178: Not a single ship should be shortchanged in the compensation.

Chu Xuanjin withdrew his hand and finally turned his gaze toward that magnificent white jade palace.

He looked it up and down as if evaluating a piece of merchandise.

“Qionghua Heavenly Palace?”

“Is this that same Sect that didn't even know its own Saintess's Dao Heart was shattered, yet came rushing out in a hurry to settle scores?”

Inside the white jade palace.

Palace Mistress Qionghua's face instantly darkened to the point it looked like it could drip ink.

The opponent had not only ignored her Immortal King's pressure.

He was even using an extremely flippant tone to insult her Sect!

“Just who are you, Your Excellency!”

She shouted sharply.

“Interfering in the affairs of my Qionghua Heavenly Palace for no reason—do you wish to fight my Heavenly Palace to the death?”

“To the death?”

Chu Xuanjin acted as if he had heard a massive joke.

He picked his ear and looked at Su Linger with an innocent face.

“Linger, did Revered Master hear wrong?”

“Did she say that with just these few broken ships of hers, she wants to fight our Sect to the death?”

Su Linger did not answer.

She just stood there quietly.

She knew that the stage ahead did not belong to her.

“Your Excellency!”

Palace Mistress Qionghua felt she had suffered unprecedented humiliation.

She stepped out of the palace, and her Immortal King Dharma Manifestation emerged behind her.

A ten-thousand-zhang phantom of an Empress holding an Ice Crystal Phoenix Staff looked down upon the entire Void Realm.

“This Palace Mistress will ask once more!”

“State your name!”

Chu Xuanjin looked at the seemingly majestic Dharma Manifestation and curled his lip.

“Myriad Dao Divine Sect, Chu Xuanjin.”

He announced his name.

Then, he extended a finger and wagged it at the ten-thousand-zhang manifestation.

“Also.”

“Don't bring this thing out to scare people.”

“It's too ugly.”

“You're looking for death!”

Palace Mistress Qionghua was completely infuriated.

As an Immortal King who had ruled Qionghua Heavenly Palace for a hundred thousand years, when had she ever suffered such humiliation!

She wasted no more words.

The Dharma Manifestation behind her raised the Ice Crystal Phoenix Staff high.

“By my decree!”

“Ten Thousand Phoenixes Homage!”

Skree!

A clear Phoenix cry echoed through the Void Realm!

Atop the hundreds of warships, pillars of light shot into the sky simultaneously!

Countless Ice and Snow Laws converged into the hands of the Dharma Manifestation!

In an instant.

Over ten thousand lifelike ice crystal phoenixes, constructed entirely of Laws,

flapped their magnificent wings, covering the sky and earth.

They swept toward Chu Xuanjin!

Every single ice crystal Phoenix contained enough power to easily tear a Golden Immortal to shreds!

Ten thousand phoenixes emerging together!

This was already a supreme Divine Ability capable of destroying an entire Immortal Realm!

However.

Facing this world-ending scene,

Chu Xuanjin merely yawned.

Toward the surging army of phoenixes,

he gave a gentle puff.

Just like blowing away a strand of willow catkin that had accidentally drifted before his eyes.

Whoosh.

There was no earth-shattering explosion.

No roar of colliding Laws.

Those ten thousand aggressive ice crystal phoenixes

suddenly froze mid-air.

Then.

Their magnificent wings began to melt.

Their proud heads began to shrink.

The sacred Laws of the Immortal King upon them

seemed to be forcibly degraded, twisted, and reshaped by a power of a higher dimension.

Quack.

Quack quack.

Amidst a deathly silence,

over ten thousand palm-sized, round, and chubby

Ice-carved little yellow chickens

fell from the sky like rain, pitter-pattering down.

They hit the shield of the Spirit Frost Divine Hall, making a crisp and comical sound.

“...”

“...”

Across the entire Void Realm battlefield,

one could hear a pin drop.

All the Disciples of the Qionghua Heavenly Palace were stunned.

They looked at those ice-carved little chickens rolling around on the shield, some even fluttering their tiny wings.

They felt their worldview being crushed into powder.

Before the white jade palace.

Palace Mistress Qionghua's ten-thousand-zhang Dharma Manifestation froze in place.

The expression on her face was frozen.

From extreme anger to extreme bewilderment, and then to extreme fear.

“You... you...”

She looked at the man who still had a lazy expression, as if he had only done something insignificant.

For the first time, her voice carried a tremor.

“Just what Realm are you at?”

“Me?”

Chu Xuanjin thought for a moment.

“Probably a Realm that allows me to make you listen to reason.”

He took a step forward.

His figure instantly appeared in front of Palace Mistress Qionghua.

There were less than three feet between them.

Palace Mistress Qionghua could even clearly see her own face, written with horror, reflected in his eyes that were as deep as the starry sky.

She wanted to retreat.

But she found that the space around her had long been completely imprisoned by an incomprehensible power.

She couldn't move.

Not even a single finger.

“You...”

Cold sweat slid down from her temples.

“What do you want to do?”

“Don't be nervous.”

Chu Xuanjin showed a kind smile.

“I'm a person who doesn't like fighting and killing.”

“Let's talk about the matter of compensation.”

Compensation?

Palace Mistress Qionghua was stunned.

“My Disciple.”

Chu Xuanjin pointed at Su Linger in the distance.

“Was framed and insulted by your Saintess.”

“Her young heart has suffered severe trauma.”

“And this new toy of hers.”

Chu Xuanjin pointed at the Spirit Frost Divine Hall beneath his feet.

“It was just frightened by you guys, and the shield almost broke.”

“This mental damage fee, plus the maintenance fee for this divine hall.”

He extended his fingers and began to calculate with mock seriousness.

“Let me see.”

“I'll waive the small change for you.”

He looked up, his smile incredibly bright.

“This palace of yours, plus those few hundred broken ships behind you.”

“Should be barely enough.”

Palace Mistress Qionghua's eyes widened instantly.

She thought she had heard wrong.

The opponent actually wanted to use this method, which was practically robbery,

to extort her, an Immortal King!

“You... don't even think about it!”

She squeezed those words out through her teeth.

“Oh?”

Chu Xuanjin raised an eyebrow.

“It seems you aren't prepared to be reasonable.”

He retracted his smile.

He slowly raised his hand.

A terrifying Aura that caused Palace Mistress Qionghua's Divine Soul to freeze

flashed across him.

In that instant,

she felt like she was seeing not a person,

but a boundless Chaos.

The source of the Myriad Daos,

the end of the Universe.

Before that Aura,

her so-called Immortal King Perfection

was as tiny as a grain of dust.

“I... I'll give it!”

The instinct for survival overwhelmed all pride and anger.

She almost roared out those words.

“That's more like it.”

The smile on Chu Xuanjin's face reappeared.

He nodded with satisfaction.

“If you had cooperated like this earlier, we would've been done.”

He snapped his fingers.

The restriction on Palace Mistress Qionghua vanished instantly.

She gasped for air as if she were about to collapse.

She didn't dare look at Chu Xuanjin again.

With a trembling hand, she took out a token representing the highest command of the fleet.

Humiliated, she handed it over.

Chu Xuanjin took the token and casually tossed it to Su Linger, who had already rushed over.

“Linger, keep it safe.”

“From now on, this will be our Myriad Dao Pavilion's official fleet.”

“Yes, Revered Master.”

Su Linger respectfully received the token.

Looking at the magnificent fleet composed of hundreds of giant warships,

then looking at her Revered Master's calm profile,

she finally understood deeply

what it meant to have

vision.

“Alright.”

Chu Xuanjin waved his hand as if shooing away flies.

“Compensation, not a single ship less.”

“You all can beat it now.”

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PS: I was eating out while writing these two chapters, and I was in a rush as time was running out. There might be a tiny bit of flaws, so just bear with it.

(Whispering: Hangzhou cuisine is really unpalatable; I've been here for a year from Yunnan and still can't get used to it.)