The Venerables around them listened to Hu Yunni's origins and slowly nodded with solemn expressions.
This time, their luck had been both good and bad.
Their good luck was that they had obtained Ice Jade and seen the true state of the Demon Realm.
They had witnessed the vastness of heaven and earth and learned that the Demon Realm truly was not a place humans should enter. Human cultivation was weakened there.
As one side waned, the other waxed. With one rising and one falling, their strength was reversed; defeat was certain, victory impossible.
Their bad luck was that they had encountered Hu Yunni, the prodigy of Star Picking Cliff, and had nearly lost their lives.
They had all witnessed Hu Yunni's speed and formidable cultivation.
Those burly men who had been so difficult to deal with had been as fragile as paper before the palm force of Hu Yunni and Chu Zhiyuan, collapsing at a single blow.
Had the Imperial Son-in-Law not protected them, they would almost certainly have died beneath Hu Yunni's palm.
Escaping with their lives after surviving such a great calamity was also good fortune enough.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "So she has quite the background."
Zhuang Juyue said emotionally, "It is our good fortune that the Imperial Son-in-Law could stop her, but you must be careful as well, Imperial Son-in-Law."
Chu Zhiyuan said, "She will come looking for me?"
"A heaven-favored genius like her can never tolerate suffering a loss." Zhuang Juyue said, "If she does not win back her face, she will neither eat well nor sleep soundly. She will insist on pulling out this thorn!"
Chu Zhiyuan smiled. "If she truly dares to come, host and guest will trade places. She will be seeking her own death."
"If she feared that, she would not