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

The dark gold emblem on Ye Shuli's palm was still burning hot when the rainbow energy flow in the dome of the circular hall suddenly condensed into a pillar of light.

The energy crystals on Jiang Ye's tactical cloak were illuminated, and he suddenly froze in his embracing posture—Ye Shuli's nano gloves were stuck at the metal seam of his armor's protective mesh.

"The secret program from three months ago?" Jiang Ye looked down and saw the protective patterns woven from liquid metal. His Adam's apple bobbed. "No wonder it suddenly crashed when that Crimson Flame Beast bit the back of my neck in the Lava Canyon last time."

When the suspended bronze fragments reassembled into the seventh piece, they made a rattling sound like gears jamming. Ye Shuli took the opportunity to pull her hand back.

The fragments of Void Badges left behind by the Guardians who vanished as data streams condensed into tiny vortexes beneath her boots.

&34; The resonance reaction of the power of the void. &34; Ye Shuli brushed the code crystal on Jiang Ye's back with her nano gloves, and the liquid metal immediately transformed into a translucent light film, &34; You have something mixed into your armor... &34;

The cheers suddenly rose eight octaves.

Twelve Void Priests, clad in silver-blue cloaks, floated down the spiral staircase, their floating star charts simultaneously projecting golden Void Contracts.

A half-eaten spirit wheat biscuit suddenly flew out of Jiang Ye's tactical belt and stuck to the seal in the lower right corner of the contract.

&34; Even a Spirit Master in the early stages can trigger the Void Contract Resonance! &34; The Chief Priest's mechanical prosthetic eye popped out with a three-fold focal length, and the energy crystals stuck to Jiang Ye's tactical cloak suddenly began playing a holographic image of their attack on the ancient battlefield three months ago.

As Ye Shuli watched Jiang Ye being chased all over the mountain by the Crimson Flame Beast in the video, she unconsciously crushed the dark gold emblem fragments in her palm with her nano gloves.

The liquid metal sensed her emotional fluctuations and automatically conjured seven defensive arrays on the surface of Jiang Ye's armor.

"Cough, this is a tactical retreat." Jiang Ye's tactical belt flew out another piece of salt and pepper biscuit, blocking the chief priest's mechanical eye. As he turned around, his tactical cloak swept away three floating star disks.

His hand, still covered in crumbs, suddenly gripped Ye Shuli's wrist guard. "What does the contract resonance signify?"

This means our soul wavelengths are over 90% compatible! &34;

The pillar of light in the dome suddenly split into 360 prisms, enveloping the two in a seven-colored halo.

The void patterns on Ye Shuli's battle armor resonated with the energy crystals of Jiang Ye's tactical cloak, projecting a double silhouette onto the bronze ground.

The sound of crystal shoe heels clicking came from the top of the spiral staircase.

With each step taken by the female cultivator from the Void Organization, three of the suspended bronze fragments extinguished.

The black hole totem on her silver-white battle dress twisted and deformed in the rainbow halo, eventually settling into the pattern of the thunderstorm cloud that Ye Shuli crossed that night.

34; Congratulations, Miss Ye. 34; The female cultivator flicked an energy rose from her fingertip, but the petals were actually black holes rotating in the opposite direction. 34; I wonder if a contractor at the early stage of the Spirit Realm can withstand the backlash from the Void Power? 34;

Jiang Ye's tactical belt suddenly popped out a bamboo tube of rice, which exploded into golden sparkling rice fireworks in mid-air.

He rose half a meter onto a floating bronze plate, his tactical cloak brushing against the void crown atop the female cultivator's head: "Three months ago, someone said I wouldn't survive the Lava Canyon, and now I'm eating their stockpiled spirit wheat cakes."

The chief priest's mechanical arm suddenly extended five meters, pulling out three gnawed defensive array cores from Jiang Ye's tactical cloak.

The holographic projection automatically played the video of Jiang Ye secretly modifying the protective net last night—he used spirit wheat biscuit crumbs to draw seventeen smiley face doodles in the array diagram.

Energy utilization increased by 40%. As the mechanical prosthetic eye released the detection data, Ye Shuli's nanogloves suddenly emitted a soft chime.

The defense program she secretly implanted three months ago is now using those smiley face graffiti to reverse-analyze the black hole totem on the female cultivator's battle skirt.

The female cultivator's crystal shoe heel crushed the last glowing floor tile, and the black hole totem suddenly projected an image of Jiang Ye being seriously injured on the ancient battlefield.

The energy rose at her fingertips surged threefold, each petal reflecting Jiang Ye from different angles—all secretly taken photos taken during the past three months of observation.

&34;The price of the Void Contract...&34;The rose stem suddenly split open to reveal a hidden door. Before the female cultivator could finish speaking, a bronze tea canister flew out from Jiang Ye's tactical cloak.

The defensive array carved on the can automatically activated, distorting the black hole projection into a holographic image of him holding Ye Shuli and spinning in a rainbow beam of light.

The high priest's star chart suddenly turned towards Ye Shuli, and 360 prisms projected a star map onto the surface of her armor.

The last piece of peach blossom pastry that popped out from Jiang Ye's tactical belt precisely blocked the hidden door switch that the female cultivator wanted to activate.

The Void Priest's star chart projected twelve constellation light spots onto the surface of Ye Shuli's armor, and the Chief Priest's mechanical eye suddenly popped up a red warning box.

The black hole totem on the female cultivator's silver-white battle dress trembled violently, shattering the energy rose into fragments.

"Luck?" Ye Shuli's nano-gloves swept across the void emblem, and the liquid metal immediately condensed into a three-dimensional image in the air. "On the seventh day of the Lava Canyon, I used thirty-two defense programs to reverse-engineer the Crimson Flame Beast's energy core." The image showed the hexadecimal data stream jumping on the tactical screen as she modified the code all night.

The suspended bronze fragments suddenly formed a circular array, projecting training logs from three months ago.

The crumbs of pretzels that popped out of Jiang Ye's tactical belt were piecing together in the air the record of Ye Shuli modifying the battle armor parameters for seventy-six consecutive hours.

&34; On the ninth floor of the Void Corridor, she reorganized the defense matrix using the law of conservation of energy. &34; The chief priest's mechanical arm suddenly pulled up a holographic report, showing Ye Shuli's thirty-six innovative records of combining modern physics with cultivation techniques.

The female cultivator's crystal shoe heel sparked as it scraped the ground, and the black hole totem suddenly devoured three floating star disks.

A dark purple energy blade condensed at her fingertips, but the moment she swung it, it was refracted into rainbow light spots by the smiley face graffiti on Jiang Ye's armor—those smiley faces drawn with spirit wheat biscuit crumbs suddenly came to life, holding hands and dancing in a circle.

Three months ago, the secret program contained seven layers of encryption. Ye Shuli's nano gloves glowed blue, and liquid metal unfolded in the air, creating layers of protective netting. Each layer she broke through required her to withstand three times the force of gravity. A holographic image simultaneously played of her continuing to program despite blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, while the time displayed in the lower right corner of the tactical screen showed that she had been working continuously for fifty-three hours.

The silver-blue cloaks of the twelve Void Priests fluttered without wind, and the star charts in their hands suddenly projected golden certification beams toward Ye Shuli.

The High Priest's prosthetic eye flashed a green indicator: Energy conversion rate 91%, setting a three-hundred-year record for the Void Organization.

Jiang Ye swept away the floating certification documents with his tactical cloak, and his finger, still covered in crumbs, suddenly tapped a certain data peak: "Look here!"

The seventh defensive array that Shu Li modified perfectly corresponded to the third energy circuit that I modified yesterday. The holographic projection immediately displayed two perfectly overlapping waveforms, and the seven-colored halo of the soul contract doubled in size.

The female cultivator's silver-white battle skirt suddenly split open with seven gaps, and the black hole totem uncontrollably absorbed the energy of the bronze fragments.

She raised her hand to summon the void chains, but the high priest's mechanical arm suddenly shot out binding light cables: "Enough!"

Miss Ye has passed the highest level of Void Certification. &34;

A humming sound of spatial distortion emanated from the top of the spiral staircase, and the dark gold mask of the leader of the Void Organization emerged from the energy vortex.

The star patterns on his battle robe automatically suppressed the female cultivator's black hole totem, and the suspended bronze fragments rearranged into an array of thanks.

&34;Miss Ye provided the key algorithm for the upgrade plan of the protection system of the ancient battlefield ruins. &34;The leader's voice caused spatial resonance, and the dodecahedral defense model designed by Ye Shuli appeared in the pillar of light in the dome. &34;As agreed, the Void Organization will permanently open the teleportation channel to the Ye family. &34;

A bronze family emblem suddenly popped out from Jiang Ye's tactical belt, the void energy flowing on its surface perfectly matching Ye Shuli's palm print.

When the authentication success notification sounded, the black hole totem on the female cultivator's battle skirt suddenly shrank to the size of a pinhead, leaving a dark red mark on her collarbone.

&34; The backlash test three months later...&34; The female cultivator bit her crystal nails and turned to leave, the shattered black hole energy condensing into spiderweb-like cracks on her skirt.

The bronze fragment at the top of the spiral staircase suddenly flipped over, revealing an image of her pressing a dark purple crystal into her heart.

Ye Shuli's nano gloves suddenly sounded an alarm, and the projection of the Void Contract continued to flash red light on the surface of her armor.

Jiang Ye's tactical cloak swept across the High Priest's mechanical eye, casually grabbing three floating spirit wheat cakes: "It's time to go back to the clan and upgrade the defense system. Those old fogies in the Elder Council are probably getting impatient."

As the rainbow beam of light reactivated the teleportation array, the female cultivator's shattered crystal heel was engraving a encrypted command into the bronze floor.

The spiderweb-like cracks on her battle skirt suddenly came to life, crawling along the spatial rift towards the Eastern Star Region where Ye Shuli's family was located.