Imperial Capital, Prince Rui’s Mansion.
The Young Master listened to the words of his ancestor, completely bewildered.
But he wasn’t a fool and keenly sensed sothing was amiss.
"What happened inside the Emperor’s Pool might be more complicated than I thought!" he mused.
Otherwise, why would the ancestor imdiately ask where Chu Huaixu’s body and the pearl were?
This implies that the ancestor believed Chu Huaixu was already dead!
"Could it be that the ancestor personally dealt with him inside the Emperor’s Pool?"
"Moreover, he managed to escape death."
"Besides that, the ancestor possibly paid a trendous price, otherwise, he wouldn’t have suddenly fallen asleep!"
Qin Xuexiao thought about it more and more, feeling shocked and terrified.
How could Chu Huaixu, with his re Third Realm cultivation, accomplish such a heaven-defying feat!?
The thoughts in the Young Master’s mind churned like raging waves.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Surely there’s a flaw in my thinking!
The sowhat weakened Ancestor Emperor, seeing Qin Xuexiao montarily speechless, couldn’t help but sound displeased.
"Xuexiao, I am asking you a question!" His stern voice echoed in Qin Xuexiao’s mind like a clap of thunder exploding in his Sea of Consciousness.
The re Third Realm junior only felt a jolt in his Divine Soul, with his Sea of Consciousness shuddering and aching.
After the pain, he imdiately stopped overthinking and respectfully replied, but also tried to extract information at the sa ti:
"Ancestor, did you personally act against Chu Huaixu inside the Emperor’s Pool? But... he didn’t die!"
The next mont, Qin Xuexiao’s Sea of Consciousness was once again in turmoil.
Because the Ancestor Emperor began to voice his rage, the power of his Divine Thought surging outward.
"Impossible! That’s absolutely impossible!"
"His physical body was destroyed, Spiritual Embryo completely ruined, Sea of Consciousness collapsed!"
"There’s absolutely no chance of survival, that would be enough to kill him three tis over!"
The grand sche of possession was ruined, and Chu Huaixu perished along with his four strands of Divine Thought, this was the conclusion within the Emperor’s Pool as seen from the Ancestor Emperor’s perspective!
Just this alone was sothing he could barely accept.
A re Third Realm lower cultivator, a young lad hundreds of years later, dared to ruin my four strands of Divine Thought with his worthless life!
The damage to his Divine Soul was severe, and whether it could ever be fully restored remained uncertain.
How could he not be enraged?
Listening to these words, Qin Xuexiao’s heart was even more shocked beyond asure.
"Chu Huaixu’s body was destroyed, Spiritual Embryo wasted, Sea of Consciousness even collapsed?"
To speak of sothing so disrespectful, he really wanted to ask the ancestor: Are you joking with ?
According to the information he gathered, after erging from the Emperor’s Pool, Chu Huaixu was taken back to the Cultivation Hall by Jiang Zhi, completely unhard, without a scratch!
The Heir of Prince Rui could hear the emotions from his ancestor’s tone.
This led him to a nearly unbelievable and insane thought.
"Could it be that the ancestor got the short end of the stick in his hands...?"
At this thought, he felt his whole body stiffen.
The Ancestor Emperor’s voice continued to echo in his mind.
"Given such circumstances, even if Chu Huaixu possessed Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, even if he had a Ninth Grade Spirit Pill, it would be impossible to narrowly escape death!"
Qin Xuexiao could only respond dumbfounded:
"But ancestor, Chu Huaixu looks... seems completely unhard."
He was already prepared for the ancestor to go into a frenzy, and for his Sea of Consciousness to once again be in turmoil.
Surprisingly, this statent rendered the Ancestor Emperor silent.
Now, he was just a "wandering soul" without a physical body, so there was no risk of choking on a mouthful of blood.
However, this result was absolutely unacceptable to him!
In my lifeti, I have conquered the realm, invincible across the world!
Even after death, I controlled the Moon Country, and overruled the entire Western Continent!
How could this young man fool !
But the Ancestor Emperor was, after all, a peerless power from hundreds of years ago.
To have laid such a foundation ans he was undoubtedly a person of great wit and strategy.
Although after hundreds of years, his temperant and other aspects had changed dramatically, no longer as rational as he once was.
Yet, once he cald down a bit, the details of the situation began to piece together in his mind.
"He must be dead, for I saw it with my own eyes."
"If what Xuexiao said is true, that he remained unhard, then there is only one possibility!"
"That semi-transparent Elixir Pearl contained the power of Evil Qi, capable of devouring all things."
"But it seems Chu Huaixu had a Secret Technique, allowing the power consud within the Elixir Pearl to be returned to him, nourishing him!"
"With his special Body Refining Divine Techniques, and the regenerative powers granted by the Dao Scripture, after being nourished, he might indeed recover?"
This was the only reasonable explanation he could think of.
Yet such thods of seizing the creation of the world were simply inconceivable, unheard of!
He could even manipulate the world’s most sinister Qi as he pleased?
Even I could not achieve that!
But following this train of thought, the Ancestor Emperor once again was filled with ecstatic joy.
"Doesn’t this an that my four strands of Divine Thought were not destroyed, and might still be within that Elixir Pearl!"
In that case, there is a chance for recovery.
This gave the Ancestor Emperor a glimr of hope.
He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly rembered sothing, and imdiately called out in his mind: "Not good!"
"If Chu Huaixu is unscathed, and if Lin Qingci had already sealed his own intentions early on, taken a dose of aphro---herb ant for three, and had already been circulating the ’Wedding Garnt’ within his body, wouldn’t that an... wouldn’t that an...."
She is my forbidden desire!!!
...
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Inside the room, no matter how Qin Xuexiao called out to the Ancestor Emperor, he no longer paid him any attention.
In fact, the reason he contacted Qin Xuexiao imdiately was purely because the "main soul" among the ten strands of Divine Thought was within him.
The Moon Emperor and the Female State Preceptor only possessed fragnted souls.
At this mont, he had suffered a severe injury, and those two fragnts hadn’t yet recovered fully; it would still take so ti.
As for the matter of Lin Qingci, asking Qin Xuexiao was futile, as he was unaware of it.
From the Ancestor Emperor’s perspective, he assud Chu Huaixu was dead beyond resurrection, and the physical body he admired so was likely already tainted by Evil Qi.
Thus, Lin Qingci’s primordial Yin would still belong to him in the future.
However, as things stand now, it’s uncertain!
He is the Founding Emperor of the Moon Country!
In the Ancestor Emperor’s heart, he felt sowhat ashad to forcibly take a woman’s primordial Yin through such ans, so when Lin Qingci always spoke with an ironic tone, the Ancestor endured it.
But as an emperor, especially a founding one, he wouldn’t be a man with weak possessiveness, would he?
Regardless, he indeed considered the Female State Preceptor as his own woman.
After their dual cultivation and pleasure, he promised to let her decide if she wanted to stay or leave, according to her own wishes.
But if she gave her body and the Divine Skill "Bridal Robe" to soone else, the Ancestor Emperor would never accept it!
Lin Qingci is indeed his forbidden desire at this mont!
No one can touch her!
If that were true, it would be a great loss indeed!
How could a dignified emperor endure such a thing!
The National Preceptor’s Mansion and Prince Rui’s Mansion are separated by half of the city.
At this mont, the Female State Preceptor was leaning by the window, gazing up at the bright moon in the night sky.
Her feet were still bare, and her elegant and dignified face showed traces of confusion.
This period was like a brief escape from the shackles of Divine Thought for her, stepping halfway out of the cage.
But she didn’t know what to do, where to give herself a "little break."
More perplexing was that she repeatedly felt the urge to go to the Cultivation Hall.
As for finding soone there, it was obvious.
During these days, Lin Qingci did not cultivate at all.
Her cultivation was ant to be a gift, but ended up in vain.
Her past diligence was purely forced out by the power of Emperor’s Divine Thought.
She no longer ditated in silence at night, but after sleeping peacefully in her bed, she would often dream of things... unspeakable.
What happened in the Emperor’s Pool that day left her with hardly any awareness or mory, acting entirely on physical instincts and the "Bridal Robe."
Thus, she only had extrely vague mories.
Yet, it was this ambiguity that made her want to ponder more!
Such is human nature, and under these circumstances, one tends to imagine all sorts of scenarios.
As the saying goes, what one thinks of during the day, one dreams of at night.
Lin Qingci could forcibly dispel these wild thoughts during the day, but upon sleeping at night, her dreams were exaggerated versions of reality.
Like last night’s dream, it turned into an intimate entanglent.
[Deep in the night, entwined like mandarin ducks, the silk bedding turned into red waves.
After the rain stops and clouds recede, the situation is unbearable.]
Upon waking abruptly from the dream, she knew exactly how her body felt different.
Sotis Lin Qingci wondered if the effects of the drug hadn’t worn off entirely, leaving residues in her body....
Am I this kind of woman?
It could only be said that when the initial thoughts of revenge sprouted, thinking it might as well be given to Chu Huaixu, many ideas began to run wild.
In the minds of the Moon Country’s people, the Female State Preceptor seed like a statue in a temple.
She was too dignified, too pure.
Yet now, it seed that the statue was touched by a hint of human desire.
Lin Qingci leaned against the bed and sighed softly.
"What exactly happened on the cushion that day?"
"I and that Chu Huaixu... How far did it go?"
Moreover, she could well imagine how unseemly, how proactive, and how passionate she might have been that day....
All witnessed by a man who was practically a stranger to her.
Thinking about these things, all kinds of emotions would arise in her heart.
After a while, her calm face couldn’t help but wrinkle her eyebrows.
Because the loathso thing within her body, after so many days of dormancy, awakened once again.
This made her suddenly feel the surrounding air turning a bit stale, less fresh than before.
Just now, while the night wind blew, she felt cool.’
At this mont, she felt annoyed.
The invisible cage trapping her was rebuilt once more.
Despite her high status, she was nothing more than a bird in a cage.
Sure enough, as soon as the Emperor’s Divine Thought within her awakened, its first words made her sick.
"Lin Qingci, was my primordial Yin still intact?"
—Did you... give it to him?
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(ps: the second Chapter update, asking for monthly votes on the last day of the month.)
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