She insisted and you just gave in

"Waiting for you?"

Jiang Xinyao froze for a moment, blinking her beautiful big eyes. Su Qingyue also looked up, her cold eyes full of curiosity.

Qin Hao did not speak; instead, he strode toward the stone pillar in the center.

He reached out and gently rested his hand on the pillar.

In an instant—

The world changed colors as a terrifyingly powerful aura erupted from the stone pillar!

The aura was so overwhelming that it felt as if the apocalypse had arrived. Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue were forced back several steps by the sheer force of it.

"What a terrifying pressure! What is this?"

The two women stared intently at Qin Hao, only to see him acting as if nothing had happened. The patterns on the stone pillar in front of him grew brighter and brighter, eventually transforming into a pillar of light that shot into the sky.

Within the pillar of light, a phantom slowly condensed into the figure of a woman.

She was dressed in plain clothes, with black hair cascading down like a waterfall and a face that was coldly beautiful and peerless.

The moment they saw her, a sense of crisis welled up in the hearts of Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue. What a beautiful woman.

Just as countless questions surged in the minds of the two women, the phantom moved. She slowly floated down, her black hair dancing in the wind, like the Mystic Fairy of the Nine Heavens descending to the mortal realm.

She drifted in front of Qin Hao and gently nestled into his embrace.

"I missed you so much~"

Qin Hao looked down at the phantom in his arms, a gentle smile curving on his lips. "I missed you too, Ruyan."

Jiang Xinyao: "???"

Su Qingyue: "???"

The two women's eyes instantly widened. What was going on?

This was too brazen, too dismissive! The two of them were still standing right there, and he was shamelessly acting all lovey-dovey with another woman?

Wait, what did Qin Hao call this woman? Ruyan? Could it be that this woman, who was snuggling in Qin Hao's arms like a docile kitten, was the legendary Fairy Miejue, Liu Ruyan, who had single-handedly slaughtered her way through the foreign realm?

But wasn't Fairy Miejue someone from the Immortal Antiquity Era? Countless epochs had passed since then. How could Qin Hao be involved with such a legendary figure?

Just as Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue were curiously observing Liu Ruyan, Liu Ruyan slightly raised her head from Qin Hao's embrace. Her eyes, as deep as the starry sky, looked toward Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue.

Liu Ruyan's gaze was as calm as water, yet it inexplicably made the two women feel a trace of pressure.

"The Heavenly Phoenix Divine Body and the Innate Dao Body are both peerless physiques, one in a million. However, your cultivation is too weak, and your comprehension of the Great Dao is too shallow."

"With how you are now, let alone helping Qin Hao in the future, even protecting yourselves will be a problem!"

Jiang Xinyao raised her head, jealousy and stubbornness flashing in her eyes.

"We naturally have our own resolve. But we are all Qin Hao's women. What gives you the right to lecture us?"

Jiang Xinyao pouted, her face full of defiance. She couldn't let Liu Ruyan boss her around. She had a heart that wanted to be the main wife. If she let herself be managed today, wouldn't she always be a head lower than Liu Ruyan in the future?

Facing Jiang Xinyao's questioning, Liu Ruyan chuckled softly and leaned even closer into Qin Hao's embrace.

"What gives me the right?"

Liu Ruyan looked up and gently kissed Qin Hao on the lips. Then, she looked at Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue, her face full of provocation.

"Because I was the first one to conquer him."

"According to the rule of first come, first served, shouldn't you be calling me big sister?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue both whipped their heads to look at Qin Hao.

"You gave it to her?"

Qin Hao felt a bit creeped out being stared at by the two women and gave a dry laugh.

"She insisted."

"She insisted, so you just gave it? How could you do that? I thought..."

Liu Ruyan's phantom leaned against Qin Hao's chest. Seeing Jiang Xinyao's reaction, she couldn't help but laugh.

"You thought you would be the first?"

Jiang Xinyao's face flushed red as she glared hostilely at Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan smiled lightly and shook her head. With a wave of her hand, the stone pillars that perfectly matched the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Body and the Innate Dao Body flew into Jiang Xinyao and Su Qingyue's bodies, respectively.

"I specially forged these two stone pillars for you two. They can complete the Great Dao of your cultivation."

After saying this, the phantom Liu Ruyan left behind became a bit more illusory. Seeing this, Qin Hao quickly grabbed Liu Ruyan's small hand and asked softly,

"Ruyan, since you've left a phantom behind, just tell me directly where I can find you."

Liu Ruyan held Qin Hao's hand in return, her beautiful eyes full of tenderness.

She raised her hand and gently tapped the void with her index finger. A speck of light solidified at her fingertip, growing brighter and brighter until it transformed into a profound rune.

The rune slowly drifted down and imprinted itself on the back of Qin Hao's hand. Qin Hao felt a slight warmth on his skin. Looking down, he saw a golden mark slowly emerge, but it quickly sank beneath his skin and disappeared.

"What is this?" Qin Hao looked up at Liu Ruyan.

Liu Ruyan said softly,

"The Immortal Antiquity Battlefield! When the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield opens in the future, you can use this mark to find me there."

Seeing Qin Hao's furrowed brow, Liu Ruyan gently raised her hand to smooth out the creases between his eyebrows.

"Don't worry, I'm fine. I just can't get out."

With that, Liu Ruyan cupped Qin Hao's face and left one last sentence before her phantom gradually dissipated:

"I'll be waiting for you."

Qin Hao stood rooted to the spot, gazing at the place where Liu Ruyan had just been. He looked down at the back of his hand, where the golden mark had vanished as if it had never existed.

But Qin Hao knew it was there, and Liu Ruyan was waiting for him at the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield.

The Immortal Antiquity Battlefield was the place where, at the end of the Immortal Antiquity Era, Liu Ruyan led the cultivators of the Three Realms and Nine Heavens in a final, decisive battle against the foreign realm.

It did not belong to the Three Realms and Nine Heavens; rather, it was an independent, special space. It held the lingering resentments of countless almighty experts, myriad terrifying restrictions, and distorted laws.

Furthermore, although some of these almighty experts were dead, their resentment and obsession had transformed into terrifying killing intent, controlling their corpses to engage in endless slaughter.

Once, the corpse of an Immortal Emperor had slaughtered its way out of the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield, setting off a storm of blood and gore across the Three Realms and Nine Heavens. Later, to prevent such incidents from happening again, the major powers joined forces and completely sealed the passage between the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield and the Three Realms and Nine Heavens.

"Relying on myself, it's impossible to go to the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield anytime soon. I'll have to go back and ask my old man. He has already completed his Great Dao and possesses a supreme Dao artifact. If he's willing to help, going to the Immortal Antiquity Battlefield to find Ruyan will be a piece of cake."

Qin Hao wasn't worried that Qin Wuya would refuse his request. Refuse? Hehe, then he would just have to take back the right to use the Nine Tribulations Sword.

"Qin Hao!"

Jiang Xinyao rushed up and grabbed Qin Hao's arm, her big eyes brimming with grievance.

Qin Hao took the opportunity to pull her into his arms, asking softly, "What's wrong?"

Jiang Xinyao wrapped her arms around Qin Hao's neck and bit down hard on it.

"Since there's no hope of being the first, being the second should be fine, right!"

Qin Hao sweatdropped. "Uh—the second one is currently staying at the Qin family estate."