Chapter 187: Unexpected Incident

Zu An released the rope and leaped down from mid-air. "Your Majesty seems quite eager, doesn't she?"

Mi Li's face darkened. "Are you taking advantage of me?"

"Not at all," Zu An replied, in a very good mood. "Oh, right, I've taken the sword out. Can you move now?"

"Use Tai'a to break the shackles on my hands and feet..." Mi Li suddenly gasped, her gaze falling below his abdomen. Her face immediately flushed crimson. "How dare you harbor such lewd thoughts towards me!"

Anger from Mi Li +678!

Zu An was instantly embarrassed. He hurriedly stepped back a few paces and turned his body sideways. "I apologize, something just happened, and I didn't mean for it to be directed at you."

Mi Li's heaving chest gradually calmed down. She knew she still needed him to rescue her and didn't want to completely alienate him, so she changed the subject. "What just happened? How exactly did you break the Heaven's Seal?"

In her eyes, the Human Seal and Earth Seal were nothing, but she had heard of the legend of the Heaven's Seal. Back then, Ying Zheng had proudly claimed no one could break it and had even spoken about how it was unrelated to one's cultivation level.

Zu An was startled for a moment. It seemed she had misunderstood, thinking his previous comment referred to the Heaven's Seal. Recalling the dragon-robed man in the Tai'a sword telling him to kill her, he thought it best not to mention this matter for now.

So, playing along, he answered, "We arrived at a village in Dong County when a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky..."

After briefly recounting the process, Zu An couldn't help but ask, "There's one thing I haven't been able to figure out. Since this seal was set by Qin Shi Huang, why would the key to breaking it involve saving Chen Sheng's life? You know, Chen Sheng later initiated the overthrow of the Qin Dynasty. From any perspective, Qin Shi Huang couldn't possibly have allowed him to live, could he, let alone make him the crucial element for breaking the formation?"

Mi Li, however, let out a long sigh. "I finally understand why Ying Zheng was so confident back then that no one could break the Heaven's Seal. It's because he designed the seal using the destiny of the Qin nation. It's just a pity that the Heaven's Seal was created by him by capturing a fragment of the river of time. Afterward, the rules of the sealed world naturally evolved and developed by heavenly mechanisms, and they don't operate according to human will at all."

"As for your question about Chen Sheng, that represents the will of heaven. Historically, the Qin Dynasty was overthrown by rebel armies led by Chen Sheng, so he naturally couldn't die. Since the Heaven's Seal represents the destiny of the Qin nation, to break it, you naturally need to start from the demise of Qin. This was something Ying Zheng probably never foresaw."

"Who knew your momentary act of kindness would save you? For the brutal and bloodthirsty Ying Zheng, this is truly a massive irony, hahaha~"

Hearing her slightly deranged laughter, Zu An couldn't help but ask, "Do you hate him that much?"

Mi Li snorted coldly. "That's none of your business."

Zu An looked put out. This woman really had a strange temper.

"However, I have to admit, you truly are blessed with great fortune. Despite your low cultivation, you actually made it all the way to the deep levels of the underground palace and even managed to break the Soul Suppressing Seal. It seems all of this is the will of heaven," Mi Li sighed with genuine emotion.

"Doesn't this prove we're destined by heaven?" Zu An said with a grin.

"You've teased me repeatedly. Do you really not want to live?" Mi Li's expression turned cold.

Anger from Mi Li +345!

Zu An didn't care at all. "Anyway, you signed a contract and can't harm me, so what if I speak a bit casually with you? As a former empress, you were always high and mighty, I bet you never had any friends, did you?"

Mi Li was speechless for a moment. This fellow really pushed his luck. She snorted coldly, "I don't need friends!"

"Humans are social animals; how can they not need friends?" Zu An said as he returned to the crystal coffin and used the Tai'a sword to cut open the shackles on her hands and feet. "A chance encounter is fate; let's be friends."

As soon as the shackles on her hands and feet were opened, Mi Li leaped out of the crystal coffin and stood high on a nearby stone sculpture. She said coldly, "If you keep talking nonsense, believe it or not, I'll cut out your tongue."

Zu An turned his head back and looked at her with a grin. "I don't believe you!"

Mi Li now stood on her tiptoes at a high vantage point, making her appear even taller and more graceful, like an exquisite beauty stepped out of a painting, adding a touch of brightness to this cold, dark underground cavern.

"Ignorant youth!" Mi Li's willow-like eyebrows rose. Her entire body slowly floated into the air, her robes billowed without a breeze, and an overwhelming aura spread out in all directions.

Zu An immediately gasped for breath, feeling an incredibly powerful pressure coming from all directions at that instant.

This pressure was countless times more powerful than the pressure from the Tai'a sword earlier!

If his body hadn't just been tempered by primordial qi, and was now considered reborn, plus the Tai'a sword helping to bear most of the pressure, he might have been forced to his knees in that very instant.

Even so, Zu An felt he couldn't hold on much longer. He wanted to say something, but under the immense pressure, he couldn't even open his mouth, let alone speak.

At this moment, Mi Li stood in mid-air with her hands behind her back, her eyes filled with indifference and a lofty demeanor that kept people at a distance. She said coldly, "You, want to be *my* friend?"

Zu An was biting his lips until they nearly bled. The Primordial Chaos Scripture rapidly circulated, helping him resist this unparalleled pressure. He could even feel the joints in his body creaking, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

"You do have some backbone, but it's a pity you're too weak." Mi Li's expression turned cold. Just as she was about to increase the pressure, she suddenly felt a chill all over her body. She couldn't help but look down in confusion, and then she froze completely.

Zu An was desperately resisting her pressure when suddenly, the pressure instantly vanished.

Because of his inner pride, he had consistently refused to lower his head, so he had a full view of what had just happened.

Even facing that terrifying pressure just now, he had stubbornly endured without injury, but the scene before his eyes made his nose feel warm. He quickly reached out to cover it, thus preventing a gush of nosebleed.

He saw Mi Li's clothes suddenly inexplicably burst open, turning into tiny fragments that scattered with the wind, revealing a perfect and captivating body.

Sometimes one couldn't help but lament the unfairness of heaven, whose favor for some people was clearly far greater than for others. Her fair, sculpted body floated in the air, every line and curve a marvel of nature's craftsmanship, her milk-white skin glowing with a soft, radiant luster like jade.

"Ah~" Mi Li finally came to her senses. Her usually aloof and indifferent face finally showed a hint of girlish panic as she darted behind the stone statue, screaming, "Cover your eyes! Don't look!"

Zu An obediently covered his eyes with both hands, though he left a rather wide gap between his fingers. Seeing her frantically hiding, a peculiar smile appeared on his lips. "I told you this was a heaven-ordained fate. The moment heaven saw you bullying me, it started warning you."

"Shut up! Do you believe I'll really kill you!" Mi Li hid behind the stone statue, and with a sweep of her fingers around her body, a black mist began to spiral upwards from her long legs, eventually covering her like a black robe.

However, she knew clearly that this was merely qi transformed and ultimately didn't provide the same sense of security as actual clothes.

Thinking that her entire body had been seen by him, she almost fainted from anger.

Anger from Mi Li +999!

Zu An couldn't help but retort, "I heard that Qin Dynasty laws were strict. Whether it was making weapons or bricks, every product had the name of the artisan on it, and if something went wrong, accountability would be pursued. So it was widely rumored that things made there were of good quality, but now it seems, they're just mediocre."

"Nonsense! Even the best quality clothes would disintegrate after thousands of years!" Mi Li secretly lamented that she had truly lost her mind, forgetting even such details. It was all that annoying guy's fault for making her so eager to deal with him that she overlooked such things.

Anger from Mi Li +813!

Seeing a string of anger values pop up on the system backend, Zu An's heart ached immediately.

Oh no, it's all wasted!

He still remembered the vow he made earlier to save Qiao Xueying: that getting "Believe in Brother Chun" would come at the cost of three draws yielding nothing.

He had, of course, been cunning, thinking that he would draw once whenever he accumulated some anger value, thus exhausting the three-draw penalty before anything else. But ever since just now, he hadn't had the chance, and now seeing Mi Li's anger value pouring in, he naturally felt a pang of regret.

"Do you have any spare clothes?" Just then, Mi Li's voice rang out.

Zu An was startled for a moment, then chuckled. "Yes, but they're my clothes. If you don't mind..."

"Throw them over!" He was interrupted before he could finish.

Zu An took out a change of clothes from his satchel and threw it over. He had brought a spare outfit because he had expected to be in the secret realm for about 10 days.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh. Protagonists in other novels all had spatial rings, while he still had to carry a travel bag. It was truly beneath him.

A snow-white arm reached out from behind the statue and caught the clothes, then quickly pulled back. "Turn around. If you dare to glance over here, I'll take the risk of breaking the agreement and gouge out your eyes!"

"It's not like I haven't seen it before..." Zu An muttered.

"What did you say!"

Mi Li felt she was about to lose control of the primal power within her body.

Anger from Mi Li +684!

"Nothing!" Feeling that she was on the verge of exploding, Zu An quickly turned around. Anyway, earning more anger value now would be a waste, and it wasn't worth the risk.

Rustling sounds of clothes being put on came from behind the statue. Zu An, meanwhile, seized the opportunity to quickly start drawing.

He calculated that he had accumulated a total of 7434 anger points. Zu An even admired himself a little. How long had it been since the last draw? He was practically a walking anger value harvester.

He could draw a total of 74 times this time. Zu An wondered if it could really be that unlucky—not getting anything even once?

He nervously pressed the "Start Draw" button.

As expected, what appeared before his eyes was "Thank you for participating"... "Thank you for participating"...

All the way to the 74th draw, he genuinely didn't draw anything, not even a single Elemental Fruit!

Was it really that effective?

Zu An swallowed with difficulty, thinking to himself that he shouldn't make random vows anymore. Being a jerk in this world comes with risks.

"All right!"

At that moment, Mi Li's cold voice came from behind him. It was clear she had recovered from her earlier embarrassment.