Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

At the bottom of the valley, Wang Mang was panting heavily.

The spiritual energy had been completely depleted by that sword strike that cleaved the heavens. Now, the protective layer of light was just a thin layer with three holes in it.

The yin energy seeped into the bones through the hole.

"Yu Yan".

Wang Mang's jaw clenched so tightly it made a grinding sound.

"I'm sorry."

"You and your husband have been implicated many times, and now you've been implicated by me again."

Wang Yuyan was protected behind him, and the Lingling had been completely shattered into a pile of white fluff.

Those two fair hands reached forward and forcefully supported half of the yang energy that was pressing down.

The skin on my fingertips has peeled off.

"Wang Mang".

"If you can make it back alive."

"Please tell my husband..."

That sentence was left unfinished.

The sky has collapsed halfway.

It is not the heaven of yin and yang.

Something pressed down from beyond the clouds, heavier than the silver ring and more savage than the yin and yang energies.

An ancient square seal suddenly appeared on the top of the valley.

When the seal first appeared, it was only the size of a palm. After rotating half a circle, it grew into a mountain, with nine purple lightning bolts rolling in the patterns on the bottom of the seal.

The power of heavenly tribulation.

The moment the seal fell, the funnel formed by the twisting of Yin and Yang energies was forcibly flattened from the middle.

The yang energy was crushed by the thunder pattern, and the yin energy was swallowed by the seal.

The skin and flesh peeling off in the peaks and valleys stopped halfway through.

The ten Nascent Soul cultivators knelt on the ground, panting heavily.

Wang Mang raised his head.

The base of the mountain-like square seal was suspended three zhang above his head. The purple lightning moved very slowly within the seal's patterns. With each circle, the yin and yang energy above his head would recede slightly.

Wang Mang let out a long sigh, but halfway through, it turned into a laugh.

"You little brat."

"He's always the last one to appear."

"They're quite adept at stealing the spotlight."

A laugh came from beyond the clouds.

"Shall I leave?"

"Dream on."

Wang Mang plopped back down on the stone ridge, placing his sword across his knees.

"You think you can just run away without cleaning up the mess your partner made?"

"There's no such thing as a free lunch."

A crack appeared in the void above the peaks and valleys.

A cloud-patterned boot stepped out.

He wore a green robe with furious scales and a black long robe. His face was too young, but the pressure emanating from him caused all the rubble in the valley to sink half an inch into the ground.

Su Chen stood with his hands behind his back in the void, first glancing at the square seal that had shrunk to the size of a palm, then casually putting it into his sleeve.

Now let's look at Wang Yuyan.

That blood-stained gauze dress, those hands with peeling skin.

His brow furrowed slightly, but quickly relaxed.

"lady."

Su Chen raised his hand and beckoned.

"Am I good to you, my husband?"

"I came all this way just to pick you up."

Wang Yuyan's feet lightened, and she rose into the air, landing steadily in those arms.

Su Chen wrapped his arm around her waist.

Through the blood-stained gauze dress, the waist beneath her hand was shockingly slender, and with such force, a soft moan escaped her lips.

"I knew you were restless."

Su Chen looked down at her.

"If I don't see you for three days, you're bound to cause trouble."

Wang Yuyan pressed her forehead against his shoulder, her voice muffled.

"My husband."

"This time I've really gotten you into trouble."

"I killed Han Ye."

"And this woman, I really have no idea where she came from..."

"No need to say more."

"That good-for-nothing Han Ye should have died long ago."

"If you don't kill him, I'll kill him while I'm in Qingzhou anyway."

"Su's woman should not be an indecisive person."

"Kill him if you will."

It was said in a single sentence, very casually.

The two Nascent Soul cultivators from the Falling Cloud Sect kneeling below looked even more ashen than when they had been refined by the Yin-Yang Qi.

The saintess on the cloud blushed.

"you......"

Lin Zhiya poked her finger downwards.

"you......"

"You two adulterers!"

"They just hugged each other like that in front of so many people!"

Su Chen looked up at her.

"What the hell?"

"I and this person are Daoist partners. Is a simple hug really something to make such a fuss about?"

"So the Holy Maiden of the Upper Realm is so unsophisticated."

Su Chen clicked his tongue, the meaning in his tone even more infuriating than the words themselves.

"Judging from your cultivation level, you've reached the Void Refinement stage."

"At the age of Refining Void Realm, one hasn't experienced matters between men and women yet, has one?"

"Tsk tsk tsk."

"Pitiful."

Lin Zhiya's entire face turned red from her ears all the way down to her neck.

"Go to hell!"

The yin-yang silver ring suddenly contracted, shrinking to only about ten feet in diameter, before crashing down on Su Chen.

The white half of the ring is dazzlingly bright, while the black half is so dark it absorbs light.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a hundred miles was stirred up by that swirling pattern and poured into the center of the ring.

Su Chen did not dodge.

He still had one arm around Wang Yuyan's waist, while raising the other arm upwards.

Nine bolts of purple lightning exploded from his palm, weaving into a net of lightning above his head.

The yin-yang silver ring struck the lightning net.

The impact was silent.

Only a ring of grayish-white ripples spread out from the point of impact, dissipating only ten miles away and smoothing out all the clouds along the way.

Su Chen's eyebrows twitched.

A treasure from the upper realm, indeed a treasure from the upper realm.

I've seen quite a few treasures myself.

The Taiyi Taixu Divine Umbrella is one item, and the Wanxiang Borrowing the Azure Sky Cauldron is another; both are among the ten legendary treasures of the Xuanhuang Continent.

But the feeling that this silver ring conveyed was completely different from the other two.

Those two items are treasures.

This thing looks like a road.

"That's interesting."

The lightning patterns on Su Chen's palm thickened again.

"However, no matter how good your magic weapon is..."

"The person who controls it is far from skilled."

Lin Zhiya gritted her teeth at Yun's feet.

She put her two jade-like feet together and stomped down hard.

"Yin and Yang flow together."

The silver ring suddenly spun, and the swirling pattern where white and black met detached from the ring and spread out in the void.

It formed a barrier.

Within a radius of thirty feet, the void was divided into two halves, one black and one white.

One side was so hot that even spiritual energy was burning, while the other side was so cold that even time seemed to stand still.

Su Chen and Wang Yuyan were at the intersection of these two halves.

"We're trapped."

Lin Zhiya finally caught her breath.

"Once this restriction is lifted, even the elders of our sect will have to stay inside for three days before they can come out."

"You're just a low-level cultivator in the early stages of the Void Refinement realm."

"Just stay put."

The pageboy tucked the book box onto his lap and didn't dare to say a word.

But deep down I knew something was wrong.

The two of them remained calm throughout.

Especially the man, who, the moment he was enveloped by the restriction, actually managed to free up a hand to lift the female cultivator in his arms up half an inch.

It was as if they thought she was standing too short and were afraid she would be affected by the gloomy atmosphere.

Inside the barrier, Su Chen lowered his head and asked a question.

"Is the lady afraid?"

Wang Yuyan wrapped her arms around his neck.

"With my husband here, what do I have to fear?"

Su Chen chuckled.

Shrinking the earth to an inch.

The two figures had already appeared on the clouds twenty feet above the barrier.

With one hand behind his back and the other arm around Wang Yuyan, Su Chen descended into the clouds, looking incredibly carefree.

"Your restriction."

Su Chen glanced back at the thing that was still churning in black and white.

"That won't work on me."

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