131: Is this considered a final meal?

Chapter 131: Is This a Last Meal?

Li Yunshu tried it, then looked back behind him.

There was nothing.

Fearing that the Empress thought he was lying, he immediately explained.

"Just now, a phantom really appeared behind me, like an Emperor controlling fire all over his body."

"Do you feel a new power within your body?" Pei Xuanji patiently guided, "Try to mobilize that power."

Reminded by the Empress, Li Yunshu immediately recalled the cluster of red heat swirling around his Dantian.

This thing seemed to have appeared after he refined the li fire flower.

He tried to mobilize that power, then looked back again.

His eyebrow twitched, and he pointed at the 'little person' on the ground, a hint of excitement in his voice.

"It's this!"

He clearly felt that this power was purer than the demonic power in his Dantian, as if it contained infinite might.

Pei Xuanji slowly drew her long sword, her Phoenix eyes looking down carefully at the long sword in her hand.

"In this world, there is something called Bloodline Power, do you know?"

"Bloodline Power?"

Li Yunshu shook his head. He had only seen this term in some novels he had read before, but he had never heard of it in this world.

The Empress still didn't look up, gently caressing the sword's blade in her hand.

"The Demon Realm has Abyss Dominators who rule the entire Demon Realm, and the Human Realm has Supreme Gods who govern the entire Human Realm.

Once one becomes a Supreme God, their clan's Bloodline will contain a Divine Power, called Bloodline Power."

Li Yunshu nodded, quickly accepting this explanation.

Why do you think your ten years of arduous study can compare to someone's three generations of business?

This world is inherently unfair; some people can never reach Rome in their entire lives, while others are born in Rome.

However, he didn't understand what the Red Emperor Palace had to do with Bloodline Power.

He didn't speak, just waited quietly for the Empress to continue.

Silence fell in the main hall. After a long while, the Empress spoke again.

"The Red Emperor Palace has three Gods in its lineage. There are three Supreme Gods in the Divine Court, and the Fire Controlling Emperor you just displayed is the symbol of the Red Emperor Palace's Bloodline Power."

Li Yunshu's eyes gradually widened, and his breathing became a little rapid.

"Your Majesty means, I—"

He opened his mouth to speak but couldn't make any sound.

He was just a small Cultivator at the Qi Refinement Stage, and in his former world, there had never even been a single person who achieved Ascension.

Now, he was being told that he might be of a Supreme God's Bloodline—how could this be possible!

Clang.

Pei Xuanji suddenly looked up, placing her long sword against Li Yunshu's neck.

"The Divine Court is the enemy of my Abyss, and the Red Emperor Palace is even more—a mortal enemy of the Abyss!"

Gulp.

Li Yunshu's throat moved, and he stood frozen on the spot.

His heart was like a roller coaster, plummeting and soaring.

In his previous life, he was nearly thirty, bought a house with a loan in his hometown, still single and drifting outside, enjoying the blessings of 996.

He could be said to be an ordinary person, nothing more.

And in this life, he, an ordinary Daoist from a Daoist temple, suddenly became a person with Bloodline Power.

This feeling was as if he had finally been reborn into a good family.

But now the Empress was telling him that the Red Emperor Palace was a mortal enemy of the Abyss.

Destroy me, I'm tired... Li Yunshu simply closed his eyes, extended his neck, and gave up.

"Then do it."

Just as he was waiting to be beheaded, there was no movement for a long time.

After a while, his lips felt a touch of softness.

He suddenly opened his eyes; the Empress was now incredibly close.

Her long eyelashes trembled gently before his eyes, and a mist gradually veiled her Phoenix eyes.

Thump thump thump—

Li Yunshu's brain froze; he could only hear his own heart pounding like a drum.

His skin could clearly feel the warmth of the Empress's breath. He wanted to say something, but the Empress gave him no chance.

"Mmph—"

The moment their lips touched, Li Yunshu felt an electric current shoot from his feet to the top of his head.

Although it wasn't the first time they had done this, that feeling had never faded.

The thrill of this moment made him forget everything around him, even life and death, with only their increasingly rapid breathing in his ears.

Clang.

The long sword fell to the ground. He didn't know when, but the two of them had tacitly intertwined their fingers.

After a long while, Li Yunshu wiped his wet lips.

"Is this a last meal?"

Prisoners in jail get a last meal before execution; he supposed he also had a last meal.

Pei Xuanji couldn't help but, even with a cold face, a smile unconsciously curved her lips.

A last meal, only this guy could come up with that.

"This is just compensation."

"Compensation?"

Pei Xuanji nodded, then said calmly.

"Compensation for not being able to take you home."

Li Yunshu's gaze sharpened; he seemed to understand the meaning of this sentence.

The Empress had once said that her father didn't like men with low cultivation.

At that time, he understood that the Empress wanted to take him home in the future, although he didn't know in what capacity.

But now, that possibility was completely gone.

Because, possessing the Bloodline Power of the Red Emperor Palace made him an enemy of the Abyss.

If he were an ordinary Human Race member, he might still have a chance to go home with the Empress.

But with the added identity of the Red Emperor Palace, all hope was completely lost.

Otherwise, it would only put the Empress in a dilemma.

"Then you're not killing me?"

"Hmph—"

Pei Xuanji snorted coldly, saying nothing.

She clearly knew she had fallen for him; how could she still bring herself to do it?

It was just that she really couldn't take this guy back now.

It would be fine if it wasn't discovered, but once exposed, even she wouldn't be able to protect him.

Li Yunshu hesitated for a moment, then spoke.

"That power only appeared after I refined the li fire flower; I had never felt it before.

Is it possible that I'm not from the Red Emperor Palace at all, and it's merely an anomaly caused by the li fire flower?"

Their hands were still tightly clasped together, and the Empress looked at the man before her as if he were an idiot.

"Do you know the value of Bloodline Power? Is that something a mere li fire flower can change?"

"..."

"Then why is the Fire Controlling Emperor behind me so small?"

Hearing this question, Pei Xuanji pondered for a moment, unable to figure out why.

"This is the first time I've seen such a situation."

The Human and Demon Realms had been separated for so long; she only knew of the Red Emperor Palace's existence from records and had never actually met anyone from it.

But that Bloodline Power, she would never mistake it.

Li Yunshu asked curiously.

"Then where did Your Majesty's Red Emperor Palace token come from?"