“Whoosh whoosh!”
On the slightly desolate land, strong winds occasionally howled, stirring up dust and weeds, making the atmosphere between heaven and earth even more eerie.
Gradually.
Jun Changxiao and Rose Empress emerged from the dust.
The two had agreed to fight again in three days.
However, at this moment, Jun Changxiao was desperately thinking about how to shake her off, then freely investigate Soul Clan Continent without restraint.
“Just keep going in this direction and you’ll find a city.” Rose Empress said.
Jun Changxiao remained silent.
He felt like he was a prisoner being escorted by her.
“No way!”
Jun Changxiao thought: “If I can’t shake her off, I’ll find an opportunity to suck her into the vacuum cleaner!”
Then why not use it right now?
Because her strength was too formidable—Gou Sheng had no confidence in subduing her.
For example, on the battlefield facing the Heaven-Grade Battlefield Ghost, he relied on Purple Scale Demon King to wear it down before being able to finish it off.
Hateful woman.
Don’t let this one catch an opportunity, or I’ll immediately send you into Tianyuan Soul-Suppressing Tower for discipline!
Thinking of how he was just bound, Gou Sheng decided that once he caught her, he’d definitely get the Soul-Suppressing Whip from Er Ya and personally whip her to vent his frustration!
“Little White.”
Rose Empress said: “What are you thinking about?”
Jun Changxiao had planned to continue maintaining silence, when suddenly inspiration struck: “I’m thinking about a road.”
“Road?”
“The road to your heart.”
Rose Empress stopped, her bright eyes showing surprise.
“There’s hope!”
In Jun Changxiao’s consciousness sea, corny pickup lines scrolled past like bullet comments, then he instantly grabbed one and said: “Do you know why I’m afraid of you?”
Rose Empress said: “Because I’m strong.”
“No.” Jun Changxiao said seriously: “Because I’m afraid of my wife.”
Rose Empress lowered her head.
Jun Changxiao immediately felt secretly pleased, about to continue with more corny pickup lines, when he saw that woman suddenly clench her fist and say angrily: “A mere servant dares to flirt with this empress!”
“Boom—”
The earth cracked, dust flew.
After it dissipated, Jun Changxiao was embedded in a deep pit face down, a gourd-shaped lump bulging from the back of his head.
……
Several hundred li away.
A city built from black ore appeared.
Jun Changxiao, sporting a large lump on his head, walked in and discovered that the busy Soul Clan inside were mainly in human form, no different from humans on Xingyun Continent.
According to Soul Numbers One and Two, the Soul Clan’s true forms were actually human-shaped. They only used souls to possess other bodies when invading other planes.
“Their strength is way too weak, isn’t it?”
After casually observing in the city for a while, Jun Changxiao found that the strongest Soul Clan martial artist he encountered only had strength comparable to Wutu.
Even a small city in southwestern Yangzhou of Xingyun Continent would at least have Wushi present.
“Sigh.”
Rose Empress sighed: “Surviving in such a harsh environment, it’s already quite remarkable that our Soul Clan can produce a talent like you.”
Since taking the throne, she had been campaigning in other planes, caring little for her homeland. This time, coming to a remote city and seeing her subjects’ overall low strength, she immediately felt a strong sense of self-reproach.
“He Wudi’s Concealment Technique is indeed powerful. This woman with strong cultivation hasn’t detected that I’m actually human.” Jun Changxiao secretly felt fortunate.
Actually, on Soul Clan Continent, as long as one didn’t outwardly declare themselves human, even without using Concealment Technique, they wouldn’t be discovered, because this world strengthened itself through invading other planes—they not only had human characteristics but also human aura.
Simply put.
Through long-term conquest and acquisition of human power, Soul Clan genes and bloodlines continuously changed.
For example, Rose Empress with her powerful aura—if she went to a human plane in her true form, no one would suspect she was a different race.
“I need to use the toilet.”
“Go ahead.”
“My god! You’re following me to the toilet too!”
“Afraid you’ll run.”
“…”
……
Jun Changxiao and Rose Empress appearing in the remote small city immediately attracted numerous residents to watch curiously—after all, one was heroically handsome and the other devastatingly beautiful.
Of course.
They would never imagine this was their own Empress, because since her coronation, she had been like a dragon—appearing and disappearing mysteriously.
Rose Empress certainly wouldn’t announce loudly, “I am your Empress, quickly come kneel and worship me,” but instead walked through the streets like traveling incognito.
However, every time she saw subjects at extremely low realms, her heart ached faintly, and she thought: “These years I’ve conquered countless planes and obtained countless martial arts resources, but improving my subjects’ overall strength has been like a drop in the ocean.”
Since becoming the Fourth Generation Empress, she had had a grand plan in her heart—to strengthen the continent in the shortest time. For this, she stationed herself in other planes, not hesitating to take the lead and charge into battle.
It was precisely because her strength and combat experience were both formidable that the cheating Jun Changxiao suffered setbacks.
“Don’t you need to find an inn to stay at and properly recuperate from your injuries?” After walking around the city for several rounds, Rose Empress asked.
“I was just thinking that.”
The two came to an inn.
“Innkeeper, we want two rooms.”
“One room is enough.”
“…”
Jun Changxiao looked at Rose Empress with a surprised gaze, thinking: “Are Soul Clan Continent women all this bold? Completely disregarding the propriety between men and women? Or is it… she wants to take advantage of me?”
“Boy.”
Rose Empress said lightly: “I’m afraid you’ll run.”
“Slap!”
With a casual wave, two crystalline spirit stones fell on the counter: “One of your finest rooms.”
“Right away, right away!”
The innkeeper quickly nodded and bowed as he made arrangements.
Jun Changxiao’s spiritual sense spread, briefly touching the spirit stones, and thought in shock: “Five times stronger than natural spirit stones!”
Just staying at an inn, yet spending so lavishly—could she be a rich woman?
If not for maintaining male dignity, he might have sidled up and quietly asked: “Big sister, need any accessories on your legs? The very handsome kind!”
……
“Creak!”
“Creak!”
The door opened and closed.
Looking at the luxurious room with only one bed, Jun Changxiao said helplessly: “I really am not used to sleeping in the same bed with someone else.”
Rose Empress waved her hand, summoning two chairs: “I’m not used to it either, so you sleep here.”
“…”
Jun Changxiao said: “Let me just book another room.”
“Come back!”
Rose Empress said coldly.
That unquestionable commanding tone was quite strong, making Gou Sheng very uncomfortable. He wanted nothing more than to summon the Difficult to Retract Blade and fight her to the end!
Forget it, forget it.
Jun Changxiao thought: “Let’s wait until the Space-Time Worm wakes up.”
The reason he didn’t dare use the Difficult to Retract Blade was that he was currently in Soul Clan Continent, with the entrance to Xingyun Continent blocked. Unless he destroyed this entire world, after using the blade, he’d fall into a months-long period of weakness and would definitely have to go to hell singing “Cool.”
……
Deep night.
Dark as ink.
Jun Changxiao sat in the room corner, seemingly meditating and resting, but actually constantly watching Rose Empress sleeping on the bed, calculating whether using the vacuum cleaner on her at this moment would be a sure thing.
“Whoosh whoosh!”
Suddenly, the bedding flashed with a faint light.
“What’s happening?” Jun Changxiao was stunned.
Rose Empress’s face, as she slept, contorted slightly, and strange lines appeared on her neck.
“This woman… seems to be in great pain?”
An opportunity!
A heaven-sent opportunity!
“Swoosh!”
Jun Changxiao immediately rushed over, the modified vacuum cleaner already on his back, then walked to the bedside and yanked the bedding away, raising the flat nozzle to press it against Rose Empress’s clothed back.
In enhanced mode, powerful suction burst forth!
“Whoosh whoosh!”
“Whoosh whoosh whoosh—”
The strange lines appearing on Rose Empress’s neck were uncontrollably sucked in.
The corners of Jun Changxiao’s mouth curved into a smile.
Woman, your soul has fallen into this one’s hands. Wait to enter Tianyuan Soul-Suppressing Tower and receive proper discipline!
“Swoosh!”
Just then, Rose Empress’s painfully contorted face suddenly relaxed. She turned around and used her right hand to knock the flat nozzle away, pressing Jun Changxiao’s shoulder and in one motion pinning him against the wall. Her gaze cold: “What are you doing?”