Returning Everything to You

The Celestial Empress shook her head. "If that's really the case, then how did Divine Lady Jenna Summers manage to activate it just now?"

"That's true..." Lord Cyrus Cheng frowned.

"Just now, when Lily Bai burned that portrait, the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain suddenly appeared in my Divine Sense," said the Celestial Empress. "Are you sure there isn't really a talisman inside me?"

Lord Cyrus Cheng examined her closely but still shook his head. "The phenomenon you described does sound like a Blood Rite Talisman, but my cultivation is too low—I really can't see any talisman present."

"Blood Rite Talisman? What's a Blood Rite Talisman?"

"Just like the name says—it’s a talisman that blood-binds you to the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain!"

Celestial Empress: "If the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain is destroyed, does that mean I’ll die too?"

"That’s the logic, but the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain is a top-grade Celestial Relic. It won’t be destroyed so easily, so you don’t need to worry," said Lord Cyrus Cheng.

The Celestial Empress was trembling slightly all over. "No! You have to pull it out now!"

Lord Cyrus Cheng frowned slightly and said, "Your Majesty, even if there’s a Blood Rite Talisman inside you, it’s not a big deal! You don’t need to be so afraid! Besides, I really haven’t seen any talisman in you—how am I supposed to pull it out?"

"You just don't get it!" The Celestial Empress was about to speak when a bolt of Genesis Lightning came roaring down the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain.

Divine Lady Jenna Summers, nearly driven mad by the flute music, blood dripping from her lips, gave a twisted grin: "Lucia Lu! The Genesis Lightning is here! I killed you once, I can kill you again! You could be reborn a hundred times and I'd kill you a hundred times! Hahaha—ah!"

No one expected that the Genesis Lightning, traveling down the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain, didn’t hit Lily Bai inside the barrier—it shot outside and struck Divine Lady Jenna Summers!

She was still laughing when the lightning struck her.

Then she screamed, was charred black, and collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

That Genesis Lightning packs a punch!

...

Lily Bai’s lips curled into a faint smile.

What had just flown onto Divine Lady Jenna Summers was a Lightning-Attracting Talisman.

Divine Lady Jenna Summers once gave that Lightning-Attracting Talisman to Lucia Lu. Lily Bai is simply returning the favor!

...

The noble ladies in the stands glanced at each other, their eyes full of unease.

They’d thought it was just a contest—just keep Lily Bai from releasing Bianca Whitefan, and that would be enough.

But... this is clearly a fight to the death!

A real life-and-death struggle!

In a flash, a second bolt of Genesis Lightning struck.

Lily Bai thought, in the gap between two bolts, someone would surely come to save her.

But no one did.

Her husband, Jason Xiao, was blind—he probably had no idea what was happening.

Her mother-in-law was too busy with her own crisis, forcing Lord Cyrus Cheng to try to pull out the talisman.

Her friend, Princess Quinn Xiao, was still stunned by Lily Bai’s sudden ascension, staring blankly at the scene.

Her sister—Lia Summers, who’d been demoted from main wife to side consort—watched with bright eyes and a faint smile, clearly not planning to rescue her.

As for everyone else... what does it matter to them?

They were just here for the spectacle.

Besides, the Crown Princess looked fierce, and the Crown Prince was lurking nearby with a predatory stare—who’d dare intervene?

The second bolt of lightning struck again, and once more, it didn’t hit Lily Bai—it hit Jenna Summers.

Jenna Summers was instantly reduced to a pile of charred ash.

Dead.

At the same time, the Lightning-Attracting Talisman inside her failed.

Lily Bai immediately used her blood as ink, sketching a character and striking it onto the Thunder-Heaven Void-Breaking Chain’s array.

A gap appeared in the barrier array above, and she strolled out with ease.

It looked easy, but without countless years of cultivation, her Divine Vein blood for the talisman, and her mother’s rune arts, it would’ve been impossible.