Yuan Cang was almost scared out of his wits.
He prostrated himself on the ground, trembling all over. "Brother, what do you mean? I don't understand."
The immortal attendant kneeling beside him seemed to suddenly realize something and whispered, "Your Highness the Crown Prince, are you referring to the female cultivator who came to see you today?"
Yue Zhiyin was taken aback. "Female cultivator?"
Shouldn't it be a male cultivator?
"Yes, it was a female cultivator. A female cultivator did come today, saying she wanted to buy some treasures." The attendant shivered. "Because Your Highness the Crown Prince was not here, I told her to come back in fifteen days, and then the Second Prince arrived..."
The attendant pursed his lips, not continuing further.
Yue Zhiyin looked at Yuan Cang. "What did you do? Tell me yourself, or must I force you?"
"I just hugged that woman, I didn't do anything else, really!" Yuan Cang looked at Yue Zhiyin in terror. "If I had known she was Brother's woman, I wouldn't have touched her even if you beat me to death."
Yue Zhiyin frowned and kicked Yuan Cang away.
He walked to his seat and sat down.
However, he felt a wave of confusion in his heart.
A female cultivator?
Why would it be a female cultivator?
He had just heard what Yuan Cang and the attendant said, and he hadn't ruled out the possibility that Qi Yu was a woman.
But... as a dragon, he was extremely sensitive to male and female energies.
If Qi Yu were truly a woman, why wouldn't he have guessed it earlier?
However, what Yue Zhiyin didn't know was...
Qi Yu, as a Yan Zhen Mirror, actually possessed a small ability to reverse yin and yang.
This reversal of yin and yang didn't mean turning a man into a woman, but rather the ability to conceal and alter a person's aura.
Qi Yu could use this ability on others, and naturally, he would use it even more for his disguise as a man.
Yue Zhiyin sat in the Dragon Palace, pondering for a whole day, unable to figure out what was going on.
But when he looked at Yuan Cang again, he still felt angry.
After beating the other party soundly, he returned to the Beiyuan Sect.
The next day.
Early morning.
Beiyuan Sect, training grounds.
Qi Yu was completely unaware of what had happened at the North Sea Dragon Palace.
When Yue Zhiyin returned and saw Qi Yu, he opened his mouth as if to say something, but then couldn't help but rub his temples.
In that moment, he had actually thought of asking Qi Yu if he was a woman.
He was simply being ridiculous!
Ming Lou, seeing Yue Zhiyin in a daze, couldn't help but lean closer. "Senior Disciple Brother, why are you acting so strangely? What are you thinking about?"
"I'm thinking..." Yue Zhiyin felt his thought was absurd. "I'm thinking if Junior Disciple Brother Qi Yu might be a woman?"
After saying that, he felt the ambiguity of his words and couldn't help but add an explanation:
"I'm not being sarcastic or mocking him. I genuinely suspect that Junior Disciple Brother Qi Yu is not a junior brother, but a junior sister."
Ming Lou was stunned. "What? Senior Disciple Brother, what made you have such a thought? How does Junior Disciple Brother Qi Yu resemble a girl?"
Yue Zhiyin also felt that his brain was malfunctioning. "But..."
"Senior Disciple Brother, do you have some unspeakable hobby?" Ming Lou stood three steps away from Yue Zhiyin, looking shocked.
"I wouldn't go that far!" Yue Zhiyin rolled his eyes at him. "I just, I think Junior Disciple Brother Qi Yu is a bit too pretty."
"..." Ming Lou looked at him with a strange gaze.
Yue Zhiyin was inexplicably looked at by him. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
"In terms of prettiness, Senior Disciple Brother, you are even prettier than Junior Disciple Brother Qi Yu." Ming Lou reached out and playfully touched Yue Zhiyin's face. "By that logic, you might be a woman too!"
Yue Zhiyin felt an urge to punch his junior disciple brother, his fists clenched, veins bulging on his forehead.
Just then, a loud bang suddenly came from the opposite side.
Yue Zhiyin and Ming Lou looked up together.
They saw Yu Zhen and Li Yu standing side by side opposite them, their gazes filled with shock as they looked at them...
Qi Yu also looked at them with a complex expression.
Ming Lou: "...Although I don't know what you're thinking, in short, you've misunderstood."
Qi Yu thought for a moment: "Sixth Senior Brother, when you say misunderstanding, do you mean... the flirting between you and Senior Disciple Brother, or the matter of Senior Disciple Brother being a girl?"