#825 - Out of control

Women love beauty, and even a woman like Ji Yinlan is no exception.

The Qiankun Battle Garment was too beautiful; she couldn't take her eyes off it.

"Stop looking at it; refine it and try it on."

Jun Wuxie handed the battle garment to her. Ji Yinlan snapped out of her daze and, after a series of refinements, the garment covered her body under her control.

The battle garment worn by women is different from the battle armor worn by men. It doesn't have that metallic texture or sharp contours. Instead, it appears soft and elegant, like a silk dress, moving with the wind, its sleeves fluttering.

The Qiankun Battle Garment flowed with a hazy moonlight, gentle and dreamlike, making her seem like a celestial maiden from the Moon Palace.

The Great Sun Ring behind her sprinkled golden light, adding a touch of divinity and majesty to this gentle etherealness. The combination of the two created a soft, dreamy, and powerful aura.

"Tsk tsk, Imperial Sister looks so beautiful in this battle garment that Brother-in-Law can't take his eyes off her! Haha!"

Ji Beilan's voice and expression were particularly exaggerated.

"Are you asking for a beating?"

Ji Yinlan's face flushed slightly, and she glared at Ji Beilan, who immediately shrank his neck and dared not speak.

"It looks good, really amazing."

Jun Wuxie praised sincerely, his eyes somewhat dazed.

Receiving praise from the one she loved, Ji Yinlan felt happy in her heart. A woman adorns herself for the one who pleases her; otherwise, beauty would lose its meaning.

"Brother-in-Law, is this the battle armor you said you were forging last night?"

Seeing how extraordinary the battle garment was, Ji Beilan looked at Jun Wuxie with eager eyes: "What about mine? Do I have one?"

With a wave of his hand, a dazzling battle armor flew in front of Ji Beilan. Unlike Ji Yinlan's battle garment, this Qiankun Battle Armor had sharp contours, extremely visually aggressive, with every edge of the armor being very sharp and domineering.

"Wuxie, the effect of this battle garment…"

Ji Yinlan was immersed in the beauty of the battle garment until she remembered to pay attention to its defensive capabilities. What she saw shocked her.

"Qiankun Battle Armor and Battle Garment, I have forged them to the limit. In battles below the Saint Realm, they can provide the wearer with 90% absolute damage reduction. Now that you have the battle garment, with your current realm and growth potential, you can completely withstand attacks from peak Extremely High Position experts."

"What?"

Ji Beilan was stunned, looking at the battle armor in front of him, his lips trembling, his whole body shaking with excitement.

"I have never heard of such a defensive artifact before. The forging techniques of later generations have actually developed to such a level…"

Ji Yinlan felt incredible, just like Yue Chenyu's shock at the time.

"This battle garment doesn't seem to require the wearer to consume true energy or blood energy to activate it. You only need to awaken it, and it can automatically exert its terrifying defensive effect…"

She studied the Qiankun Battle Garment, and the more she understood it, the more incredible she found it.

"Yes, that's what makes it different from conventional defensive equipment."

Jun Wuxie explained that the effects of the Qiankun Battle Armor or Battle Garment are supported by their own Qiankun energy, and the energy consumed to transfer attacks is extremely small. When worn, it can continuously provide long-term defensive endurance.

However, the duration of its effect is not endless. After all, each defense consumes some Qiankun energy. When the energy is depleted to a certain level, the armor or garment will automatically fall into a dormant state to recover energy.

But this duration is very long, so there is no need to worry about it suddenly becoming dormant during a battle.

"This defensive effect is too perverted!"

Ji Beilan had already refined the battle armor and put it on. He shamelessly used his true energy to condense a mirror-like light screen, admiring his appearance in the armor with a face full of intoxication, and said with great emotion: "A handsome young man standing like jade trees in the wind, unable to sleep at night while admiring himself in the mirror. I'm about to be killed by my own handsomeness, tsk tsk…"

Jun Wuxie and Ji Yinlan looked at him together, smiles appearing on their lips.

"Here are some resources, all kinds of peerless treasures I've obtained during this time." Jun Wuxie took out a ring and put it on Ji Yinlan's finger, saying, "Time is tight. I need to quickly complete the formation, otherwise, once the arena's affairs are exposed, there may be changes. You guys stay here to cultivate, don't wander around, lest you be sensed by the ancient killing formations originally in this city."

"Focus on setting up the formation and severing the connection with your incarnation, lest it affect your speed in setting up the formation. We will watch over the arena. If there are any developments, we will notify you."

Ji Yinlan said.

"Alright."

Jun Wuxie nodded and disappeared before their eyes.

His original plan was to find Ji Yinlan during the day, which would leave him no time to perfect the formation. He didn't expect to find her so quickly.

Now that it was still early, he estimated that he would be able to complete the formation before dark.

The arena would probably not be able to hide the truth for too long. The longer the battle lasted, the easier it would be for people to suspect.

After all, the incarnation could change its appearance to look like Ji Beilan, but the secret technique of the Heavenly Mandate Bloodline inheritance, even if simulated with military intent, ordinary experts would not be able to see through it, but if there were other Heavenly Mandate holders present, they would definitely see the problem.

The young master of the Heavenly Reason Dao Earth, the younger brother of the Azure Heaven, must have come to Hualunba; this was beyond doubt.

Jun Wuxie closed his eyes, emptied his mind, and eliminated all distracting thoughts. Gradually, his mind was filled with insights into the Dao of Talismans, and the energy of the Dao of Talismans surged, flowing along the meridians towards his arms.

He traveled deep into the earth, carving one talisman after another with his fingers, hiding them in the strata.

The city of Hualunba was vast.

Jun Wuxie carved runes and set up killing formations around the city, deep in the earth's crust.

Time quickly reached the afternoon.

Ji Yinlan and Ji Beilan were using the Starry Sky Talisman Communicator to monitor the live broadcast of the arena.

The battle in the arena was very fierce. The three Demon Flame Ironclad Beasts were covered in wounds, with many parts of their iron armor shattered, revealing bloody flesh. However, they were still fiercely besieging Jun Wuxie's Primordial Incarnation.

The Primordial Incarnation was covered in the blood of the ferocious beasts, never colliding with them head-on. It seemed as if he was in a precarious situation under the siege of the three great ferocious beasts, but after fighting until now, the ferocious beasts had not caused him any damage.

In the arena's stands, those who were originally excited and screaming were now all filled with anger, scolding loudly, with some people having gloomy faces and狰狞 expressions.

Many dignitaries and wealthy merchants had bet huge sums of spirit coins, betting on the arena to win.

They thought that the outcome of today's battle was already determined, and it was just a matter of seeing how long the gladiator could last.

They never expected that the battle would progress to this point, with the gladiator unscathed, while the three ferocious beasts at the peak of the Great Heavenly Position were instead covered in wounds. If this continued, they would most likely lose.

"Looking at their fierce expressions, why do I feel so happy!" Ji Beilan felt very comfortable. "Imperial Sister, how much did Brother-in-Law bet on me this time?"

Ji Yinlan said lightly, "Bet on you? Wouldn't your brother-in-law have to lose the entire Immortal Execution Dynasty?"

"Are you looking down on your own brother so much?"

Ji Beilan was very hurt, looking wronged.

"Since it is his incarnation, he must have used all the spirit coins of the dynasty to bet. This time, even if the Xiluo Empire doesn't go bankrupt, it's probably not far off," she said.

"Hey, I wonder what those guys' expressions will be like then. At this moment, they are probably about to vomit blood. And this is being broadcast live across the entire starry sky, so they can't cheat even if they want to. This is called reaping what you sow. They wanted to scheme against Brother-in-Law, but they didn't know that Brother-in-Law is the real hunter, setting up methods to hunt them!"

Ji Yinlan turned to look at him, sighed, and said, "You, you must think carefully before doing anything in the future, and you can't cause any more trouble for your sister. I don't ask that you can help him, but at least you can't drag him down, understand?"

"Mm."

Ji Beilan lowered his head, his face full of shame.

… …

In a special room in the arena, Cang Ming's eyes flickered with a sharp light, his expression uncertain.

Why did he feel that something was wrong?

That Ji Beilan had been fighting in the arena for several hours, but he had not used any Heavenly Mandate Bloodline inheritance secret techniques, or even any attacking secret techniques. Every time he attacked, he simply threw a punch or a palm.

This situation was too strange.

"He is deliberately stalling for time!"

Cang Ming narrowed his eyes. Why was Ji Beilan stalling for time, and what was the purpose of doing so?

… …

In the main hall of the arena, many high-level managers were gathered.

These people's faces were extremely gloomy, and they no longer had the confident and smug expressions they had before.

"Damn it, how could things have developed to such a point? Those are our town's ferocious beasts, Heavenly Sacred Beasts at the peak of the Great Heavenly Position. How could they not suppress a person at the Middle Heavenly Position under their siege? Instead, they were injured by him. If this continues, we're afraid we're going to fall!"

"No!" The master of the Hualunba Arena's face was ashen, and he said in a deep voice, "We absolutely cannot lose, otherwise all the funds bet by the nobles of our empire will not be recovered, and our empire will have to pay out more than two hundred trillion spirit coins in compensation! Such a huge amount of funds would directly cause our empire's economy to collapse!"

"But what can we do now? Today's arena battle is being broadcast live across the entire starry sky. There are many people in the starry sky betting, and although most of them bet on our arena to win, there are also people betting on Ji Beilan. Among them, some people have bet huge sums, which must be forces at the Supreme Master level. If we forcibly cheat and swindle the funds they bet, they will definitely not let it go, and our empire's arena will lose all credibility!"

… …

They now regretted their actions.

In fact, the gladiator's opponent was arranged by them, and the outcome was in their control. There should not have been any accidents.

But today, an accident had occurred, and things had exceeded their control.

"Quickly report this matter to His Majesty the King. When the time comes, His Majesty will naturally discuss with His Holiness the Pope how to decide. It is no longer up to us to decide. Let His Holiness the Pope and His Majesty the King decide. Afterwards, we will accept our punishment!"

"It seems that this is the only way for now. If we suffer heavy losses this time, we will only have one chance to turn the tables, and that is to capture and kill Jun Wuxie, then cross the starry sky and kill our way to Emperor Beginning Star, plunder resources, and colonize planets to make up for our losses!"

"That's right! Fortunately, Jun Wuxie will definitely come. As long as he dies, there will be no worries about destroying the Zhuxian Dynasty. Once the Zhuxian Dynasty is destroyed, the other forces on Emperor Beginning Star can be crushed. Anyway, the four supreme masters have already stated that they will not come out to fight us!"

...

At the same time, inside the Warrenba Palace, King Yavese was pacing back and forth in the palace, his expression gloomy.

He was naturally paying attention to the arena, and he was also feeling troubled at this moment.

The arena was established with the support of the Church and the Royal Family. For many years, the wins and losses of arena betting have been under their control, and there have never been any mistakes.

But today, an accident happened, and they are facing astronomical compensation. Such an amount of spirit coins, even for an empire that rules the entire star field, is very terrifying. It will cause the empire, and even the entire star field's economic system, to collapse, suffer heavy damage, and lose vitality.

"Your Majesty, the arena has a message to report!"

An old man came in a hurry, standing respectfully in front of Yavese.

"No need to say anymore, I already know what they want to say! Tell them to wait to be punished afterwards!"

Yavese's voice was cold, with suppressed anger and killing intent in his words.

The old man shuddered and hurriedly retreated.

"Guards, accompany this King to Church Mountain!"

Yavese hurriedly left the palace. He had to meet with the Pope now. What kind of decision should be made now, he had to listen to the Pope's opinion.