Chapter 23: First Love vs. Future Wife: The Showdown
Before entering, Yun Xiu had sensed both his and the Serpent Queen’s auras. She immediately assumed that the Serpent Queen had captured him after he snuck into the palace and was about to have him executed.
With her lover in danger, she hadn’t hesitated, breaking through the Serpent Generals’ and the palace guards’ encirclement, rushing into the hall to save him.
She never expected to see the Serpent Queen kissing him.
They were so engrossed in their kiss, so lost in their own world, that they hadn’t even noticed her arrival.
“Yan Zhen…”
She instantly understood. The Serpent Queen, like her and Jiu Youyue, must also be reborn. That was the only explanation for her behavior.
Otherwise, with the Serpent Queen’s cold and arrogant personality, she would never allow him within a foot of her.
The question was, had the Serpent Queen revealed her identity as his wife?
If she had, and he had accepted it…
No, that couldn’t be!
At least for now, he loved her!
Remembering their intimate moments, his passionate kisses, her heart warmed, her resolve strengthening. She called out coldly,
“Serpent Queen, release Yan Zhen!”
Swish, swish, swish.
The Serpent Queen’s personal guards appeared, blocking her path, preventing her from approaching.
The Serpent Queen loosened her grip, her slender, pink tongue slowly withdrawing from his mouth, lingeringly licking her lips. Seeing his dazed expression, a mischievous smile curved her lips as she gently kissed him again, then turned her gaze towards Yun Xiu, her slitted pupils flashing with a hint of provocation, but mostly caution.
Yun Xiu, Grand Palace Master of Cloud Heaven Palace, National Preceptor of the Gallo Kingdom, a Mystic Lord before the age of thirty.
After the fall of Cloud Heaven Palace, she had left the Gallo Kingdom with her disciple, Yan Zhen’s fiancée, eventually arriving at Evergreen Continent and joining the Evergreen Sacred Ground.
There, her talent had been fully nurtured, and through a fortunate encounter, she had inherited the legacy of a female Sword Saint, eventually reaching the Mystic Saint realm, becoming the Evergreen Sacred Ground’s new Holy Master.
In terms of beauty, talent, and status, she was second to none, not even the Serpent Queen herself.
The Serpent Queen only had a vague understanding of the complicated relationship between Yun Xiu and Yan Zhen, but she knew that they were each other’s first love, their feelings mutual, yet fate had kept them apart.
Even after he married her and Zi Xunyi, he would occasionally visit Yun Xiu at the Evergreen Sacred Ground, staying for days. Although he probably hadn’t done anything inappropriate, it still made them feel threatened.
They could have accepted another sister wife, but his feelings for Yun Xiu were clearly different, making them both wary of her, even after being reborn.
The Serpent Queen held him like a pet, her scaled hand gently caressing his cheek, her voice filled with queenly authority.
“You not only trespassed into the palace, but you also dared to raise your voice at me. Do you think the Water City is defenseless?”
As she spoke, the four Serpent Generals, leading the palace guards, rushed in, surrounding Yun Xiu, joining the Serpent Queen’s personal guards. They were all puzzled by the Serpent Queen’s embrace of the unfamiliar young man, but their attention was mainly focused on Yun Xiu.
— This woman is powerful!
Surrounded, Yun Xiu calmly flicked her sword, its tip pointing towards the ground, her aura unwavering.
“I mean no harm. I’m just here to retrieve my lover. Return him to me, and I’ll leave immediately.”
Lover? Why was she saying that too? In her previous life, she and Yan Zhen had never officially acknowledged their relationship. Why was she so openly calling him her “lover” now?
The Serpent Queen sensed something amiss, a familiar feeling of unease washing over her.
“Your… lover? You mean… this boy?”
“Y-yes.”
“A Mystic Lord like you… in love with a Mystic Scholar?”
Aren’t you the same? Yun Xiu thought to herself.
“So what? Cultivation doesn’t mean everything. And I have high hopes for his potential.”
“Indeed, he is exceptionally gifted in many aspects, a rare talent. Therefore, I intend to make him my consort, then my queen, to rule this Water City with me.”
“What?!” Yun Xiu’s expression changed. “A-are you serious, Serpent Queen?”
Not only Yun Xiu, but even the Serpent Generals, the palace guards, and the Queen’s personal guards were shocked.
The Queen’s consort… this wasn’t a trivial matter!
The Serpent Queen, like a victorious general, her tone nonchalant despite her smugness, said, “A queen’s words are absolute.”
Yun Xiu frowned. She hadn’t expected this.
“He… Yan Zhen won’t agree! Yan Zhen!”
The Serpent Queen snorted.
“His opinion is irrelevant.”
He hadn’t asked for her consent before doing those… things to her in their previous life!
The tables had turned. It was her turn to tease him now!
“…”
—So she is taking him by force!
Confirming that he hadn’t accepted the Serpent Queen’s offer, Yun Xiu felt a wave of relief, her resolve strengthening.
“Yan Zhen is my lover! I won’t let you have him!”
The Serpent Queen, immobilizing Yan Zhen with a gesture, placed him on the throne, then stood up, her Mystic Power surging, her slitted pupils glowing with a menacing red light.
“No one can take what I want. Try me if you don’t believe me.”
The Serpent Generals, feeling the oppressive power of her Serpent God Bloodline, their awe and reverence for their queen deepening, prepared to attack the intruder.
Yun Xiu, however, was fearless. She wasn’t even afraid of the Ninth Star Mystic Sovereign Baby, let alone a few Mystic Lords.
Wind Mystic Power gathered around her, swirling around her sword.
“You’ve forced my hand.”
Boom!
A powerful wind-based sword energy surged towards the Serpent Queen, who stomped her foot, a purplish-red serpent phantom emerging from behind her, meeting the attack head-on.
The clash of their Mystic Lord auras activated the hall’s protective formations, but the formations strained, threatening to collapse.
The guards and the Serpent Queen’s personal guards retreated, leaving the battlefield to the two women, even the Serpent Generals feeling apprehensive.
They were also Mystic Lords, but the gap between them and these two peak Mystic Lords was vast.
However, this was just a test of their strength.
As the sword energy and the serpent phantom dissipated, they both leaped into the air, one with a sword, the other with a whip, their attacks, a green and a red sphere of light, colliding.
Bang!
The first layer of the hall’s protective formations shattered, the two spheres of light soaring upwards, crashing through the roof, their battle continuing in the sky above the Water City.
Mystic Lords, capable of manipulating the world’s energy, their every move causing the weather to shift.
Dark clouds gathered above the Water City, the sky darkening, threatening rain.
…
Seeing his first love and his future wife fighting, Yan Zhen panicked, quickly summoning the system.
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