But for the most part, she never attended court.
Instead, she would stay in this small courtyard, spending her ti in quiet solitude.
As if waiting for sothing.
Wang Xiao shook his head slightly, seeing through Shangguan Xiyue’s lingering attachnt.
His thoughts spun endlessly as he tried to connect with the Immortal Treasure he had left for Shangguan Xiyue.
...
「In a small courtyard within the Imperial Palace.」
The forr Imperial Harem had long since been abolished after Wang Xiao took the throne.
Only a few small courtyards had been left standing.
As always, Shangguan Xiyue was in the small courtyard, ticulously tending to the vegetables and lons growing there.
With her current power, she could have made these vegetables and lons ripen in an instant.
But she didn’t. Instead, she patiently tilled the soil and applied fertilizer.
Just as she had two hundred years ago!
She existed in the present, yet lived in the past.
Just then,
HUMMM!
The bracelet she always wore on her wrist suddenly began to vibrate, emitting bursts of light.
It was the Immortal Treasure Wang Xiao had given her.
"My Lord!"
Shangguan Xiyue’s eyes lit up.
She could already feel the familiar ripples of energy coming from the bracelet.
In the next mont,
The light from the bracelet gradually solidified, coalescing into a human figure!
It was Wang Xiao.
Wang Xiao surveyed the body he now inhabited and pressed his lips into a thin line.
This was a minor ability he could use after having rged with the world’s heaven.
Divine Thought Possession.
Of course, he could only possess an object that was imbued with his aura.
And it wouldn’t last for long.
"My Lord, it’s really you! I knew it, I knew you weren’t dead!"
Shangguan Xiyue gazed at the figure before her, wanting to reach out but not daring to touch him.
She was afraid that this was all just a dream.
Before she knew it, tears were streaming down her face.
In the hearts of almost everyone, the Celestial Destiny Emperor—unrivaled and unmatched in his ti—was already dead.
But,
She alone refused to believe it!
She knew that one day, she would see her lord return.
Wang Xiao sighed, reaching out to wipe the tears from Shangguan Xiyue’s face.
"It’s been hard on you all these years."
Sensing Wang Xiao’s condition, Shangguan Xiyue’s eyes narrowed slightly.
"My Lord, your body..."
She couldn’t sense the existence of his physical body.
Wang Xiao said,
"It is rely a physical body, sothing to be discarded sooner or later. I’ve appeared before you only to say goodbye. We’ve known each other for two hundred years; I suppose you could say we were fated to et. From now on, you must walk your own path."
Shangguan Xiyue trembled.
"My Lord, where are you going?"
Wang Xiao said calmly,
"I am returning to where I ca from. Perhaps, one day, we will et again in the future."
After he spoke,
A thought drifted through Wang Xiao’s mind.
’He’d said sothing similar once before, four hundred years ago. To that Grilled Fish Girl with the Shu Mountain accent. Without so special fortuitous encounter, the Grilled Fish Girl was likely already dead. After all, Wang Xiao hadn’t left a mark in the Celestial Sword World, so there was no way for him to return. Even if he could, he likely wouldn’t take the initiative to et with people from his past. From the thoughts of Zhao Yin in the Incense Realm, he had learned of the vastness of the Cosmos and the peerless figures scattered throughout it. Wang Xiao knew then that on the journey to seek the Great Dao, no one could walk with him to the very end. The Great Dao is a solitary path. Everyone else could only accompany him for a single leg of the journey. Looking back too often would only cause him to stagnate. Perhaps he would stop when he reached the end of the Cosmos, the ultimate destination. At that ti, he could naturally et the people from his past once more. But that ti was not now!’
Traveling from one world to the next, it wasn’t just Wang Xiao’s strength that had grown, but also his heart, ever more resolute in its pursuit of the Great Dao!
Shangguan Xiyue bit her lip, mustering her courage.
"The future is too far away. My Lord, can I go with you?"
Wang Xiao shook his head.
"The place I must return to... I fear that even an Immortal Emperor could not reach it in a lifeti. I have no way to take you with ."
After a mont of thought,
He said,
"However, I can give you sothing. There is a path beyond that of an Immortal Emperor."
"I hope this will help you take that next step."
Without another word,
Wang Xiao reached out and tapped a finger on the center of Shangguan Xiyue’s brow.
In that instant,
A deluge of information flooded into Shangguan Xiyue’s mind.
It was all of Wang Xiao’s insights and realizations about the Great Dao from this lifeti.
The mysteries of the workings of Heaven and Earth were all contained within it.
However,
This could only help Shangguan Xiyue take another step forward.
How far she could go would ultimately depend on her.
This was all Wang Xiao could do for her.
HUMMM!
Shangguan Xiyue felt a swelling pressure in her head as her Divine Thought seed to ascend endlessly.
All of Heaven and Earth unfolded before her eyes in a peculiar new way.
’Is this... how my lord sees Heaven and Earth?!’
Shangguan Xiyue found herself lost in the experience.
By the ti she ca back to herself, dusk had already fallen.
The setting sun cast its long shadows, but Wang Xiao’s figure was long gone.
Only a cluster of crabapple blossoms blood quietly in a corner of the courtyard.
...
’Return!’
Wang Xiao felt his Divine Thought gradually dissipate into Heaven and Earth.
Then, a wisp of his consciousness was drawn in by the Book of Space-Ti, sinking into its pages.
Along with his consciousness ca a brilliant golden light.
He could see it clearly—it was his Celestial Destiny Sword!
The Book of Space-Ti vibrated, emitting a faint golden glow. It took Wang Xiao’s consciousness and the Celestial Destiny Sword with it, disappearing completely from this world.
「The Real World.」
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