174: Chapter 174 Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road! Two Empresses Share the Same Feeling!

Inside Liuguang City, on a bustling street.

Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, was walking through the crowd, looking disheveled and limping.

To avoid being discovered by Chu Lingyue and her disciple, before coming to the Southwest Wilderness, she had specially used a top-tier face-changing Spirit Treasure to disguise herself as a stranger.

"Hiss... This Empress is in agony! What on earth is going on!" Xia Xuanji clutched her injured chest, cursing inwardly.

Her entire Mahayana Stage cultivation was tightly Sealed, allowing her to only exert the strength of a mere Nascent Soul Stage, making her legs feel wobbly as she walked.

Just as she was calculating where to find a safe place to heal, her peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of Jiang Yutang and her two companions, who had just descended from the sky, walking towards the City Lord's Mansion.

"Truly, iron shoes are worn out in vain in search of something, only to find it without effort! That little girl is indeed here!"

Xia Xuanji's eyes lit up. She immediately restrained her Qi and crept closer, preparing to secretly observe what on earth this Revered Master and disciple were up to.

Just as she reached a corner, she heard the Fairy in the purple dress ahead naturally instruct the delicate maid beside her: "Xuanji, Sister Tang must be tired. You go back to the mansion first, tidy up the guest room, and prepare some top-tier spirit tea."

The delicate maid bowed her head and replied submissively: "Yes, City Lord."

Hiding in the shadows, Xia Xuanji's mind went "buzz" upon hearing this, and she was instantly enraged!

"How dare you, Jiang Yutang! How dare you, Chu Lingyue! You Revered Master and disciple are simply going too far!"

Xia Xuanji was so angry she nearly shattered her molars: "How dare you let a maid who serves tea and water share the same name as this Empress?! Is this intentional to disgust this Empress?!"

Burning with rage, Xia Xuanji ignored the fact that she was currently in a weakened state and suddenly poked her head out.

As a result, upon looking, Xia Xuanji was stunned, as if struck by lightning, and instantly froze in place!

Because she was far too familiar with Empress Xuanhuang, Chu Lingyue. The two had been locked in open and secret struggles for thousands of years; she could recognize the other's bone structure even if she were turned to ash!

If both of them were currently at the Peak of the Mahayana Stage, the illusion techniques driven by their cultivation as Supreme Beings would absolutely not be easily seen through by each other.

But the situation was different now!

Both of them had just been severely injured outside the city by that incredibly unreasonable [Invincible Sword Qi], and their cultivation levels had both plummeted to the Nascent Soul Stage.

Without the support of vast cultivation, the top-tier disguises on their bodies naturally developed fatal flaws!

At the same time that Xia Xuanji recognized Chu Lingyue, the real Chu Lingyue, who was preparing to return to the mansion, also seemed to sense something and suddenly turned her head.

Their eyes met!

The air seemed to freeze at that moment.

"Xia the Charlatan?!"

"Chu the Bitch?!"

The two Supreme Being Empresses, who had once dominated the Spirit Realm from high above, both let out an extremely shocked scream in their hearts the moment they clearly saw each other!

When enemies meet, they are extra jealous; both of them almost subconsciously wanted to mobilize their Supreme Being cultivation to beat the other's dog-brains out on the street.

However, at the very moment they prepared to make a move... both of them simultaneously and sorrowfully discovered the empty, stagnant pool of Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power within their own bodies.

"No! This Empress is still severely injured; if I fight this crazy woman here and accidentally expose my identity, it will be dangerous!" The real Chu Lingyue's heart sank.

"Calm down! This Empress cannot defeat her right now! And if I am exposed, it will be dangerous!" Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, also reacted instantly.

With great tacit understanding, the two Empresses forcibly suppressed their hostility.

After forcing herself to calm down, Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji's eyes darted around, and a plan instantly came to mind.

"The wilderness is dangerous, and this Empress is currently worried about not having a safe place to heal. Since that bitch Chu Lingyue is disguised as a maid lurking here, and it looks like that silly disciple Jiang Yutang has not recognized her Revered Master at all... why shouldn't this Empress go with the flow and sneak into the City Lord's Mansion with them?"

"It would be perfect to use this secret to hold Chu Lingyue hostage!"

Having figured this out, Xia Xuanji instantly put on an extremely exaggerated expression of surprise, jumped out from the corner limping, and enthusiastically rushed towards Chu Lingyue: "Oh my! Xia Xuanji! It really is you!"

The real Xia Xuanji grabbed the real Chu Lingyue's hand and shouted extremely loudly: "My dear best friend! To think I would meet you here, what a coincidence! How come you have followed Fairy Jiang and City Lord Ye of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace?"

Jiang Yutang and Ye Liuli were both stunned by this sudden scene.

"Sister Xuanji, this is..." Jiang Yutang looked at the limping stranger with some confusion.

The real Chu Lingyue looked at the extremely annoying face in front of her, trembling with anger, but in order not to expose her identity, she could only grit her teeth in extreme humiliation.

Xia Xuanji struck while the iron was hot, leaned into Chu Lingyue's ear, and secretly transmitted her voice: "Chu Lingyue, you wouldn't want the secret that a dignified Empress is working as a maid for someone to be exposed, would you? Come, let's have a good chat and catch up. Otherwise, I will spill your identity to your good disciple!"

The real Chu Lingyue, having her fatal weakness held, took a deep breath, forced a smile that was uglier than crying, and said to Jiang Yutang: "Sister Tang, she... she is indeed a... good friend of this servant from before. This servant would like to go aside with her to catch up and will return to the mansion to serve later."

"Go, go ahead, reuniting with an old friend is a happy occasion, no rush." Jiang Yutang waved her hand without any suspicion, and then she and Ye Liuli entered the City Lord's Mansion first.

Seeing Jiang Yutang walk away, the two Empresses immediately shook off each other's hands with extreme disgust and walked into an extremely secluded dead-end alley.

"Xia the Charlatan, what on earth do you want?!" The real Chu Lingyue growled through gritted teeth.

"Hmph! This Empress wants to ask you that! A dignified Empress Xuanhuang, running here to be a maid, and you dare to use this Empress's name? Do you have no shame!" Xia Xuanji retorted unceremoniously.

The two glared at each other, and after mocking each other for a few sentences, they both suddenly noticed the extremely weak, and even internally injured, aura of the other.

"You... how did you become like this too? How did you end up limping?" The real Chu Lingyue looked at her with some suspicion.

"Don't mention it!" At the mention of this, Xia Xuanji was full of grief and indignation, tears almost falling: "This Empress had just torn through space to arrive, hadn't even poked my head out, when I was struck down by an extremely strange and terrifying Sword Qi! It directly injured my Origin! It is simply the worst luck of eight lifetimes!"

"Wait!" The real Chu Lingyue widened her eyes, looking at her in utter disbelief: "You were also struck by that Sword Qi?!"

"Also?!" Xia Xuanji was stunned, staring fixedly at Chu Lingyue: "Could it be that you..."

The real Chu Lingyue clutched her chest in extreme depression and sighed: "This Empress... this Empress also only has Nascent Soul Stage cultivation left..."

At this moment, the two mortal enemies who had fought for thousands of years, looking at the similarly disheveled and similarly fallen-from-grace, extremely frustrated appearance of the other, felt the hostility in their hearts miraculously dissipate by more than half.

"So you were also screwed over by that hellish Sword Qi..." Xia Xuanji sniffled and patted Chu Lingyue's shoulder with extreme grievance.

"Yes... it is too frustrating, this Empress could not even dodge it..." The real Chu Lingyue's eyes also reddened.

The two women who once stood at the Peak of the Spirit Realm actually developed a sense of mutual sympathy at this moment!

"Sister! I understand you!" Xia Xuanji hugged Chu Lingyue, wailing with extreme empathy.

"That Wang Yang from the broken Hehuan Sect is too evil; a single Talisman actually caused both you and me to be severely injured!" The real Chu Lingyue finally dropped her disguise and huddled with her mortal enemy for warmth.

"Hehuan Sect? Wang Yang? Why does it sound a bit familiar?" Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, suddenly remembered the scene she saw when her Spirit Treasure shattered.

"Isn't that the man you and your disciple serve together?"