Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Ye Yuchan's eyes darkened. She took a deep breath, allowing her spiritual root to circulate rapidly within her body. Her spiritual energy surged and rolled through her meridians, while simultaneously calming her soul, preparing herself to face the impending battle with utmost composure.

This was not the situation she was facing when dueling with certain demonic cultivators or disciples of certain sects. She was not facing others; in a sense, she was facing herself.

Many people say that the greatest enemy is not others but oneself, but when Ye Yuchan truly began to face this enemy called "self", she felt an indescribable despair.

The wind brushed against my cheek.

A smooth, cold shadow lingers among the tombstones on the mountain's edge.

Stay calm, you must stay calm.

Not even a breath can be wasted, not even a drop of spiritual energy can be wasted.

Although Ye Xuanqiu's strength far exceeded her expectations, Ye Yuchan had no choice but to find a way to hold him off.

No, to put it another way—

Protect yourself.

Although it sounds cowardly and incompetent, Ye Yuchan is not someone who acts impulsively. She is different from Zhang Ruoxue. If anything, when things get really deadlocked, she is more like Fan Luokui.

She had to protect herself—before that old scoundrel beat up Kunxuan and came back.

Although objectively speaking, Ye Yuchan didn't know if the old rogue could beat Kunxuan, she had now developed a habit of blindly trusting Yunping.

Ironically, when she was taken in from the Thousand Ghost Forest, she didn't trust that seemingly wicked, sleazy, and unserious young man at all.

First... you need to create some distance and give yourself enough time to react.

Spiritual energy began to swirl around Ye Yuchan's slender legs. Her gaze became serious, and her breathing became cautious and wary.

However, before she could even create some distance—

Ye Xuanqiu casually waved her right hand.

"Aaaaaah—!!"

The next second, Zhang Ruoxue, bound to the enormous tombstone, suddenly began to scream in pain—

The chains binding her suddenly tightened, and Ye Yuchan even noticed bright red marks on Zhang Ruoxue's arm, from which drops of blood were faintly visible...

Zhang Ruoxue has almost lost consciousness, but she still unconsciously screams out in pain.

Tsk.

"Don't try to run around!"

Ye Xuanqiu smiled and revealed Ye Yuchan's thoughts, tapping her head with her fair fingers.

Ye Yuchan instantly realized what was happening, and her face turned extremely pale—her thoughts could be read by Ye Xuanqiu…

In other words, she was constantly being read mind-to-mind and had no way to escape through scheming.

She had no choice but to confront it head-on.

As Ye Yuchan realized this difficult condition, a snow-white figure suddenly appeared in front of her.

Who else could it be but Ye Xuanqiu?

A sudden palm strike came from the side, so fast that Ye Yuchan had no time to react.

That is theoretically true.

But the maid outfit on the silver-haired girl suddenly began to shimmer with a faint silver light, and the world in front of Ye Yuchan suddenly became silent and quiet. Even the palm strike that was originally impossible to detect was now clearly visible.

The spiritual energy that had been channeled into her legs took effect, and Ye Yuchan instantly shifted to the left, narrowly avoiding the terrifying palm strike.

Before she could react, the air behind her was compressed by a burst of spiritual energy and exploded precisely.

The violent impact made Ye Yuchan feel her bones trembling all over her body. She was forced back more than ten meters and staggered repeatedly, but fortunately she managed to regain her balance in time.

The astonishment on her face quickly disappeared. Normally, her evasive trajectory would be unpredictable, but Ye Xuanqiu had known Ye Yuchan's evasive route in advance by using mind reading and detonated it with perfect accuracy.

Ye Xuanqiu can even crush the air from a distance... That's terrifying.

But when it comes to surprise, Ye Xuanqiu's astonishment was no less than Ye Yuchan's.

She gazed with interest at Ye Yuchan's maid outfit and couldn't help but remark, "It seems my husband anticipated that you might directly confront me, so he placed quite a few things on you beforehand..."

If it were just Ye Yuchan at the peak of the Void Realm, let alone dodging, that slap would have rendered her useless.

Although not fatal, serious injury is inevitable.

Moreover, Ye Xuanqiu's goal was not to kill Ye Yuchan.

“One thousand two hundred and seventy formations… He’s not a reckless person.” Ye Yuchan forced a smile: “That old rogue practically groped me all over because of it…”

Ye Xuanqiu frowned: "Are you showing off?"

"No, it was just a test. It seems you really don't know about this..." Ye Yuchan sighed. "It seems your mind-reading has a distance limit... You can't read what happened in the Kun Tian Domain."

Ye Xuanqiu: "..."

She really can't do it.

Moreover, it's not just that crossing celestial realms is impossible; even within the same celestial realm, if the distance is too great, Ye Xuanqiu would still find it difficult to read Ye Yuchan's thoughts.

All of this is because Ye Xuanqiu is incomplete.

She stared calmly at Ye Yuchan: "It seems that the arrays your husband left on you have given you a lot of confidence. So what if we're not in the same Heavenly Domain and can't read them? As long as you're still in the Desolate Heavenly Domain, I can know everything about you."

"Is that so..." Ye Yuchan licked her lips: "I have no way of knowing what you're thinking, how would I know if what you're saying is true or not?"

Ye Xuanqiu smiled slightly, feigning indifference: "You are welcome to try."

Ye Yuchan responded with a smile: "Let's give it a try."

The next second, the spiritual energy within Ye Yuchan's body gradually began to surge out.

Upon seeing this, Ye Xuanqiu immediately used her own power to shrink the distance to an inch and arrive in front of Ye Yuchan. She directly crushed the space in her hand and instead let the void chaos swirl in her palm, then struck towards Ye Yuchan's chest.

However, the array that Yunping had spent a lot of time setting up suddenly erupted, but these arrays alone were not enough to resist Ye Xuanqiu's power.

This was her all-out attack, aimed at destroying all the protective magic arrays on Ye Yuchan's body.

However, when that wisp of ink and a streak of cold light burst forth from Ye Yuchan's storage ring, the void in Ye Xuanqiu's palm shattered, and she was forced to retreat three or four steps.

She stared at the silver-haired girl before her with a mixture of surprise, anger, and jealousy. Looking at the magical artifacts that had suddenly appeared on either side of Ye Yuchan, she gritted her teeth and said, "The Emperor Wen's Brush... the Emperor Wu's Halberd... he even gave you these things..."

Just in case.

Ye Yuchan revealed a sly smile exactly like the old rogue, but her heart was still pounding.

Those thousand-plus magic arrays were shattered instantly! If they had actually hit me...

Ugh, that feeling must not be great.

She quickly used the incantation the old rogue had told her, and under Ye Xuanqiu's annoyed gaze, she transformed into a beam of light and vanished instantly.

That was a teleportation array, and it was set up in advance over a considerable distance.

An attack that transcends the heavens?

impossible.

Ye Yuchan doesn't have that ability.

So where exactly did Ye Yuchan teleport to?

Logically speaking, Ye Xuanqiu, who has the ability to read minds, should be able to catch this little girl who is good at escaping.

But the problem is—

Ye Yuchan didn't know where she had gone!

Yes.

Before taking Ye Yuchan to the Thousand Ghost Forest, Yunping had already buried teleportation arrays in thirteen places. He originally thought that since so many arrays had already been set up, it wouldn't be a problem to set up a few more on Ye Yuchan's butt.

Ye Yuchan suspected that the old rogue just wanted to pat her butt a few more times—he said the feel was pretty good.

However, thanks to Yunping for creating so many formations, Ye Yuchan was able to choose to draw a prize when she was running the teleportation array.

That's right, a lottery.

She herself has no idea where she ran off to!

Ye Yuchan was unaware of this, and Ye Xuanqiu was even less likely to know.

"This girl..."

Ye Xuanqiu gritted her teeth, then snorted coldly and flicked her sleeves.

She knew Yunping would be prepared.

After all, he had already vaguely guessed his own thoughts, and if that was the case, he would definitely not hand over Ye Yuchan to him so easily.

I never expected them to pull something like this.

"Humph."

Ye Xuanqiu stood under the moon, her face cold and indifferent: "It's nothing but running away. Your fellow disciples are still in my hands. I want to see where you can run to."

however.

These words had barely left his lips.

A beam of spiritual light, seemingly capable of piercing through the void, swept in from the distant horizon.

Ye Xuanqiu's expression hardened slightly. The power of that spiritual light was quite remarkable. Although it wasn't powerful enough to harm her, she quickly dodged it because it happened so suddenly.

Hey~

The massive, highly concentrated spiritual energy blast struck Ye Xuanqiu's back, causing the chains binding Zhang Ruoxue's body to crack open.

Such power... rivals that of a demigod?

Ye Xuanqiu gasped, gazing at the light that left a breathtaking trail of shattered space in the sky, a trace resembling the Milky Way, and murmured, "That brat, Forging Saint..."

at the same time.

At the top of the palace of the Lantian Empire, a silver-haired girl, who was lying on the Emerald Pearl Tower and being watched by a group of imperial people below, pouted and began to pour spiritual energy into the huge, modern-style, three-meter-long spear magic weapon in her hand.

"With my husband's wild imagination, he even modified a sniper rifle..."

You I73. I have hit the hostage, repeat ①, I have hit the friendly force.