"Long time no see, Sect Master Gu… No, I should call you Palace Master Gu now."
Xing Wu walked forward, smiling at him.
Although she and Gu Chen hadn't interacted much, she was quite familiar with him as the former Sect Master of the Gu Dao Heavenly Sect.
Gu Chen stared blankly at Xing Wu as she approached. After a while, he looked at Ye Yun beside him and asked in utter confusion,
"What in the world is going on here? How did you guys end up together?"
Before Ye Yun could explain, Xing Wu beside him smiled playfully and looked at Gu Chen, saying,
"That's a bit of an unpleasant thing to say. Why couldn't we end up together? Also, I think we should reintroduce ourselves."
"Uh, reintroduce what?"
Gu Chen was full of doubt, not understanding what she meant.
Then, Xing Wu pulled Ye Yun to her side, leaning her body against him, and said with a smile,
"I am Ye Yun's wife now."
Ye Yun nodded in agreement and said slowly,
"Yes, not long ago, we held our wedding and officially became husband and wife."
These words, coupled with their intimate actions and Ye Yun's affirmation,
left Gu Chen and the other two completely stunned, their mouths agape.
Gu Xiaoyue extended her small hand and waved it in front of him. Seeing no reaction, she shrugged at Ye Yun.
"Master seems to have lost his mind."
Ye Yun also looked at Xing Wu beside him with a hint of helplessness and a wry smile, saying,
"It can't be helped. Perhaps the shock is a bit too much for him."
A few seconds later, Gu Chen glared at Ye Yun and said,
"You rascal, were you bewitched by her beauty?! You can't fall for her tricks. This vixen is definitely up to no good by getting close to you!"
His perception of Xing Wu was still stuck at the time Ye Yun ascended.
Back then, he only knew that Xing Wu was a powerful expert from the Heavenly Realm, and there were many suspicious aspects about her.
How could he rest easy with Ye Yun being with such a woman?
"Cough, cough, cough. You don't need to worry about that. We've thoroughly investigated every aspect of her."
"R-really?"
Gu Chen still found it hard to believe, staring at Xing Wu suspiciously.
She smiled charmingly and nodded playfully.
"Yes, in every aspect…"
A silence fell over the scene at her words.
For a moment, they felt like complaining, wishing they could instantly understand those "grey" profound skills…
Ye Yun shot a glance at Xing Wu in his arms and said helplessly,
"You, stop fooling around and being crude. What if you corrupt the innocent children?"
He thought that with so many people watching.
Xing Wu shrugged indifferently and said,
"What, are you afraid to admit what you've done?"
She raised an eyebrow and said leisurely,
"You've already done so many excessive things to me."
"..."
Ye Yun had a feeling that if he were ever confined by some mysterious power, it would be Xing Wu's fault!
It seemed no one present could stop Xing Wu from driving the conversation into inappropriate territory…
As Gu Chen watched their exchange, his shock only deepened.
"You actually…"
For a moment, he didn't know what to say.
Lan Aotian, an experienced "driver," looked at Ye Yun with emotion, his mind racing.
"Elder Ye has truly grown up, actually capturing this one…"
The Ye Yun now was clearly no longer the fledgling who needed him to impart experience in matters of romance.
He had clearly evolved into a mighty eagle soaring across the land!
Ye Yun, to prevent the conversation from spiraling further, cleared his throat and said,
"In short, this is a long story. Let me explain it to you."
"Of course, you have to explain what's going on!"
Gu Chen looked at Ye Yun, then at the group around him. He couldn't fathom any of them, making it hard to believe.
Yu Ruofeng and Lan Aotian also looked at Ye Yun curiously, eager to hear his story about the Heavenly Realm.
Seeing this, Ye Yun sighed and said,
"After I ascended…"
Given the sheer volume of events, a detailed account would require hundreds of thousands of words. He thus condensed his experiences in the Heavenly Realm for the three of them.
During this, when they first learned about the Heavenly Dao Divine Hall in the Heavenly Realm, Gu Chen couldn't help but grumble,
"So it was all the fault of that Hall Master of the Heavenly Dao! What a domineering and arrogant fellow. By the way, did you end up killing that Hall Master later on?"
As he spoke, the atmosphere around Ye Yun became slightly awkward.
If this had been when he first arrived in the Heavenly Realm, such a question would have been fine, but now…
Gu Chen also noticed the strange atmosphere and asked Ye Yun with confusion,
"Is there a problem? Or is that Hall Master too strong for you to defeat yet?"
Clearly, it wasn't a matter of being able to defeat him or not, especially considering she was about to become Ye Yun's concubine.
Ye Yun coughed dryly. "Cough, cough, that matter…"
Just as he was about to explain, Xing Lian stepped forward and bowed to him.
"I apologize for my previous actions."
In truth, Xing Lian knew that her apologies to those she had affected were of little practical consequence now.
But even so, she would still do it, at least to show her attitude towards the matter.
This, in turn, made Gu Chen look quite puzzled.
"Uh, what does this mean?"
Ye Yun smiled helplessly and had to introduce her to him.
"Ah, this is the Hall Master of the Heavenly Dao you were just talking about. No, she should be the former Hall Master of the Heavenly Dao."
"She is now the Hall Master of the Heavenly Realm's Daoist Preaching Hall, and my sister-in-law, Miss Xing Lian."
However, this explanation only made Gu Chen more bewildered.
But soon, he seemed to grasp something and asked,
"In summary, she's one of us now?"
"Uh, you could understand it that way."
Ye Yun nodded, feeling that there would be many things to explain later.
But compared to other matters, Gu Chen clearly had something he wanted to clarify more urgently.
He looked at Xing Wu, then at Xing Lian, and finally at Ye Yun.
Just as Ye Yun thought he was about to make some profound statement, Gu Chen blurted out,
"You rascal, don't tell me you specifically like enemies, no, women who are domineering and forceful?"
Whether it was Xing Wu from before or Xing Lian, the former Hall Master of the Heavenly Dao, as described later, clearly fit this description.
Moreover, from Ye Yun's description, Xing Wu and Xing Lian seemed to be sisters…
Finally, Gu Chen looked at Ye Yun suspiciously and said slowly,
"I have serious doubts now that you have some strange fetish!"