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

The giant claw that emerged from the crack in the ground suddenly flipped over, and the crystalline dust on the battlefield gathered towards its tip as if attracted by a magnet.

Jiang Ye's back slammed heavily against the crystal pillar's remains, his combat suit sparking brightly: "These claws are bigger than a Kunpeng's stomach! We need to change tactics!"

Ye Shuli's fingertips brushed against the burning scars, and the writhing ancient characters actually moved under her skin to form a defensive array.

She condensed the power of the void into a long spear, the tip piercing through the solidified crystalline dust: "Three o'clock—the nebula where it will retract its left claw before its third attack!"

The twelve pairs of eyes of the Void Rift Guardian contracted simultaneously, and six beams of light carrying shattered stars swept across the battlefield.

The explorers, who had been waiting for an opportunity, hurriedly summoned their protective magic weapons, but the shields, which were inlaid with magic cores, vaporized into blue smoke the moment they came into contact with the beam of light.

"Now!" Ye Shuli's spear suddenly changed direction and pierced the ground, prematurely detonating the spatial vortex that was about to form.

Using the impact of the explosion, Jiang Ye leaped into the air, and the black iron marbles hidden in his belt rained down on the dark purple light spots at the giant claw joints.

The guardian emitted a hissing sound like metal breaking, and its massive body froze for the first time.

The female cultivator in the moon-white dress suddenly lashed out with her nine-section whip, wrapping it around Ye Shuli's ankle: "Hand over the power of the void!" The jade pendant at her waist glowed with a bloody light, and she forcibly activated the teleportation technique under the pressure of the guardian.

"You want this?" Ye Shuli suddenly released the spear, letting the weapon the female cultivator had snatched melt in her palm.

The liquid void power flowed upstream along the opponent's meridians, instantly freezing the female cultivator's right arm into a translucent crystal: "Be careful not to freeze your brain."

Suddenly, the leader of the Void Organization on the edge of the battlefield crushed the jade talisman, and hundreds of chains extended from the purple mist array to bind the guardian's giant claws.

Eighteen array flags flew out of his sleeve and nailed into the ground. Each flag reflected the ancient characters on Ye Shuli's scar: &34; So this is how the Heavenly Pivot Array is activated... &34;

The twelve guardians suddenly turned their eyes to Ye Shuli at the same time, and symbols that shared the same origin as the characters on her scars appeared in those pupils that reflected the apocalyptic scene.

Jiang Ye's black iron dagger precisely severed the three chains binding the giant claws: "Old Ice Cube, look!"

Its joint light spots are reorganizing! &34;

Ye Shuli flipped over to dodge the sweeping Stardust Tail Whip, and the burning sensation on the scar suddenly spread to her pupils.

The guardian in her vision instantly transformed into countless interwoven energy streams, and the dark pattern on the third joint of her left forepaw vibrated at a specific frequency: &34；Jiang Ye!

Seven Steps to Thunderclap Technique! &34;

"You want me to use lightning magic to strike myself?" Jiang Ye complained, but he had already bitten his fingertip and drawn a lightning-attracting talisman on his chest.

When the seventh bolt of lightning struck his crown, the dark patterns on the guardian's joints suddenly resonated with the lightning, and his entire left forepaw exploded into a shower of stardust.

The Void Organization leader's formation shattered instantly, and the purple mist hissed as it was eroded by the stardust.

He stared at the golden patterns flowing in Ye Shuli's eyes, then suddenly tore through space and vanished: "So the host of the divine spark was you..."

Before the surviving explorers could react, the remaining eyes of the guardian suddenly closed completely.

In the center of the battlefield, a bottomless ravine split open, and the solidified crystalline dust began to flow again, gradually coalescing into a towering forest of steles inscribed with ancient characters.

Ye Shuli pressed the throbbing scar and discovered that the words were spreading along her blood vessels toward her heart.

Jiang Ye wiped the stardust off his face and leaned closer, a half-torn Guardian claw tip falling from his sleeve: "How much do you think this glittery powder can sell for?" He suddenly stopped—the scar on Ye Shuli's neck had quietly formed half a divine rune without her noticing.

In the cold light refracted by the crystal stele forest, Ye Shuli's knuckles turned white as she gripped Jiang Ye's sleeve.

The golden characters flowing through her veins were devouring the power of the void. Suddenly, half of the divine rune on her neck burst forth with intense light, evaporating all the stardust within a ten-foot radius.

"Retreat first!" Jiang Ye threw out three teleportation talismans, only to find that the cinnabar marks on the talismans were being corroded by some kind of force.

He decisively broke the black iron chain around his waist, which had been binding their wrists, and dragged Ye Shuli toward the thinnest pillar in the Crystal Stele Forest—where the guardian's residual teleportation ripples remained.

Three poisoned bone spears suddenly pierced the air and embedded themselves in the ground at their feet.

The six surviving Void Explorers emerged from behind the crystal tablet. The red-faced giant in the lead grinned and twirled his wrist guard: "Hand over the divine rune technique, and I'll spare your lives..."

Ye Shuli suddenly clutched her chest and coughed, the blood droplets that came out condensing into ice crystals in mid-air.

The moment the ice crystals fell to the ground, the void power lurking in the stardust suddenly erupted, transforming into thousands of ice shards that pierced through the explorers' protective aura.

The red-faced giant's bronze wrist guards cracked into pieces from the cold, and he looked in horror at his legs, which were gradually crystallizing: "This is the Guardian's..."

"You've got two things wrong." Ye Shuli wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, the divine markings on her neck shining as brightly as day. "First, this isn't a secret technique." She lightly touched the brow of the red-faced giant who was crystallizing. "Second—" The ice shards suddenly exploded into golden-red flames. "I never leave a complete corpse."

Amidst the piercing screams, Jiang Ye seized the opportunity to fling the black iron chain onto the top of the crystal tablet.

The barbs at the end of the chain precisely caught in the Guardian's claw marks, and the two used the momentum to swing toward the area with the densest teleportation ripples.

The flowing stardust brushed past Ye Shuli's ears and condensed into seven dark gold bells at the tips of her hair.

The Void Organization leader's cold laughter came from all directions: "You think you can take away..." His voice stopped abruptly—the bells in Ye Shuli's hair suddenly rang simultaneously, and the suspended stardust reassembled into the guardian phantom, blasting beams of shattered stars toward the source of the sound.

"The old man runs fast." Jiang Ye flicked his scorched hair and suddenly pulled a jade bottle from his boot to catch the dripping stardust. "This thing can sell for..." Before he could finish speaking, Ye Shuli suddenly stumbled and crashed into the crystal tablet, the dark gold bell falling to the ground and shattering into points of light.

Golden lines have spread to below her collarbone, forming a totem on her skin that resembles the eyes of a guardian.

Jiang Ye took out three silver needles and inserted them into her Tianchi acupoint. Frost immediately formed at the ends of the needles: "Your heart is beating faster than a thunder beast!"

"Use Thunderstrike Wood..." Ye Shuli gasped as she pulled open her collar, revealing her completely crystallized chest skin. "Put the Thunderstrike Wood here..." Her fingertips trembled as she pointed to the hidden compartment in Jiang Ye's wristband—the treasure they had stolen from Thunder Valley three days ago.

The moment the lightning-struck wood touched the crystal skin, the Crystal Stele Forest suddenly trembled violently.

All the inscriptions were simultaneously projected onto Ye Shuli's back, forming twelve ancient characters arranged in a ring.

Jiang Ye's protective jade pendant shattered with a bang. Ignoring his scalded palm, he bit his tongue and drew a blood rune on the lightning-struck wood: "Hold on!"

The moment the blood talisman lit up, the twelve ancient characters suddenly shrank into points of light and entered Ye Shuli's heart.

The crystalline skin receded like the tide, revealing the normal skin tone beneath, which shimmered with starlight.

Before Jiang Ye could even catch his breath, Ye Shuli suddenly pulled him to the left—the spot where they had been standing had become a bottomless void vortex.

"Look at the sky!" Ye Shuli pressed the Thunderstruck Wood onto her still bleeding palm.

The cracks in the shattered sky are slowly healing, but the charred marks left at the healing point are faintly forming the outline of a huge eye.

Thick, dark matter seeped from the cracks in those scorch marks, and when it dripped down, it even corroded the void storms, creating cavities.

Jiang Ye suddenly took out a glass bottle and threw it at the dark matter. The bottle turned into a translucent crystal the moment it made contact with the dark matter.

He squinted, observing the writhing black shadow inside the crystal: "This thing is mimicking the Guardian's energy structure..."

Before the words were even finished, the healed sky was suddenly torn open with a new crack.

A pressure a hundred times more terrifying than that of the guardians poured down, and the divine runes on Ye Shuli's neck lit up in response, creating a pale golden barrier around the two of them.

The black iron marbles at Jiang Ye's waist automatically floated and arranged themselves into a defensive formation.

"Let's get out of the void rift first!" Ye Shuli dragged Jiang Ye towards the closing teleportation portal.

In the instant she passed through the crevice, she looked back and saw the outlines of those charred eyes suddenly come to life, as if someone were drawing pictures from these traces on the other side of the abyss.

The two fell out of the void and landed on the edge of the cliff in Thunder Valley.

The torrential rain poured down, but it couldn't extinguish the thunder surging in the valley.

Ye Shuli suddenly pressed her hand to her chest and knelt down on one knee. Beneath her soaked clothes, half of a divine rune was absorbing the residual energy of the Thunderstruck Wood.

"Hey!" Jiang Ye pressed his still-smoking palm against her back. "Your body temperature is high enough to boil an egg!" He reached for his storage bag with his other hand, but pulled out a medicine bottle corroded into a sieve by the power of the void. "Damn it, my Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill..."

Ye Shuli suddenly grabbed his wrist and examined the burn on his palm by the lightning: "Next time you catch my lightning-inducing wood with your bare hands..." Her sarcastic words stopped abruptly halfway through—the blood beads seeping from Jiang Ye's wound were actually tinged with the same golden color as the divine runes.

The torrential rain formed a curtain of water between the two, and the roar of the Thunder Beast came from the bottom of the valley.

Jiang Ye stared blankly at the golden threads in his blood: "Could it be...?" He suddenly broke into a bright smile, "Am I going to awaken a God of Wealth?"

From now on, even spitting will turn into gold... &34;

The thunderous roar swallowed his nonsense. Ye Shuli stared at the faintly visible charred marks behind the clouds and pressed down on the divine runes that were starting to heat up again.

Above the storm-swept skies, something is chewing on the dissipated energy of the Void Guardians.