Chapter 278

She struck at Yang Chen once more, and while he raised his sword to block, she suddenly closed the distance. A resounding phoenix cry echoed through the air. Ji Qingyou transformed into a blazing divine phoenix, charging straight at Yang Chen.

This was a divine technique of physical assault she had cultivated. By burning the phoenix blood in her body, she could fight like a demon beast with sheer physical power.

The body she inhabited belonged to her personal disciple, whose veins carried pure phoenix blood.

Before the age of two thousand, she had reached the seventh stage of Void Refinement realm, a prodigy similar to a Holy Son and Maiden. However, after using this divine technique, the phoenix blood in her disciple’s body would inevitably thin, and future achievements would likely be limited.

It was a pity, but it had to be sacrificed.

Yet, just as the blazing divine phoenix Ji Qingyou had become reached Yang Chen and was about to crash into him, she suddenly noticed a playful smirk on his lips.

Then, Yang Chen’s body was sent flying by her strike. But a silver great seal suddenly descended from above her head. The power of space flowed, forming layer upon layer of spatial prisons around her.

Ji Qingyou sensed something was wrong and struggled with all her might to escape the area, but she couldn’t break through the successive spatial barriers in time. She could only watch helplessly as the silver great seal came crashing down toward her.

Boom!

Seeing this, a smug grin curved Yang Chen’s lips. Though he had taken a direct hit from Ji Qingyou, with his physique, such an injury was hardly a concern. The key was that he had suppressed Ji Qingyou, the Empress Destiny!

…

After the Yu Kong Seal suppressed Ji Qingyou, it quickly shrank and returned to Yang Chen’s hand.

“The Yu Kong Seal! You’re that new Holy Son of the Heavenly Dao Holy Land!?” Ji Qingyou, suppressed within the internal space of the Yu Kong Seal, shouted in a deep voice.

At this moment, she naturally recognized the origin of the silver great seal that had subdued her. She also deduced the identity of this damned junior, Yang Chen.

“Hmph, you’d better release this Empress immediately! Otherwise, once this Empress leaves the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm, even if Yu Yourong has now stepped into the Tribulation Realm, she won’t be able to protect you!” Ji Qingyou spoke coldly.

Suppressed by the Yu Kong Seal, a sacred spatial artifact, with her strength limited to the ninth stage of Void Refinement, she had no chance of breaking free. Thus, she could only resort to threats.

But Yang Chen wasn’t fazed in the slightest. Holding the Yu Kong Seal in his hand, he looked at Ji Qingyou trapped inside and couldn’t help but smile:

“Senior Empress, you might as well stay in there quietly for the next two years! Once we leave the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm, I’ll naturally let you out!”

Ji Qingyou’s threats didn’t scare Yang Chen at all.

Yu Yourong had already obtained thirty percent of the Innate Radiance Essence and would soon face her Primordial Spirit Tribulation. By then, relying on the Innate Radiance Essence, Yu Yourong’s strength would surely surpass Ji Qingyou’s.

And that beautiful mature woman, Yu Yourong, still needed him to continue transferring the Innate Radiance Essence, so she would undoubtedly protect him at all costs.

Heh, having a powerful backer felt pretty good. And that backer was a stunningly curvaceous beauty, no less.

Yang Chen flew to Empress Yan’s side.

At this moment, all the True Immortal blood in the valley had been fully absorbed into Empress Yan’s body. Her entire being radiated a faint immortal glow, paired with her enchanting allure, making her look like an otherworldly immortal temptress capable of bewitching all living beings.

“Brother Chen, you actually managed to suppress that wretch Ji Qingyou!” Empress Yan looked at the still-trembling Yu Kong Seal in Yang Chen’s hand, her beautiful eyes unable to hide her excitement.

Ever since Ji Qingyou embarked on the path of cultivation, she had rarely met her match and was even slightly stronger than Empress Yan.

In recent years, as the Empress Destiny, she had risen to a lofty position, worshipped by countless people. Yet now, she had been suppressed by Brother Chen, a junior cultivator.

Empress Yan couldn’t wait to mock her thoroughly and shatter that wretch’s Dao heart.

“Ji Qingyou, to think you call yourself the Empress Destiny! With your ninth-stage Void Refinement cultivation, you’ve been suppressed by a second-stage Void Refinement young cultivator—how laughable if word gets out!”

“Hmph, Yan Honglian, you’d better have him release this Empress at once, or when we leave the Fallen Immortal Secret Realm, neither of you will be able to bear this Empress’s wrath! No matter how vast the Kunlun Realm is, there won’t be a place for you two to hide!” Ji Qingyou roared furiously from within the Yu Kong Seal.

“Is that so? Ji Qingyou, you ungrateful wretch—back then, I risked my life to help you, and now you repay kindness with enmity! Since that’s the case, I no longer need to honor our last shred of sentiment! Brother Chen, as long as you destroy her physical body, her primordial spirit will be exposed to this realm’s heavens, and the tribulation lightning will naturally erase her!”

As Empress Yan spoke, killing intent flickered in her beautiful eyes. Since this wretch Ji Qingyou wanted to settle scores after leaving, it’d be better to ensure she stayed here forever.

“Yan Honglian, you dare!” Ji Qingyou shouted sharply. But there was already a trace of panic in her voice. Clearly, what Empress Yan had said struck her fatal weakness.

Watching these former close friends turn into bitter enemies, Yang Chen found it somewhat amusing. However, he naturally wouldn’t follow Empress Yan’s suggestion and take the opportunity to erase Ji Qingyou.

First, Ji Qingyou bore the fate of a female lead—she wouldn’t die so easily. Second, he had bigger plans for keeping Ji Qingyou alive. The Son of Destiny, Zhou Fan, likely harbored special feelings for his imperial sister-in-law.

Yang Chen intended to use Ji Qingyou, this sister-in-law, to harvest some luck.

At that moment, the aura around Empress Yan suddenly fluctuated. Her cultivation jumped directly from the third stage of Void Refinement to the fourth stage.

But instead of rejoicing over the breakthrough, Empress Yan frowned deeply and hurriedly sat cross-legged.

“Brother Chen, I can’t suppress the True Immortal blood in my body anymore!”