428: Chapter 427 Are We a Twisted Fate?

Moonlight Palace.

A guttering candle on a gilded stand released its final wisp of blue smoke.

Gauze curtains trailed on the floor; moonlight-colored robes and black silk sashes lay tangled and scattered across the jade steps, alongside a red camisole embroidered with a Phoenix.

Chu Yuehua woke up within a warm confinement.

With her back pressed against a scorching chest, she couldn't help but arch her lower body slightly.

Qin Wushang's arms were wrapped around her waist like forged iron, his steady heartbeat transmitting through their pressed skin.

Thump, thump—it quietly beat in sync with her own pulse, which had yet to settle.

A sweet, musky scent permeated the air, intertwining with the cold fragrance from her hair to create an intoxicating, blushing atmosphere.

Her long eyelashes trembled as fragments of memories from the past few days, like crashing waves, flooded back into her mind.

It had been a bit too frantic.

Was this what they meant by 'a short parting is better than a wedding night, and a long parting is better than first love'?

She knitted her delicate brows and gave a gentle nudge backward with her elbow.

"Rebellious Disciple... let go."

Her voice was slightly hoarse; though she tried to muster a cold tone, she couldn't quite maintain the dignity of the Empress.

It was truly because, over these past few days, everything had been corrupted by this Rebellious Disciple.

At that moment, the person behind her moved.

Warm breath brushed against the sensitive skin of her nape, eliciting a wave of fine tremors.

Instead of letting go, Qin Wushang tightened his embrace, embedding her deeper into his chest.

"Revered Master... it's still early."

His palm rested against her flat abdomen, his warm hand seemingly offering some sort of comfort.

This gesture made Chu Yuehua's ears turn hot.

It was this very hand that, over the past few days, had teased her—the Great Chu Empress—beyond reason.

"Stop playing dumb."

She turned her head, revealing the elegant lines of her neck.

"For the past few days, you've been dangling what you saw in the Immortal Tomb over me. Now... it's time to speak."

"What exactly did you see?"

She recalled how this ill-fated Disciple had gripped her hair and whispered in her ear over the past few days, using the secrets of the Immortal Tomb as bait to lure her into a state of passion, taking whatever he pleased...

In those moments, the Empress's dignity had been utterly shattered.

Qin Wushang chuckled low, the vibration of his chest traveling through her back.

He opened his eyes, all traces of sleepiness gone from his gaze.

He suddenly leaned down and bit her crescent-moon-like earlobe.

"Revered Master didn't seem this eager to know earlier."

Only after feeling the body in his arms suddenly tense did he say leisurely:

"Deep within the Immortal Tomb... Disciple saw a person."

"A person lying in an immortal coffin."

"She was also wearing a moonlight dress, and her appearance... was ten parts similar to Revered Master's."

Chu Yuehua was momentarily stunned.

Qin Wushang tightened his arms even more and continued, "She looked as if she were merely asleep."

"The moment I saw her, I once thought it was Revered Master lying there."

"They were truly identical."

Recalling what he had seen in the immortal coffin, he still felt it was like a dream.

But that was the truth.

"Identical... how can that be?"

Chu Yuehua raised an eyebrow.

"Rebellious Disciple! Are you deceiving this Empress?"

Her words were somewhat cold.

This Rebellious Disciple had promised that if the secret of the Immortal Tomb was shocking enough, she would have to agree to another of his ridiculous conditions.

"How could that be!"

"I am not!"

"The one I saw really looked exactly like Revered Master."

Qin Wushang spoke with utmost seriousness.

He continued to hold her from behind, resting his chin on her snowy shoulder and pressing his face against hers.

"I think... it might be Revered Master's past life."

"However, legends say the Nine Nether is empty and Reincarnation is lost; the concept of past and present lives shouldn't exist."

"Perhaps it's another explanation."

"Revered Master is simply another similar flower that has bloomed after countless ages."

He couldn't say for sure whether it was a so-called past life.

Regardless, it definitely had a significant connection to the Chu Yuehua he was holding.

"Was there anything special about the immortal coffin?"

"Can it be opened?"

Chu Yuehua fell silent for a long while before asking.

She felt a bit uncomfortable being held and twisted her dainty body, trying to break free from his embrace.

To her surprise, the Rebellious Disciple had no intention of letting go.

"It can't be opened."

"It has always been unopenable; I saw Revered Master through a crack in the immortal coffin."

"As for the immortal coffin... others cannot get close; only I can."

"The terrifying Restriction there is such that even the Gravekeeper, Guardian One, who is a Red Dust Immortal, cannot approach."

Qin Wushang continued to tell the truth.

He hadn't told any of the other women he was close to about this.

But for Chu Yuehua, he felt he had to say it.

He felt that it must be closely related to her.

"Red Dust Immortal... immortal coffin... according to what you said, if even the Gravekeeper doesn't know what's inside, then who buried the immortal coffin?"

Chu Yuehua's beautiful eyes flickered, and her brows furrowed.

Past and present lives?

Or was it all just a coincidence?

"I don't know!"

"I only obtained an eerie bead there; it concerns another legend."

"The legend of the white moon and black sun."

Qin Wushang remained frank.

He had originally intended to give that bead to the Calamity Master for research.

Unfortunately, the other party didn't get a chance to act.

After the Desolate Master appeared to resolve the siege, that person had fled without a word.

"white moon and black sun... the destruction of an era, the restart of the Great Dao... is your luck really this Heaven-Defying?"

Chu Yuehua's expression turned grave.

Some legends were not baseless; they might even be true.

And if the white moon and black sun truly appeared, any powerhouse in the world would pay them immense attention.

Including her!

"I didn't want it to... it just burrowed into my body on its own."

"It also emits a type of complete dao patterns, which is branded into the dao palace world within me."

Qin Wushang added.

The fact that his Myriad Dao could be complete was largely due to that bead.

The transformation of the myriad dao divine tree was also because of it.

"Complete dao patternss... just whose hidden hand is this?"

"Could it really be a past life?"

"Are we an ill-fated match?"

Chu Yuehua frowned; the more she thought about it, the more likely it seemed.

"Rebellious Disciple!"

"Could it be that we knew each other in a so-called past life and left behind these arrangements?"

She made a bold guess.

Hearing this, Qin Wushang's grip on her loosened slightly.

"That can't be..."

He knew very well that, excluding those hundred years of memories, his past life was as a person from Blue Star.

In his memories of Blue Star, he had been refined into a 'Postgraduate Entrance Exam Pill'; where would he have known any Chu Yuehua?

He had absolutely no memory of her.

"Otherwise, it's too much of a coincidence,"

Chu Yuehua said.

"I think... Revered Master could go see the immortal coffin personally; perhaps you can open it."

"At that time, many mysteries might be solved."

Qin Wushang suggested.

Since someone identical to her was buried inside, opening it might clarify things.

Perhaps there were other treasures inside the immortal coffin as well.

"Mhm."

"Then I'll listen to you and go have a look."

Chu Yuehua nodded and struggled slightly, wanting to get up.

Suddenly, Qin Wushang pressed close against her, causing her expression to change drastically.

"Rebellious Disciple!"

"You can't! We're going to the Immortal Tomb now!"

She scolded.

"Revered Master! There's no rush for this moment... fulfill your promise first!"

"Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll regret it afterward!"

Qin Wushang gave a wicked grin.

He couldn't squeeze into the regular channels, but luckily he had his own exclusive green passage.