Chapter 1233: I Am a Woman

Ji Qingxuan obediently stopped, biting her red lips slightly as she stared silently at Jiang Fan. Her eyes were filled with grievance.

Jiang Fan frowned and walked up to him, saying, "What exactly is wrong with you? For a man of your stature, it's one thing to speak and act like a woman. But you won't even let anyone touch you!" He poked Ji Qingxuan's chest and criticized, "What's wrong with a touch? Are you going to fall apart?"

Ji Qingxuan covered his chest again, his jade-like face flushed red, and his beautiful eyes widened as he let out repeated cries. "You! You're shameless!" He raised his hand, about to slap Jiang Fan's face.

Jiang Fan was so angry he laughed. Incorrigible! He grabbed Ji Qingxuan by the collar and said, "Try to hit me! I'll expel you from the Great Yin Sect immediately!"

Upon hearing this, Ji Qingxuan didn't dare to strike with the raised hand. But Jiang Fan was still holding his collar, making him feel utterly humiliated and indignant. A hint of mist involuntarily welled up in his eyes.

"You're crying now?" Jiang Fan became even more irritated. "What are you crying about? I said a couple of things, and you're feeling wronged? My heavens, are you even a man?"

Ji Qingxuan said, tearfully, "But I'm not a man in the first place!"

Jiang Fan's expression froze for a moment. He asked, stunned, "What do you mean? Are you trying to say you're a woman?" He looked at Ji Qingxuan's chest, which was completely flat. Where were any female features?

Ji Qingxuan wiped away her tears, staring at Jiang Fan, her voice slightly choked: "There's only one prince in Beihai!"

Jiang Fan was taken aback. "Only one? Does that mean he's the crown prince of Beihai? So this Beihai prince in front of me is..."

Ji Qingxuan said, feeling humiliated and annoyed, "There's also a princess named Ji Qingxuan. And she's currently being held by the collar by you!"

Jiang Fan was startled and quickly let go as if he'd been electrocuted. "You... you're a woman?" He stared at Ji Qingxuan from head to toe, looking as if he'd seen a ghost. Given his cultivation level, it shouldn't be possible for him not to see through a disguise, right?

Ji Qingxuan twirled the umbrella in her hand, creating a crisscrossing play of light and shadow. The next moment, something that made Jiang Fan widen his eyes occurred. Ji Qingxuan's flat chest rapidly swelled, becoming round and shapely in a flash. Her features also shed their disguise, transforming from a subtle softness to exquisite beauty. Her nose bridge was high, and above her sparkling, beautiful eyes were two finely arched brows. Her delicate skin exuded a lustrous glow. Even dressed in men's clothing, she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Jiang Fan was dumbfounded. He had punched her chest more than once, and it turned out he had been punching the chest of Ji Qingxuan, the Princess of Beihai! He hadn't realized and had even lectured her righteously! Thinking of this, his face quickly flushed red, and he wished he could find a hole to crawl into!

"Why... why didn't you say something earlier?"

Ji Qingxuan gave Jiang Fan a resentful glare. She wanted to get angry, but her voice was soft and weak. It sounded almost like she was pouting. "It's safer for me to travel disguised as a man. But I never thought that I'd avoid the scoundrels only to not avoid you!"

Jiang Fan covered his face. "Oh heavens! How embarrassing! Fairy Ji, I... I didn't mean to!"

Ji Qingxuan twirled her umbrella, transforming back into her male disguise. Biting her red lips tightly, she said, feeling wronged: "I reminded you again and again, 'Don't touch me, don't touch me.' Not only did you not understand what I meant, but you deliberately punched and poked my chest, and just now you even scolded me! Were you doing it on purpose?"

Jiang Fan was utterly mortified and quickly said, "I swear to heavens, it was absolutely not on purpose!"

Ji Qingxuan stared at Jiang Fan for a long moment, then stamped her foot and said indignantly with a blush: "Stay away from me from now on. I don't want to see you again."

Seeing her leave, Jiang Fan felt his head swell with worry. He had thoroughly offended Ji Qingxuan. He called out, "Fairy Ji, how about I send you some resources as an apology?"

Not only did Ji Qingxuan not stop, she even quickened her pace. She seemed even angrier.

"How about I treat you to a drink?"

Ji Qingxuan didn't look back, saying, "No need!"

"Then... what if I tell you about my experiences in the Celestial Realm?"

"Really?" Ji Qingxuan suddenly turned around. Her sparkling eyes lit up, filled with a desire to explore the unknown.

That was enough to win her over? Jiang Fan was caught a little off guard. He nodded and said, "Yes, in the Celestial Realm, I encountered the Five-Star Giant King, the Ancient Heavenly Pit, the Four-Crowned Asura King, and..."

Ji Qingxuan lifted her skirt and quickly ran back, saying in surprise, "Let's find a place to talk slowly!"

Jiang Fan could barely stand the fervor in her eyes. He asked guiltily, "So you're not blaming me anymore?"

Ji Qingxuan finally calmed down, thought for a moment, and said: "Just don't do that again in the future. Come on, let's find a place to talk at leisure."

Jiang Fan felt a sense of relief. Ji Qingxuan was so easy to appease!

The two came to a quiet pavilion and talked freely, just like their previous conversation in Beihai. Jiang Fan simply finished recounting his experiences in the Celestial Realm.

Ji Qingxuan's eyes were full of light: "The Five-Star Giant King's precognition ability sounds terrifying, but if you think about it carefully, it has significant limitations. First, the future he predicts isn't too distant. Otherwise, he would have directly foreseen the outcome of this ancient giant invasion. Second, the future he predicts either cannot be changed or can only be changed at a heavy price. Otherwise, he wouldn't have risked letting you enter Black Cloud Fort. Third, his precognition can only show him crucial fragments of the future. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let you escape."

Jiang Fan was secretly astonished and increasingly admired Ji Qingxuan's deductive abilities. Among the three points, there was one Jiang Fan hadn't even considered.

"Regarding the blood pool in the Ancient Heavenly Pit," Ji Qingxuan offered her own speculation: "Without a doubt, it's a powerful weapon used by some supreme being against the Central Lands. This individual is at least an Ancient Saint. As for the blood pool's ability to completely transform our human race, it must be because the liquid in the blood pool has a deep connection with humanity."

Jiang Fan agreed profoundly. He had also considered these speculations.

Ji Qingxuan frowned and said, "That woman, the Four-Crowned Asura King... I think there must be a force in the Southern Celestial Realm that restrains the ancient giants. Otherwise, if the Giant Emperor, or an even higher-level being, were to act, the Asura tribe's fortress, no matter how well-defended, couldn't have been preserved. For the Asura tribe to successfully cultivate such a formidable Asura King, the higher-ups of the ancient giants must have been tied up and unable to deal with them. What's holding them back might be even stronger Asura experts, or perhaps residual forces from the Celestial Realm. Or something else entirely."

Jiang Fan was secretly alarmed and increasingly admired Ji Qingxuan's deductive abilities. The higher-ups of the ancient giants were indeed held back by a battlefield called the 'Source of All Evil'. Ji Qingxuan, with very little information, managed to deduce a corner of the truth.

"Fairy Ji, you're truly prescient."

Ji Qingxuan humbly replied, "I'm merely building on existing knowledge. The information you gathered from your trip to the Celestial Realm is far more extensive than what I've found by poring over numerous ancient texts in the Great Yin Sect."

Jiang Fan grew curious, "Have you found any useful information?"

Ji Qingxuan nodded slightly, happy to share her findings, and said: "I discovered in an ancient text that the Central Lands have actually faced ancient giant invasions more than once. The one a thousand years ago was merely the most recent. In even more distant eras, there were a total of eight such occurrences!"

Jiang Fan's heart trembled slightly. So, the invasions had begun in very ancient times. Perhaps the invasions began when the Celestial Realm split and the ancient giants were born. He had just finished processing this information.

Ji Qingxuan continued: "I also deduced that the time interval between each invasion was precisely around a thousand years! But there was one exception!"