CHAPTER 426: CHAPTER 426: EMPRESS: WILL I BECOME A LITTLE FAN GIRL? (PLEASE FOLLOW)

Gu Qingcheng’s lips curled into a bitter smile, and she felt really upset as she said,

"Ziran, do you really not even want to see your best friend anymore?"

Ziran let out a cold snort, "You still see me as your best friend?"

Gu Qingcheng’s tone turned firm, "Of course! No matter how long we’re apart, whether it’s a thousand years or ten thousand, the four of us will always be best friends for life."

Ziran rolled her eyes, "If I’m really your best friend, then you need to accept that Xiao Ye is my husband."

"Hmph, when you apologize to Xiao Ye, then I’ll talk to you again!"

*Gu Qingcheng felt miserable inside, and in this moment, she deeply realized that the man beside her now weighed far more in Ziran’s heart than she, the best friend, ever did.*

*But who was she? She was Gu Qingcheng, the Hang City Empress. For her to apologize to a man?*

*How could that even be possible!?*

Xiao Ye leaned against the door, whistling, his gaze drifting elsewhere, looking completely at ease.

Gu Qingcheng started to get a bit irritated and said, "Quiet down."

Xiao Ye shrugged his shoulders and strolled out alone, whistling in the main hall.

Gu Qingcheng: "..."

"Uh, I didn’t mean to chase him off."

Seeing the darkened look on Ziran’s face, her usually calm heart started to feel a little panicked.

Ziran’s face was black as she snapped, "What’s wrong with him whistling? Is it bothering you?"

"I think you’ve been the Empress for too long, you’re way too overbearing and controlling now!"

Gu Qingcheng’s expression stiffened; she opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say.

At that moment, the voice of Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng sounded in her mind.

"My husband really was handsome when he was young—even just whistling, he’s so attractive. As expected from my man!"

"Xiaogu, hurry and chase after him, I want to see my husband when he was young!"

Gu Qingcheng: "..."

*Damn! My future self actually ended up as that man’s number one fangirl.*

*Did that lovestruck, flirty tone really come out of my mouth as Gu Qingcheng?*

*Once again, she felt her understanding of herself shatter violently.*

"Old Gu, shut up!" Gu Qingcheng shouted in her Sea of Spirit, "I’m the Hang City Empress, there’s no way I’d talk like that—it’s humiliating."

"What you say is what I say, and I forbid you from using that flirty tone, you hear me!"

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng rolled her eyes, saying indifferently, "What’s so shameful about it? You’ll change one day, you’ll talk like this too."

Gu Qingcheng’s mouth twitched, thoughts swirling inside.

She shook her head, clearing away those messy thoughts.

She pulled a completely purple token from her robes and placed it in Ziran’s hand, saying,

"This is the highest authority token for the Secret Realm Hall. If you want to enter any number secret realm, just show this token."

Ziran brightened instantly and put the token away, her attitude softening a bit as she spoke in a gentler tone, "I stand by what I said: Xiao Ye is my husband, and you pissed him off, so you have to apologize to him."

"If you really see me as your ride-or-die best friend."

With that, Ziran brushed past Gu Qingcheng, bringing a waft of fragrance, and headed over to Xiao Ye’s side.

She cuddled Xiao Ye’s arm, beaming as she said, "Xiao Ye, let’s head straight to Secret Realm 25 and take down some Creation-type Demon Beasts to harvest some resources."

Gu Qingcheng’s expression turned complicated as she watched quietly from not far away.

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng huffed with jealousy, "Ziran, that shameless vixen—looks like a pure goddess but is full of tricks to seduce, totally capturing this era’s Xiao Ye."

"Xiaogu, you should learn from her, it’ll be useful to you later!"

Gu Qingcheng’s face darkened; her mouth twitched uncontrollably.

*She was the Hang City Empress—her, learning tricks to snag a man? As if!*

"No way!"

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng got anxious and huffed, "Xiaogu, you’ll regret it!"

Gu Qingcheng sneered inwardly, *Me, Hang City Empress, regret? Yeah, right.*

In the main hall, Xiao Ye and Ziran headed straight for the Order Team Captain and showed the purple token.

"This is the Empress’s token, take us to Special Secret Realm 25!"

The Order Captain’s attitude changed instantly; he became extremely respectful, his face solemn as he said, "Honored ones, please come with me,"

And so, the two of them followed the Order Captain directly to the teleportation entrance for Secret Realm 25.

"Honored ones, from here you can enter the Special Secret Realm. You can stay for as long as you like and obtain any of the resources inside—there are no restrictions."

"Do you want me to send a Great Venerable Realm team to assist you?"

Ziran waved her hand, "No need, just focus on doing your own jobs well."

With that, the two of them took each other’s hand, stepped into the teleportation array, and, as it activated, their figures disappeared.

"Whew!"

The Order Captain’s forehead was drenched in cold sweat as he let out a deep breath.

The Great Venerable Crystal Core hidden in his robes felt like a hot potato, and he wanted to throw it away immediately.

Suddenly, he turned his head and nearly jumped out of his skin—he dropped to one knee, fist to chest, and said,

"Greetings, Empress!"

Gu Qingcheng waved her hand, "You may go."

"Yes!" The Order Captain’s legs were shaking as he left.

*If the bribery was discovered, he’d be dead for sure!*

*Gu Qingcheng stared at the now-empty teleportation array, feeling a wave of bitterness in her heart. As she thought of how Ziran was clinging to Xiao Ye so intimately, a tinge of sour jealousy crept in as well.*

"Hmph! A man, actually fighting me for space in Ziran’s heart. I refuse to believe that the bond between us—closer than family—could be crushed by some guy."

Divine Soul Gu Qingcheng looked on, her expression complicated.

*At this moment in time, she got jealous over her friends—but in the future, she’d get jealous over Xiao Ye instead.*

*Once that day came, she’d want nothing more than to stick to Xiao Ye every day, fighting the other Beast Girls for alone time with him.*

Gu Qingcheng stepped forward into the teleportation array, following them into Special Secret Realm 25.

Xiao Ye and Ziran appeared in a world shrouded in gray mist.

From ten thousand meters up, they could vaguely see massive mountain ranges scattered throughout this small world.

Both of them possessed the Creation Attribute and could sense the presence of Creation energy.

"The smallest ridge there has an especially strong Creation Attribute energy—most of the Creation-type Demon Beasts in this Secret Realm are probably gathering on that mountain,"

Xiao Ye concluded.

"There are also Five Elements Attribute Demon Beasts here, and Light and Dark Attribute Demon Beasts,"

Ziran’s Saint Realm divine sense swept outward, capturing the conditions of more than half the small world in her mind.

"That little mountain alone has about a thousand Creation-type Demon Beasts, Xiao Ye, that should be enough resources for us,"

The two of them crossed through the void, landing atop that small ridge.

"How about we just catch ’em all and pen some up for ourselves?" Xiao Ye mused, looking at all the Creation-type Demon Beasts crawling on the ground, flying in the sky, and tunneling underground.

Resources at the Saint Realm were Rule Fragments.

Saints with Creation Attribute had to absorb the Rule Power within Creation Rule Fragment Crystals.

Ziran’s eyes lit up with delight, and she clapped her hands, saying, "Great!"

Then, she unleashed her overwhelming Saint Realm might, crushing all the Creation-type Demon Beasts to the ground, unable to move.

One after another, the Demon Beasts were snatched up and confined to a clear patch of ground in front of them.

Before long, one thousand two hundred sixty-two Creation-type Demon Beasts were piled into a heap, pinned before them.