Bring me three thousand of them and send them into the Collapsing Void to block the Heavenly Court army's path.

" Fang Youji was that old god who kept his coffin polished to a glossy shine. At these words he was overjoyed. "Three thousand?

What is three thousand?

" he said, laughing. "How would it be if I prepared thirty thousand for the Heavenly Master? " Yan Yunxi cursed him laughingly. "The more the better, but not too many, lest their families make a fuss. " Fang Youji hurried off.

Yan Yunxi glanced at Jiang Baigui and spoke again.

"Then does Heavenly Master Jiang think we can hold off the Heavenly Court army?

" Jiang Baigui shook his head.

"We cannot. This plan may cost the Heavenly Court soldiers and generals, but it cannot stop them. The Heavenly Court will send more Heavenly Venerables to suppress the void. Then their army will drive straight in, and in the bloody battle that follows, they have Ten Heavenly Venerables, and we are no match.

" "How do we break it? " Yan Yunxi asked. "Ask Kaihuang and Langwo to launch a surprise attack on the Heavenly Court through the Void Bridge!

" "With the Heavenly Court harried," Jiang Baigui said, "the Heavenly Venerables will not dare to come at the Land of the Great Void with their full strength, and so we fall into a deadlock. " Yan Yunxi was deeply shaken.

She bowed.

"Yunxi yields. Pray wait a moment, sir.

" She hurried off. Emperor Yanfeng came to Jiang Baigui's side. "That woman has a mind to you; you have subdued her," he said quietly. "I have heard that this Heavenly Master Zixi made a vow: on meeting the one her heart desires, she will put on women's clothes and marry no one but him. Imperial Master of Jingping, We.

.

I think she has gone to change into women's clothes. She calls herself Yunxi, not Zixi.

Yunxi is a woman's name.

" Jiang Baigui glanced at him and shook his head.

"Your Majesty is talking nonsense again. I am loyal to my humble wife, unchanging even unto death. " Even as he spoke, Yan Yunxi indeed came out dressed in women's clothes, of a beauty unmatched in any age, graceful and light of step, a rare beauty seldom seen in this world. She came before Jiang Baigui and was about to speak when he bowed and said, "Uncle-Master Yan. " Yan Yunxi's face went, in an instant, deathly pale. "The Imperial Master of Jingping is indeed ruthless!

" Emperor Yanfeng thought, giving a secret thumbs-up.