When the Rose Empress was conquering various planes, she once happened to obtain a fragmentary manual containing a supremely transcendent aura.

Her martial dao aptitude was very strong, but even after decades of research, she had only managed to glimpse the martial technique’s comprehension to a successful level, able to gather orange light beams of extraordinary power.

The main issue was that the manual explicitly recorded that only by cultivating Fragmentary Volume One could one cultivate Fragmentary Volume Two.

In other words.

Without Fragmentary Volume One, even with monstrous talent, the Rose Empress couldn’t successfully cultivate it.

This wasn’t a big problem, because what she cared about wasn’t the martial technique itself, but rather a special energy contained within the manual itself.

Very strong!

Extremely strong!

With a woman’s超强 keen perception, the Rose Empress even guessed that if she could comprehend the energy existing within the manual, she would surely obtain unimaginable gains.

If He Wudi knew her thoughts, he would certainly marvel that in the mortal world, someone could actually perceive that a trace of profound truth was hidden within the Seven Profound Radiance Break.

Although the Rose Empress could sense that the fragmentary volume concealed secrets, she always found it difficult to penetrate its mysteries, so she could only keep it close to her body, taking it out to study from time to time.

But…

One day the fragmentary volume suddenly disappeared!

It was that kind of inexplicable, mysterious disappearance!

The Rose Empress’s first reaction was that someone had taken advantage of her inattention to steal the manual. It wasn’t until she heard Jun Changxiao shout out ‘Seven Profound Radiance’ and finally the word ‘Break’ that she was certain it wasn’t just stolen, but stolen by him!

The Soul Clan Continent’s fourth generation Empress, who had an extremely strong possessive nature, how could she tolerate this kind of theft perpetrated against her? So without any hesitation, she directly appeared before Gousheng and launched a fierce explosive assault!

With this palm strike, the ground for dozens of miles instantly collapsed—the scene was absolutely terrifying!

“Hmm?”

However, when the dust gradually settled, the Rose Empress furrowed her brows.

“Crack crack crack!”

“Crack crack crack!”

The sound of bones crunching rang out.

Jun Changxiao appeared in view with clenched fists.

Although the surrounding ground had sunken several zhang deep, only the place where he stood remained intact, not crushed by the domineering force.

The Rose Empress said in surprise: “So you’re at the Return to Simplicity Realm!”

“Swish!”

Jun Changxiao’s entire body vanished into thin air.

When the camera caught up with him, he had already appeared before the Rose Empress, his steel-armored fist gathering explosive power as it bombarded toward her.

“Crack crack crack!”

Space couldn’t withstand the permeating energy and shattered like a spider web.

“Boom—”

Jun Changxiao’s expression was cold as he threw this punch. Although the Rose Empress had set up a defensive barrier in front of her in advance, it still instantly collapsed, and her entire body was sent flying diagonally.

“Bang!”

Landing on the ground, waves of energy spread out like an invisible giant hand ruthlessly pressing down on the ground behind her, causing it to instantly sink ten zhang and form a long, wide crater shaped like a bowl!

“This guy…”

The Rose Empress furrowed her brows tightly.

From that exchange just now, she roughly estimated that this person’s current cultivation was not below her own!

So it turned out he wasn’t lying.

So it turned out that after his injuries recovered, he really was extremely powerful!

When did such a powerful expert appear in the Soul Clan Continent? Why had none of her subordinates mentioned it!

An expert who had reached the Return to Simplicity Realm absolutely belonged to the topmost tier in this plane and couldn’t possibly be unknown!

“Swish!”

Jun Changxiao appeared behind the Rose Empress without anyone noticing, lightly raising his hand as vast energy gathered into a sphere. His words were cold: “This is my true strength.”

When he was suddenly bombarded just now, he directly crushed the Qiankun Talisman. Now with his cultivation surging, he no longer had that playful cheap appearance—he was completely transformed, like a stern and solemn supreme king!

I.

Jun Changxiao!

In this alternate world, am not here to play around!

“Boom!”

The energy sphere gathered in his palm instantly expanded to its limit before exploding violently. The massive shockwave directly caused space to collapse and the ground to shatter.

“Thump!”

The Rose Empress landed awkwardly, but the corners of her mouth curled into a smile.

This guy didn’t disappoint her!

“Swish!”

She waved her jade hand in the void.

“Buzz! Buzz!”

Space trembled slightly, and a crescent-shaped weapon carved with rose patterns and entirely in a bewitching red color appeared.

The Rose Empress lightly sat on it, right leg crossed over left leg, smiling like a big sister with childlike innocence swinging on a swing: “I take back what I said earlier.”

Jun Changxiao’s cultivation had increased, his strength no less than her own, causing her to take him seriously and summon her exclusive weapon—the Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade.

As an Empress who had conquered various planes for thousands of years, she naturally had plenty of weapons and equipment, but rarely had occasion to use them because the opponents she encountered were too weak.

The Rose Empress said: “When I bring out this weapon, it must see blood, so…” Her voice lowered: “You must be prepared to die.”

“Whoosh!”

As soon as the words left her mouth, she flew forth.

The Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade followed closely behind at its master’s command, its blade flashing with crimson light as if eagerly thirsting for blood.

“Whoosh!”

The Rose Empress flicked her finger as if invisible threads connected her to the weapon, causing it to immediately spin and shoot forward explosively.

“Tch.”

Jun Changxiao sneered coldly.

“Swish! Swish!”

The next second, the incoming Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade instantly split into several rings of light, attacking from different directions.

Because the speed was too fast, it was difficult to distinguish which was real and which was fake!

“Ding! Ding! Ding!”

Jun Changxiao stepped forward and swung the True Yang Sword, slashing out sword energy that knocked all the attacking light rings away.

“Buzz—”

Suddenly, space behind him trembled!

The real Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade tore through space, carrying tremendous force as it swept toward him.

Although Jun Changxiao detected it in the first instant, there was no time to dodge—he could only instinctively turn and raise his sword to meet it.

“Ding!”

“Crack!”

“Whoosh—”

The Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade swept past his neck and returned to the Rose Empress.

Jun Changxiao stood in midair, his facial expression frozen, because the True Yang Sword in his hand had broken into two pieces, with the tip portion falling to the ground.

“Broken…”

“It actually broke…”

Jun Changxiao, who had always taken pleasure in breaking Master Fan’s forged weapons, today had his own weapon broken by someone else—and it was the high-grade True Yang Sword produced by the system, which must be excellent quality. This was a first in his life!

Pain!

A stinging pain came from his neck.

Jun Changxiao subconsciously raised his hand to touch it, feeling something wet. When he looked, it was all blood.

It turned out that when the Crimson Lotus Demonic Moon Blade flew past just now, it had carved a thin, long wound on his neck.

Having taken Gousheng’s weapon and drawn first blood on his neck, the Rose Empress said indifferently: “If your weapon had been even slightly inferior, your head would have already flown off.”

“…”

Jun Changxiao casually threw away the broken True Yang Sword, his gaze flashing with endless fury.

The Rose Empress said: “Your weapon and the equipment you’re wearing should be a set. Now that one piece is missing, it probably won’t have any effect, right?”

“Obediently hand over Fragmentary Volume Two of the Seven Profound Radiance Break and become my servant, and perhaps you can still keep your life.”

How does this woman know I have Fragmentary Volume Two of the Seven Profound Radiance Break?

Wait!

Suddenly, Jun Changxiao remembered that after he purchased Break Fragmentary Volume Two, there was a rich rose fragrance on it.

He hurriedly fused his soul form into his spatial ring, took out the original to sniff it, then compared it with the lingering scent in the outside air, and exclaimed in shock: “It’s this exact scent!”

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