"Yun Yun!"
Chu Xisheng felt as though he had eaten a bitter melon raw, the bitterness unbearable, yet his expression remained calm and composed. "The matter of the Cloudsea Immortal Palace is settled. City Lord Wen is a friend, not an enemy. Yun Yun, you mustn't be so rude."
His horizontal-training overlord body was still useful. At least it let him speak under the crushing impact of their martial intents.
"Shut up!"
Chu Yunyun held the God-Reversing Spear in one hand, pointing it at Wen Zhuyi opposite her.
"Just the person I wanted to see, City Lord Wen. Neither of us fought to our heart's content in our battle at the Cloudsea Immortal Palace. Since we've met today, why not fight again and settle victory and defeat, life and death?"
She could not describe what she had felt upon learning that Chu Xisheng had gone to the Extreme Eastern Ice City.
In all twenty years of her life, she had never experienced that emotion.
It was like a venomous snake, flicking its scarlet tongue, breeding, gnawing, and spreading in her heart; like a fire, burning through her internal organs.
After reading Xiao Zhao's diary, Chu Yunyun had been so angry her chest nearly burst.
It was as though something was missing from her heart, as though someone had snatched away something very important.
She felt miserable, worried, resentful, indignant, and irritable.
When Chu Yunyun had swept unopposed across thirty thousand li, invincible throughout the Northern Domain, she had never imagined that one day she too would sink to the ranks of jealous wives.
Yet the gentlemen of old spoke no ill even when severing ties.
Even in the depths of her resentment, Chu Yunyun did not want to say anything hurtful.
Now, only their weapons could reveal the truth.
Although