The surge sent tremors through the void, each speck of dust exploding with a flash of blue, and every drop of that blue water held the power of an entire sea, whipping up a storm of sound across the heavens.

Yafike's Wrath was tossed about like a tiny skiff caught in a hurricane, violently spun and tumbled by the crimson sand loosed by the young maidservant and the blue water sprayed by the three dragons, making any attempt at escape or flight utterly impossible. The maximum design capacity of this fortress was meant only to contend with early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals, yet now it faced the assault of four beings at the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal power. How could Yafike's Wrath possibly evade destruction?

Inside the Main Control Chamber. Fuya Ming furrowed her brow in thought for a moment before resolutely issuing an order that made the four Celestial Masters and the Giant Spirit God’s faces turn ashen.

However, Gu Xichen had given stern directives upon their arrival: the Four Celestial Masters and the Giant Spirit God were to obey Fuya Ming’s commands unconditionally. Thus, facing Fuya Ming’s sharp decree, the Four Celestial Masters and the Giant Spirit God found themselves completely unable to resist; they could only act strictly according to her will.

All the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals retreated into the 'Bright Light Pagoda,' a Primordial Artifact, and the only artifact in Fuya Ming's possession capable of safely housing living beings. All the primordial materials were sucked into the Green Mirage Bottle, an artifact that could destroy the primordial spirit and dissolve the physical body. Yet, storing these materials within it caused no harm. After erasing all the data within Yafike's Wrath, Fuya Ming utilized an escape technique and slipped out of the fortress.

Immediately upon fleeing Yafike's Wrath, the Bright Light Pagoda unleashed an infinite radiance, instantly engulfing a void spanning ten thousand li.

Next, the Floating Cloud Barrier was deployed. As soon as it appeared, the sky was filled with shimmering, strange lights of rosy radiance. Tens of thousands of cloud-mists danced across the expanse, and when illuminated by the light from the Bright Light Pagoda, they scattered a dazzling, seven-colored glow so intense it forced the eyes shut, blinding them.

Fuya Ming transformed into a wisp of rosy cloud, concealing herself within the boundless light. Under the illumination of the Pagoda's radiance, she existed in the void across several li almost simultaneously; with a mere thought, she could appear in any corner covered by the light at any moment.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan was startled by this sudden turn of events. The surrounding heavens were blazing with light, augmented by countless dancing rosy clouds. Wherever the light shone, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was completely purged. He even felt the fluidity of his own immortal power being constricted by the viscous, glue-like brilliance. As for those rosy clouds, he had no idea what they were; his divine sense could not penetrate them in the slightest.

Seeing a sphere of light slowly ascend, seemingly about to break free and flee the scene, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan grew anxious and immediately snapped his hand back, gesturing towards the void.

When a Daluo Golden Immortal acts, the stirring of a single thought can overturn heaven and earth. Tian Yuan Xiao Nan's right hand transformed into a massive purple qi covering a radius of one hundred thousand li in all directions, forcibly displacing dozens of stars of various sizes through his divine ability of Shifting Stars and Changing Constellations. In the blink of an eye, they were melted down by the purple qi, all impurities and dross turning into a plume of green smoke that drifted away.

What an extraordinary feat by Tian Yuan Xiao Nan. After refining the impurities within these celestial bodies, the rolling essence of dozens of stars was uniformly divided into nearly a thousand portions. Following his incantation, nine hundred and ninety-nine massive mirrors, each over a hundred li in diameter, erupted from thin air. He flicked and traced his fingers through the air, rapidly sketching countless talismans and inscriptions onto the mirror surfaces. Then, with a gentle clap of his hands, heaven and earth instantly transformed.

Innumerable bolts of thunderous lightning and fierce flames spewed forth from the giant mirrors, assaulting the vast expanse of light cast by the Bright Light Pagoda like a torrential storm.

Fuya Ming was worried whether the Bright Light Pagoda could withstand such an attack when the Pagoda, whose entire body blazed with light like burning glass, suddenly emitted a soft chime. The moment the lightning and fire touched the light emanating from the Bright Light Pagoda, they vanished as if swallowed by a black hole. Immediately following this, with a mere movement of Fuya Ming's mind, the absorbed lightning and fire were shot out from another direction in the domain of light.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s attack was redirected by the Bright Light Pagoda using the very force against him, cascading entirely onto the accompanying immortal retainers.

Caught completely off guard, several hundred retainers were struck by the lightning, being pulverized into dust with almost no power to resist. Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s brows twitched with fury. He pointed at the expanse of bright light ahead and roared, “Woman, you are finished, you are finished! You were destined to be the young mistress of the Three God Palace, but now, at best, you will be my concubine! Your future status, because of your recklessness, is ruined!”

Fuya Ming frowned, letting out a cold, clear hiss, “Daydreaming, utterly self-important. Who do you think you are?” With a cold snort, a swath of brilliant, blazing light shot out from the domain of light, within which thousands of rosy clouds could vaguely be seen soaring. Fuya Ming used the combined power of the Bright Light Pagoda and the Floating Cloud Barrier to instantly vanish far away, leaving the zone of conflict far behind.

Glancing back at Yafike's Wrath, still being tossed violently by the crimson dust and blue water, Fuya Ming sighed with a touch of regret. Then, with a thought, she detonated it. What a pity; this was the flagship specially designed and built for her by Gu Xichen!

Yafike's Wrath was forged from divine crystal mixed with vast quantities of primordial materials, nesting thousands of formations within, and even connecting to the subspace to draw massive amounts of energy for its own use at any time. Before abandoning the ship, Fuya Ming had already activated all the energy cores, drawing energy from the subspace at maximum power and compressing it into the hull.

While she had been maneuvering against Tian Yuan Xiao Nan using the Bright Light Pagoda and the Floating Cloud Barrier, she was waiting for the energy within Yafike's Wrath to reach its limit.

When Yafike's Wrath erupted with a black, intense light, the energy having reached a critical point where it must be expelled, she immediately fled and detonated it without hesitation.

The self-detonation, equivalent to the desperate strike of a mid-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal, boomed forth. All of Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s accompanying Golden Immortal retainers were instantly annihilated. Caught completely by surprise, he had no time to defend; the pair of twin sisters he had just acquired were also reduced to nothingness in the explosion, and even his favorite Flying Dragon Chariot was melted into a piece of scrap metal.

The young maidservant and the three dragons closest to the epicenter of the explosion suffered only minor jolts, not even sustaining a scratch—they were protected by their inherent Taiyi Golden Immortal magical treasures. Aside from a few unlucky early-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals whose life-preserving treasures were shattered, and two whose arms were blown off, the others were largely unharmed.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan looked towards the fleeing light with a grim, grinning expression. He exclaimed delightedly, “Very good, very good! That treasure emitting light in the woman’s possession is actually a Primordial Treasure! That belongs to this Young Master of the Palace; it is mine!”

The young maidservant suddenly spoke, “Young Master, if this relic contains a Primordial Treasure, her background…”

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan cast a cold glance at her, sneering disdainfully, “What’s so strange about that? Among the cultivators from the lower realms, some have even obtained ancient Desecrating Treasures from the Age of Mythology! Didn’t the Nine Dragon Sky-Piercing Ladder come from such a source?”

After a moment of contemplation, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan said calmly, “Regardless of her origins, we must seize the treasure first! No matter what backing or connections she has, could she possibly surpass my father and my two uncles? Even if she has a top-tier Daluo Golden Immortal behind her, so what?”

The maidservant said no more, holding the incense burner and becoming the first to chase after Fuya Ming.

The three writhing and soaring dragons let out excited roars, their bodies twisting and transforming into human shapes, immediately following Tian Yuan Xiao Nan in pursuit.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan urged his escape light in pursuit of Fuya Ming, yet he couldn't help but look back wistfully at his destroyed Flying Dragon Chariot. What a pity about those twin sisters; he hadn't even laid a hand on them before they were blasted out of existence. The woman fleeing ahead was viciously skilled; if he managed to capture her alive, he would certainly treat her well, ensuring she wouldn't have an easy time.

With thoughts bordering on the inappropriate, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan hurried his escape light, catching up to Fuya Ming within a few breaths.

Fuya Ming was already beginning to feel the strain. After all, her cultivation relied solely on external power—the magical force of peak-stage Taiyi Golden Immortal, lacking corresponding Taoist experience and wisdom. If Gu Xichen hadn't used the Three Pure Ones Secret Method to elevate her state of mind, she wouldn't even be able to control her own power.

Normally, it wasn't too apparent, but when exerting her full strength, the immortal power within her surged like a tide, gradually becoming more and more uncontrollable, as if driven by a hurricane. In the end, as the immortal power churned inside her body, it even caused her physical pain.

Out of necessity, Fuya Ming had to slow the flow rate of her immortal power. As she slowed, the brilliance and rosy glow emitted by the Bright Light Pagoda and the Floating Cloud Barrier dimmed, and her flight speed slowed by more than tenfold. Tian Yuan Xiao Nan and the others already had a higher flight speed than her, and in just a few breaths, they closed the distance. A moment of greedy satisfaction bloomed on Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s face!

Gazing at the dimming radiance around Fuya Ming, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan was ecstatic. “Beauty, your immortal power is insufficient to drive a Primordial Treasure! You need at least the cultivation of a Daluo Golden Immortal to command a primordial object with ease.”

He laughed wildly, then declared, “Beautiful one, today I will gain both your person and your treasures!”

With a casual grasp, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan seized a planet tens of thousands of li in diameter near him. A puff of purple smoke erupted from his palm, instantly refining the planet into a fist-sized, multifaceted stone emitting tri-colored light. With a strange chuckle, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan flicked the stone outward.

A rift suddenly tore open in the void. The stone pierced the fragile spatial barrier of the mortal realm, striking the bright light almost instantaneously upon leaving his hand.

The Bright Light Pagoda, unsupported by sufficient immortal power, its radiance dimmed, was struck by the tri-colored stone carrying the mass of an entire planet. The stone smashed through several feet of bright light and struck squarely the swath of rosy cloud protecting Fuya Ming’s body.

The rosy cloud shattered, but in the blink of an eye, Fuya Ming’s figure reappeared within another patch of rosy cloud. The subtle shock from the shattering cloud caused a slight surge of blood and qi in her body, and her immortal power momentarily became erratic. However, the Bright Light Pagoda suddenly flared with intense light, quickly smoothing out her minor discomfort. In an instant, her body returned to normal.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan stared at Fuya Ming with a mixture of shock and joy, his eyes blazing with greed.

He had now discerned the mysterious nature of the Bright Light Pagoda and the Floating Cloud Barrier.

Wherever the light of the Bright Light Pagoda reached, it was tantamount to opening up a small realm, where everything was controlled by the master’s will, greatly amplifying the master’s power. With Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s strength, he had felt suffocated when trapped by the light; if a Taiyi Golden Immortal were confined within the domain of light, they would clearly be at the mercy of their captor.

As for the Floating Cloud Barrier, the myriad rosy clouds were all clones of the barrier’s master; unless all the clouds were shattered simultaneously, the master could escape smoothly. These two Primordial Treasures—one for trapping and attacking enemies, the other for self-protection and disruption—were truly excellent artifacts whose defensive and offensive powers complemented each other perfectly.

“Marvelous! Besides me, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan, who else is worthy of these two treasures? And who else is worthy of this beauty?”

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan tilted his head back and laughed maniacally a few times, then carefully pulled out a spirit talisman carved from yellow jade from his robes.

Casting a regretful glance at the talisman, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan shook his head, “To be defeated by the combined efforts of my father and my two uncles in creating the ‘Three Gods Descending Spirit Talisman,’ you can consider it an honorable defeat! For a mere woman to force me to use this talisman!”

Feigning a long sigh, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan caressed the jade talisman with affection, then fiercely bit his tongue, forcing out a mouthful of vital blood and spitting it onto the jade. Following this, his surging magic power poured into the talisman. The yellow jade talisman immediately transformed into a cascade of golden light sweeping across the sky.

Sensing the terrifying pressure bearing down from behind, and noting that his immortal power was now less than fifty percent remaining, Fuya Ming frowned.

Looking back at Tian Yuan Xiao Nan who was activating the spirit talisman, Fuya Ming pointed at the Bright Light Pagoda, releasing the Giant Spirit God. With a casual palm strike, she pushed him far away, sending him fleeing towards Gu Xichen, while shouting the crucial intelligence: “Go tell Gu Xichen immediately, this person is the Young Master of the Three God Palace!”

The Giant Spirit God let out a roar of extreme humiliation, his teeth gnashing as he shot forward on a cloud of light. He glanced back, fixing an incredibly venomous stare on the spell-casting Tian Yuan Xiao Nan, and secretly vowed, “Brat, you and everyone from the Three God Palace are dead men!”

Over these past few centuries, the Giant Spirit God had made significant progress; at the very least, he had diligently learned the Luan Teaching's Golden Light Evasion Technique from Yang Jian, and his current flight speed was countless times faster than before. Tian Yuan Xiao Nan, fully absorbed in activating the spirit talisman, was completely unprepared when the Giant Spirit God, enveloped in a streak of golden light, slipped away for tens of thousands of li.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan stared at his retainers in astonishment. A dozen Taiyi Golden Immortals were simply frozen in place, staring at him blankly.

Frowning, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan casually pointed at the retainer with the lowest cultivation level and snapped, “What are you fools standing here for? Chase him down and kill him! A mere Tenth-Rank Golden Immortal, do you need to team up?”

The Taiyi Golden Immortal responded weakly, glancing at his left arm, which had been blown off earlier, and ground his teeth as he chased after the Giant Spirit God. This Taiyi Golden Immortal never returned.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan gazed greedily at the fleeing Fuya Ming, shaking his head and sighing, “Another Primordial Treasure! Without using the Descending Spirit Talisman, I truly have no confidence!”

With a long sigh, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan flung the Descending Spirit Talisman, which had transformed into a stream of intense golden light.

A continuous dragon's roar echoed through the void. The golden light from the talisman shot rapidly toward the heavens, and masses of spiritual energy spurted forth from billions of stars in the surrounding void, quickly merging into this golden radiance. In a flash, the golden light expanded to cover an area ten thousand li high and wide. A five-clawed Golden Dragon, wearing a solemn and majestic expression, slowly emerged from the gold, coiling its body.

The Golden Dragon, with its eyes closed, reached out in the distance with one claw, and three fixed stars, each over a million li in diameter, were sucked into the Dragon’s front right claw like tiny flames in a gale. As the enormous stars flew toward it, their size continuously compressed until, upon reaching the Dragon’s claw tip, they were reduced to a mere hundred li in diameter.

The Golden Dragon squeezed its right claw, and the three fireballs, now a hundred li wide and colored purple, melted into a single ball. Their color shifted to a terrifying black.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan laughed loudly, pointing at the Golden Dragon. The black fireball instantly transformed into countless black fire spears that shot out like a sudden downpour, hammering against the protective brilliance surrounding Fuya Ming. The light emitted by the Bright Light Pagoda was rapidly dissolved under the bombardment, and the rosy clouds formed by the Floating Cloud Barrier shattered piece by piece. In the blink of an eye, the protective light shrank to only a hundred feet in radius, and fewer than ten rosy clouds remained.

Fuya Ming, her face impassive, recalled the Bright Light Pagoda and the Floating Cloud Barrier into her body and turned to face the countless beams of fire descending from the Golden Dragon.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan was shocked and hastily formed an incantation, pointing at the Golden Dragon. He roared, “Woman, what are you doing? Do you want to commit suicide? You are mine! You have no right to commit suicide! Do you hear me? Every strand of your hair belongs to me! You are forbidden to commit suicide!”

“Damn it! Damn it!”

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan cursed in fury, frantically trying to control the Golden Dragon to slow its attack.

But several dozen fire spears had already reached Fuya Ming’s chest. Just as Tian Yuan Xiao Nan was about to let out a scream of despair, several hundred million layers of purple light curtains, hundreds of times thinner than a cicada’s wing, dense, layered, and nearly infinite, suddenly rushed out from within Fuya Ming’s body. These purple light curtains floated like smoke and mist, with countless thread-thin, twisting runes drifting between each layer, truly displaying an extreme, mysterious splendor.

The black fire spears, capable of shattering an entire expanse of void, struck the purple mist but only caused slight ripples.

Tian Yuan Xiao Nan froze, crying out in disbelief, “A Primordial Supreme Treasure? A defensive Primordial Supreme Treasure? Good heavens, there has never been a mention of such a 'Purple Charm Garment' in the Three Realms. Where did you steal it from?”

Fuya Ming knew she could not escape Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s pursuit, so she simply adopted a fully defensive posture.

Glancing coldly at Tian Yuan Xiao Nan, Fuya Ming waved her hand, and the Azure Lotus Heaven-Confounding Banner flew out with a faint sound of heaven and earth collapsing. This was also a Primordial Supreme Treasure requiring little effort to use but possessing astonishing defensive power. As the banner emerged, countless azure lotuses guarded her body.

But unlike the solemn serenity of the Azure Lotus Colored Banner, the azure lotuses released by the Azure Lotus Heaven-Confounding Banner spun rapidly like scythes, cutting the surrounding void into chaos. Countless chaotic energies from the subspace spewed out, forming a thick, black gas spanning a hundred li that firmly protected Fuya Ming.

“Another one? Another one?” Tian Yuan Xiao Nan suddenly understood what it meant to ride a tiger and be unable to dismount.

If any unremarkable, beautiful woman possessed two Primordial Supreme Treasures, one could attribute it to luck.

But when this woman possessed not only two Primordial Supreme Treasures but also two extremely rare defensive Primordial Supreme Treasures, it could no longer be explained by mere luck. Who knew what kind of backing this woman had!

Staring dumbly at Fuya Ming, who was protected like the mythical Black Tortoise’s shell, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan gritted his teeth and pointed at the Golden Dragon.

The Golden Dragon transformed from the Descending Spirit Talisman let out a long roar and swiftly turned into a beam of golden light, charging toward Fuya Ming.

A brilliant golden light erupted, severing the surrounding void. The light compressed inward, wrapping the space where Fuya Ming was located into a golden sphere barely an zhang in diameter, which slowly floated back into Tian Yuan Xiao Nan’s hand.

“No one is permitted to leak today’s events.”

After sternly warning his retainers, Tian Yuan Xiao Nan hurriedly flew towards Myriad Immortals Star.