Capítulo 1086: Chapter 854: How Dare You Break It! (Part 2)

“Where do we go for custom furniture?” Ye Jiuyou licked her candy and asked.

Zhao Changhe scratched his head. He had never bought this kind of stuff in this world, so he wasn’t quite sure. He’d seen carpentry shops, but they didn’t seem to handle design…

The two of them scratched their heads and looked at each other, then suddenly both laughed and said in unison, “Let’s go to the Ministry of Industry, and have them help us out.”

Using public office for personal gain this grandly, and having such a similar mindset with a witch, confirmed that King Zhao was indeed not suited to be an administrator, but very suitable to be a witch’s lover.

The two of them, both licking candied hawthorn, barged into the Ministry of Industry, which gave the chief quite a scare. Recognizing it was Zhao Changhe, he almost bit his own tongue.

Can you dare to let it be known in the Worldly Society your image licking candied hawthorn?

“Design furniture? Wardrobe? Dressing table? Bed?” The vice ministers felt like they hadn’t woken up: “Um, once done, sent to the palace?”

Zhao Changhe, smiling, said, “Once done, just leave it here; we’ll come and get it… Miss Li is to be married into the Capital City, this is her dowry.”

Ye Jiuyou’s beautiful eyes were playful as she seemed to smile, but ultimately, she didn’t refute.

Actually, for people from Guanglong, Chang’an is the capital. Saying one is marrying into the capital here seems blasphemous. Yet from officials to clerks, no one realized there was anything wrong…

The general trend is set… Even if she, Ye Jiuyou, was still the demon god attempting chaos and division before, it seems she cannot stop the tide. Guanglong cannot escape Great Han’s conquest, just like she seemingly cannot escape love’s captivation.

So, she didn’t plan to stay passive any longer.

“Well, let’s have a fight now.” Ye Jiuyou patted Zhao Changhe’s cheek: “These past two days, your pampering made sister very satisfied; I hope your strength can do the same.”

Zhao Changhe knew his plans were already exposed.

To put it bluntly, aside from wanting to gain insight from fighting, there was an added goal: to let Ye Jiuyou understand he wasn’t just a mess in emotional matters. He was also strong enough in power and could walk hand in hand towards common goals.

But she had already exposed this plan with one word, and there was no more surprise or thrill of discovering unexpected strength on the spot.

She even started referring to herself as sister… Was she planning a reverse conquest? Was it a way to make him understand that compared to absolute strength, nothing else mattered enough, and no matter how skilled his charm, he’d just be a little brother following her lead?

Zhao Changhe suddenly felt it was becoming even more interesting, and his fighting spirit, which wasn’t particularly high to begin with, flared intensely.

…

“Clang!” Ye Jiuyou flicked her finger lightly against the side of Dragon Sparrow, and Zhao Changhe’s slash with the force of a thousand weights was deflected.

The battle took place in the Jiuyou Abyss, where all the energy dissipated without damaging anything and didn’t attract any celestial phenomena, and there was no feedback from reference points, everything seemed to enter a vacuum. It seemed as if the only visible sight was just two ordinary martial artists exchanging moves, possibly not even as magnificent as the earlier Hidden Dragon List battles on the avenue of Chang’an.

But Zhao Changhe knew how terrifying that finger from the opponent was.

Within that finger was not mere force resistance; it contained various types of mystical laws at work.

One could clearly feel the role of life and death force, an evil will to kill pressing directly on one’s origins, ready to strip away life in an instant, leaving one’s blood and flesh withered and old, turning directly into a lifeless corpse.

At the same time, the surrounding darkness became terrifyingly sharp blades, cutting the divine soul, tearing the blood and flesh, the fierce oppressive force threatening to squeeze one’s bones out of the body, overturning and misplacing the internal organs in utter chaos, making them completely not one’s own.

The mind also suffered assault, losing perception, devoid of thoughts, overwhelmed by vast darkness, driving one into fear, loneliness, insanity.

No force purely simple could counter this strike; it needed understanding of the power’s origins, and any weakness in understanding would lead directly to obliteration.

The true female demon, with combat manifestation in the most evil form… Yet on the surface, it seemed just a mere finger.

Zhao Changhe finally understood why when Ye Wuming was tasked with suppressing Ye Jiuyou, their battle looked as if it had no special presentation, almost like a face-to-face chat session. Because back then, he couldn’t discern the intricacies; their confrontation didn’t need physical action and only in eye exchange created numerous law clashes and mystical duels unknown to outsiders.

But now Zhao Changhe had taken that finger head-on, with only the sword being deflected. The next moment, his left hand swung out, and Star River unsheathed.

The magic sword silently and swiftly aimed straight for Ye Jiuyou’s chest amidst the darkness.

Yet the sword stopped just an inch away; unable to penetrate at all, Star River hovered suspended in the air, akin to a little girl being kept at bay by an aunt’s hand, unable to get through no matter how hard she pushed.

“Twang!” Aunt Jiuyou flicked her finger again, and the little girl flipped over, retreating with her head covered.

It looked cute, but in essence, the force of that flick was tantamount to overturning a night sky, terrifyingly intense.

“Annoying aura of Ye Wuming.” Aunt Jiuyou’s tone was icy, attempting an additional slap. Star River felt that if this aunt became a stepmother, it would suffer grim days ahead, thus bursting out crazily.

In the next instant, within the void, stars flashed madly, endless star falls rained down, traversing the dimensional barrier, appearing directly above Ye Jiuyou’s head, set to crush her.

A broadsword swept across, blood-red all over the sky.

Shattering Heaven and Earth!

“Boom!” The force of star fall and the might of heaven and earth struck the same point, yet simply hit nothingness.

Ye Jiuyou appeared silently behind Zhao Changhe, palm striking towards his back.