How can one become an immortal with such laziness?

If I really had to carry a heavy load, it would be more comfortable to carry my wife's weight!

[Your contract partner (Hongli) is helping you fuse with the supernatural power of Exile (Zi). The fusion is in progress, currently synchronizing...]

"Ah, that's great, Hong Li has already started to integrate divine powers."

Hei Yang nodded in satisfaction.

Satisfied? No way!

"Hong Li—explain to me what you mean by 'helping with fusion'!!!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 309 Love's passion fades in Zhaoyang Palace, while days and nights stretch on in Penglai Palace.

"Now you can explain to me properly what this 'helping with fusion' thing is all about, right?"

Hei Yang grabbed Hong Li by the back of her collar with one hand, lifting her into the air, and looked at her with an unfriendly expression: "Speak up, Ms. Hong Li?"

"Ha, what's there to say?"

Hong Li stared with dead fish eyes, arms crossed, and even though Hei Yang lifted her up with her feet off the ground and she was being swayed around in mid-air, she remained completely calm. After all, panicking wouldn't help!

"What else could it be? To be lazy, I secretly stuffed my supernatural power into your part of the black core when you weren't looking. Tch, don't be so naive!"

Hei Yang: "???"

"No, I mean, are you really that arrogant, sister?"

Hei Yang's eyes widened, and he shook Hong Li up and down, looking utterly bewildered: "Please understand your current situation, okay? You're in my hands right now!"

"Oh, it's in your hands."

Hongli glanced at Heiyang: "So what?"

Hei Yang: "???"

"No, you made a mistake and ended up in my hands, right?"

Hei Yang said with a speechless expression, "I'm going to punish you now! I might beat you up at any time, do you have to be so tough, sister!"

"Huh? No, I'm not being tough."

Hong Li also looked helpless: "You rushed over to grab me, and I just sat there without resisting. I obediently let you catch me. Isn't that enough?"

"Aha?"

"Huh? What?"

Hong Li yawned and slowly spun around in the air, twisting her head around her collar to turn her back to Hei Yang, revealing the back of her head to him. Then Hei Yang flicked his arm and turned her back to him.

“I know I didn’t do the right thing, it’s normal for you to be angry. I’ll accept it if you hit me or scold me. Anyway, I’ve already stuffed the supernatural power into you, and there’s no way to pull it out. No matter how impotent and furious you are, you can only take it out on poor Hong Li.”

Hong Li nodded seriously: "Yes, getting beaten up once means not having to do any work."

Thinking about it, it wasn't a huge loss; my day was worthwhile!

Hei Yang: "???"

"No, what about the process? What about the steps?"

Hei Yang was puzzled: "Shouldn't it be that you frantically run away to avoid me, and then there's a tense and exciting chase?"

Where's your will to survive? Huh? Is it that I, Heiyang, can't even lift a knife anymore?

"Why would I run away? Doesn't running away require strength?"

Hongli snorted softly: "In the past, I could at least run to my house and lock the door tightly."

Now that I'm living with you, how can I run away?

I run away from this house? And then you have the room all to yourself? What are you thinking!

Anyway, you can run away from the first day of the month, but you can't run away from the fifteenth. You can run away from Hongli, but you can't run away from the bed. So you might as well just surrender. It's better to have a short pain than a long one.

"Rather than living in fear every day, I'd rather you beat me up to vent my anger. That way, I won't feel guilty if I cheat you again next time!"

"And next time?"

Would you believe me if I said I didn't?

"Do not believe."

"Isn't that okay?"

Hei Yang: "..."

"What are you ellipses for? Hurry up and get started! I'm ready!"

Hong Li snorted lightly, revealing an expression of heroic sacrifice: "Kill me or torture me, do it quickly, punish me however you like, I, Hong Li, am no hero if I even frown!"

"Hey, you're not good to begin with, are you?"

"Nonsense, you know that too! So you'd better think carefully. If you hit me too hard, believe me, I'll cry!"

Hong Li gave her a disdainful look: "But I have a feeling that if I cry, you'll get even more excited..."

Come on, even if you beat me until I cry my eyes out and don't stop, even if I scream my lungs out and no one pays attention, even if I'm on my last breath, I won't blame you. I deserve it!

"Hey, why am I suddenly being described by you as a heinous scoundrel?!"

Hei Yang looked at him suspiciously: "Wait, is this your unconventional approach?"

By playing the victim and using persuasive language, you'll make me sympathize with you, the one who started this trouble, and maybe then I'll soften my heart and not punish you?

"..."

Hongli rolled her eyes: "Think what you want."

"..."

Hei Yang blinked, remained silent for a moment, then sighed and released Hong Li: "Never mind, I'll go take a look for you, but you'll have to help out too, since my supernatural powers haven't been stably integrated yet."

"Okay, it's not impossible."

Hong Li turned her head and straightened her collar, a fleeting look of guilt in her eyes. She secretly wiped the sweat from her palm with her thumb. What a close call! She almost got beaten up!

...............

In the fragmented, distorted space, Hongli obediently pointed to Heiyang: "Look, there, there, that's the ground, that's the sky..."

Starting from where my toes are, that's the original boundary; you should be able to see it, right?

"No, I can't really tell."

Hei Yang stared speechlessly at the seemingly overused space in front of him, feeling that Hong Li's spatial planning and layout skills were as soulful as her painting skills.

"Well, I think..."

Hei Yang grinned, his teeth aching, and said, "How about we bury this pile of stuff of yours, and then find a spatial node to start over?"

Hmm, I feel like starting from scratch would be easier than fixing what you've already done; you're practically a negative number!

"Ah?"

Hong Li tilted her head, waved her hand dismissively, and laughed, "Whatever, this is the eighth world I've reopened. I buried the previous seven small worlds long ago, so one more won't make a difference."

"Ah this..."

Hei Yang's lips twitched: "The eighth one? In such a short time, have we already seen so many wronged souls from the minor secret realms in our courtyard?"

"Uh-huh, is there a problem?"

Hong Li glanced at Hei Yang and said smugly, "Doesn't this just prove that I have a wealth of experience in failure, which can be used for future..."

"Is this paving the way for more failures to come?"

"Pah! Pah! Pah! If you can't speak properly, then shut up!"

"hey-hey."

.........

Under the brutal hands of Hei Yang and Hong Li, Hong Li's eighth artwork followed in the footsteps of her seven brothers, turning into spatial fragments and dust, which were then absorbed back into the Great World by the Traveling Realm.

"It's so dark outside..."

During the spatial reorganization process, Hei Yang Hong Li stood in the void with a curious expression, looking out of the outer realm of the roaming world. Even with the use of her supernatural powers, she could only see pitch blackness. Occasionally, a point of light would flicker in the distance, only to be instantly swallowed by the darkness, which made people feel cold.

"The Realm of Flight..."

Hei Yang pursed his lips, turned his head to look at the spring-returning land of the Soaring Realm behind him, and then turned to look at the deathly silence and darkness in the void. He couldn't help but sigh, "Our predecessors are truly amazing. They were able to carve out a vibrant world in this environment and lead us so far."

"Indeed, if you had been born a few years later, you might have missed the old Aohan."

Hongli shrugged, looked into the void, and asked curiously, "Speaking of Heiyang, can you tell which side is your hometown?"

"If we have the means in the future, do you think we should go there for a visit?"

"Hmm, I can't quite tell the difference. Surely the outside world doesn't have directions like east, west, south, and north?"

Hei Yang scratched his head and took two steps forward: "Speaking of which, why can't I see the sun? Isn't it said that the great sun shines on the three thousand worlds? Shouldn't it be very bright?"

"How would I know? Maybe their sunlight is spreading through a more advanced channel?"

Hong Li shrugged: "Maybe to understand these things, we'll need to comprehend something like the Great Sun Law?"