Chapter 1718: How Could It Not Ignite


    Several disciples with higher aptitude also entered.


    “I really didn’t do anything,”


    Brother Hao felt that he was truly wronged, as he diligently watched over the Evesting Lamps in the Evesting Hall every day, never once neglecting his duties.


    It wasn’t his fault that Gu Qingyu’s Evesting Lamp went out, was it?


    “Brother Hao, please bear with it for a while, I don’t think this matter is so simple,” a junior brother standing beside Brother Hao said in a lowered voice.


    “What do you mean?”


    Brother Hao turned his head to look at the junior brother.


    Did he mean that Gu Qingyu had died, which was why her Evesting Lamp had gone out?


    It couldn’t be. Gu Qingyu wasn’t going to any dangerous ce, she was just going out for training with Brother Zheen and the others, with everyone prioritizing her protection. How could they possibly allow Gu Qingyu to die?


    Even he himself had thought that he must have been neglectful, causing the Evesting Lamp to go out.<div>


    “The character that Great Elder has fostered in Gu Qingyu is well-known among us Qingyun Sect members, and the outside world is not as simple as you think,” the junior brother continued.


    Otherwise, why would the other Evesting Lamps not go out, but only Gu Qingyu’s did?


    Hearing this, Brother Hao’s eyes dimmed. If what the junior brother said was true, then it had nothing to do with him, but he might still be held ountable by the Great Elder.


    He was really unlucky.


    Inside the Evesting Hall, the Sect Leader and the Great Elder approached Gu Qingyu’s Evesting Lamp together. Looking at themp’s oil which hadn’t decreased by much, logically, it shouldn’t have gone out.


    “Junior brother, try to light Qingyu’s Evesting Lamp,” he said to the Great Elder.


    The Great Elder nodded slightly and, concentrating Original Soul energy in his hand, he touched a me to the wick. But strangely, no matter how he tried, the wick wouldn’t catch fire.


    He then gathered even more powerful Original Soul energy to ignite the wick, but it was all in vain.


    “How can this be? Why can’t the Evesting Lamp be lit?” The Great Elder murmured to himself, continuing to ce Spiritual Fire on the wick with his hand.


    And the face of the Sect Leader beside him was bing increasingly grim.


    If the wick could not be ignited, it could only mean one thing—that Gu Qingyu was no longer in this world.


    But before leaving, he had repeatedly told Mo Zheng to protect Gu Qingyu at all costs. How could he have let Gu Qingyu just die? He knew that if Gu Qingyu died, his position as Chief Disciple could be in jeopardy.


    If the Great Elder opposed it, Mo Zheng’s session as Sect Leader would be indefinitely dyed.


    Unless…


    He raised his eyes and nced indifferently at the Great Elder.


    Unless the Great Elder were gone too, then there would be no more constraints.


    “Senior brother, it seems that Qingyu has encountered trouble outside,” he said solemnly to the Great Elder.


    “Impossible!”


    The Great Elder couldn’t believe it; his granddaughter was very capable and with so many Life-saving Talismans he had given her, how could anything happen?<div>


    Even if Mo Zheng had an ident, she wouldn’t.


    Thinking this, he took two steps back and walked towards Mo Zheng’s Evesting Lamp, only to see that Mo Zheng’s Evesting Lamp shone brightly, without the slightest possibility of being extinguished.


    A surge of anger rose within him, and, raising his hand, he sent a st of Original Soul energy towards Mo Zheng’s Evesting Lamp.


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