Chapter 356: Chapter 316: “Lin Qingci, Did You Give It to Him?

Imperial Capital, Prince Rui’s Mansion.

The Young Master listened to the words of his ancestor, completely bewildered.

But he wasn’t a fool and keenly sensed something was amiss.

“What happened inside the Emperor’s Pool might be more complicated than I thought!” he mused.

Otherwise, why would the ancestor immediately ask where Chu Huaixu’s body and the pearl were?

This implies that the ancestor believed Chu Huaixu was already dead!

“Could it be that the ancestor personally dealt with him inside the Emperor’s Pool?”

“Moreover, he managed to escape death.”

“Besides that, the ancestor possibly paid a tremendous price, otherwise, he wouldn’t have suddenly fallen asleep!”

Qin Xuexiao thought about it more and more, feeling shocked and terrified.

How could Chu Huaixu, with his mere Third Realm cultivation, accomplish such a heaven-defying feat!?

The thoughts in the Young Master’s mind churned like raging waves.

“Impossible! Absolutely impossible!”

Surely there’s a flaw in my thinking!

The somewhat weakened Ancestor Emperor, seeing Qin Xuexiao momentarily speechless, couldn’t help but sound displeased.

“Xuexiao, I am asking you a question!” His stern voice echoed in Qin Xuexiao’s mind like a clap of thunder exploding in his Sea of Consciousness.

The mere Third Realm junior only felt a jolt in his Divine Soul, with his Sea of Consciousness shuddering and aching.

After the pain, he immediately stopped overthinking and respectfully replied, but also tried to extract information at the same time:

“Ancestor, did you personally act against Chu Huaixu inside the Emperor’s Pool? But… he didn’t die!”

The next moment, Qin Xuexiao’s Sea of Consciousness was once again in turmoil.

Because the Ancestor Emperor began to voice his rage, the power of his Divine Thought surging outward.

“Impossible! That’s absolutely impossible!”

“His physical body was destroyed, Spiritual Embryo completely ruined, Sea of Consciousness collapsed!”

“There’s absolutely no chance of survival, that would be enough to kill him three times over!”

The grand scheme of possession was ruined, and Chu Huaixu perished along with his four strands of Divine Thought, this was the conclusion within the Emperor’s Pool as seen from the Ancestor Emperor’s perspective!

Just this alone was something he could barely accept.

A mere Third Realm lower cultivator, a young lad hundreds of years later, dared to ruin my four strands of Divine Thought with his worthless life!

The damage to his Divine Soul was severe, and whether it could ever be fully restored remained uncertain.

How could he not be enraged?

Listening to these words, Qin Xuexiao’s heart was even more shocked beyond measure.

“Chu Huaixu’s body was destroyed, Spiritual Embryo wasted, Sea of Consciousness even collapsed?”

To speak of something so disrespectful, he really wanted to ask the ancestor: Are you joking with me?

According to the information he gathered, after emerging from the Emperor’s Pool, Chu Huaixu was taken back to the Cultivation Hall by Jiang Zhi, completely unharmed, without a scratch!

The Heir of Prince Rui could hear the emotions from his ancestor’s tone.

This led him to a nearly unbelievable and insane thought.

“Could it be that the ancestor got the short end of the stick in his hands…?”

At this thought, he felt his whole body stiffen.

The Ancestor Emperor’s voice continued to echo in his mind.

“Given such circumstances, even if Chu Huaixu possessed Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, even if he had a Ninth Grade Spirit Pill, it would be impossible to narrowly escape death!”

Qin Xuexiao could only respond dumbfounded:

“But ancestor, Chu Huaixu looks… seems completely unharmed.”

He was already prepared for the ancestor to go into a frenzy, and for his Sea of Consciousness to once again be in turmoil.

Surprisingly, this statement rendered the Ancestor Emperor silent.

Now, he was just a “wandering soul” without a physical body, so there was no risk of choking on a mouthful of blood.

However, this result was absolutely unacceptable to him!

In my lifetime, I have conquered the realm, invincible across the world!

Even after death, I controlled the Moon Country, and overruled the entire Western Continent!

How could this young man fool me!

But the Ancestor Emperor was, after all, a peerless power from hundreds of years ago.

To have laid such a foundation means he was undoubtedly a person of great wit and strategy.

Although after hundreds of years, his temperament and other aspects had changed dramatically, no longer as rational as he once was.

Yet, once he calmed down a bit, the details of the situation began to piece together in his mind.

“He must be dead, for I saw it with my own eyes.”

“If what Xuexiao said is true, that he remained unharmed, then there is only one possibility!”

“That semi-transparent Elixir Pearl contained the power of Evil Qi, capable of devouring all things.”

“But it seems Chu Huaixu had a Secret Technique, allowing the power consumed within the Elixir Pearl to be returned to him, nourishing him!”

“With his special Body Refining Divine Techniques, and the regenerative powers granted by the Dao Scripture, after being nourished, he might indeed recover?”

This was the only reasonable explanation he could think of.

Yet such methods of seizing the creation of the world were simply inconceivable, unheard of!

He could even manipulate the world’s most sinister Qi as he pleased?

Even I could not achieve that!

But following this train of thought, the Ancestor Emperor once again was filled with ecstatic joy.

“Doesn’t this mean that my four strands of Divine Thought were not destroyed, and might still be within that Elixir Pearl!”

In that case, there is a chance for recovery.

This gave the Ancestor Emperor a glimmer of hope.

He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly remembered something, and immediately called out in his mind: “Not good!”

“If Chu Huaixu is unscathed, and if Lin Qingci had already sealed his own intentions early on, taken a dose of aphro—herb meant for three, and had already been circulating the ’Wedding Garment’ within his body, wouldn’t that mean… wouldn’t that mean….”

She is my forbidden desire!!!

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Inside the room, no matter how Qin Xuexiao called out to the Ancestor Emperor, he no longer paid him any attention.

In fact, the reason he contacted Qin Xuexiao immediately was purely because the “main soul” among the ten strands of Divine Thought was within him.

The Moon Emperor and the Female State Preceptor only possessed fragmented souls.

At this moment, he had suffered a severe injury, and those two fragments hadn’t yet recovered fully; it would still take some time.

As for the matter of Lin Qingci, asking Qin Xuexiao was futile, as he was unaware of it.

From the Ancestor Emperor’s perspective, he assumed Chu Huaixu was dead beyond resurrection, and the physical body he admired so was likely already tainted by Evil Qi.

Thus, Lin Qingci’s primordial Yin would still belong to him in the future.

However, as things stand now, it’s uncertain!

He is the Founding Emperor of the Moon Country!

In the Ancestor Emperor’s heart, he felt somewhat ashamed to forcibly take a woman’s primordial Yin through such means, so when Lin Qingci always spoke with an ironic tone, the Ancestor endured it.

But as an emperor, especially a founding one, he wouldn’t be a man with weak possessiveness, would he?

Regardless, he indeed considered the Female State Preceptor as his own woman.

After their dual cultivation and pleasure, he promised to let her decide if she wanted to stay or leave, according to her own wishes.

But if she gave her body and the Divine Skill “Bridal Robe” to someone else, the Ancestor Emperor would never accept it!

Lin Qingci is indeed his forbidden desire at this moment!

No one can touch her!

If that were true, it would be a great loss indeed!

How could a dignified emperor endure such a thing!

The National Preceptor’s Mansion and Prince Rui’s Mansion are separated by half of the city.

At this moment, the Female State Preceptor was leaning by the window, gazing up at the bright moon in the night sky.

Her feet were still bare, and her elegant and dignified face showed traces of confusion.

This period was like a brief escape from the shackles of Divine Thought for her, stepping halfway out of the cage.

But she didn’t know what to do, where to give herself a “little break.”

More perplexing was that she repeatedly felt the urge to go to the Cultivation Hall.

As for finding someone there, it was obvious.

During these days, Lin Qingci did not cultivate at all.

Her cultivation was meant to be a gift, but ended up in vain.

Her past diligence was purely forced out by the power of Emperor’s Divine Thought.

She no longer meditated in silence at night, but after sleeping peacefully in her bed, she would often dream of things… unspeakable.

What happened in the Emperor’s Pool that day left her with hardly any awareness or memory, acting entirely on physical instincts and the “Bridal Robe.”

Thus, she only had extremely vague memories.

Yet, it was this ambiguity that made her want to ponder more!

Such is human nature, and under these circumstances, one tends to imagine all sorts of scenarios.

As the saying goes, what one thinks of during the day, one dreams of at night.

Lin Qingci could forcibly dispel these wild thoughts during the day, but upon sleeping at night, her dreams were exaggerated versions of reality.

Like last night’s dream, it turned into an intimate entanglement.

[Deep in the night, entwined like mandarin ducks, the silk bedding turned into red waves.

After the rain stops and clouds recede, the situation is unbearable.]

Upon waking abruptly from the dream, she knew exactly how her body felt different.

Sometimes Lin Qingci wondered if the effects of the drug hadn’t worn off entirely, leaving residues in her body….

Am I this kind of woman?

It could only be said that when the initial thoughts of revenge sprouted, thinking it might as well be given to Chu Huaixu, many ideas began to run wild.

In the minds of the Moon Country’s people, the Female State Preceptor seemed like a statue in a temple.

She was too dignified, too pure.

Yet now, it seemed that the statue was touched by a hint of human desire.

Lin Qingci leaned against the bed and sighed softly.

“What exactly happened on the cushion that day?”

“I and that Chu Huaixu… How far did it go?”

Moreover, she could well imagine how unseemly, how proactive, and how passionate she might have been that day….

All witnessed by a man who was practically a stranger to her.

Thinking about these things, all kinds of emotions would arise in her heart.

After a while, her calm face couldn’t help but wrinkle her eyebrows.

Because the loathsome thing within her body, after so many days of dormancy, awakened once again.

This made her suddenly feel the surrounding air turning a bit stale, less fresh than before.

Just now, while the night wind blew, she felt cool.’

At this moment, she felt annoyed.

The invisible cage trapping her was rebuilt once more.

Despite her high status, she was nothing more than a bird in a cage.

Sure enough, as soon as the Emperor’s Divine Thought within her awakened, its first words made her sick.

“Lin Qingci, was my primordial Yin still intact?”

—Did you… give it to him?

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