Let me explain, it's not what you think.

Zhou Qingxuan said Yun Chuxue was aloof and pretentious, Yun Chuxue said Zhou Qingxuan was domineering and unreasonable, Dan Linglong stirred up trouble on both sides, and Ao Qian attacked whoever she could find.

The four women's voices grew louder and louder, their anger intensified, and their spiritual pressure unconsciously surged upwards.

The pebbles around the cracks creaked under the weight, the moss on the ground curled up layer by layer, and even the thick fog in the distance was pushed back a bit!

Lin Tian stood a few steps away, his back to the crevice in the rock, his shoulders trembling slightly.

He turned his head and exchanged a glance with Li Fei.

For once, a look of shock appeared on Li Fei's perpetually unchanging face.

Yes, it was absolutely stunning!

He lowered his voice, his tone filled with an incredible admiration.

"Four Transcending Tribulation stage cultivators! All stunning beauties! And they're arguing like this all because of Brother Lu!!! My God!!"

Lin Tian also took a deep breath, nodded, and lowered his voice as well.

"Brother, I'm truly impressed. In all my years of wandering, I've seen countless geniuses and prodigies, but he's the first one to have provoked four Tribulation Transcending cultivators at the same time and still be standing here alive!"

"I feel... it might be more than that!" Li Fei added.

"I heard that he's also very close to the eldest daughter of the Mu family, and that woman is also in the Tribulation Transcending stage!"

"Really? Doesn't she have a boyfriend named Luan Gou?"

"You have no idea..." Li Fei loudly plotted.

Lin Tian fell silent.

He suddenly felt that all his years of spiritual practice had been in vain.

Lu Chen quietly won over so many top female cultivators, while he's still worrying about finding a Daoist partner!

He subconsciously turned around and glanced at Lu Chen in the crevice of the rock.

Lu Chen was watching the four women argue, holding his head in his hands, looking utterly dejected.

Tang Qianqian shrank to the side of him, not daring to breathe.

She gripped his sleeves tightly with both hands, her expression shifting from fear to a subtle kind of adoration.

On the other side of the abyss, the Spirit Emperor's pair of dark golden vertical pupils blinked slowly. It seemed not to understand why the battlefield where they had just been fighting to the death had suddenly become the stage for these women to quarrel.

On both sides of the abyss, dozens of cultivators and spirits stood silently, none daring to move or utter a sound.

Everyone was waiting. Waiting for the four women to finish arguing.

However, after listening to what Li Fei said, the four women stopped arguing and turned their heads to look at Li Fei.

That gaze was even more suffocating than the spiritual pressure from before. Four pairs of eyes, four Tribulation Transcending stage cultivators, were looking at him at the same time, and the temperature in the air suddenly dropped a few degrees.

If there's background music playing at the event, it's "Ascending to Godhood".

In an instant, Li Fei felt a tightness in his chest, as if four mountains were pressing down on him at the same time. His knees buckled, and he knelt on the ground with a thud. He supported himself with his hands on the ground, and a layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out from his forehead.

"You just said that Miss Mu and Lu Lang are getting close? And she has a boyfriend??"

Zhou Qingxuan was the first to speak, her phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, her tone carrying a chilling calmness.

"Which Miss Mu?" Yun Chuxue asked immediately. "Mu Qingyao?"

"Mu Qingyao is in the Tribulation Transcending stage? When?"

Dan Linglong also stopped smiling.

"How come I didn't know she had dealings with Lu Lang?"

Clearly, they all knew about Mu Qingyao.

Only Ao Qian didn't recognize Mu Qingyao, and tilted her head, waiting for Li Fei to explain.

Li Fei knelt on the ground, unable to lift his head due to the pressure from the four forces, and cursed himself eight hundred times in his heart.

Why couldn't he control his mouth just now?

He was usually very quiet, but today, when he started talking about Lu Chen's gossip, he got excited and his voice became louder!

Now, with four Transcending Tribulation stage cultivators interrogating him simultaneously, he, a Mahayana early stage cultivator, is struggling to even breathe.

"I...I just heard about it...you'll have to ask the person involved..." He immediately betrayed Lu Chen.

Anyway, he knew that Lu Chen would be fine, since these people were all his future sisters-in-law.

"Who told you that?" Zhou Qingxuan took a step forward.

"Where did you hear that?" Yun Chuxue also took a step forward.

"Explain yourself clearly," Dan Linglong followed.

"Otherwise, don't even think about it," Ao Qian added as the last sentence.

As the four figures approached simultaneously, Li Fei felt the four mountains on his back grow even heavier, as if he were being pressed into the ground.

"Sisters-in-law..."

Just as he was about to beg for mercy, he suddenly felt a loosening on his shoulder.

The four oppressive auras seemed to have been pushed aside, and suddenly moved away from him.

He looked up and saw that Lu Chen had come out at some point and was standing in front of him, pulling the four women away with one hand each.

To be precise, it was one hand that was holding the arms of both women.

With his left hand holding Zhou Qingxuan and Yun Chuxue, and his right hand holding Dan Linglong and Ao Qian, he didn't use much force, but he managed to completely separate the four women's auras.

Everyone watching from the sidelines was stunned.

Dude, are you that brave? Those were four people undergoing tribulation, how dare you?

But surprisingly, the four women actually stopped in their tracks when he pulled them like that. They all looked down at the hand that was holding them, and then looked up at Lu Chen's face.

"Alright."

Lu Chen spoke, his tone not harsh, but carrying an undeniable certainty.

"My brother is right, I am close to Mu Qingyao. She is my master, and I am her disciple. So what if we're close? If you four want to argue, come at me, don't bully my brother!"

After he finished speaking, his gaze swept across the faces of the four women one by one. He did not flinch, nor did he try to please them, nor did he feel guilty. He just looked at them openly and honestly.

These women can argue amongst themselves; they shouldn't take their resentment out on others.

The four women were somewhat stunned by his gaze.

Zhou Qingxuan pursed her lips, Yun Chuxue turned her head slightly, Dan Linglong blinked, and Ao Qian puffed out her cheeks.

"If you have something to say, let's find somewhere else. This isn't the right place."

After Lu Chen finished speaking, without waiting for their reply, he gently pulled the four of them towards the outer edge of the abyss.

The four women, being pulled along by him, didn't struggle or resist at all. They simply exchanged a few glances and then obediently followed him away from the battlefield.

(How's the plot going lately? Is it dragging? I feel like my head's a bit fuzzy lately, and I'm worried the plot might get messed up too.)