699: The mellow emperor

“Grandma, wake up!”

In the Void Realm, Lin Xiaoer heard calls.

She forced open her heavy eyelids and immediately saw her two daughters-in-law, Chu Mengxuan and He Zhiyi.

They both looked at her with worry, and Chu Mengxuan’s eyes were still brimming with tears.

“What is this…?”

Lin Xiaoer regained some Qi, struggled to sit up from the bed, and asked blankly, “How am I in the Supreme Imperial City? What’s the situation outside?”

“Gun Emperor is rushing back. The high temperature outside is still spreading. Qiu Ning and Second Uncle Qin are mobilizing resources within the Imperial City to comfort the common people,” Chu Mengxuan said.

“Can’t it be stopped…?” Lin Xiaoer’s gaze dimmed.

She could already imagine that the Supreme Imperial City was now an isolated island in a sea of fire.

Everything outside the Supreme Imperial City was engulfed by that strange high temperature.

The only comfort was… Lin Xiaoer looked at her two daughters-in-law and sighed.

Her family was still here.

It was just that the Divine Land had suffered such a great disaster, and she was powerless to stop it.

When Qin Yang returned, she really didn't know how to face him.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiaoer felt a pang of sadness and subconsciously searched for Qin Chuan’s figure by the bedside.

Although she was a Transcendent Tier powerhouse, in moments of helplessness, she would still revert to her feminine form, hoping to find comfort from Qin Chuan.

However, by the bedside at this moment, there were only Chu Mengxuan and He Zhiyi.

And below, a group of “palace maid” summons knelt on the floor.

“Where is the Retired Emperor?”

Lin Xiaoer asked Chu Mengxuan.

By all accounts, Qin Chuan should be by her side at this time.

However, upon hearing Lin Xiaoer ask about Qin Chuan, Chu Mengxuan and He Zhiyi exchanged glances, seemingly hesitant to speak.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaoer immediately had a bad premonition and asked again, “Where is Qin Chuan?”

Chu Mengxuan lowered her head and whispered, “Grandma, you were exchanged back by Grandpa…”

“Exchanged back?”

Lin Xiaoer was stunned. She suddenly remembered the Divine Ability Qin Chuan obtained after reaching Rank 121 and becoming a Monarch—Thunder Extreme Reversal.

This Divine Ability could ignore distance and Rank, allowing him to swap positions with any non-dead target.

At that time, Qin Chuan was still gloating, saying that after getting this Divine Ability, he would no longer fear domestic violence.

Imagine, Lin Xiaoer trapping Qin Chuan with the Azure Lotus Sword Array, and Qin Chuan could use this Divine Ability to swap Lin Xiaoer into her own sword array.

Alternatively, when Lin Xiaoer attacked Qin Chuan, Qin Chuan could directly swap with Lin Xuan, using fatherly love to dissuade his daughter.

He could even… swap Qin Yang over while enjoying a massage from Technician No. 88, to escape Lin Xiaoer’s “pursuit.”

All sorts of playful uses, endlessly emerging, highlighting his mischievous nature.

Lin Xiaoer pondered for a long time but couldn't find a way to counter it, making her so angry that she didn't speak to Qin Chuan for half a month.

But she never expected that the first actual combat use of Thunder Extreme Reversal would be a life for a life… The strange high temperature outside, even she couldn't withstand it. How many seconds could Qin Chuan, a low-Rank Monarch, last?

Qin Chuan used Thunder Extreme Reversal to swap himself back from the high temperature, and the outcome was obvious.

“No, I’m going to find him!”

Although Lin Xiaoer had already made a judgment in her heart, she was still unwilling to accept it. She immediately wanted to get out of bed to search for Qin Chuan’s whereabouts.

“Grandma! Don’t go, it’s too dangerous outside…”

“Yes, yes! Whether Gun Emperor can even return is unknown. Empress Dowager, don’t be impulsive!”

Seeing Lin Xiaoer still wanting to go out, Chu Mengxuan and He Zhiyi quickly stopped her.

“You also know it’s dangerous outside!”

“Qin Chuan can’t last long out there!”

“He can’t come back by himself!”

“Move aside!”

Lin Xiaoer said sharply, but tears flowed like a broken dam.

“Grandma! You… calm down!”

Chu Mengxuan was also crying, her face streaked with tears, while He Zhiyi knelt down with a thud and said, “Empress Dowager, the Retired Emperor has already…”

“Already what…?”

Lin Xiaoer asked with a trembling voice, but the only response she received was the sobbing of her two daughters-in-law.

“He’s already back.”

Just then, a voice sounded from outside the hall.

Zheng Yunfei, looking exhausted and pale, stumbled in.

When he reached the front of the hall, he could no longer support himself and sat directly on the ground, propping himself up with his long gun.

“Han Chen, Zhan Tianxiong, Chen Moran, the Retired Emperor…”

“I brought all these people back.”

With that, he tremblingly extended his other hand.

As his five fingers spread open, a round Medicinal Pill glowing with thunderous light was revealed.

Inside the hall, there was silence.

When people are at the peak of their grief, their minds can become numb.

Seeing the thunder-glowing Medicinal Pill in Zheng Yunfei’s hand, Lin Xiaoer sat blankly on the bed, her eyes hollow, unable to utter a word.

Chu Mengxuan and He Zhiyi also merely bowed their heads in silence, softly sobbing.

After a long while, Lin Xiaoer seemed to awaken from a nightmare, and light rekindled in her hollow eyes.

She wiped away her tears, took a deep breath, and asked Chu Mengxuan, “Where are Qiu Yan and Si Zhenfeng? Have them come over.”

Seeing Lin Xiaoer’s tone suddenly calm down, Chu Mengxuan, still in grief, was startled and quite surprised.

With Qin Chuan’s death, Chu Mengxuan thought Lin Xiaoer would fall into unbearable sorrow.

Just as she was wondering how to comfort her grandmother, her grandmother suddenly calmed down.

This mental fortitude… worthy of being a Sword Immortal… “Don’t dawdle.”

“The high temperature is spreading very quickly, but we still have time to do something.”

Lin Xiaoer urged Chu Mengxuan, her eyes still showing traces of sorrow, but more so, determination and calmness.

Indeed, while Lin Xiaoer appeared calm on the surface, her heart was being torn apart.

But there was no other way; at this moment, the Divine Land needed someone to take charge of the overall situation.

At this moment, the Goddess of Nature was already opening a spatial aisle.

As long as the evacuation was timely, the Divine Land, and even the world, could still preserve a portion of its power.

“As long as humanity doesn’t perish, we still have a chance for revenge!”

Looking at the thunder-glowing Medicinal Pill that Qin Chuan had turned into, Lin Xiaoer gritted her teeth in her heart… “Immortal’s Divine Ability, Junior Brother is deeply impressed.”

“These Mortals will probably never know until they die that, in fact, they are already in the Pill Furnace.”

“If I had known Immortal had such a Divine Ability, why would I have deployed Lion Camel Ridge? What a futile effort.”

Beyond the sky, in the Annihilation Sea.

Jiang Ziya, dressed in white, bowed to the short, round-foreheaded Arctic Immortal.

The Arctic Immortal, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on a celestial crane, looking with interest at the Divine Land below.

At this moment, those tiny Mortals were displaying various Divine Abilities.

Some rode steel vehicles, some controlled Demonic Beasts, and even more directly flew in the air, constantly migrating in the four directions: southeast, northwest.

In the Arctic Immortal’s eyes, these Mortals were like birds and beasts fleeing in terror when a mountain fire spread, or ants constantly climbing to higher ground before a torrential downpour.

The Arctic Immortal greatly enjoyed this feeling of controlling life and death.

At this moment, he felt that he was the Heavenly Dao itself, treating all things as straw dogs.

But the only thing that displeased him was that “unburnable” Imperial City.

“That palace can actually be immune to my Boundless True Fire?”

“Interesting, interesting…”

The Arctic Immortal’s gaze was sinister, greatly displeased with this isolated island standing in the Pill Furnace.

In his opinion, it was like a wisp of firefly light trying to compete with the sun and moon…

Jiang Ziya seemed to have noticed the Arctic Immortal’s displeasure and fanned the flames: “Senior Brother, since we’re idle anyway, let’s go see that Imperial City. Let’s see if it can stop an Immortal from descending.”

“That’s true,”

The Arctic Immortal flicked his whisk and said, “It’s just a wisp of firefly light; I’ll go extinguish it.”

With that, he urged his celestial crane downwards.

Just then, a voice came from the Void Realm.

“Jiang Ziya, you’ve become a demon, do you know that?”