Chapter 487: Chapter 171 How about, did he also let you down?_2

“I originally intended for you to sever your emotions and cultivate the Supreme Dao. However, seeing you now, it seems unlikely you’ll succeed.”

“Either you use his blood here to complete the final step of your Heartless Dao, or… shall I help you two be together?”

“You’d be so kind-hearted? I haven’t even killed Dongfang Mu for you yet,” Gu Yuqing replied coolly.

“It doesn’t matter. If you’ve set your heart on it, just wait here; he’ll come eventually,” the strange voice said. “Besides, you’re Mu Hongyuan’s disciple. Anything she doesn’t want you to do, I’ll make sure you do.”

“I don’t need you to do anything else for me. This is purely my own selfish whim.”

Gu Yuqing remained silent.

“What exactly is your grudge against my Master?” Gu Yuqing became even more vigilant.

“She betrayed me back then, helping a man,” the strange voice sneered. “The details are too complicated; you only need to know this.”

Gu Yuqing was quiet.

Her Master had lived for millennia; her experiences must have been incredibly vast.

Betrayal…

Gu Yuqing didn’t believe it.

After some thought, Gu Yuqing spoke calmly, “Very well.”

She paused for a few seconds, then added, “Fellow Daoist Wang, how did you get here?”

Wang Mu pondered for a few moments before speaking truthfully. However, he didn’t detail his experiences on the journey.

“The Battle of Heavenly Prides, the Ancient Immortal Mansion, the Goddess?”

After listening, a wave of disappointment washed over Gu Yuqing. So, he didn’t come for me.

It figures.

Gu Yuqing managed a faint smile and said, “I see. However, there is no Ancient Divine Girl here. Beyond me should be the end of this place. If you wish to go…”

Gu Yuqing was about to step aside to let him pass.

The strange voice spoke again, “What, giving up already? Do you want to be with him, or do you truly wish to sever your emotions? Your Heartless Dao is just one final step from perfection.”

Gu Yuqing trembled.

“Is this choice so difficult?” the strange voice asked.

“I… I don’t know if he truly cares for me…” Gu Yuqing’s voice in her Sea of Consciousness was low, tinged with an icy chill.

“Isn’t that simple? To see if a man truly cares for you, just find out if he’s willing to die for you,” the strange voice cackled. “I have plenty of ways, and this place provides all the necessary conditions.”

Gu Yuqing was silent.

“That’s too vulgar,” Gu Yuqing frowned. “Measuring emotions with life and death is too narrow. One might risk their life for another due to a promise, righteousness, gratitude, or countless other reasons…”

“Why must it only be love?”

Besides, Brother Wang faced immense danger before and was even thrown into the Heavenly Demon Divine Pond by Master. How could he fear death?

But…

“Interesting…” The strange voice paused for a few seconds. “Then I have another method…”

“What method?”

“Simple. There’s a special sealed icy realm here that requires a secret technique to activate, something I know a little about. I’ll teach it to you. Once you activate this realm, both of you will be trapped inside, and no power will be able to break you out.”

“You must endure the erosion of time within before you can escape.”

“If life and death cannot prove a person’s feelings, then time is the best test for true emotions,” the strange voice said languidly. “In that vast expanse of time, you will naturally sense whether he truly cares for you…”

Hearing this, Gu Yuqing asked, “What if we truly can’t get out?”

“I have my ways…” the strange voice cackled. “Don’t worry. I still need you to kill Dongfang Mu for me; I won’t let anything happen to you.”

That strange laughter seemed to plunge Gu Yuqing into an Abyss Sea of schemes.

After pondering for a moment, Gu Yuqing still shook her head and said, “Forget it.”

“Forget it?” The voice sounded astonished.

Gu Yuqing said to Wang Mu, “Fellow Daoist Wang, you should leave this place quickly. It’s too dangerous here… not suitable for a long stay.”

Wang Mu looked towards the ice-flower tree behind her and said, “I must go over there and take a look.”

Gu Yuqing glanced back and said, “That place has a restriction; you can’t go there.”

A restriction?

Wang Mu thought to himself. That must be the final area of the Immortal Mansion. Could there be more trials?

Considering what the Ancient Stele said, it did seem like something was still missing.

“I want to try,” Wang Mu said.

Just then, the strange voice whispered in Gu Yuqing’s ear again, “What are you worried about?”

“Are you afraid I’ll harm him?”

“He’s not Dongfang Mu. His life is of no importance to me.”

“Do you truly no longer wish to be with him? It’s merely a test of time. Succeed, and you two will be together. Fail, and your Heartless Dao will be perfected, and the Great Dao will lie at your feet.”

“It will have no impact on him.”

The strange voice’s words, laden with extreme temptation, plunged Gu Yuqing into a torturous struggle once more.

Wang Mu seemed to sense that Gu Yuqing was still enduring something…

Her eyes were calm, showing no ripples… but Wang Mu’s intuition told him that Senior Sister Gu… seemed to be facing some difficult trial or decision here.

“If Fellow Daoist Gu needs help, please just ask,” Wang Mu offered after a moment’s thought.

Gu Yuqing’s body trembled slightly.

Alright, Gu Yuqing replied in her heart.

“That’s more like it. Come… I shall transmit the Secret Technique to you. Retreat ten paces; there’s a cone-shaped ice stalagmite there. Activate it with the Secret Technique, and you can enter the special sealed icy realm.”

Like the whisperings of an Ancient God, a faint voice sounded beside Gu Yuqing’s ear.

Moments later, she retreated several paces, glanced at Wang Mu, and asked, “Fellow Daoist Wang… you wish to go back there to meet that Goddess?”

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