Crack!
The lightning prison beside them shattered into a final bolt of lightning that struck Liu Shiyu before disappearing completely.
“Xiaoyu, are you alright?”
Liu Tianxiang and his wife rushed forward in concern. Liu’s mother quickly helped Liu Shiyu up and let her rest in her arms, her heart full of sorrow.
Liu Shiyu’s body was still stiff, but her mind was completely clear.
Her eyes locked onto Xia Feng and the woman in his arms, filled with hatred.
Damn you, Xia Feng. What exactly are you hiding?
Why are these top-tier prodigious women traveling from all corners just to throw themselves at you?
And that woman—shameless! Hugging a man in public, throwing herself into his arms. There’s no way she’s a decent person.
Of course, she didn’t dare say these things out loud, afraid it would provoke the woman and lead to another round of cruel torment.
But what she didn’t know was that as a dignified Martial Venerable, the woman was extremely sensitive to such resentful emotions.
The moment Liu Shiyu glared at her with hatred and hostility, the woman sensed it.
She released Xia Feng and turned to look at Liu Shiyu. A hint of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes.
“Liu Shiyu? Why do you look so miserable?”
Then she glanced at Yu Siya and the other three women and suddenly understood everything.
Among the crowd, someone raised a question.
“Did you all notice something? Whether it’s the Heavenly Fox Holy Maiden Yu Siya, the Ice Holy Maiden Lin Wanqing, the Heavenly Fire Holy Maiden Zhao Lingxuan, the Heavenly Violet Thunder Holy Maiden Wang Yuwei, or this newly arrived prodigy—they all have two things in common.”
Hearing that, someone asked curiously, “What two things? They all know Xia Feng? They all call him husband?”
“That’s one,” the man whispered. “The other is that they all know Liu Shiyu. They all know the Xia family. Don’t you find that strange?”
“That’s true.”
When the people nearby recalled it carefully, they realized it really was so.
These prodigious girls showed up and immediately knew Xia Feng. That alone would’ve been surprising enough. But even Xia Feng’s parents could recognize them without any introduction, and they didn’t act like strangers at all.
At that moment, the woman spoke again.
“She already looks this miserable, a little more won’t hurt, right?”
She looked at Liu Tianxiang and his wife and said flatly, “Move aside.”
“What do you want to do to my daughter?”
Liu Tianxiang asked in a deep voice.
The woman replied coldly, “She humiliated my husband in public by breaking off the engagement at the banquet. I’m just giving her a small punishment. That’s not too much, is it?”
Liu’s mother raised her head and shouted angrily, “You’ve already tortured her like this! What more do you want?”
“That wasn’t me. My punishment hasn’t even begun yet.”
The woman said calmly, “If you don’t move, you’ll be punished too. Especially you, Liu Tianxiang. Uncle Xia once damaged his dantian to save you, causing his cultivation to stagnate. Yet you repaid kindness with betrayal by humiliating my husband and the Xia family during the engagement banquet.”
“I know about this.”
Someone among the guests, who was on good terms with the Xia family, spoke up with righteous anger. “Ten years ago, Liu Tianxiang wanted to break through to the Martial King Realm using a Breakthrough Pill, but he lacked a critical ingredient. That ingredient was guarded by a 1st stage high-grade spirit beast deep in a barren mountain.”
“A 1st stage high-grade spirit beast? That’s equivalent to a 9th stage Yellow Tier Martial King!” someone exclaimed.
On the Primordial Heaven Continent, the power levels of exotic beasts, from weakest to strongest, were: ferocious beasts, demonic beasts, spirit beasts, celestial beasts, sacred beasts, and divine beasts. Each type was further divided into nine stages.
Ferocious beasts were on par with regular martial artists, while spirit beasts were roughly equivalent to Martial Kings through Martial Venerables.
A 1st stage high-grade spirit beast was nearly equal to—or even stronger than—a 9th stage Yellow Tier Martial King.
“Exactly!”
The man continued, “With Liu Tianxiang’s strength back then, it was delusional to think he could defeat such a beast. So he invited the City Lord Xia—who was already a 9th stage Yellow Tier Martial King at the time—to help him. No one knows the full details of that battle. But after returning from the mountain, City Lord Xia’s dantian was damaged, and his cultivation never advanced again. Meanwhile, Liu Tianxiang found someone to refine the Breakthrough Pill and successfully stepped into the Martial King Realm. After that, the two families arranged a marriage engagement.”
“From what City Lord Xia and Liu Tianxiang said earlier, it seems that City Lord Xia saved Liu Tianxiang during the battle with that spirit beast.” Someone recalled their earlier conversation and could piece together what happened.
“City Lord Xia saved Liu Tianxiang, ended up with a damaged dantian, and after ten years, he’s only at the 8th stage Yellow Tier Martial King Realm. But Liu Tianxiang—whose life and cultivation were saved by him—turned around and had his daughter call off the engagement in public, humiliating the Xia family. That’s disgusting.”
The crowd erupted into discussion, and many looked at Liu Tianxiang with obvious contempt.
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What an ungrateful traitor—he deserved this.
Liu Tianxiang’s expression turned extremely ugly. He had agreed to let his daughter break off the engagement in public because he wanted to humiliate the Xia family and lower their standing, paving the way for his own family to take control of Xingyu City and claim the city lord’s position.
He had thought his plan was foolproof. Who would’ve expected these top-tier Holy Maidens to show up out of nowhere, not only ruining his scheme but trampling the dignity of the entire Liu family into the ground?
The woman continued, “My husband and Uncle Xia are generous enough not to hold it against you. But I’m just a woman—I can’t let this go.”
With that, she waved her delicate hand, and a wave of invisible sword intent enveloped Liu Shiyu and her parents.
The sword intent couldn’t be seen or touched, but it could be clearly felt.
It wasn’t strong enough to kill, but it constantly assaulted their bodies and souls.
Agonizing screams echoed from the three of them.
Liu Shiyu, having just endured the torment of the lightning prison, was once again trapped in this sword domain. She looked utterly pitiful, but no one felt sorry for her.
After finishing, the woman turned back to look at Xia Feng, her delicate face once again filled with a sweet and gentle smile.
“Husband!”
She called out softly and threw her arms toward him again for a hug.
“Miss! This isn’t appropriate!”
This time, Xia Feng was prepared. He quickly grabbed her hands to stop her.
“Not ‘miss’—call me your wife,”
The woman stomped her foot playfully and pouted.
Xia Feng gave an awkward laugh and didn’t respond.
Too many “wives” had shown up today.
Seeing this, the woman giggled and said, “I think I forgot to introduce myself. Husband, my name is Li Qingxue, Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Sword Holy Land.”