Concubines Lead to Strength: The Path to Immortality Begins with Taking a Spouse

Chapter 118: Chapter 114: Presenting Her Head as a Credential, Can an Elixir Forge a Pristine Dao Foundation!?

“Husband, why have you returned so quickly?”

“Was the discussion not pleasant?”

Wang Yue felt uncomfortable under his gaze and quickly changed the subject.

“It’s hard to say.”

“I suspect the others will arrive soon.”

Gu Changge shook his head, he too was unclear about what kind of surprise Zhu Qin was preparing for him.

Fortunately, he didn’t have to wait for too long.

Gu Qianjun’s voice rang out from outside the side hall: “Young Master, I have brought the person.”

Since he hadn’t activated any barrier after returning, the voice could come through.

“See, here comes the person.”

“Wife might as well watch the show too,” Gu Changge said with a slight smile upon hearing the voice.

With a wave of his hand, he opened the doors of the side hall with spiritual energy.

Led by Gu Qianjun, Zhu Qin entered the side hall. Without looking around, she couldn’t help feeling in her heart that Young Master Gu’s status in the family far exceeded her initial guess.

Such a side hall existed in the Heavenly Cold Sect’s residence as well, but only Elders of the Heavenly Gate Realm Great Power level were qualified to live there.

When she saw Gu Changge sitting in front of a long stone table in the hall,

a woman who was no less beautiful than Liu Qingqing and whose demeanor was somewhat noble, was gently massaging his shoulders. @@novelbin@@

“Zhu Qin pays respects to Young Master Gu.”

Upon approaching, she bowed with considerably more respect this time.

“I hope the next words you speak will surprise me,” Gu Changge tapped his fingers lightly on the table, producing a rhythmic tapping sound.

“The situation has now been settled.”

“Junior Sister Liu is undoubtedly deserving of the Saintess position.”

“My visit this time is not for competing for the position of Saintess.”

Zhu Qin spoke with a light smile, her tone gentle.

“Oh?”

“Then what is it for?” Gu Changge was slightly surprised, not expecting Zhu Qin to say such things.

“I’m just looking for a way to survive.”

Zhu Qin looked him straight in the eye as she spoke very seriously, her tone showing a hint of helplessness.

Right now, how could she not see the situation clearly?

Only Yayun, that foolish pig, would delude herself into thinking she could trade her body for support from the Gu Family. Did she truly think Young Master Gu was like those senior brothers in the Sect?

“I have not cut off your path to survival.”

Gu Changge raised his eyebrows slightly.

“If Junior Sister Liu’s assassination is left unresolved, I believe Young Master Gu won’t easily let it go, right?”

“With the status of a Saintess candidate still in place, the Elder Council protects us both.”

“But once Junior Sister Liu successfully becomes the Saintess, the Sect Elders will also favor her. Regardless of whether we might face targeting within the Sect,”

“Once we lose this protective status, if the Gu Family wishes to… unless we never leave the Heavenly Cold Sect for the rest of our lives, the outcome, I fear…”

Zhu Qin gave a wry smile, truly not expecting that a foolish pig would attempt to assassinate Liu Qingqing. Otherwise, even if she failed in the competition, they could still make it as direct disciples in the Sect. While it might not be as good as the Saintess, it would be more than enough.

But now things were different.

Unless they could succeed and sit in the position of Saintess, enjoying the Sect’s dedicated cultivation and naturally its strongest protection,

once they failed and lost this layer of protection, would the Sect always dispatch Elders as guardians?

Not to mention, if a disciple mysteriously encountered misfortune during their training, who could blame the Gu Family?

“So, you mean to say the assassination has nothing to do with you.”

“It was all the doing of that other person?”

“Empty words, it’s quite hard for me to believe your one-sided story.”

Gu Changge’s fingers kept tapping on the stone table at a leisurely pace, the rhythmic sound increasing the pressure in her heart.

“Since you’ve come to seek Young Master Gu, naturally you wouldn’t come without some explanation.”

With these words, Zhu Qin seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

She took out a pearl from her storage pouch and handed it to Gu Changge.

“Senior Brother Wang also took precautions, fearing he would be discarded after the deed was done.”

“So during their conversation, he secretly recorded with an Image Keeping Pearl.”

“This Image Keeping Pearl was hidden in his own residence, which I found.”

“The truth will be evident to Young Master Gu once you see it.”

He took the Image Keeping Pearl into his hand casually. Such low-grade pearls were insufficient to display the image.

But one could use divine sense to view the recorded scenes within.

“Young Master, let me check it first.”

Seeing Gu Changge was about to use divine sense to inspect it, Gu Qianjun suddenly spoke up.

Some Image Keeping Pearls have methods within them that if inspected with divine sense uninformedly, can injure the divine sense.

Gu Changge nodded slightly, one must always be wary of others.

After a moment, Gu Qianjun had finished viewing the recorded scenes and sounds inside, confirming there were no special methods before returning the pearl to the Young Master.

As he extended his divine sense into it,

a scene unfolded before his eyes.

In the scene, the Image Keeping Pearl was hidden at the top of a pavilion, clearly showing the figures of two people.

One was a man whom Gu Changge hadn’t seen before, but it wasn’t hard to guess it was the person who attempted to assassinate his wife.

The other was Yayun, whom he had seen just before.

“Senior Brother Wang, as long as I become the Saintess, then I can ask the Sect Master to be wed as a Daoist Couple during the inheritance of the Saintess.”

“It’s just…”

“That Liu Qingqing has already married into the Gu Family, and her Husband has become Young Master Gu.”

“Once Young Master Gu arrives in Duanbei City and starts collecting inner cores for Liu Qingqing, I will lose any chance.”

“Senior Brother, it seems you pursued her before as well?”

“But how has she treated you? Probably never gave you a proper glance, right?”

“Yes, I also thought Liu Qingqing acted that way because of her nature, but then she turned around and married Young Master Gu. Could it be that she looks down on you for your Inner Sect Disciple status and doesn’t find you worthy of her?”

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