Jun Changxiao had displayed his most manly, most handsome side to perfection.
However, Xi Jingxuan’s eyes showed not the slightest fluctuation, which made him unconvinced and stirred his temper.
Come on, come on.
This sect leader will battle you for three hundred rounds today to see who looks away first!
Though usually decisive in managing the sect and handling affairs, when Sect Leader Jun acted willfully, he was more like a child who hadn’t grown up.
Just like that, you look at me, I look at you.
Even though his eyes had become dry, Jun Changxiao stubbornly refused to blink.
He had to defend a man’s dignity and make this woman understand what it meant to feel shy, what it meant to be bashful.
However.
The words Lu Qianqian spoke as she approached made him instantly freeze on the spot.
After a long while.
Jun Changxiao said with a spectacular expression, “This… woman is blind?”
“Yes.”
Lu Qianqian said, “She was blind from birth and was abandoned by her parents in the wilderness. The previous Wondrous Radiance Palace Master passed by, took her in, and raised her to adulthood.”
“That miserable?”
Looking at Xi Jingxuan, Jun Changxiao gradually realized that although her eyes were clear as water, they were also hollow and lifeless.
Indeed, she had an eye disease.
Unable to see light, yet able to become the palace master of a fourth-tier sect—no wonder she was called an extraordinary woman.
Lu Qianqian said, “She came to attend the auction probably hoping the healing pills could cure her eye disease.”
Jun Changxiao shook his head. “The healing pills’ function is only to heal injuries—how could they cure illness?”
Sigh.
Having a staring contest with a girl who had an eye disease—what kind of situation was this?
Jun Changxiao withdrew his gaze, simultaneously expressing strong condemnation for his earlier childish behavior.
“Sect Leader Jun.”
Xi Jingxuan at the opposite window smiled. “Were you looking at me just now?”
Her smile was radiant, giving people a refreshing feeling like a spring breeze.
What a pity.
Such a beautiful girl had never seen light, never seen the great rivers and mountains between heaven and earth.
Jun Changxiao said, “Jun has often heard people say that Palace Master Xi is an extraordinary woman of the Stellar Descent Continent. Seeing you today, you truly live up to your reputation.”
Xi Jingxuan smiled. “For Sect Leader Jun to lead the Iron Bones Sect to defeat the Righteous Qi Sect is what I truly admire.”
This was genuine admiration, not the cold mockery and ridicule from those outside powers.
Jun Changxiao was about to say some polite words.
A female disciple walked up to Xi Jingxuan, glared at him, and said, “Palace Master, when we departed, Grand Elder said not to talk to strangers, especially this kind of improper man.”
Improper man?
What does that mean? This sect leader is improper?
Jun Changxiao was about to open his mouth to argue with that woman, but she’d already helped Xi Jingxuan leave the window.
“Qianqian.”
Jun Changxiao said huffily, “This sect leader is improper?”
Lu Qianqian said, “Judging from the Sect Leader’s earlier eye-rolling and facial contortions, indeed improper.”
Jun Changxiao collapsed powerlessly in his chair, howling inwardly, “I was just displaying a man’s most handsome side!”
“Sect Leader.”
Lu Qianqian said, “What do you think of this Wondrous Radiance Palace Master?”
Jun Changxiao answered honestly, “Pleasant voice, and she looks beautiful when she smiles.”
These words had another meaning.
Namely, telling his eldest disciple—when can you speak pleasantly, and when can you smile?
Lu Qianqian naturally couldn’t hear this implication and remained ice-cold as she said, “You only see the surface. As far as I know, this Xi Jingxuan is a ruthless character.”
“Oh?”
Jun Changxiao said, “How ruthless?”
“There are rumors that after assuming the position of palace master, she ordered disciples to search for her biological parents,” Lu Qianqian said.
“That’s human nature,” Jun Changxiao said.
Lu Qianqian said, “Later, Xi Jingxuan found her parents and then personally killed them.”
“What?”
Jun Changxiao’s eyes widened.
Abandoning one’s child was certainly hateful and detestable.
But as their offspring, to commit patricide and matricide—her psychology definitely had problems.
Sect Leader Jun found it very difficult to imagine that such a beautiful and gentle woman would do something so extreme.
“Several years ago, a sixth-tier sect offended Wondrous Radiance Palace.”
Lu Qianqian said, “Three days later, all five thousand members of the sect, top to bottom, lay dead in the training grounds. Even the livestock didn’t escape.”
“Holy crap!”
Jun Changxiao exclaimed, “That’s way too ruthless, isn’t it?”
Sect Leader Jun had also done things like destroying others’ sects, but he believed in settling scores with those responsible—he only killed the Sacred Spring Sect’s sect leader and elders and dispersed the remaining disciples.
This kind of bloody and cruel total annihilation was simply outrageous!
“Is Wondrous Radiance Palace an evil sect?”
“Righteous sect.”
“Then was that sixth-tier sect an evil sect?”
“Righteous sect.”
“Since they’re both righteous sects, when she destroyed a sixth-tier sect, didn’t anyone condemn it?”
“They did.”
Lu Qianqian said, “The backer of that sixth-tier sect, a fourth-tier sect’s sect leader, once went to Wondrous Radiance Palace to demand accountability, but was seriously injured by Xi Jingxuan.”
Jun Changxiao’s mouth twitched.
That woman seemed harmless on the surface but was actually so sinister and brutal!
Suddenly, a scene appeared before Jun Changxiao’s eyes.
In a pitch-black room, Xi Jingxuan had her back to him, then slowly turned around, raising a bloodstained knife, laughing at him with a ferocious expression.
Thinking of this, Sect Leader Jun immediately shuddered, thinking, “Truly a ruthless character!”
…
In the Wondrous Radiance Palace’s private box.
Xi Jingxuan had just sat down in a chair when she smiled. “Li’er, the Iron Bones Sect Leader’s voice sounds so young.”
Though the exposed eye was clear, regrettably it was hollow and lifeless.
“Palace Master.”
The Wondrous Radiance Palace disciple called Li’er said, “That guy looks to be about eighteen years old.”
Xi Jingxuan murmured, “To defeat a sixth-tier sect with an eighth-tier sect—he must be a remarkable man. Such a pity…”
Speaking to this point, she lowered her head.
Rather dejectedly, she said, “I can’t see with my own eyes what he looks like.”
Li’er’s expression changed drastically as she hurriedly said, “Palace Master, this is an auction house with many powers present. You absolutely must not let your thoughts run wild!”
Several Wondrous Radiance Palace disciples were also horrified and stepped forward to comfort the palace master.
Shortly after.
Xi Jingxuan raised her head, dejection covered by a smile on her face. “I know, I know.”
“Whew!”
Seeing the palace master’s smiling face, the disciples all breathed long sighs of relief, their tense states of mind gradually relaxing.
“Jun Changxiao.”
Xi Jingxuan murmured, “If my eye disease is cured one day, I definitely want to see what kind of man you are.”
Li’er said, “Palace Master, don’t bother thinking about an eighth-tier sect. Who knows when they’ll be destroyed by someone else.”
A female disciple said, “I heard that the Iron Bones Sect made a one-year agreement with the Sacred Spring Sect. If they lose, they’ll definitely find it hard to establish themselves in the martial world afterward.”
“Ah?”
Xi Jingxuan said in surprise, “Sect Leader Jun is also going to challenge a fifth-tier sect?”
Li’er said, “Doesn’t he know his own strength? Insisting on challenging the Sacred Spring Sect is典型seeking death, so the Palace Master needn’t pay attention.”
“After the auction ends, go inquire about the specific time when the Iron Bones Sect will challenge the Sacred Spring Sect. If I have time, I’ll go watch… go listen.”
Xi Jingxuan said with considerable anticipation.
The disciples were speechless.
Why had the palace master taken such interest in the obscure Iron Bones Sect Leader?