Chapter 89: Changxi Comes To Her Senses

“Have the rest of you noticed? Over the past three years, they’ve become way closer than before!”

Outside the mirror.

The cultivators quietly murmured among themselves.

Everyone could see how the two of them had interacted over the last three years.

The feud between Changxi and the Heavenly Emperor had quietly been erased over the last three years.

In fact, if not for that feud, perhaps the two would have gotten married by this time.

Changxi in particular – the love and admiration in her eyes was impossible to hide.

But because of that part of their past, even though they had to part ways, they did not try to make the other stay or to salvage their relationship.

“After being with her for so long, I would imagine that the Heavenly Emperor would have developed some feelings toward the Moon Goddess, no?”

“So why did he torture the Moon Goddess to that extent later on?”

Nobody could understand.

Based on what they could see right now, while the two were not a couple, they were almost there.

How could the Heavenly Emperor bear to do such a cruel, unfeeling thing?

And based on the current situation, the Heavenly Emperor was still a fairly goodhearted person. Why would he torture the Silver Moon Great Empress like that?

Ye Chen gritted his teeth and said, “Don’t forget, the Heavenly Emperor is a cruel, immoral, inhuman devil in the first place!”

“Given the sort of person he is, there’s no deed too wicked for him!”

Ye Chen was shaking from anger.

Everything that happened over those three years were like thorns stabbing into Ye Chen’s heart.

The man farmed, the woman wove.

The Heavenly Emperor went to hunt, Changxi waited for him at home.

The Heavenly Emperor came back, Changxi immediately got him a cup of water and began to cook for him.

And when the seasons changed, she would even make clothes for the Heavenly Emperor.

If Gu Changqing hadn’t said that he wanted to leave, Ye Chen was sure that this Changxi was going to spend the rest of her life with him, living this simple village life forever.

How could this woman forget such a huge feud!

He couldn’t believe it!

But what comforted him was the fact that nothing happened between the two of them.

They lived in the same house, but they kept their distance around each other.

“Once you’re dead, I’m definitely taking Changxi into my harem.”

The gentle, shy and feminine side of Changxi was clearly seen during these three years. Ye Chen had noticed that, and because of that, he became more and more infatuated with this woman.

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“Then again, did the Heavenly Emperor just invent a new system of cultivation?”

“That Mortal Dao he mentioned. What sort of dao is that?” asked someone.

Over the last few years, Gu Changqing would head for the foot of that mountain every single day to just sit there and look down at the world below.

Sometimes, he would sit there and stare for an entire day.

But it was clear that this cultivation system was not an easy one.

After all, back then, the Heavenly Emperor managed to reach a certain stage in Heavenly Dao after just a few months, and even reached Great Emperor in less than a year.

Compared to that progress, this Mortal Dao seemed much harder.

The cultivators even felt that this path was not one that was possible!

One of them said, “None of us know how to go about cultivating in this dao.”

“Well, you can make inferences. I can see that this is a cultivation method for mere mortals. Didn’t you notice how the Heavenly Emperor had spent these years living in a mortal village and even saw himself as a mere mortal?”

“Perhaps in order to cultivate this dao, one has to fully experience and understand mortals, and even their emotions.”

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“Fully experience and understand emotions…”

Changxi’s pupils constricted suddenly. She seemed to understand something at that moment.

All this time, she simply could not understand how Gu Changqing could change overnight and trap her on the Sun Planet.

But thinking about it now.

She probably had been made use of.

He had used her to experience the emotions that mortals had.

When he trapped her, he had already reached Great Emperor, so he didn’t need her anymore. But he was afraid that she might keep harassing him, so he trapped her in that place?

She got it now. She got it now.

There and then, Changxi seemed to understand everything.

“Gu Changqing, it never crossed my mind that you would be so vicious to me!!!”

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“Also, before this, the Heavenly Emperor was very put off by human nature.”

“But now, during his time in the mortal village, the Heavenly Emperor seemed to get along pretty well with his neighbors.”

“Is that why after he became Heavenly Emperor, he started protecting mortals?” asked a cultivator.

This was also a question that they had for a long time, but couldn’t find answers to.

The Heavenly Emperor had been hurt deeply by humans at a young age, yet after he became the Heavenly Emperor, he protected humans for some reason.

That was very contradictory behavior. And this period of time in his life seemed to help answer their questions.

But Changxi remarked sullenly, “Protect humans? Tsk, that was just part of his plan.”

She scoffed, “Do you know how many mortals he will kill shortly after this? How many cities he will slay?!”

“If he didn’t protect the humans and the humans went through another round of slaughtering, then I’m afraid there will be no more humans in this world! And if that happens, where would he gather mortal qi from?”

He was going to slay mortals shortly after this??

The cultivators suddenly all straightened up.

They weren’t shocked that the Heavenly Emperor was going to massacre mortals, but they were shocked that the Heavenly Emperor’s personality was going to change significantly shortly after this period.

The Heavenly Emperor had gone through three massacres in total.

Once was the Demon Race.

Once was the cultivators on Beixuan Continent.

And one more was because of humans.

But humans were too weak, so even now, not many cultivators stood up for humans.

That was why this massacre didn’t seem as tragic as the others.

But in reality, legend had it that out of ten human cities, nine cities were flowing with blood!

It was so terrible, the losses were no less than the Demon Race. In fact, they lost more than the demons!

“The Heavenly Emperor had been hurt by humans when he was a child, but the humans have been kind to him during this time. Why would he massacre them?”

“Tsk, like I said, why would the cruel and immoral Heavenly Emperor protect humans? So, that’s how things really went down.”

“If the Silver Moon Great Empress didn’t say so, I’m afraid all of us would have been tricked by the Heavenly Emperor!”

“Humans are incredibly weak, so one cultivator is able to kill many of them alone. He’s the Heavenly Emperor, yet he turned his hand against humans? That’s truly the most cruel and vicious act possible!!”

Even though this world believed in the survival of the fittest.

But cultivators were also concerned about face. They would not simply kill a creature that was definitely no match for them.

They never thought that in just a while, the Heavenly Emperor would become cruel to this extent!!!