Gu Changqing didn't know why she came, nor what she was supposed to do. She was just here, and that was that. Gu Changqing was lost in thought with a blank expression.

Meanwhile, at the table to the side, four people were talking loudly.

One of the burly men, dressed in rough clothes, said to the three burly men sitting beside him while drinking:

"Brothers, I captured a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast in the deep mountains outside the city. Hehe, guess how many spirit stones I got in return?"

Upon hearing this, a burly man sitting next to him quickly chimed in:

"That's a Foundation Establishment stage demon beast! Big brother, you've only just reached the eighth level of Qi Refining. Big brother is truly amazing!"

The man's "elder brother" laughed heartily upon hearing this praise.

"Haha, a mere Foundation Establishment demon beast, I can take it down with a flick of my wrist. That demon beast was exchanged for a full 10 spirit stones at the Wanbao Pavilion. Tonight, I'll take you all to the Spring Breeze Pavilion for some fun."

When the three burly men heard about Chunfeng Tower, they also burst into laughter, as if that place were something special.

Just as the four were laughing, Gu Changqing appeared beside them unnoticed and said in an icy tone:

What are you laughing at?

The eldest among the group, hearing that the voice had disturbed their mood, also looked up, ready to give them a lecture.

When the elder brother looked up at Gu Changqing, his eyes became blank, as if he had fallen into an illusion.

The burly man seemed to see himself from birth to middle age, and finally turn into a skeleton, in Gu Changqing's eyes.

The three men standing nearby saw that the big man stopped moving after raising his head, and they all prepared to get up and teach Gu Changqing a lesson.

But they found that their bodies remained completely still, as if they had become one with the chairs they were sitting on.

Unbeknownst to them, Gu Changqing's aura was now involuntarily emanating from him, pressing down on cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage for miles around, rendering them unable to move.

This was an unconscious, non-aggressive aura emanating from him.

Gu Changqing looked at the burly man's lifeless eyes, and then at the three men whose eyes, which had been filled with joy, were now filled with fear.

Gu Changqing looked at her hands again, feeling as if something was missing from her fingers, and muttered to herself:

"What is laughter? Why did I come here? What am I here to do? Why am I called Gu Changqing?"

As the words fell, the aura of a half-step Divine Void cultivator erupted, crushing everything around him into dust.

Afterwards, Gu Changqing looked around at the ruins and left the place with a blank expression.

After Gu Changqing left, Xu Duoqian arrived at the place with a group of stewards and many guards.

Looking at the ruins stretching for miles around, Xu Duoqian sighed.

"Sigh~ that senior has left. Fortunately, it was only this area. You guys clean it up and tell the city that a Nascent Soul cultivator died by self-destruction."

Several deacons nearby seemed to nod in agreement, and then directed the guards to begin clearing away the ruins and debris.