438: Chapter 438 A Triumphant Return! The First Clash Between the Goddess and the Demon Emperor

The deep, cold seabed of the Guixu.

Xu Chen held Li Cangyue, who was curled up in his cloak like a docile black cat, with one hand, while reaching out with the other toward every corner of this abyss.

After gaining control over the Guixu Origin, this forbidden sea area, where even the Heavenly Dao could not set foot, was no longer guarded against him.

Accompanying the fluctuations of the Law of Space at the Peak of the Great Emperor level.

Those primordial divine golds scattered in the seabed silt that had not decayed despite the destruction of the previous epoch, those Guixu magic herbs growing in the crevices of Chaos reefs that absorbed endless death aura yet nurtured Heaven-Defying vitality, and even the remains of the nine primordial order divine chains he had severed.

All turned into a sky full of flowing light, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, and were entirely sucked into that purple-gold Storage Ring by Xu Chen.

This crude scavenging, like a plague of locusts, directly emptied ninety percent of this seabed forbidden zone.

"Let's go."

Xu Chen looked at the bulging Storage Ring and raised an eyebrow in satisfaction.

His figure flickered, and he arrived before that layer of purple-gold light shield. The shield dissipated automatically, revealing Shen Xi inside with a complex expression.

Xu Chen didn't waste words; his free left arm domineeringly pulled Shen Xi's slender waist, drawing her into his embrace as well.

With his left hand holding the cold Goddess and his right arm around the yandere Devil Emperor.

The deep black hole phantom of the "Hongmeng Heaven-Swallowing Art" behind Xu Chen flashed and vanished, forcibly tearing open a passage directly to the Xu Family within this Chaos Sea where even Laws were frozen.

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Xu Family, Pilgrimage Square.

The haze of the Absolute Land Heaven-Connection Array still shrouded the firmament, and the gloomy sky made it hard to breathe. The Grand Elder was leading a group of clan-protecting elites, tensely maintaining the Formation's operation, guarding against the dark hand that the Heavenly Dao might strike with at any time.

Just then, the void in the center of the square suddenly rippled violently.

A vast pressure belonging to the Peak of the Great Emperor level, mixed with a heart-palpitating chaotic Devilish Qi, poured out from the void crack.

"On guard!" The Grand Elder's expression changed as he slammed his staff heavily onto the ground.

"On guard against what? Don't you even recognize this Emperor?"

A lazy and wicked-sounding laugh came from the crack.

Immediately after, Xu Chen's tall figure in black robes, stepping on the shattered Law of Space, landed steadily on the white jade tiles of the square.

Seeing their Emperor return triumphant and unharmed, deafening cheers erupted across the Pilgrimage Square. The haze weighing on everyone's hearts seemed to be swept away the moment Xu Chen landed.

But when the Grand Elder, the hurrying Su Qingge, and others saw the scene beside Xu Chen, the expressions on their faces instantly became incredibly vivid.

To Xu Chen's left stood the Goddess of the Heavens, Shen Xi, who had changed into a purple Flowing Immortal Dress; though she had lost her magic power, she still exuded an innate coldness and pride.

At this moment, Shen Xi had her hands crossed over her flat lower abdomen, her eyes slightly lowered, seemingly intentionally avoiding the inquisitive gazes of the people around her.

And to Xu Chen's right.

A woman wrapped entirely in a black cloak, revealing only a sickly pale yet breathtakingly beautiful face, was like a mermaid who couldn't leave the water, leaning almost her entire body weight against Xu Chen.

The woman's black hair was disheveled, and in her crimson eyes burned a kind of madness and obsession that made one's back go cold at a glance.

Worst of all, the way she looked at Xu Chen—that intense, lingering gaze, that yandere love as if she wanted to swallow him whole—was a hundred times more explicit than even the most clingy witch in the Xu Family harem, Luo Hongyi.

"Husband, this is..."

Su Qingge stepped forward, her dignified and gentle gaze lingering on the black-haired woman for a moment. With a woman's keen intuition, she immediately sensed an extremely dangerous signal.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce her."

Xu Chen patted Li Cangyue, who was hanging onto him, a playful curve hooking the corner of his mouth.

"This is the local power of the Guixu Chaos Sea, the forbidden Devil Emperor of the previous epoch, Li Cangyue. From now on, she's also a member of our Xu Family harem."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire place fell into a dead silence.

The Grand Elder almost pulled his beard off.

Going to the Guixu, not only returning alive but also casually subduing a Devil Emperor from the previous epoch?

Even the boldest tavern storyteller in the Central Continent wouldn't dare to write such an absurd plot!

"Master, who are these women?"

Li Cangyue reached out a jade-white arm from her cloak, tightly wrapping it around Xu Chen's neck.

Her crimson eyes, like a hungry wolf protecting its food, swept hostilely over Su Qingge, Luo Hongyi, and the other stunning beauties.

"I don't like the aura on them. Can I eat them?"

This light, almost naive-sounding question instantly dropped the temperature of the scene to the freezing point.

Luo Hongyi's brows shot up, and the demon bone whip in her hand instantly ignited with flames. She sneered, "Where did this wild girl come from? Quite a big mouth. Now that you've entered the Xu Family's door, you dare to be so insolent toward your elder sisters?"

"Shut up."

Xu Chen turned his head slightly, and the pressure of a Great Emperor quietly settled on Li Cangyue, interrupting the impending harem internal strife.

"They are all my women and also your elder sisters. In this house, put away that habit of eating people. If you dare to speak nonsense again, I will whip you right here in this square."

Hearing Xu Chen's warning scolding, Li Cangyue didn't get angry; instead, like a child who felt favored after being scolded, she rubbed her cheek against Xu Chen's shoulder.

"I understand, Master. Cangyue only eats outsiders, not them."

This extreme yandere behavior gave all the female cultivators present goosebumps.

As the first wife, Su Qingge had excellent self-restraint. She only gave Li Cangyue a faint glance before turning her gaze to Shen Xi, who had remained silent on the other side.

Just as Su Qingge was about to speak and arrange for these two "special" new members.

A confrontation with even more gunpowder in the air quietly began on both sides of Xu Chen.

Li Cangyue, who had been hanging onto Xu Chen like a koala, finally seemed to notice the silver-haired woman whose left hand Xu Chen had been holding the whole time.

How keen was the perception of the Devouring Demon Body.

Li Cangyue's crimson eyes narrowed slightly, reflecting Shen Xi's cold and flawless face in her pupils.

"A lackey of the Heavenly Dao's will?"

Li Cangyue let go of Xu Chen's neck but still pressed tightly against the right side of his body. Like a female leopard whose territory had been encroached upon, she let out a hostile low growl at Shen Xi.

"This disgusting smell of order. Was it you blocks of ice who used chains to lock me in that dark, godforsaken place in the last epoch?"

Facing Li Cangyue's provocation, Shen Xi's reaction was surprisingly calm.

The Goddess who once represented the Heavenly Dao in judging all living beings merely raised her dark-gold eyes slightly and glanced at Li Cangyue with a cold look reserved for trash.

After her Dao Heart was forcibly broken by Xu Chen, although Shen Xi's pride was shattered, her innate repulsion for "Chaos" and the "Demonic Path" remained deeply rooted.

"Merely a beast that knows only slaughter."

Shen Xi's voice was as cold as ice, carrying an unreachable contempt.

"Had the Heaven-Earth Severing not cut off the Laws of the myriad worlds, a filthy thing like you would have been obliterated by the Heavens' Divine Thunder the moment you stepped into this Universe."

"Who are you calling a beast?!"

The madness in Li Cangyue's eyes surged instantly, her delicate body tightening under her cloak, her sharp nails faintly visible beneath her sleeves.

"You, a useless god whose cultivation was even crippled by Master and can only put on airs with this ragged dress, dare to speak so arrogantly before this Emperor?"

Li Cangyue thrust out her proud chest in a show of defiance, making no attempt to hide the laziness and charm from having just been "nourished" by Xu Chen.

"Not only was I beaten into submission by Master, but I also served him quite comfortably at the bottom of the Guixu. And you? With that dead face, you're a total mood killer. Master is holding your hand, probably only because he thinks you still have some value as a bedwarmer."

These extremely crude and explicit words caused the face of the habitually ascetic Shen Xi to turn shades of blue and white.

She had never been so humiliated to her face.

But what made her feel even more powerless was that she was indeed, as this witch said, completely devoid of magic power, like a cripple.

Shen Xi subconsciously protected her lower abdomen with her hand again. The Primordial Divine Fetus nurturing there was her only source of confidence now.

"What do you know."

Shen Xi turned her face away, no longer looking at that arrogant face, and simply uttered a sentence.

"I am carrying his flesh and blood. I am a member of the Xu Family; what are you?"

This light sentence was like an invisible sharp blade, accurately piercing the yandere Devil Emperor's weakness.

Li Cangyue's expression froze instantly.

Her eyes, filled with crazed love, stared fixedly at Shen Xi's flat lower abdomen, as a fire of jealousy that almost burned away her sanity spread wildly in her heart.

She, the dignified Forbidden Devil Emperor, actually lost to a powerless, fallen goddess?

Just because the other person had an extra piece of flesh in her belly?

"You're looking for death!"

Li Cangyue screamed, no longer caring about Xu Chen's warning, and directly swung her dark-red nails, clawing fiercely toward Shen Xi's throat.

She wanted to skin this woman alive who dared to compete with her for her man!

"Bang!"

Before Li Cangyue's claws could even touch the corner of Shen Xi's dress, a long and powerful palm firmly grabbed her wrist.

Xu Chen looked at the two top-tier female emperors he was suppressing, one in each hand.

"Enough."

Xu Chen let go of Li Cangyue's wrist and took the opportunity to give her perky curve a heavy slap, eliciting a coquettish cry.

He rubbed his somewhat throbbing temples and turned to look at Su Qingge and Luo Hongyi, who were watching the show.

"Qingge, go and empty the Alchemy Pavilion and the Sword Pool. I've brought back all the divine materials from the Guixu."

"As for these two troublemakers."

Xu Chen glanced at the Goddess and the Devil Emperor, who were still glaring at each other, and the wickedness at the corner of his mouth reappeared.

"Since you love to compete so much, tonight, both of you get over to my Bedchamber together."

"This Emperor wants to see whether, on the same dragon bed, you'll tear down this Imperial Palace or be obediently handled by me."