Dao Equaling the Heavens
Chapter 384 - 14 With My Saintly Way, I Protect Your Glazed Heart_3

Chapter 384: Chapter 14 With My Saintly Way, I Protect Your Glazed Heart_3

Indeed, as Chi Yu Zi mentioned, even the once reckless young girl now possessed a mighty power that reached the heavens and penetrated the earth.

Xie Yunnan was utterly amazed; for the first time, he truly grasped what it meant to be "Venerable."

At this rate, it seems that within three days they could indeed level an entire state’s land. Even if the Evil Cultivators managed to hear of the coming destruction, escaping would likely take them over ten days.

Afterward, Xie Yunnan began to voluntarily guide the direction, when suddenly, he noticed a familiar person on the shoulder of the Divine General.

Gu Wen, carrying two jars of wine, looked down at the cities and said, "This way, you can only catch small fry. The big fish above the True Monarch level have all fled. You are treating the symptoms, not the root cause."

While speaking, he gently blew out a breeze, dispersing the Divine Soul of an Evil Cultivator who was trying to escape below.

"People are divided into good and evil; not everyone can cultivate the true Cultivation Techniques. It’s unstoppable."

Chi Yu Zi conversed naturally with him and didn’t notice anything amiss.

"There are always those in the world who seek shortcuts. The Buddhist, Taoist, and Demon sects have birthed the most Evil Cultivators. Unless there is no cultivation at all, there will always be Cultivation Techniques that devour others."

This was why she had hunted for over a hundred years and yet countless Evil Cultivators still emerged. It’s like crime, impossible to eradicate completely. She only hoped that no one would openly cultivate evil magic.

Hearing this, Gu Wen felt a bit emotional and said, "You’ve grown a lot."

"Was I very naive before?"

"You used to be vibrant; now you seem dead inside."

"A single Human Soul can only maintain one’s sanity; there’s no need for extraneous emotions."

"Maybe if this Human Soul is strong enough, it can relieve a lot. But let me think about how to accelerate your growth."

"Heh... Your Heart Demon really is unique, as wild as he is."

Gu Wen asked with a smile, "What if I am real?"

"I’d push my fist into your belly, pin you to the ground, and hit you."

"I would just run away then."

"Can you escape? Even if you really do emerge, you’d at most reach the Golden Core stage and then I’d manipulate you as I wished. I would hit you once for the revenge of Immortal Land, the second time for your betrayal, and a third time to avenge the Heavenly Girl."

Chi Yu Zi chatted casually as if dealing with loneliness through the Heart Demon was a way to make the remaining ten years less dull.

However, she didn’t realize that Xie Yunnan was gradually beginning to hear her voice.

Slightly hoarse, yet clear and pleasant, like that of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, devoid of the sternness of Chi Venerable.

The first day, there was a voice.

The second day, there were emotional fluctuations.

The third day, in Wen Kui State, everyone was at risk, numerous sects lost their leaders overnight, and the deaths were most frequent among the smaller sects and schools.

Chi Yu Zi arrived at the Liuyun Sect.

The nine-meter Divine General hovered, his voice booming, "Lan Yongning, come out!"

A white-robed scholar floated up to meet the Divine General’s gaze, as well as the Cloth Daoist on his shoulder.

It had been eight hundred years since he last heard the voice of the Sword Control Sect’s Saint Daughter; he was surprised, yet it seemed familiar.

Memories emerged: when he was under a hundred years old, attending the Tianxuan Conference to witness the leading young female sword practitioner.

Back then, Lan Yongning and his friends, including a young classmate infatuated with him, approached Chi Yu Zi and were beaten up.

He argued back only to be beaten again.

"With your unseemly Swordsmanship, you thought to drink with me? Off with you!"

When they met again, Chi Yu Zi was drinking with an unknown man, arm-in-arm, their faces flushed and utterly drunk.

Later, he learned that the man was Gu Wen.

Lan Yongning greeted him with clasped hands, "Fellow Daoist, I have thoroughly investigated and purged our sect."

"Just because you say it’s purged."

Chi Yu Zi’s voice was still harsh and cold.

Gu Wen couldn’t stand by idly to save Lan Yongning from embarrassment.

"Chi Yu Zi, Brother Lan should be fine."

"Your Heart Demon, get lost! Today I’m thoroughly investigating the Liuyun Sect, no one’s interference will work."

Chi Yu Zi raised her right arm, a round Golden Sun slowly appeared, but just as it reached midway, it suddenly halted.

Gu Wen slipped into the Divine General, grabbing Chi Yu Zi’s wrist. Gradually, she became stunned.

Her chaotic thoughts cleared slightly as she began to discern the limits of reality and illusion.

"You..."

Chi Yu Zi stepped back slightly, her pupils quivering, now able to see but unaware of it.

Her fingertips touched his face, the warm touch and breath making her realize this was an illusion. Everything she could see and touch was illusory.

Only in the darkness, where all senses were lost, could she perceive what was real.

"This kind of Heart Demon... it’s too much."

Chi Yu Zi’s lips trembled lightly, tears uncontrollably welling up, her left hand wiping away the tears, her nose sniffling, followed by increasingly louder crying.

The emotions suppressed for eight hundred years, as her Human Soul grew stronger, began to surge out like a breached dam. She, a Venerable, utterly lost control.

"Gu, where have you been these eight hundred years, didn’t you say you’d retrieve my soul for me? You liar, liar, I really miss you, you liar!"

Gu Wen gently stroked the young girl’s head, neither too distant nor too intrusive, and said, "You’ve suffered a lot these eight hundred years."

A small figure from the Qi Sea separated and entered into Chi Yu Zi’s Human Soul.

With my Saint’s path, I protect your Glazed Heart.

In the ancient days of Heavenly Court and the underworld, to exhaust all possibilities and achieve fulfillment, that is a Saint.