Chapter 680: Chapter 679: Calamity of the Monster
"My love, how many minor nirvanas have you broken through?" Huang Ji asked Ye Fan.
Although her breakthrough this time was related to absorbing the Energy Baryte, it was still enough to prove her exceptional talent. After all, she remained one of the top geniuses in the Divine Domain.
Ye Fan replied humbly, "Not many, not many. Just close to twenty!"
"What?"
Huang Ji felt as if she had been dealt a heavy blow. Nearly twenty—that was monstrously heaven-defying. When she first met Ye Fan, the gap between them hadn’t been this vast. She had at least possessed the strength to contend with him, and though she had ultimately lost, Ye Fan hadn’t come out of it much better.
Who could have imagined he would become so terrifying now?
Even with her next breakthrough, she definitely couldn’t catch up to him. Is this the difference between a genius and a monster?
"You’re bullying me!" Huang Ji was on the verge of tears. When the high and mighty Immortal acted cute, it was really quite lovely and uniquely charming.
As she playfully bit him, Ye Fan said innocently, "How am I bullying you? You have to be fair!"
"Hmph! Your cultivation realm is higher than mine. If we have a conflict later on, would you hit me?" Huang Ji asked coquettishly.
Ye Fan was amused by her.
He smiled and said, "That’s not a guarantee! It depends on whether you behave, right?"
"Hmph, in your dreams! If you dare hit me, I’ll have my father deal with you!" Huang Ji threatened.
"Would you have the heart to? My little beauty!"
Ye Fan stroked her chin, his hands beginning to roam. Huang Ji instantly surrendered, melting into his embrace.
Winning her over so easily gave Ye Fan a profound sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.
His thinking was simple. So what if you were beautiful? So what if your backing was powerful? So what if you were strong? So what if your talent was high? In the end, you’d still be my woman. Just like Huang Ji and the Seven-Colored Demon Empress. They were all my women, even if they were some of the most outstanding prodigies and experts in the Divine Domain.
「A few days later.」
During that time, the two were lovingly intimate. Huang Ji discovered that after being with Ye Fan in this way, her strength would actually improve.
She grew worried that she might be draining his essence, so she brought it up countless times, but Ye Fan always dismissed her concerns. In reality, she was simply unable to resist his advances and used it as an excuse.
Huang Ji breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, she wasn’t his only woman. Otherwise, how could she possibly withstand such an onslaught?
「A few more days passed.」
Ye Fan felt he was ready for a breakthrough. This time, he made thorough preparations. However, he was already mentally prepared for the worst; he couldn’t recall a single one of his nirvanas ever going smoothly.
He said to Huang Ji, "Darling, you don’t need to stand guard for me. Also, you must stay a hundred miles away and not take a single step closer! And don’t even think about helping me. If a Main God expert intervenes, they will also suffer a horribly tragic fate!
"Don’t be shocked by anything you see, because I will return safely!"
Hearing him say this left Huang Ji completely baffled. It was just a nirvana, so why the big fuss? She hadn’t been worried about Ye Fan before, but now she was starting to feel concerned.
"Alright! I’ll listen to you, my love!" Although confused, Huang Ji obediently followed his advice so that he could focus on his nirvana in peace.
Afterward, Ye Fan set out. He arrived at a plain within a basin that had a diameter of exactly two hundred miles.
Huang Ji stood on a mountain at the edge of the plain. She could hardly see Ye Fan. Even across flat land, it was impossible to see a person clearly from a hundred miles away.
At that moment, Ye Fan stood in the middle of the plain and began his push into the next major realm. As soon as he broke through the barrier, it was as if a fuse had been lit in the sky.
The next moment, dark clouds gathered with incredible density, blanketing an area a hundred miles wide in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this, Huang Ji was stunned. Following her shock was a deep-seated fear. She had once witnessed her father, the Great Wilderness Main God, undergo a Heavenly Tribulation, but even that tribulation paled in comparison to this one.
Now she finally understood his warning. The tribulation Ye Fan was facing was for breaking through to the Main God realm. That such a terrifying ordeal would descend upon a Martial Artist who wasn’t even a Divine General yet...
If she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes, Huang Ji would never have believed it was possible. It wasn’t just her; even the Red Sand Main God, the Evil Punishment Main God, and the newly ascended Main God, Slaughter God, would find it unbelievable.
Therefore, her expression was perfectly normal under the circumstances.
As expected, a monster must overcome a monstrous tribulation!
Huang Ji grew extremely anxious for Ye Fan. While she was still lost in her shock, he had already begun the breakthrough, and countless bolts of lightning were crashing down.
She didn’t know what was happening on the plain. She only knew that with every bolt that fell, her own heart was pierced with pain.
This agonizing scene played out over and over. The lightning struck Ye Fan’s body, but it was her heart that ached with a deep, heavy pain.
The lightning morphed into thousands of different shapes and forms as it descended. Huang Ji couldn’t help but cry, her heart breaking at the thought of all the pain Ye Fan had to be enduring.
If she could, she truly wanted to bear it for him. She knew, however, that even if she went over, she would be of no help and might even provoke the wrath of the Heavenly Tribulation.
She fought the urge to rush over countless times, no matter how negligible her strength, but then she would remember his instructions.
All she could do now was wait. But the wait dragged on for nearly two hours, which felt like an eternity. For all that time, the lightning continued to rage from the sky, striking down without restraint.
Huang Ji cried until she was heartbroken, hating that she was powerless to help him. A woman’s love can sometimes be subtle, but her constant, unwavering concern is the greatest gift she can offer a man.
Just then, a hand rested on her shoulder.
Huang Ji immediately looked up and saw that it was Ye Fan. At that moment, her tears flowed freely, her beautiful face streaked with sorrow. Perhaps it had been a long, long time since she had cried like this.
"You silly girl, I’m right here, safe and sound," Ye Fan sighed. "What are you crying for? It breaks my heart to see you this sad!"
At this, Huang Ji, ignoring the blood covering his body, threw herself into his arms and cried even harder.
Women... so troublesome.
「The next day.」
Ye Fan knew it was time to set out for Evil Valley to notify the Main Gods that they could begin using the resources from the Immortal Mine to strengthen their forces.
Although the Main Gods of the Righteous Gods were all top-tier experts, Ye Fan knew they followed him with sincerity. He could not dishearten them.
He planned to wait until after his breakthrough to the Main God realm. At that point, he would finally have the power to bring his forces up from the Human Clan’s secular world and protect everyone.
Huang Ji came to see him off.
However, just as they reached the foot of the mountain, they realized a group of people had them in their sights.
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