Chapter 85: I Can’t Kill You, You Kill Me

Gu Changqing continued on his journey aimlessly.

He wanted to wander the mortal world to search for the dao that belonged to him.

Swoosh!

Suddenly, the sound of something flying through the air resounded behind him and space exploded without warning. An icy beam shot out and stopped right behind his head.

Some of his hair was cut off by that beam.

He slowly turned his head.

To see a face as delicate as jade.

This was a 17 or 18 year old girl with intricate features that stood out, smooth and supple skin that was like white jade, as though it would break by just blowing on it. It glowed and sparkled from within, as though she was a fairy.

Her dress was as white as snow and had no dirt on it at all.

Just like how her gaze was pure and unblemished, it felt like her thoughts could be read through those eyes.

There was no girl more beautiful than her in the world, and none more pure.

Gu Changqing knew this girl.

This was the younger sister of the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s official wife who was outside that palace.

Initially she covered her face with a veil, but after he made it come off her face, she tied it around her waist.

Right now, the girl was pointing a long, gleaming sword at him.

But even after standing there for a long time, she did not stab him with it.

Her eyes flickered and seemed to hold tears. She had a deeply conflicted look on her face.

“Elder Sister, Brother-in-law, I tried to persuade you before, but both of you refused to listen…That little fox was clearly already so pitiful…”

She murmured softly with tears in her eyes. “Elder Sister, I can’t bring myself to kill him. What should I do…”

A long while later.

She turned the sword toward herself and offered Gu Changqing the hilt.

“Since you killed my sister and my brother-in-law, then you should kill me as well.”

Gu Changqing was shocked.

He wasn’t alone. The cultivators outside the mirror were equally shocked.

…

Right now.

Everyone outside the mirror turned to look at Changxi.

Their gazes seemed to say, what in the world were you thinking?!

Changxi’s gaze was aloof and she looked a little indignant.

Then she calmly explained, “Back then, I had just stepped into this world and I didn’t know a lot of things. I only knew that there was good and evil, kindness and wickedness, right and wrong. When my sister and brother-in-law brought harm to the little fox, it made me feel that they had done something wicked.”

“So…I simply couldn’t bear to kill him.”

Everyone gasped.

Nobody would have expected that this mysterious empress from ancient times had once been an ignorant and innocent young lady.

But it seemed like a young lady like that would make more people want to protect and care for her.

At the very least, Ye Chen felt that way.

But he suddenly realized something amiss.

“If that’s the case, then the Moon Goddess’ feud with the Heavenly Emperor is just because he destroyed your Sacred Moon Body?”

Ye Chen stared at Changxi with some surprise.

When he asked this Empress to join the rebellion, Ye Chen could hear the intense hatred she had toward the Heavenly Emperor after just a short exchange. He was sure that her hatred wasn’t just about the fact that her Sacred Moon Body had been destroyed.

Because when the time came to suppress the Heavenly Emperor, she had rushed forward faster than anyone else.

She certainly did not move any slower than Gu Youwei who had her Immortal Root dug out, as well as the Demon Empress Bai Su.

Before this, when he had looked into the Heavenly Emperor’s past, Ye Chen felt that it was most likely because the Heavenly Emperor had killed Changxi’s older sister.

But now.

It seemed like this woman did not intend to make the Heavenly Emperor pay for this at all back then.

In that case, it was just about destroying her Sacred Moon Body? Was that enough to make her hate him so much?

Changxi was shocked by the question and opened her mouth as though she wanted to say something, but also looked like she didn’t know how to put it across.

After pausing for a few moments, she finally said, “He cast me onto the Sun Star, sealed my cultivation and trapped me there for 3,000 years.”

“Oh my gosh…”

Every cultivator couldn’t help but gasp in horror.

They couldn’t believe the Heavenly Emperor could bear to do such a thing to such a beautiful woman.

This woman was the Moon Goddess.

She belonged to the Moon Star.

Her body was a Sacred Moon Body, so it was most afraid of the sun’s true fire. Yet the Heavenly Emperor trapped her on the Sun Star for a full 3,000 years.

And didn’t kill her either. He let her get tortured alive.

“The Heavenly Emperor…is really inhumane.”

“Indeed. If he just destroyed her Sacred Moon Body, it wouldn’t be so bad. But to trap her on the Sun Star and allow the true fire of the sun to roast her for so long, that’s horribly cruel.”

Everyone was furious.

Ye Chen noticed the struggle in her eyes when she first heard his question.

As someone blessed by the gods, he had been clever since he was a child.

And that was also why.

Even though Changxi had given a plausible explanation.

Ye Chen was still able to notice what most others would have missed in her moment of hesitation.

“Seems like this woman’s past with the Heavenly Emperor and her hatred for him is really not that simple,” thought Ye Chen, as his heart brimmed with joy.

This was good news to him, of course.

As the saying goes, the enemy of an enemy is a friend.

He wished the whole world hated the Heavenly Emperor to the core and couldn’t wait for everyone to praise him for getting rid of this evil devil.

“During this fight against the Heavenly Emperor, I’ve performed extremely well and will get rid of Changxi’s greatest enemy. I think if I spend a little more time with her after that, she will dive right into my arms,” thought Ye Chen.

The face he had seen in the mirror when Gu Changqing had caused Changxi’s veil to fly off left a deep impression on him.

It was so deep, he felt it in his bones.

Wouldn’t it be one of his greatest regrets in life if he couldn’t take such a gorgeous fairy-like woman into his harem?

Demon Empress Bai Su’s pretty eyes flashed as she looked toward Changxi.

Her sixth sense as a woman told her that this woman’s relationship with Gu Changqing was definitely not so simple.

“When Gu Changqing kept attacking my people, could it have something to do with Changxi?”

“Or could it be that she’s the one who instigated it?”

A woman’s emotions were always so strange and mysterious.

In that moment, Bai Su suddenly started seeing the Silver Moon Great Empress as an enemy of sorts.

…

Inside the mirror.

Gu Changqing had a shocked look on his face for a few moments.

But after that, he ignored her and walked away.

Changxi was taken aback. She clearly didn’t expect him to ignore her like that.

But the conflict in her heart had started because of this man. She didn’t know where else to go, so she decided to just follow behind him, thinking that when she had finally sorted her thoughts out.

She’d make a decision about what to do next.

Just like that, a man and a woman walked on, one in front of the other.

Tangshan, or the old territory of the Demon Race.

After this battle, the creatures that once lived in this mountain range either escaped or died.

The Demon Race had fallen overnight.

The resources they had gathered over millennia were lost in a flash.

All of Beixuan Continent’s people were fearful, and many powerful forces felt uneasy.