Chapter 190

From the last time they saw Qi Meng Sheng, now her spiritual pressure seems to be even more raging and stronger, like spreading a huge invisible net, suffocating people's chests. Under this kind of oppression, low-ranking cultivators probably couldn’t even stand up.

But compared to last time, Qi Meng Sheng's face also had some changes. She became…old.

In this world, the only technique that can maintain one’s complexion most is Chunyang Technique, followed by the cold ice techniques practiced by Cangyu Sect, like Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong. They were at least sixty to seventy years old, but their appearance is still like a young girl, and Qi Meng sheng has been over a hundred years of age, yet she actually looked like a young woman, still beautiful beyond compare.

But in front of them, she became old in a month or so. Almost no cultivator from Cangyu Sect would have aged like this --- most would have died before then.

The only explanation for such aging is that Qi Meng Sheng's body is approaching its limits and she is dying.

Qi Meng Sheng looked at them indifferently. Her gaze was lifeless, with a grimness that even the blaze of Shen Nong Ding could not conceal.

Fan Wu She snorted with laughter, "Old demonic woman, are you dying of old age?"

"Immortal Lord Qi, your heavenly destiny is coming to an end. There is nothing that can be done. Asking the Dao and cultivating immortality, there is talent and enlightenment, but also destiny. If you can’t cultivate successfully, then forget it. No one has ascended for thousands of years in Jiuzhou, so why do you have to be so obsessed and make mistakes again and again?" Lan Chui Han sighed.

"No one has ascended for a thousand years, and I want to be that first person." Qi Meng Sheng's face was expressionless, as if frozen, "For this cultivation, with what I have invested and what I have given up, how can I lose all my efforts?"

"With the Absolute Human Emperor, is it certain that you will be able to ascend?" Xie Bi An glared angrily at Qi Meng Sheng.

"After obtaining the Absolute Human Emperor, I will be able to reshape my flesh with the ice crystal. As long as I don't die, I will ascend sooner or later."

"Even if you do ascend, so what? In order to become an immortal, you didn’t hesitate to become a demon. What kind of outrageous Dao are you practicing!?"

Qi Meng Sheng slowly raised her ice crystal longbow and said coldly, "What I cultivate is my own Dao."

Lan Chui Han raised his hand and shouted, "Wait! Immortal Lord Qi." In front of them was the demonized Qi Meng Sheng, and behind them were Cangyu Sect cultivators led by Yun Xiang Yi and Hua Xiang Rong. They had no way to escape. Qi Meng Sheng was a person who even Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu had difficulty dealing with. It was a dead end for them now. He quickly said, "You can't refine the Absolute Human Emperor, because you caught the wrong person."

Qi Meng Sheng paused and put down her bow again.

"Because Yun Zhong Jun betrayed you." Lan Chui Han said, "He coveted the position of the sect leader, and hated you for valuing Yun Xiang Yi more. He simply did not want you to get the Absolute Human Emperor, so he tampered with the Golden Trunk Jade Policy. That Yanzhou cultivator is not the reincarnation of Emperor Kong Hua at all."

Qi Meng Sheng's eyes were colder than the frost and snow of Kunlun: "How do you know that?"

"It was Qing Wu Zi who told us. Qing Wu Zi and Yun Zhong Jun conspired to deceive you. We were also smuggled into the city by Qing Wu Zi. He originally wanted to swindle us to steal the Qingfeng Sword, but actually set a trap to catch us all, but we escaped in the end. And the Qingfeng Sword wasn't stolen by us at all. It must have been stolen by Yun Zhong Jun."

Fan Wu She followed along Lan Chui Han’s words and said, "Maybe he has taken the Qingfeng Sword as a declaration of allegiance now. When you all are caught in a net, the Immortal Alliance will help him ascend to the throne of the sect."

Hua Xiang Rong said angrily, "Master, I already told you that that ill-bred white-eyed wolf cannot be trusted! We were about to catch them at the palace, but in the end the walls of First Fortress Qian were suddenly bombed by Thunderfire Stones. Maybe it's also Yun Zhong Jun's trick for letting them take the opportunity to escape. The Qingfeng Sword is hidden deep in the palace, and there are boundaries, so how can it be so easily stolen? It’s probably embezzlement."

Yun Xiang Yi said, "Where is Yun Zhong Jun? Where is he now?"

The people of the Cangyu Sect looked at each other.

"I don't know ah."

"Could he still be in the palace?"

"I haven't seen him today..."

Fan Wu She said disdainfully: "It's already too late to think about finding him. The Absolute Human Emperor cannot be refined, and your death will come. Sooner or later, Chidi City will be invaded. By then, Yun Zhong Jun will be your new sect leader."

Qi Meng Sheng said indifferently: "You guys said that the Golden Trunk Jade Policy was tampered with, and the person I captured was not the reincarnation of Emperor Kong Hua."

"Yes, this is what Qing Wu Zi told us himself. Probably only Yun Zhong Jun knows who the reincarnation of the Human Emperor really is." Lan Chui Han said, "Doesn't Immortal Lord Qi have any suspicions? Emperor Kong Hua was a supreme heavenly pride. His golden core carries the imperial destiny, and how could he become mediocre after reincarnation? Do you really believe that the core of such an unknown cultivator can refine the Absolute Human Emperor?"

Qi Meng Sheng ice wings incited behind her back, and a strong cold wind blew. She quietly looked at the three for a moment: "Good point, how can that mundane person be the reincarnation of Emperor Kong Hua? Emperor Kong Hua's elegant manner can only be seen a few times on earth."

A hint of weirdness came out of Xie Bi An.

Qi Meng Sheng spread her hand and a booklet with golden light appeared in her hand - the Golden Trunk Jade Policy.

The crowd became silent almost at the same time, staring at that sacred object.

Xie Bi An's heart was beating like a drum. His past life, everything he wants to know, but was afraid to know, was in that thin paper scroll.

Fan Wu She also tensed his nerves and stared at the Golden Trunk Jade Policy. If he can get it, he will be able to see whether or not his big brother has treated him with sincerity. He asked the heaven and earth, asked for a hundred years, and didn't hesitate to crawl back to earth from hell, just wanting to ask that heartfelt question.

Qi Meng Sheng looked at the crowd, then slightly hung her head, and blew gently on the Jade Policy.

The Jade Policy slowly flipped, emitting a subtle rustling sound. Each sound was sweeping on the people's hearts.

Finally, the Jade Policy turned to a page and did not move anymore. She stared at the page and murmured: "People with imperial destiny are reincarnated celestial beings. They come down to the mortal world to experience the calamity. All that you have experienced in your previous life was your calamity."

A bad premonition rose up in Xie Bi An.

Qi Meng Sheng gently shook her head. Her tone is actually gentle and helpless: "It's your fault for being silly. If you had been more selfish and less self-willed, how would you have ended up in that situation?"

"You ... what exactly are you talking about?" Xie Bi An was extremely panicked.

Qi Meng Sheng slowly raised her eyes, as if she was looking at Xie Bi An straight in the face for the first time, but this glance instantly pierced through a hundred years of time and seized the person who was wandering in fear in the rushing cycle of reincarnation.

Xie Bi An widened his pair of round eyes and he staggered back a step.

Qi Meng Sheng knew. She knew it from the start!

Fan Wu She's face changed dramatically: "You knew!"

"The Golden Trunk Jade Policy is the divine treasure of Great Emperor Dongyue, and nothing in the world can change it except the Judge's Brush." Qi Meng Sheng said calmly, "Where can Yun Zhong Jun get the ability to do anything to it?"

"Then why did you ..." Lan Chui Han's face was blue. He gritted his teeth and said, "So you were the one luring us into Chidi City!"

Qi Meng Sheng laughed unnoticeably: "With Zhong Kui and Li Bu Yu around, I have no confidence in taking your core, so I set up a trap to make you think I had the wrong person. Otherwise, once you went into hiding back at Jiuyou, I really can't do anything. Now you've really been delivered to me."

Xie Bi An gasped. He secretly bit his lower lip and stared at Qi Meng Sheng with crimson eyes without fear: "Qi Meng Sheng, I will never let you get my core."

"There is no need to think about doing the same trick again." Qi Meng Sheng stared at Xie Bi An, "Before you commit suicide, I can cut through your stomach. The three of you, no one shall escape."

Xie Bi An's sword pointed at Qi Meng Sheng. He said in a fierce voice, "Try it."

"I don't want to kill you." Qi Meng Sheng sighed lightly, "I didn't want to since a hundred years ago, and I don't want to right now. Why don't you help me? Are you willing to let that two-faced villain Li Bu Yu dominate the position of your previous life?"

"The Immortal Alliance is not the Zong Clan and I am not Emperor Kong Hua!" Xie Bi An growled, "I am just me. You want my core? Just come and get it."

Qi Meng Sheng laughed coldly, "If you knew what Li Bu Yu did to you back then, this sword shouldn't be pointed at me." She glanced at the Jade Policy, "Do you want to see? Everything that happened in your previous life, the life of Emperor Kong Hua, those things that even I don't know, all of them are here."

Xie Bi An froze.

Fan Wu She took a deep breath and silently looked at Xie Bi An.

"What do you want to do?" Xie Bi An looked at the shiny golden Jade Policy, as if it was a flooding beast. He instinctively wanted to run away, "I know Li Bu Yu ate Emperor Ning Hua's core, and he must have an unspeakable secret, but that is his grudge with Emperor Kong Hua. I, I don't need to know."

"How silly. Do you think you can escape the past? The reason you are standing here is precisely because your past did not really pass." Qi Meng Sheng looked at Xie Bi An with a bit of pity in her eyes, "As long as your core is still in your belly, nothing is over."

"Then come and get it!" Xie Bi An's chest was burning with a fire, a fire that burned from a hundred years ago to the present, a fire that passed on from the soul to the past life and present life. If he could choose, he would not want a golden core of imperial destiny that everyone coveted. Although the memories of his previous life were incomplete, he could also piece a lot of information together from the fragments, that is, Zong Zi Heng's tragic life was all because of this core. He didn't want to follow in Zong Zi Heng's footsteps. Perhaps it would be better if it was really dug up instead!

But as long as he still has an ounce of energy in him, he will never let these people have their way!

 

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Edited on 19 May 21 (Emzie)

 

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