiculed.

He recalled Qidiao Yaoyao’s seemingly clear yet unfathomable golden eyes, feeling a chill shoot up from his spine. He had fallen for it without realizing, nearly affecting Gu Sheng’s judgment!

With lingering fear, he looked at Gu Sheng and couldn’t help but ask.

"Gu, have you... have you also..."

Before finishing the sentence, he chickened out, not daring to ask the last three words "been affected".

In front of him, Gu Sheng exuded an aura as calm as a mountain, his gaze clear and sharp, showing no signs of being influenced by any Gu worm.

Gu Sheng merely glanced at him lightly, his eyes calm and unruffled, instantly silencing Situ Qingfeng, swallowing all doubts back down.

"Gu, then what should we do next?"

Situ Qingfeng suppressed the surging Qi-blood, his tone becoming respectful, even a bit reliant.

"Should we... still consider cooperating with the Five Poison Divine Sect?"

After what just happened, he didn’t dare to easily trust any deal proposed by Qidiao Yaoyao anymore.

Gu Sheng’s gaze turned towards the dark exit of the main hall, as if penetrating through stone walls to see everything happening outside.

He pondered for a moment before saying.

"Whether to cooperate, let’s wait and see.

This Qidiao Yaoyao may not be as simple as she appears."

He paused, exuding a calm confidence as if everything was within his grasp.

"Moreover, do you really think I, Gu Sheng, would entrust my life and death entirely to the assistance of others?"

Situ Qingfeng was taken aback.

"Gu, do you mean to say?"

"Before entering this Secret Realm, I had already set up the plan of the Golden Cicada Shell."

Gu Sheng’s lips curled into an almost imperceptible arc.

"On the Heavenly Fire Divine Sect and Longevity Divine Sect’s sides, the speech that I, Gu Sheng, am already dead, should have been ’substantiated’ by now.

Unless the Longevity Ancestor spares no expense to personally use a Secret Technique to investigate Cause and Effect, just relying on those arrays and spies outside, they would find it near impossible to discover my true self."

Situ Qingfeng listened in stunned silence, finally understanding why Gu Sheng remained so composed and confident when facing Qidiao Yaoyao’s proposal for a "path to life". He had already laid down a trap, counting everyone in!

...

Moments later, Gu Sheng, along with Situ Qingfeng, whose expression had returned to normal, walked out of the Fate Hall that had been silent for eternity, one after another.

In the passage outside the hall, the faint cold and silent air left by the Life-controlling Yin Disc that had devoured countless shadows still lingered.

Some scattered Martial Artists, who had arrived later and began exploring near the main hall, witnessed the two of them walking out from the core of the hall unharmed, their faces showing mixed emotions of envy, awe, and curiosity.

To retreat unscathed from such a dangerous place, and seemingly having gained significantly, was enough to draw attention from anyone.

The two paid no heed to those looks, heading straight towards the more outer area of the Secret Realm.

Not far along, they saw Qidiao Yaoyao leaning against a broken bronze pillar, her scarred yet stunning face devoid of emotion, with only her golden eyes fixated on Gu Sheng as soon as he appeared.

As Gu Sheng approached, a faint but clear voice transmission pierced into his ear like a thread, carrying a hint of inquiry and impatience.

"Young Master Gu, bringing me out here specially, what drama do you wish for Yaoyao to witness?"

Without halting his steps or turning his head to look at her, Gu Sheng simply raised his hand, pointing his forefinger seemingly casually towards the air.

Following the direction Gu Sheng pointed to, Qidiao Yaoyao saw.

Under the grayish sky of the Secret Realm, some miles away from the main hall area, three distinct yet equally powerful presences were confronting each other from a distance. The tense atmosphere of imminent conflict was palpable even from afar.

These were the remaining main forces led by Nangong Yuexia of the Purple Mist Divine Sect, along with the majority of personnel from the Heavenly Fire Divine Sect and Longevity Divine Sect! These three forces, supposed to be the main players exploring the core area of the Secret Realm, had gathered here for no apparent treasure hunt, indicating some major upheaval!

The golden eyes of Qidiao Yaoyao flashed with a hint of realization, then she squinted slightly, sensing something was amiss.

Her mind raced, her gaze as sharp as the keenest predator’s, swiftly scanning the low-level disciples of the three sects gathered below. Quickly, her sight locked onto a young disciple, wearing the clothing of the Longevity Divine Sect, with cultivation at the Peak of the Heavenly Martial Realm.

Unbeknownst to anyone, her fingers moving slightly beneath her sleeve, released a wisp of colorless, tasteless, almost imperceptible dust without even an energy fluctuation, merging silently into the air, as if carried by an invisible breeze, floating precisely towards the nose and mouth of that disciple.

The disciple, fully engrossed in watching the confrontation of the Venerable level figures in the air above, was completely unaware. Upon inhaling the dust, his body stiffened almost imperceptibly, his eyes becoming hollow and vacant, as if he had lost all self-awareness, turning into a puppet.