Jun Changxiao sped through the Space-Time Tunnel.
He wanted to return to the Starfall Continent. He had been away for too long and missed his disciples terribly.
The Rose Empress and his marriage to her were like passing clouds and drifting smoke. Let them scatter with the wind.
I helped her reclaim the throne and took the resources from the treasury as payment, Jun Changxiao thought.
The system said, "Host, you have repeated that sentence three hundred and sixty-five times."
"That many?"
"Yes."
"What do you mean?"
"Nothing. I merely wanted to study certain subtle feelings between people."
"Brother, you're just a system, just data. Can you stop quoting classic lines from A Chinese Odyssey?"
"Is the Rose Empress an exclamation mark in your heart? Or a period? Is your head filled with question marks?"
"Get lost!"
Jun Changxiao roared inwardly.
The system said, "Given the host's personality, you clearly could have taken all the resources in the treasury. Why did you leave half behind?"
"Because I wanted to!"
"Why did the host leave behind a top-grade Healing Pill after taking all those resources?"
"Because I wanted to!"
"You won't even explain yourself."
The system said, "The conclusion is..." It paused, then changed its words. "As long as the host is happy."
"You sure do talk a lot of crap!"
Jun Changxiao ignored it and sped onward through the Space-Time Tunnel.
The reason he had taken only half the resources was that Empress Lingping had ultimately been the culprit behind the invasion of the Starfall Continent. That woman had nothing to do with it.
As for leaving behind a top-grade Healing Pill... because of her, he had completed quite a few missions and advanced from a Subordinate Second Rank to a fifth-rank Sword Martial Dual Saint. He would treat it