After quite a while, she meekly replied, "It shouldn't be, Emperor Realm isn't that common."

Before checking into the inn.

I heard from the idle chatting cultivators on the street that the Immortal Domain has produced yet another Empress, heading to the Nine Kings' Palace along with two other Great Emperors.

Where did this one from the Southern Immortal Domain emerge from?

Isn't the Emperor Realm supposed to be once an epoch? How come they're popping up one after another like cabbages by the roadside?

"Not sure if it's Emperor Realm, but from my feeling, it's better than yours at home, without exception."

Sister Qi was filled with concern: "I suspect he has discovered our identities, wanting to threaten your brother-in-law during the age of the Emperor's demise."

Ruan Lan was rather startled by this.

Her brother-in-law was already against her going out to gain experience, if it turns out to be an enemy, and she gets captured by them.

Wouldn't Xu Lai laugh at her for a lifetime?

Ruan Lan directly packed her things, stepped on the Teleportation Array, and slipped away!

Swift and fluid.

She moved so quickly that Sister Qi didn't even react.

Ruan Lan was seen maneuvering expertly through the various teleportation arrays she had recently set up, even taking out numerous Magical Treasures to conceal her aura.

Sister Qi couldn't care less about alerting the enemy, unleashing all she had to help Ruan Lan escape.

This scene naturally caught the eyes of a young scholar.

He sighed slightly.

He was merely resting momentarily on Peach Blossom Star, when he sensed an intriguing treasure in the adjacent room.

Having heard the female cultivator mention that the peach blossom fish here was rather good, he tasted it and agreed, thinking of inviting her for more.

But instead, she mistook him for a flirtatious man after a scolding, then ran off on her heels.

Yet he's a scholar.

Having grown up with holy books, knowing propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame, how could he bully a weak woman?

"Enough,

Kill her, use the mirror to make her a coffin, she seems to quite like mirrors."

The young scholar spoke softly.

See.

Scholars never bully weak women; such dirty work is left to others.

"Yes."

A voice answered from the void.

Strangely, their dialogue was unheard in the tavern by any other, leaving the crowd still silent and terrified.

Only when the young scholar lowered his head to the peach blossom fish before him, did he lose his appetite suddenly.

"Disappointing."

The young scholar supported his chin, eyes wandering afar without any certainty where they lay: "Such a phony flame Emperor dares go to the Nine Kings' Palace, overestimating oneself."

He mused to himself: "Xu Qingfeng, oh Xu Qingfeng, why struggle, truly we should not have been enemies."

Saying so.

The young scholar rose, feeling a bit weary, returning to his room to extract a yellowed antiquarian book from the book trunk.

Waiting until the night deepened, he put down the book and entered dreamland.

…

…

Run.

Run quickly!

Ruan Lan's hair was disheveled, looking utterly pathetic.

Sister Qi was even more anxious: "It's bad, it's a Quasi-Emperor."

Just two hours after they had fled Peach Blossom Star, they sensed a faintly chilling aura approaching.

This aura wasn't even concealed intentionally.

Probably possessing the power of Quasi-Emperor Third Heaven!

The aura lurking in the dark, tracking them, resembled but differed from that of the young scholar inviting them for fish, estimating him likely kin or from the same sect.

They exhausted every means to flee, still unable to shake off the pursuers.

"Set up arrays, don't hesitate on the spirit stones, hurry!" Sister Qi urged loudly.

"Boom!"

Ruan Lan held nothing back.

In an instant, various defensive arrays enveloped her, including two Starlight Arrays and the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation.

With the emergence of the three peak Arrays of the Array Path, the pursuer couldn't help but 'Eh' lightly, evidently not expecting such resources from a mere Little Golden Core.

Suddenly she chuckled, "No wonder Master wants to kill you, surely you're closely tied to the Lord of the Heavenly Court, otherwise how could you arrange the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation."

In a voice full of grace, she emerged from the shadows, no longer hiding.

It was a seductive and charming woman.

Her dark robe embroidered with phoenixes from extremely precious divine metal.

So extravagant that even the fleeing Sister Qi couldn't help but curse colorfully.

She thought the robe on Ruan Lan, woven from Ten Thousand Year Ice Cicada Silk, was extravagant enough, yet not as much as this mysterious seductive woman.

Using divine metal capable of forging Emperor Artifacts, refined into golden threads to embroider clothes...

What kind of family is this!

Lord of the Heavenly Court, Xu Lai wasn't this prodigal.

Sister Qi suddenly noticed a pale white unicorn atop the head of the divine metal phoenix on the seductive woman's dark robe.

She couldn't help but tremble and say, "Oh no, it's the Tian Gui Tribe..."

"Tian Gui Tribe?"

Ruan Lan was delighted: "Do you know them? Can we beg for mercy, what if she knows my brother-in-law!"

"...Perhaps we could have escaped, but now it's impossible."

Sister Qi guessed the identity of the young scholar, as Yuan Ying, the Great Emperor Tiangui that Xu Lai sought.

Targeted by the Great Emperor Tiangui.

Even Jiu Kongsi, an Emperor Realm entity, was forced to become Earth's Heavenly Dao, only managing to hide to date, how could they possibly escape?

Despair.

Instantly shrouded her heart.

Even losing the thought of crushing the Jade Slip to seek the Supreme Emperor's aid.

Fear that the Tian Gui Tribe Quasi-Emperor and Great Emperor Tiangui Yuan Ying's Divine Sense had isolated the area already, scared they won't escape today.

…

Elsewhere.

Hearing Ruan Lan shout Tian Gui Tribe, the seductive female cultivator wasn't surprised.

Her divine metal phoenix robe was a unique mark of the Tian Gui Tribe.

Only Quasi-Emperor Realm tribesmen or the Seed Sequence's Saint Heirs and Saintesses had the right to wear it.

Yuan Mei smiled and said, "Little sister, be good. The gift your elder sister spent two hours preparing for you, do you like it?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Ruan Lan turned her head to look, frightened out of her wits.

It turned out to be a coffin made from mirrors, each mirrored surface flashing with different faces, every one of them her own, looking eerily creepy.

"I'll fight you to the death!"

Ruan Lan threw out all the arrays carved on Jade Slips from her Storage Space.

Simultaneously controlling over a thousand different types of arrays, even with the assistance of the Formation Chessboard, Ruan Lan's complexion remained pale as she spat blood.

No solution.

After all, she was only a Golden Core.

While the enemy was stepping on Third Heaven in the Quasi-Emperor Realm.

Arrays capable of crossing two big boundaries to kill, were brittle as paper to Yuan Mei, causing no ripples.

"Poof—"

Ruan Lan's Golden Core cracked, already suffering a backlash.

The fire of the glow cannot compete with the bright moon.

Her body swayed, falling from the starry sky, the Formation Chessboard failing to protect Ruan Lan.

The Artifact Spirit materialized, smiling as she waved at Ruan Lan: "Little girl, live on, spread the Star Origin Sect and Array Path, see you next life."

"Sister Qi, don't!"

Ruan Lan's eyes were filled with tears, having spent some time with Sister Qi, she understood Sister Qi intended to self-destruct for time.

"Bang!"

Before Sister Qi could self-destruct, Yuan Mei slapped the Formation Chessboard.

Not only interrupting the Emperor Artifact embryo's self-destruction, but also casually placing Ruan Lan into the mirror coffin, as easily as taking a yawning breath.