Chaos had broken out on the third floor of the Seven Star Tower. With the old man deliberately concealing Yue Qi's disappearance, everyone assumed he was dead.

Wen Jiajia was the most heartbroken, after all, Yue Qi was her companion. Although he had an annoying personality, once he was gone, the road ahead would be really difficult.

At crucial moments, some trump cards have to be played.

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As soon as Yue Qi opened his eyes, he found himself on a new floor. This fourth floor was quite special; the entrance was actually a teleportation array.

Looking around cautiously, Yue Qi discovered that this place was almost exactly the same as the third floor.

It was still a completely bare expanse, with nothing at all. However, once I arrived here, the agonizing pressure completely vanished, and I no longer felt the cold.

To his even greater surprise, not far in front of him, a man and a woman stood with their backs to him, seemingly talking about something. The woman in the photo was none other than Yan Qing, the woman he had been longing for.

"Yan Qing?!" Yue Qi couldn't help but exclaim, "What are you doing here?"

The girl turned around abruptly, and sure enough, it was Yan Qing herself.

"Hey, Yue Qi, we've met up in the dungeon again!" Yan Qing waved to him with a smile, quickly escaping the man beside her and running to Yue Qi's side.

"Wait, shouldn't you be resting at home? How did you end up at the Seven Star Tower? Are you out of your mind?" Yue Qi was extremely worried because the man opposite him had also turned around. After seeing his face clearly, he immediately raised his alert level to level ten.

Yan Qing hid behind him and whispered, "It was this guy surnamed Chu who kidnapped me. He said he wanted me to help him find something."

"Looking for something?" Yue Qi instinctively thought of the letter. When he looked at Chu Jiang again, his eyes held an indescribable complexity.

But Chu Jiang seemed completely unconcerned, and even greeted him in a friendly manner.

"I haven't seen you for a few days, Yue Qi, you've become more and more capable."

"Who exactly are you?" Yue Qi simply couldn't connect this carefree person with himself. The two of them were so different—one flaunting his feathers like a peacock, the other more detached than a monk in a temple. How could they possibly be the same person?

Chu Jiang clearly knew what he was thinking. "Actually, you don't need to think too much. After all, there's a difference of over a hundred years between us, so some differences are understandable. Besides—"

He glanced meaningfully at Yan Qing, who was hiding behind Yue Qi, and finally sighed.

"I never imagined that you and I would end up falling for the same person. How interesting!"

Yan Qing was completely confused, but she understood the last sentence. With Yue Qi present, the two of them combined weren't afraid of this person. So, she mustered her courage and retorted,

“Hey Chu, stop lying—Yue Qi, don’t believe him, he never tells the truth.”

Although Yue Qi hadn't had much contact with Chu Jiang, Chu Jiang's high regard for Yan Qing made him believe that Yan Qing might indeed be related to what the Tianxuan Sect had been searching for.

He remembered clearly that in the nameless temple on Mount Qingcheng, Yan Qing obtained a small Azure Dragon Coffin from the body of the Yaksha statue.

Based on what was said in the letter, he strongly suspected that this object might be the lost treasure of the Tianxuan Sect, the Azure Dragon Coffin that imprisoned a strange wisp of soul with an unknown gold-rank title.

Unfortunately, Chu Jiang is here right now, and he doesn't feel comfortable communicating with Yan Qing. If this item is truly the Heavenly Profound Sect's most prized artifact, then Chu Jiang's purpose is most likely related to it.

Now that things had come to this, he tried to give Yan Qing a hint, "Do you remember that place we went to not long ago? The one only the two of us know about."

"What's wrong?" Why did Yue Qi suddenly bring this up? What's the connection between the nameless temple on Qingcheng Mountain and the Seven Star Pagoda?

Yue Qi said one sentence and then stopped, while Chu Jiang was extremely curious.

"I didn't expect that the two of you would run a dungeon alone in such a short time! I didn't realize that!"

"none of your business!"

Yan Qing said this, but her brain started working frantically. Yue Qi must have something he couldn't say directly, which was why he reminded her like this.

The biggest discoveries from the nameless temple on Mount Qingcheng were twofold: first, learning the true scene of the entire Xuanmen massacre, with the old monk Yijing being a strong suspect; and second, finding the small bronze coffin inside the Yaksha statue, identical to the Azure Dragon Coffin she had entered.

Was Yue Qi reminding her that this miniature Azure Dragon Coffin was the most crucial element? Perhaps it was also related to the Seven Star Tower?

Regardless of what it is, the secret that she possesses this item must be protected.

"Don't worry," she smiled sweetly at Yue Qi, "I know what I'm doing."

Yue Qi smiled too; sometimes, having a telepathic connection is just that convenient.

Chu Jiang's face darkened. These two dared to flirt in front of him! Did they think he was dead?

"Come here!" He didn't specify his name.

Yan Qing pursed her lips; since it wasn't her, she hadn't heard anything.

"Come here, don't make me say it a second time."

Chu Jiang's voice was extremely dry, clearly indicating he was barely suppressing his anger. The next moment, as if struck by a thought, he suddenly laughed.

"You probably don't know this, but the Yue Qi before you is merely a fragment of my soul. His life is now in my grasp—do you understand?"

Yan Qing's face turned pale instantly. She asked Yue Qi in disbelief,

Is he telling the truth?

Yue Qi looked somber. "I only found out on the second floor of the Seven Star Tower. To be honest, I couldn't believe it myself."

"But—" Yan Qing shouted, "You two look completely different! He—"

She pointed at Chu Jiang, who responded with a dazzling, almost blinding smile. But no matter how handsome he was, in her heart—

"What does he have to compare with you? He's nowhere near as good!"

Chu Jiang's smile froze on his face, his eyes flashing with cold light.

"What? I'd like to know, exactly where do I fall short compared to him?"

Yan Qing felt a chill run down her spine under his gaze and couldn't help but shrink back behind Yue Qi. She suddenly remembered that this man possessed a strange Gold-Rank title; if he wanted to crush them, wouldn't it be as easy as playing a game?

So she immediately adopted a fawning attitude, "Chu Jiang, shouldn't we hurry up and find a way to get to the fifth floor of the Seven Star Tower? Yue Qi is a great help, after all. With his help, wouldn't it be faster?"