Chapter 850 - 849: Gu Yuexi Held On? The Second Generation’s Worldview Collapsed!

Following Yang Qingyang’s barrage of fallacious reasoning, the group exchanged glances. Suddenly, they felt that since second-generation heirs had possessed everything from birth and lacked true aspirations, it wasn’t particularly rare for them to do bizarre things as adults. They themselves were second-generation heirs and had seen plenty of similar occurrences in their own circles. This made the notion of Gu Yuexi wanting to commit suicide seem... like it actually made a bit of sense?!!

Anyway, she was going to die. It didn’t matter if it was suicide or something else, as long as she wound up dead. The group’s brows slowly relaxed as they gradually accepted the absurd speculation that Gu Yuexi had lost the will to live.

Only Feng Shiyu kept her brows tightly furrowed in silence. She felt that something was off. Noticing her expression, Li Zi’an asked in confusion, "Shiyu, what’s on your mind? Do you see a flaw in this?"

Feng Shiyu adjusted her glasses, glanced up at the group, and spoke in a calm tone. "I’m just thinking... if Gu Yuexi wanted to commit suicide, why didn’t she just die at the hands of the Eight Great Clans back in Luoping City?"

As soon as she said this, the command room fell dead silent. Everyone was stunned!

She was right! Why hadn’t they thought of that? Gu Yuexi had gone all the way to Luoping City. If she truly wanted to end her life, there was absolutely no need for her to resist so desperately when fighting the Eight Great Clans. Whether it was the Quasi True God Realm clan Elders, the Integration Realm Peak Ye Guxuan, Chu Nianci, and Jiang Xinglan, or even the Void Refinement Realm Jiang Qingyao—every single one of them was at a higher realm than Gu Yuexi.

If she had already resolved to die, she could have just put up a token fight and perished at the hands of the Eight Great Clans. At the very least, her corpse would have remained intact. Given their wariness of her background, the Eight Great Clans would have definitely given her a grand funeral.

Yet, she went out of her way to come to the Sea Monster Battlefield to seek death. By dying at the hands of the Sea Demons, she wouldn’t even leave behind an intact corpse. Worse yet, she might be devoured whole! Why go through the trouble? What was the point?

With just a single sentence, Feng Shiyu completely dismantled all of Yang Qingyang’s previous reasoning.

However, the core question remained unanswered. Why did Gu Yuexi stay behind alone on the Southwest Front’s Sea Monster Battlefield? Since she didn’t want to commit suicide, she could have simply retreated alongside the City Guard Army. That would have been safe and secure. Was there some special reason for her to stay?

Could it really be... that she had seen through Feng Shiyu’s scheme?

But even if she had seen through the plot, wouldn’t staying behind to face the Sea Demon Army just mean dying faster?!! That made absolutely no sense either!

If even Feng Shiyu couldn’t figure out the answer, it went without saying that the rest of them were clueless. The group stared at one another in dismay, entirely unsure of how to process this.

Gu Yuexi’s behavior was completely unpredictable; she didn’t play by the rules at all. This caused their meticulously prepared assassination plan to fall through completely. However, despite the plan’s failure, it also felt like a success. After all, their ultimate goal in doing all of this was to kill Gu Yuexi. And by remaining alone on the Southwest Front to face the tidal wave of the Sea Demon Army, her death was absolutely guaranteed. It was as if they had gone in a massive circle, only to arrive at the exact same result.

Li Zi’an rubbed his throbbing temples and waved a hand, too tired to dwell on it any longer. "Forget it, let’s just leave it at that. Gu Yuexi is about to die at the hands of the Sea Demons, so we can consider our objective achieved. It doesn’t matter if it’s suicide or some other reason, as long as she ends up dead. We should focus on deploying our next battle plan. We can’t let the Sea Demons push too aggressively; it’ll be a massive headache if the third defensive line collapses too quickly."

Before Li Zi’an could finish his sentence, the Li Family servant who had left not long ago came sprinting back. His footsteps were even more frantic than before, and his face was deathly pale.

"Young Master! Disaster has struck!!"

The servant was in a state of absolute panic once again, acting as if the sky were falling.

Li Zi’an couldn’t even be bothered to scold him this time. He waved his hand irritably and asked in a low voice, "What is it now? Did Gu Yuexi finally die?"

The others also turned to look at the servant, their faces devoid of any surprise. They all assumed that the Li Family servant was simply here to report Gu Yuexi’s death. After all, how many minutes could a cultivator at the Divinity Transformation Realm First Layer possibly last against the entire Sea Demon Army? The horde wouldn’t even need to go out of its way to kill her. A single unified charge would be enough to crush her beneath the crashing waves.

Only Feng Shiyu’s brows furrowed even tighter than before. The profound sense of unease in her heart was only growing stronger. She slowly parted her lips, her voice somewhat low. "He shouldn’t be here to report Gu Yuexi’s death. Otherwise, there would be no reason for him to be in such a panic."

Upon hearing this, the rest of the group froze. It wasn’t news of Gu Yuexi’s death? Then what on earth could it be?

Filled with sudden anxiety, Zheng Chenguang stepped forward, grabbed the Li Family servant by the collar, and hoisted him into the air. "Spit it out!" he roared. "What exactly happened?! If you don’t make yourself clear right now, I’ll slaughter you!"

But the servant’s face had turned beet red from the chokehold. Unable to even catch his breath, there was no way he could speak. He could only kick his legs wildly while letting out muffled groans.

Noticing the servant’s plight, Li Zi’an immediately scolded Zheng Chenguang. "Let him go and let him speak properly. Squeeze any harder and you’ll strangle him to death!"

Not daring to disobey Li Zi’an, Zheng Chenguang gave a cold harrumph and resentfully loosened his grip.

Upon hitting the floor, the servant grabbed his knees and took several massive, greedy gulps of air before finally finding his voice. He lifted his head to look at everyone present, his tone laced with poorly concealed horror.

"Gu Yuexi... she... She defended the Southwest Front all by herself!!!"

"What?!!!"

BOOM!

It was as if a deafening clap of thunder had just exploded inside the command room.

Everyone shot up from their chairs, their eyes wide as they stared fixedly at the Li Family servant. Only a single emotion remained on their faces.

Absolute disbelief!!!

Even the perpetually unflappable Feng Shiyu subconsciously whipped off her glasses and bolted upright in her seat. Her eyes were large and stunningly beautiful. They were usually obscured behind her lenses, so very few people ever got a clear look at them. However, no one was in the mood to appreciate that right now.

Everyone present knew that as the tactician of their group, Feng Shiyu was notoriously meticulous and never lost her composure during a crisis. Those eyes of hers had never once betrayed such profound shock!!!

In this moment, her stoic facade had completely shattered!

"How is that even possible?!!" Zheng Chenguang cried out, his voice cracking in hysteria. "How could a cultivator at the Divinity Transformation Realm First Layer possibly hold off an entire Sea Demon Army? She’s not in the Celestial God Realm!!!"

"Could it be... the faction backing her intervened?" Having quickly reigned in her emotions, Feng Shiyu offered up the most logical explanation she could think of.

However, the Li Family servant immediately shook his head in denial. "Miss Feng, Gu Yuexi was completely alone. From start to finish, not a single other cultivator appeared to assist her. Even her Mosquito Beast Pet and her Frost Bone Dragon mount were nowhere to be seen. She alone held off the assault of the Sea Demon Army." The servant made sure to heavily emphasize his final sentence.

It was obvious that even he couldn’t believe his own words.

A young female cultivator who had only just entered the Divinity Transformation Realm had somehow managed to hold back a Sea Demon Army that the entire City Guard Army couldn’t fend off? And she had managed to forcibly hold the defensive line against their ferocious onslaught?

That was just utter bullshit!!!

In that moment, the entire worldview of everyone in the room...

Was completely and utterly shattered!!!