Heaven, Earth, Me

When Andrea spoke to Hala while standing behind her, Hala quickly turned around and extended her hand. Andrea looked over and saw as a formless sword was created from nothing. ‘Oh?’

Andrea took out a small sword as well and moved it toward the rising sword. However, as she did so, she saw Hala’s eyes flash with disdain. Andrea’s mind spun quickly, unable to comprehend that gaze. However, the second the swords met, Andrea understood why. “Huh?”

The sword phased through Hala’s sword, slicing upward and hitting nothing. Meanwhile, Hala’s sword continued unimpeded toward Andrea’s neck. If the attack had been something she understood, Andrea wouldn’t have minded taking it with her body out of interest. This time around, a solemn expression appeared on her face, and she quickly unfurled her movement technique, retreating backwards. 

Hala saw the sword about to cut into Andrea’s body, bringing a thrill of elation to her heart. ‘Ha! Take my [Seven Edges Soul Blade]!’

But as her heart was feeling happy, the woman in front of her disappeared again, reappearing five meters back. Her gaze condensed as she cut the air in front of her. “Y-You! How are you so fast!?”

Andrea didn’t answer and instead observed the sword in Hala’s hands. “That sword… Is it made out of pure soul energy?”

Hala snorted. “So what if it is! You can’t even create something like this, and you dare fight me? You are courting death!”

Andrea blinked and smiled. “Wrong! My lover is courting Death. I am glad to be her friend.”

A confused look appeared on Hala’s face. “What are you talking about?”

Andrea shook her head and sighed. “Either way, I am truly impressed by it. I guess that if I received that sword, my soul would not be spared from some serious damage, right? Well, that’s taking into account that your sword can phase through my armor as well.”

Andrea’s items were guarding against soul attacks as well. After all, if they had one thing they were weak against, that would be soul skills. Hence, she never held back with anti soul-attack enhancements in the treasures she forged. Only, the relatively ordinary Heaven-ranked sword she chose was not one of such treasures. 

Hala answered her haughtily. “That’s right! You are a close-combat fighter, right? You can’t approach me without facing my [Seven Edges Soul Blade]. What can you even do now? Surrender!”

The words were said, but Andrea was not moved. She just had a hint of laughter in her eyes. “Really… I have been trying to make you realize the sheer difference between both of us. Yet, you now speak like this, wasting all my efforts. Sigh, I’ve given you enough chances already. The next move, I’ll break your sword-holding arm. So, if you don’t want to feel your arm breaking, this is your last chance to surrender.”

Remir’s face became dark, and he looked at Hala. “Hala, surrender!”

Hala didn’t bother with his uncle. Instead, she sneered and pointed her sword at Andrea. “I want to see how you do it!”

At this point, Evelyn spoke aloud. “Andrea, I know you have a kind heart and don’t want to make this child suffer. She is just arrogant and spoiled, after all. However, she has shown enough now, hasn’t she? She won’t stop until she sees the coffin.”

Andrea paused and sighed. “You are right. Sorry, child.”

Hala was about to retort, but before she could, Andrea appeared in front of her and tapped her arm with her armored finger. “Wha-” *CRACK* “AAAAH!!”

Hala’s arm fell limp as the bones were cleanly broken. The pain was terrifyingly high, making a screech explode from her throat. As tears flowed down her eyes, Hala extended her other hand and glared at Andrea. However, Andrea’s foot gently landed in the middle of her stomach even before she could summon the sword.

BOOM!

Hala’s eyes bulged in pain as her body shot skyward like a comet. As a Fifth Realm soul cultivator, she had trained her physique slightly with Soul Arts. After the Fourth Realm, even if they were weak in the body department, they weren’t so weak that a normal human would be able to threaten them. Still, compared with Andrea, she was as fragile as a cracked glass cup. A touch was more than enough to break her.

Andrea looked skyward and sighed. “This person over here.” Andrea looked sideways at Remir, who was glaring at her with ferocious eyes. “She was asking for it. Don’t worry, though. I’ve broken her bones cleanly, so as long as your medical standards are decent, healing her is really easy.”

Remir spoke with clear rage in his tone. “Why are you so heavy-handed!? You clearly have the strength to make her faint without hurting her!”

Andrea looked up. Seeing that the woman was falling down from the sky, she gently floated upward and caught her in mid-air. “You have pampered her too much. If she doesn’t experience a setback, she will continue to snowball like this until she becomes unruly to the extreme.”

Remir spoke coldly. “That’s not something you need to worry about!”

“Wrong.” Andrea looked at Remir coldly, the pressure from her light green eyes weighing on him. “This child is rampant, and she will naturally kill for small matters and create endless suffering just from her spoiled attitude. A spoiled brat is not only the problem of the parents but also of society! Hence, if the parents refuse to teach them a lesson, others shall!”

Using her energy, Andrea floated the fainted Hala down and gave her to Remir. She added. “Also, the only reason I have spared her life after insulting my wife is because my wife needs a few things from your family, and we don’t want to annihilate the family out of unresolvable hatred.” 

Remir took out a circular pill, making our girls raise an eyebrow. Andrea hummed. “Oho. So you guys do know Alchemy. Interesting.”

Remir’s heart stirred, and he looked up with a stunned expression. “You! How do you know what Alchemy is? Only those in our family know that something as magical as Alchemy exists!”

Andrea looked at him strangely. “Already forgot our origins?” 

Remir paused, and he snorted. “Whatever.” He had become agitated and forgot since this was one of the few most secret pieces of technology that they had.

Kali looked from a distance and shook her head. “Stop for me. Don’t feed her that pill.”

Remir scoffed and did it anyway, making Kali sigh. Remir gave Hala to one of the people at the back and took the stage after that. Angel jumped into the ring and blinked twice. “Hey, if Kali didn’t want you to give her that pill, you probably shouldn’t have.”

Remir looked at the petite but ethereally beautiful and curvy woman with a subtle expression. “Are you a child?”

Angel was baffled and puffed her bountiful chest. “Are you blind!? Can’t you see this!?”

Remir shook his head and looked at the rest. “Is she a junior from your side? I don’t want to bully a junior, so make a senior take the stage.”

Evelyn burst into laughter. “Oh, Angel. To think that one day you’d be confused with a child! Even after having a child, you still can’t escape the consequences of your short stature!”

Angel became angered and snapped at Evelyn. “Yasenia likes my short stature the most! So what if I am short! Moreover, you might be taller, but can you compete with this!?” She puffed her chest again, making it jiggle with the violent motion. Evelyn looked down at her slightly more developed chest and sighed. “Truly, the Heavens are blind. You are shorter than me, and yet your breasts are four times mine in size. This injustice, I have kept it close to my heart.” 

“Four? Heh. A zero is missing there!”

Evelyn almost choked and retorted. “Y-You!? Do you want to be a pair of tits with a person attached to them!? Forty times mine, not even a ZZ-Cup would do it justice!”

The girls burst into laughter at Evelyn’s comments. Angel also giggled with them.

Meanwhile, Remir’s face was already cold to the point that it would scare anyone. “Since you have time to play around, take this. [External Mind Spike].”

The same attack Hala used exploded forward with several times the strength. Angel took out her shield and looked sideways with a snort. 

Bang!

The attack hit her shield and dissipated, making Remir’s eyes widen. Angel humphed. “Your stupid niece already used this attack. Do you think it would work on me just because it is slightly stronger? Try another new thing!”

Remir snorted. “As you wish.” He then rushed forward at his top speed. However, how fast could a Soul Cultivator be in front of Angel? 

Angel observed the approaching person and had the time to talk with Mirrory. ‘So… I can see energy gathering toward his palm. Is he trying to do some sort of palm-strike attack?’

Mirrory commented leisurely. ‘This person is so weak, are you really asking me for guidance?’

Angel pouted. ‘I could flick my finger and blast him flying, but Kali told me to lose this fight! I was thinking of taking this attack and then surrendering.’

Mirrory deadpanned. ‘So blatant… Won’t they think that we are mocking them instead of accepting that they won if you do that?’

Angel blinked twice. ‘Oh, right! I should fight a little and show that I am being cornered, right?’

‘I guess that is better. Control your strength, though. You are at the Peak-level Epoch Core and Half-step Dantian Spiritualization Realm, so even a weak hit can pulverize that poor person. More so when you are practicing Jing’er’s inheritance manual.’

Angel nodded. ‘I know! My energy is much purer than normal, so I am much stronger at the same level! Moreover, my soul is also very strong since Fu Jing Jing left me that giant Soul Sphere as nourishment… Speaking of which, it’s basically the same size as the first time it appeared. Are we even going to finish condensating it ever?

Mirrory chuckled. ‘By the time you reach the Eighth Realm, perhaps.’

Angel’s face twitched. Then, she blinked. ‘Oh! The person is arriving! I should react and put on a great fight.’ Then, she pushed her shield forward with a gentle push. “Take this!”

BANG!

Remir’s face changed as his arm and body got flung back for several hundred meters. Angel’s eyebrow twitched. ‘Ah… So weak.’

Even Mirrory couldn’t bring herself to blame her. ‘Losing this fight and making it convincing is probably harder than fighting Yasenia and winning.’

Angel wanted to cry but had no tears. An idea popped in her mind, and she suddenly staggered back three steps, kneeling down to one knee. “Waa. My head hurts so much! The soul attack is so powerful! Argh!”

The girls behind Angel almost coughed a mouthful of blood. ‘How can one be so bad at acting!?’

Still, Remir stood up and sneered. “Did you think that with your brute strength, you could escape my [Mind Erasing Palm]? Heh.” 

Then, he rushed at Angel and started to fight with her. Angel, knowing how strong he was, could adapt much more and create a much more convincing battle situation.

Evelyn opened her eyes wide and blurted in disbelief. “He bought it? Pinch me because I think I am dreaming.”

Angel would occasionally shout things like. “Oh no! My stamina is getting lower!” Or “Ah, my soul is trembling in pain!” Or “My shield is getting so heavy, will I really lose here today?” 

Our precious baby really couldn’t act this way, so her tone was monotonous to the extreme, and nobody would usually buy it. Still, the Soul Cultivator seemed to think nothing was wrong and became more confident with each passing second. 

Kali looked sideways, almost unable to watch the combat out of secondhand embarrassment. ‘I should’ve told Evelyn to lose instead of Angel… Ah, what a mistake!’

Eventually, Angel allowed a palm strike to hit her in the middle of her chest, and she jumped backward strongly, flying off like a meteor outside of the arena. After landing, she dramatically raised a hand and exclaimed with a monotonous sorrow. “Ah… I lost! Ugh.” Then, she went limp.

Selena approached with a tense face, holding back her laughter from bursting out. There were even some tears in her eyes from holding back her laughter. 

Remir, though, took those tears as sadness, making him snort with a smile. “In the end, this was all!” And he turned around proudly, returning to the others.