Chapter 498 - 497: Is My Wife Going to Take Over the Sword Sect?

Chapter 498: Chapter 497: Is My Wife Going to Take Over the Sword Sect?

Chapter 497: Is My Wife Going to Take Over the Sword Sect?

"Forget it. I’ll sort out the rest of the situation slowly..."

Luo Wusheng sighed and sat cross-legged on the bed.

Dao-Dao was right, he really did need some time alone to calm down and sort out his current condition.

He also wondered who had won in the end—Di-Di or Fan-Fan... When you think about it, wasn’t that basically fighting oneself?

If I win against someone, and that someone is me... then who actually won?

Split personalities are terrifying.

He stopped dwelling on it and began checking his own state.

"Mm... This place is indeed very helpful for easing the rejection between my physical body and my origin. It’s still a bit slow, but I can feel the two gradually adapting and merging."

He flipped his palm upward. After two breaths, spiritual energy began gathering in his hand. Within it flickered faint white-violet arcs of lightning and specks of brilliant firelight.

"My current state does affect my strength somewhat, but mainly in the circulation of spiritual energy and divine awareness... There’s a slight sluggishness when I move spiritual energy—like network latency? But this time I’ve undoubtedly broken past Nascent Soul completely. I’m only a small step away from directly advancing to mid-stage Nascent Soul. As my body and origin fuse further, my realm will likely surge again."

"As for my actual combat strength, I’ll need time to adapt and confirm..."

Though he said this, a hint of satisfaction flashed through his eyes.

It wasn’t just because his realm had risen... To be honest, while Luo Wusheng had once imagined becoming invincible under heaven, he wasn’t someone obsessed with power and cultivation.

What’s so fun about immortality? Wasn’t slacking off in his wives’ arms far more appealing?

Unfortunately, the events he faced left him no room to slack.

’Now that this breakthrough is fully completed, it means I’ve deviated from my original cannon-fodder fate to some extent... The good news is that all the backup stuff that bald Buddhist head left on me has been broken. He can’t directly locate me anymore, and it’s very likely he doesn’t even know I revived ahead of time.’

’But there’s a downside too. Now that we’ve completely torn off the mask, his future schemes definitely won’t be as simple as the Netherkin chaos one. From here on, I can’t rely on the original plot to judge the movements of the Buddhist Sect.’

As he pondered, Luo Wusheng still felt the overall situation was developing in a favorable direction.

If we’re talking about the worst-case scenario, it would be that after this failure, that Buddhist head directly launched the Demon Purging War and went all-in. If that had happened, Her Majesty would definitely have told him just now. And his junior sister wouldn’t be calmly boarding the Sea-Crossing Boat back to the Three Thousand Demon Domains at a time like this.

After all, something on the scale of the Demon Purging War couldn’t possibly be initiated so easily. And that Buddhist head had just been injured through karmic linkage by him, he might not have even fully recovered yet.

"Before, they were in the shadows and I was in the open... Maybe this early resurrection is my chance to move into the shadows instead?"

Luo Wusheng stroked his chin.

"But why did I revive ahead of time? Because the phoenix intent within the Ancient Phoenix Essence awakened? Or because of that Ancient Phoenix incense fire I can now sense, but can’t use at all?"

Or was it unrelated to the Ancient Phoenix and it’s simply due to something special about his body?

A second awakening of the Diabolic Saint Physique? The Dao of Causality?

There were too many possible reasons. Perhaps this was the trouble of having too many cheats.

Compared to that, he had forgotten to ask Her Majesty how she discovered that his physical body was reviving at the bottom of the Imperial Pool... Well, given the situation just now, it hadn’t exactly been appropriate to ask. Even next time, asking would require considerable courage. Best to find Dao-Dao—the one who claimed to cultivate Great Forgetfulness of Emotion—and ask her privately.

Shaking his head, Luo Wusheng let out a long breath.

Now came the most important part of assessing his current condition.

The second awakening of the Diabolic Saint Physique.

What kind of transformation would occur—something that had made that Buddhist head specifically place restrictions to prevent it from happening?

Before his resurrection, this second awakening had always been stuck at the final sliver of progress, only providing that power of integrating all things... But at this very moment, the awakening seemed to have been preliminarily completed.

’Still, I’d better not confirm it directly here, in case something unexpected happens...’

Luo Wusheng’s eyes flickered. Suddenly, he felt something and turned to look beside him.

A spatial rift quietly opened, and from it flew out a stack of documents.

Ji Yanyao had delivered the intelligence reports compiled by the Six Gate Bureau over these past days.

Truly perfect timing. Luo Wusheng had been preparing to enter the Demon Moon space to study his current Diabolic Saint Physique, but had hesitated because these reports hadn’t arrived yet.

Now there was nothing to hesitate about.

Drawing the documents into his hand, Luo Wusheng thoughtfully swept his gaze across the room, then slowly closed his eyes.

His divine awareness connected to his dantian.

In the next instant, he seemed to see a starry sky, with each star within corresponding to a world.

At the center of that starry sky floated a giant tree. Its roots plunged into the void-chaos, while its branches and leaves upheld myriad worlds.

On every leaf flowed Dao Rhythm, with stars orbiting around them.

This was Luo Wusheng’s current dantian.

The Demon Moon spaces once opened within the royal city had all become stars within this firmament, now entirely under his control.

And these star-spaces—once distinguished only by color and size—had undergone internal changes.

For example, the star beside the leaf flowing with the Dao of Fire had transformed within into a fiery prison, undying flames covering the entire space.

The same was true for the star beside the leaf of the Dao of Lightning—inside, lightning had nearly formed a thunder pool.

If the countless star-spaces before had been merely the embryonic form of the myriad heavens and worlds, now they had clearly advanced a step further, preliminarily infused with the concept of Dao laws.

Luo Wusheng’s divine awareness did not linger. Gazing at the Nascent Soul tree that belonged to him, he silently flew upward toward its highest point.

There was a single illusory leaf there, with only one pale star floating upon it.

This was the very first star-space he had stayed in when he first came into contact with Demon Moon. And now, the Dao Rhythm infused into it was—

Karmic Link.

The Dao law formed from the fusion of the Dao of Causality and the Dao of Word-Made-Law had not formed branches or leaves on Luo Wusheng’s Nascent Soul tree, so no star-space had been infused with this fundamental Dao law of his.

Luo Wusheng did not dwell on it. His divine awareness stirred the pale space.

His physical body on the bed in the outside world instantly vanished.

Several breaths later, the space in one corner of the room rippled.

Three girls with identical faces sat in a neat row, looking at the spot where someone had disappeared.

"He discovered us..."

Kirin held the scaled-pattern mask in her hand and sighed softly.

She had already changed back into her Six Gate Bureau uniform. Although there had just been a scuffle, she didn’t look particularly disheveled.

After all, it was oneself fighting oneself, no matter what, one wouldn’t strike one’s own peerlessly beautiful face too hard.

The Empress was the same. But now, having changed back into her imperial robes, her cheeks were faintly flushed.

Mm. She had retrieved and put back on the undergarment that a certain Holy Saint had once sniffed...

Blushing aside, she still spoke irritably, "Wasn’t this expected? His cultivation now isn’t much weaker than ours. It’s only that, in terms of comprehension of the Dao of Space, he’s temporarily inferior to us, that’s why he didn’t notice immediately."

"Di-Di is right... So why are we hiding here? And why drag me along too? I wasn’t the one who embarrassed herself." Ji Yanyao glanced sideways at the two beside her.

The Empress bristled. "Don’t call me by that idiotic nickname! Are you trying to take advantage of me?"

"Heh. Stupid Di-Di," Kirin added coldly.

"Bah! Shameful, stupid Fan-Fan!"

The Empress and Kirin started bickering again.

Dao-Dao watched like someone eating melon seeds. "Stop fighting. With the way you’re going, no one’s going to get hurt anyway..."

At this moment, Di-Di—who, lacking a chest binding and thus possessing an extra order of magnitude in certain assets—was gaining the upper hand in the scuffle. Hearing the Daoist Alter Ego’s utterly meaningless attempt at mediation, she rolled her eyes.

"Let’s set aside the disgraceful Mortal Alter Ego and me for now. Do you really think that, when you were purely the Daoist Alter Ego, you never embarrassed yourself in front of him?"

Ji Yanyao froze.

"I think you’ve forgotten—since he already knew about the Trinity of Pristine States, then what happened in the Sword Province..."

The melon seeds in Dao-Dao’s hand dropped to the floor.

If that Demon Sect Holy Saint had recognized at a glance that she was one of the Alter Ego among the Three Alter Ego of the Trinity of Pristine States, then what kind of image had she presented in his eyes back then?

Letting her subordinate become someone else’s lackey and mine ores, disguising herself the whole way... That was minor. The real issue was that when he obtained that marriage contract with her, she had been present on the scene!

At the time, she had thought Luo Wusheng hadn’t noticed her reaction upon seeing the contract. But thinking about it now—with the marriage contract in hand, how could he possibly not pay attention to his newly gained fiancée?

He simply did what he had done all along—saw through it, but chose not to expose it.

Ji Yanyao placed herself in Luo Wusheng’s position back then...

Hiss—

It was practically like watching a clumsy performance!

Her Dao Heart wavered once again.

Meanwhile, because the Empress had been distracted by the conversation, Kirin found an opening and reversed the tide of battle.

Yet Kirin’s expression after gaining the upper hand turned strange.

"If that’s the case... doesn’t that mean he already clearly knew back then that the marriage contract was with us?"

Ji Yanyao pondered for a long while, then revealed an even more complicated expression.

"I’m wondering whether he might have known even earlier... For example, Fan-Fan, the very first night you entered his dream..."

Kirin’s beautiful eyes widened. "Then at that time, he wasn’t intending to marry our so-called ’younger sister,’ but rather..."

"Which is why, in the thought-image reflected in the Imperial Pool that day, after he removed the imagined mask from you, the figure turned into Di-Di’s appearance... Because in his consciousness, it was originally the same person."

At this point, even the suppressed Empress forgot to struggle. The three identical-faced girls stared at one another.

They had already realized earlier that Luo Wusheng likely knew about their Trinity of Pristine States, but they had never examined the details this thoroughly before.

Now it seemed their social death might be even worse than imagined.

"Th-this... how am I supposed to maintain imperial dignity in front of him in the future?!" the Empress wailed miserably.

The other two Alter Ego were about the same... their personas had completely collapsed.

Only Ji Yanyao, relying on the Great Forgetfulness of Emotion, was the first to regain composure.

"...Di-Di, don’t panic. Even if our guesses are entirely correct, we can look at these issues from another perspective."

Wisdom flickered in Dao-Dao’s eyes.

Having entered the realm of "seeing that I am not myself," she was now able to transcend the viewpoint bound to the identity of Ji Yanyao.

"Another perspective?"

Di-Di and Fan-Fan blinked.

...

Meanwhile, Luo Wusheng entered the familiar pale space.

The space appeared unchanged, but he could sense the profound aura filling it.

"Karmic link..."

Due to the limitations of his own comprehension, the Dao Rhythm of karmic link in this space wasn’t particularly strong. Yet it still faintly enhanced his perception of the Dao of Causality.

If he conducted analysis or research here, he could utilize the Dao Rhythm of karmic link to trace causes and follow effects, perhaps uncovering unexpected information.

But the moment he entered, Luo Wusheng’s brows knit slightly.

In the room outside, there had been something suppressing the rejection between his body and origin, so he hadn’t felt the backlash too intensely. Now that the suppression was gone, he felt pain throughout his body as if heavy hammers were relentlessly slamming into him.

"Well, compared to the pain of cutting off my own sword intent for ten years before, this is nothing."

Expressionless, Luo Wusheng sat cross-legged in the void and slowly raised a hand.

Two strands of sword intent coiled around his fingers, covered in the Dao Rhythm of karmic link.

His vision blurred.

For a moment, it was as if he were once again in the Sword Emperor’s secret realm, seeing the ancient sword scar imbued with weathered sword intent.

The scene shifted repeatedly, showing the entire process of how he had comprehended these two sword intents.

Because these were things he himself had experienced, tracing cause and effect went quite smoothly.

But Luo Wusheng still sighed.

"As expected... I still can’t find how the memory of my comprehension of the sword’s intent was sealed."

With a flick of his hand, the sword intent dissipated.

After hesitating, he picked up the stack of intelligence reports in his other hand.

Faintly, it was as if he could see masked Six Gate Bureau agents in black and white, burying their heads as they recorded information.

Luo Wusheng inhaled lightly.

The inspection of the changes brought by the second awakening of the Diabolic Saint Physique would have to wait. At the very least, he needed to first grow accustomed to the backlash caused by the separation between body and origin, and adjust himself to his current best possible state.

And during this adjustment period, he could take a look at what had happened in the seven days since his resurrection.

The stack of reports wasn’t particularly thick. Luo Wusheng guessed that Her Majesty had deliberately selected only the potentially useful parts.

Mm... after all, he had only been "asleep" for seven days. It wasn’t as if earth-shattering events would occur in such a short time.

Originally, he had been supposed to sleep forty-two more days.

As he adjusted his state, he flipped through the pages.

"First, the aftermath of the Netherkin chaos... Makes sense. Nothing major recently would surpass that."

"Hah... my reputation in the royal city is this high now? Good grief, the Demon Artifact Pavilion is practically becoming a holy land. Since Xiaoyao’s returning to the Three Thousand Demon Domains, I hope those junior staff can manage it properly..."

"Hu Dingtian and Old Wang built their foundations—wait, Song Zhong and the artifact refiners he brought actually advanced to the Foundation Establishment realm in one go? Is courting death really that efficient for leveling up?"

"Long Dahai’s rogue cultivator gang and Li Xing have taken over the Wandering Immortal Inn... Not bad, I suppose. I just hope my perfectly decent inn doesn’t suddenly turn into a brothel one day."

"Daoist Gao Shi returned to the Calculation Province, but apparently only to form his golden core at the Heavenly Divination Tower and pick up his luggage. After that, he’s coming back to hang around with Long Dahai—pfft, that little brat has lost another troublemaking disciple."

"Oh? The little pink fox has reclaimed leadership of the Netherkin race... The one I killed during the Netherkin chaos was just a manifestation, so the Roc’s true body should still be alive... But with the little pink fox’s top-tier cultivation in this era, that big bird won’t be able to stir up much trouble in the Netherland. Even without the Netherkin chaos, Yao Ji was about to reclaim the leadership of the Netherkin race anyway."

"..."

"Mm. Quite a few things happened, but they’re basically within my expectations... Last item: The Sword Sect Master has advanced in cultivation and abdicated, passing the position of Sect Master to the Peak Master of Frosty Snow Peak..."

"Seems like nothing too—hm? Wait? What the hell?!"

Luo Wusheng stared at the final sheet in his hand, eyes wide.

My wife is going to rule the Sword Sect?!

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Dao-Dao / Ji Yanyao (Daodao means Daoism)

Di-Di / The Empress (Didi means Empress)

Fan-Fan / Kirin (Fanfan means Commoner)

Cultivation Realm:

1, Qi Refining

2, Foundation Establishment

3, Golden Core

4, Nascent Soul

5, Divine Transformation (Formerly Known as Tribulation Crossing)

6, Tribulation Transcendence

7, Land Immortal

Note: Link to the character Illustration:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkIcPnCxeyuyZA4Kkb621dPC05UvWjhD

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