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

The moment the star trail shattered, Ye Shuli pinched Jiang Ye's protective talisman with her fingertips.

The azure light from the teleportation array enveloped the two, and when they opened their eyes again, they were at the Star Gazing Platform outside the trial grounds.

Twelve bronze lamp pillars suddenly shone as brightly as day, and the phantom of the God-Defending Guardian was projected into the clouds. His deep voice shook the mountain stream, causing the accumulated snow to fall in a flurry: "Trial participant Ye Shuli has broken the record for the fastest completion in three hundred years."

Seven-colored rays of light descended from the sky, gilding Ye Shuli's white outfit with a layer of gilded patterns.

Looking at the crimson gold mark that appeared in her palm, she suddenly remembered the quantum computer that she had spent the whole night debugging in the laboratory before she transmigrated—the energy particles surrounding her now were strikingly similar to those pulsating data streams.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!" Jiang Ye grimaced as he rubbed his shoulders, fragments of Ice Soul Crystal still clinging to his dark robes. "If I'd known you were going to break through, I should have inscribed Heart Calculus into the array plate..."

Before he could finish speaking, an apple formed from spiritual light silenced him.

Ye Shuli flicked her finger between his eyebrows, and an energy matrix flashed with a ghostly blue light at her fingertip: "The array pattern fitted with a cubic Bézier curve increases the efficiency of spiritual energy flow by 23.6%." She suddenly froze as she spoke, the blue light cube in her dantian analyzing the energy frequency of the Guardian's Blessing.

A rustling sound came from the viewing area.

Seventeen cultivators wearing silver snake insignia quietly left their seats. The leader wore a dark purple cloak, and the jade pendant at his waist was engraved with the ancient seal character "Pei".

As they crossed the frozen Mirror Lake, the cloaked figure raised a hand to conjure a soundproof barrier. The voice behind the black iron mask sounded like sandpaper being rubbed: "Notify all city branches that the remnants of the Ye family have used evil magic to contaminate the trial grounds."

Ye Shuli turned her head as if sensing something, and bumped into three Spirit Master level cultivators who hurriedly lowered their heads.

She squinted to make out the faint silver scale patterns on their cuffs when Jiang Ye suddenly shoved a steaming hot oil paper package into her hand.

A caramel-colored crystal lay in the boy's palm, the syrup drawing out amber threads in the cold air.

"The accompanying sugar of the Ice Soul Crystal?" As she picked up the crystal, the energy matrix automatically analyzed it and found that it contained 79.35% glucose.

"We found the guardian beast's lair." Jiang Ye wiped the ice crystals from her temple with his sleeve, his tiger teeth gleaming brightly in the sunset. "Anyone who breaks through the trial record three quarters of an hour ahead of schedule deserves a reward."

As night fell, a celebratory bonfire was lit at the observatory.

Ye Shuli was stroking the newly acquired Godly Token when she suddenly noticed an anomaly in the energy field at the seven o'clock position.

The voices of the three Spirit Venerable elders could be heard carried by the wind: "The Pei family has released information... saying that she used forbidden techniques during the trial..."

The blue light cube in the dantian suddenly accelerated its rotation, and modern chemical formulas and cultivation techniques collided and sparked in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Ye Shuli suddenly stood up, startling Jiang Ye, who was secretly drinking her wine, so much so that he choked and cried.

“I’m going to the Star Tempering Pavilion.” She conjured an energy model in the shape of a Klein bottle at her fingertips. “Since some people are questioning the trial data—” A blue light cube projected a holographic diagram of the spiritual veins, “I’ll prove it in a way they can understand.”

As the campfire crackled and sparked, Pei family spies were distributing the improved recording stones to disciples from various factions.

Before the Spirit Testing Stone Tablet on the top floor of the Star Tempering Pavilion, Ye Shuli looked at the nine-star alignment diagram that appeared on the inscription, and suddenly placed her palm on Jiang Ye's back: "Help me calculate the spiritual energy resonance parameters."

"Adjust the resonant amplitude to √3 times the frequency, and maintain the phase difference at π/6 radians?" Jiang Ye, with a sugar crystal in his mouth, quickly calculated on the spirit-testing scroll, suddenly revealing his tiger teeth, "Should we draw a heart-shaped Fourier transform on the energy wave peak?"

As the midnight bell tolled across the twelve mountain peaks, the Quixing Pavilion suddenly burst forth with a seven-colored beam of light.

When the elders from various factions arrived on their swords, they saw that the Spirit Verification Stone Tablet had displayed an unprecedented nebula totem. Ye Shuli stood in the center of the totem, with a spirit array merging calculus symbols and ancient array patterns flowing beneath her feet.

The silver snake emblem in the crowd began to stir.

The leader of the Pei family crushed the communication jade talisman, and the dark purple spiritual power transformed into the form of a nine-tailed fox and disappeared into the clouds.

Three cultivators wearing Medicine King Valley waist badges suddenly shouted, "Who knows if the spirit-testing array has been tampered with?" They had mirage beads hidden in their sleeves that were recording images.

Ye Shuli suddenly raised her hand and conjured a Klein bottle barrier, enveloping the entire Qu Xing Pavilion in a four-dimensional spatial projection.

Jiang Ye cooperated by throwing out seventy-two array flags, and the fragments of Ice Soul Mystic Crystal formed a three-dimensional function graph in the air.

As the modern physics model and the cultivation principles collided violently within the barrier, the bronze bells hanging from the eaves of the pavilion suddenly hummed in unison.

The phantom of the God Guardian descended once more, this time holding a Möbius strip that was constantly collapsing and reforming.

Ye Shuli felt the blue light cube in her dantian absorbing the dark energy generated by the collision. She didn't notice that three spiritual masters in the southeast corner were using recording stones to aim at the barrier crack—there was a cluster of energy sparks that had unexpectedly formed a skull totem.

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Ripples spread across the Klein Bottle barrier at Ye Shuli's fingertips, and the skull totem recorded by the Mirage Pearl was being magnified and projected onto the dome of the Star Tempering Pavilion.

The cultivator from Medicine King Valley staggered backward, and three mirage beads engraved with silver snake patterns rolled out of his sleeve.

"83.6% of the residual spiritual energy comes from dark-attribute magical artifacts." Ye Shuli scanned the bead with an energy matrix, and a blue light cube projected a spectral analysis chart onto her dantian. "Do you need me to help you calculate the cost of counterfeiting?"

The crowd burst into laughter.

Taking advantage of the moment, Jiang Ye tossed out twelve Ice Soul Crystals, arranging them in the air to form a proportionally scaled skull model: "According to the Fibonacci sequence, the frequency of this totem's spiritual energy fluctuations—" He deliberately dragged out the last syllable, his tiger teeth crushing a sugar crystal with a crisp sound, "...is a perfect match for the Bone-Eroding Nail Elder Pei bought last month."

A heavy thud was heard coming from the southeast corner.

Three Spirit Master level cultivators collapsed to the ground, the Bone-Eating Nails engraved with the Pei clan emblem falling from their arms.

The phantom of the God Guardian suddenly raised its hand, and the Möbius strip sucked the three Mirage Beads into the collapsing space: "Slander is forbidden in the Trial Grounds."

The gilded patterns spread from Ye Shuli's sleeves to her collarbone, and she could clearly feel the energy of the guardian's blessing reshaping her meridians.

The seven-colored radiance suddenly split into nanometer-sized beams of spiritual energy, and the monitoring screen of the trial field simultaneously appeared in the minds of everyone present—precisely displaying every detail of Ye Shuli's breakthrough, just like a quantum computer.

"Impossible!" The black iron mask of the Pei family leader cracked, and his dark purple cloak was blown away by the surging spiritual power.

Nine foxfires suddenly shot out from the jade pendant at his waist, but they twisted strangely into Riemannian function curves when they touched half a meter in front of Ye Shuli.

Ye Shuli walked along the Fourier transform-based spiritual array patterns, the nebula totem of the spirit-testing stone tablet swirling in her pupils: "To verify the forbidden technique accusation?" The blue light cube suddenly disintegrated into countless regular tetrahedrons, "Or using the traditional method of the cultivation world—a life-or-death duel?"

The bronze lamp posts in the viewing area were simultaneously extinguished.

Jiang Ye tossed up seventy-two array flags, and the Ice Soul Mystic Crystals formed a three-dimensional coordinate system under the moonlight: "Open for betting!"

The odds are updated in real time based on the loss of spiritual energy! "Twelve golden talismans flew out from his sleeve, unfolding a holographic projection of the spiritual energy fluctuations above everyone's heads."

The Pei family leader's knuckles turned white from clenching his fists.

The nine-tailed fox's spiritual power suddenly materialized, and where its tail swept, folds resembling the shape of a Klein bottle appeared in the space: "I'll break your dantian within thirty moves!"

"27.3 seconds," Ye Shuli suddenly announced the number.

She lightly touched the array eye set up by Jiang Ye with her toes, and the spirit array, which was a fusion of calculus symbols and ancient array patterns, burst out with a gamma-ray burst of brilliance—this was the spacetime folding technique she had comprehended when she first reached the transcendental realm.

When the first foxfire grazed her ear, Ye Shuli had already completed seven quantum leaps.

Spectators saw dozens of afterimages simultaneously unleashing different moves. Some recognized it as the lost "Splitting Light and Shadow Technique," unaware that it was actually a manifestation of the probability cloud calculated by the Blue Light Cube.

"The ninth move." Ye Shuli suddenly appeared behind the Pei family leader.

The dark energy sphere she condensed at her fingertips, imbued with relativistic effects, blasted her opponent fifteen meters away from the spirit-testing stone tablet.

The nebula totem on the inscription suddenly came to life, turning into shackles that bound the limbs of the Pei family leader.

The phantom of the God Guardian emitted a sigh like the tolling of bells.

The Möbius strip began to rotate in reverse, and a massive, dizzying six-dimensional space model appeared on the ground of the Star Tempering Pavilion.

Jiang Ye suddenly stopped joking and the coordinate system formed by the array flags locked onto four energy anomaly points in the east, west, south, and north.

"Something's wrong." Ye Shuli pressed down on the wildly vibrating blue light cube.

She saw blood trickling from the corner of the Pei family leader's mouth beneath his black iron mask, yet his pupils gleamed with an eerie joy.

The nine-tailed fox's spiritual power had somehow seeped into the Spirit Verification Stone Tablet, and the Nebula Shackles were absorbing the spiritual energy of the entire Star Tempering Pavilion.

Spiderweb-like cracks suddenly appeared in the space.

The Ice Soul Crystal Array set up by Jiang Ye emitted a buzzing alarm, indicating that a certain parameter in the three-dimensional coordinate system had exceeded a critical value.

The phantom of the God Guardian revealed a solemn expression for the first time, and the Möbius strip collapsed into a singularity.

"They've arrived." The Pei family leader's hoarse laughter mingled with blood and foam. "You could never have predicted this..."

The dome of the Star-Refining Pavilion shattered with a deafening roar.

It's not the collapse of physical buildings, but the tearing apart of the spatial dimension itself.

Ye Shuli's Klein Bottle barrier was squeezed and deformed by some higher-dimensional being, and the blue light cube was frantically refreshing the alarm data - the energy reading was breaking through the upper limit of the transcendent realm.

Jiang Ye's battle flags turned to dust in the chaotic energy flow.

As he lunged at Ye Shuli, he bit his fingertip with his tiger teeth and drew an ancient blood rune: "It is the vibration of the four-dimensional string!"

Cut it off quickly...

The voice was drowned out by the roar of the dimensional rift.

The phantom of the God Guardian suddenly materialized, and the collapsing singularity in its hand expanded into a black hole, but just as it was about to devour the entire Star Tempering Pavilion, it stopped.

In the absolute silence, Ye Shuli saw familiar quantum computer code appear on the surface of the black hole.

That was the last program she debugged before she traveled through time, and it was now resonating with the blue light cube.

From the depths of the dimensional rift, the faint sound of bronze gears turning could be heard, carrying a sense of rust that had transcended millennia.

"Host has exceeded the four-dimensional perception threshold." The mechanical voice of the blue light cube rang in her mind for the first time, "Initiating the final protocol—"