226: Noisy? Under the Emperor's might, even a Great Sage is as insignificant as dust!

In the turbulent void, destructive energy acted like an endless storm of blades, tearing at everything.

Su Chen felt as if his Divine Soul was about to be shaken apart.

This was completely different from his Great Void Technique, which was as silent as falling rain and merged seamlessly with the Law of space.

Ye Linghan's method of traversal wasn't "traversal" at all.

She was using her unreasonably terrifying Physical Body and Imperial Might to forcibly smash a path through from the other side of space!

It was simple, crude, and utterly inhumane.

The jade-like hand she had hooked around Su Chen's arm looked slender and delicate, yet it was firmer than shackles forged from immortal divine gold, making it impossible for him to break free.

Su Chen could only be dragged along like a kidnapped hostage, his face a picture of despair as she pulled him through the destruction at extreme speeds.

[Ugh... I can't take it...]

[Does this Crazy Woman treat the void like the mud in her backyard? Stepping wherever she damn well pleases?]

[My waist... my stomach... my goddamn salted fish life that I barely got to enjoy for a few days!]

Su Chen roared frantically in his mind, trying to use complaints to combat the dizziness surging into his skull.

He now seriously suspected that this Crazy Woman was doing it on purpose.

She was definitely choosing this most turbulent, primitive way of traveling to retaliate against him for being tainted with the scent of other women!

This woman's heart was narrower than the tip of a needle!

"Little Husband, how does it feel?"

Ye Linghan seemed to hear his inner thoughts. She tilted her head, her phoenix eyes burning with dark red demonic flames as she looked at his handsome face, which was already turning green, with a hint of playfulness.

"Fe... feels... pre... pretty good..."

Su Chen squeezed a few words through his teeth, forcing a smile onto his face that looked worse than crying.

"The view is vast, the scenery is unique... it's refreshing, a memory to last a lifetime..."

[Good my ass! I feel like my bile is about to spray out of my throat!]

[You Demoness! I'll remember this! When I become powerful later, I'll definitely make you experience riding a tractor on a highway—and it'll be a winding mountain dirt road!]

"Is that so?"

The amusement on Ye Linghan's face deepened.

"Since you like it so much, let's go... a bit faster."

Before her voice had even faded.

Whoosh—!

Their travel speed instantly exploded several times over!

Su Chen only felt the light and shadows before his eyes blur completely into Chaos.

He couldn't hold it back anymore.

"Blergh—"

...Meanwhile, in the Central Plains, the Imperial City of the Great Xia Divine Dynasty.

In this immortal divine city that loomed over the Dragon Vein, the atmosphere today was solemn to the extreme.

Golden armor lined the sky-piercing city walls; there was a guard every three steps and a sentry every five.

The gaze of every Imperial Guard was sharp as an eagle's, their bodies radiating Evil Qi forged from iron and blood.

The area before the city gates was even more heavily fortified. All Cultivators entering or exiting, regardless of status, had to undergo the strictest scrutiny.

Empress Ji Hongxue's three edicts had already put this massive war machine into a state of maximum alert.

At the very center of the city gate, a general clad in silver armor stood with his spear planted, his expression majestic and his Aura like a mountain.

He was the Deputy Commander of the Imperial City Guard, General Wang Lie, with a cultivation at the third level of the Great Saint Realm—enough to suppress an entire region.

"Everyone, keep your eyes peeled!"

General Wang Lie's voice was like a Great Bell, making the air buzz.

"Her Majesty has decreed that Jiuli has become a devil's nest. There's no guarantee that some devil brats won't try to sneak into the Imperial City! No suspicious person is to be let through!"

"Yes, General!"

Ten thousand voices roared in unison, shaking the clouds.

Just then.

The space in front of the city gate distorted violently like the surface of water, without any warning.

The next second.

*Riiip—*

A pitch-black crack, like a hideous scar, was forcibly torn open above the Imperial City by an invisible hand!

This earth-shattering anomaly caused the pupils of everyone below to shrink.

"Enemy attack—!!!"

General Wang Lie reacted the fastest, his roar startling the heavens!

The saint power within him erupted like a volcano. The cold iron spear in his hand let out a dragon's cry as its tip pointed toward the rift. His Aura instantly climbed to its peak, making him look like an ancient god of war ready to slaughter deities!

Atop the city walls, thousands of Imperial Guards instantly formed a battle array, and countless divine crossbows shimmering with Demon-breaking Runes were all aimed at that ominous rift!

Arrows were on strings, and killing intent filled the field!

Under the watch of countless tense, vigilant, and murderous gazes.

Two figures stepped out from that darkness, one after the other.

Leading them was a woman of eerie, peerless beauty, wearing a tattered black robe.

Behind her, she carried a young man whose white clothes were disheveled. He was impossibly handsome but his face was as pale as paper, and he was currently leaning on thin air, dry-heaving.

They were Su Chen and Ye Linghan.

The moment his feet touched solid ground, Su Chen's stomach churned again, feeling as if his internal organs had all been displaced.

As for Ye Linghan, she completely ignored the surrounding killing array that was enough to make even a Saint tremble.

She didn't even spare a glance at the divine crossbows aimed at her.

She merely looked around the magnificent divine city with interest, her red lips curling into a contemptuous arc.

"I didn't look closely last time I was here. This little Empress's nest is built quite grandly."

Watching this pair with their strange Auras, General Wang Lie's brow furrowed into a tight knot.

Especially that woman; in his Divine Thought's perception, she was a complete void, as if she didn't even exist in this world!

But as the defender of the Imperial City, with the dignity of the entire Dynasty behind him, he could not retreat.

Suppressing the unease in his heart, he pointed his spear forward, the spear's light flickering as he shouted sternly!

"Who goes there?! How dare you tear through the void and trespass into our Great Xia Capital!"

"State your names and surrender! Otherwise, you will be executed without mercy!"

The pressure of a Great Saint mixed with the murderous intent of a battlefield swept toward the two like an invisible, raging tide!

However.

Ye Linghan didn't even bother to lift an eyelid.

She just felt like there was a fly buzzing in her ear, and it was very annoying.

Her red lips parted slightly as she impatiently spat out two words.

"Noisy."

The voice was very light.

So light it was like a lover's whisper.

But the moment those words fell.

A terrifying will that stood above the Laws of ten thousand paths leaked out from her body like a breeze... just a sliver of it.