“Wife, have you fallen in love with your husband yet? Tonight, your husband is unstoppable.”
“Wife, your husband is craving peach blossom soup again.”
“Wife, stop reading those useless books. Look more at your husband. Before long, your husband will leap to the status of a pseudo-He Dao.”
“If wife wants to cultivate, your husband has plenty of dual cultivation techniques guaranteed to make your strength soar while leaving you feeling ecstatic.”
“Of course~ wife definitely shouldn’t practice those offensive divine arts. Killing is best left to your husband—I wouldn’t want to dirty your hands.”
“Wife, the Tongtian Wood sapling you wanted, your husband has brought it back. This is the treasured heirloom of the Xia family from the East Sea. How’s that? Isn’t your husband amazing?”
……
“Master, you were so loud last night that it disturbed Xiao Hei. Xiao Hei needs kisses to fall asleep.”
“Master, master, want to try the peach blossom soup I made?”
“Master~ who do you like more, Xiao Hei or Zhou Xuan? Uh… never mind, Xiao Hei is Zhou Xuan.”
“Master, don’t look at that ‘Rite of Heaven’ book anymore, it’s boring. Look at Xiao Hei instead—Xiao Hei can sing, dance, and even act cute. Awoo awoo~~”
“Huh? Master, are you watering the Tongtian Wood sapling again? Xiao Hei heard this kind of spiritual plant is extremely resilient and takes millennia to mature. Water alone won’t make it grow taller, and even if you don’t water it, it won’t wither.”
The voices of a mature, handsome man and a cute, soft little boy rose and fell in turns, endlessly, as if filling Su Bai’s life with them.
Until a sudden crack of thunder echoed across the horizon.
“Wow! Master, it’s raining! Let’s hurry inside to avoid the rain. Xiao Hei will warm your bed for you.”
The little boy wasn’t scared by the thunder; he just clicked his fingers, pointed toward the distance, and cheerfully tugged Su Bai inside. Su Bai also looked up, staring at the source of the sound in the distance.
But soon, the little boy’s smile vanished!
They could see the Xuantian Immortal Sect’s clan formation suddenly tremble—the thunder was coming from there.
Then, the formation abruptly tore open a huge gap, and from within surged the Nine Nether energy. Two overwhelmingly powerful auras burst forth, nearly ripping the entire Xuantian Immortal Sect’s formation apart.
The cultivators of Xuantian looked up and saw two figures standing at the rift—one clad in flowing blood-red robes, the other shrouded in a shadowy black cloak.
“The Nine Nether Sect! Fang Xiu!”
“Li An!”
“We’ve come to spar!”
Their overwhelming presence surged upward like a roaring tidal wave. The fluctuations of their Nascent Soul-level cultivation echoed through the space, causing faint ripples of distortion in the void.
Su Bai smiled, but Xiao Hei scowled.
“Again them.” Xiao Hei’s cheeks puffed out angrily, eyes wide as copper coins. Then he hugged the elder sister beside him and fiercely swung his tiny fists at the sky.
“Master, don’t be afraid. Xiao Hei is here. They’re all Xiao Hei’s defeated enemies. Xiao Hei will go and take them out now!!”
No sooner had he spoken than a streak of Xuantian light shot straight into the sky. In a blink, it transformed into a man in white robes, holding a black spear that emanated a chilling coldness.
Xuantian True Lord’s icy gaze swept over the two intruders coldly. “Despicable stray dogs, how dare you act so brazenly?! I have yet to annihilate you, yet you bring yourselves to my doorstep.”
“This time we bring something for Your Lordship,” Li An stepped forward, his tone seemingly respectful but his eyes burning with deep malice.
“What is it?”
“A bell! To send off Your Lordship!”
Fang Xiu gave a ferocious grin and suddenly slashed two blood-colored sword lights directly toward Xuantian True Lord.
Xuantian True Lord only sneered with disdain. With two light taps of his spear, the blood-red light quickly faded, and the sword lights dissipated.
“You think you can take me on?”
“Just watch this!”
In an instant, the sky darkened as if night had fallen. A massive shadow, like the curtain of doomsday, loomed and spread over Xuantian True Lord.
The cultivators of Xuantian Sect stared in shock, seeing a colossal bony claw—bigger than anything imaginable—jutting from the depths of primordial times. Each bone looked like a towering mountain peak, radiating an endless aura of death.
With the force to destroy heaven and earth, it slammed fiercely toward Xuantian True Lord!!
Xuantian True Lord crashed down like a falling meteor, creating a pit dozens of yards deep. Dust and smoke billowed, obscuring his figure.
Boom!
But this was only the beginning!!
Behind Li An, the Nine Nether rift tearing through the sky seemed to be violently ripped apart by a pair of giant white skeletal claws from hell itself. The rift expanded at a chillingly rapid pace.
Then another massive bone claw abruptly emerged halfway from the rift, accompanied by a terrifying tearing sound. A colossal skeletal Yaksha stepped fully out from the rift.
Each step it took caused the earth to tremble, and its bone-chilling aura swept across half the sky like a violent tidal wave.
Its cultivation was at the Transformation God (Hua Shen) stage!!
Just then, a brilliant Xuantian light shot up into the sky. Within the light, Xuantian True Lord stood proudly, spear in hand. His burning gaze locked onto the enemy, lips curling slightly as he said coldly, “Interesting.”
“Come!”
……
“Pfft, defeated losers.”
After a heart-stopping, world-shaking battle, the skeletal Yaksha of Transformation God was slain, and Li An and Fang Xiu fled severely wounded.
Xuantian True Lord’s once-pristine white robes were now tattered and soaked in blood, his internal power depleted, yet the light in his eyes could not be concealed.
Alone, he took on three opponents, slayed a Transformation God, and severely wounded two Nascent Souls—an unparalleled feat!
With a cleansing technique, his blood-soaked robes turned back into tattered white. Xuantian True Lord folded his hands behind his back and flew back to Qingyang Peak, laughing heartily, “Wife! Your husband has returned!”
“What’s the matter? One slain, two injured—your husband’s amazing, right? It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call him the greatest of the era.”
At the man’s boastful words, Su Bai pouted, then picked up a clean white robe and threw it to him. “Change yourself. What can those few rags on you cover? Damn, how did you not get killed just now?”
“Hehe~ If your husband died, wife, how would you live the rest of your life happily?”
“None of your business.”
“Tsk, wife’s blushing. Missing your husband again?”
Xuantian True Lord opened his arms wide. “Wife, come give your husband a big hug.”
Usually, after such victories, when he asked this, Su Bai would spit and curse, “Damn you, Zhou Xuan,” and run back to the little wooden hut. But this time, Su Bai unexpectedly hugged him back.
Hmm?
Wife hugged me willingly?
Does that mean I succeeded?
Wife has fallen in love with me!!
After all these years of effort and persistence, everything had achieved the most satisfying outcome.
Shh.
At that moment, a bloodied black blade pierced through Xuantian True Lord’s dantian, shattered his Nascent Soul, and pierced out from his lower abdomen.
His pupils suddenly shrank to needle points as he struggled to turn his head and look—
“Wife? You!”
“Heh heh heh!! Didn’t expect Xuantian True Lord to be caught off guard one day.” From the shadow nearby, the supposedly badly wounded Li An and Fang Xiu slowly emerged.
Li An’s face was as pale as paper, completely bloodless, while Fang Xiu let out a chilling, sinister laugh that echoed through the air like an evil ghost’s triumphant chuckle.
“Good disciple, today I will teach you another lesson.” Su Bai whispered in the man’s ear, her voice as cold as an ice pick despite its softness.
“In this world filled with heroes, never underestimate anyone.”
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