324: Chapter 324 Capturing a Foreign Princess: Pretty but Not Smart

The scarlet whip tore through the Void Realm, accompanied by a piercing sonic boom, like a venomous snake with its bloody maw wide open, striking directly at Xu Chen's face.

This whip strike contained all of Helian Yue's Early Stage Saint cultivation, mixed with the monstrous rage from her Formation being destroyed. The space around the whip even showed slight cracks, emitting a nauseating smell of blood.

Below the White Bone Altar, those residual foreign soldiers looked up, the light of hope reigniting in their eyes.

Their Eldest Commandery Princess was not only a Formation Genius but also one of the top three close-combat experts in the Royal Court!

However, this hope lasted for less than a single breath.

Facing this thunderous strike, Xu Chen, standing in mid-air, didn't even lift an eyelid. He maintained his lazy posture with one hand behind his back, merely tilting his head casually at the moment the whip was about to touch the tip of his nose.

Hu!

The scarlet whip carried a violent wind as it whistled past Xu Chen's cheek.

Before Helian Yue could change her move to retract the whip...

The two slender fingers Xu Chen extended seemed slow, yet they moved at a speed that defied the Laws of space, accurately pinching the middle of the whip.

Pa.

A dull thud sounded.

That scarlet whip, which contained the full strike of an Early Stage Saint and was enough to shatter a mountaintop, was firmly clamped by Xu Chen's two fingers, unable to advance even an inch further.

Helian Yue's pupils constricted.

She felt as if the whip in her hand was being pressed down by an Ancient Divine Mountain; no matter how she circulated the True Qi in her body, the whip remained motionless.

"You have quite a bit of strength; you must use this thing to whip people often, don't you?"

Xu Chen tilted his head slightly, looking at the whip clamped between his fingers, a playful smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

"However, with just these amateurish skills, you want to compete with This Young Master in terms of Physical Body?"

Before his voice had even faded...

Xu Chen's fingers clamping the whip suddenly yanked backward.

An overwhelming, pure physical power was transmitted directly into Helian Yue's hand along the whip.

This power followed no logic at all, nor did it involve any Spiritual Qi or Laws; it was pure dimensional crushing.

"Ah!"

Helian Yue let out an exclamation. Before she could even let go of the whip's handle, her entire person was pulled off her feet by this irresistible force, flying off the White Bone Altar like a cannonball leaving the barrel, straight toward Xu Chen in mid-air.

Seeing that she was about to collide with that man, a look of ruthlessness flashed in Helian Yue's eyes.

"Die!"

At the moment they were about to collide, she forcibly twisted her waist, her right leg carrying a sharp wind as it kicked like a battle-axe toward Xu Chen's neck.

This was the close-combat technique she was proud of; even a Saint of the same Realm would have their neck bones shattered instantly if hit.

Unfortunately, she was facing Xu Chen, who possessed the Hongmeng Creation Origin Body.

Bang!

Helian Yue's heavy kick landed solidly on Xu Chen's shoulder.

But the expected sound of breaking bones did not occur.

Helian Yue only felt as if her right leg had kicked an indestructible piece of divine iron; a powerful rebound force instantly spread through her entire body, vibrating until her whole leg lost sensation.

"This... how is this possible?!"

Helian Yue was completely stunned. She had received the most brutal physical training in the Foreign Domain Royal Court since childhood and rarely met an equal in the same Realm. Yet this seemingly pampered Upper Realm Young Lord's physical strength was actually terrifying to this extent!

"Nice leg technique, quite powerful. However, as a girl, don't always be so handsy."

Xu Chen chuckled, not giving Helian Yue any chance to breathe.

He allowed Helian Yue's right leg to rest on his shoulder while his free left hand turned into an afterimage, directly grabbing Helian Yue's slender waist.

Immediately after, Xu Chen's arm suddenly pulled back.

The massive inertia brought Helian Yue's hot, delicate body crashing heavily into Xu Chen's broad embrace.

The two of them were pressed tightly together in mid-air.

One of Xu Chen's hands still clamped the whip, while the other held Helian Yue's waist firmly, completely confining her in his arms.

"Let go of me! You bastard! Let go of me!"

Helian Yue finally panicked.

The Formation she was proud of had been dismantled, and her proud close-combat skills had been crushed.

Held tightly in this man's arms now, feeling the terrifying pressure belonging to a superior emanating from him, a sense of unprecedented powerlessness rose in her heart.

She twisted her body desperately, opening her mouth and even wanting to bite Xu Chen's neck like a wild beast.

Xu Chen's gaze turned cold, and the arm around Helian Yue's waist suddenly tightened.

"Ugh..."

Helian Yue let out a painful groan, feeling as if her waist bone was about to be snapped; the air in her lungs was instantly squeezed out, and her originally flailing movements immediately went limp.

"Don't waste your effort."

Xu Chen lowered his head, leaning close to Helian Yue's ear.

The scent of wildness and strange flowers belonging to a foreign woman drifted directly into his nostrils.

"You're quite pretty, and this figure of yours can be considered top-tier even in the Foreign Realm."

Xu Chen's deep gaze swept over Helian Yue's proud curves that were rising and falling due to her struggle, his tone carrying unabashed frivolity and mockery.

"It's a pity, though, that your brain doesn't work very well. Instead of being the Eldest Commandery Princess of the Royal Court, you just had to come to my Xu Family's territory to seek death."

"You..."

Helian Yue was so angered by Xu Chen's teasing words that her whole body shook, her narrow fox-like eyes filled with tears of humiliation.

As the grand Foreign Expeditionary Force Commander, matchless in strategy, when had she ever suffered such a great humiliation?

"Kill me if you want! Stop humiliating me here!" Helian Yue glared at Xu Chen while gritting her teeth.

"Kill you? That would be such a waste of a good thing."

The smile at the corners of Xu Chen's mouth grew deeper. He released his fingers clamping the whip, letting the scarlet whip fall toward the battlefield below.

Then, he freed that hand and frivolously pinched Helian Yue's pointed chin, forcing her to lift her head and look him in the eye.

"This Young Master has always believed in waste utilization. Since you destroyed my Formation and frightened my soldiers, you can use your body to slowly repay me."

After speaking, Xu Chen ignored Helian Yue's murderous gaze and directly held her waist, his figure flashing as he turned into a streak of light and landed back on the flagship's deck.

On the flagship, the Xu Family Elders and generals saw their Young Lord go out for a stroll, not only breaking the opponent's Grand Decisive Killing Formation without shedding a drop of blood but also directly "hugging" back the enemy's supreme commander.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

"Young... Young Lord is mighty!" The Grand Elder was the first to react, quickly leading the cheers.

"Young Lord is mighty!"

The soldiers on the warships also shouted in unison, their morale instantly reaching its peak.

"Husband, your way of capturing prisoners is truly unique."

Nangong Waner and Lin Qingxue had already returned to the warship. Looking at the foreign princess held in Xu Chen's arms with a face full of humiliation, Nangong Waner couldn't help but roll her eyes, her tone carrying a hint of sourness.

"This is no ordinary prisoner." Xu Chen smiled and released Helian Yue's chin, but the hand around her waist showed no intention of loosening, "This is the Eldest Commandery Princess of the Foreign Domain Royal Court. With her, half of this battlefield has already been settled."

Standing beside Xu Chen, Helian Yue looked at the surrounding Xu Family soldiers pointing and whispering at her, then looked at the two stunning Sword Immortals standing beside Xu Chen whose looks were not inferior to her own.

Her proud spirit was completely shattered at this moment.

She knew she was finished.

Not only had the expeditionary force been defeated, but she herself had become this man's trophy.

"The Eldest Commandery Princess has been captured!"

"Run!"

On the battlefield below, the foreign army, having lost their Formation's protection and their commander's leadership, turned into completely headless flies. Under the heartless slaughter of the Xu Family's Pojun Imperial Guards, the army of a hundred thousand threw away their helmets and armor as they fled wretchedly toward that spatial rift.

The overall situation was decided.

Xu Chen looked at the defeated enemy forces below and did not order a pursuit.

He turned his head to look at Helian Yue in his arms, who had already given up struggling and whose gaze was somewhat hollow.

"Let's go, my Eldest Commandery Princess. I'll take you to my commander's tent to have a good chat about your Foreign Realm's local customs."

Xu Chen led Helian Yue toward the most luxurious commander's tent inside the warship.

Just then...

Helian Yue, whose Meridians had been blocked and who was originally powerless to resist, suddenly began to tremble violently.

Her alluring, wheat-colored face instantly turned as pale as paper, and the veins on her forehead bulged. The purple rune at the center of her forehead, as if stimulated by some terrifying power, began to flash wildly, seeping out shocking streaks of black blood.

"Ah!"

Helian Yue let out a heart-wrenching scream and collapsed. If Xu Chen hadn't been holding her waist, she would have fallen onto the deck.

"What's going on?"

Xu Chen frowned.

He could clearly feel that the Bloodline within Helian Yue was flowing backward in a violent, even self-destructive manner.

This wasn't Qi Deviation; it was a vicious curse deeply rooted in her Bloodline.

And the source of the curse was crossing the endless Void Realm, coming from the other side of that spatial rift.

"Father... you are so cruel..."

Helian Yue lay in Xu Chen's arms, vomiting large amounts of black blood. In her eyes, which were originally full of cunning and pride, there was now only the despair and disbelief of being betrayed by her closest kin.

She looked at that spatial rift in mid-air, her lips trembling as she spat out a few words.

Blood Sacrificial Death Curse.

This was the ultimate method used by the foreign imperial family to control death soldiers. Once activated, the Bloodline Origin of the cursed person would be instantly drained and remotely nourish the caster.

Moreover, only her father knew how to use this death curse.

Helian Yue never would have thought that her own biological father, that high and mighty King of the Foreign Domain, had actually planted such a vicious curse in her Bloodline long ago.

The moment he learned the expeditionary force was defeated and she was captured...

That cold-blooded King of the Foreign Domain had chosen to sacrifice his own daughter without hesitation to forcibly increase his own cultivation.

"Want to die? Did you ask me?"

Feeling the rapidly fading vitality within Helian Yue...

In the depths of Xu Chen's eyes, a flash of extreme coldness and fury appeared.