The next day.
The snow had stopped, but the sky remained overcast; a cold wind howled through the grey expanse.
The annoying north wind woke Zheng Ya, who opened his eyes in a daze, only to be met with Liu Qingyun's sudden attack: "Boom, crash!"
"Holy crap..." Zheng Ya jumped up to avoid the attack of the broken lattice door. He had just stood still and sensed who it was when he was met with Liu Qingyun's angry shout: "Kid, are you asking for death?"
"Ahem, Liu Qingyun, the Soul-Severing Fairy, don't force me to perish together with you..." Zheng Ya retorted, realizing what was happening.
The two locked eyes, a murderous intent filling the entire bedroom. The palace maids who had been guarding the door fled in panic upon hearing the commotion: rustling sounds.
The snowflakes kicked up by the four palace maids as they fled through the snow were swept into the broken doorway by a north wind, but were dispersed by the murderous aura emanating from the two people inside. The snowflakes were then swept away by the wind and scattered in all directions.
Liu Qingyun finally gave in, taking three steps back and glancing at the door as she coldly snorted, "Kid, don't try to bluff me like this."
"I know everything about you. If you know what's good for you, punish Princess Wu. Otherwise, don't blame me for torturing you to death. You're welcome to try!"
"Haha, are you sure you know my skills from Wu Wei and that you've got me cornered?" Zheng Ya was furious and ready to kill.
Liu Qingyun, sword in hand, sneered, "Boy, keep pretending. I bet this handsome Fairy of Soul Severance will take pity on you and forgive your ignorance, hehehe."
"You lowly wench, I'm not easily intimidated. Come on, make your move! Let's see if I can't torture you to death, you ungrateful wench!" Zheng Ya channeled his inner energy to create a spatial shield around his body, his killing intent surging as he challenged him to a duel.
Liu Qingyun, shocked and enraged, confronted him with her sword: "You brat, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you possess the three spiritual roots of spirit, space, and time."
You should know that you came from another realm, and your cultivation has been reduced by seven or eight tenths. The strength you can exert is pitifully small. Do you really think you can suppress and kill me with your mental magic?
Let me tell you, I possess the Soul-Capturing Mirror to protect my soul, and I am completely unafraid of your mental magic.
"Come on, if you dare to use a deadly move against me, I can kill you, you charlatan, without violating Princess Wu's rule of protecting you. Come on?"
"Haha, old woman, are you feeling guilty and too scared to make a move?" Zheng Ya suppressed his murderous intent and tried to provoke her.
The world of cultivation is filled with numerous magical artifacts, talismans, treasures, formations, elixirs, and so on, each containing different powers that are difficult to defend against.
As the saying goes, only family members know their own affairs. Zheng Ya relied on his talkativeness to build his persona and walked a tightrope through danger time and time again, all by luck and scheming.
The only thing they overlooked was Wu Wei, an insider, which sowed the seeds of future problems.
Liu Qingyun retorted angrily, "Kid, your provocation won't work on me."
"I'm putting my words here today: if you can't demonstrate your true abilities to force me to back down, and if I can't intimidate you into submission, then wait for Princess Wu to collect your corpse..."
"Haha, it's true what they say, you can guard against a thousand guards at night, but it's hard to guard against a thief in your own home."
"In that case, why don't you notify Wu Wei to come and collect your body?" Zheng Ya really wanted to test her peak Foundation Establishment strength and see how much of a difference there was between her and a second-tier supernatural being.
I also want to test the defensive capabilities of the Soul-Capturing Mirror artifact to see if it can withstand the attacks of the three supernatural abilities.
It should be noted that spatial abilities can penetrate anything, time abilities can accelerate the overcoming of difficulties, and planning abilities are unpredictable and invisible, giving them an overwhelming advantage against the magical artifacts and treasures of cultivators.
Otherwise, Zheng Ya wouldn't have dared to create a persona for himself, plotting to send someone to their death to intimidate others, and establish himself as a disciple of the immortal sect.
Liu Qingyun gave a hesitant sneer: "Hmph, do you think you've got me figured out, you ignorant brat?"
Let me tell you, kid, I'm not like those two puppets you controlled using the Heavenly Jealousy and Earthly Fiend Technique, who lost their self-defense awareness and were thus suppressed and killed in mid-air. I'm not comparable to those who took advantage of loopholes.
Besides, even if you have the ability to kill me, killing me would expose your true nature.
If you don't believe me, bet on what deadly tricks I devised before I came here, and whether they can take you down with me.
Besides putting on airs, what else can you do?
"If you're not going to do anything, then get out of here." Zheng Ya, shocked and enraged, activated his spatial ability, his figure vanishing from the bedroom in a flash, reappearing at a flower bed fifty meters away, and using his voice to intimidate.
Liu Qingyun had been following closely, and it took her three seconds to track the flower bed. Shivering in the cold wind, she said, "Spatial teleportation magic?"
I'm afraid this alone isn't enough to intimidate me, Commander..."
"And what about this?" Zheng Ya chuckled in exasperation, then threw a high-explosive grenade towards the center of the lotus pond. Under Liu Qingyun's questioning gaze, it landed on the withered lotus stems and icy surface of the pond, exploding as it rolled: "Boom!"
A loud explosion shattered the ice and snow in the lotus pond, which was about fourteen or fifteen feet in diameter, and a violent shockwave swept in all directions.
With a rustling sound, Liu Qingyun took three steps back in shock, gasping and exclaiming, "What... what kind of magic weapon is this? No, what kind of talisman is this? An explosive talisman..."
"Tch, I have an even bigger melon here. Do you want to try it and see if it's sweet?" Zheng Ya flipped his hand and took out a super-explosive watermelon from his supernatural mini-world. He bounced it on his right palm, making it whistle in the wind, a display of power that was truly awe-inspiring.
Consume one psionic energy to create a high-explosive grenade.
Five points of psionic energy, create a super-explosive melon.
These are all black technologies developed and researched by Zheng Ya, left deep in his memory. They are not high-tech technologies, but rather complex technological memory storage, otherwise they would have been looted by the mysterious person long ago.
Therefore, while Zheng Ya was creating a persona for himself, he was also secretly preparing a powerful weapon to prevent himself from failing and escaping unscathed.
Liu Qingyun hurriedly suppressed her murderous intent, her expression shifting as she tried to persuade him: "Ahem, Viscount Fu Ya, you don't want to expose your secret and affect your high-profile troublemaking to accumulate luck for cultivation, right?"
"Damn it, you old hag, don't force me to break ties with Wu Wei and slaughter everyone."
"You should know that if this place doesn't want me, there are plenty of other places that will. If the Great Li Dynasty is no good, I can still make a name for myself in the Great Yan Dynasty..." Zheng Ya warned angrily.
Liu Qingyun choked on her words, clutching her chest and taking a deep breath to suppress her shock and anger, saying, "Fu Ya, isn't assisting Princess Wu in achieving her goals the best way for you to accumulate fortune and cultivate your skills?"
"Hmph, you're just wishful thinking. Listen carefully, I'll only say this once." Zheng Ya angrily put away the melon, staring at Liu Qingyun's beautiful face, which was trying to maintain a pleasant expression but was actually contorted with rage, and continued, "First, everything should be done in a gradual and orderly manner, otherwise it will backfire."
Princess Wu's rise to power has been too rapid, and with my support, it's tantamount to announcing to the world her growing strength and ambition to conquer the world. Who can tolerate that?
Secondly, Wu Wei's tendency to be impatient for quick success has a long history. He is too eager to surpass me, a genius, and has neglected the essence of a cultivator: to achieve far-reaching goals with a calm mind.
Similarly, Wuwei's ambition to rise rapidly in the face of the imminent collapse of the Great Li Dynasty will only provoke certain ambitious individuals to target him.
Secretly cultivating a powerful army to conquer the world, remaining hidden and waiting for the right opportunity to strike, is the best strategy.
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