Chapter 1278: Twin Cracks

"It's nothing," Di Ji said, winking at Di Hou. "You don't have to feel inferior about your appearance."

"Damn it, am I inferior? I was just fine before I met you two, and now I'm really starting to feel that way." Di Hou waved his hand. "After I get out, I'll shave, comb my hair, and wash my face. Can you two say less for now?"

Having said that, he cleared his throat and spat on the ground.

Di Ji had a feeling this wasn't just about shaving and washing his face.

No sooner had the words fallen than the two Tian Ji attacked again.

Several chunks of ore flew through the room, and the two Di Ji found themselves entangled in thin vines.

As everyone exchanged blows, the young man and woman looked slender and weak, but their movements were precise, as if they had trained extensively. Di Ji was quickly knocked down, and Di Hou held out for a while before being sent flying.

"Damn it..." Di Hou rolled back to his feet on the ground. "They seem a bit stronger than before..."

At that moment, Di Ji stood up and glanced at the state of the two Tian Ji. She felt that Ji Nu had built up to a certain level, then she looked at Di Hou and winked at him.

Di Hou nodded, cleared his throat, and said to the two in front of him: "Hey, are you two even capable? Tian Hou, let's set aside the fact that you can't properly use Shuang Sheng Hua on yourself. You've got one Yuan Wu and one Feng Chang, and then Tian Ji with Qiao Wu and Mao Mu... All these skills sound like they go together, but fighting like this feels like you're just messing around. So many Xian Fa and you haven't even seriously injured us."

"Just now, we were careless..." one of them said. "It won't happen again... right?"

She looked at Tian Ji, but noticed his expression remained troubled. He was staring at Di Hou with a hint of wariness.

"Tian Ji, aren't you going to use your Sha Shou Jian?" the other asked. "These two are tough... They seem to have something on them..."

Tian Hou felt increasingly irritated fighting these two. Whenever Di Ji touched her, it disrupted her Xin Nian, and Di Hou seemed able to predict her upcoming Xian Fa, dodging in advance.

Even the densest person could sense by now that these two Di Ji were unusual. They clearly carried some invisible Xian Fa.

But how had Di Ji managed to sneak Xian Fa onto the Lie Che?

Had no one noticed anything odd about them over all those years from Ren Ji to Di Ji?

"My Sha Shou Jian... right now..." Tian Ji still looked hesitant. "Tian Hou, maybe you should undo the Shuang Sheng Hua..."

"Undo the Shuang Sheng Hua... what do you mean?" Tian Hou frowned. "Are you saying I'm holding you back because I'm injured?"

"It's not that..." Tian Ji replied, growing annoyed. "I've taken some injuries too, and they're feeding back to you. This means we're both taking double the damage, which isn't helping the fight..."

"You didn't say that when you cast Shuang Sheng Hua!" Tian Hou shouted. "You said we'd connect and better sense the unity of yin and yang. Now you're telling me to undo it?"

"Can you focus on what's important..." Tian Ji raised his voice. "Don't you want to win against them?!"

"Oh, oh, oh." Di Hou laughed. "You young folks, don't fight. When we first came in, you two were even speaking in sync. Now you're arguing separately? Did you break up on the spot?"

Seeing Di Hou stir things up, Di Ji laughed too: "Don't talk nonsense! They're still close. Hearts connected, lives linked—one dies, and both go. Their bond is deeper than ours could ever be."

"Oh? Is that right?" Di Hou said with a smile. "Then I must have misunderstood. I thought they'd fallen out."

Listening to Di Hou and Di Ji tag-team their taunts, Tian Ji and Tian Hou's faces darkened even more.

"But Tian Hou, you really are puzzling." Di Ji crossed her arms. "A perfectly good Shuang Sheng Hua, and all you can do is Sheng Ming Lian Jie? There's so much more to it. Why not heal your injuries or make us take some damage?"

"You..." Tian Hou looked furious, her suppressed anger flaring up. "Do you think that just because you can hurt us, you can beat Tian?"

"That's right." Di Ji nodded. "Hurt you, and we can kill you. With your lives linked now, it's making things easier for me."

"You old men and women with your delusions are making me sick..." Tian Hou said through gritted teeth.

Hearing that, Di Hou sucked in a breath and waved his hands frantically at Tian Hou.

Tian Hou frowned: "What's wrong? Why are you waving at me?"

"You silly kid!" Di Hou said nervously. "You can insult my looks all you want, but you..."

"Shut up..." Di Ji's forehead veins bulged, though she kept a sweet smile. "Little thing, you called me an 'old woman'...?"

"With that weird face of yours, how would I know your age?" Tian Hou said with an angry laugh, her pretty face twisted in rage. "This so-called older sister... No matter how I look at it, you couldn't possibly be younger than me, right? Tell me, do you even need primer when you put on makeup on your feathers?"

Di Ji nodded: "Fine, fine... No one else move. I'll go tear this little brat's mouth apart myself."

With that, she charged forward and started fighting Tian Hou chaotically. The two grabbed each other's hair, both seething with anger.

Di Ji didn't care about her image at all, yelling things like "I'll show you if I need primer or not." She seized an opportunity and scratched three bloody lines across Tian Hou's face, and blood immediately splashed across Tian Ji's face too.

"Ah!!" He panicked and shouted, "Tian Hou! Undo the Shuang Sheng Hua quickly!"

"You..." Tian Hou shouted back while grappling with Di Ji, "Tian Ji, if you don't use that damned Sha Shou Jian... I'll drag you down with me to die..."

Di Hou watched the scene with interest, then gave Tian Ji a meaningful look: "Kid, why don't you just show it?"

"You... what do you know..." Tian Ji gritted his teeth. "Once I reveal my ability, it'll cause trouble..."

"Trouble how?" Di Hou said. "You want to undo the Shuang Sheng Hua to save yourself, but Tian Hou won't have it. You should know by now, right? You two can't sync up anymore. She's way angrier than you, and even her Xin Nian is affected. Staying connected will just make one plus one less than two."

After hearing that, Tian Ji clearly started to hesitate.