98: Kidnapping a princess to be a bandit's wife

The colorful chaotic space currents tore wildly in the void, making an ear-piercing grinding sound.

This was the only passage connecting the Crimson Blood Imperial Court to the outside world; normally, only imperial warships dared to traverse it.

A golden fist print shattered the spatial barrier without warning, standing across the center of the passage.

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter, who was preparing to evacuate, had a sudden change in expression.

She abruptly reined in the flood dragon mount beneath her feet, and within her beautiful eyes, the reflection of a young figure carrying a large cauldron appeared.

Su Xuanchen.

He stood there like a mountain bandit blocking the road, blocking the exit with that signature, infuriating smile on his face.

“Your Highness, are you in such a hurry to leave?”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter's heart skipped a beat.

Even from a great distance, she could feel the suffocatingly thick scent of blood emanating from him that had yet to dissipate.

That was the Evil Qi left behind after slaughtering Quasi-Emperors.

“Su Xuanchen!”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter forced herself to stay calm. With a flash of light in her hand, she summoned a golden bell.

A supreme weapon—the Heavenly Dragon Bell!

“I am the Imperial Daughter of the Dragon Clan, what do you think you're doing?!”

“What am I doing?”

Su Xuanchen picked his ear, carrying the myriad things mother qi cauldron as he approached step by step.

“Back there outside, I saw that the look in your eyes wasn't quite right.”

“Wanted to kill me?”

“Since you wanted to kill me, you must be prepared to be killed by me.”

“Or...”

His gaze swept unscrupulously over the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter's exquisite figure encased in battle armor, his eyes playful.

“Be prepared to be slept with by me.”

“Shameless!”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter was mortified, her pretty face flushing red.

As a dignified Imperial Daughter, when had she ever been subjected to such harassment?

“Die!”

Ding ling ling!

The Heavenly Dragon Bell vibrated violently.

Golden sound waves transformed into physical True Dragons, roaring as they charged toward Su Xuanchen. Each True Dragon was enough to shatter the Divine Soul of a Great Saint.

This was a full-strength strike from a supreme weapon!

However.

Su Xuanchen didn't even bat an eye.

“Flashy and useless.”

He swung the myriad things mother qi cauldron with one hand like he was swinging a brick, smashing it forward with simple brutality.

“Clang!”

A dull, massive boom rang out, nearly causing the spatial passage to collapse.

The heavy Mother Qi of the myriad things mother qi cauldron cascaded down, directly crushing all the sonic True Dragons.

Immediately following that.

The cauldron's momentum didn't slacken as it slammed heavily into the Heavenly Dragon Bell.

“Crack!”

The Heavenly Dragon Bell let out a mournful wail, its light dimming as it was sent flying.

Along with it, the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter was also sent coughing up blood by the terrifying counter-shock force, falling from the back of the flood dragon.

One move.

Suppressed!

“You...”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter looked in horror at the man who walked up to her, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Too strong.

This sense of oppression was even more terrifying than that of her Imperial Father!

“Don't... don't kill me...”

She no longer had any of her previous arrogance, using her hands to push herself back along the ground.

“If you kill me, the Crimson Blood Imperial Court and the Dragon Clan will never rest until you are dead!”

“Threatening me?”

Su Xuanchen knelt down and reached out to pinch her delicate chin, forcing her to look up.

“I, for one, hate threats the most.”

“And besides, who said we're going to be at each other's throats?”

He grinned, revealing a row of forest-white teeth.

“We clearly... have mutual feelings for each other.”

“Am I right?”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter's pupils shook.

Who has mutual feelings with you?!

Before she could retort, Su Xuanchen chopped the back of her neck with his palm.

“Ugh...”

The Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter let out a muffled groan and slumped softly into his arms.

“Too noisy. You're cuter when you're asleep.”

Su Xuanchen hoisted her over his shoulder like a sack of grain.

With a casual wave.

The myriad things mother qi cauldron vibrated, erasing all remaining battle traces and auras from the area.

“Done.”

“Got another one to warm the bed.”

Su Xuanchen patted the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter's perky buttocks, feeling in high spirits.

“Let's go home for the wedding night!”

He stepped onto the Xing Character Secret, turning into a streak of light and instantly vanishing into the depths of the spatial passage.

Only the messy void remained, as if nothing had ever happened.

Meanwhile.

The chain reaction in the outside world had only just begun.

Heavenly Kingdom, Divine Temple Ruins.

The Heavenly Kingdom Sovereign, with disheveled hair, looked at the intelligence report in his hand regarding Su Xuanchen's battle record, his hands shaking like a sieve.

“A monster... that's a monster!”

“Even the Azure Revered Master was captured...”

“And I still wanted revenge? Do I have a death wish?!”

Slap!

He slapped himself hard.

“Go! I must leave!”

“I can't stay in this Kunxu Divine Domain anymore! Even going to the Lower Realm to be a local king is better than waiting here to die!”

The Heavenly Kingdom Sovereign made a decisive choice and packed his bags to flee overnight.

A hegemon of a generation was actually scared into abandoning his home... The Underworld, beneath the eighteen layers of Hades.

This was a forbidden zone for the living and a paradise for the dead.

In the endless darkness, a pair of crimson eyes slowly opened.

“Su... Xuan... chen...”

The raspy voice sounded like two pieces of rusted iron rubbing together.

The Darkness Supreme.

He looked at the ghost messenger kneeling before him to report, extending a hand as withered as a stick.

“Since that waste from the Heavenly Kingdom has run away, he's useless now.”

The Heavenly Kingdom Sovereign, who was preparing to flee to the Boundary Sea, was halfway there when he was grabbed by a black ghost hand emerging from the void.

“Ah! Supreme, have mercy!”

There was no mercy at all.

“Crunch.”

The Heavenly Kingdom Sovereign was directly crushed into a mist of blood, and his Divine Soul was sucked into the depths of the Underworld by that ghost hand.

“Tastes not bad.”

The Darkness Supreme licked his lips, the red light in his eyes growing even brighter.

“A Physical Body with the potential of an Immortal King... if refined into a corpse puppet, it would surely be the most perfect masterpiece in this world.”

“Su Family...”

“This venerable one has my eyes on you.”

...True Phoenix Clan, Wutong Ancestral Land.

Five volcanoes erupted simultaneously, lava rolling down.

That was the fury of five True Phoenix Clan Supremes.

“This is too much! Simply too much!”

A red-haired old man roared, his voice shaking the nine heavens.

“Killing our clan's Imperial Son! Slaying our clan's Quasi-Emperor! Even capturing our clan's Grand Elder to be a mount!”

“This Su Xuanchen is rubbing our True Phoenix Clan's face into the dirt!”

“Request the emperor weapon!”

Another Supreme was brimming with Killing Intent.

“Even if he is the Reincarnation of a Great Emperor, today he shall pay in blood!”

Just as the five great Supremes were preparing to use their hidden foundations to strike at the True Saint Continent.

“All of you, shut up.”

A majestic, indifferent voice came from the Nirvana Cave in the deepest part of the ancestral land.

The True Phoenix Great Emperor!

The five great Supremes stiffened and hurriedly knelt on the ground.

“Great Emperor! That Su Xuanchen...”

“I know.”

No joy or anger could be heard in the True Phoenix Great Emperor's voice.

“Su Xuanchen is the Ninth Princess's husband.”

“Within the Ninth Princess flows the purest atavistic true blood of our clan.”

“By seniority, that Su Xuanchen... is our clan's son-in-law.”

The five great Supremes were dumbfounded.

Son-in-law?

He killed so many of our people and beat our faces swollen, and in the end, it's all over with just the phrase 'son-in-law'?

“Great Emperor! This...”

“What? You have an objection?”

A terrifying Emperor's Might overflowed, pressing down so hard the five great Supremes could not breathe.

“We wouldn't dare!”

“Since he is a son-in-law, then he is family.”

The True Phoenix Great Emperor said faintly.

“Young people squabbling; some casualties are inevitable.”

“Phoenix Void Dao's skills were inferior; if he's dead, he's dead.”

“Pass down the order: this matter is dropped.”

The voice went silent.

The five great Supremes looked at each other, their mouths full of bitterness.

They knew the Great Emperor was being wary.

Wary of the 'Great Emperor Legacy' behind Su Xuanchen, wary of those two supreme dao emperor weapons, and even more wary of Su Xuanchen's monstrous potential.

Before having absolute certainty, the Great Emperor chose to endure.

“Endure!”

The red-haired Supreme gritted his teeth.

“When the Great Emperor of our lineage returns, we will surely make that brat pay!”

True Saint Continent, Purple Heaven Palace.

Su Xuanchen was unaware of the surging winds and clouds in the outside world.

Carrying the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter and riding the True Phoenix that Yan Ji had transformed into, he returned home in a grand manner.

As soon as he landed.

He felt the atmosphere was a bit off.

It was too festive.

The entire Purple Heaven Palace was decorated with lanterns and streamers, with large red 'Double Happiness' characters pasted everywhere. One would think another wedding was being held.

“Husband! You're back!”

The Ninth Princess pounced over like a butterfly, her face full of excitement.

“Look! The surprise I prepared for you!”

She stepped aside like showing off a treasure, pointing toward the front of the main hall.

Su Xuanchen looked in the direction of her finger.

“Hiss—”

He instantly sucked in a breath of cold air, nearly dropping the Heavenly Dragon Imperial Daughter off his shoulder.

In front of the hall, nine stunning women stood in a neat row.

They were dressed in uniform crimson-gold phoenix robes, each with a different look—some cold and elegant, some gentle, some fiery.

But without exception, the auras they emitted were unfathomable.

Quasi-Emperors!

A full nine Quasi-Emperors!

They were precisely the nine Phoenix Venerables who had previously followed the Ninth Princess on her expedition!

At this moment, these nine Quasi-Emperor experts, who were usually high and mighty, were blushing and bowing submissively to Su Xuanchen.

“This concubine... greets my husband.”

Their voices were perfectly in unison, charming to the bone.

Su Xuanchen felt like his brain was no longer working properly.