257: A farce at the theater! Two crazy women make a spectacle!

[Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit!]

Su Chen felt his worldview being completely smashed into cosmic dust at this moment, then forcibly kneaded back together by some indescribable power.

[She... what did she just say?]

[Telling me to come often? And even saying I'm welcome anytime?]

[Is she crazy?!]

[Is this still that Iron-Blooded Empress who is decisive in killing, deep in calculation, and values the country and the world more than her own life?!]

[Is she possessed by something unclean? Or has she finally been conquered by my extraordinary personal charm and completely fallen for me?]

Su Chen looked blankly at Ji Hongxue, who was smiling beautifully with flirtatious eyes. He felt like he wasn't in a bathroom, but living in some absurd dream.

This style is all wrong!

According to the normal script, shouldn't she be chopping him into eighteen pieces right now, grinding his bones to ash, and then making a toilet out of those ashes to vent her heart's hatred?

How could she turn around and issue such an invitation that makes one's imagination run wild?

This isn't scientific!

There must be a shocking conspiracy in this!

[A Honey Trap! This is absolutely an epic, top-tier Honey Trap!]

In Su Chen's mind, alarm bells were ringing wildly at an unprecedented frequency.

[She must want to use this method to numb me, corrupt me, and make me indulge in a gentle land of pleasure, thereby forgetting my original intention of being a salted fish, so that I eventually work myself to death for her Great Xia Divine Dynasty willingly!]

[This woman's schemes are unfathomable! I almost fell into her trap!]

[No, I can't be fooled! I, Su Chen, am a top-tier salted fish with principles and a bottom line! I will never be tempted by mere beauty!]

Thinking of this, Su Chen immediately sprang up from the warm jade soft couch and looked at Ji Hongxue with a righteous and serious expression.

"Your Majesty, please respect yourself!"

His voice was powerful and resonant, filled with noble righteousness.

"I, Su Chen, although not some upright gentleman who is unmoved by beauty, I also know the principles of not looking at or listening to what is improper!"

"Today's matter was purely an accident! I guarantee there won't be a next time!"

"Farewell!"

After speaking, he stood up and turned to leave, acting clean, decisive, and showing no lingering attachment.

As if staying for one more second would defile his pure and flawless Soul.

However, he had only taken two steps.

Behind him came a burst of uncontrollable light laughter.

Su Chen's footsteps froze again.

He turned his head stiffly and saw Ji Hongxue covering her mouth, laughing so hard her body trembled. Even her loose golden bathrobe couldn't hide the breathtaking heaving of her chest from the laughter.

Those Phoenix eyes, usually majestic and deep, were now narrowed into two charming crescent moons, filled with playfulness and amusement.

"Su Chen, oh Su Chen."

Ji Hongxue finally managed to stop laughing. Looking at Su Chen's embarrassed and wary appearance, she found it both funny and annoying.

"You coward."

"Is Zhen so terrifying? Making you run faster than a rabbit?"

Su Chen's face instantly turned red down to his neck.

[Who's a coward! This is a strategic retreat! It's to preserve my purity! Do you understand?!]

[Not terrifying? You're practically a demon! Staying with you, I feel like my brain cells are performing a tragic self-sacrifice every second!]

"Alright, I'll stop teasing you."

Ji Hongxue stopped her smile and slowly stood up, her expression regaining some of an emperor's coldness.

"Today's matter, Zhen can treat as if it never happened."

"However, you must also promise Zhen one condition."

[Here it comes! The fox tail is finally showing!]

Su Chen sneered in his heart, but on his face, he maintained a well-behaved look of "Please speak, Your Majesty, I am all ears."

"From now on, you are not allowed to hide from Zhen anymore."

Ji Hongxue's Phoenix eyes watched him quietly, her gaze carrying a hint of overbearing authority that brooked no argument.

"Zhen has many questions regarding 'War Tactics' and 'National Policy' that need to be consulted with the Lord Divine Master at any time."

"Therefore, Zhen hopes the Divine Master can move back to Fengming Hall."

Ji Hongxue paused and changed her tone, as if seeing through Su Chen's resistance.

"Of course, if you truly dislike the palace, that is also fine."

"But Zhen must know where you are and what you are doing."

"Zhen will not allow you to disappear from Zhen's sight again."

Her words were spoken calmly, yet they were filled with an unquestionable desire for control.

After hearing this, Su Chen's heart instantly went cold.

[Fuck! After going in such a big circle, she still wants to put me under house arrest!]

[This woman's desire for control is simply perversely strong!]

[Move back to Fengming Hall? Isn't that just leaving the tiger's den to enter the wolf's lair? That Crazy Woman Ye Linghan still lives there! I'm not going!]

[Consulting me at any time? Is that consulting? You just want to squeeze me dry and implement twenty-four-hour surveillance with no blind spots!]

Su Chen complained wildly in his heart, but his face showed an expression so troubled that his features were almost squeezed together.

"This... Hongxue, it's not that I don't want to, it's just..."

Before he could think of how to refuse, Ji Hongxue had already taken the lead and blocked all his paths of retreat.

"Zhen knows what you are concerned about."

Ji Hongxue's gaze became somewhat deep.

"Don't worry, Zhen will handle matters on Ye Linghan's side."

"Zhen will not let her take you away from Zhen's side again."

Her voice was filled with unprecedented determination.

Seeing her like this, Su Chen felt even more panicked.

[Big sister, how are you going to handle it?]

[She can set your palace on fire with one finger, and you're going to use your head to handle her?]

[You immortals are fighting, don't drag me, a Mortal, into it! I just want to be a salted fish quietly, why is it so hard?!]

Just when Su Chen was overwhelmed and didn't know what to do.

Far away at the Wen Tianlai Theater, Ye Linghan and Liu Ruyan, those two crazy women who feared the world wasn't in enough chaos, started making trouble again.

They felt that just performing the empresss sorrows was no longer exciting enough.

So, after some discussion, the two decided to personally stage a new play.

The play's name was "The Death of the Quasi-Emperor and the Birth of the Divine Master".

Liu Ruyan was responsible for writing the script, adding embellishments and artistic processing to what happened in the Qiankun Hall.

The focus was on highlighting Su Chen's "brilliant calculations" and how "powerful enemies were turned to ash while talking and laughing," as well as Ji Daoyan's "stupid courting of death" and the Marquis of Champion being a "clown."

As for Ye Linghan, she was responsible for... playing herself.

She personally played the "Mysterious Female Warrior" who could kill a Quasi-Emperor with one finger, recreating the scene of Ji Daoyan being obliterated on stage in the most shocking and exaggerated way.

As soon as this new play was staged, the entire Great Xia Imperial City was ignited once again!

Countless Cultivators squeezed in, flooding into the Wen Tianlai Theater just to catch a glimpse of this "documentary play."

When they saw the "Mysterious Female Warrior" played by Ye Linghan on stage casually pointing a finger, and the actor playing the "Quasi-Emperor Ancestor" turning into flying ash amidst the sky-filling lighting and shadow effects.

The entire audience erupted into thunderous cheers and applause!

"Good! Well killed!"

"This kind of old thing who relies on his age and even wanted to harm the Divine Master deserves to die!"

"The female warrior is mighty! The female warrior is domineering!"

"From today on, I am the female warrior's number one fan!"

This play not only made Su Chen's reputation reach an unprecedented peak in the Great Xia Divine Dynasty.

It also caused the face of the Imperial Clan Faction of the Great Xia to be completely pressed into the ground and rubbed repeatedly, trampled into a mess.

Deep in the palace, the three Quasi-Emperor Ancestors who had just recovered from their terror almost had their Dao Hearts shattered on the spot after hearing the news from the Secret Guards.

But they didn't dare to utter a single word.

They could only swallow their broken teeth and blood.

And as this farce led by the two crazy women became more and more ridiculous, the situation in the entire Central Plains began to slide crazily in a direction that no one could have predicted.