Chapter 86: An Obstinate Woman

The vast Tangshan was no longer as glorious as when Gu Changqing had first set foot here.

It was like a dead zone now.

Rivers of blood flowed everywhere. The lands were littered with corpses.

In the midst of this dead zone, Gu Changqing slowly walked on. The woman behind him followed him closely.

She seemed to have suffered grave injuries. Her already fair face looked even more unusually pale. Even her lips were barely pink.

Walking was difficult for her and she would fall down at times, yet she would pick herself up again without making a single sound.

This was one very obstinate woman.

Or at least, Gu Changqing thought so.

If he went up a hill, she would go up the hill too. If he crossed a river, she would cross the river too.

He started feeling hungry.

He hunted a wild rabbit, lit a fire and started roasting it.

It was obvious that she was very hungry. Her gaze landed on the rabbit and wouldn’t budge.

She sat quietly in the snow, swallowing her saliva from time to time.

But this obstinate young lady just sat there and stared.

The two of them did not interact at all.

After eating his fill, Gu Changqing leaned against a large tree to take a quick nap and recover his energy.

The sun rose high in the sky.

When he woke up, he found that the young lady was leaning against another large tree and seemed to have fallen asleep too.

She had delicate features like a porcelain doll, and her white dress made her look even more elegant. But that little bit of dirt on her face made her look so pitiful, as if she really needed someone to care for her.

Gu Changqing got up and went on his way.

He wanted to walk out of this mountain range.

Tangshan was a gigantic place. In the past, he could destroy this entire area with one hand, but now, the sheer size of the mountain range was enough to make him despair.

After he continued walking, he was surprised to find that the girl had woken up and was following behind him again.

She seemed weaker than before, but the look in her eyes was as fiercely obstinate as ever.

As if she was going to follow him until either of them died.

Things remained like that until the seventh day.

Gu Changqing’s lips were a little dry and cracked as he looked up at the blazing sun in the sky and actually felt a little dizzy.

Thud.

Just when Gu Changqing felt like he was about to collapse, the woman behind him collapsed first.

At first, he just glanced at her, then walked away. But soon after, he came back again.

Alright then.

He carried her on his back.

It was already difficult to leave this mountain to begin with, and now he had an additional burden.

“Don’t bother about me,” a whining like a mosquito’s came from his back.

She was already on the verge of fainting, yet she was still so obstinate and still insisted on drawing a clear line between them.

Gu Changqing ignored her and continued walking with this heavy burden on his back.

This young woman was petite and slim, so she was already very light. But to Gu Changqing right now, he felt like he was carrying a small mountain on his back.

…

Outside the mirror.

The cultivators’ expressions shifted slightly when they witnessed this scene.

“The Heavenly Emperor was really a kindhearted person at this point in his life.”

“He has no obligation to help the Silver Moon Great Empress, and worse still, there’s a feud between them. The woman he’s carrying could very well choose to kill him.”

“But even so, the Heavenly Emperor did not abandon the Silver Moon Great Empress in those deserted mountains. Even though it’s already so hard for him to walk out of there,” said someone softly.

One’s true character cannot be seen when you are at your richest.

On the contrary, it is when you have nothing yet you choose to help others that truly show what sort of person you are.

And as far as they could see of the Heavenly Emperor’s past so far until now, he proved to be a truly noble character.

Argh! How is there more!!

Ye Chen felt like each time he heard someone compliment the Heavenly Emperor, he would tremble in anger.

That guy was the devil himself, a man who could destroy the whole world! While he was the messiah blessed by the gods that would rescue the world from destruction!

Especially when he saw the Heavenly Emperor carry Changxi on his back. He nearly threw a fit.

Getting Empress Bai Su’s first kiss wasn’t enough, and he was now so intimate with the Silver Moon Great Empress?!

He made a face. “The Moon Goddess possess a Sacred Moon Body. How do you know what the Heavenly Emperor is thinking about at this point?”

“For all you know, he saved the Moon Goddess because he’s eyeing her Sacred Moon Body.”

The cultivators felt enlightened.

That was when they remembered.

A Sacred Moon Body was the highest grade of a cultivation cauldron. If one cultivated with that, you could complete a thousand days’ cultivation in just one day.

The Heavenly Emperor had lost his Great Emperor cultivation and had cut off his path to cultivate in a few other ways. How did he manage to become Great Emperor again?

In that moment, everyone turned to look at Changxi.

After all, it was highly possible that he had attained that through snatching Changxi’s Sacred Moon Body from her.

The Silver Moon Great Empress’ stare was rather sinister and her gaze was murderous, so that made everyone turn away again.

She glared very unhappily at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen just smiled awkwardly back at her, as though he realized he had said the wrong thing.

Actually, Changxi had considered that same point of view back then.

But after spending more time with Gu Changqing, she dispelled that suspicion.

This man didn’t seem to even know what in the world a Sacred Moon Body was, so he never thought of taking it away from her in order to improve his own cultivation journey.

In fact, even after she dropped many hints later on, he responded like a piece of wood.

Perhaps it was precisely because he was different from others.

So she ended up falling so deeply in love with him later on.

And that was also why she hated him so deeply now!

Bai Su stared at the scene in the mirror.

She was now pretty sure that Gu Changqing’s relationship with Changxi was not a simple one.

She hadn’t even noticed it herself.

A sour feeling of jealousy had risen in her heart.

Even though she had a great feud with the Heavenly Emperor!

…

Just like that, Gu Changqing carried this woman and walked on for another two days.

She was less delirious now, but she was still very weak.

He placed her on a rock by a lake.

Then he got up, looked around, then walked away.

“Wait, what the…”

The cultivators that had just praised the Heavenly Emperor for being a kind and upright man moments ago were too stunned to speak.

Ye Chen was surprised that the Heavenly Emperor turned so quickly on his companion too.

He immediately added fuel to the fire, “You see that? He abandoned the Moon Goddess after all.”

All the cultivators were furious.

Nobody expected the Heavenly Emperor to actually abandon such a gorgeous young lady and walk away by himself.

That was no different from not saving her to begin with.

Giving another person hope before destroying that hope was even more cruel.

“Sigh, human nature is such. It was already too difficult for the Heavenly Emperor to walk out of this mountain range by himself, much less with the Moon Goddess on his back. I can understand why he abandoned her, but that’s really too inhumane of him.”