Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 820 - 679: Xuan, are you not up to it anymore?

Chapter 820: Chapter 679: Xuan, are you not up to it anymore?

Atop Tian Mountain, Jinque Heaven Palace.

Shaosiming, with a bronze mask covering her face, braved the surging cold and forcibly breached numerous forbidden spells to stand before the ’Celestial Observatory’.

Gazing at Dasiming, who was seated at the center of the observatory, her eyes were filled with boundless rage, "You actually dared to stir the northern cold wave? Dasiming, do you wish to plunge both our Jinque Heaven Palace and this world into an abyss of irreversible calamity? Do you realize how many living beings will perish from this?"

Her mana burst forth in an instant, shattering the many runes of the observatory and the powerful spiritual energy circulating within.

Dasiming, however, had an inscrutable look, clashing with the Shaosiming before her.

Her Rule of Extreme Heaven was based on ’Lvling’, exerting her utmost to strip Shaosiming of her ability to use techniques and Divine Skills.

Shaosiming, who presided over ’life and death’, was also using all her might to cause Dasiming’s mana to wither. The flesh and blood of Dasiming, in contrast, were wildly growing and mutating, causing her exposed skin to sprout countless bizarre tumors.

About a moment later, Dasiming let out a cold snort, "Stop it! We are sisters, connected by blood. Why should we fight each other to the death?"

She voluntarily reined in her mana, but Shaosiming took the opportunity to obliterate the remaining talisman array inside the observatory.

A twitch appeared at the corner of Dasiming’s eye, but she did not make any further move to stop it.

The core of the Celestial Observatory was an ancient divine treasure. However, without the aid of an array, the artifact could at best only influence the seasonal energies within tens of thousands of miles around Tian Mountain.

Shaosiming’s wanton destruction had completely stripped the Jinque Heaven Palace of its ability to interfere with celestial phenomena for the next three years.

However, Dasiming did not seem to care much, for her objective had already been achieved.

The northern cold wave had already been triggered by her, and by this point, even a Daluo Golden Immortal or a Master Hunyuan could not reverse the celestial phenomenon of an incoming ice age.

She spoke calmly, "You returned a month earlier than scheduled. Is everything in order with Shendu?"

"If I hadn’t come back now, who knows what would have become of this Jinque Heaven Palace."

Shaosiming sneered, "You sent me off to Shendu just to complete your grand plan of setting things right? After the disastrous defeat in the Capital City and the tragic deaths of the Lord of Baihu Palace and the lord of Zimei Palace, are you going to steer the world back on course with such a malevolent method?"

"Indeed!" Dasiming’s tone remained even, "My actions are to correct chaos and remedy defects. Whether it is Yu Youlong, the new Emperor of Jin, or Princess Changle acting as regent, neither should exist in the future course of time. It would be better to obliterate these anomalies from destiny ahead of time. If you think your sister is malicious, then so be it."

"Destiny?"

Shaosiming snorted, "Then is the cold wave erupting three hundred years early within destiny? Is the revolt that happened twenty years ahead of schedule part of destiny? Prince Yi’s rebellion in Shaanxi was not even written in the Qianqiu Brush-scripted history.

Moreover, you now brazenly meddle in the royal struggle for the throne, using the ’Celestial Observatory’ to influence the world’s fate. How do you intend to explain this to the deities? How will you make the Chenghuang, Kitchen Deity, and the Mountain Deity of the lands believe in you, and how will you have the dragon clan swallow this grievance? The karma you’ve called forth, is the entire Jinque Heaven Palace to bear it for your actions?"

Her aura was chilling as she extended her hand, "Hand it over, your ’Zhushen Order’. You’ve defied the Heavenly Law and are no longer fit to wield it."

It was a powerful fake divine treasure, a subordinate Immortal Artifact to the ’Book of Jinque’, and was also the symbol of Dasiming’s control over the Jinque Heaven Palace.

"Impossible!"

Dasiming flicked her sleeve with a similarly icy gaze, "I uphold the Heavenly Mandate, all my actions are within my responsibilities. If you wish to take the ’Zhushen Order’ from me, you can only do so by summoning a council together with all the ’Palace Masters’ and ’Zhiling’."

Shaosiming raised her eyebrows and then decisively proclaimed, "Then let’s convene the council! In three days, I will gather all the palace masters and Zhilings to discuss the crimes of Dasiming for defying the Heavenly Law!"

As her voice fell, her form vanished from the spot.

Dasiming, however, stood with her hands behind her back, her eyes shadowed and unfathomable.

At that moment, a leaf drifted down from the sky and in an instant sprouted and grew, condensing into a green figure.

It was a woman, with a lustrous gem embedded between her eyebrows, "It seems you’re in trouble. Do you have the confidence to get through this difficulty?"

"Greetings to the Changsheng Emperor of the South!"

Dasiming first greeted her, then with a slight frown on her brow, said, "This is indeed a challenge; there’s a high chance I might lose. The successors to the Lord of Baihu Palace and the lord of Zimei Palace have yet to be chosen. The new Heavenly Market Palace Master was selected by the dragon clan together with the Chenghuang of both capitals, and both the Lord of Azure Dragon Palace and several Zhilings harbor doubts about me. Once Shaosiming initiates the council, I may not receive a third of the votes."

According to the rules of Jinque Heaven Palace, to dismiss Dasiming would require the agreement of two-thirds of the palace masters and Zhilings.

"Then why do you hesitate?"

The green figure spoke coldly, "Since you’ve already made arrangements against Shaosiming, why not utilize them? If you do not eliminate this constraint soon, you will never be able to change destiny. At this point, you need to monopolize the power in the Jinque Heaven Palace to set things right and turn the tide of destiny."

Upon hearing this, Dasiming’s brow furrowed even more tightly, remaining silent.

"Are you worried about the Dragon Qi of Jin Dynasty backlashing? Worried that the ’Book of Jinque’ will reject you?"

The green figure let out a light chuckle, "Rest assured, now that the Heaven Gap has opened, I can help you temporarily suppress the Heavenly Law of the ’Book of Jinque.’ In the ancient days, the Heavenly Court set up these laws to restrain mortals, the gods of incense, and the cultivation practitioners of the human world, not to imprison eternal beings like us, who have transcended the mortal world, in a cage.

As for the Dragon Qi of Jin Dynasty, as long as Yu Jianshen ascends the throne, the backlash from the Dragon Qi would be negligible. Great Dasiming, you have already made such great sacrifices and borne enormous sins to change the celestial patterns. If you retreat now, wouldn’t all your previous efforts be wasted?"

At that moment, the eyes of Dasiming still hesitated, struggling incessantly.

She knew that if she really did this, it would mean a complete fallout with her sisters, severing thousands of years of affection completely.

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Meanwhile, in the Taoist temple next to the Fen Yang Prince Mansion, Li Xuan watched in a daze at the person in his arms, whose complexion was delicate and who coiled around him like a snake with infatuation.

"You want more? This is already the sixth time!"

Xue Yunrou leaned on his chest, drawing circles on it: "Isn’t it still early? It’s not even dawn yet. Xuan, you’re not telling me you can’t do it, are you?"

"How is that possible?"

Li Xuan’s voice involuntarily rose by three notches, thinking that with the state of his body, he could continue the fight for a hundred days and nights without any issue! The fifth level of the Golden Body Invulnerability was just that awesome!

"Dawn is approaching, and I still have lots of government affairs to deal with. You know how busy I am, Yunrou. If we continue, I’ll miss the morning council."

The Emperor was young, so all early morning and First Hope Dachao sessions were canceled.

However, the regular councils still had to be held, which meant that all regent ministers, officials of the third rank or higher, and Kedao Officials of the six ministries would discuss public affairs after the Hour of Chen.

"Let your clone go to the council." Xue Yunrou pressed Li Xuan down, not allowing him to move. She bit his ear with a disgruntled tone: "Don’t think I don’t know that the day before yesterday, you stayed with Luo Yan until far into the day, and yesterday you sneaked into the palace, not emerging until the Hour of Chen. How come when it’s my turn, you’re ready to leave before the Hour of Mao even arrives?"

Li Xuan couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat; he was also perplexed, wondering why, lately, the girls around him suddenly became so enthusiastic.

In the past, it was always Li Xuan who took the initiative, but now it seemed that they were the ones clinging to him.

Yan would not let him go unless there were ten visits in one night, and it seemed Yunrou was no less eager.

Li Xuan now felt both blissful and troubled.

At this rate, his Second Mind wouldn’t be enough.

"I can stay," Li Xuan’s eyes flickered, speaking with a tinge of guesswork: "But you have to let me know what’s going on. You used to complain about three times, so why suddenly become so insatiable? There must be a reason."

He thought his Yunrou wasn’t at the age to be insatiable yet.

"Isn’t it enough that I like you?" Xue Yunrou let out a light huff. Seeing Li Xuan forcing himself up and pretending to leave, she softened her tone: "Alright, alright, I’ll tell you, okay?"

She pulled Li Xuan back and with a blushing face confessed: "I’ve read in the Taoist scriptures that when cultivating to our level, the essence within the body is refined into Yuan Qi at the moment of production, making it very difficult to conceive. However, there’s a way to break through this by engaging in more frequent intimate acts, to open the essence barrier, hoping that some might slip through the net."

Li Xuan was momentarily stunned, then he came to a realization: "So, you’re saying that you want a child?"

He wondered if Luo Yan had the same reason.

"What do you think? After all, I have to inherit Tianshi’s mansion."

Xue Yunrou’s expression turned complex as she turned her head away: "You’re already engaged to my cousin, and the wedding is just days away. Now you’re even reluctant to give me a child?"

Li Xuan let out a wry smile, suppressing his desire to rush back to the Yuudu’s mansion to deal with official duties, and prepared to mount his horse once again.

But at the next moment, he heard Li Dalu’s voice calling from outside the window: "Your Highness, the Shen Nong Institution has sent a message asking for you to come over as soon as possible. They say the potatoes they’ve planted are due to be harvested today, and they want you to take a look."

Li Xuan, as if granted amnesty, hurriedly dressed: "Come on, Yunrou, let’s go take a look. You’ve also put in effort for this. This is a matter of great national importance and cannot be neglected."

The growth cycle of potatoes is very short, generally sixty to one hundred days. With the Taoist technique at the Shen Nong Institution, the process could be shortened to within fifteen days, so the harvest was due today.

Xue Yunrou frowned deeply; she indeed had put effort into the potatoes. Her ’Zhengyi Talisman’ encompassed all five elements, and she could perform various techniques, all of the highest caliber.

Xue Yunrou also understood the significance of this crop for Jin Dynasty.

However, she couldn’t shake the feeling that Li Xuan was using this as an excuse to slip away.