Chapter 247 – We still have one person!

Before the Immortal Ascension Bridge, Shu Mingxiu and the other Great Emperor disciples were filled with shame and anger.

In the surrounding pavilions and towers, countless people pointed at them and whispered, their voices occasionally punctuated by soft chuckles, which felt exceptionally grating.

This made Shu Mingxiu and the others flush with embarrassment, wishing they could leave immediately.

“Everyone, this is merely a friendly competition. There’s no need to take it too seriously!”

At that moment, Gong Yun stepped forward.

He was a Saint disciple and also held the top record on the Immortal Ascension Bridge.

Even the other Saint disciples respected him, making him the de facto leader of this generation of Saint disciples.

As he stepped out, the crowd fell silent.

This time, Gong Yun had single-handedly suppressed all the Great Emperor disciples, earning face for the Saint disciples.

“Everyone! My temporary lead is merely a stroke of luck!” Gong Yun hovered in the air, humble and courteous, without any arrogance. He smiled and cupped his hands toward Shu Mingxiu and the other Great Emperor disciples on the White Jade Square.

He spoke sincerely, but to Shu Mingxiu and the others, his words felt exceptionally grating.

“Gong Yun! There’s no need for such high-sounding words!” Shu Mingxiu’s face darkened. He then glanced at the other Great Emperor disciples and snorted, “Let’s go!”

Staying here any longer would only bring more humiliation.

Everyone nodded, having long wanted to leave.

Especially Zhao Wu, who wished he could use two heavy hammers to cover his rugged face.

“Wait!”

At that moment, a clear, sharp voice suddenly rang out, stopping Shu Mingxiu and the others.

All eyes instinctively turned toward the source.

On a tower in the middle of the lake, Gu Qingren stood quietly in a long skirt. The sharp cry had come from her.

“Junior Sister?!” Shu Mingxiu looked over. When he saw it was Gu Qingren, he frowned, unsure what she was up to.

Even the group of her close friends around her was bewildered, turning to look at her.

“Qingren…”

“What are you doing? Are you going to take action too?”

Her friends stared at her in confusion. So many Great Emperor disciples had already failed. Although Gu Qingren was also a Great Emperor disciple, could she possibly succeed?

“He’s here!” Gu Qingren ignored everyone, her gaze fixed on the horizon as if watching for something.

“What?!”

The people around her grew even more puzzled. Who was here? Had Gu Qingren lost her mind?

A Saint disciple sneered and spoke up, “If you lost, you lost. Can’t you accept defeat?”

“Qingren, come with me and leave!” Shu Mingxiu shouted sternly, unable to understand what Gu Qingren was doing.

Gu Qingren shook her head. “We still have one more person.” Then, she looked at Shu Mingxiu. “Senior Brother, Senior Brother Ye is here!”

As she spoke, her gaze shifted into the distance.

“What?!” Shu Mingxiu was stunned and followed her gaze.

Sure enough, he saw a figure in white robes on the distant horizon.

The white-robed figure strolled leisurely across the sky, seemingly unaware of what had happened here.

He looked like a tourist, stopping and starting along the way to admire the scenery of Sansheng Heaven, almost as if he were about to take out a camera to snap photos!

“Who is he?” Many others also looked over.

At their level of cultivation, everyone possessed extraordinary eyesight. If they wished, they could see an ant from thousands of meters away.

“Ye Sheng!” Shu Mingxiu gritted his teeth. While others might not recognize the white-robed figure, he knew him all too well. He hadn’t expected Ye Sheng to arrive at this moment.

In one area, a burst of cheers erupted.

It was the group from Nanming Province who recognized the newcomer at a glance.

“It’s the boss!” Xu Xingchen’s face flushed red as he spotted Ye Sheng, who occasionally paused to admire the scenery.

“It’s Ye Sheng! What’s he doing? Sightseeing?” Shangguan Jianyun was both amused and exasperated. While things were about to erupt into a fight here, Ye Sheng was leisurely taking in the scenery of Sansheng Heaven.

“This is going to be quite a show!”

Xu Xiao and the other three exchanged glances. The arrival of this one was bound to stir up a shocking storm!

…

Under everyone’s gaze, Ye Sheng walked slowly, stopping and starting along the way, taking quite a while before finally arriving near the Tongxian Bridge.

Seeing the bustling crowd, Ye Sheng couldn’t help but frown slightly.

He had emerged from seclusion this time merely to catch up with Xu Xingchen and the others, to chat and dispel the loneliness of months spent in isolation. Yet the scene before him seemed to indicate something was happening.

But whatever was happening had little to do with him.

Ye Sheng walked forward with his hands clasped behind his back, ignoring the crowd whose eyes were fixed on him, and calmly flew toward the group from Nanming Province.

This attitude undoubtedly left many people bewildered!

Couldn’t he see everyone was watching him?

“Senior Brother Ye!”

Seeing that Ye Sheng showed no intention of stopping, Gu Qingren was the first to speak up, unable to hold back.

She flew out from the pavilion to intercept Ye Sheng, genuinely afraid that he might leave without a word.

“Gu Qingren?” Ye Sheng, having been stopped, looked at the woman in a long dress before him.

Gu Qingren gave Ye Sheng a resentful look. “Senior Brother, we are both disciples under our Honored Master. You should address me as Junior Sister!”

Among the four of them, seniority was determined based on the resource levels granted by Emperor Lord Dongxuan back then.

Among them… Ye Sheng received the highest resources, naturally making him the leader of the four.

Next was Shu Mingxiu.

Gu Qingren received the poorest resources, becoming the youngest junior sister.

This was also why both Gu Qingren and Ruan Fang addressed Shu Mingxiu as Senior Brother.

Ye Sheng smiled. Asking him to suddenly address someone as Junior Sister was something he couldn’t quite adapt to right away.

Gu Qingren didn’t press the matter and directly recounted what had happened here, ensuring Ye Sheng understood. Finally, she bowed slightly and said, “Senior Brother Ye, it’s up to you to restore everyone’s dignity!”

…

“Who is this person?”

Not far away, the crowd watched.

Many among them looked extremely puzzled. Zhao Wu even spoke up directly to inquire, as he did not recognize Ye Sheng.

There was no helping it. Unlike Shu Mingxiu’s active presence.

Since becoming Emperor Lord Dongxuan’s nominal disciple, Ye Sheng had hardly ever appeared in public, to the point where many had forgotten that Emperor Lord Dongxuan had another disciple.

“He is Ye Sheng!” Ruan Fang, who had been silent all along, spoke up, looking at Ye Sheng. “He is the senior brother to the three of us!”

“He is Ye Sheng?!” Zhao Wu, reminded like this, suddenly recalled something.

He naturally knew that Emperor Lord Dongxuan had taken on four nominal disciples this time. He had only heard the name Ye Sheng in passing but had never seen him before. Now, seeing the actual person, he naturally couldn’t recognize him.

Many people around, upon learning that Ye Sheng was also a disciple of a Great Emperor, began whispering among themselves.

“He is Qingren’s senior brother?” In the pavilion, a group of Gu Qingren’s close friends looked at Ye Sheng in his white robe and discussed.

“That’s right. Emperor Lord Dongxuan did indeed take on four nominal disciples this time.”

“But I’ve never seen him before!”

“I almost forgot Qingren had such a senior brother, hehe!”

Elsewhere, Gong Yun frowned as he looked at Ye Sheng, who had suddenly appeared.

Qiao Lingshan stepped through the air and approached, arriving by his side. With a gentle smile, she said, “He is a disciple of Emperor Lord Dongxuan, named Ye Sheng. He has been in seclusion all along—I didn’t expect him to emerge today.”