Your Majesty, I'm Here to Steal the Empress

Xiao Li's Flying Dagger.

Ye Zhuo was delighted by the mission reward, but he had nearly forgotten one thing.

Xiao Li's Flying Dagger could unleash its full power with the plainest thin-bladed throwing knife, but he still needed a knife.

"Let's try it."

Stepping out of the residence, Ye Zhuo plucked a leaf from a tree.

Whoosh!

The leaf flew out, instantly wrapped in true qi.

He wove the subtleties of the Flame Blade and the Eight Heavenly Saber Forms into it as well.

With a casual flick, he sent it flying.

The power of Xiao Li's Flying Dagger surged. Though it was only a leaf, it sliced the roof off a residence.

"Plucking Leaves Like Flowers!"

Wang Yuyan was startled. The martial world was full of masters.

The warrior monks' Flower-Snatching Finger was formidable, yet not one of them had ever drawn such power from a leaf.

It seemed Ye Zhuo had grown hundreds of times stronger since he had made the sea surge backward in the East Blue.

Give Ye Zhuo a tree, and he could flatten an entire city.

Ordinarily, that was a feat an army would be needed to accomplish.

What realm was Return to Simplicity, exactly?

At that moment, the Demon Cult women who had trained alongside Ye Zhuo began to form a guess. They understood.

The Martial Dao Primordial Spirit was the highest of the three upper martial realms.

Ye Zhuo had already broken through to it. He had taken the tenth step!

[Main mission unlocked: Enjoy the Lantern Festival, take in the magnificent landscape, and convert the reigning emperor's empress—the foremost beauty of Dadu's imperial palace—into a Demon Cult disciple.]

[Mission reward: Compassionate Voyage Sword Canon (perfect edition)]

It was another martial art from the Tang Twin Dragons Era.

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