177: Chapter 177 I'll Be Your Chamberlain's Maid!

The next morning, in a guest room at the Liuguang City Lord's mansion.

After an incredibly awkward night of "sharing the same bed," the true form of Chu Lingyue sat up, sporting faint dark circles under her eyes.

Although the injuries in her body had recovered to the Soul Transformation Stage, her mood was heavier than a funeral.

She truly didn't know how to face her arch-rival, who now knew her biggest secret.

However, the moment Chu Lingyue opened her eyes, she saw an incredibly bizarre scene.

"Sister Chu, you're awake? Come quickly, come quickly! This is the top-grade Spirit Ear and Lotus Seed Soup that I just went to the City Lord's mansion kitchen to brew for you. Drink it while it's hot to nourish your body~"

There stood the dignified Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, currently holding a bowl of steaming spirit soup with extreme attentiveness, her face plastered with a creepy, fawning smile. She looked exactly like a thoughtful and doting little maid!

"You... Xia the Charlatan, what medicine did you take wrong?"

Chu Lingyue's true form was so startled by this sudden dog-like behavior that she shuddered and retreated toward the corner of the bed in extreme vigilance: "Did you poison this soup?"

"Oh! What are you saying, Sister Chu! We are 'good besties' who have been separated for many years!"

Xia Xuanji sat down by the bedside with extreme familiarity, placed the spirit soup aside, and then grabbed Chu Lingyue's hand, saying with a tone full of righteousness:

"Sister Chu, after hearing about your situation last night, I was truly heartbroken!

Since you, the dignified Empress Xuanhuang, are so resistant to going to the Hehuan Sect to be a bed-warming maid, and so unwilling..."

Xia Xuanji took a deep breath and looked at Chu Lingyue with extreme sincerity:

"Then why not let me, your little sister, suffer this grievance for you and go be the bed-warming maid for that Sect Master Wang instead!"

"Anyway... I am the real 'Xia Xuanji' after all! This name belongs to me, so it is only right and proper for me to be the bed-warming maid!"

"Pfft—!"

Chu Lingyue's true form spat out the mouthful of water she had just swallowed. She was struck dumb, staring in complete shock at the arch-rival before her who seemed to have gone mad. Her worldview had completely shattered at this moment!

"Xia Xuanji! Have you lost your mind?!"

Chu Lingyue violently shook off her hand, staring at her like she was a monster, and questioned her in total disbelief:

"Last night you were clearly cursing me for being shameless and acting like a nympho! How is it that this morning, you're suddenly rushing to throw yourself at him?!"

"Why?!"

Chu Lingyue was extremely confused, even shouting with a mix of indignation and frustration:

"You are a dignified Supreme Being, the renowned Empress Yanming of the Spirit Realm, Xia Xuanji!

You've been single and pure for over ten thousand years, how could you suddenly think about becoming someone else's woman?!"

"And... and that Wang Yang is a man with a harem full of beauties! You're running off to be just one of his harem members?!

This action of yours makes me, who is just as famous as you, feel extremely ashamed!"

Listening to Chu Lingyue's intense accusation, Xia Xuanji felt no shame at all. Instead, she rolled her eyes with extreme disdain.

"Ashamed? Chu Lingyue, you are just speaking without knowing the pain!"

Xia Xuanji snorted coldly, putting away her fawning smile. Her eyes became extremely complex, revealing a crazy obsession.

"What do you know? Do you think all Mahayana Stage cultivators are as lucky as you?"

Xia Xuanji stared fixedly at Chu Lingyue, saying with extreme jealousy:

"You Cultivate the pseudo-Immortal Rank Cultivation Technique inherited from the Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace!

Your journey has been smooth sailing, never damaging your Dao foundation in the slightest. You are only ten thousand years old, the very Peak of the Mahayana Stage, at your most vigorous age!"

"Not only that, you've taken a step to the heavens!

You have an incredibly special, mysterious Clone who can lie in the Hehuan Sect and continuously obtain the Dual Cultivation power of creation from that amazing man to break through your Bottleneck!"

Xia Xuanji's eyes were almost red as she said this: "With Wang Yang, that incredibly terrifying treasure trove of nourishment, your future breakthrough of the Mahayana Stage shackles and even your Ascension to the Immortal Realm is practically a done deal!"

"But what about me?!"

Xia Xuanji stood up abruptly, pointing at her own nose with extreme grief and indignation:

"My Xingyan Immortal Sect doesn't have the same foundation as yours, and the Cultivation Technique I practice, the 'Great Evolution Heavenly Mechanism Art', is a tier lower than yours—just a Heaven-Grade Peak technique!"

"For the sake of the Sect, to gain a foothold in the Spirit Realm, and for Opportunities, I often have to forcibly divine the Heavenly Dao!

Do you think divining the Heavenly Dao is child's play?

Every time I divine the Heavenly Dao, it invites the terrifying backlash of the Law of the Heavenly Dao!"

"Over these years, my Origin has long been severely damaged by the backlash!

Although I am a Genius who reached the Peak of the Mahayana Stage in just ten thousand years, if I want to rely on myself to break through that chasm of the Mahayana Stage and reach the realm of Ascension... that is already impossible!"

Xia Xuanji's eyes reddened slightly. Her disguised, delicate face was filled with fear of being trapped in the Spirit Realm and an extreme yearning for the Immortal Realm.

"You will never understand the ultimate despair of realizing that I am destined to be 'trapped in the Mahayana Stage and die of old age'!"

Xia Xuanji took a deep breath, her eyes instantly becoming extremely fanatical and firm:

"But now! Because of you, I have finally seen a glimmer of an incredible future in the endless darkness!"

"That Wang Yang is my only way to break the deadlock!

As long as I can achieve Immortal Ascension and live forever, what does it matter if I have to be a bed-warming maid, or even a foot-washing servant?!"

"I'll say it here today: I must grasp this Opportunity tightly!"

Xia Xuanji turned her head abruptly, looking domineeringly at Chu Lingyue's true form, who had been completely stunned by this statement, and decisively threw out her "stealing the sky and changing the sun" plan:

"Since you don't want to give yourself to this mysterious man, let's get what we each need!"

"Sister Chu, let's pull a switcheroo! Tomorrow morning, I will disguise myself with your aura and appearance, and you will disguise yourself as this 'Xia Hua'!

I will be the 'real' Xia Xuanji who is like a sister to Ye Liuli, and you will be the injured, down-and-out bestie!"

"You stay outside and think about returning to your Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace, and I..."

Xia Xuanji's lips curled into an incredibly crazy smile: "I will marry Wang Yang in your place!"