"What are you thinking?"
He Ni gazed at Zhou Shengfeng from afar, her eyes ice-cold.
She could sense the deep-seated malice radiating from Zhou Shengfeng toward her, sending a chill through her heart.
Zhou Shengfeng's scalp tingled under He Ni's frigid stare, and a strong sense of unease welled up inside him.
It was the panic of being targeted by something terrifying.
He was bewildered, unable to understand why He Ni would suddenly ask him what he was thinking.
Had she sensed his malice?
They were both at the Profound God Realm—no, he was at the peak of the Profound God Realm, three minor sub-realms above He Ni.
Against an ordinary person, he could absolutely crush them. After all, the gap between mid-stage and late-stage Profound God was enormous.
There was no way He Ni could detect his malice.
So why would she ask such a thing?
Zhou Shengfeng frowned in thought, reasoning that perhaps some terrifying presence attached to He Ni had detected his ill intent.
He Ni's gaze was like a peerless divine sword with its edge fully bared. The moment she rose to her feet, the star river resonated, and the rules of heaven and earth shifted with her every thought.
In this instant, the star river was suffused with sky-reaching killing intent. Divine swords materialized from the void, and in a single breath, the star river transformed into a boundless sword domain.
The watching great powers gasped sharply, their scalps exploding with dread. Beneath He Ni's terrifying sword domain, their divine souls felt ready to shatter, and despair flooded their hearts.
None of them doubted that with a single thought from He Ni, they would perish, their bodies destroyed and their souls extinguished.
Was this truly the Profound God Realm?
Why was the gap between them so vast?
Wasn't it supposed to be impossible for one Profound God to kill another?
"The Boundless Sword Art—it is her. She must be the daughter of Immortal Emperor He Ni." Seeing the sword domain, Zhou Shengfeng's heart shook violently.
There was wild joy, but also fear.
The joy came from confirming He Ni's identity. The fear was that one misstep today could completely offend her, causing his scheme to die in the womb.
Zhou Shengfeng took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and put on a warm smile.
"Fellow Daoist He, I shall speak plainly. I have admired you deeply since the first moment I laid eyes upon you. It was love at first sight."
"I pray that Fellow Daoist He might grant me a chance."
With that, Zhou Shengfeng bowed sincerely, his eyes burning with intensity as he looked at He Ni.
He figured that a cold and aloof woman like He Ni, who was poor at social interaction, must be inexperienced in the ways of the world and pure of heart.
Faced with his sincere and bold confession, even if she didn't fall for him, her heart would surely be thrown into disarray.
The assembled great powers were stunned at first, then quickly understood what Zhou Shengfeng was playing at.
They glanced at Zhou Shengfeng's handsome, refined features, then at He Ni's hazy, transcendent silhouette.
Sneering inwardly, they thought that Zhou Shengfeng truly wouldn't die if he didn't court death.
To covet an immortal maiden as powerful as He Ni—did he have no sense of his own worth?
And sure enough, He Ni did not disappoint them.
Hearing Zhou Shengfeng's words, He Ni froze for a moment, then erupted with fury.
An ant dared to profane her. Every ant who had ever dared to profane her had died.
Zhou Shengfeng would be no exception.
Even if he was the son of an Immortal King—he would still die.
With a single thought from He Ni, sword qi swept forth with boundless killing intent. Heaven and earth overturned, and space shattered.
Zhou Shengfeng's face changed drastically. He never imagined that He Ni would choose to kill him rather than be flustered or moved.
Once she had set her mind on killing him, there was truly no turning back.
With no time to think further, Zhou Shengfeng immediately summoned his defensive great cauldron and formed the Heaven-Earth-Human Trinity Sword Formation with three flying swords.
The boundless slaughter sword qi instantly pulverized Zhou Shengfeng's Trinity Sword Formation and blasted the great cauldron away.
The slaughter sword qi surged forward with irresistible force, hurtling toward Zhou Shengfeng. Everything in its path was overturned, like the end of the world.
Zhou Shengfeng's pupils shrank sharply as he roared, "Father, save me!"
A jade pendant hanging at Zhou Shengfeng's waist floated outward, projecting a hazy figure.
The moment the figure appeared, time and space froze, and the boundless slaughter sword qi instantly dissipated.
The figure looked at He Ni in silence. But soon, it dispersed like scattered points of light.
What was happening?
What on earth was happening?
Wasn't he his father's most beloved son?
Why had his father done nothing?
A streak of sword qi expanded endlessly within Zhou Shengfeng's pupils.
With a boom, Zhou Shengfeng's body was shredded into nothingness by the sword qi, his soul utterly extinguished.
Even in death, Zhou Shengfeng was still wondering why his father had left without a single word.
This must be an Immortal King disguised as a Profound God—and one more powerful than Zhou Shengfeng's father at that.
Otherwise, his father would never have stood by and watched him die.
After all, everyone knew that Zhou Shengfeng was his father's favorite child.
The great powers stared at He Ni with terrified eyes, afraid that in her anger, she might casually dispose of them too.
He Ni uttered a single word.
The great powers acted as though granted a great amnesty, wishing their parents had given them a few extra legs. In the blink of an eye, they fled without a trace.
He Ni made a beckoning gesture, sweeping up Zhou Shengfeng's magical treasures and storage ring.
Her powerful divine sense instantly cracked the storage ring's restrictions. Inside, she found ten drops of Time Marrow and one Time Stone.
He Ni's face lit up with pleasure. Not a bad haul.
Time Marrow was of great use to her—it could help her rapidly comprehend the Laws of heaven and earth, or be used to grasp the Laws of Time.
To date, she had consumed over a hundred drops of Time Marrow and had grasped a measure of the true meaning of the Laws of Time.
And the Time Stone likewise contained the Laws of Time—it was a treasure used for refining time-based artifacts.
One could also extract the Dao rhyme of time from a Time Stone for cultivation, with even better results than Time Marrow.
As for Zhou Shengfeng's other belongings, He Ni glanced at them once and tossed them all into a corner.
Even treasures that would be enormously useful to a Profound God were nothing but junk in her eyes.
He Ni switched to another stretch of the star river and continued cultivating.
But before long, she sensed hundreds of time vortexes suddenly appearing in the void.
He Ni deployed her Divine Ability and opened all of them, obtaining a total of thirty drops of Time Marrow.
She patted her flat stomach and said happily, "Good daughter, ever since I had you, your mother's luck has been off the charts. All that's missing is finding an Innate Spirit Treasure."
Cultivating while carrying her child and picking up treasures along the way—the feeling was simply too wonderful.
With their mother-daughter luck, who knew, maybe one day they really would stumble upon an Innate Spirit Treasure.
The future was looking brighter and brighter.
Restoring her Immortal Emperor cultivation was just around the corner.
"He Ni, you were so hard to find."
Just as He Ni was fantasizing about a glorious future, Gu Qing's voice came from the void through gritted teeth.
He Ni was like an ant, constantly moving from place to place, leaving him to arrive at empty destinations time after time.
If it hadn't been for Jiang Yu, a heavyweight who could constantly calculate He Ni's position, he would never have found her at all.
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