Two Women Compete for a Husband

Wu Lingxiao clutched her head with both hands and let out an extremely shrill scream.

Madness.

This time, she had truly gone mad.

"Shut up! You are not allowed to call me Imperial Sister!!"

"I am your wife! I am your only woman!"

"Brother-in-law? Hahahaha... to hell with brother-in-law!!"

Wu Lingxiao suddenly raised her head. Her originally pitch-black pupils instantly turned blood-red, and her full head of black hair whipped around without any wind.

She stared fixedly at Wu Lingfeng, who was being shielded behind Ye Xuan. The jealousy in her eyes was so intense that it materialized into black fire.

"Good... very good..."

"Since you call me Imperial Sister..."

"Since you care for your wife so much..."

Wu Lingxiao's lips parted into an incredibly cruel smile, and the imperial sword in her hand gathered a world-destroying storm:

"Then I shall kill her."

"I will tear her into ten thousand pieces and boil her bones into soup!"

"As long as she is dead... you will still be mine!"

"Wu Lingfeng! Die!"

Boom!

The Empress struck, and heaven and earth collapsed.

Spurt!

Fresh blood dyed Ye Xuan's coarse linen clothes red.

That was the price of him burning his lifeblood essence to forcefully block the certain-kill strike of a Tribulation Transcendence realm Empress.

Even though Wu Lingxiao desperately pulled back her power at the last moment, the terrifying shockwaves still caused Ye Xuan's internal organs to shift.

"Husband!"

Wu Lingxiao ignored the blood at the corner of her own mouth and stepped forward in panic: "How are you? Why did you block it? Why did you block it for that slut?"

Ye Xuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His face was deathly pale, but his eyes were terrifyingly calm.

He looked at the crazed Wu Lingxiao as if looking at a lifeless stone.

"Husband... say something... don't look at me like that..."

Wu Lingxiao was stung by this calmness. She reached out a trembling hand: "Even if you scold me a few times, even if you slap me a few times, it would be fine... just don't look at me with the eyes of a stranger..."

Ye Xuan finally spoke, his voice weak but calm:

"Your Majesty must be joking. To me now, you are indeed just a stranger."

"These past twenty years, I have lived very well."

Ye Xuan turned his head and glanced at Wu Lingfeng, who was weeping bitterly behind him, a touch of tenderness appearing in his eyes:

"Back then, when I was heavily injured and on the verge of death, I used the Ten Thousand Mile Traceless Talisman and was randomly teleported to Youzhou, only to be besieged by demonic beasts. It was Feng'er who saved me."

"She did not hesitate to expend her source energy to heal my wounds."

"In this Carefree Valley, I worked at sunrise and rested at sunset."

"There was no need for scheming, no need to worry about being treated as someone's plaything, and even less need to listen to those sickening moans."

Ye Xuan turned back, looked straight into Wu Lingxiao's eyes, and smiled:

"These past twenty years have been the happiest time of my life."

Wu Lingxiao spat out another mouthful of blood.

Happy?

For these twenty years, she had suffered in hell, while he was happy in a paradise?

"I don't believe it... I don't believe it!!"

With her hair disheveled and her eyes bloodshot, Wu Lingxiao screamed: "You are mine! You are my husband! How can you be happy by another woman's side?!"

"I already made it very clear in the letter I left behind."

Ye Xuan's voice was as cold as ice:

"We are already finished."

"Finished? How could it be that easy!"

Wu Lingxiao screamed hysterically, demonic energy roiling around her body: "As long as I am not dead, as long as the Great Xia Dynasty still exists, we will never be finished!!"

Right at this moment.

Wu Lingfeng, who had been shielded behind Ye Xuan all this time, slowly stood up.

She wiped away her tears, gently hugged Ye Xuan's waist from behind, pressed her face against his back, and revealed a mocking smile toward Wu Lingxiao.

"Imperial Sister, have you become too forgetful?"

Wu Lingfeng's voice was as gentle as water, yet every word was like a knife:

"This is your brother-in-law, my lawfully wedded husband."

"Eighteen years ago, I submitted a marriage certificate to the imperial court and announced it to the world. Although you were busy looking for someone and didn't pay attention, there is a record of this in the Imperial Clan Court."

Wu Lingxiao was stunned.

Indeed.

Eighteen years ago, there was a memorial stating that the Ninth Princess had married a commoner man.

But at that time, she didn't care at all and threw it into the trash pile after a single glance.

So... that was Ye Xuan! She had personally missed him!

"Ninth Sister..." The killing intent in Wu Lingxiao's eyes almost solidified: "Hurry up and return my husband to me... and I will spare your life."

"Return him to you?"

Wu Lingfeng hugged tighter, even provocatively rubbing against the nape of Ye Xuan's neck:

"Imperial Sister, you have gotten one thing wrong."

"He is my husband."

Wu Lingfeng looked at Wu Lingxiao and slowly spat out the most lethal poison:

"Moreover, I gave my virgin body to my husband."

"For these twenty years, I have been his only woman, and he has been my only man."

"Our bodies and minds are united, pure and clean."

"And what about you, Imperial Sister?"

Wu Lingfeng looked disdainfully at Wu Lingxiao's magnificent imperial robes:

"You are so dirty it's disgusting. How can you compare to me?"

"Ahhhhhh!! Slut! I'm going to tear your mouth apart!"

"Since that is the case... go to hell!"

At this moment, Wu Lingxiao went completely insane.

A great battle erupted.

No one expected that Wu Lingfeng, who had been exiled to the borderlands for twenty years, had quietly rebuilt her foundation and even broken through to the Tribulation Transcendence realm!

In the sky above Youzhou, two terrifying figures clashed together.

Mountains and rivers shattered, and the void collapsed.

"Who is afraid of whom?" Wielding a long spear, Wu Lingfeng looked valiant and heroic. To protect her lover, she erupted with unprecedented combat power.

However.

She was ultimately not Wu Lingxiao's match.

Wu Lingxiao had gone mad.

The Empress in her maddened state burned her imperial destiny, and her strength was so terrifying that it induced despair.

Coupled with the supreme cultivation method passed down through generations of the Great Xia imperial family—the True Dragon Overlord Art.

The Empress had already cultivated it to the ninth level, while Wu Lingfeng had only reached the seventh level.

In merely ten breaths.

Wu Lingfeng was defeated.

Bang!

Her protective spiritual light was shattered by a palm strike from Wu Lingxiao. She plummeted from the sky, crashing heavily into a deep crater. All the bones in her body were shattered, and she was on the verge of death.

"Die! Die for me!!"

Wu Lingxiao was now a complete and utter lunatic. She raised the imperial sword and was about to slash down at Wu Lingfeng's head.

"Stop!"

Ye Xuan rushed over.

He stood in front of Wu Lingfeng, using that ordinary iron sword to block the imperial sword.

The iron sword instantly shattered.

The imperial sword hung above his head, only an inch away.

Wu Lingxiao's hand was trembling. She looked at Ye Xuan's resolute gaze and gritted her teeth:

"Get out of the way! I am going to kill this vixen who seduced you!"

"If you want to kill her, then kill me first." Ye Xuan closed his eyes.

Stalemate.

A deathly stalemate.

Eventually, Wu Lingxiao backed down.

She let out a cold sneer, put away the imperial sword, and gave a look as venomous as a snake:

"If you want me to spare her life, that's fine."

"You, come back with me."

"Go back to being your Consort Xuan, be my captive lover, and never step half a foot out of the Weiyang Palace for all eternity!"

"No! Husband! Don't go back with her!"

At the bottom of the crater, Wu Lingfeng cried out while coughing up blood: "I would rather die! I would rather die than have you suffer such a grievance!!"

Ye Xuan turned his head and looked at this woman who had risked everything for him.

The tenderness in his eyes was almost overflowing.

He walked over, gently wiped away the bloodstains on her face, and finally kissed her forehead.

"Feng'er, live on."

"As long as you are alive... I will still exist."

After saying this, Ye Xuan stood up. Without looking at her again, he turned and walked toward the Empress, who was like a demon.

His departing figure was bleak and desolate, as if he were marching to the execution grounds.

"Let's go."

Wu Lingxiao kept her promise and did not kill Wu Lingfeng.

But what she did was far more cruel than killing her.

She laid down an ancient forbidden formation in the extreme frigid lands of Youzhou—the "Heart-Locking Array of Severed Affections".

This array specifically targeted females. As long as the captive was a woman, even if she were the reincarnation of a True Immortal, it was absolutely impossible for her to escape.

"Take a good look from here, Ninth Sister."

Before leaving, Wu Lingxiao smiled cruelly. "Watch how I bestow my favors upon your husband, and watch how I make him completely forget about you."