The Almighty, Omnipotent, Fearsome, and Domineering Heroine

Chapter 16: The Almighty, Omnipotent, Fearsome, and Domineering Heroine

Cheng Yun and Old Mage exchanged a glance.

Old Mage nodded at him with a slight smile, indicating that the newcomer's martial prowess was within his controllable range. Thus, Cheng Yun did not need to take defensive, evasive, or other counter-measures.

Cheng Yun nodded in response, hesitated briefly, straightened his back, and stepped forward a short distance, staring directly at the woman.

"Clang!"

The gleaming blade reflected his face, and the dents and black stains upon it made him look somewhat distorted.

Cheng Yun froze for a moment, resisting the urge to step back, and asked stiffly, "Who are you?"

The woman raised her head to stare at him. Her phoenix eyes, which ought to have looked charming, were filled with deep threat as she looked him and Old Mage up and down, then replied, "*%*&#...*"

"..." Cheng Yun looked at Old Mage. "Sorry for the trouble."

"A mere trifle, not worth mentioning." Old Mage took a step forward and raised his staff high.

The crystal ball at the tip of the staff suddenly burst into brilliant light.

Cheng Yun asked again, "Who are you?"

The woman's posture and demeanor still exuded extreme aggressiveness. Hearing Cheng Yun's voice, she was genuinely stunned, then coldly replied, "And who are you people? Where is this strange place anyway? Why on earth can I actually understand the gibberish you're speaking?"

"My name is Cheng Yun. You are currently in the spacetime transit station, and I am the administrator of this spacetime transit station, or you can call me the Station Master. This old gentleman beside me is currently my assistant, and he is using magic to translate our language. Since you've arrived on my turf, it is only right that you submit to my questioning," Cheng Yun said very earnestly. "Now, can you put your sword away? Having you do that makes me feel... very disrespected."

"What kind of whatever Station Master are you??" The woman frowned, completely ignoring his suggestion.

"..." Cheng Yun could only repeat helplessly, "The Station Master of the spacetime transit station, which means nodal space. You came here from another world, didn't you know?"

"Another world... I know." The woman finally accepted his words, nodded, and with a graceful movement, she sheathed the Wild Goose Feather Blade.

Although the initial height of Cheng Yun and Old Mage had put a lot of pressure on her, after observing them closely for a moment, she could tell that the combat power of the Station Master in front of her was at most equivalent to 0.8 geese, far below the average of adult males in their world. As for that old man, he was so old that he didn't look hard to deal with either.

"Then what is your name?" Cheng Yun fished out his phone.

"Yin Dan." The woman spat out two strange syllables, then turned her head to look at the boundless darkness of the nodal space, narrowing her eyes. "Is this the Upper Realm? How could the Upper Realm possibly look like this..."

"..." Cheng Yun was stunned for a moment, instantly realizing that she hadn't understood a single word of what he had just said to her.

"Yin Dan... Let's just write Yin Dan." Cheng Yun lowered his head and typed the two characters for Yin Dan into the first column, second row of the spreadsheet on his phone; the first row was the header.

Yin Dan looked at him with a hint of vigilance. "What are you doing? What is that thing in your hand?"

"Registering." Cheng Yun didn't raise his head as he spoke, then jumped to the next cell. "Everyone who comes has to register. Gender... female, right?"

"Speak! How do I get out of this damn place!" Yin Dan's gaze darkened. She didn't want to stay in this empty place any longer. Moreover, the fact that there were actually people here made her a little... scared.

"You leave the way you came." Cheng Yun jumped to the next cell again. "Where did you come from?"

"How I came..." Yin Dan didn't answer his question, instead raising her head with a trace of arrogance. "My martial arts have reached the realm of perfection, and I happened to find the legendary Void Arrow from jianghu rumors, so I borrowed the power of the arrow to shatter the void and head toward the legendary Up—"

As she spoke, she felt around inside her bosom, but felt nothing at all. Thus, the rest of her unfinished words died prematurely, and her movements paused.

Then she quickly felt around her waist.

Still empty!

Yin Dan's expression changed instantly. "The Void Arrow! Where did my Void Arrow go!? I clearly had a Void Arrow this big and this long tucked right on me!?"

Cheng Yun looked blankly at her fumbling all over herself, couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth, and looked around.

Yin Dan suddenly lowered her head, her eyes radiating murderous intent like a lone wolf, and asked, "Where is my Void Arrow!?"

Her gaze shifted between Cheng Yun and Old Mage, while her hand quietly grasped the hilt of her blade. Judging from the way the five fingers on that hand kept adjusting their position on the hilt, she was likely feeling rather nervous inside as well.

"...I didn't take your arrow." Cheng Yun rolled his eyes and pointed above her head—

Yet this action startled Yin Dan, causing her to instantly retreat at least five meters away, her long blade sliding out of its scabbard with a clang as she pointed it at Cheng Yun.

The blade reflecting the blue light of the luminous body looked all the more chilling!

Cheng Yun froze as well—

This woman seemed to leap backward in a single bound and jumped at least five meters away. This... could a normal person with a five-foot-five frame really pull that off?

Yin Dan was somewhat annoyed. "What are you doing?!"

"I wanted to say... take a look right above your head and see if that's the arrow you're looking for." Cheng Yun was a bit dazed.

Yin Dan looked up and glanced—

A dark golden arrow was floating about five meters above her head, causing her eyes to narrow abruptly.

"Swish!"

Yin Dan immediately bent her legs and leaped upward, unexpectedly jumping several meters high again and swinging her arm to grab precisely at that arrow.

Yet when she landed and opened her hand to look, it remained empty inside.

"Eh?" Yin Dan blinked twice, then tilted her head to look at Cheng Yun, her right hand gripping the sword hilt once more.

"Why are you looking at me! Are you out of your mind? I didn't take your arrow!" Cheng Yun was utterly speechless, and pointed a bit behind and above her head. "It's right there!"

Yin Dan turned her head to look, and sure enough, it was there.

The art style suddenly shifted!

Only to see Yin Dan constantly making jaw-dropping jumps in the nodal space, leaping up repeatedly to grab that arrow, reaching as high as seven or eight meters at her peak. Yet the result was that no matter how she bounced around, she couldn't touch the arrow, which left her somewhat dumbfounded and puzzled.

In the end, she gave up jumping, took a long breath where she stood, and looked at Cheng Yun. "Is it... Oh my, so tired... Did you mess with this?"

"None of my business." Cheng Yun spread his hands.

He could already tell from the art style that this heroine was probably no match for Old Mage.

Then what was he afraid of?

"None of your business? Then how come I can't get my arrow." Yin Dan narrowed her eyes at him. "Didn't you say you're the Station Master of this damn place? Then you must know what's going on! And you must... must have a way to get it back for me!"

"Sure do." Cheng Yun reached out, and the dark golden arrow automatically flew into his hand. "Here, got it."

"..." Yin Dan instantly widened her eyes, the five fingers grasping the sword hilt exerting quiet force. "Give it back to me."

"May I be allowed to explain something to you?"

"Give it back to me!"

"Uh, don't be so emotional, the thing is this." Cheng Yun said in a calm tone, "Because you borrowed a spacetime item called the Void Arrow..."

"Give it back to me!" Yin Dan interrupted him in a deep voice. "That's mine! Mine!"

"Sorry, I wasn't finished yet. Doing that makes me feel like I'm very disrespected," Cheng Yun said.

"Retard!" Yin Dan rebuked angrily.

Caring to waste no more breath on Cheng Yun, the next second, she had already drawn the Wild Goose Feather long blade with a swish, and her whole body rapidly sprinted toward Cheng Yun, her speed as fast as a gale!

She ran and ran, only to find that her attack target always remained in that exact spot, the distance never closing even a fraction.

Meanwhile, Cheng Yun stood there somewhat dazed, watching her legs moving like afterimages as she sprinted at high speed, muttering under his breath, "A human... cheetah."

Shaking his head, he snapped back to his senses and said earnestly, "Forget it, this is my turf after all. Even though I haven't gotten the lay of the land completely myself yet, fighting me here—don't you think it's too much of a waste of effort?"

Yin Dan was slightly out of breath and truly came to a halt, but still stared at him and said, "Mine."

"Fine, fine, yours, yours. I didn't say I was going to rob you, jeez!" Cheng Yun casually tossed the Void Arrow, and the arrow flew up overhead laden with Yin Dan's eager gaze, finally coming to rest about fifty meters away from her.

Yin Dan looked down at Cheng Yun.

Cheng Yun also looked at her with some expectation.

"Abominable!" Yin Dan fiercely hurled the long blade in her hand. The blade spun a few times in the air and flew straight toward Cheng Yun.

Old Mage's eyes narrowed slightly, and the long blade stopped dead, hovering bizarrely in mid-air and executing a slow-rotation motion while no longer flying toward Cheng Yun.

Yin Dan was stunned.

As for Cheng Yun, disappointment showed in his eyes; it seemed this heroine could only jump seven or eight meters high after all.

"I really have no interest in your treasure." Cheng Yun spread his hands. "Look, I even returned it to you, it's just that you can't reach it."

"Nonsense! There are countless heroes and gallants across the world, who doesn't covet the Void Arrow!" Yin Dan raged. "Besides, the reason I can't reach it is your doing anyway. Just bring it down and hand it directly to my hands, won't you!"

"Hey, please pay attention. Firstly, I am no hero or gallant; secondly, holding the arrow is useless to me; and lastly, since everyone has come all the way to this place, who didn't bring a treasure along?" Cheng Yun was utterly speechless. As a successor to socialism, returning lost property to its rightful owner was basic character. "If you don't believe me, look at that scroll hovering above your left head; it's a whole section longer than your arrow!"

Yin Dan was stunned, and only then fell silent.

A moment later, she reined in her aura. "What you're saying seems to make a bit of sense, but... but what does being a section longer mean?"

"An inch longer means an inch stronger." Cheng Yun looked her up and down.

"Huh?" Yin Dan frowned, not understanding. "Then why won't you return my arrow to me? Station Master."

"Allow me to organize my thoughts." Cheng Yun pondered for a moment before saying, "Because the place you want to go to is too far from your original world, and the energy of the spacetime item above your head is insufficient to send you to your destination all at once. Therefore, you and your spacetime item must make a transit stop here with me, waiting for the spacetime item's energy to recover before setting off again. And because I am the Station Master of this spacetime transit station, your next departure must also have my approval."

"A... post station?" Yin Dan was taken aback.

"Exactly. It seems your world is still quite primitive," Cheng Yun said. "Though you're actually quite smart."

"I... is that so?" Yin Dan blinked twice, then furrowed her brows. "But I am a person of the jianghu, not someone from the yamen or the military. I am not allowed to stay at post stations."

"..." Cheng Yun took back his previous remark.

Well, actually it's the new book period, it hasn't been signed yet, so there are no recommendation slots, which is why I don't want to update too fast. Otherwise, after finally struggling through to recommendations, you take a look... and it's already over a hundred thousand words.

However, since readers have brought up the matter of golden integrity, Golden has decided right then and there to defiantly drop another chapter!