Xia Chichi sat clutching her chest, teary-eyed and utterly defeated. She had been singled out by Ye Jiuyou as the weak point of the Four Idols Formation and had thus taken a serious beating. However, what truly hurt her was not the physical damage that she had suffered during the spar but the glance Ye Jiuyou cast at her chest before breaking the formation. The profound disdain that Ye Jiuyou’s gaze had contained as she stared at her chest was etched into her mind.1

And before breaking out of the formation, Ye Jiuyou had even dropped a verbal nuke. “Emperors are said to possess great magnanimity[1]. Who would have thought the Empress of Han would even be outdone by a little Cui Yuanyang?”1

Part of the reason the formation failed might have actually been that line. Hearing that line, Chichi’s focus was broken and she got emotionally rattled.0

Thankfully, no one blamed her. The Four Idols acted as one. No matter who had been the breach point, the fault could not lie on any single person. Had Ye Jiuyou targeted anyone else, they likely would not have fared better.0

Lady Three, of course, was the most smug. She was pretty sure Ye Jiuyou’s glance toward her was filled with envy. If Ye Jiuyou had tried to break through from her quadrant, things might have gone quite differently, and it might have been someone else who ended up emotionally breaking down instead.0

Hmph, what’s so special about being a primordial demon god anyway? Born of heaven and earth? Pft. Her figure isn’t much different from that dumb bird’s. What’s so special about that?0

Yue Hongling and Huangfu Qing could not help but smile at their expressions. Ye Jiuyou had just given them a serious sparring session, and this was where their minds had gone?0

Still, what felt even worse was that Lady Three, who seemed to have porridge sloshing around in her head most days, was actually managing...0