While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

After Ye Ke led the team away, Malena looked at Yang Ding.

"I have no choice but to go with you."

"Following me is fine, but don't act like an empress. My wives are all your sisters. Whether you can become a daughter-in-law in my Yang family depends on their consent."

Malena said confidently, "They will agree because we will have three sons, all of whom will have the surname Yang, and will be cosmic rulers like their father."

"You're looking that far ahead? That's a complete waste of your mental energy."

Yang Ding was also very curious about what he and the mixed-race son of this stunning white empress looked like.

"Since you married Ye Rou, this has been my main focus for the past year or so. If I couldn't see a future, I wouldn't have risked my life to betray all the subjects of the Giant Bear and come to rely on you, a Jinglong person."

Because she knew she was Yang Ding's seventh wife, Malena remained arrogant.

Yang Ding led her to the ice house built by Zhou Ruoxi.

The three beauties stood up in confusion. Weren't they supposed to be going out to fight? How come they brought back a big foreign horse?

Only Mu Qingyao had ever seen Malena.

"How did you manage to kidnap the Giant Bear Empress?"

"She wasn't kidnapped; she came to surrender."

"surrender?"

Malena bowed slightly. "Empress Malena of the Great Bear greets my three elder sisters."

Upon hearing this title, Ye Rou, the cat with the painted face who was grilling skewers, was dumbfounded.

"Honey, are you going to sleep with the Empress again?"

"What do you mean 'again'? The fifth prince didn't become emperor."

Malena pursed her thin lips and looked at Ye Rou with her bright blue eyes.

"Second niece, from now on we will be best sisters who will live and die together."

The amount of information was so overwhelming that Ye Rou was completely bewildered.

"Oh, you know my parents?"

"Of course, during the cataclysmic war, your father united all of humanity."

"Otherwise, do you think that Murong Yan alone could have orchestrated dozens of wars, large and small, by predicting the future? It was your father who brought together the five empresses to accomplish this together."

No sooner had she finished speaking than another spatial rift appeared in the ice house, and Murong Yan, dressed in a phoenix robe, stepped in.

She looked at Malena with displeasure. "Even if you contributed, you were just an assistant. I am the one in charge."

Marina looked at Yang Ding and said, "See this? This is your fifth wife. She's overconfident and always thinks she's the smartest woman on Earth."

The two princesses argued back and forth, neither willing to give in.

The three of them were so frightened that Ye Rou and the others obediently ate their roasted meat without making a sound.

Yang Ding tried to persuade them a few times, but to no avail, so he had no choice but to slap each of them on the buttocks.

Murong Yan and Malena covered their buttocks, completely stunned on the spot.

Holy crap, they're really fighting!

Malena, in particular, has never had a man touch her buttocks.

"Sit down and eat. From now on, I'll take care of whoever gets into a fight," Yang Ding ordered.

Surprisingly, the two empresses sat down obediently and did not get angry.

Ye Rou stuck her tongue out at Zhou Ruoxi. Her husband's move was brilliant.

It's not like the Great Bear Empress was particularly ruthless in her political maneuvering.

How come he didn't even complain when he got spanked?

Murong Yan took the chicken leg from Ye Rou and her attitude softened. "Husband, be a little more careful this time when you're attacking the Giant Lizard Clan. The beasts beyond the Great Wall may have predicted that you would attack the Giant Bear City gates."

"Are there strange beasts with time-manipulation abilities beyond the Great Wall?" Yang Ding asked.

Marlena nodded. "There should be. Our Night Watch Legion is often ambushed and even encounters all sorts of traps, all the work of time-manipulating beings."

"Looks like we're going to go big this time."

After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, Yang Ding patted the bunk bed and asked, "Is my fifth wife going back to the palace tonight?"

"Yes, I need to monitor the implementation of the new marriage law in Jiangzhou. That old fox Zhou Liren is not reliable."

After Murong Yan finished speaking, she noticed that Malena was glancing at her, so she changed her mind and said, "I'm not going back. It's been so long since I slept with you. Tonight you're mine."

Yang Ding immediately became excited.

Murong Yan's love for him was intense, and sleeping with her felt especially pleasurable. If he didn't have to hurry up and conquer Blue Star, he would have been squatting in the palace sleeping with her every day.

He patted the bed below, "Marlena will stay here, and Yan-jie and I will sleep on the top bunk."

Malena forced a smile and said provocatively, "Fine, I also want to learn about the ways of husband and wife from my niece Wan'er."

Zhou Ruoxi tucked her hand into her wavy hair and whispered in Ye Rou's ear, "Now that the Five Emperors have returned to their positions, there'll be plenty of fighting going on in the family."

Ye Rou nodded gleefully.

"It seems I really need to make a ruler for my husband, specifically for spanking the empress's butt. Who knows, I, the eldest sister, might even carry it out on his behalf. Just thinking about it is exciting."

Being the eldest sister was her life's dream.

……

While Yang Ding was holding Murong Yan and performing the art of husband and wife for Empress Malena, his sixth wife, Ye Ke, had already approached the Holy Stone Lake area with her scout battalion.

Zhou Ruoxi and Ye Rou took turns on duty, responsible for monitoring Ye Ke's actions through the spatial rift and providing her with support at any time.

The building manager's orders came through the satellite phone.

"Team Leader Ye, Team Leader Ye, the building next door has been attacked, with heavy casualties. You lead a team to check it out. Is it a monster or soldiers from another country?"

Ye Ke countered, "They weren't hunting, so why would warriors from other countries attack them?"

Although humans are not that united, they are not so likely to attack their own kind who lack cultivation resources.

"Yes, that's probably a strange beast. Be careful, and report any incidents immediately."

"What location?"

"Once you cross the snow-capped mountain to your right, you should be able to see it."

Ye Ke held her breath and listened quietly towards the snow-capped mountain for a while, but she did not hear any fighting sounds.

But she had no choice but to obey her superiors' orders.

"Everyone, be careful on the march."

Ye Ke mounted his horse and led the scouts towards the snow-capped mountains at high speed.

The closer they got, the more something seemed off. Although there were no sounds of fighting, they could smell a strong burning odor.

A fire-type beast?

The scout camp in the other building should also have about thirty people, all with cultivation levels of the fifth or sixth rank. It's impossible for them to have been wiped out so quietly.

"Team Leader Ye, Team Leader Ye, we've made a discovery..."

Ye Ke quickly turned off the satellite walkie-talkie, threw out the Ironblood Bow, and made a gesture to split the troops into three groups to avoid being wiped out at once.

As the team leader, she took the lead and was the first to climb to the top of the snow-capped mountain.

The closer you get to the burnt smell, the stronger it becomes.

When she reached the top of the mountain, she was shocked to find a huge footprint at the foot of the mountain. The footprint was estimated to be no less than 300 square meters in area, and there were still flames inside.

Judging from the strong smell of human flesh, these people were trampled into the snow and then burned to death by the high temperature.

"Flame-Toe Beast!"

This is what burned her back then.

Flame-Toe Beasts are high-level exotic beasts. Their power does not come from cultivation, but from their physical size. Their true trump card is high-temperature flames.

The black gold arrows melted from their skin before they could even pierce it.

Only iron-clad arrows can pierce their tough skin.