"No one's stopping us."
At the border of the Great Abyss Realm.
Zhou Zhi, dressed in black, walked across the plains.
A gentle breeze swept over the plain.
Yet it felt somewhat desolate.
Zhou Zhi recalled the first time he had come here. It had probably been during the Three Kingdoms Battlefield.
He wondered how that pockmarked general, Gao Lan, was doing—whether he had died in the turmoil of the Disease Kingdom.
Twenty-Three glanced around. "They wouldn't dare stop us... The Holy Kingdom's garrison has completely withdrawn."
"The moment you get close, they fall back and scatter."
"Hey... who are you imitating?"
Zhou Zhi answered as if it were only natural. "Ruan Yin."
"Fang Hui told me that story. Ruan Yin destroyed a nation alone—how imposing."
"I feel like I could give it a try too."
Twenty-Three was clearly asking despite knowing the answer. She raised her eyes. "But Ultimate Bliss had people like [Tu Luming] and [Li Xinling]. Does the Holy Kingdom have Plague Exterminators like that? Those people from the Ten Families will probably run the moment they see you, won't they?"
As she spoke, faint disdain appeared in Twenty-Three's vacant eyes. "I think the [Grand Governor] will run away, fleeing to Banquet's End Continent. You won't be able to kill him then, since Ruan Yin is there."
Zhou Zhi spoke. "Miss Twenty-Three, you weren't like this before."
Twenty-Three said, "What was I like before? I don't remember. Tell me?"
Zhou Zhi slowly recalled as he walked across the plain.
"Your appearance was concealed with [Genetic Art], so people couldn't make out your face, just like me now."
"Thin and small, with no particular tone when you spoke. You always seemed lifeless, but you were strong. Back then, Ruan Yin hadn't beaten you into submission yet."
Twenty-Three replied