In the corridor of the Qingyi Bureau headquarters.
"Phew..."
Zuo Qingyu stepped out of the suffocating office and leaned back against the wall.
She raised both hands and firmly patted her slightly flushed cheeks, trying to make her gaze clear and sharp again.
"It's no big deal."
Zuo Qingyu comforted herself inwardly, feigning nonchalance.
After all, she was now the Qingyi Bureau's Ninth Adjudicator.
The safety of all Huaxia, and even Blue Star, rested on her shoulders.
Since she held this position, national affairs ought to come first. How could she act like some sheltered little girl, her head filled with petty romantic feelings?
Once she had rallied herself.
Zuo Qingyu hid the vulnerability in her eyes and hurried toward her office.
But as she passed a corner.
Her steps involuntarily slowed.
The voices of two women conversing drifted from the nearby lounge.
They belonged to the Red-Robed Girl she had met earlier and Chen Jingli.
At that moment.
Chen Jingli sat quietly to one side, listening as Ye Shenfeng recounted Ye Li's exploits in Outer Space.
After spending this time asking around and taking in everything she heard, Ye Shenfeng already knew his glorious record of slaughtering his way through the Primordial Sea by heart.
She was proud by nature, and now held Ye Li in the highest regard.
Naturally, she enjoyed boasting to others about just how powerful her Dao partner was.
"You have no idea. Wutong Mountain's Divine Lord Lihuo was an overlord at the peak of transcendence!"
Ye Shenfeng spoke animatedly, her voice bright and clear:
"He even thought he could subdue me with external tools."
"And what happened?"
"Ye Li stormed Wutong Mountain single-handedly and beat that old bastard to death right there on the mountain, in front of all the star domains!"
"And then