Chapter 533: The Whereabouts of the Empress

"Purple Cloud Divine Thunder and the Ancient Calamity are trash?"

Upon hearing Xu Que say this, Liu Jingning nearly spat a mouthful of blood.

That was the Lightning Tribulation said to appear only when cultivators from Ancient Times underwent their trials; even for today's Holy Sons and Holy Maidens with heaven-defying talents, encountering a mere wisp of Purple Cloud Divine Thunder during their tribulations was a major event, let alone the Ancient Calamity, which they had practically never even seen.

Yet these two types of lightning tribulations were called trash by Xu Que, leaving her instantly speechless.

Although Xu Que was, in her eyes, a unique genius with potential greater than anyone else's, when it came to the topic of lightning tribulations, she could not agree, believing that this time Xu Que was truly boasting.

So she simply didn't continue Xu Que's line of thought, instead asking, "Then where should we go now to find Jiang Hongyan? When I last met her, it was in this Huangluo City; surely she is no longer here!"

"That's simple; you move aside a bit first, I'm going to throw my shoe!" Xu Que said to Liu Jingning, holding the shoe he had just taken off.

"You... you're going to use 'Throwing Shoes to Ask the Way' again?" Liu Jingning momentarily felt somewhat doubtful about life itself.

Xu Que's method was too outrageous; not only outrageous, but also very childish.

Yet strangely, she couldn't utter a single word of rebuttal, after all, she had witnessed with her own eyes how Xu Que had thrown shoes step by step, literally throwing his way all the way to Huangluo City!

"Of course, do you happen to have a more reliable method?" Xu Que asked with an expression of complete nonchalance.

A more reliable method? Seemingly any method would be more reliable than throwing shoes, right? It's just... it actually doesn't seem as effective as throwing shoes!

The corners of Liu Jingning's mouth twitched slightly; she shook her head with a bitter smile, her face full of helplessness.

In her entire life, this was the first time she had ever felt so helpless.

If anyone could recognize her now and see her current expression, they would definitely be shocked.

A dignified Holy Maiden of the Extreme Joy Sect, once a Demoness who slaughtered in all directions with extremely ruthless methods, was actually so helpless before an Infant Transformation Stage youth.

"If you have no method, then quickly move aside and watch my performance, be good!" Xu Que strode forward arrogantly while simultaneously summoning his System Interface.

Be good?

How old is this little guy, yet he actually dares to tell me to be good?

Liu Jingning immediately arched her delicate eyebrows, feeling very unconvinced; by age calculation, Xu Que was clearly several generations younger than her, almost just a little brat in her eyes.

If this had happened before, upon hearing Xu Que say such words, she would definitely have acted to teach him a lesson.

But now, Liu Jingning at most felt a momentary inner dissatisfaction, yet this dissatisfaction quickly vanished inexplicably.

After all, in the Cultivation World, seniority was basically not determined by age, but by strength and realm.

Of course, even valuing realms, Xu Que wasn't qualified to tell Liu Jingning to be good; it was just that through their experiences along the way, Liu Jingning was still very convinced by Xu Que, and whether she was willing to admit it or not, deep in her heart, Xu Que had long been regarded as a peer.

Therefore, at this moment, that feeling of dissatisfaction of hers was merely a flash that passed instantly.

"Pata!"

At this moment, Xu Que had already activated his Luck Halo, threw out the shoe, and after the shoe traced a parabola in the air, it rapidly fell toward the ground.

This time, the direction the toe of the shoe pointed was actually skewed toward the southeast!

"Eh, southeast direction? What a pity; 'Throwing Shoes to Ask the Way' can only determine direction, but cannot calculate distance; let's try going there first to see!" After quickly deactivating the Luck Halo, Xu Que sighed and said.

For now, he didn't have any good method to quickly find Jiang Hongyan either; being able to rely on throwing shoes to determine the location was already quite good.

"Southeast direction? Oh no!" Liu Jingning's face suddenly changed, and she exclaimed in alarm, "She wouldn't have gone to that place, would she?"

"What do you mean?" Xu Que immediately realized something was wrong; he didn't even bother putting his shoes back on, turning his gaze toward Liu Jingning.

"Southeast of Huangluo City lies Buried Immortal Valley, one of the Nine Great Forbidden Lands!" Liu Jingning's expression tightened, and she said in a low voice, unable to prevent a trace of sorrow from appearing in her eyes.

At this moment, Er Gouzi popped out, saying with an arrogant expression, "Buried Immortal Valley is nothing; this Divine Venerable went in and out of it seven times back in the day, emerging without a single scratch!"

"Get the hell out of the way!" Xu Que shoved Er Gouzi aside, not believing Er Gouzi's words at all; who knew if this guy was boasting again!

When he heard about the Nine Great Forbidden Lands, he immediately recalled the "Dry Dragon Cave" he had heard about earlier at the Stone Polishing Conference; that was also one of the Nine Great Forbidden Lands, and moreover, a dangerous area that even the Jiang Family and the Gong Family dared not enter, only daring to dig for stones in the outer peripheral border zones, even resulting in the loss of a large number of Infant Transformation and Void Refining stage experts.

Now hearing about another one of the Nine Great Forbidden Lands, Xu Que's first reaction was to secretly think that things were not good.

Based on his understanding of Jiang Hongyan, she might really go to Buried Immortal Valley!

Just like before at Bright Moon Pavilion, it wasn't that Jiang Hongyan feared these cultivators, but rather she was worried that during her Tribulation, she would implicate everyone.

"She has definitely gone to Buried Immortal Valley!" At this moment, Liu Jingning spoke; based on her understanding of Jiang Hongyan, she also knew why she would go to Buried Immortal Valley!

"That silly woman, at such a time, still pulling this 'repaying evil with goodness' act, she has such a Holy Mother heart; these people are all here to kill her, yet she still worries about implicating them?" Xu Que flew into a rage, feeling that Jiang Hongyan was going a bit too far.

This wasn't Xu Que being selfish; rather, he had always firmly believed that being merciful to enemies is being cruel to oneself, especially in this law of the jungle Cultivation World, where the approach of repaying evil with goodness is absolutely unworkable.

Liu Jingning, however, shook her head and sighed, saying, "She is just afraid of implicating the innocent and doesn't want to create too much bad karma!"

"Of the people who came here, how many are innocent? Apart from us, I dare say ninety-nine percent of them are here to kill her; innocent my ass!" Xu Que said angrily.

Liu Jingning glanced lightly at Xu Que and said softly, "These people indeed deserve to die, but their families and descendants do not necessarily deserve to die!"

"Hm?" Xu Que was immediately stunned; what did that mean?

"Sigh, you still underestimate the impact of Jiang Hongyan's kind of bad luck!"

Liu Jingning sighed again and said with a bitter smile, "Once she begins her Tribulation, that kind of Unlucky aura will spread in all directions; if outsiders do not interfere, then fine, but if someone tries to kill her, she will definitely fight back; once someone dies within that Unlucky aura, that person's family and offspring will be entangled by bad luck for their entire lives."

"..." Xu Que's eyes immediately widened.

Oh my god, my goodness!

The Empress's kind of ability is just too damn monstrous!

Killing an opponent within the Unlucky aura can cause the opponent's clan to suffer implications; this is almost no different from executing nine generations of relatives, right?

But that's not right; if she possessed such an awesome ability, why would these people still be willing to provoke her? If they died, the consequences would be very serious!

Liu Jingning seemed to see what Xu Que was thinking and voluntarily spoke up, saying, "I know what you are thinking; actually, no one knows about Jiang Hongyan's kind of ability; even I only learned it from her mouth when I met her a while ago, but she does not intend to spread the word, simply following her own heart to avoid the world and reduce killing and bad karma!"

Upon hearing these words, Xu Que immediately breathed a sigh of relief!

I thought the Empress was the kind of person so kind it was inhuman; now it seems the Empress does have a temper after all!

Truly awesome!

Xu Que couldn't help but laugh, and actually approved of the Empress's approach.

Knowing clearly that you all want to come kill me, why should I still warn you? At worst, I'll just try to hide far away, but if I hide that far away and you still continue to come seek death, then you can't blame me!

Of course, this is just the Empress's own approach; if it were Xu Que who possessed such a terrifying passive ability, that guy would have long used it to scam people, and might even dart toward places with many enemies during his Tribulation.

"Let's go; I suspect she chose to undergo her Tribulation on the outskirts of Buried Immortal Valley. Let's head over and find her now!" Liu Jingning said, preparing to set out.

"Alright!" Xu Que also nodded, while a hint of playful amusement arose in his heart.

If they found the Empress, what expression would she wear upon seeing him?