Chapter 59: Reconciling the Conflict Between Them
Mingyan returned to his room. Feng Shiyi was sitting upright inside. Seeing him, she quickly stood up. “Mingyan.”
This obedient look made him chuckle. It was really hard to connect this woman with that magnificent Empress.
How could she be like an Empress? She was more like a little maid, and one who couldn’t do anything, clumsy at that.
The Empress was a rogue cultivator in her youth. Before she became famous, she must have spent a long time wandering. Such a life would have forced her to learn everything. This clumsy Feng Shiyi was probably a part of the Empress’s weakness that had been hidden away.
But even if it was just weakness, this weakness easily made one’s heart soften.
He sat down beside her, and she habitually grabbed the corner of his robe and sat down with him.
“I’m hungry.”
The first thing she said was this… Mingyan was silent for a moment, then took out the roast meat he had prepared earlier. These things were kept warm and fresh by him using a special method. Seeing this, Feng Shiyi’s eyes seemed to sparkle, and drool was about to fall from the corner of her mouth. She held the roast meat and began to gnaw on it.
He smiled helplessly, looking at her, and fell into deep thought.
Before, everyone had felt the wailing of the Great Dao, suspecting that Great Empress Qingzi had perished. The two subsequent displays of Emperor’s might were both from his sister, Wang Qingchu.
After that, he had met Feng Shiyi, and then, he had met the Great Empress herself…
There should be some connection here. He frowned. Was the wailing of the Great Dao because a Great Emperor had perished? Or had a Great Emperor fallen from the Great Dao realm?
He had learned some things about Supreme Dao Great Emperors. It was impossible for a Great Emperor to fall from their realm. No matter how serious the injury, it was impossible. After attaining the Dao and becoming an Emperor, they had completely entered another realm. The realm was completely different, so how could there be a fall?
He looked at Feng Shiyi. The Empress had separated this part of herself… According to common sense, if you split something in two, everything becomes two halves, incomplete.
In that case, was it possible that the Empress was no longer a Supreme Dao Great Emperor? After all, separating out a Feng Shiyi, she would definitely be incomplete…
An incomplete Great Emperor, could she still be called a Great Emperor?
If he thought about it this way, the wailing of the Great Dao he had felt before, was it actually caused by the Empress separating out Feng Shiyi in some way, causing her realm to fall?
Why would she do that?
He thought for a moment. The Dark Era was about to arrive. The Empress had lowered her own cultivation. For what?
If a Great Emperor exists, no one else can become one… Could it be that the Empress wanted to let someone else attain the Dao and become an Emperor in this way?
But even if she was no longer a Great Emperor, the suppression of the Great Dao would still need another ten thousand years to dissipate before others would have the possibility of attaining the Dao and becoming an Emperor.
Ten thousand years, the Dark Era would have probably already arrived…
When the Empress had appeared before Mingyan, she had given him a very terrifying feeling. Although the Supreme Dao Emperor’s might was rather gentle, it still made his skin crawl. Compared to his sister’s Emperor’s might, her status was not diminished in the slightest.
Of course, Mingyan was too far from that level. He had no idea of the Empress’s true strength, so he couldn’t be sure if she was still in her peak state.
He couldn’t quite figure it out, but then he thought that he and the Empress were on different levels. He hadn’t reached that realm yet and was completely clueless about the Great Dao realm. It was useless to think so much. When his strength reached that level, perhaps he would naturally understand.
Feng Shiyi finished her roast meat, and there was no grease on her clothes or hands. Her mouth was also clean. This woman seemed unable to get dirty. He couldn’t see a sloppy side to her.
She tugged on his robe. “Mingyan, I want to sleep.”
“Then sleep,” he chuckled.
“Hmm…” After getting his permission, she leaned on his shoulder, closed her eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
After she fell asleep, he was about to close his eyes and rest, but he didn’t expect to feel an aura appear outside the door. Someone was there. This aura was not concealed, so he soon felt who it was.
Bai Ze.
He hesitated for a moment, then heard her mental message. “Little friend Mingyan, may I come in?”
“Please come in,” he replied.
Bai Ze gently pushed the door open. A white dress, otherworldly and beautiful, a faint smile on her face. He originally wanted to help Feng Shiyi up so he could stand, but he was stopped by Bai Ze.
“She really trusts you.” After stopping his movements with a wave of her hand, Bai Ze showed a faint smile. “Don’t wake her.”
His movements slowed. “Is there something you need, Senior?”
“To talk to you about that girl, Gu.” Bai Ze sat down, gathering her white dress. She had not brought any maids. She was about the same height as him, extremely tall. “The girl, Gu, has also looked for you before, right?”
He nodded, not hiding it. Bai Ze had no reason not to know what Jade Peony knew.
“I know, those two girls have more or less tried to win you over. Because of the things I said to them, they are both a little wary, afraid you will side with the other.” Bai Ze casually fiddled with her dark hair. “As for the girl, Gu, and Mudan, who are you more inclined towards?”
To be honest, if it weren’t for the matter of the sacred mountain, he wouldn’t want to be inclined towards anyone, just wanting to be an outsider. But now it seemed that a relationship with Jade Peony was necessary.
“If I have to help someone, I’m more inclined towards Celestial Yu.”
“…You don’t have to say that just because you’re in front of me. I am also half a master to the girl, Gu.” Bai Ze paused for a moment, then gave him a meaningful look.
“That’s not the reason. I just simply feel that Celestial Yu is easier to get along with than Gu Hanshuang,” he shook his head.
“Hehe, that’s true too. The girl, Gu’s, arrogance is written all over her face. Sometimes it’s indeed very prickly,” Bai Ze smiled, not denying it. “However, I don’t really want you to take sides between the two of them. If possible, I hope you can treat them both equally and resolve the conflict between them.”
He frowned. It seemed Bai Ze and Gu Hanshuang’s relationship was even better than he had imagined… But thinking about it, it was quite reasonable. As the number one in the Southern Continent, it wasn’t strange for Gu Hanshuang to have some connection with this female demon king. The two definitely had some kind of relationship. Bai Ze had also just said that she was half a master to Gu Hanshuang…
“I know you came here with a purpose. If you agree, I can let you ascend the sacred mountain and take what you want,” Bai Ze said with a calm smile.
But Mingyan’s pupils shrank. He was shocked.
How does she know I want to ascend the sacred mountain? Besides telling Feiyan and the Temptress Sister, I haven’t told anyone else!
