I Refuse to Be a Valkyrie!

Hearing Phoenix's words and seeing her narcissistic antics, Erica was instantly speechless.

How had she never noticed that her "King" had this side to her?

"King, could you please stop joking around?"

Liliana was equally speechless. Sect Leader Luo Hao! How could she possibly act like this over something so trivial?

"Fine, no more jokes. But... that's the end of the questions. Where did all this curiosity come from? Don't you know curiosity killed the cat?"

"Look how well-behaved Hiyoumaru is. She hasn't asked anything." Phoenix's expression calmed as well. She put away the mirror, looked at Liliana and Erica, and spoke with utmost seriousness.

After all, there were some things she had no need to explain to them, and she was even less inclined to lie to them.

"Huh? Sister Chiling, were you calling me?"

Hiyoumaru, who was chewing on sugarcane, suddenly looked toward Phoenix with a puzzled expression. She seemed to have been eating so intently that she had not heard clearly.

"Just eat your sugarcane..."

The Gluttonous Hiyoumaru

Over the next two days, Phoenix and the other three stayed near Mount Lu. Their main task was to read through the intelligence and documents collected by the Five Peaks Sect and Luo Hao, as well as... martial arts, mystic arts, and magic.

As the foremost figure and foremost power in Shenzhou... the Five Peaks Sect had collected roughly ninety percent of all martial arts and mystic arts across Shenzhou.

Like magic, the martial arts and mystic arts of this world were basically incapable of doing anything to God Slayers or Heretic Gods, even when cultivated to their very peak.

It was not that martial arts and mystic arts were weak, but rather... everything cultivated in this world seemed to have a break in its progression.

The cultivation