Shrouding the Heavens: Becoming the Ruthless Empress
Chapter 40

I refuse to believe he'll fight back

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"How could anything be wrong with me?"

Li Qingyue spoke, quietly sensing her condition, then said with delight, "I feel great!"

Hearing this, Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng froze briefly, examining Li Qingyue's body in disbelief.

"Could it be... a Waste Body can eat endlessly? Absorb the essence of source stones endlessly?"

They could not imagine how Li Qingyue, whose blood and vital energy remained so feeble, had absorbed nearly thirty thousand jin of source stones.

With that many source stones, even a Sacred Body could have opened a Dao Palace.

Yet all those source stones had not changed Li Qingyue in the slightest.

They had merely made her figure more enchantingly supple and her skin more translucent, like flesh of ice and bones of jade.

She seemed like a true celestial maiden, untouched by a single speck of dust.

"Why are you here? How long has it been? Is it time to leave?"

Li Qingyue asked as she rose.

The soft bed suddenly shattered with her movement.

Even Li Qingyue tilted sideways, her hands instinctively reaching out to either side.

Seeing this, Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng hurried to support her, one on each side.

But the next moment, they felt a terrifying force erupt from those soft arms.

"Bam!"

Caught completely off guard, both men were swatted away by Li Qingyue and crashed to the floor in a sorry heap, staring at her in shock.

"Huh?"

Having just steadied herself with their help, Li Qingyue abruptly froze, then looked at her arms in disbelief.

The next moment, the system panel appeared before her eyes.

Survival System: Li Qingyue. Constitution: Waste Body. Strength: immense strength of ten thousand jin (single arm: 99999). Evolution: consume Survival Points to evolve the phenomena of all things in the world. Survival Points: 800.

I actually broke through the limit again-one hundred thousand jin of strength in a single arm!

Li Qingyue's eyes widened, filled with astonishment.

Most of the nearly thirty thousand jin of source stones had been absorbed by the Bitter Sea she could not sense.

Yet the remaining source stones had inscribed that character of Emperor Script, transforming her true qi and imbuing it with the five elements, which had actually caused her strength to soar.

If this continued, once she opened her Bitter Sea, even a Sacred Body would have to bow its head and take a humble place before her.

"Sorry, I... I'm having a little trouble controlling my strength!"

Looking at the two stunned men, Li Qingyue lowered her head slightly and spoke with some embarrassment.

This time, her strength had increased a full threefold.

It had not happened through the gradual tempering of true qi as before.

Such an incident was only natural.

Especially since Li Qingyue had never practiced any cultivation arts or offensive techniques, her control over her strength naturally could not compare to that of a cultivator.

"Your strength..."

Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng spoke at the same time, but neither knew how to describe it.

Even caught off guard, they were certainly not people an ordinary mortal could send flying with a single slap.

Yet now, one a Sacred Body and the other a Dao Body, they had actually been swatted away by a delicate young girl.

If word got out, no one would believe it.

"At least one hundred thousand jin of strength, comparable to some cultivators in the Divine Bridge and Other Shore realms!"

"If she opens her Bitter Sea... she might even suppress some Dao Palace Realm cultivators!"

"How did she do it?"

Yan Wushuang and Yang Wuzheng exchanged a glance, each seeing a trace of shock in the other's eyes.

The girl before them was a mortal.

"Are you... really all right?"

At that moment, both men instinctively began to worry.

This was simply extraordinary. Hers was a Waste Body with severed meridians, yet she had actually made it this far?

"I really am all right!"

Li Qingyue nodded earnestly. With a thought, a cloud of five-colored light rose around her.

The five-colored light cycled through itself, forming uncanny whirlpools like worlds spinning.

The next moment, everything in the room belonging to the five elements began to dim little by little.

The furniture, metal objects, and even the essence of heaven and earth in the air all turned into five-colored radiance that swirled around Li Qingyue.

At that moment, Li Qingyue resembled a celestial maiden cloaked in rosy light, descended into the mortal world.

"Hum!"

Endless five-element essence gathered in Li Qingyue's palm, shifting ceaselessly.

Then it flowed into her body. At that moment, Li Qingyue actually felt her flesh, and even her internal organs, grow a little stronger.

"I'm fine. Better than I've ever been!"

Li Qingyue nodded again in confirmation.

Having condensed the devouring five elements Emperor Script, she could absorb the pure essence of the five elements between heaven and earth at every moment to strengthen herself, as long as she wished.

Perhaps one day, even a so-called Extreme Dao Weapon would turn to dust in her hands.

Looking at Li Qingyue, who now resembled a divine maiden, the two men fell silent.

Just now, they had clearly sensed that when Li Qingyue circulated the five-colored radiance, she seemed like an enormous, ravenous taotie, devouring everything.

This ability instantly reminded them of Li Qingyue's appetite.

Such a beautiful girl... could she really belong to the Demon Race?

The two exchanged a glance, a trace of shock in both their eyes.

The myriad races slumbered. In the world today, only the Demon Race, the human race, and the Fierce Beast Race remained active.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

Feeling their gazes roaming over her, Li Qingyue's expression turned cold.

These two bastards aren't getting ideas about me, are they?

"Ahem..."

Yan Wushuang coughed twice and quietly lowered his head, muttering, "Such a beautiful celestial maiden... if she were my wife, I wouldn't mind even if she really belonged to the Demon Race."

At his side, Yang Wuzheng instantly froze at those words, then hurriedly darted away.

He realized that Yan Wushuang now seemed to have let himself run wild, always enjoying provoking Li Qingyue from time to time.

"Hum!"

A burst of five-colored radiance erupted, forming the phantom of a five-colored mountain range in Li Qingyue's palm.

That mountain range brimmed with a terrifying suppressive force.

"The Mountain-Embracing Seal? No... that's not right. It's the Five Elements Mountain!"

Yang Wuzheng cried out in surprise.

That suppressive force made his heart tremble.

The next moment, the phantom of the five-colored mountain slammed viciously into Yan Wushuang.

"Boom!"

The entire room shook violently. Yan Wushuang instantly sank into the floor, leaving a human-shaped crater.

Golden light shimmered all around him, and he looked rather bedraggled.

"That hurt!"

Yan Wushuang exclaimed, instantly leaping up and staring at Li Qingyue in shock.

The force of that five-colored mountain could absolutely crush an ordinary Divine Bridge Realm cultivator to death.

Even cultivators in the Other Shore Realm or those newly entered into the Dao Palace Realm would likely suffer badly if they were careless.

Yet now, such power was actually under a mortal's control.

"If you spout nonsense again... I'll..."

Li Qingyue spoke, but the words stopped on her lips.

She had grown stronger, but before a Sacred Body, she was still nowhere near enough.

The Five Elements Mountain condensed through the Emperor Script had actually done no more than make Yan Wushuang cry out in pain.

The bones of this Sacred Body were probably almost as thick as his shameless hide.

"You... watch yourself!"

Unable to find any threatening words, Li Qingyue struggled for a long while before she could only spit out that line bitterly.

Even Yang Wuzheng beside her inexplicably smiled and said, "We'll head to the Primordial Ancient Mine at dawn. You need to get your strength under control."

"Three days have actually passed?"

Hearing Yang Wuzheng's words, Li Qingyue paused briefly, then her face turned bitter.

She truly did not know how to control it. A single night was far too short.

With that thought, she looked once more at Yan Wuzhuang, who was grinning foolishly off to the side, and an idea popped into her mind.

How about... beating up that bastard Yan Wushuang to get some practice?

I refuse to believe he'll fight back!

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