Above the sky of Mount Mu, the extreme cold frost and the purple energy of disillusionment collided with a crash, the energy ripples grinding the void into fine cracks.
The confrontation between two peerless Red Dust Immortals caused the atmospheric pressure of the entire world to plummet to freezing point.
Even the wind froze in mid-air.
Zhang Mingyuan sighed softly. The scene he least wanted to see had ultimately happened after all.
He took a step forward, interposing himself between the two, shielding Su Jinxue behind him.
Then, he took Su Jinxue's hand and said to Shen Ningyan, “Shen Ningyan, please. I really have no feelings for you. Please be polite to my wife.”
The moment he said this, Shen Ningyan froze on the spot.
Seeing her expression, the few people hiding on the side to watch the drama thought to themselves—
She's definitely going to cry, right?
After all, this woman had chased Zhang Mingyuan for a full three thousand years... Tsk, tsk, tsk.
To their surprise, not a single trace of grief appeared on Shen Ningyan's face!
On the contrary, a sharp look of “so that's how it is” flashed across her face!
With a sudden wave of her fair hand, an Illusory Epiphyllum Purple Jade Umbrella tore through the air and appeared.
The umbrella snapped open with a boom, revealing a grand spectacle of cosmic creation and destruction, and falling stars flowing endlessly upon its surface!
She pointed the tip of the umbrella straight at Su Jinxue, who was shielded behind him, her purple eyes filled with hostility as she cried, “Brother Mingyuan! This woman must have used some secret technique to control you! I will defeat this witch right now and force her to release you!”
As soon as she said this, the three onlookers who were expecting a melodramatic tragedy stumbled, nearly falling out of the sky.
What in the world...
What kind of terrifyingly overactive imagination was this?!
Zhang Mingyuan himself was completely dumbfounded.
He stared at Shen Ningyan in disbelief, his eyes wide, “Shen Ningyan! Wake up! I am not being controlled by anyone! Nor am I under any secret technique! Jinxue and I became Dao companions because we are truly in love! Do you understand?!”
Hearing this, everyone looked at Shen Ningyan again.
They thought, The man himself has put it so bluntly. This time... she has to give up, right?
Sure enough, sadness welled up in Shen Ningyan's eyes like a rising tide.
Yet, in the very next moment, the look in her eyes completely shifted. She gazed at Zhang Mingyuan as if looking at a tragic lover who was suffering immense grievances and bearing humiliation for a greater cause...
Her voice choked up slightly as she spoke, “Brother Mingyuan, say no more. Yan'er understands. I know you have to pretend to be deeply in love with her right now. After all, she has leverage over you... Since you are under her control, you naturally dare not speak the truth to my face!”
With that, the laws of disillusionment surged around her like a tide, sweeping straight toward Su Jinxue!
“Su Jinxue! You despicable, shameless woman, do you dare to fight me in a fair duel! If you lose, you will return Brother Mingyuan to me!”
The Heavenly Dao: !
Lingxuzi: ?!
Bai Lumian: ??!!!
Hearing this, the three onlookers almost grew a Dumbfounded Tree of the Ultimate Dumbfounded Law right on the spot.
As the saying goes: on the dumbfounded tree grows the dumbfounded fruit, and under the dumbfounded tree sit you and me.
This was an extremely powerful ultimate law capable of assimilating others' intelligence and trampling it underfoot.
The cosmic mysteries and the essence of Dao laws contained within it simply could not be described in words!
“The Dao that can be spoken of is not the eternal Dao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name...”
This display actually drove the Heavenly Dao's avatar to silently chant the Supreme Dao Scripture to stabilize His Heavenly Heart.
Meanwhile, hearing these words, Zhang Mingyuan felt a deep sense of powerlessness rush to his head!
He felt a profound exhaustion flood his mind.
He nearly passed away on the spot!
He knew it! This woman's overactive imagination could stretch all the way from the Eastern Territory of the Xuanling Realm to the Boundless Boundary Sea, sublimate into the upper world, and finally reflect upon the myriad heavens and worlds!
Back in the day, when she had clung to him the most, no amount of beating or scolding could drive her away. The more he rejected her, the more she believed he was setting up trials to temper her Dao Heart.
“It's not like that at all!!!” Zhang Mingyuan ran his hands through his hair in frustration, feeling like he was truly going mad. “It's really not what you think! Shen Ningyan, I beg you, can you please stop making things up in your head?!”
Seeing Zhang Mingyuan's frantic state, Shen Ningyan's eyes welled with tears, her purple eyes filled with emotion and tenderness.
She actually put away her Illusory Epiphyllum Purple Jade Umbrella and comforted him softly, “Brother Mingyuan, don't worry. Yan'er knows you can't bear to see me, who has just ascended to immortality, clash with an established Red Dust Immortal like Su Jinxue. You're afraid I'll suffer, afraid I'll get hurt, aren't you? You would rather compromise and swallow your pride just to keep me safe... Brother Mingyuan, you are so good to Yan'er...”
“Aaaaaah!!!” Zhang Mingyuan had practically fallen into madness. He messed his hair up so badly it looked like an exploded afro. “I beg of you, I really beg of you, please stop with the wild theories!!!”
Ahhhh!!!
Watching from the side, Bai Lumian almost shrieked aloud.
She screamed frantically in her mind—
What kind of god-tier drama is this! This is too good! 《Secrets of the Immortal Sects》? What kind of garbage is that? Compared to this legendary live show, it's not even worthy of carrying its shoes!
She really couldn't take it anymore. She had to vent somehow, or else the spiritual impact of watching such a thrilling drama would tear her apart from the inside!
Immediately, she grabbed Lingxuzi's arm beside her, pinching with all her might until her fingertips turned white!
Instantly, Lingxuzi's face contorted in pain. A mask of pure agony washed over his face as his eyes bulged in fury!
At this point, Zhang Mingyuan was truly out of options.
Facing a top-tier love-brain who was completely impervious to reason and had reached the absolute peak of self-convincing, he felt an unprecedented despair.
It wasn't as if he could be cruel enough to strike down and kill someone who was simply infatuated with him, right?
Suddenly, a spark of inspiration flashed in his mind!
He thought of a definitive method that could completely crush all of Shen Ningyan's delusions!
This method was not to produce the Marriage Certificate issued by the Heavenly Dao, nor was it to take her to see the Concentric Lock!
Because against this kind of overimaginative emperor, explanations were useless...
He had to administer the strongest dose of medicine!
Zhang Mingyuan spun around, wrapped his arm around Su Jinxue's slender waist, and pulled her into his embrace.
Before Su Jinxue's bewildered gaze and the widened eyes of the onlookers—
He kissed those delicate, crimson lips fiercely and deeply!
It was as if all sound in heaven and earth had vanished at this very moment.
Su Jinxue's mind went completely blank, her body stiffened, and her legs... twisted together.
She could only allow Zhang Mingyuan's scorching breath to completely envelop her...
Only after a long while did Zhang Mingyuan slowly release her.
He ignored the embarrassed and angry look of the beauty in his arms, which practically screamed murder.
Instead, he gently and tenderly placed a hand on Su Jinxue's soft, cool lower abdomen.
He looked up, his gaze calm as he dropped a massive bombshell that shattered the heavens, “Shen Ningyan, to tell you the truth, Jinxue and I have already consummated our relationship... Jinxue is pregnant with my child...”
Boom!
The bombshell exploded completely, blowing everyone's sea of consciousness to smithereens, leaving absolutely nothing behind!
Staring at the embracing couple and hearing this absolute, no-turning-back declaration, Shen Ningyan was finally stunned.
The expression on her face froze completely beneath the sky of Mount Mu.
Those deep, night-like purple eyes stared fixedly at Zhang Mingyuan, and at his hand resting protectively over Su Jinxue's lower abdomen.
The wind stopped.
The clouds dispersed.
A crystal teardrop slipped down her pale, beautiful face without warning.
That tear was like the dew of a purple epiphyllum shattering silently in the freezing night, reflecting the illusion of her three thousand years of waiting and anticipation.
It slid across her bloodless skin and plunged silently into the void...
A grand yet hopeless meteor shower burned its last speck of light in the silent night sky...
Poignant... and heartbreaking.
At this moment, it was indeed—
The laws lamented, and the heavenly maiden wept.
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