Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 1508: Chapter 1543: Jiang Fan’s 81 Cooking Methods

Hua Xin laughed.

Laughed heartily.

The response was a surge of killing intent from the White-robed Skeleton: "Funny, is it?"

Hua Xin was so scared that she almost cried, yet she held her stomach, still laughing heartily:

"I want to cry too."

"But I can’t."

"Boo hoo hoo hoo~ hahaha..."

The White-robed Skeleton snorted coldly, dispelling the "Always Laughing" law on Hua Xin.

Only then did Hua Xin recover, pulling at her cheeks, sore from laughing, revealing a smile that was uglier than crying:

"Senior, you see too, Jiang Fan would rather have treasure than me."

"How could I be the wife of that little bastard?"

"Please don’t kill the innocent by mistake."

Heh heh!

The White-robed Skeleton said coldly: "Since you’re not, you’re of no use!"

"Besides, I find your aura annoying!"

"There must have been a grudge between us!"

Huh?

Hua Xin was baffled.

Thinking quickly, she suddenly understood.

If she was Jiang Fan’s wife, she could become a hostage for the White-robed Skeleton to lure Jiang Fan back to rescue her.

If not, then she was worthless.

She quickly said, "Wait a minute!"

"I... I am actually Jiang Fan’s wife."

Though it felt awkward, she had to pretend for her life.

The White-robed Skeleton sneered: "One moment you are, the next you aren’t."

"Trying to trick me?"

Hua Xin shivered a bit, hurriedly saying: "I... I really am!"

"Moreover, I am the woman Jiang Fan takes care of the most, the one who has accompanied him the longest, you could say we’re together day and night."

"His other women only meet him after a long time."

"But I’m the only one he keeps with him, inseparable!"

The White-robed Skeleton snorted, flexing his fingers.

A white, holy feather floated in front of Hua Xin.

"Swear on the feather!"

"If you lie, the feather will turn black and rot."

Without hesitation, Hua Xin swore to the feather: "What I said just now is all true, definitely not a lie!"

The feather flickered a bit and not only didn’t rot, it became even more radiant.

The White-robed Skeleton was suspicious: "You really are the woman who stays with him day and night!"

He couldn’t understand why such an important woman would be abandoned by Jiang Fan.

Could it be that he knew he couldn’t save her, so he chose to take the lotus leaf instead?

If so, that would make sense.

Staring at Hua Xin for a while, he snorted coldly: "You’d better pray he comes back to save you."

With that, he soared back to the top of the stone stele, sitting cross-legged.

Hua Xin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she was saved!

She was inwardly overjoyed:

"After staying with that little bastard for so long, even if I didn’t learn his shamelessness."

"I can at least learn a bit of wordplay, can’t I?"

In her oath, she only said she was the woman Jiang Fan took care of and stayed with day and night.

Without mentioning she was his wife.

She was inside the Ghost Soul Crystal the whole time, wasn’t she with Jiang Fan day and night?

So the white feather didn’t turn black.

Soon, Hua Xin got angry again: "You little bastard, using me as a bait, huh?"

"Fine, fine, fine! Just you wait!"

"If I get out alive, I’ll chop you into eighty-one pieces!"

"Then deep fry, stew, stir-fry, and grill, finally all fed to the dogs!"

She utterly hated Jiang Fan now.

Imprisoned her for so long, and in the end, left her here!

Outrageous!

But as a remnant soul, if Jiang Fan didn’t save her, how could she escape the White-robed Skeleton’s demon hand?

Jiang Fan, being so cunning, barely escaped with all his tricks.

Suddenly, Hua Xin noticed many corpses of the Angel Clan under the stone stele.

One particular body of an eight-winged angel gave her a familiar feeling.

Following that, broken memories in her soul seemed to be summoned, slowly reorganizing, and becoming ever clearer.

Her gaze went from vacant to shocked, then to disbelief.

Finally, she returned to calm.

In her heart, she sighed with realization: "So that’s how it is..."

Elsewhere.

After Jiang Fan successfully escaped, he decisively used a Space Transmission Array to flee.

Reappearing, he found himself in the Transmission Hall at Washing Moon Lake.

Leaning against the wall, he was panting heavily, sweat dripping from his forehead, his heart pounding uncontrollably.

"Almost met my end in the Ten Thousand Tribulations Holy Temple!"

Recalling everything that just happened, Jiang Fan trembled with fear.

If asked to go through it again, he had no confidence to escape a second time.

That White-robed Skeleton was unfathomable, his tricks unpredictable.

There was no doubt, aside from the "Heavenly Thunder Six Parts" and Thunder Vortex, the other party had ways to capture him back from afar.

Fortunately, he successfully escaped.

"Never going to the Ten Thousand Tribulations Holy Temple again in this life."

"As for Hua Xin... that woman is no saint, she may not suffer!"

He was originally worried about how to deal with Hua Xin’s remnant soul.

Releasing her posed the risk of her becoming a threat.

Not releasing her, keeping her around also entailed risk.

Now, leaving her in the Thunder God Heavenly Palace was the perfect choice.

Let Hua Xin and that old monster engage in their own battle.

"This time, not only did I fill the Heavenly Abyss Heart, I also obtained a nine-colored Crystal Stone capable of threatening the Virtuous Realm!"

Jiang Fan counted his spoils, his face brimming with joy.

Though dangerous, the rewards were immensely extraordinary.

This meant that when encountering a hostile Virtuous Realm, he was no longer passively waiting for death.

Rather, he now had a measure of deterrence!

"The only pity is that the Sage’s Engraving from the Great Wine Sacrifice in the Demon Continent is used up."

Jiang Fan looked at the lotus leaf in his hand, with the engraving "Always Laughing" already vanished from it.

It was a one-time use engraving, gone once used.

Originally intended for use against a formidable Giant King, alas, it was consumed for survival.

Just when he was feeling disappointed, something in his peripheral vision seemed amiss.

He saw that where the engraving disappeared, there were faint traces!

"That shouldn’t be, engravings vanish completely after use, why would there be remnants?" Jiang Fan displayed a puzzled expression.

Quickly, he found to his amazement that those faint traces deepened slightly.

A slight shock ran through his mind, and he immediately realized a possibility.

He murmured, "Could it be, the laws within the lotus leaf itself are resurrecting ’Always Laughing’?"

Thinking carefully about the properties of lotus plants.

In a pond, drop a lotus seed, and in a few years, the entire pond is filled with lotus leaves.

Lotuses inherently symbolize propagation and rebirth.

This explains why the vanished laws recondensed.

Understanding this, Jiang Fan’s heart thumped wildly: "Does this mean, engraving Sage Laws on the lotus leaf allows infinite use?"

"The Black Lotus of Tribulation truly is a treasure from top to bottom, the lotus seed defying nature, and even more so the lotus leaf!"

Jiang Fan beamed with delight, carefully sealing it in a Jade Box.

After some time, "Always Laughing" will reconsolidate above it.

By then, he could activate it once more!

Shhh!

The Space Transmission Array beside him suddenly surged with Space Power.

Jiang Fan was startled, was the White-robed Skeleton already chasing him?