“Admitting defeat is a wise move.”
Zhang Ruochen was cautious and added, “But how do I know that after releasing you, will you use the cards on your body or let the blind man and the bearded man deal with me?”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden lowered her stance, her tone no longer as forceful as earlier, saying, “Firstly, you know the secret of me possessing the Truth Upanishad, and as long as you spread this matter, although you may not necessarily be able to bring me to my death, it is indeed going to cause me a great deal of trouble. If I want to deal with you, I’ll have to weigh a few points as well.”
“Secondly, I still want to co-operate with you to collect the Divine Spring, and dealing with you won’t do me any good.”
“Earlier, we were both too impulsive, we should have calmed down, and co-operation is the way to go.”
Ever since she was a child, the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden had never been defeated, and simply didn’t believe that anyone in her age group had the qualifications to be her opponent. However, today, she was loaded with heels and was unexpectedly suppressed and confined by Zhang Ruochen.
In fact, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s heart could not be more stifled, hating Zhang Ruochen to death.
However, earlier, she had used her strongest card but failed to break through the Mysterious Code of Time and Space, which made her heart sink to the bottom. What should she do in case Zhang Ruochen really went out of his way to fight her to the death and took this opportunity to kill her and seize the Truth Upanishad from her?
It was natural to think of a way to stabilise Zhang Ruochen first now.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen had never thought of killing the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden from the beginning to the end, and even if he did, it would be impossible to do so so blatantly. If the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden died in the Starmine Sacred Vehicle, first, the Truth Divine Hall would step in to suppress Zhang Ruochen, and he would not be able to leave the God Sealing Platform at all.
The reason why he had shot earlier was merely to warn the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden so that she wouldn’t go too far, and that he would do anything if he was pushed to the edge. Moreover, he had the strength to kill her himself.
“I’m still unsure of you.”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head, carefully examining the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden, and added, “Didn’t you once say that I have a chance to become the emperor’s son-in-law of the Thousand Star Civilisation? Why don’t we take this opportunity for us to determine the fact of being the emperor’s son-in-law first, that way I’ll also have some more protection.”
“What extra horse harnessed by the side of a team? Zhang Ruochen …… What do you want?”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s tone carried a bit of fear.
Zhang Ruochen said, “With Your Highness the Heavenly Maiden’s heart, having lost to me this time and being suppressed by me, you must already be harbouring a grudge. If we can’t take our relationship further and release you, you could kill me or suppress me at any time. Wouldn’t I have to defend myself against you all the time, that would be too tiring and passive.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was very uneasy and said, “If you dare to act recklessly, I will burn with you.”
“Your Highness, the Heavenly Maiden, is a smart person and also loves her life, I believe you won’t do that.”
Zhang Ruochen smiled indifferently, then he extended a hand to touch the picture scroll beauty, spatial power surged out, and his fingers probed inside the tome.
“Prick.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s long purple dress was torn off in one piece and fell into Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
“Zhang Ruochen, you pervert …… are too much …… believe it or not this Heavenly Maiden will really die with you ……”Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was seething with rage, if she wasn’t suppressed by the Secret Code of Time and Space, she would have killed Zhang Ruochen even if she had blown up her own Sacred Source.
However, what made the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden strange was that Zhang Ruochen did not take any further action after withdrawing a piece of her skirt.
After a long time, Zhang Ruochen opened the Secret Code of Time and Space and released the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was still wrapped in layers of silver-coloured light curtains and had not regained her free body.
Zhang Ruochen threw the piece of skirt veil over and said, “I’ve already written the title, it’s your turn to write the body.”
“Write what?”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden knew that Zhang Ruochen could re-suppress her inside the tome at any time, thus, she didn’t make a rash move, picking up the piece of skirt veil on the ground, her pair of apricot eyes glaring round as she lost her voice and said, “Wedding book. Whose wedding book?”
“Of course it’s yours and mine.”
Zhang Ruochen said solemnly, not like he was joking.
Thousand Star Celestial Maiden said, “Is this what you mean by the reality of being the emperor’s son-in-law?”
“What else do you think there is? You don’t think that I would be interested in your body, do you?”Zhang Ruochen was surprised.
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was so angry that her two jade hands were trembling, feeling that Zhang Ruochen had spoken too much, and listening to his tone, it seemed that he even resented her?
One must know that in terms of beauty, in terms of temperament, she wasn’t bad compared to the nine fairies on the Nine Immortal Beauties Diagram, only that she was a great deal younger than them, which was why she wasn’t drawn into the diagram.
“Giggle!”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s ten snowy onion jade fingers gushed out holy qi, shattering the skirt veil to pieces as she said in a deep voice, “There are so many valiant men and women pursuing this Heavenly Maiden in all the heavens and all the worlds, and to want to coerce this Heavenly Maiden to write a marriage contract, what virtue and ability do you have?”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s entire body radiated bright and eye-catching holy light, and at some point, a white talisman appeared between her two fingers.
She was about to activate the talisman and strike it out ……
“Wow!”
Zhang Ruochen closed the Secret Code of Time and Space once again, imprisoning her.
“Prick.”
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen probed his fingers into the pages of the book again, tearing off a piece of skirt veil on top of her long skirt, and, snatching the white talisman from her hand as well.
“Rascal …… bastard ……”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden was both annoyed, yet aggrieved, and wanted to cry without tears.
The white talisman, polished from some sort of holy jade, was as thin as paper and was quite cold when pinched in her hand.
On the talisman, an extremely complex pattern mark was sketched out using divine blood, and the aura that emanated from it was different from that of the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden. Obviously, it had been refined by an even more highly skilled Talisman Dao Saint Master.
The fact that the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden had used it as a base card meant that the power of this talisman must be extremely terrifying.
Zhang Ruochen did not study it for the time being, and put it away, then used his holy blood to write the word “Wedding” on top of the skirt.
Once again, he released the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden.
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s long skirt was torn down by a small half, revealing two grease-like snow-white beautiful calves, jade bones and ice muscles, fragrant and charming. However, her pretty face was as cold as ice, her eyes glaring straight at Zhang Ruochen, revealing two rows of snow-white shell teeth, as if she wanted to bite Zhang Ruochen to death.
Zhang Ruochen once again threw the skirt veil over and said, ”Whatever I say, you follow and write. Don’t destroy the skirt veil again, lest I have to come to your body to tear it again, and tear it further up …… Her Highness the Heavenly Maiden is about to spring/glow!”
“You ……”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden picked up the skirt veil on her body, resisting the urge to tear it to shreds, saying, “Zhang Ruochen, do you think that a marriage certificate can bind this Heavenly Maiden?”
“It is both a marriage certificate and a vow. I want you to make an oath on the honour of a god inside the marriage certificate that you shall never betray or harm your husband, Zhang Ruochen, for all eternity.”
After a pause, Zhang Ruochen added, “I remember that the Thousand Star Civilisation has a god called the Hundred Battles Star Sovereign. You use your holy blood as ink, your spiritual intent as a pen, and make an oath on the honour of the Hundred Battles Star Monarch to write this marriage letter.”
“In the first sentence, Timeless Transmitter Zhang Ruochen has a handsome instrument, great talent, and good character, and is a man I truly adore. Today, I, Thousand Star Civilisation Heavenly Maiden, Fish Chen Jing, swear on the honour of the Hundred Battle Stars to voluntarily tie the knot with Time and Space Transmitter Zhang Ruochen.”
The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden clenched her pink fists and kept grinding her teeth, saying, “Do you still want to have face?”
Zhang Ruochen frowned and said seriously, “You don’t think I really want to marry you, do you? I just want to use this marriage certificate to protect myself, as long as you don’t deal with me, I won’t make it public. When I break through to the Great Saint realm, I will naturally return it to you.”
“Besides, I’m already quite lenient towards you, and I don’t even have more excessive demands. For example, letting you follow my orders, making you a slave or a servant, and so on and so forth.”
Zhang Ruochen pondered over this, if he pushed Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden too far, with her proud character, she definitely wouldn’t do what he wanted, saying that she wouldn’t necessarily burn with him.
In short, just stop at the right time.
“Okay, I’ll write.”
Thousand Star Celestial Maiden was holding back and restraining herself in a very frantic mood as she followed Zhang Ruochen’s instructions, spending half an hour before she finished writing the marriage certificate sentence by sentence.
Zhang Ruochen took over the skirt and inspected the marriage certificate twice, nodding in satisfaction, he said, “Written in your own holy blood, incorporated with spiritual will, and sworn with the honour of a deity, count yourself as still having some sincerity.”
With that, Zhang Ruochen used his own sacred blood and wrote at the bottom, “I am willing.”
Seeing those three words, the Thousand Star Celestial Maiden had a vicious chill, her full chest heaving violently in anger.
Zhang Ruochen glanced at her and said, “In the future, if you want to deal with me again, you’d better think about what kind of repercussions you’ll cause once this marriage contract is made public. If you kill me, it’s better, the most you’ll get is to turn from a pure and innocent Heaven’s Proud Lady into a widow. If you don’t kill me, I will have a hundred ways to make your reputation a wretched one, the impact on you should be great, right?”
“Don’t worry, I won’t keep the marriage certificate on myself, I will find a trustworthy person to collect it for safekeeping.”
“I’m actually curious, this is kind of a disguised oath for you, once you break the oath, will you be punished by the gods?”
Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden said, “Zhang Ruochen, if you dare to publish this marriage seal, this Heavenly Maiden will not only kill you, but will also exterminate your nine clans.”
The Thousand Stars Heavenly Maiden took that marriage certificate very seriously, as she was the figure who was going to become the future Heavenly Lord of the Thousand Stars Civilisation, dominating hundreds of millions of living beings, and she couldn’t afford to have a single stain on her body.
Zhang Ruochen stared at her for a long time before he was saying slowly, “Since there is a marriage certificate, naturally, there must be a precious betrothal object. That belt of yours seems to be a very good treasure, give it to me?”
“Don’t even think about it.”The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden immediately refused.
Firstly, that belt was a defence-type Divine Remnant Ancient Artifact, capable of forming a light shield carrying a faint divine power once holy qi was injected into it, and was worth more than a hundred million holy stones, a treasure that even Great Saints were very moved by.
Secondly, if the belt of her titular Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden were to fall into Zhang Ruochen’s hands.
In case, in the future, Zhang Ruochen took this belt and went out to say something, even if she tried to explain it, it would become pale and powerless.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Then I’ll take it myself.”
“If you dare to do something so excessive, this Heavenly Maiden will really burn with you with a jade stone.”The Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden tensed up and kept retreating.
Zhang Ruochen re-imprisoned her inside the tome, and then the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden’s screams and curses rang out, and a long time later, her voice, came out from the tome, “Here …… I’ll unlock it for you …… Take your evil dirtyhands away ……”
After a long time, the Thousand Star Heavenly Maiden returned to the carriage, her hands clasped in front of her chest, tightly wrapped around her long skirt, biting her lips and teeth, with an appearance of having suffered a huge grievance.
Where was the haughty and well-behaved look from earlier?
Zhang Ruochen played with the belt in his hand that had a faint body odour lingering in it and said, ”I know that you are very angry and are suppressing the anger in your heart. However, what can be done about it? You simply don’t dare to burn with me because you value your life, because you think that you are very smart, and as long as you hold back now, you will definitely be able to take revenge in the future. It is precisely for this reason that you have been humiliated and threatened, yet you have chosen to be obedient. Now I say that you have a flawed state of mind, and that you may not dare to rise to the challenge when you encounter a truly great calamity, and that you will fight even though you die, do you recognise it?”
