"Hahahaha!"
"I'm dying of laughter."
"The little drama queen really knows how to stir up trouble, actually making that wicked seed change her ways again. I'm dying!"
Jiang Yu, who was using Heavenly Sight and Earthly Hearing to spy, was laughing so hard her body swayed.
Originally, she wanted to see if Zhi Meng, after being provoked by her this time, would be so angry she'd spit blood.
Whether she would redouble her efforts, sharpening her knives to come after her again.
But who would have thought that the proud wicked seed would actually be driven to tears.
Honestly, this was definitely the first time Zhi Meng had cried since she began her cultivation.
Even more unexpectedly, Gu Qing was also a wicked seed, and to get himself out of trouble, he didn't hesitate to scheme against his own Master.
She just loved Gu Qing's clever and cunning appearance.
However...
Jiang Yu put away her smile, her gaze piercing through the void as she looked at Gu Qing, who was rushing toward Purple Lotus Peak at lightning speed.
She snorted coldly: "You brat, you actually called me vicious and said you'd capture me forcefully? Hmph, I'd like to see just how you plan to capture me forcefully."
Gu Qing entered the Purple Lotus Peak main hall and looked at the beautiful, otherworldly, and elegant Jiang Yu.
Those deep, sea-like peach blossom eyes looked over, filled with warmth, and Gu Qing felt a blissful sensation of wanting to sink into a sea of tenderness.
An illusion.
Gu Qing shook his head secretly. He had an intuition that Jiang Yu was smiling with a hidden blade.
"Sister Yu, I'm back. It's been centuries, have you missed me?"
"What do you think? Hmph!" Jiang Yu snorted, twisted her waist, and turned her face away.
Gu Qing froze, looking her up and down.
He had to admit, Jiang Yu was a peerless beauty in the mortal world, a sight to behold from any angle.
Gu Qing thought for a moment and was certain that Jiang Yu had definitely been spying.
This peeping pervert.
But since Jiang Yu wasn't saying anything, he might as well pretend he knew nothing.
Thinking this, Gu Qing said with a troubled expression, "Sister Yu, what have you done to my Master? Please don't do that again."
"I upset her?"
Hearing Gu Qing's words, Jiang Yu became even angrier.
"She was the one who came looking for trouble. I didn't even hold it against her."
"Alright!" Gu Qing thought carefully, and it did seem to be the case.
So the question was, how to appease the angry Jiang Yu before him?
"My dear wife, your husband has arrived."
Gu Qing decided to call her 'wife' and cling to her thigh.
"Who's your wife? Let go."
Jiang Yu's smile froze on her face. It felt like an electric current had passed through her thigh, making her entire body go limp.
This brat, how could he just hug her thigh without any warning?
"It's you, it's you, it has to be you. My wife is the incomparably beautiful, peerlessly elegant Jiang Yu."
"I love you, my wife, and my wife loves me..."
Gu Qing held on tightly, wishing he could kiss her a few times.
What a dazzling and brilliant golden thigh to cling to.
In the past, he had truly been deceived by Jiang Yu's gentle and watery appearance.
He had thought Jiang Yu was nothing special.
Even if she was an existence that had weathered sixteen great chaotic destructions without being destroyed, she hadn't fused a Dao Fruit nor inherited the memories of the Purple Lotus Dao Venerable.
A Jiang Yu like that, no matter how formidable, could she really be that powerful?
But then Jiang Yu first produced the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror, followed by the Purple Lotus Rebirth Technique, the Chaos Indestructible Halberd, and the communication jade.
Gu Qing now knew for certain that Jiang Yu was an omnipotent being.
As long as Jiang Yu wanted it, there was nothing she couldn't do.
"Shut up."
"And keep your hands to yourself."
Hearing Gu Qing's barrage of shameless words, Jiang Yu's face flushed and her heart raced. Her deep, peach blossom eyes glistened with moisture.
She took a deep breath, suppressing the strange sensations in her body, and looked at him sideways: "Alright, what do you want this time?"
This cunning and clever brat, whenever he said sweet things and called her 'wife', it was never for anything good.
Sometimes she didn't know if she was raising a husband or a son. What a headache.
Fortunately, her family was wealthy and her strength was extraordinary; otherwise, she really couldn't afford him.
"How could you think of me that way, my dear wife? Am I that kind of person? Well..."
Under Jiang Yu's frosty gaze, Gu Qing truthfully answered: "Help me upgrade the communication jade so it can transmit items, and preferably people as well."
"My dear wife, I also need a treasure related to the Great Dao of Creation."
Thump! Jiang Yu tapped his forehead and rolled her eyes: "Do you think I'm an all-powerful Immortal Emperor?"
"The communication jade you're talking about is heaven-defying; I can't refine it."
"The creation treasure you want is even more wishful thinking; this world simply doesn't have any creation treasures."
This world doesn't have it, but you do.
If you don't have it, you can go search the boundless chaos; you'll definitely find some.
Gu Qing thought this, but said aloud: "Stop pretending, Sister Yu. I know you're a reincarnated Immortal Emperor. You must be an Immortal King powerhouse by now, or perhaps you've already recovered your Immortal Emperor cultivation."
Jiang Yu's disguise was too strong; he had to peel it layer by layer until there was nothing left to peel.
"Powerhouse my ass! Immortal Emperor? If I were an Immortal Emperor, I would have kicked you away the first chance I got. Let go now," Jiang Yu said angrily.
Come to think of it, Gu Qing's words did remind her.
Jiang Yu's eyes flashed; she thought the Immortal Emperor and Immortal King disguises were quite good.
Forget it, she'd just put them on for now.
"Still not admitting it? Then where did the Profound Fire Treasure Mirror and the Chaos Indestructible Halberd come from?" Gu Qing's grip tightened.
"I got them from an immortal's cave dwelling. I even got the method to refine the communication jade from there. Didn't I tell you all this already?"
"I don't care, you have to refine one for me, otherwise..."
"Otherwise what?"
Smack!
"Huh?"
Jiang Yu's beautiful eyes widened, and countless electric currents surged across her thigh.
She froze for a moment before grabbing Gu Qing, who was still frantically gnawing on her thigh, by the back of his collar.
"I admit I'm a reincarnated Immortal Emperor, and I promised to upgrade you, so let go now," she said, forcing herself to remain calm as she gritted her teeth.
"Huh? How about you reconsider, my lady? Your husband isn't in a hurry."
Gu Qing looked at her stunning face, then at her fair and delicate thigh.
Letting him have another bite wouldn't be worth losing the communication jade.
"Scram!"
Jiang Yu flew into a rage, grabbed him by the collar, and tossed him aside.
The young people these days, always taking the direct path instead of a little detour.
That's no good.
Not good at all.
Jiang Yu lectured Gu Qing for a while, and seeing his impatience, she finally stopped and changed the subject.
"The Starlight Dao Sect currently has an opening for a core disciple of the sequence. You should go for it."
"Alright."
Gu Qing nodded, not expecting such a fortunate turn of events.
He had originally planned to eliminate a core disciple to take their place.
After all, to become the Divine Son, one must first become a core disciple of the sequence.
"By the way, why is our lineage so sparse? Just a few of us. I see the other lineages have heavenly prodigies and monstrous talents. Doesn't our lineage have any?"
Gu Qing asked curiously, wanting to understand the situation of their Desolate Ancient Star Domain lineage.
Jiang Yu gave a brief explanation.
In short, their lineage had been at its peak, producing Immortal Kings and dozens of Profound God Realm cultivators.
However, in recent times, after the Immortal King fell, they rapidly declined. Profound God Realm cultivators fell one after another, leaving only the strongest, Patriarch You Kui.
As for the disciples, they were suppressed by the other lineages, with some dying and others defecting.
As Gu Qing listened, he rubbed his chin. Something felt so wrong about this.
Yes, it was the feeling of a protagonist.
He never thought the protagonist's treatment would fall upon him, this villain.
But then again, if he hadn't killed Jiang Yu or Lin Xuan's disciple, wouldn't this mess have been left for the protagonist to clean up?
Forget it, no matter what, he was determined to become the Divine Son of the Starlight Dao Sect.
"A'qing, the Starlight Dao Sect has many fine treasures, but only the Divine Son is qualified to enjoy them."
After her explanation, Jiang Yu looked at Gu Qing, her eyes shimmering as she said softly.
"What treasures?"
Gu Qing asked curiously.
"World Dao Fruits, World Stones, and the true Three-Light Divine Water."
The World Dao Fruit is borne by the World Tree that supports the heavens and the earth.
A single one is enough for a Celestial God Realm cultivator to prove the Dao and reach the Profound God Realm's fruit stage.
It can even increase a Profound God Realm cultivator's chances of breaking through to the Immortal King Realm by ten percent.
However, the World Tree was destroyed in ancient times, and the Starlight Dao Sect now has only three World Dao Fruits, coveted by countless eyes.
The World Stone is similarly a priceless treasure, containing the laws of a world. It can be used for refining artifacts or to extract the world's Dao resonance for comprehending the Dao.
As for the Three-Light Divine Water, this is a primordial divine water with unparalleled healing effects.
It can also reshape the physical body and cleanse one's aptitude.
Its effects are tens of thousands of times more powerful than the Three-Light Divine Water condensed later.
Besides these three treasures, the Starlight Dao Sect has many other divine treasures and Dao Fruits.
After all, their ancestors had been wealthy, producing several Immortal Emperors.
Later, due to differing philosophies on the Great Dao, they parted ways and split off from the Starlight Dao Sect.
"The path of the Chaos Indestructible Great Dao is not easy. To rapidly improve one's cultivation, divine treasures for assistance are essential."
Jiang Yu glanced at the Dao resonance on Gu Qing's body and said meaningfully.
Gu Qing nodded.
As everyone knew, the more powerful a Great Dao, the harder it was to comprehend.
And his own Chaos Great Dao was already vast and empty, let alone the qualitative change to the Chaos Indestructible Great Dao.
The difficulty would be tens of millions of times greater than other Great Daos.
But...
"What are you trying to do now?"
Seeing Gu Qing look at her thigh again, Jiang Yu glared at him, a blush appearing on her fair and tender cheeks.
"Get out."
Her right leg was still numb and tingling.
No hugging today.
"Fine."
Gu Qing gave up helplessly and left Purple Lotus Peak, immediately seeking out the elders at the peak of the Celestial God Realm from the Desolate Ancient Star Domain lineage to understand the situation.
He wanted to know how many assets the Desolate Ancient Star Domain lineage had left and how many people he could trust.
The Starlight Dao Sect is currently under the control of the Yaoguang Dao Lineage. The other Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, and Kaiyang Dao Lineages are by no means weak.
These are local powers of the Immortal Realm, their lineages flourishing for eternity, with the Sect Master position rotating among them.
As for the Taiyang, Taiyin, and Ziwei Dao Lineages, they split off during ancient times and formed their own sects.
The three thousand lineages from the lower realms...
Li Wencai sighed with emotion: "Despicable locals! We from the lower realms endured countless hardships to ascend to the Immortal Realm, thinking we would be welcomed into its warm embrace to create a glorious future together, but we never expected to be schemed against by these despicable locals."
"The Profound God Realm Patriarchs from the three thousand lower realms were schemed against and fell one after another, while newly ascended disciples were captured to work in the mines."
"Fortunately, our lineage had Patriarch You Kui, who is undefeated below the Immortal King Realm, to protect us. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unthinkable."
"And you, Gu Qing, are the sole sprout of our three thousand realm lineages. We are old, and the glory of the lower realms must be passed on to you young people."
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