I am an incredibly handsome man, and my fiancée refuses to call off the engagement even at the cost

Chapter 210 Five-Step Mountain Trial

Seeing that Lu Huanong was not shocked when she saw her dressed as a man, and seemed unsurprised that she was a man, Gu Yan thought to herself: She really did see that I was not a woman long ago.

That's right, Revlon actually knew all along that Gu Yan wasn't a woman.

If a Celestial King couldn't discern Gu Yan's true gender upon close contact, then she wouldn't deserve the title. Initially, she didn't realize it, but the moment she touched Gu Yan's body, she discovered it. However, Gu Yan was simply too handsome, and Lu Huanong didn't want to expose him.

If we expose him and then do nothing to punish him, wouldn't that be a slap in our own face?

So she pretended not to know.

"Palace Master, please don't cause me any trouble. It's Fellow Daoist Gu who wants to see you," Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Lu Huanong had been cultivating in the secret chamber when Xiao Yu and Gu Yan appeared; she sensed it immediately. Gu Yan's meteoric rise from the True Immortal stage to the Golden Immortal stage in two thousand five hundred years had stirred a terrifying storm within her, almost shattering her established understanding. What on earth had happened in those two thousand five hundred years? How could his cultivation have improved so rapidly?

"What do you want to see me for?" Lu Huanong asked Gu Yan.

"Palace Master, I've come to repay a debt," Gu Yan said with a slight smile.

Gu Yan held up a storage bag with both hands, but Lu Huanong didn't even glance at it. She suddenly smiled and said, "Distinguished guests have come; we should treat them with courtesy. Otherwise, people will say that my Heartless Palace is ignorant of etiquette. Please, both of you!"

Xiao Yu and Gu Yan exchanged a glance, and Lu Huanong had already flown forward.

Xiao Yu and Gu Yan followed behind her, flying towards a distant fairy island floating above the sea of ​​clouds.

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Inside the palace, Gu Yan, Lu Huanong, and Xiao Yu sat around a jade table. Three female disciples served fragrant tea, and while serving the tea, they couldn't help but steal glances at Gu Yan's incomparably handsome face.

"Try it, this is Jade Dew Tea, a specialty of the Heartless Palace," said Lu Huanong.

Xiao Yu smiled, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and praised, "Excellent tea."

Gu Yan took a sip. Compared to Qing Xuanzi's terribly bitter tea, this tea was incredibly delicious. However, after drinking that bitter tea for over two thousand years, he had actually begun to taste a sweetness in it. Although the taste wasn't great, its medicinal effects were formidable. His cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, and that tea was undoubtedly one of the reasons for it.

"Palace Master, I have come to pay off the debt of two hundred million immortal jades. Please accept this!" Gu Yan looked at Lu Huanong and presented the storage bag containing the immortal jades once again.

Lu Huanong glanced at Gu Yan. His appearance was even more captivating than it had been two thousand years ago, especially when he dressed as a man. Few women could resist him. If it weren't for the long years of cultivation and the heartbreak she had suffered, Lu Huanong feared she would have fallen in love with the young man before her, just like the disciple beside her.

"You disguised yourself as a woman and bewitched my Heartless Palace disciples. Do you think a mere two hundred million immortal jades will suffice to settle this score?" Lu Huanong said sternly.

Gu Yan asked with a smile, "What does the Palace Master wish to do?"

"I don't want the two hundred million immortal jades. I want you to do something for me," said Lu Huanong.

Gu Yan asked, "What's wrong?"

"The Five Elements Mountain Trial is about to begin. I want you to fight for the Heartless Palace and win first place." Lu Huanong looked directly into Gu Yan's eyes.

"The Five Elements Mountain Trial?" Gu Yan looked at Xiao Yu beside her in confusion.

Xiao Yu explained, "The Five Elements Mountain Trial is a grand event established by the Immortal Alliance to inspire the fighting spirit of disciples from various forces and sects and to cultivate geniuses. It is held once every 100,000 years, and all forces can send disciples below the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm to participate. Anyone who achieves a ranking will receive generous rewards."

"Normally, major powers send Golden Immortal stage disciples to participate in the trials."

"If that's the case, then the Wood Spirit Palace will also send people to participate in the Five Elements Mountain Trial," Gu Yan said.

Xiao Yu nodded: "That's right."

"Xiao Yu said before that you didn't join the Wood Spirit Palace, so it's not unreasonable for you to fight for the Heartless Palace, is it?" Lu Huanong said.

Gu Yan thought for a moment and said, "That's certainly possible."

"Alright, that's settled then. If you can help our Heartless Palace get first place, all debts will be wiped clean. I'll also let bygones be bygones for your impersonation of a woman to seduce my Heartless Palace disciples, and I'll turn a blind eye to Zhou Ting and the others knowing about it but not reporting it."

Gu Yan: "..."

When did he ever flirt with any of the female disciples of the Heartless Palace? Don't wrong him, okay? He has always been averse to looking at anything improper.

Gu Yan was too lazy to argue with Lu Huanong, and cupped her hands, saying, "This junior will certainly do her best."

"The Palace of Heartless Love has no male disciples, so you must fight as a woman." A slight smile suddenly appeared on Lu Huanong's face.

Gu Yan's smile froze.

what?

"You must participate in the trial as Lin Daiyu, along with the other female disciples of the Heartless Palace," Lu Huanong said with a smile.

Gu Yan: "..."

Can he refuse?

Xiao Yu watched Gu Yan freeze in place, a hint of schadenfreude in his smile.

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"Young Master Gu, is it really you?"

Mulan, Zhou Ting, and Xie Wan'er surrounded Gu Yan.

After Gu Yan agreed to participate in the trial on behalf of the Heartless Palace, he stayed there, while Xiao Yu had already left. Gu Yan told Lu Huanong that he wanted to see Zhou Ting and the others, and Lu Huanong did not refuse his request.

"I'm sorry to have worried you all," Gu Yan said with a slight smile.

Xie Wan'er looked at Gu Yan and almost burst into tears. All along, she felt that it was her own willfulness that caused her to lose Young Master Gu and put him in danger. For more than two thousand years, she had been feeling extremely guilty.

"Young master, young master, you're alright! It's so good that you're alright..."

As Xie Wan'er spoke, tears began to fall in a steady stream.

When she started crying, Gu Yan panicked. He didn't know how to comfort a crying girl, so he quickly said:

"Senior Sister Xie, don't cry, I'm fine. I'm so sorry for making you worry."

Xie Wan'er gazed at Gu Yan's face through teary eyes:

"Thank goodness, thank goodness, you're alright. Where have you been all these years?"

"I have been cultivating with a senior in the Wood Spirit Hall," Gu Yan said.

"Are you a disciple of the Wood Spirit Hall now?" Zhou Ting asked.

Gu Yan shook her head: "No, I didn't become an apprentice."

"Young master, your cultivation has already reached the late stage of Golden Immortal?" Mulan's voice was filled with disbelief.

"Yes, that's right." Gu Yan nodded.

"This...this is unbelievable. Young Master, what kind of cultivation speed is this?" Zhou Ting was even jealous.

Gu Yan smiled. His rapid improvement was related to his Chaotic Dao Body, but without Qing Xuanzi's help, he couldn't have improved so quickly. However, he had spent the last two thousand five hundred years practically being beaten up. Qing Xuanzi was extremely strict with him and showed him no mercy whatsoever.

Mulan, realizing that Gu Yan had come disguised as a man, wondered what her master was thinking, and spoke up:

"Master, Master, she..."

"It's alright, your master knows everything. She won't punish you, nor will she do anything to me. She even wants me to help your Heartless Palace participate in the Five Elements Mountain Trial," Gu Yan said.

What?!

Mulan, Zhou Ting, and Xie Wan'er stared in shock, their eyes wide open.