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

Bronze-colored light spots floated on the ruins of the Star Tempering Pavilion, and Ye Shuli's blue light cube suddenly emitted a piercing scream.

She staggered back half a step, pressing her left hand to her violently trembling temple—three-dimensional space was splitting into countless pixels on her retina, and those bronze spots were clearly projections of four-dimensional string vibrations.

"Look, everyone!" The leader of the Jealous Ones suddenly tore off the bandage on his left arm, and dark red blood mist condensed into a light screen in the air. "This demoness has spiritual energy patterns flowing in her body that do not belong to this world!" The image was clearly the binary code that flashed on the surface of the Klein Bottle barrier when Ye Shuli was cultivating last night.

A gasp erupted from the crowd.

The white-haired old woman's astrological chart exploded, revealing three copper coins. The resulting divination pointed directly at Ye Shuli's brow: "Heaven is issuing a warning!"

"No!" Ye Shuli clenched her fingers into her palm, and a blue light cube suddenly popped up with a holographic projection.

She wanted to show the images of bronze gears captured in the four-dimensional cracks, but when everyone saw the "Ye" clan emblem engraved on the surface of the gears, the discussion instantly turned into a roar.

Jiang Ye's azure spiritual energy exploded into a shockwave thirty feet away.

Twelve cultivators clad in tortoise-shell divination robes formed a dragon-trapping formation, their divination sticks transforming into golden chains that bound his ankles. "Ah Ye, don't move!" Ye Shuli cried out in desperation, biting her tongue until the blood mixed with the distinctive scent of cedar wood unique to those at the Transcendent God realm surged into her throat. "These golden chains grow stronger with each encounter..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Ye's right fingernail suddenly grew three inches longer, and the unique dark blue patterns of the wolf bloodline climbed up his neck.

He actually tore off two gold chains with his bare hands, and the blood that spurted from his tiger's mouth condensed into a teleportation talisman in mid-air—this was the Blood Escape Technique they had researched in the ancient tomb last month.

"Stop him!" Nine bone nails flew out from the leader of the Jealous Ones, but they hovered eerily when they touched Jiang Ye's back.

The phantom of the God Guardian appeared at the center of the formation at some unknown time. With a light tap of its fingertip, all attacks were transformed into data streams and sucked into the black hole's afterimage.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Shuli pressed the blue light cube into her heart.

The quantum computer, ingrained in her very being during her time travel, finally started up at full power, and everything in her eyes turned into vibrant green code.

When she saw that the bronze gears shared the same quantum entangled state at the same frequency as the blue light cube, a suffocating fear gripped her heart—this restriction was clearly a spacetime stabilization device that she had failed to debug before she traveled through time!

"Warning: Four-dimensional string vibration amplitude exceeds threshold." The blue cube vibrated within her chest. "Initiate final protocol?"

"Wait..." Ye Shuli's refusal was interrupted by the sudden burst of bronze light.

Twelve phantom gears rose from behind her, and the ruins of the Star Tempering Pavilion began to rotate counterclockwise.

A white-haired cultivator suddenly screamed as his natal magic weapon, the Azure Jade Flute, began to dissipate in a quantum form.

The leader of the jealous ones seized the opportunity to leap onto the broken pillar: "Gentlemen! Only by slaying this witch..."

"Shut up!" Jiang Ye finally broke through the last three golden chains, his wolf-like vertical pupils turning blood red.

He unleashed a lotus array composed of eighteen explosive talismans, but the super-god guardian teleported him to the sky the instant it detonated.

The aftershocks of the explosion shattered the clouds, revealing a dense matrix of bronze gears behind it—the entire realm of transcendent beings was actually encased in a massive mechanical structure.

Ye Shuli suddenly grasped the key data stream.

With trembling hands, she reached into the quantized stone bricks and pulled out half a rusty bearing from thin air: "Everyone, look carefully!"

These are what maintain spacetime balance...

"Sorcery!" A poisoned dagger was thrown from behind the crowd, grazing Ye Shuli's ear.

The Klein Bottle barrier automatically generated by the blue light cube rippled, which only increased everyone's fear—the protective aura they saw should not be in such a form that violated the laws of three-dimensional space.

Jiang Ye suddenly crushed the jade pendant at his waist.

The wolf clan's secret Moon Howling Curse unleashed a sonic wave that shattered the crowd. He seized the opportunity to pounce on Ye Shuli, but three Spirit-Locking Nails had already pierced his right shoulder. "Use that..." he said, his bloodied finger pointing to the surface of the blue cube, "the ancient formation we analyzed last month..."

Ye Shuli's pupils suddenly contracted.

Yes, the remnants of the formation they discovered on the ancient battlefield now perfectly match the arrangement of the bronze gears.

Trembling, she smeared Jiang Ye's blood on the cube's edges, and the quantum code and ancient incantations collided, creating purple lightning.

The God Guardian suddenly let out a mechanical sigh.

He raised his hand to freeze the flow of time within a radius of a hundred feet, but the moment Ye Shuli activated the final agreement, the entire space resounded with the ear-piercing grinding sound of gears jamming.

As the protective shield projected by the blue light cube enveloped the two of them, Jiang Ye discovered that his spiritual power was being frantically drained—this device was actually having to fight against both an ancient restriction and the siege of three hundred cultivators at the same time.

"Hold on..." Blood began to seep from Ye Shuli's seven orifices. The backlash from the three-dimensional being forcibly manipulating the four-dimensional device was far beyond imagination.

She saw the phantom of the wolf clan ancestor appear behind Jiang Ye, saw the bulging veins on his neck forcibly expelling the Soul-Locking Nail from his body, and saw the leader of the Jealous Ones forming a God-Slaying Curse seal with his right hand hidden in his sleeve.

When the first trace of bronze rust climbed onto the surface of the blue light cube, Ye Shuli finally found the loophole in the core of the restriction.

She channeled the last 30% of her spiritual power into her heart, and with a thud as Jiang Ye collapsed to his knees, she activated the self-destruct program that had been sealed away for millennia.

Jiang Ye's knuckles scraped five bloody marks on the bluestone floor.

He looked up at the blue light cube floating in mid-air, the remaining silver light of the Howling Moon Curse shattering into stardust in his pupils.

Twelve eerie green lanterns suddenly lit up behind the crowd—these were the unique Soul-Locking Lanterns of the Eastern Region cultivators, which were now surrounding Ye Shuli in the center along the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) arrangement.

"Shu Li!" He coughed up blood and supported himself on his knees, the Soul-Locking Nail piercing his right shoulder making a teeth-grinding grinding sound with the movement.

Seven days ago, the wolf totem they discovered on the ancient battlefield suddenly felt hot on their backs, as the regenerative power bestowed by their ancient bloodline was fiercely fighting against the bone-corroding poison attached to the nail tip.

Ye Shuli suddenly staggered in mid-air.

The Klein bottle barrier projected by the blue light cube rippled with water, and the four-dimensional strings that should have been invisible transformed into physical bronze chains.

She saw her reflection on the surface of the barrier splitting apart—the afterimage of a modern white lab coat overlapped with the wide sleeves of an ancient costume, a spacetime disorder caused by the overload of a quantum computer.

“Data assimilation rate 79%...” A mechanical voice boomed inside her skull.

The abnormal energy fluctuations discovered last night while analyzing the bronze gear are now resonating with the malice of the three hundred cultivators.

She finally understood that the character "叶" (Ye) engraved on the surface of those gears was clearly the identification code of the spacetime stabilization device.

Suddenly, spiderweb-like cracks appeared in the ground.

Jiang Ye's wolf-like vertical pupils suddenly contracted, recognizing this as a precursor to the spatial tearing he had witnessed in the Xuanbing Cave last month.

Before the Blood Escape Talisman in his palm could take shape, the God-Defining Guardian suddenly unleashed his oppressive aura.

The once indifferent god now showed a human-like expression of astonishment. His phantom was bound by bronze chains around his ankles, and his robes, made of data streams, were fading.

"Watch out behind you!" Jiang Ye's roar was drowned out by the energy tide.

The moment Ye Shuli turned around, the bronze gear matrix suddenly materialized into a giant hand.

The gears engraved with the character "叶" meshed and turned, and the sparks they emitted burned traces of binary code in the void.

Ye Shuli instinctively activated the Blue Light Cube's defense protocol, only to discover that spiritual energy was flowing backward along the curved surface of the Klein Bottle barrier.

The leader of the Jealous Ones' maniacal laughter echoed from all directions: "Fellow Daoists, follow me to slay the heretics!" Three hundred beams of spiritual energy pierced through the smoke and dust, but strangely reversed direction upon touching the bronze giant hand—the attacks were all converted into energy to drive the gear matrix.

The phantom of the God Guardian suddenly solidified.

He raised his hand and opened a spatial rift, and the overflowing dark matter instantly froze the twelve Soul-Locking Lamps.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Shuli pushed the computing power of the quantum computer to its limit, and the mathematical model constructed by modern knowledge perfectly overlapped with the trajectory of the bronze gear.

"So that's how it is..." She trembled as she pricked her fingertip and used her blood to draw a Möbius strip in the air.

When the runes connected end to end lit up with a blue light, the entire gear matrix emitted a metallic groan of unbearable strain.

Jiang Ye suddenly sprang up, his blood-stained fingertips touching the core of the formation—the wolf clan's secret script that they had deciphered three days ago came in handy at this moment, and the bronze giant hand shattered into countless points of light.

The sigh of the God Guardian shook the heavens and earth: "You should not have spied..." Before the words were finished, the scattered bronze light spots suddenly coalesced into a human shape.

Ye Shuli's blue light cube trembled violently, and the alarm of the quantum computer almost pierced her eardrums—the spiritual energy patterns of the light man were completely consistent with her transmigration fluctuations.

Jiang Ye's wolf fang pendant suddenly burst forth with a bright light.

The phantom of the ancient ancestor overlapped with him, and the surge of spiritual power shattered the last three spirit-locking nails.

The moment he leaped into the air, twelve blood escape talismans formed a lotus array beneath his feet.

Ye Shuli stared blankly at the "Ye" emblem on Guangren's chest, which was the logo of the 20th Century Research Institute.

"Shuli!" Jiang Ye's shout, imbued with spiritual power, pierced through the barrier.

Ye Shuli suddenly woke up, only to see that Guangren's fingertips had already touched her brow.

The Klein bottle defense layer, automatically triggered by the blue light cube, now transformed into a cage, trapping her limbs—clearly the institute's last line of defense to prevent the experimental subject from escaping.

The God Guardian suddenly wielded a data spear.

His attack, seemingly aimed at the Light Man, actually sealed off all of Ye Shuli's escape routes.

Jiang Ye's pupils instantly turned blood red, and the berserk state granted by his wolf bloodline allowed him to withstand the pressure of the gods.

When the arm armor engraved with the wolf totem shattered the data barrier, Ye Shuli saw the Guardian.

"Grab me!" Jiang Ye's palm pierced through the quantizing barrier.

Ye Shuli pressed the blue light cube into his palm, and the two completely different spiritual energies triggered a nuclear explosion-like intense light the moment they made contact.

The light-man let out a non-human roar, and its body began to revert to bronze gears, each tooth tip leaping with fluorescent codes belonging to the 21st century.

But at that moment, the leader of the Jealous Ones' bone sword pierced through the air and arrived.

Jiang Ye instinctively turned to protect Ye Shuli. Just as the poisoned sword tip pierced his back, the data spear of the God Guardian suddenly turned.

The weapon that was meant to punish the Lightbringers pierced Jiang Ye's chest.

The hum of the bronze gears abruptly ceased.

Amid Ye Shuli's scream, the blood beads that Jiang Ye coughed up condensed into blood-red gears in mid-air.

The guardian's robes shed their disguise, revealing a body made of bronze parts—the cold-glowing metal surfaces were clearly engraved with the clan emblem of the character "Ye".