582: A terrifying origin? How terrifying?

Red Azure Marquis Manor.

Inside a grand hall.

"Have you found out?"

Empress Yuan Jue looked at Marquis Chi Cang.

Marquis Chi Cang replied, "It's already clear. I used a hidden pawn of the Chitian Guard. According to him, it wasn't Your Highness Qin Fuguang who killed Jue Feng, but a young man who came with General Mo Lian. Wuxiang and the others also died by his hand. This person's origin is unknown, and he is currently in Guanshan Tower."

"In Guanshan Tower? That makes it difficult to act."

Empress Yuan Jue raised an eyebrow.

Guanshan Tower was a special place.

The Head of Chitian Academy often went there to drink, seemingly looking after the place, so many people treated it as a forbidden zone and dared not cause trouble there.

"What about the other person? What is her origin?"

Empress Yuan Jue continued to ask.

The person she was referring to was naturally Qin Honglian. That person had slapped her in public and made her kneel.

Having been so humiliated, she would certainly not let the other party off.

Marquis Chi Cang hesitated for a second, then said in a deep voice, "That person's origin is very formidable. You probably took that beating for nothing..."

"A formidable origin? How formidable?"

Empress Yuan Jue's tone was indifferent.

She was the Empress of Chitian Ancient Kingdom and a Dongxuan Realm expert. What kind of origin could possibly intimidate her?

Marquis Chi Cang said with a complex expression, "According to that hidden pawn, Your Highness Qin Fuguang called that person Ancestor Honglian. A thousand years ago, Chitian Ancient Kingdom also had an Ancestor Honglian, a Dongxuan Realm Peak expert..."

Ancestor Honglian, a powerful figure from a thousand years ago, whose cultivation reached the pinnacle of creation, possessing monstrous strength.

According to legends, she had already left Chitian Ancient Kingdom for a more extraordinary world. She hadn't expected her to return this time.

She was already at the Dongxuan Realm Peak a thousand years ago. How terrifying must she be now?

It could be said with certainty that Empress Yuan Jue had taken that beating for nothing, and the next time she saw Ancestor Honglian, she would have to respectfully kneel and salute.

"An...Ancestor Honglian..."

Empress Yuan Jue's body trembled, and her heart was in turmoil. "You...are you sure she is Ancestor Honglian?"

She was, after all, a Dongxuan Realm expert, so how could she not have heard of the legend of Ancestor Honglian?

It was just that she hadn't expected this powerful figure from a thousand years ago to reappear, and even slap her and make her kneel.

Marquis Chi Cang said in a deep voice, "There's no mistake about this. You felt her pressure before; only such an expert could leave you utterly defenseless."

"..."

Empress Yuan Jue fell into deep thought.

After a moment, she asked, "What should be done about this? Ancestor Honglian is, after all, a member of the imperial family, and her surname is also Qin! If she knew what we've done, would she act against us?"

At this moment, she no longer had any thought of regaining her dignity.

She only hoped that Ancestor Honglian would not target her, otherwise, she would surely die.

No matter how powerful she was, could she really be stronger than a powerful figure from a thousand years ago?

Marquis Chi Cang shook his head, saying, "Things might not be as bad as you imagine. A powerful figure like Ancestor Honglian, who has lived for over a thousand years, probably sees everything lightly by now. She might not bother with these struggles in the Ancient Kingdom."

Empress Yuan Jue looked at Marquis Chi Cang, "You're thinking too optimistically. Don't forget, Ancestor Honglian returned with Your Highness Qin Fuguang."

"..."

Marquis Chi Cang fell silent upon hearing this.

Empress Yuan Jue took a deep breath, "First, deal with the person who killed Jue Feng. As for Ancestor Honglian, find an opportunity to probe her intentions."

"Reporting, Marquis, there's news from the palace."

A guard quickly entered the main hall.

"What is it?"

Marquis Chi Cang looked at the guard.

The guard immediately said, "News from the palace: the Scarlet Sky Monarch has awakened."

"What?"

Marquis Chi Cang and Empress Yuan Jue's pupils constricted upon hearing this, and their expressions became even more solemn.

The Scarlet Sky Monarch had been afflicted by a soul poison, which was not so easy to resolve, unless a master had intervened.

Who could this master be?

Both subconsciously thought of Ancestor Honglian!

Empress Yuan Jue said in a deep voice, "I'll go to the palace first. You figure out a way to deal with that young man."

Marquis Chi Cang said with a grave expression, "Let's go to the palace together! If any problems arise, I can also help. As for that young man who killed Jue Feng, he also seems to be not simple. I've already sent messages to Tianku Temple and Old Man Rusty Sword. They can handle it when the time comes."

"..."

Empress Yuan Jue said no more and hurried away.

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Guanshan Tower.

In a private room.

Xie Weilou set up Restriction, then sat down cross-legged. He opened a storage ring.

The bronze egg was inside. The various items previously thrown into it had now disappeared, all devoured by the bronze egg, but the bronze egg had not hatched.

"It seems it still needs to devour more things."

Xie Weilou muttered to himself.

Earlier, when the bronze egg devoured the gray stone embryo, he thought it was about to hatch. Now it seemed that was not the case. This bronze egg might require even vaster resources.

After a brief thought.

Xie Weilou took out more than twenty storage rings from his sleeve. He opened the storage rings and inventoried the resources inside.

After an inventory.

Various spirit herbs and spirit grasses were taken out by him. There were quite a few: over a thousand century-old spirit grasses, over a hundred millennium-old spirit grasses, and more than twenty ten-thousand-year-old spirit grasses. These were all excellent resources, capable of refining many pills.

Besides spirit herbs and spirit grasses, there were many other things in the storage rings.

For example, cultivation techniques, scrolls, weapons, spiritual materials, rare materials, and so on, piled up like mountains, dazzling to the eye.

Xie Weilou glanced at them, feeling that these things were like junk. He was too lazy to sort them out, so he simply moved all of them into the storage ring where the bronze egg was, allowing it to devour them to its heart's content.

After doing all this.

He took out the ten thousand souls banner.

Within the ten thousand souls banner, there were many Divine Court souls, but currently, the strongest was not the soul of Dragon Old Freak, but the soul of Chongming Tower.

After all, he was a Half-Step Dongxuan Realm expert. Even if he only had a soul body left and was incomplete, he was not to be underestimated.

"This soul body is not weak; it's a good enforcer. I need to help it recover to its peak."

Xie Weilou thought to himself. He formed hand seals, and apart from Dragon Old Freak's soul body, the surrounding Divine Court remnant souls all rushed towards Chongming Tower's soul body.

"Roar!"

Chongming Tower's soul body let out a roar, frantically devouring these remnant souls.

Xie Weilou directly threw the ten thousand souls banner into a storage ring, allowing Chongming Tower's soul body to devour on its own.

He continued to stare at the numerous spirit grasses and herbs before him.

He had refined many pills before, and the number of pills he had was vast.

Coupled with these spirit grasses and herbs, he felt that the resources for advancing to Dragon Transformation Realm Peak were already sufficient, so there was no need to worry.

However, after Dragon Transformation Realm Peak, there was still the Divine Court Realm.

"When advancing to Divine Court, I'll need a seventh-grade Yanshen Pill. I can prepare the medicinal ingredients for refining the Yanshen Pill first, and then raise my alchemy to seventh-grade when the time comes."

Xie Weilou had a plan in mind; he had to be prepared for contingencies.