This man is a heartbreaker, but he's so handsome

The members of the Netherworld Hall were greatly emboldened after witnessing the methods of the Strong Force Shaper.

They looked at the ancestors of the Qin family and laughed:

“What do you think, Qin Wuya? Your Qin family has dominated the Three Realms and Nine Heavens for so many years—have you ever seen such power?”

“Everything you pride yourselves on means nothing before our lord.”

However, before the Netherworld Hall Master could finish speaking, a streak of white light silently descended from some point in the sky.

“Seal Heaven and Lock Earth!”

An exquisite formation precisely trapped the Strong Force Shaper.

As the light dissipated, the figure of Liu Ruyan appeared.

She swept her gaze over the Netherworld Hall camp and curled the corners of her mouth:

“Oh, so many old friends here!”

Upon seeing Liu Ruyan, their faces changed dramatically:

“It’s Miejue! It really is her—she’s not dead!”

Liu Ruyan gave a cold laugh:

“With scum like you still alive, how could I bear to die?”

With that, she formed a hand seal:

“Condense!”

The next moment, the supreme imperial weapon that had been destroyed by the Strong Force Shaper reappeared in Liu Ruyan’s hand.

Witnessing this, the Strong Force Shaper’s radiance flickered, and a deep, eerie voice came forth:

“Your power touches upon our dimension.”

In the Shaper’s voice, Qin Hao sensed a hint of wariness. This allowed him to breathe a sigh of relief—it seemed his first wife was indeed formidable.

“What?! That supreme imperial weapon was destroyed by Lord Strong Force—how did she restore it?”

The Netherworld Hall members were all stunned.

They knew full well how terrifying the being before them—resembling a miniature sun—truly was.

Anything it destroyed was not simply broken in the ordinary sense.

It was erased from existence across the three planes: the present, the past, and the future.

Yet Liu Ruyan had casually restored it, shaking them to the core.

“Thank you for that. Through nine lifetimes of reincarnation, I learned many things from you.”

Liu Ruyan spoke as she walked toward the Strong Force Shaper.

With each step, the space of the entire Three Realms and Nine Heavens twisted visibly in an instant.

The Shaper’s golden surface flashed brightly.

Several searing streams of plasma arc shot out from within its body, surging straight at Liu Ruyan.

She simply raised her right hand and opened five fingers toward them.

Then, she absorbed all that energy.

“Does this move look familiar?”

The Strong Force Shaper remained silent, but its light pulsed unsteadily.

Its surface luster began to flicker in a rhythmic pattern, as though performing some high-speed calculation.

Then, its body vanished.

“It disappeared?” Qin Wuya frowned. Even with Liu Ruyan’s Sealing Heaven and Locking Earth array in place, it had vanished?

Liu Ruyan suddenly spoke:

“No, not disappeared. It shrank—became countless times smaller than a speck of dust, completely invisible to the naked eye.”

“This creature’s control over energy is extraordinarily twisted. Even our spiritual senses cannot track it. Everyone, be careful!”

Before she even finished speaking, Liu Ruyan’s expression changed drastically.

A blinding golden light suddenly flared right beside Qin Hao.

“You dare touch him!”

She hadn’t finished the words before she shot toward Qin Hao’s side like a bolt of white lightning.

Golden plasma streams erupted, colliding head-on with Liu Ruyan's palm.

At the instant the two forces met, a deafening roar exploded.

The space-time of this world cracked open a gaping rift, unable to withstand their clash.

The rift was not large, about three feet long, its edges sharp as if cut by a blade.

Inside the rift, it was pitch black, revealing not a glimmer of light.

Yet this inconspicuous crack, like a greedy mouth, madly devoured everything around it—

air, light, dust, even the laws of reality.

Anything that drew near was sucked in, leaving not a trace behind.

Qin Hao, standing right beside the rift, bore the brunt and was directly swallowed into it.

"Qin Hao!!!" Chen Xiaoyun cried out in shock.

Liu Ruyan, while fending off the attacks of the Strong Force Shaper, diverted her attention to coat Qin Hao with a protective barrier.

The next moment, Qin Hao's figure vanished into that pitch-black spatial rift.

Chen Xiaoyun grabbed hold of Qin Hao and disappeared with him.

She felt she had brought this upon Qin Hao; if not for helping her investigate the massacre of the Chen family, he would never have been caught in such a crisis.

So, even if it meant death, she was determined to follow him.

Liu Ruyan, however, remained composed. This spatial rift was something she had deliberately created to send Qin Hao away.

The battle that followed would be brutal. If Qin Hao stayed here, even the shockwaves would kill him countless times over.

Sending him off spared her from having to worry.

...

On the surface of a deep blue sea, a small, battered fishing boat rose and fell slowly with the waves.

An old fisherman squatted at the bow, squinting as he listlessly pulled in his net.

Behind him, a little girl shouted,

"Grandpa, Grandpa, look! There are people on the sea."

Following the direction of his granddaughter's pointed finger, the old fisherman indeed saw two figures floating on the water—a man and a woman.

"Good heavens! The waters of the Bone-Eroding Sea can kill even an elder-level cultivator on contact, yet these two are drifting unharmed on the surface!"

"These two corpses must have incredibly tough bodies, to withstand the waters of this sea. If I turn them into puppets..."

As this thought crossed his mind, the old fisherman swiftly cast out his net, hauling Qin Hao and Chen Xiaoyun aboard.

Once on deck, he realized they were not dead as he had suspected—they were still breathing.

Moreover, the woman's hand was clenched tightly around the man's clothes.

Instantly, the worldly-wise old fisherman concocted a dramatic story in his head.

"Lass, you see this? This man must be a no-good cheat, and this woman, she must have caught him red-handed and then decided to drown themselves together in the Bone-Eroding Sea!"

The old fisherman’s granddaughter crouched beside Qin Hao, staring at him intently. After a long moment, she said,

"Grandpa, this man is so handsome! I want to marry a man this handsome when I grow up."

"Good heavens! Lass, are you even listening to me? This man’s definitely a cheating scoundrel. You must never marry such a man."

"But... he’s so handsome!"

At that, the old fisherman’s vision nearly went black. He glanced down at Qin Hao and Chen Xiaoyun, and the faint sympathy he had felt moments earlier evaporated entirely.

His movements were fluid and decisive as he unceremoniously tossed the two people he had just fished out of the sea back into the water, leaving them to fend for themselves.