Chapter 3433

Ye Liuyun shook his head and countered, “This has nothing to do with men or women. You have to understand that battles between martial cultivators are often decided the moment they begin, with one side living and the other dying. Which do you think is more important—your dignity or your life?”

Chen Yueying thought it over and decided that Ye Liuyun was right. “All right, you’re right. I’ll focus on tempering my physical body.”

But in her subsequent battles, she still instinctively avoided getting hurt. “This won’t do! I’m afraid of damaging my clothes!”

“Don’t you have treasures like armor or protective clothing?” Ye Liuyun asked.

“I’m not a soldier, so wearing armor would feel strange. I don’t usually use protective clothing either. I use defensive formation discs or other defensive treasures, so I didn’t prepare any. Do you have any armor suitable for me? I’ll buy a set from you.”

Chen Yueying felt that returning to the city to buy some would waste time, so if Ye Liuyun had something suitable, she might as well buy a set from him.

Ye Liuyun thought for a moment, then directly took out a set of gilded armor and gave it to her.

He felt that a set of gilded armor was worth less than a single strand of Origin Power from a Taixu World. He had obtained three strands of Origin Power from Chen Yueying, so he had still come out ahead.

But when Chen Yueying saw the gilded armor, she could not help gaping.

“Th-this... this clothing is made of gilded gold?” Even her voice trembled slightly as she spoke.

“Yes. Its defensive power is rather poor, and it’s only a first-grade Void Rank item, but it’s more than enough for you to wear as clothing!” Seeing that she recognized gilded gold, Ye Liuyun did not bother explaining further.

Chen Yueying reached out and touched it, but still pushed the clothing back.

“You’d better take it back. I can’t afford this! Just sell me an ordinary suit of armor instead!”

“Huh? Is this very valuable here?” Ye Liuyun asked, puzzled.

Hearing this, Chen Yueying curiously asked Ye Liuyun in return, “Is gilded gold common where you come from?”

“Not exactly. It’s rare there too. I just happened to have a few pieces, so I had someone refine them, but even then, the highest grade they could reach was only first-grade Void Rank.”

“A few pieces?” Chen Yueying’s eyes widened even further when she heard this.

“What? Is it very rare here?” Ye Liuyun pressed.

Chen Yueying nodded. “Gilded gold is extremely rare. Usually, only important figures or God Kings can obtain it as a reward. And being able to turn so much gilded gold into clothing is already extraordinarily extravagant. It’s normally made into weapons or treasures.

“This suit of yours is worth at least a hundred strands of Origin Power from a Taixu World, and even then, it might not be possible to buy one! How could I afford it?”

“You don’t have to buy it. It’s a gift for you. That way, you won’t have to worry about your clothes being damaged in battle anymore!” Ye Liuyun was quite straightforward and had never intended to ask her for money.

In his eyes, this set of gilded armor was worth only one strand of Origin Power. Once he learned its true value, however, he would naturally attach more importance to it and would not take it out so casually again.

“This... do you know that a suit of gilded-gold clothing like this could...”

Chen Yueying wanted to say that such a precious gift could even serve as a betrothal gift. But she felt too embarrassed to say it aloud and quickly stopped herself.

Ye Liuyun did not care what she had wanted to say. Once he understood her meaning, he said, “All right, I know now. But I’m still giving this to you. I won’t take it back just because I’ve learned its value.

“Don’t refuse anymore. Your battle training is what matters right now. Hurry up and put it on!”

Chen Yueying was persuaded by him. In the end, she accepted it with a flushed face, put it on happily, and even changed its style and color several times.

“I think you’d better not show it off in public, or you might attract unwanted attention!” Ye Liuyun reminded her with a smile.

Chen Yueying immediately realized this as well. She stopped showing off and changed it to the same color and style as the clothes she had been wearing, then put it on over them.

But then she said with a smile, “You go fight first. I need to calm down a little. Now that I’m wearing this, I’m even more reluctant to damage it!”

“Hahaha!” Ye Liuyun was amused by her as well.

He immediately tossed her another suit of first-grade Void Rank armor. “Use this one however you like. I still have plenty. The artifact-refining techniques where I come from can produce items of this quality.”

“Then I’ll help find an artifact refiner later and have them upgrade all your gilded armor. That can count as my thanks for giving me such a treasure!” Chen Yueying said with a smile.

“Come to think of it, that’s a pretty good idea!” Ye Liuyun agreed. He left Chen Yueying behind to continue admiring the clothing while he went to find more people to spar with.

Chen Yueying watched Ye Liuyun’s back and began letting her imagination run wild.

“This guy really isn’t greedy at all! I already told him how much this clothing is worth, yet he still gave it to me... Could it be that he has feelings for me and gave it to me as a token of affection...? He must mean something by it, right? Otherwise, why would he give me something so precious...

“Bah, bah, bah! What kind of spring dream am I having? He hasn’t shown any such intentions... But what am I supposed to do? I don’t even have anything to give him in return...”

Chen Yueying stood there in a daze, her face flushing red from time to time as her thoughts ran wild and her heart pounded.

Only after quite a while did she finally come to her senses.

“At least his character has passed the test. I’ll take care of the important matter first, before someone else snatches him away!”

Chen Yueying smiled with a flushed face, took out a voice-transmission talisman, and sent several messages.

At the same time, Ye Liuyun was chatting with the Book Demon.

“Are you sure it’s a time halo?”

The Book Demon said confidently, “Of course. Do you think my judgment could be wrong?”

“Then why is it different from the time halo I obtained before?” Ye Liuyun pressed.

“Nonsense. Is your knife the same as someone else’s knife? Does that mean other people’s knives aren’t knives?” The Book Demon retorted.

Ye Liuyun had no way to refute that.

“It seems that someone in the Taixu World possesses the power of time?”

“That’s for sure! At the very least, this woman is no ordinary person. Anyone who can obtain a treasure like this must have encountered an extraordinary opportunity!” the Book Demon confirmed.

Earlier, when Chen Yueying was putting on the gilded armor, she had inadvertently revealed a ring-shaped pendant hanging around her neck. Ye Liuyun happened to see it, which in turn caught the Book Demon’s attention.

“Can I break through her time halo’s power?” Ye Liuyun asked the Book Demon again.

“With the power of her divine soul, you definitely can. But if someone with a stronger divine soul is involved, that’s hard to say! You’d better not stop cultivating your divine soul power!” the Book Demon reminded Ye Liuyun.

“All right!” From then on, after every battle, Ye Liuyun would pull his opponent’s divine soul into his sea of consciousness, send it into the Soul Refining Cauldron to be refined, and then store it in the Soul-Sealing Pearl.

The divine soul power he had previously obtained from Song Qingyun, along with the soul origins collected in the Soul-Sealing Pearl, were already continuing to be absorbed and refined by his own soul origin. He had never stopped cultivating. Capturing divine souls now was merely a way to stockpile more cultivation resources.