"What a beast!" Murderous intent surged in Mu Qingge’s eyes.
She could easily imagine that if Xi Qianxue hadn’t come to find her back then, if she hadn’t, just to be safe, given her a bottle of medicine for self‑defense, what Xi Qianxue would be facing at this very moment.
"After coming out of the Divine Tomb, I returned to the Divine Hall. But when I was walking to the outside of the hall, I saw..." Xi Qianxue’s emotions gradually calmed as she began to recount things to Mu Qingge.
That day, she overheard talk in the Divine Hall about framing Mu Qingge. Startled, she quietly slipped away.
When she returned to her own quarters, she kept thinking about how to inform Mu Qingge, and whether Mu Qingge was safe now. That night, her master came to her room.
"Master?" A visit in the middle of the night made Xi Qianxue jump as well.
Thinking back to how the Divine Venerable’s gaze on her had grown more and more wrong lately, and what she had heard outside the hall that day, she did not dare be the slightest bit careless.
"Qianxue, after you came out of the Divine Tomb, why didn’t you come to see your master?" The Divine Venerable sat down in her room and asked. His tone, in fact, sounded no different from usual.
However, in Xi Qianxue’s eyes now, he was no longer the familiar master she once knew.
He had become frightening, terrifying, disgusting, filthy!
"I...I was a bit tired, so I thought I would rest first, then go see Master once I was recovered." Xi Qianxue found an excuse. But clearly, she was not good at lying.
The most important thing was that she didn’t know that when she appeared outside the hall, the Divine Venerable had already noticed her presence.
"Tired? Did you perhaps get injured in the Divine Tomb?" The Divine Venerable suddenly stood up and walked toward her.
The lamplight fell on his back, casting his shadow forward, enveloping Xi Qianxue.
Xi Qianxue kept retreating step by step, panic creeping into her eyes.
"Master, I was not injured, I just over‑exerted myself and wanted to sit in meditation to regulate my breathing for a few days. Once I’ve recovered, I’ll go to pay my respects to Master." Xi Qianxue said hurriedly.
"Oh? Over‑exerted? Do you need your master to help you a little?" The Divine Venerable’s tone unconsciously turned ambiguous.
Xi Qianxue quickly dropped to her knees and said to him, "Master, this disciple wouldn’t dare trouble you. It’s already late; I humbly ask Master to return to the hall and rest."
The Divine Venerable finally stopped. His obscure gaze fell on the stretch of neck revealed by Xi Qianxue’s lowered head, as a certain emotion sprouted in his eyes.
In the end he said, "Very well, I’ll go back for tonight. Since you’re tired, stay here and rest for the next few days, don’t go wandering about. In a few days I’ll come again; your master still has many things he wishes to ask you."
With that, the Divine Venerable left.
However, the meaning‑laden words he left behind as he departed made Xi Qianxue’s heartbeat inexplicably speed up.
In those words was a disguised form of house arrest.
And also...what did he have to ask her?
Xi Qianxue’s eyes flickered slightly as her thoughts spun rapidly. After she entered the Divine Tomb, she had been together with Mu Qingge and the others; there was no way the Divine Hall wouldn’t know that.
But what did that prove?
Xi Qianxue spent the next few days in anxious unease. She tried many times to send out a message to warn Mu Qingge to beware of the Divine Hall, but she just couldn’t find the opportunity.
Helpless, she could only put on an act of sitting in meditation and Cultivation, hoping to lower the Divine Venerable’s guard against her.
A few days later, the Divine Venerable once again came to her room in the night.
But this time, the moment he entered, Xi Qianxue sensed something different. It was as if there was a primordial ferocious beast hidden in his eyes, and the way he stared at her was filled with the intent to possess.
The Divine Venerable sat in Xi Qianxue’s room and asked her, "Qianxue, your master has always trusted you. Do you have anything you’ve been hiding from your master?"
Xi Qianxue’s heart jolted, but she answered calmly, "Qianxue does not know what Master is referring to."
The Divine Venerable fixed his gaze on her and asked in a deep voice, "You have a good relationship with that Mu Qingge? I’ve never heard you mention it. Last time you met in the Divine Hall, you also behaved very indifferent."
Xi Qianxue lowered her eyes, replying cautiously, "Master worries too much. Between me and City Lord Mu, it’s just mutual cooperation, each taking what we need. If what Master is referring to is the Divine Tomb, the people I cooperated with at the time were not only City Lord Mu. There was also Yao Xinghai of the Yao Family from East Continent, Ji Yaohua from Northern Continent, Ying Ze from West Continent..."
"And Wei Molili of the Wei Family, correct?" The Divine Venerable unceremoniously cut Xi Qianxue off.
Xi Qianxue lifted her eyes to look at him and said, lips pressed together, "There is nothing whatsoever between me and Wei Molili."
"Hmph, is that so?" The Divine Venerable stood up and slowly approached her.
Xi Qianxue did not dare move, so she could only secretly stay on guard.
The Divine Venerable said, "Ever since you returned from your last training in the Divine Demon Ancient Battlefield, I noticed you were often absent‑minded. You also showed great concern for that Wei Molili of the Wei Family. And now you’re telling me there’s nothing between you two?"
"This disciple’s conduct is aboveboard. If Master refuses to believe me, there is nothing I can do." Xi Qianxue forced herself to speak calmly.
"Aboveboard conduct?" The Divine Venerable narrowed his eyes.



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