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Chapter 435: Gu Qingcheng: I Clearly Distinguish Love and Hate! (Seeking Follow-Up Reads)

Chapter 435: Chapter 435: Gu Qingcheng: I Clearly Distinguish Love and Hate! (Seeking Follow-Up Reads)

If she hadn’t witnessed it herself, Gu Qingcheng would never have imagined that her dear sister Ziran could actually catch feelings for such a young guy, let alone fall head over heels for him.

Her close friend Ziran was the Supreme Alliance Leader, with nearly a hundred Venerables under her command, as well as some Quasi-Saint Elders.

Yet Ziran just fell for this young man.

It also showed, from another angle, just how different this man was.

Gu Qingcheng spoke up, "Xiao Ye, thank you, if it wasn’t for your guidance, Hang City Base City probably would’ve suffered huge losses."

As she said this, all traces of oppression melted away from her, and her gaze turned soft, nothing like her previous overbearing and bossy self.

Xiao Ye could feel the shift in Gu Qingcheng’s attitude.

He chuckled, waving a hand, and said,

"No problem."

"Now that the unihorn dragon-shaped beast situation is handled, we should get going and hunt those devouring-type demon beasts for some resources."

Gu Qingcheng nodded, "Let’s head out together, then."

After that, the three of them left the secret realm core space and arrived in Secret Realm #20’s small world.

The small world’s portal was back to normal, and those soldiers and fighters had already gone out.

Somewhere in the sky above a mountain range,

Gu Qingcheng pointed down with her slender white finger, saying, "This mountain range has the highest number of devouring-type demon beasts—the strongest is at the Venerable Realm, the weakest is just a newly born mortal-grade demon beast. Altogether, there are more than ten thousand beasts here."

She made her move personally, releasing her powerful Divine Soul at the Saint Realm Perfection stage, sweeping her spiritual sense out in an instant to cover the whole mountain range.

In a moment, she grasped everything happening within a ten-thousand-mile radius.

Gu Qingcheng lifted her hand upward.

A jaw-dropping scene unfolded.

One after another, the devouring-type demon beasts, like dumplings tossed in a pot, shot into the sky in thick swarms, forced to gather in front of the three.

Half a minute later, more than ten thousand devouring-type demon beasts crowded together in front of them.

The beasts were all immobilized, unable to move at all, wide-eyed with terror as they flailed helplessly.

Ziran gaped, "You really caught all the demon beasts?"

A smile curled on Gu Qingcheng’s gorgeous face as she said, "That’s right; just now your husband helped me out. I’m someone who knows how to repay a debt. These devouring-type demon beasts in this mountain range are my token of gratitude."

"Xiao Ye, please accept them!"

When Xiao Ye caught the creation-type beasts before, she watched from the side and knew he liked capturing or raising demon beasts—so she figured she could use that to make him happy.

"!" Xiao Ye was a bit surprised.

*For the first time, he didn’t find Gu Qingcheng all that annoying.*

*All just to repay a favor, she’d actually clear out the entire mountain of beasts for him!*

Earlier, he had exposed that the unihorn dragon-shaped beast was destroying the Heart of the Secret Realm, not to help Gu Qingcheng, but because he didn’t want the secret realm to collapse and cause all those devouring-type demon beasts to be wiped out.

*So, did that count as accidentally doing her a huge favor?*

*What an unexpected bonus!*

"Sister Qingcheng, since you’re being so generous, I guess I’ll just have to accept them." Xiao Ye rubbed his hands together, looking a bit excited.

Ziran’s attributes were creation-type and devouring-type, and cultivating at the Saint Realm required a lot of Rule Fragment Crystals. Of course she needed to keep a bunch of related attribute demon beasts.

"Sister Qingcheng, listen to how close he’s calling you! Tsk tsk tsk, aren’t you lucky." A sour little voice echoed inside Gu Qingcheng’s mind.

It was the voice of Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng.

*Gu Qingcheng felt speechless* and responded in her mind, "Have you been whining for so long your brain’s rusted?"

"You’re even jealous of me now?"

"You and I are both Gu Qingcheng. When he calls me, he’s calling you."

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng’s expression froze. "Back then, when hubby called me, it was always ’Hang City Empress.’ That’s so damn impersonal."

"If I hadn’t changed some of the details, you’d probably still be plotting to split them up right now."

"At first, I used a bunch of tricks to try to break them apart and ended up making hubby despise me."

She perked up again. "But it’s fine, after we go back, hubby’s attitude should get a lot better toward me."

"Xiaogu, do a few more things to make your man happy, and totally flip his view of us!"

Gu Qingcheng snorted, "I’m not you, dangling after him like a carp."

"But as the Hang City Empress, I do know how to appreciate and repay kindness and distinguish right from wrong. Now that I’ve accepted him, I’ll treat him politely and make him an honored guest at Hang City Base City."

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng gave a goofy laugh and said, "That works. As long as you don’t make hubby hate you, I can definitely make him fall for you."

"After more than a hundred years, I totally get hubby’s tastes and all his quirky kinks."

"But my flirting skills still can’t match up with Ziran, that vixen."

"Hubby ignores me most of the time, so I can’t even use most of my tricks. But now, things are different."

Gu Qingcheng’s face darkened and she muttered, "Are you nuts? Making Xiao Ye fall for me? Isn’t that just stealing my girlfriend’s man? Impossible! I can’t do that as the Hang City Empress!"

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng just shrugged, unconcerned. When you really fall for him, even if I don’t say a word, you’ll be begging me for advice.

Outside,

Ziran snuggled up to Xiao Ye, wrapping her arm around his and laughing, "Xiao Ye, it’s still fifty demon beasts, right?"

Xiao Ye nodded, "Yeah, pick out fifty of the old, weak, sick, and disabled. I’ll catch and raise the rest. With a pack this big, you’ve got enough for all your cultivation."

"I’m a bit thirsty. Can you conjure a few cold Cokes for me?"

"You got it!" Ziran flipped her palm up, conjuration energy glimmering. Instantly, two glasses of Coke appeared in her pale hand.

Xiao Ye took one and frowned, "I want it ice-cold!"

"You can handle cold drinks today, right?"

Ziran grinned, "Yep."

She conjured some crushed ice, dropped it into the Coke, and felt the temperature with the back of her hand before asking,

"Is this cold enough for you?"

Xiao Ye took a sip, nodded, and said happily, "Yeah, that’s perfect. Tastes great."

So, sipping his ice-cold Coke, Xiao Ye let Ziran use her spiritual sense to start picking beasts.

One by one, all the old, weak, sick, and disabled devouring-type demon beasts were picked out by her and floated, bound, in the air behind her.

Gu Qingcheng: "..."

No matter how she looked at it, Ziran’s husband was totally mooching off his woman.

Even though Ziran’s man was awesome, good at his craft, and had done Gu Qingcheng a huge favor, it still didn’t change the fact that he loved freeloading off strong women.

No matter what, Ziran had to handle everything, while he sat there sipping sodas, hugging a top beauty, letting her do all the work.

If there was work, the wife did it. If there wasn’t—she still had to keep him company...

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng’s voice sounded, "Hmph, that vixen really is living the dream, always getting to help our man."

"Sigh, if only I could help our man out like that."

Gu Qingcheng’s face instantly darkened.

Old Gu really was the definition of hopeless—competing to be the trophy wife, even when it meant freeloading off the man!