Chapter 489: She is in the Shadows (Fifth Update)

Noticing his abnormality, the people beside him all looked over.

"Eldest Young Master, what is wrong?"

The man's gaze was fixed tightly on Chu Liuyue in the arena, his lips pressed firmly shut.

Seeing him in such a state, the others did not dare to ask much and all fell silent.

On the competition stage, seeing the bright and pure smile on Chu Liuyue's face, Elder Qiu Xi was nearly fuming to the point of passing out!

What did she mean by "Like this, is it enough"?!

That final strike of hers had nearly taken Zhao Yunzhi's life!

"You... you! What you did was simply too much! Yunzhi had already conceded, yet you persisted and refused to stop. You did it on purpose!"

Chu Liuyue blinked.

"Elder Qiu Xi, I respect your high status and prestige, so I did exactly as you said. As soon as you said to stop, didn't I stop?"

As she spoke, her fair fingertips gave a light twist, and the fire whip was swiftly retracted, vanishing into her palm.

She spread her hands open

"I believe everyone saw it clearly, right?"

Elder Qiu Xi choked on his words.

This Chu Liuyue was truly cunning!

She indeed stopped after he spoke, but as for that final blow, who could say it was unintentional?

The timing was so precise that he had no way to truly hold her accountable!

"Even so, you shouldn't have dealt such a ruthless blow at the end! At such a young age, your heart is so venomous!"

Chu Liuyue pondered thoughtfully for a moment before asking back

"But didn't you say with your own mouth earlier that as long as no lives were lost, one could use any means necessary to win? Does that rule simply not apply to me?"

Elder Qiu Xi's face flushed red and then turned pale.

Chu Liuyue was so silver-tongued that he simply could not win the argument!

After all, Zhao Yunzhi had indeed lost!

He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said to the Black Cavalrymen beside him

"Hurry and take Zhao Yunzhi down to receive medical treatment!"

Two Black Cavalry soldiers rushed forward quickly, carrying the dying and heavily wounded Zhao Yunzhi away.

Chu Liuyue turned her head to look at the black jade slab hovering in mid-air.

On it, Zhao Yunzhi's name had already disappeared.

Only her name remained—Chu Liuyue!

Only the winner could remain!

Chu Liuyue took a general look around and lightly raised an eyebrow.

It seemed they were the first to finish the match.

"Match number fifty-three, Chu Liuyue wins!"

Elder Duanmu Chun shouted in a deep voice!

"Number one hundred and one, fill the slot for fifty-three!"

Hearing this, Chu Liuyue was finally satisfied and walked down the stage with leisurely steps.

Countless eyes from the surroundings all looked toward her at once!

Shock, envy, jealousy, admiration...

Those gazes held different meanings, but Chu Liuyue did not take them to heart. After jumping off the stage, she walked to the pre-prepared resting area to the side and sat down to watch the battle quietly.

Half of the people here would become her opponents in the next round.

Low murmurs drifted from behind her.

"Chu Liuyue actually won! Winning once might be an accident, but winning two consecutive matches against fifth-tier martial artists... it's enough to prove she truly has the strength!"

"It looks to me like she's about to break through to the fourth-tier? When that happens, winning will likely be even easier!"

"But she's quite bold! I heard that Zhao Yunzhi was brought by Chen Xiyuan of the Lingyun Sect, and it was originally agreed that she would enter the Lingyun Sect directly. No wonder Elder Qiu Xi is so angry. For so many years, he has helped the Lingyun Sect both openly and secretly! Seeing the Lingyun Sect lose such a good talent, how could he remain indifferent?"

"But he is an Imperial Elder after all; doing this constantly is somewhat inappropriate... His scolding of Chu Liuyue just now seemed unfair. If the loser had been Chu Liuyue, he certainly wouldn't have stepped forward to reprimand her..."

Chu Liuyue sat there leisurely; she treated these words as mere background noise.

Suddenly, she sensed a gaze within the crowd that felt almost tangible, falling upon her.

She became alert almost by instinct! She lifted her eyes to look!

A man wearing a water-blue robe entered her field of vision.

He looked to be in his thirties with an ordinary appearance, but when she saw his eyes, Chu Liuyue's heart skipped a beat!

Even if those eyes were turned to ash, she would recognize them!

—Jiang Yucheng!

Clearly, he had disguised himself and suppressed his aura, blending into the crowd.

The people around him were likely his attendants, also disguised as ordinary people.

No one would give those people a second glance.

But she was different!

She had looked at Jiang Yucheng's face for so many years; she couldn't forget it even if she wanted to!

And those eyes, which seemed gentle and affectionate but were actually insidious and ruthless, were like a brand, deeply etched into her mind!

Seeing that Jiang Yucheng seemed to have noticed her gaze, Chu Liuyue immediately pretended to turn her eyes away nonchalantly.

Even though a tempest was raging in her heart, her expression remained incredibly calm; even the curve of her lips did not change in the slightest, leaving no trace of a flaw.

No one knew how much strength she had to exert at this moment to suppress the murderous intent surging wildly in her heart!

Everything in the Imperial Ancestral Hall seemed as vivid and fresh as if it had happened only yesterday!

It was just that her heart no longer felt the pain of betrayal.

All that remained was the intent to tear him into ten thousand pieces!

She closed her eyes.

That's right, someone had mentioned before that Jiang Yucheng would come.

She had actually been waiting, but since he hadn't appeared by the start of the competition, she had pushed the matter to the back of her mind.

She hadn't expected him to change his identity and mix into the crowd!

Why would he do this?

Given his current status, he could have come openly; why go through such great trouble?

And more importantly, what was he looking at just now... what exactly was he looking for?

Was it because she was the first to win the match? Or something else?

Chu Liuyue opened her eyes and looked around seemingly at random, exactly as she had before.

She looked completely relaxed, like someone who had simply won a match.

She could still sense that Jiang Yucheng was watching her, but the emotions in her heart had gradually subsided.

In any case, she had changed her identity, and her appearance and age were different from before; she didn't believe Jiang Yucheng could still recognize her!

Thinking of this, her mood actually improved.

As it stood now, she was in the dark, and he was in the light!

On the other side, from the moment Jiang Yucheng first saw the smile on Chu Liuyue's face, he had been staring at her.

At first, he truly thought it was that person, but after watching closely for a while, he felt he was overthinking it.

Although the smile was very similar, there were actually quite large differences in the facial features.

Furthermore, Chu Liuyue looked to be only about fourteen or fifteen years old, and that person had already perished in a sea of fire; how could she possibly appear?

Jiang Yucheng rubbed his temples.

It seemed he had been too tired lately to be thinking such nonsense.

"Go and investigate that Chu Liuyue's background."

(End of Chapter)