Chapter 1265: News of Lü Qing'er

The teasing, light laughter of an unfamiliar woman rang out, causing Li Luo to freeze for a moment. Sister Qing'er?

She was talking about Lü Qing'er!

Li Luo's gaze swept over the woman's dress, and sure enough, he spotted the Golden Dragon Treasure House emblem there. He immediately asked, "You're someone from the Golden Dragon Treasure House? You know Qing'er?"

"Guess?" The woman before him was naturally Lü Shuanglu. Facing Li Luo's question, she blinked and replied with a smile.

Li Luo's brow furrowed slightly; he couldn't gauge what relationship this person actually had with Lü Qing'er.

However, Jiang Qing'e didn't have much goodwill toward this woman playing tricks before her. Her gaze turned slightly cold, and with a mere thought, brilliant radiant phase force surged out from within her body. A towering ten-pillar golden platform materialized in the air, and as the radiance spread, it swiftly purified the surrounding heaven and earth energy.

The very next instant, from atop that ten-pillar golden platform, peerless divine mist resembling holy water surged forth like a flood, pouring toward Lü Shuanglu.

"What an overbearing Unparalleled Heavenly Chosen."

Seeing Jiang Qing'e strike without a word of warning, Lü Shuanglu's delicate brows immediately shot up. She raised her jade hand, and frigid qi gathered around it, rendering her palm as translucent as cold jade.

She thrust out a palm, and bone-chilling cold currents rolled forth. In an instant, frost spread across the nearby ground, and even space itself showed signs of freezing.

The two streams of energy collided, erupting with an extremely powerful shockwave. However, the ground here was formed of golden rock, so it was exceptionally hard and merely cracked open with a few fissures.

On Lü Shuanglu's crystalline skin, patterns resembling ice crystals appeared, freezing all the radiant phase force that came crashing toward her. Then she smiled and said, "Is this how the Li Li Tianwang lineage treats its guests?"

"Whether you're a guest or not remains to be seen," Li Luo spoke up.

Previously in the Spiritual Phase Grotto-Heaven, it was also people from the Golden Dragon Treasure House who had made a move against Lü Qing'er, so he didn't let his guard down just because she had spoken Lü Qing'er's name.

Lü Shuanglu tilted her head and asked, "Don't you want to know how Lü Qing'er is doing now? It was for your sake that she fell into that ice seal, you know."

Then she cast a mischievous glance at Jiang Qing'e and added, "Or perhaps you don't want your fiancée to know? Then how about I come find you tonight to chat?"

At the provocative undertones in this woman's words, Li Luo couldn't help but grit his teeth inwardly.

"Is she talking about Lü Qing'er?" At this moment, Jiang Qing'e asked.

Li Luo nodded frankly, then briefly recounted the events of the Spiritual Phase Grotto-Heaven.

"So she was actually a young lady of the Lü family of Golden Dragon Mountain." Jiang Qing'e was somewhat surprised. After all, Golden Dragon Mountain was likewise a top-tier Heavenly King-level power in this world, and in fact had even deeper foundations than the Li Li Tianwang lineage.

Yet Lü Qing'er, with such an identity, had actually grown up in that remote place called the Great Xia. That was truly quite unexpected.

"My dear sister Qing'er misses Li Luo terribly, you know," Lü Shuanglu said with a grin.

Jiang Qing'e glanced at her and said calmly, "I told her before that my House Luolan Mansion is quite spacious. I actually wouldn't mind taking in one more person. If she wants to come, I'll arrange it for her."

This woman's provocations were far too blatant, so Jiang Qing'e had no intention of letting her have her way and launched a counterattack of her own.

Sure enough, Lü Shuanglu was momentarily stunned upon hearing this. She hadn't expected Jiang Qing'e to not only refrain from getting angry but to actually say something like that.

Then she let out a snort of laughter and said, "A young lady of my Golden Dragon Mountain—you lot probably can't arrange that."

She cast a sideways glance at Li Luo and added, "Even if you are the young master of the Dragon Fang Branch."

Li Luo said irritably, "Did you come all this way just to spout this nonsense?"

Lü Shuanglu said in a coquettish voice, "So impatient. I just wanted to see what kind of ability the person my sister is so obsessed with actually has. But from what I see now, you're just a wastrel who relies on his fiancée, aren't you?"

Jiang Qing'e's gaze turned cold, and the towering ten-pillar golden platform above her head once again radiated brilliant light.

"What a husband-protecting woman."

Seeing this, Lü Shuanglu couldn't help but purse her lips and said, "I'm just passing along a message from my sister Qing'er on the way. She says she's already awakened and not to worry. But looking at you, it doesn't seem like you're worried at all. My sister really does love to flatter herself."

Hearing that Lü Qing'er had already recovered from that ice seal, Li Luo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then he couldn't be bothered to pay any more attention to this rather sharp-tongued woman.

"If you've delivered your message, please leave. The commotion here was quite loud; our people are probably already on their way," Li Luo said.

"How heartless."

Lü Shuanglu shook her head, but she truly had no intention of lingering. Just as she was about to turn away, she paused and said, "Also, let me give you a heads-up. A top Heavenly Chosen from Golden Dragon Mountain has come to the Boundary River Domain, probably looking to cause trouble for you, this rival of hers. If you perform too poorly, my sister Qing'er is going to be endlessly troubled by suitors in the future."

As her words fell, a surge of frosty qi rushed in, and her figure had already vanished.

Li Luo frowned as he stared at the spot where she had disappeared. This woman had actually brought some useful information. It seemed that aside from her unpleasant way of speaking, she probably didn't harbor much malice toward him.

At this moment, Jiang Qing'e turned her head and said with a half-smile, "So far away from the Great Xia, and you still managed to get entangled with Lü Qing'er. This fate of yours is indeed no shallow thing."

Li Luo said, "I didn't expect her to actually be someone from Golden Dragon Mountain either."

"She's been pining for you, and her mother Yu Yu Hongxi is quite fond of you too. Back then, she went to great lengths to play matchmaker for the two of you." Jiang Qing'e crossed her arms over her chest. Her gaze was cool and clear, and her skin shimmered with a holy light, lending her an exceptionally sacred and aloof air.

However, this posture inadvertently accentuated her rather remarkable assets.

"Speaking of which, now that you're the Third Young Master of the Dragon Fang Branch, and she's the little princess of Golden Dragon Mountain, your statuses do match quite well, don't they."

"If you truly miss her, why not just take her into House Luolan Mansion."

Li Luo said helplessly, "Qing'er and I are just very good friends. Besides, I don't know whether that Lü Shuanglu is a friend or foe to Qing'er, so her words can't be fully trusted. She might very well be harboring ill intentions to sow discord between us, and also to create a rift between Qing'er and me."

Jiang Qing'e glanced at him and saw a measure of frankness in his eyes. This made the corner of her lips twitch slightly. In the subtle realm of emotions between men and women, men were mostly rather obtuse. Li Luo probably truly regarded Lü Qing'er as a good friend, which was why he had never thought in that direction. But the same couldn't be said for Lü Qing'er.

Because back when they were at the Sacred Phoenix Star Academy, Lü Qing'er had once bravely questioned the fairness of that engagement right in front of her.

So Jiang Qing'e knew that what Lü Shuanglu had said was probably true.

Lü Qing'er had actually harbored some feelings for Li Luo from the very beginning.

Jiang Qing'e gazed at the youth before her—his eyes brimming with innocence, his features exceedingly handsome, his bearing as upright as a pine—and felt a secret vexation in her heart. This guy, a man, why did he have to be so good-looking for no reason?

In the end, however, she didn't voice the words in her heart, nor did she tell him about Lü Qing'er's brave confrontation with her back then. After all, it had nothing to do with Li Luo.

Seeing her lost in thought, Li Luo boldly stepped forward, reached out, and wrapped an arm around Jiang Qing'e's slender, supple waist. He said with a beaming smile, "Sister Qing'e, don't worry. I'll keep firmly in mind my identity as a married man. What I'm looking forward to most right now is for Father and Mother to hurry back and preside over our grand wedding."

Faced with Li Luo's sudden words, a faint blush rose on Jiang Qing'e's porcelain-white cheeks. In truth, that day was also what she had been looking forward to most.

The sound of breaking wind suddenly came from not far away.

Jiang Qing'e immediately gathered her composure, shot Li Luo a glance, and slapped away the mischievous hand he had placed on her waist. It looked like there was no way to cultivate today; she could only go back and rest.

So she set off with her long legs striding toward the camp.

Li Luo hurried to follow.

But then a sentence that drifted from Jiang Qing'e made his face fall into a mournful expression.

"You're not allowed in the tent tonight."

This girl is really hard to coax.

Over the next several days, Jin Shi Water Abyss clearly grew increasingly lively, as more and more factions and rogue cultivators came flocking in, clearly wanting a share of the spoils.

However, although the number of people had grown, the atmosphere had instead become much quieter, and no one fought here.

That was because the energy fluctuations from any battle would startle the "Jin Shi Spirit Mussels" hidden within Jin Shi Water Abyss.

And under this eager anticipation of all, on the seventh day, everyone suddenly heard, from deep within Jin Shi Water Abyss, the sudden sound of roaring waters bursting forth.

That sound pierced straight through the clouds, echoing for thousands of miles.

Li Luo also suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, a hint of anticipation in his gaze.

The water tide has finally arrived.