Chapter 2214: The Funny Bookworm

Han Jiang's words stirred up quite a commotion in Da Chu. Before Xie Yun could even issue an order to retort, everyone was already spewing profanities, itching to rush over and tear him to pieces.

The women's eyes were filled with cold fury, their killing intent soaring.

In stark contrast, the Hong Huang side erupted in boisterous laughter.

It wasn't just Han Jiang; every single one of them had lewd stares, thoroughly enjoying the sight of someone like Yao Chi's immortal body, a rare beauty in the human realm.

More importantly, she was Ye Chen's wife, so deriving pleasure from her must feel incredibly satisfying.

Ji Ningshuang remained silent, her expression serene and devoid of emotion. She ascended into the sky step by step, her divine form graceful and elegant, until she paused in the void, facing Han Jiang across the heavens.

"I wonder, Fairy, what do you think of that?" Han Jiang laughed with a demonic edge, revealing his stark white teeth, his sinister and lecherous eyes scanning Ji Ningshuang without restraint, like a vicious wolf eyeing its prey.

"I prefer humans and have no interest in turtles."

Her words left everyone in the heavens momentarily stunned.

Today's Ji Ningshuang was different from her usual self. In the past, when she fought, she rarely bothered with any preambles, let alone retorts.

Now, however, she spoke like this, which truly caught people by surprise.

"The bookworm from Yao Chi has finally learned to be amusing. I'm quite pleased," many unserious old folks remarked, stroking their beards with a sense of gravity.

"Facts prove that spending time with Ye Chen rubs off on you and picks up his bad habits."

"The Holy Body back in the day had a mouth that could talk its way out of anything, even forcing Shi Jia Zun Zhe into tribulation. As his wife, how could she not pick up a few tricks?"

Discussions broke out everywhere, with people from all heavens feeling genuinely gratified.

A proper opening line before a fight is essential – you can't let them steal your thunder. If they mock you, you have to fire back.

If Ye Chen were here, he'd surely be pleased too.

His wife, who was all beauty and no brains, had finally started using her head. Credit goes to his relentless "training" – constantly tricking her like that, and her smarts were bound to improve.

Being able to fight is one thing, but being able to talk smack and fight – that's the real skill.

Not to brag, but his talent for retorts was so sharp that if Ji Ningshuang learned even a fraction of it, she could outwit the whole world.

Looking at Han Jiang, he wasn't angry at all; instead, his laughter grew more playful, his eyes flashing with excitement. As an emperor's son, what woman hadn't he had? Who dared defy him? Yet here was someone who dared to retort, making his interest in Dong Shen Yao Chi even stronger.

While he was getting excited, Ji Ningshuang had already launched her attack. She vanished suddenly, then reappeared right in front of Han Jiang, her crystalline jade hand striking straight at him.

Han Jiang snorted coldly, clenching his fist to grasp the universe and unleash the ultimate Dao laws, slamming it forward.

Thud!

Their fists and palms collided, and blood splattered instantly, mixed with fragments of bone scattering through the sky.

It was Han Jiang's; his fist bones shattered from Ji Ningshuang's single palm strike, sending him stumbling back and collapsing swaths of space.

Ji Ningshuang, on the other hand, stood there gracefully, her crystalline jade hand as beautiful as ever, without a single mark. The heavens' cultivators watched in exhilaration. Truly, women could hold their own against men. Ye Chen was formidable, and his wife was no less ruthless. The second-ranked Hong Huang emperor's son was utterly defeated in one move before her.

The Han Jiang clan's faces turned ugly. Getting pushed back by a single palm right at the start was humiliating.

"Good, very good." Han Jiang's laughter echoed across Wang Xuan Star, his features twisted in a grotesque grin, his excitement only growing.

A woman who could fight like this only fueled his intense desires even more.

As he spoke, divine patterns appeared on both sides of his forehead, perfectly symmetrical and glowing with dark black light. His aura surged to its peak in an instant, and a massive silver divine dragon materialized, coiling around him.

The silver dragon was enormous, over ten thousand feet long, even more ferocious than he was. It wasn't just an external manifestation; it was a divine ability similar to the Eightfold Heavenly Dragons, a kind of sacred hidden power that could both attack and defend.

Roar!

With a roar from the silver dragon, its massive body churned through the void, lunging at Ji Ningshuang. It spewed flames that burned the flesh and shot thunderbolts aimed at the spirit. Before it, Ji Ningshuang seemed as insignificant as an ant, almost invisible.

Ji Ningshuang's expression stayed indifferent. She moved with lotus-like grace, as if stepping on the laws themselves, crossing the universe in a single step to evade the silver dragon's flames and thunderbolts, landing directly on its head.

Her foot appeared light, but it hit like an eight-thousand-foot mountain, incredibly heavy. It crushed the dragon's skull, and its huge body disintegrated in an instant, scattering silver dragon blood and bones everywhere.

Extermination!

Han Jiang followed up with a finger strike of divine light that obliterated everything, piercing through the void.

This was a strike of absolute destruction, a genuine emperor's immortal technique targeting both the spirit and the true form, ignoring physical defenses. Even a quasi-emperor wouldn't dare take it head-on.

A quasi-emperor might not dare, but Ji Ningshuang did. Against Han Jiang's finger, she countered with her own, infusing it with thousands of Dao laws and enhancing it with principles. Her slender jade finger glowed with brilliant divine patterns.

In that moment, all the spectators straightened up, their eyes shining as they watched the clash of fingers.

Thud!

Under everyone's gaze, blood splattered again.

The proof was clear: Han Jiang's finger wasn't as tough as Ji Ningshuang's. The entire finger exploded into a mist of blood, and his chest was pierced with a bloody hole.

Ye Chen's wife, however, remained completely unharmed. Her expression hadn't changed at all from start to finish, her icy jade form like an eternal ice beauty.

"I underestimated you." Han Jiang sneered, licking the fresh blood from his fingers with his scarlet tongue. The destroyed finger regenerated in an instant, its recovery so overpowering that it shocked the world.

He cast another secret technique, raising one hand to the sky as silver light radiated from his palm.

Immediately, thunder boomed, and a sea of silver lightning appeared in the nine heavens, pouring down like a silver waterfall from the sky. It engulfed the heavens, blocking out the sun and swallowing Ji Ningshuang whole.

This wasn't a heavenly tribulation; it was an emperor's immortal technique. The lightning sea was fused with Hong Huang's origin, carrying sealing powers. Inside, the devouring force was immense. If you fell in carelessly, you might not be struck dead by the lightning but could be sealed by the prohibitions, or even drained into a dry corpse if not sealed.

Legend had it that when Han Jiang's great emperor was sealed as a saint, he used this lightning sea to slay a great saint, achieving a cross-realm victory that defied the heavens.

The hearts of the heavens' cultivators tightened, and even the emperor's sons felt uneasy, as if they knew the terror of that secret technique. If they were swallowed by it, escape would be difficult.

Boom! Boom!

The thunder roared deafeningly, the rolling lightning sea covering the sky and earth. Anyone inside it was tinier than an ant. The world could no longer see Ji Ningshuang's figure – all that filled the view was lightning, painfully bright. Those with weaker cultivation had their eyes bleeding from the glare.

Suddenly, a phoenix's cry pierced through, louder than the thunder and even more striking, emanating from the lightning sea.

Ji Ningshuang's form wasn't visible, but a phoenix appeared in the lightning sea, bathing in the electricity and undergoing rebirth through nirvana. She wasn't of the phoenix clan; this phoenix was just an external manifestation of her Dao.

Her Dao of All Things, much like Ye Chen's Dao of Chaos, led to the same end through different paths. The lightning sea couldn't harm her, erase her, or trap her, and she burst out forcefully.

She transformed back from the phoenix into human form.

In the same instant, three heavenly books manifested above her head – the Wuzi Heavenly Books, massive as mountains, majestic in presence, flickering with chaotic light. Their pages turned without any words inscribed, and ancient Dao sounds echoed across the four seas and eight wastelands.

"So that's the Wuzi Heavenly Book!" Xiao Yuan Huang lifted his head, his golden eyes full of curiosity – he'd only heard of it in legends and was seeing it for the first time.

"It's truly profound," the unreliable Kui Niu said in a daze, almost like a heaven-defying creation.

"So heavenly books aren't just for reading – they can be used in battle too."

"I only knew she had the Wuzi Heavenly Book, but not that she had three." Chen Yi murmured. He wasn't unfamiliar with heavenly books, but seeing three appear together was a first.

"She lives up to the name of bookworm." The emperor's sons sighed. With three Wuzi Heavenly Books, anyone would spend their days studying them obsessively, oblivious to the world, and it would be strange not to become a bookworm.

"I wonder if we could discuss with Dong Shen and let this old one take a look at those three heavenly books." Many elders stroked their chins, sensing it would be a great opportunity.

"She actually has three Wuzi Heavenly Books." The Hong Huang clan's people all had eyes gleaming brightly, full of greed. Knowing the profoundness of the heavenly books, they naturally coveted their secrets.

At that moment, quite a few Hong Huang experts had thoughts of killing and robbing for them.