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

Before the morning mist at the observatory had even dissipated, Ye Shuli's nano gloves lit up with seven red alerts.

On the holographic map, dark red light spots were encroaching on the safe zone at a speed of three meters per second. As she turned around, Jiang Ye had already turned his tactical cloak into a defensive shield, and the metal fibers collided with the eaves, creating blue sparks.

"Twelve Spirit Masters, three Spirit Venerables." Jiang Ye's mechanical eye flashed with coordinate data, and two improved Thunder Beads popped out from his tactical belt. "There are three spiritual energy gaps in the western defensive array."

Ye Shuli bit the last piece of the wheat cake, and the power of the void condensed into a semi-transparent whip in her palm.

The defensive array of the family library was automatically activated, and seventy-two bronze lamps formed a star trail under the eaves. The array patterns engraved with modern chemical formulas were ones she had just improved last month.

As ten dark figures shattered the morning mist, Jiang Ye's modified automatic crossbow had already unleashed its first volley of pear blossom needles.

Ye Shuli wrapped her long whip around the ankle of the leading spirit, using the force to leap onto the eaves of the library.

The modern alloy plate hidden in the sole of her boot rubbed against the tiles, producing a ghostly blue electric light that activated the second layer of defense.

"Watch out for the lightning and fire bombs!" Jiang Ye suddenly threw out the magnetic storm net from his tactical belt.

Three crimson bullets were caught in the metal net in mid-air, and Ye Xueli took the opportunity to inject the power of the void into the array's core.

The improved defensive array instantly deployed a light screen, reflecting the explosive energy back into the enemy's formation.

As the enemy Spirit Lord's Xuan Tie Heavy Sword struck the light barrier, Ye Shuli's modern mechanical watch suddenly popped up with a bloodline detector.

She squinted as she read the data, her long whip precisely wrapping around the other person's wrist: "The bloodline of the Western Qin royal family?"

You made a deal with Xuan Yin Pavilion?

Her response was three poisoned hidden weapons.

Jiang Ye's mechanical prosthetic eye suddenly switched to X-ray vision mode, his tactical boots launched air into the air, and the modified Drunken Immortal Chicken feeder became a trap, collecting all the hidden weapons into the specially made lead interlayer inside the box.

“The defense map given by the Third Elder is problematic.” Ye Shuli scanned the enemy's weapons with her nano-gloves during the melee. “The array pattern in the northwest corner has been tampered with.” Before she finished speaking, Jiang Ye had already activated the sonic jammer in his tactical cloak, and the three spiritual masters who were forming hand seals suddenly covered their ears.

When the seventh enemy's protective mirror was shattered by the spiritual energy reflected from the defensive array, Ye Shuli suddenly leaped to the top of the library.

The power of the void formed a spiral vortex around her, and the tiles engraved with modern mechanical formulas floated up, forming a three-dimensional defensive network in the morning light.

"Now!" Jiang Ye suddenly threw out three modified Thunderbolt Beads.

The electromagnetic pulse generated by the explosion resonated with the defensive array, instantly disabling the enemy leader's spiritual shield.

Ye Shuli's long whip wrapped around the other person's neck, and the nano gloves directly read his memory chip.

A blood-red rune suddenly lit up in the rout of the enemy ranks.

Jiang Ye's tactical belt ejected a black hole crusher, but half of the metal was corroded away the moment it touched the rune.

Ye Shuli's pupils contracted sharply. She recognized this ancient spell, which incorporated modern nanotechnology, as the family secret technique that had been stolen last month.

"Step back twenty meters!" She channeled the power of the void into the improved defensive array, and the array's core, made of modern alloy, suddenly split into nanoscale particles.

The crimson runes suddenly went out of control when they touched the metal particles, instead blasting the last three spirit masters into a bloody mist.

As the echoes of the final explosion faded, Jiang Ye was using a modified medical robotic arm to bandage the injured guard.

His tactical boots were covered in fresh mud—this time, deliberately crushed tracking powder, the fluorescent particles quietly clinging to the fleeing man's clothes.

Ye Shuli stroked the charred pillars of the library, then suddenly lashed her long whip toward the eaves on the east side.

The listening device hidden in the bracket set shattered upon impact, and the three fallen chips all bore the unique purple cloud pattern of the Xuan Yin Pavilion.

As dusk fell, the repaired defensive array glowed with a ghostly blue light.

Jiang Ye installed the newly modified sound barrier on the eaves of the observatory, and turned to see Ye Shuli frowning in front of the holographic map—the location signals of the fleeing people had suddenly disappeared collectively at the Broken Soul Cliff, a hundred miles away.

The enemy's tattered flags fluttered in the night wind, and no one noticed that a black crystal embedded at the base of a certain flagpole was absorbing the moonlight.

In a cave three hundred miles away, the leader wearing a black iron mask sneered as he stroked the eyeballs of a mechanical behemoth. The energy fluctuations pulsating within them were exactly the same as the void power leaked when Ye Shuli improved the defensive array.

Moonlight pierced through the smoke-filled observatory, and Ye Shuli's nano gloves suddenly emitted a piercing buzzing sound.

The dark red spots representing the enemy attack on the holographic map began to flow in reverse, condensing into a strange vortex around the perimeter of the defensive array.

Jiang Ye's mechanical eye suddenly focused, and his tactical cloak was torn in three places by the sudden intensification of the spiritual energy turbulence: "They are regrouping!"

A high-energy reaction has been detected in the southeast direction!

Before he finished speaking, a ten-meter-high wave of earth suddenly rose from the ground.

Four colossal black iron beasts burst forth from the ground, the blue light dancing in their eyes perfectly matching the frequency of the library's defensive array.

Ye Shuli's wristwatch instantly displayed twelve warning windows—embedded in these mechanical beasts were the prototype particle resonator that she had failed to develop last month.

"As expected, the Third Elder leaked the core blueprints." Ye Shuli's whip shredded the incoming monitoring probes, and her nano-gloves captured the encrypted signals of the enemy's command frequency band.

When she saw the decoded Western Qin royal emblem, she suddenly realized what was inside the energy compartments of these mechanical beasts—the very spirit core battery pack that Jiang Ye had stolen last week.

The moment the colossal black iron beast bared its fangs, the light barrier of the entire defensive array suddenly distorted.

The modern alloy components in the improved array pattern were activated by the resonant wave, causing the seventy-two bronze lamps to explode one after another.

Ye Shuli was forced back three steps by the backlash of spiritual energy, leaving two charred marks on the ground with the soles of her boots.

"Watch out for energy siphoning!" Jiang Ye threw out a magnetic storm grenade, only to see that the electromagnetic pulse generated by the explosion was completely absorbed by the Beast Eye.

The automatic crossbow he modified suddenly changed direction, unleashing a torrent of needles towards the library guards.

Ye Shuli's Void Whip coiled around three poisoned crossbow bolts, and her nano-gloves scanned the familiar gene locks on the arrowheads—the anti-theft device she had designed for her family's arsenal.

Cold sweat trickled down her neck and into her collar; the enemy had actually cracked the double encryption system in such a short time.

When the fifth defensive array collapsed, Ye Shuli suddenly noticed the black crystal on the mechanical beast's forehead.

These extraterrestrial minerals, which should have been destroyed by the black hole crusher, are now amplifying the resonance waves into dark purple pillars of light.

As she watched the rapidly shrinking safe zone on the holographic map, she suddenly remembered the failed superconducting experiment in the physics lab.

"Jiang Ye!" She ripped off the hairband that had been shredded by the turbulent spiritual energy. "Do you still remember the phase reversal principle of a Tesla coil?"

The young craftsman, who was repairing the sonic barrier, suddenly brightened up and launched six modified lightning rods from his tactical belt.

Ye Shuli's void power drew electromagnetic formulas in the air, and the tiles engraved with Newton's laws suddenly floated, forming a reverse resonance field around the defensive array.

The colossal iron beast let out a piercing screech, and the spiritual energy absorbed by the black crystal began to flow backward.

Ye Shuli bit her fingertip and slapped the array of modern chemical symbols into the ground.

When the particle resonator inside the mechanical beast overloaded and exploded, she finally saw the purple cloud tattoo on the operator's wrist—the mark of the Xuan Yin Pavilion assassins.

"It's time to close the net." Jiang Ye's mechanical eye switched to thermal imaging mode, and thirty nano-reconnaissance insects flew out from his tactical cloak.

In the rout of the enemy ranks, before the Third Elder's personal guards could even crush the teleportation talisman, their dantian was shattered by the improved sonic barrier.

Just as the bonfire for the victory celebration was lit, Ye Shuli suddenly pressed her hand to her chest.

The enemy attack signal that should have disappeared on the holographic map is now flashing regularly in the direction of Broken Soul Cliff.

She leaped onto the eaves of the observatory and saw purplish-black thunderclouds rotating counterclockwise in the night sky three hundred miles away—the very celestial phenomenon that occurred when the forbidden technique of the Xuan Yin Pavilion was activated.

"Have the medical team focus their examination on the black crystals among the spoils." She transmitted the encrypted command to Jiang Ye's tactical headset, and the nano-gloves detected a wisp of escaping void power.

The energy fluctuations were all too familiar, just like... just like the spatial rift she accidentally triggered last night when she was modifying the defensive array.

The bronze bell at the top of the library swayed without wind. Ye Shuli looked at the spacetime coordinates that were faintly visible in her palm and suddenly splashed the celebratory wine onto the holographic map.

The patterns outlined by the wine completely overlapped with the purplish-black runes that appeared when the mechanical beast exploded.