25: Chapter 25: Huo Ling'er was extremely jealous when she saw me with Yun Xi.

The first ray of morning sunlight pierced through the mist of Huaguo Mountain, spilling onto that massive bluestone.

The originally serene and beautiful scene was brutally shattered by a sharp cry loud enough to shatter the clouds for a hundred miles.

"You! What did you two do last night?!"

This shout carried thirty percent shock, thirty percent grievance, and ninety-four percent overwhelming jealousy.

It instantly made Wang Teng, who was still fast asleep, feel his eardrums buzzing.

Wang Teng groggily opened his heavy, sleepy eyes to see Princess Huo Linger, dressed in red like fire, her anger levels off the charts.

The little princess stood before the giant rock with her hands on her hips, her large eyes wide open.

She glared fixedly at the two figures tangled together on the bluestone, tears already beginning to well up in her eyes.

"Mmm... What's wrong? Did the sky fall?"

Wang Teng subconsciously tried to get up, but felt a weight on his chest.

He looked down to see Yun Xi curled up in his arms like a lazy little purple cat.

After a night of "sleeping in each other's arms," their position was ambiguous to the extreme.

One of Yun Xi's jade-like legs was draped ungracefully over his waist, and her hands were clutching his lapels tightly.

Her long purple hair was messily scattered across his chest and arms.

Even worse, Yun Xi seemed to have been awakened by the scream.

She let out a soft moan and lifted her head with sleepy eyes, her stunning face still flushed with a rosy hue from the hangover.

Her gaze was hazy, and there was even a suspicious glimmer of moisture (drool) hanging from the corner of her mouth.

"Morning... Big Black Dog... Why is it so noisy..."

Yun Xi rubbed her eyes, her voice soft and hoarse, carrying the adorable daze of someone who had just woken up.

"Morning?! It's already high noon!"

Seeing this, Princess Huo Linger's composure completely collapsed.

"Fine! Just fine! I spent all night hugging a cold peach tree, dreaming of you and calling your name! And what happens? You two... you two actually got together behind my back?!"

Princess Huo Linger stomped her feet in anger, the rock beneath her cracking with a crunching sound, while a ring of Vermilion Bird Divine Fire rose around her, clearly indicating she was truly furious.

"Yun Xi! I treated you like a good sister and didn't want you to be wronged! You... you actually stole my man! Tell me! Did you use some kind of Celestial Race seduction technique on him while I was asleep?!"

By now, Yun Xi had finally cleared her head a bit.

She looked at the furious Princess Huo Linger before her, then looked down at her own disheveled state and the shameful position of being practically draped over Wang Teng.

The fragmented memories from last night came flooding back like a tide.

Throwing herself into his arms... touching his chest muscles and saying they felt like pillars... refusing to leave his embrace...

"Ah—!!"

Yun Xi let out a scream an octave higher than Princess Huo Linger's, springing up from Wang Teng's arms as if she had been electrocuted.

"No... that's not it! Linger, listen to me! I... I drank too much last night... I thought he was... a pillar!"

Yun Xi scrambled to tidy her messy skirt, her pretty face flushed so red it looked like it might bleed; she wished she could find a hole to crawl into.

"A pillar?!"

Princess Huo Linger was even more furious, rushing forward in a few steps and pointing at Wang Teng's handsome face: "What kind of pillar is this handsome? What kind of pillar would hold you and not let go? And look at his hand! Where was it just now? Huh? Where was it?!"

Wang Teng calmly withdrew the hand he had been keeping on Yun Xi's waist to prevent her from falling. He straightened his cuffs, his face showing no panic at all despite being caught in the act.

"Ahem, Linger, it's early in the morning, don't be so hot-tempered."

Wang Teng sat up, the lazy and domineering aura belonging to the Nine-Nether Ao naturally exuding from him.

"This girl got drunk last night and acted crazy, insisting on burrowing into my arms. Out of compassion, I reluctantly served as a pillow for the night."

"I don't believe you!"

Princess Huo Linger's eyes turned red, and she lunged forward—not to attack, but to bite down hard on Wang Teng's left arm.

"Hiss—are you a dog?"

Wang Teng gasped; this girl had used real strength.

"You're the dog! You're a big perverted dog!"

Princess Huo Linger let go, looking at the row of neat tooth marks, feeling both angry and aggrieved.

Just at this critical moment when the shura field was about to turn into a "domestic violence scene."

"Rumble—!!!"

Without any warning, the clear sky above Baiduan Mountain was suddenly ripped open as if by a burning red iron hand.

A vast, boundless, and terrifying imperial dragon aura, hot enough to evaporate rivers, surged wildly from the crack.

The temperature for a hundred miles around soared instantly, and half of the spiritual herbs and fairy grasses on Huaguo Mountain withered immediately.

Even the pool of monkey wine was bubbling and steaming, as if it were about to boil.

"This is... power from the outside world? How could anyone force their way through the rules of Baiduan Mountain?"

Shi Hao, who was in the tree, was so scared that the peach pit in his hand dropped, and the hair on his body stood on end.

He was all too familiar with this pressure; it was the aura of someone standing at the pinnacle of humanity!

Immediately after, a golden phantom, majestic beyond compare and wreathed in Vermilion Bird Divine Fire, stepped out from the crack.

It was a middle-aged man wearing a crown and a crimson dragon robe.

Although it was only a spiritual projection, the aura of the Human Emperor, overlooking the Eight Regions and reigning supreme, made the heavens and earth change color.

Fire Emperor!

The Human Emperor of the Fire Kingdom, one of the true rulers of the Eight Regions of the Lower Realm!

He had been in the palace calculating the great tribulation when he suddenly had a premonition.

Sensing an abnormality with the protective amulet he had left on his precious daughter, and out of deep love for her, he spared no cost to forcibly send in a spiritual projection to investigate.

"Linger! My darling daughter! Who dares to hurt you?!"

The Fire Emperor's roar was like thunder from the nine heavens, shaking the mountains.

However, when his eyes, burning with divine fire, scanned the scene and saw what was happening below.

This Human Emperor, who would not change his expression even if Mount Tai collapsed before him, instantly lost his composure.

What did he see?

He saw his precious daughter, Princess Huo Linger, usually the most delicate and cheerful, now looking disheveled.

Her eyes were red and swollen, her face streaked with tears, as she was "biting" the arm of a strange man.

And that man, with a face of "indifference," actually had another disheveled, stunning girl (Yun Xi) snuggled in his arms!

From the perspective of the "old father" Fire Emperor, this scene was automatically filled in:

A reckless lecher, not only holding two women at once in front of his daughter but also bullying her until she was crying tears of sorrow.

Forcing his daughter to bite him in a desperate attempt to fight back like a helpless little beast!

"Beast!!!"

A roar filled with the overwhelming rage of an old father shattered all the surrounding rocks.

"How dare you bully my daughter! No matter who you are, today you will be torn to shreds!!"