97: Hongmeng Purple Lotus, one year of chaos

“Hall Master, Ji Ning, why have you two come?”

Gu Qing opened the formation and invited them to take a seat in the Star-Gazing Tower, asking in confusion.

“Ru Yi and Ru Yan have excellent aptitudes. I have already accepted them as my disciples. From now on, I will entrust them to your care.”

When Jiang Yu finished speaking, Gu Qing was stunned.

Accepting Liu Ruyan was one thing; after all, she was a child of destiny, and even if she had a mortal body, accepting her as a disciple was not surprising.

But Liu Ruyi was a gloomy, crazy, cold-blooded, and bloodthirsty person.

How could Jiang Yu, who yearned for light, accept her?

Could it be that she didn't know Liu Ruyi's true nature?

Thinking of this, Gu Qing quickly sent a message to Liu Ruyan. After receiving the answer, Gu Qing became even more confused.

He couldn't understand what Jiang Yu was thinking.

Shaking his head secretly, Gu Qing didn't investigate further.

He took out Ye Hao's divine artifacts, saint artifacts, various magic treasures, cultivation techniques, divine abilities, and the Phoenix Undead Divine Medicine.

These things were useless to him, so it was better to give them to the Star God Temple.

As for the Phoenix Undead Divine Medicine, he had already picked the fruits, and there were still four left in his hand.

The next time the Phoenix Undead Divine Medicine bore fruit would be tens of thousands of years later.

Refining the entire divine medicine would be too wasteful.

The Star God Temple had protected him, allowing him to choose almost all the good things. Gu Qing felt it was not right to only take benefits without contributing to the Star God Temple.

Therefore, except for the Crimson Heaven Sword, he gave almost all of Ye Hao's treasures to Jiang Yu.

“You…”

Jiang Yu looked at the mountain of treasures, speechless for a long time.

Ji Ning was incredibly shocked.

Other things aside, but divine medicine, divine artifacts, and saint artifacts… Even a Divine Fire Realm cultivator might not have a single divine artifact. How did Gu Qing get so many?

Did he plunder an immortal's treasure vault?

“You are a good child…” What a pity, she wasn't her disciple.

Jiang Yu put away the items, a hint of regret appearing on her exquisitely beautiful face.

What a wonderful disciple!

He actually became a disciple of Zhi Meng, that madwoman.

“Good child?” Gu Qing's face twitched.

Having lived two lives and now having achieved something, with several Dao companions, he was actually praised as a good child?

Was she mistaken?

“What? Did I say something wrong?”

Jiang Yu said with a smile.

Her beautiful autumn-water eyes were as gentle as water, seemingly possessing the magic to melt steel.

“No, you didn't say anything wrong.” Gu Qing shook his head.

Jiang Yu was over three thousand years old; no matter what, she was in the right.

“After being away for a few years, how is your cultivation? Is there anything you don't understand?”

Jiang Yu asked.

“It's alright.”

Gu Qing displayed his cultivation and Dao. It was as deep as an abyss, as vast as a domain, with boundless divine might, like an ancient god.

The two instantly fell silent.

You call this “alright”?

Gu Qing's aura was profound and vast, exuding an innate, transcendent Dao charm.

Anyone unaware would definitely mistake Gu Qing for an innate being.

“Gu Qing, you are the most monstrous prodigy I have ever seen. If you can maintain this, you will surely achieve great things.”

Jiang Yu said seriously.

I am already a great person… Gu Qing silently said in his heart, but on his lips, he humbly thanked her.

“???”

Jiang Yu frowned and blinked her curled eyelashes.

What did “already a great person” mean?

She felt it was different from what she understood as “great person.”

Shaking her head, perhaps she was too sensitive.

Gu Qing could indeed be considered successful now. At the King Realm, he was considered a strong cultivator in the entire world.

“So beautiful. Those eyes look so affectionate even when looking at a dog…” Gu Qing felt uncomfortable being stared at.

Jiang Yu's eyes seemed to contain magic. Under her gaze, Gu Qing had the illusion of being looked at by a gentle and virtuous wife at home, and he couldn't help but be lost in it.

“???”

What did “being looked at by a gentle and virtuous wife” mean?

A faint blush instantly appeared on Jiang Yu's snow-white skin, and she averted her gaze.

She was filled with annoyance.

She had awakened a Natal Divine Ability called “Heaven's Sight, Earth's Hearing.”

This divine ability could be described as defying the heavens.

Like the Eye of the Heavenly Dao, it could peer into all things.

As long as a treasure or living being hadn't had its heavenly secrets shielded, if she wanted to see it, no matter the distance, she could directly perceive it with a single thought.

She could also eavesdrop on the heart voices of all beings.

In addition, Heaven's Sight, Earth's Hearing possessed unfathomable power, capable of instantly obliterating powerful enemies.

However, she had only just awakened it and was not yet proficient, so she accidentally heard the heart voices of the two.

[Detected that Host's heart voice was eavesdropped by Jiang Yu. Triggering Super Thorn Armor: shielding heart voice, counter-eavesdropping Jiang Yu's heart voice.]

“???”

“Forget it, he's still a child, and it was an unintentional offense. I'll just pretend I didn't hear it.” Jiang Yu thought to herself.

“???” Gu Qing looked at her in disbelief.

He never expected that the noble and transcendent Divine Maiden Jiang Yu would engage in such a sordid act.

“System, check her attributes for me.”

[Name] Jiang Yu.

[Realm] Heavenly God Realm Peak Stage Nine.

[Physique] Grandmist Purple Lotus Dao Body.

[Talent] Great Dao Companion, heaven-defying comprehension, unparalleled talent.

[Fate] Son of the Great Dao.

[Destiny] Variable.

[Luck] My destiny is mine, not heaven's.

“???”

“System, are you mistaken? If I remember correctly, transcending the Divine Fire Realm would lead to rejection by the Heavenly Dao laws and ascension to the Upper Realm.”

“And what the hell is ‘My destiny is mine, not heaven's’?”

Seeing Jiang Yu's attributes, Gu Qing's first reaction was to doubt if he had seen it wrong.

His second reaction was to doubt if the system had detected it wrong.

[No mistake. Her true form is the Grandmist Purple Lotus, a Son of the Great Dao born with the Three Thousand Great Daos. She is integrated with the myriad Daos of heaven and earth. If she wishes to ascend, she ascends. If she doesn't, the rules of heaven and earth will not reject her.]

[As for ‘My destiny is mine, not heaven's,’ it means exactly what it says: she can control her own destiny.]

“…”

Gu Qing's heart pounded. He never expected Jiang Yu's origins to be so heaven-defying.

Her status was countless times higher than that of a child of destiny; in fact, the two couldn't even be compared.

But then again, Jiang Yu had hidden herself too deeply; she was truly cunning.

She had always publicly claimed to be at the peak of the Saint Realm, but her true realm was hidden by more than just a little bit.

Poor Zhi Meng, his master, had been completely fooled by Jiang Yu, her fellow Peerless Twin.

Thinking this, Gu Qing asked, “System, what level of treasure is the Grandmist Purple Lotus?”

[A Chaos Supreme Treasure. It is advised that the Host absolutely not harbor any ill intentions towards her. She is an incarnation of the Great Dao, a Supreme Dao Venerable, the Mother of All Daos, transcending everything, an existence above the void.]

“You mean, this isn't her true form?”

Gu Qing's scalp tingled upon hearing this. He didn't need the system to remind him; he wouldn't dare do anything to Jiang Yu anyway.

Unless he wanted to die.

[It is her true form. She is seventeen years old this year and is currently awakening her Dao Fruit power.]

“???”

Godfather, please, stop messing around, okay?

[Who's joking with you?]

[One chaos equals one year. She has experienced sixteen great chaos destructions. This is her seventeenth incarnation, so is there a problem with saying she is seventeen years old?]

“…”

Damn it, is that not a problem?

Forget it, if you say it's not a problem, then it's not a problem.

Gu Qing looked at her incomparably beautiful face and suddenly felt an urge to slide to his knees and hug her thigh. What was going on???

An existence that survived sixteen great chaos destructions—just how terrifying was Jiang Yu?

If he could cling to her thigh, wouldn't he be able to roam freely across the All Heavens Myriad Realms and the boundless Chaos?

“He looks at her, she blushes. Next, will it be like in storybooks: his body trembles, her delicate body shivers, he kisses her domineeringly, she…”

“Silence!”

Jiang Yu rebuked, her expression angry and also ashamed.

What nonsense was Ji Ning saying? How could it be so vulgar and unlistenable?

“…”

Ji Ning blinked. She didn't say anything, she didn't say anything at all.

Could Jiang Yu really have a mind-reading divine ability?

Impossible.

Even with a mind-reading divine ability, as fellow Saint Realm cultivators, with their own inner worlds, their heart voices absolutely couldn't be eavesdropped upon.

Could it be… “That's it, it definitely wasn't about me. They must have been communicating via sound transmission, and Gu Qing angered Jiang Yu, who couldn't hold back and snapped.”

“Tsk, I never expected that the brightest pearl of the starry sky would secretly fall for a young man. If word got out, the entire heavens would probably weep.”

“I've already brought the officials. Now, immediately, register for marriage…”

Ji Ning appeared as steady as an old ox on the surface, but inwardly, she was incredibly excited. Real-life romance was much more interesting than storybooks.

Not to mention, this was an underground romance between the Hall Master and a disciple; it was practically a storybook coming to life.

Just as Ji Ning was wildly imagining and shipping them, Jiang Yu's face changed from red to white, then white to red. She held back again and again, on the verge of exploding.

“Ji Ning, I see you are hesitant to speak. Do you have something to say?” Her face was like frost.

If she hadn't awakened Heaven's Sight, Earth's Hearing, she wouldn't have known until now that Ji Ning was such a person.

“I have nothing to say.”

Ji Ning was a bit confused. She was expressionless, secretly shipping them, so how was she hesitant to speak?

She always kept in mind the truth of 'less said, less wrong; nothing said, nothing wrong.'

Ji Ning thought for a moment and instantly understood.

This was her being seen as an eyesore and being asked to leave.

“Alas, to be unable to watch such a spectacular romance unfolding is truly a pity.”

“This is definitely the greatest regret of my life.”

Thinking this, she quietly left.

“???”

Jiang Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and her gentle, watery eyes were tinged with anger.

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