The Rose Empress fell into deep thought.
“Moreover.”
Jun Changxiao continued: “With your current injuries, if you don’t have a famous physician to treat you and rely only on self-recovery, it will take at least several years or even decades. During this time, can you evade the Rose Empress’s searches?”
“…”
A trace of conflict flashed through the Rose Empress’s eyes.
When Tuoling led people charging into the sleeping chambers, she had realized something was wrong.
But she hadn’t expected that this detestable fellow would rescue her instead of handing her over to the Lingping Empress.
“Speak.”
After a difficult internal struggle, the Rose Empress looked toward Jun Changxiao and said: “Your conditions for helping me.”
Jun Changxiao leaned closer, smiling: “Become my maidservant.”
“In your dreams!”
If the Rose Empress weren’t so weak, those two words would definitely have splattered his face with saliva.
“If you don’t like being a maidservant, you can be a servant girl or an attendant.” Jun Changxiao shrugged. “Either way, I won’t disdain you.”
The Rose Empress ground her teeth: “I would rather die than become a servant girl or attendant!”
“Whoosh!”
Jun Changxiao pulled her over, coldly saying: “We made a wager, and you need to accept your loss!”
“Did I lose?” The Rose Empress glared at him.
Jun Changxiao roared: “If you didn’t lose, how did you end up in my hands!”
The two had previously made a wager—one would become a servant if they lost, the other a maidservant. But looking at it now, no matter what the outcome, one side would renege!
“No one witnessed it, so it doesn’t count.”
“You…”
“Wait until my injuries heal, then we’ll fight again!”
“You…”
Jun Changxiao raised his finger pointing at her, so angry he was trembling.
In this world, there actually exists someone even more shameless than me, and it’s a woman at that!
Fine, fine!
If it weren’t for the fact that this deposed empress still has some use, I would have slapped you to death long ago!
Jun Changxiao took a deep breath, suppressed his irritable temper, and said: “I’ll help you reclaim your lost throne, and you give me sufficiently generous compensation.”
“Acceptable.”
The Rose Empress said.
“However…” she added: “I have a condition.”
Damn!
This woman is pushing her luck!
The Rose Empress said: “You must first help me heal my injuries.”
“Sorry.”
Jun Changxiao shrugged: “I don’t understand medical arts.”
The Rose Empress said lightly: “If you didn’t understand medical arts, you definitely wouldn’t have infiltrated the sleeping chambers.”
Jun Changxiao truly didn’t understand medicine, and even if he had healing pills, they would definitely have no effect on a powerhouse of her level.
Moreover.
Even if healing pills were effective, he wouldn’t give them to her.
If this girl directly turned on him after recovering, who could he complain to?
Jun Changxiao said: “I can help you heal, but you also need to agree to one of my conditions, otherwise there’s nothing to discuss.”
“What condition?”
“Hand over your soul essence.”
“No way!”
Jun Changxiao raised his finger pointing at her, saying: “Ugly woman, you’re now like trash. I can let you live if I want you to live, let you die if I want you to die. Stop with all the nonsense and quickly hand over your soul essence.”
The system was somewhat surprised.
The host, who had always been invincible at deception, was actually being pushed by the Rose Empress to the point of barely suppressing his irritable temper.
“I won’t!”
The Rose Empress was very stubborn.
“Fine, fine, fine!”
Jun Changxiao stood up, waved his hand to summon the modified vacuum cleaner, his gaze cold: “Then don’t blame me!”
If she could be sensible and hand over her soul essence, he definitely wouldn’t choose such extreme measures—after all, she was an empress with status.
“Snap!”
Because the opponent was in an injured state, Jun Changxiao didn’t activate enhanced mode. Using third gear mode, he raised the flat nozzle and pressed it against her shoulder.
However, under the powerful suction, the Rose Empress was completely unaffected. Instead, she angrily said: “What are you doing!”
“Strange!”
Jun Changxiao collapsed: “Why isn’t it working!”
Whether on the Xingyun Continent or the battlefield, as long as things were unclean, the modified vacuum cleaner had never failed. Why had it not worked twice on this woman!
“There’s only one possibility.”
The system said: “Her body is very clean.”
“Impossible!”
Jun Changxiao said: “She’s Soul Clan, and the Soul Clan leader at that. How could she be clean!”
The system said: “Host, haven’t you noticed that in this plane, Soul Clan martial artists seem no different from humans?”
Not only were there no differences, they were practically identical, especially in daily life—extremely similar to humans.
If Jun Changxiao hadn’t repeatedly confirmed this was the Soul Clan continent, he would even suspect he had entered another plane where humans lived.
The system said: “According to my analysis, when the Soul Clan invades other planes, they don’t go with their original bodies but as soul entities. This should be a unique divine ability of their race.”
“You mean to say, this woman currently has an original body, so her body is clean. But once she enters other planes, occupying others’ consciousness as a soul entity, she becomes unclean?” Jun Changxiao said.
The system said: “Correct.”
“…”
Jun Changxiao retracted the flat nozzle, saying: “Has this thing malfunctioned?”
“Snap!”
Because he was too close, it pressed directly against his own forehead.
“Not good…” Jun Changxiao’s expression changed drastically. He hurriedly turned off the vacuum cleaner, but… the head appearing in the lens had already become incredibly shiny and bald.
“Hahaha!”
“Hahahaha!”
The system couldn’t help but laugh uproariously.
…
My name is Jun Changxiao.
I’m panicking like crazy right now!
Because I accidentally made myself bald through a mistake, but I didn’t get stronger!
…
After spraying on super-strong hair growth agent, Jun Changxiao sat cross-legged, arms folded in anger: “What are you looking at? Never seen a bald person?”
With that said, he turned toward the lens and roared: “Director, cut this part!”
Actually.
With Jun Changxiao’s appearance, he could perfectly pull off even a bald head.
“…”
The Rose Empress withdrew her gaze, and a trace of imperceptible blush rose on her pale face. She muttered quietly: “He actually looks quite good.”
“How about this.”
Jun Changxiao calmed down and said: “We’ll each take a step back…”
He suddenly stopped speaking and scooped the Rose Empress into his arms, darting out with a “whoosh.”
Just after they left, dozens of fully armed soldiers appeared in the cave, looked at the extinguished fire, exchanged glances, and hurriedly departed.
“That woman hasn’t even been enthroned yet, and she’s already started hunting you down.” Jun Changxiao said from his hiding spot in the darkness.
“Snap!”
He slapped that woman’s hand away, collapsing: “Why are you touching my head!”
“It’s fun!” The Rose Empress laughed.
“…”
Jun Changxiao almost threw her down in anger.
“I’ve seen many Buddhist cultivators in other planes. They’re all bald, and some even have ordination scars. Why don’t you put a few dots on your head?” The Rose Empress said with interest.
“I’m not a monk!” Jun Changxiao said irritably.
The Rose Empress said: “You look so handsome—you’d probably look quite good wearing a kasaya robe too.”
“…”
Jun Changxiao ignored her and transferred to a safe area.
But all along the way, the Rose Empress kept staring at his smooth bald head. So he roared: “Big sister! You’re being held hostage by me right now. Shouldn’t you be most concerned about whether you can survive, or whether you can reclaim the throne? What’s with constantly staring at my head!”
“If it looks good, I’ll look at it.”
“Do you have some disgusting fetish or something!”
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