No one knew how long passed, nor what the man with his swollen face caught in the middle had said. In any case, the battle gradually subsided.
Qin Yi sniffled and pointed at the palace ruins on the ground.
Wood and stone rose into the air one after another, returning, reshaping, and once more becoming a complete palace.
This beautiful display drew applause from the onlookers, but Qin Yi only wanted to find a crack to hide in.
In truth, this battle had not needed to happen at all.
Although Veil of Time Illusion Space required him to use the power of time to create it, at his current level of cultivation, he no longer had to remain inside personally. He could form the space with a spell, then leave and let the two of them cultivate within it...
It was simply that he had always stayed in there with others before. The time he had spent inside was actually longer than the time he had spent outside in this lifetime... He had become so accustomed to it that he had momentarily forgotten he did not need to be in there himself...
For no reason at all, he had set his own backyard on fire.
How stupid.
Stopping the conflict was simple. Once he explained this arrangement, it would be over... leaving only ruins across the ground as witnesses to the consequences of stupidity.
"With her?"
"And we still have to hug?"
The two spoke in unison, even making the same gesture: left hands on their hips, right hands pointing at each other. "Why should I cultivate while hugging this stupid bird/stinking river?"
"Weren't you two just stacked on top of each other—uh, no, no, no!" Seeing the fury that had only just subsided nearly reignite because of his words,