307: Chapter 307 A Goddess Descends from the Observatory: She Damaged My Floor Tiles, You Have to Pay for Them

"Qingge, it seems my peaceful days are coming to an end."

Xu Chen chuckled, his eyes sharp as knives as he stared at the continuously expanding crack in the Void Realm.

As soon as he finished speaking, his arm wrapped around Su Qingge's waist tightened slightly, firmly protecting his gentle and dignified primary wife by his side.

At that moment, the night wind suddenly became violent.

The originally starlit night sky seemed to be torn apart by an invisible, ancient giant hand.

A deep, dark, massive rift spanned directly above the Xu Family's Star Observation Platform.

Heart-stopping void storms flickered at the edges of the rift, and frantic spatial turbulence sliced through the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, producing sharp, piercing sonic booms.

Su Qingge leaned against Xu Chen's broad chest, her stunning face showing not a hint of panic.

She simply raised her beautiful eyes quietly, watching the anomaly in the heavens. With this man by her side, she felt incredibly at ease even if the sky were to fall.

"Husband, this aura doesn't seem to belong to our world," Su Qingge said softly, her voice as pleasant as an orchid in a deserted valley, carrying a touch of keen perception.

Xu Chen nodded slightly. As a top-tier powerhouse in the Saint King Realm, his Divine Thought had already spread out like spilled mercury, taking control of every minute fluctuation within ten thousand miles.

He could clearly perceive that the void rift did not connect to some Secret Realm in the Upper Realm, but rather to a Lower Realm where Laws were scarce and Spiritual Qi was extremely thin.

Someone was forcibly breaking the shackles of heaven and earth, attempting Ascension across Realms.

In the instant the two were talking, the pitch-black rift suddenly expanded outward. Accompanied by a dull roar, a figure enveloped in intense blood-light plummeted straight down from the spatial turbulence like a kite with a broken string.

The figure fell at an incredible speed, carrying an unrivaled downward momentum as it slammed violently toward the center of the Xu Family's Star Observation Platform.

Boom!

A deafening roar exploded in the night.

The entire thousand-zhang-tall Star Observation Platform, cast from precious Starfall White Jade, shook violently. Centered on the point of impact, dense spider-web-like cracks instantly appeared on the incredibly hard white jade floor, with rubble flying and dust rising everywhere.

This Star Observation Platform was inscribed with the defensive formations of generations of Xu Family experts; a full-strength strike from an ordinary Saint might not even leave a white mark, yet it had been forcibly smashed into a massive crater.

Amidst the swirling dust, Xu Chen did not act rashly. He simply waved his sleeve, and a gentle yet irresistible breeze swept through, instantly blowing the dust away completely.

The scene at the center of the crater was clearly revealed before the two of them.

It was a woman.

A blood-stained woman, heartbreakingly beautiful to the point of suffocation.

She wore a high-waisted dress that should have been pure white, but was now completely soaked in dark red blood, its tattered hem fluttering loudly in the night wind.

Several terrifying wounds, deep enough to see bone, spanned across her delicate shoulders and waist, a shocking sight.

Even in such a wretched state, it could not hide her peerless figure and her cold, immortal-like temperament. Her long black hair was scattered messily over her thin shoulders, with a few strands soaked in sweat and blood clinging to her pale, translucent cheeks.

This woman's aura was extremely weak, her life force like a candle flickering in the wind, clearly on the brink of death after exhausting all her strength.

But her next move made their hearts skip a beat.

The moment the surrounding dust cleared, this dying woman actually relied on her terrifying willpower to forcibly prop herself up from the ground with the broken half-sword in her hand, standing up unsteadily.

She was like a wounded, lone wolf driven into a corner, protecting its food. Her cold eyes held not a trace of fear in the face of death, only the ultimate vigilance and ruthlessness tempered through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

The tip of the broken sword trembled slightly in the air, yet it pointed unwaveringly at Xu Chen and Su Qingge standing not far away.

At that moment, a translucent blue panel quietly emerged in Xu Chen's mind.

[Target meeting criteria detected]

[Name: Lin Qingxue]

[Identity: Lower Realm Ascendant, Sect Master of the Supreme Sword Sect]

[Height: 173 cm]

[Measurements: 90, 61, 91]

[Special Physique: Supreme Sword Embryo]

[Comprehensive Rating: 93 points]

Looking at the data appearing in his mind, a faint, imperceptible glint flashed in the depths of Xu Chen's eyes.

A top-tier beauty with ninety-three points.

Not only did she possess an excellent figure and appearance, but she also had the Supreme Sword Embryo, an extremely rare top-tier Physique born specifically for slaughter. No wonder she could forcibly ascend to the Upper Realm with only an Early Stage Quasi-Saint cultivation while withstanding the strangulation of the void turbulence.

Looking at the ascendant before him who was like a thorny rose, Xu Chen felt no anger from having a sword pointed at him; instead, a thick sense of interest arose within him.

Most of the favored daughters of heaven in the Upper Realm were raised in greenhouses; no matter how high their talent, they lacked a bit of wildness.

But this woman named Lin Qingxue exuded a ruthlessness from head to toe that came from crawling out of a pile of corpses. This kind of Soul, full of resilience and defensiveness, was far more interesting than those vases that only had a pretty shell.

Lin Qingxue stared fixedly at the man and woman in front of her.

She had just exhausted her final trump cards to slay countless powerful enemies blocking her in the Lower Realm, forcibly tearing through the world barrier to escape. At this moment, the Meridians in her body were shattered, and the Spiritual Qi in her Dantian was so dry that she couldn't even condense a single strand of Sword Qi.

She couldn't see through the cultivation of this handsome young man at all. He just stood there casually, not even emitting any terrifying Spiritual Qi fluctuations, yet he gave her a sense of unfathomable depth, as if she were facing the boundless starry sky.

And the peerless woman leaning in the young man's arms also had an aura as deep as an abyss, at least at the level of a Quasi-Saint.

Lin Qingxue gripped the sword hilt, her knuckles turning white from overexertion. She gritted her teeth, swallowing the metallic blood welling up in her throat, preparing for a desperate struggle. She would never allow herself to fall into a tiger's den just after escaping a wolf's lair.

To her surprise, the peerlessly handsome young man did not show the arrogance and coldness of an Upper Realm expert who viewed Lower Realm ascendants as mere ants.

Instead of releasing pressure to suppress her, Xu Chen sighed.

"Miss," Xu Chen's gaze swept over the mess of white jade fragments on the ground, his tone carrying a hint of nonchalant teasing, "falling from the sky in the middle of the night is indeed a very special way to make an entrance. But do you know that these Starfall White Jade floor tiles you broke are ancient heirlooms passed down by my Xu Family ancestors?"

Xu Chen looked at Lin Qingxue's face, which was slightly dazed from bewilderment, and the corners of his mouth curled into a gentle smile.

"Let's keep matters separate. You broke my floor tiles; how do you plan to compensate for the repair costs?"

Lin Qingxue was stunned.

She had already prepared to burn her last bit of Lifespan to self-detonate her Sword Embryo, but Xu Chen's words completely threw her off balance.

Breaking floor tiles.

Compensation.

She was an ascendant who had just crossed the threshold of life and death, and this was the incredibly cruel Upper Realm. Seeing a heavily injured prey like her, the first reaction of this unfathomable powerhouse was actually to feel distressed over his family's floor tiles.

For a moment, Lin Qingxue's murder-filled brain couldn't quite process this. A rare flash of confusion and bewilderment appeared in her cold eyes, and her hand holding the broken sword stiffened slightly in mid-air.

Su Qingge was amused by her husband's lack of pretension and his somewhat roguish behavior.

She couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, her beautiful eyes giving Xu Chen a playful glare as she complained softly, "Husband, this lady is severely injured and her aura is extremely weak. You're still here worrying about a few floor tiles. If word gets out, wouldn't it make people laugh at our Xu Family, a grand Imperial Clan, for being so stingy?"

Su Qingge's words were gentle, yet they inadvertently revealed two terrifying pieces of information.

The Xu Family.

An Imperial Clan.

Although Lin Qingxue was from the Lower Realm, she wasn't without knowledge. Those who could prefix their clan name with the word 'Imperial' were definitely behemoths that dominated the life and death of billions of beings in this high-level plane.

By some coincidence, she had crashed directly into the headquarters of such a legendary supreme lineage.

Hearing Su Qingge's words, Xu Chen shrugged indifferently, his large hand gently caressing Su Qingge's slender waist.

"You're right to scold me, wife. But I see that although this girl is heavily injured, her sword-holding posture is quite steady. I reckon she won't die anytime soon."

Xu Chen's gaze fell back onto Lin Qingxue.

Lin Qingxue pursed her pale lips tightly.

She could feel that the other party indeed had no killing intent.

Before this couple, who looked like a pair of immortals, the vigilance and disguise she took pride in seemed to become completely meaningless.

In fact, this man's seemingly flippant teasing actually made this cold and unfamiliar Upper Realm feel a bit more grounded.

Just as Lin Qingxue's tense nerves were about to relax and she wanted to say something.

Another change occurred.

In the void rift overhead that had not yet fully healed, a sudden explosion of extremely violent and malevolent Spiritual Qi fluctuations erupted.

Crack!

The spatial barrier, which was slowly repairing itself, was once again forcibly torn open by a brutal force from the Lower Realm end.

Accompanied by blinding blood-red lightning, an arrogant roar filled with endless killing intent pierced through the void barrier, exploding over the Xu Family's Star Observation Platform like rolling heavenly thunder.

"Lin Qingxue! Did you think you could escape me by fleeing to the Upper Realm?"

"With the Supreme Sword Embryo in your body, you are destined to be the best cultivation vessel for me, Ye Chen, to reach the summit. Today, even if you run to the ends of the earth, I will strip your bones and skin to refine your Sword Heart Origin!"

An extremely arrogant malevolence poured down through the rift, instantly freezing the air on the Star Observation Platform.

Lin Qingxue's face, already as pale as paper, turned deathly white the moment she heard this voice.

In her eyes, which had just found a trace of relaxation, extreme despair and sky-high hatred surged once more. She stared fixedly at the re-opening rift, her thin body trembling uncontrollably and violently.

Xu Chen narrowed his eyes slightly.

He still didn't let go of Su Qingge, but simply raised his head slowly to look at the void rift that was acting all mighty above his home.

The gentle smile originally on his face gradually faded, replaced by a bottomless, extreme coldness.

It was one thing to break his floor tiles in the middle of the night.

But now, some death-seeking dog actually dared to spout nonsense in the Xu Family's airspace and even shout so loudly.

Xu Chen gently patted Su Qingge's back, soothing his wife's emotions.

It seemed that these small fry from the Lower Realm really didn't respect the rules of the Upper Realm.