Therefore, she has given up on the idea of killing Wen Ruyan.
Ouyang Hao was not as wealthy as Wen Ruyan, nor did he have as many spiritual treasures to protect him, so killing him was still an option.
However, before killing him, Chu Nian had one very important thing to do.
She used the powerful magic of a Mahayana Demon Lord to condense countless rays of light, which converged into a line of text in the high sky: "The rift will close within two days." The text was large enough to ensure that all cultivators exploring the rift could see it.
At the same time, she also used the method of transmitting sound over long distances to spread the words to every corner of the "gap".
In fact, the rift has only been open for twenty-five days, and it should still be open for another five days before closing. However, during these twenty-odd days, although Chu Nian was hiding inside Lin Jingting's robe to protect him, he also absorbed a lot of the spiritual energy emanating from this space.
This kind of spiritual power is more like a post-apocalyptic superpower, which is different from the spiritual power that Lin Jingting obtained through cultivation. Therefore, Lin Jingting never realized that the strange energy emanating from this "gap" was actually a mutated form of spiritual power.
Chu Nian guessed that the rift opens once every six hundred years to release these metabolic wastes, which are similar to post-apocalyptic superpowers. Once most of them have been released, the rift will close, and this process takes about thirty days.
However, in these twenty-odd days, Chu Nian has absorbed a large amount of this energy, causing the release of this energy to be much faster than the energy release speed when the "gap" was opened in the past. Therefore, the gap may close ahead of schedule.
To avoid deviating too much from the previous deadline, Chu Nian had stopped absorbing energy several days ago. However, to avoid being too dangerous from a collective attack by the demon lords, she relied on the connection she had established with this space during this period of energy absorption and utilized some underground energy—the ground tremors just now were due to this.
Although it is true that she absorbed the Demon Lord's magical energy, the Demon Lord's magical energy first merged with the underground energy before flowing into Chu Nian's body, where it became one with her spiritual power. Therefore, a considerable amount of underground energy also flowed into Chu Nian's body along with it.
She calculated how much energy she had absorbed, then calculated the energy release rate when the "gap" first opened, and deduced when the "gap" would close.
She announced the matter in this way, giving the cultivators two days to travel. Whether they would heed the message and reach the exit in time was up to them. She couldn't go around digging people up from every corner, nor could she force a group of cultivators to leave with a whip; it was up to each of them!
When she cast this spell, the pressure she exerted on Wen Ruyan and Ouyang Hao was somewhat reduced.
Upon seeing the words, Ouyang Hao couldn't help but sneer and said, "Hua Nian, do you think anyone will believe what you're saying? The 'Gap' secret realm has existed for a very long time, opening every ten Jiazi (a Chinese unit of time), with an opening period of at least thirty days. What makes you think it will close early?"
Lin Jingting said, "Hua Nian is already a Mahayana Demon Lord, she wouldn't say something like that to amuse everyone!"
Ouyang Hao said, "You yourself said she's a demon. Do you think that even if this female demon really knows some secret and is certain that the rift will be resolved soon, she would be so kind as to inform others so that everyone can leave as soon as possible?"
Lin Jingting: "But that's what she's doing right now!"
Ouyang Hao snorted coldly, and suddenly noticed that Lin Jingting and Li Yun were standing to the side as if nothing had happened; while Wen Ruyan, although she was also clearly under pressure and unable to move, was standing.
Among the four Nascent Soul cultivators present, he was the only one forced to kneel here by Hua Nian's oppressive aura?!
Once Ouyang Hao understood the situation, he flew into a rage and roared, "Hua Nian, what do you mean by this?"
Chu Nian used her powerful magic to send the message out, then returned to the four of them and casually asked Ouyang Hao, "What 'what do you mean'?"
Because Ouyang Hao admires Wen Ruyan, and even though they have already gone through thick and thin together, Wen Ruyan still refuses to give up the cripple Hua Tianling and become his Daoist partner, his love for Wen Ruyan is even stronger than before. Perhaps what you can't have is what you want.
Therefore, he didn't dare mention Wen Ruyan, but only glanced at Lin Jingting and Li Yun, and asked, "Why are you so special to me?"
His meaning was clear: no one else knelt, but I have to!
Chu Nian laughed and said, "Why do you think that is?" As she spoke, she used her index finger to lift Ouyang Hao's chin, who was completely unable to move, but glanced at Wen Ruyan sideways.
Seeing this scene, Lin Jingting felt uncomfortable for some reason, and raised her hand to push away Chu Nian's hand that was lifting Ouyang Hao's chin.
Li Yun quickly reached out to pull Lin Jingting.
As if that wasn't enough, Lin Jingting stepped forward and stood between Chu Nian and Ouyang Hao.
He questioned, "Hua Nian, did you cripple my senior brother Hua Tianling?" He was inexplicably furious and suddenly slapped Ouyang Hao hard across the face.
Ouyang Hao felt a sharp slap on the face, followed by a burning pain. Completely bewildered, he demanded, "Lin Jingting, why did you hit me?"
Lin Jingting didn't know why he suddenly wanted to beat up Ouyang Hao. Although he was annoyed by Ouyang Hao's fawning over his sister-in-law Wen Ruyan along the way, he had never thought of beating him up. Why did he suddenly want to beat him up now?
Chu Nian had already taken a step back, increasing the distance between herself and Lin Jingting.
Lin Jingting didn't want to pay any attention to Ouyang Hao; he just wanted to beat him up. But seeing Chu Nian step back, he temporarily suppressed the urge to slap Ouyang Hao a few more times.
Wen Ruyan probably felt that if she didn't say something after hearing Lin Jingting mention Hua Tianling's crippling, it would damage her image as a wife, so she spoke up: "Hua Nian, you hurt my husband, preventing him from cultivating to this day. This is an irreconcilable enmity, I..."
"Stop it!" Chu Nian interrupted her impatiently.
Chu Nian was also puzzled as to why Wen Ruyan had not yet agreed to divorce Hua Tianling. She thought that since Hua Tianling was now crippled and Wen Ruyan had gotten together with Ouyang Hao, a divorce was inevitable, but she did not expect that Wen Ruyan would just disagree.
Lin Zhao and the others couldn't very well reveal that Wen Ruyan and Ouyang Hao were having an affair. If they did, it would be tantamount to publicly breaking up with Wen Ruyan, and then Wen Ruyan's actions would probably be much more unscrupulous than they are now.
Chu Nian originally planned to let Hua Tianling return to the stage of the cultivation world once his power was restored. However, because he was unable to break up with Wen Ruyan, Hua Tianling's cultivation improved even though he had improved since his injury, thanks to the pills Chu Nian gave him. He has not shown himself yet.
He had been hiding in a cave isolated by a special magic array under the pretext of recuperating from his injuries, and had not seen Wen Ruyan for more than ten years—he really did not want to see her.
Wen Ruyan is currently suppressed by Chu Nian's pressure and cannot make any moves, but her ability to spout high-sounding rhetoric has not diminished at all.
Knowing her character well, Chu Nian didn't want to hear her continue singing.
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