A magical journey of a sharp-tongued woman and a goofy man

The moment the sound of ice crystals shattering exploded in her ears, Ye Shuli's back slammed heavily into the crater of the giant rock.

The three spirit stones were so hot in her palms that they almost melted through her skin. She stared at the blood-red barbs on the tailbone of the demon beast and suddenly remembered the electron microscope images of virus splitting in the laboratory—the energy patterns that were proliferating wildly matched the fission trajectory inside the spirit stones.

"The principle of resonance." She bit her tongue to force herself to stay awake, her bloodied fingertips tracing the broken teleportation array on the giant rock.

As the fourth barb pierced the starlight chain, a spiderweb-like pattern of crimson gold suddenly appeared on the entire ice field—the very ancient Dragon-Trapping Formation she had seen three days ago in the library of the trial grounds.

The bone wings that the three-headed beast mutated swept across the ice pillar on the left, and Ye Shuli used the force to slide seventeen meters away. Her black outfit was torn in three places by the spatial turbulence.

As she rolled, she tore off half of her tattered sleeve. The blood-soaked fabric froze into ice crystal butterflies the moment it touched the ground, perfectly fitting into the missing eye of the Dragon-Trapping Formation.

"Using a blood curse as an energy conductor?" The leader of the Jealous Ones sneered from the top of the eastern ice tower, his hidden weapon aimed at the girl's staggering figure.

This idiot has no idea that the Blood Crystal Rock in the Godly Trial Grounds transforms into Soul-Devouring Poison Mist upon encountering spiritual energy. In another thirty breaths...

Ye Shuli suddenly leaped seven zhang into the air using the inverted ice spikes, and just as the demon beast's tailbone swept towards her, she threw three overloaded spirit stones in three different directions.

In the red light of the exploding spirit stone, she saw the abnormal arrangement of the scales on the belly of the ferocious beast—there grew reverse scale patterns that were completely opposite to those of the Dragon Trapping Formation.

The spatial rift has expanded to the edge of the trial grounds, and cracks have appeared on the bronze mask of the God Guardian.

When Ye Shuli was thrown away for the fourth time, she suddenly laughed. She finally understood why Jiang Ye used Ice Soul Crystal as the base of the teleportation array he had drawn—this material would form a temporary absolute defensive field when it came into contact with dark gold blood.

As the fifth barb hurtled through the air, she suddenly gave up blocking, letting the blade graz her collarbone and pierce the ice wall behind her.

Taking advantage of the moment when he was in a stable position, he pressed his bloodied left hand hard against the center of the beast's reverse scale.

Seven beams of starlight suddenly descended from the dome of the God Trial Arena, and the crimson-gold patterns activated by the dark gold blood, like chains that had come to life, began to wrap around the mutated monster's body in reverse.

Ye Shuli felt the spiritual core in her dantian make a cracking sound like porcelain breaking, but she still poured the last 30% of her spiritual power into her right palm.

The Jealous Leader's hidden weapon froze three inches from her temple, and a surprised sigh came from behind the shattered mask of the God Guardian.

The energy of the entire trial ground began to converge on the girl's blood-stained hem, and the ancient array diagrams that had been dormant for thousands of years beneath the ice layer lit up one by one, intertwining into a swirling vortex of starlight at her feet.

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The moment Ye Shuli's left hand clenched deeply into the beast's reverse scale, the spiritual core in her dantian, which was about to shatter, suddenly erupted with dazzling silver light.

The hidden injuries she had forcibly suppressed now transformed into thousands of fine needles, surging wildly along her meridians towards her right palm.

“The resonant frequency difference is 0.03 seconds…” She stared at the undulating pattern of the reverse scales on the monster’s abdomen, biting her tongue with her blood-stained teeth.

Just as the sixth bone wing of the ferocious beast was about to strike her crown, the girl suddenly channeled her spiritual power into the Ice Soul Mystic Crystal fragment at her ankle—a life-saving talisman that Jiang Ye had secretly sewn into her hem three days ago.

The moment the dark golden blood came into contact with the ice crystals, seven ring-shaped barriers exploded around her.

When the beast's bone wings collided with the third barrier, Ye Shuli finally detected the energy resonance point between the Reverse Scale Pattern and the Dragon Trapping Formation.

She scattered the remaining spirit stone powder from her left hand into the air, and with the precision of drawing a mass spectrum in a modern laboratory, she carved a reverse energy circuit on the belly of the ferocious beast with her right hand.

"break!"

With this stern shout, twelve crimson-gold pillars of light suddenly descended from the dome of the God Trial Arena.

The ferocious beast let out a deafening wail, its massive body pinned to the spot by the beam of light.

The bone spurs, which had been secretly modified by the leader of the Jealous Ones, began to crumble inch by inch, revealing dark purple venom sacs hidden beneath the scales.

Ye Shuli flipped in mid-air to avoid the venom spray, her blood-stained right hand pressed against the beast's brow.

The moment the reverse energy circuit completed its closed loop, countless dark golden runes suddenly appeared on the ice layer of the entire trial ground—the very ancient formation variation she had seen in Jiang Ye's notes last night.

The beast's pupils suddenly contracted, and the reverse scales on its abdomen melted away rapidly, like an ice sculpture exposed to hot water.

Seizing this one-thousandth of a second of space, Ye Shuli compressed all the spiritual power in her body into an energy beam as thin as a hair, and pierced straight into the spirit core along the energy meridian of the demon beast.

"boom--"

The moment the super-god trial creature collapsed, the sound of porcelain shattering came from the ice tower on the east side.

The leader of the Jealous Ones crushed the jade talisman in his hand, and three poisoned hidden weapons pierced through the spatial barrier, heading straight for Ye Shuli's back.

The girl seemed to have anticipated this, lightly touching the dissipating remains of the monster with her toes, using the force to draw a perfect semi-circle in the air.

"You don't actually think..." She ripped off the icy crystal pendant from her neck, "that I was really in the library three days ago investigating the Dragon-Trapping Formation?"

The pendant suddenly exploded as the hidden weapon approached, turning into a shower of ice crystal powder.

These particles, containing modern chemical catalysts, instantly form a pale blue flame barrier when they encounter toxic fumes.

The leader of the Jealous Ones' hidden weapon was melted into molten iron, and he himself was also shaken by the backlash and shattered three ice pillars.

The bronze mask of the God Guardian shattered completely, revealing a face covered with star patterns.

He raised his hand to freeze the flow of time throughout the entire trial arena, his gaze fixed intently on Ye Shuli: "Using a modern catalyst to break an ancient formation—this method has never appeared before in the history of trials."

"The rules only state how to break the formation, but don't specify the method." Ye Shuli wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and under her tattered clothes, faint dark gold patterns could be seen.

As she stepped onto the star array in the center of the trial field, nine crimson-gold pillars of light suddenly rose beneath her feet, absorbing all the spiritual energy within a hundred miles.

The leader of the Jealous Ones struggled to get up, only to find that the power of the trial grounds' rules had completely imprisoned him.

He watched as Ye Shuli's wounds healed at a visible speed, and the fragments of the teleportation array that he had secretly destroyed flew automatically into the girl's palm.

As the last fragment of the array diagram was put back into place, a clear and melodious phoenix cry suddenly resounded throughout the entire God Trial Arena.

Ye Shuli's spiritual core was reorganizing on the verge of shattering, and the dark golden energy transformed into a physical phoenix phantom that soared into the sky.

After circling nine times, the divine bird swooped down and left a crimson gold mark on her brow.

"Transcendent Realm, activated!"

The guardian's declaration resounded through the sky, and suddenly a star track spanning the heavens and earth appeared beneath Ye Shuli's feet.

When she opened her eyes, she saw countless energy particles flowing before her like a tangible formula.

The newly formed spiritual core in the dantian is no longer crystalline, but has transformed into a constantly calculating energy matrix.

Suddenly, spatial fluctuations came from the edge of the trial field, and Ye Shuli instinctively raised her hands to form a hand seal.

When she saw that the person who came was Jiang Ye, who was covered in wounds, the killing move she had gathered at her fingertips instantly turned into healing light.

The boy held the broken Ice Soul Mystic Crystal Array Plate, his face still bearing the bloodstains from his battle with the guardian beast.

"Your teleportation array..." Before he could finish speaking, the girl pulled him into her arms. Ye Shuli felt the real beating of his heart and suddenly rested her forehead on his shoulder, chuckling softly, "The heart-shaped function diagram you engraved on the back of the array almost made me miscalculate the energy nodes."

Suddenly, the starlight began to converge on the two of them, and the figure of the God Guardian gradually became blurred.

As the training ground began to collapse, Ye Shuli suddenly noticed an abnormal fluctuation in the energy matrix in her dantian—those fragments of modern knowledge that should have been completely integrated were instead condensing into a cube that shimmered with blue light deep within her spiritual core.