The Heavenly Dao had previously claid to have amnesia, knowing next to nothing. Later, it said it vaguely knew about the Emperor’s Demise that Great Emperor Yin Yang had ntioned, tearfully insisting that was the extent of its knowledge. Now, it knew about the "purple substance," again claiming this was all it knew...
Xu Lai stared calmly at the Heavenly Dao. "Are you taking for a fool, or yourself?"
The Heavenly Dao was incredibly frustrated. It glanced around cautiously, pointed a finger toward the sky, and made a shushing motion. "Shush. It must not be spoken of."
BANG!
Sikong Jiu felt the invisible pressure on his back intensify, becoming so heavy that his body felt like it was about to shatter. If Xu Lai didn’t withdraw his Divine Skills within five breaths, he would die without a place for burial.
"The Supre Emperor, you can’t just toss aside now that I’m no longer useful!" the Heavenly Dao bellowed at the top of its lungs. "I, Sikong Jiu, have told you everything I know! You must—"
It couldn’t finish its howl. The Heavenly Dao sensed an undisguised chill emanating from The Supre Emperor, and its heart turned to ice. It could only brace itself and continue, "The Supre Emperor, I truly don’t know much. However, in my early years, I was fortunate enough to see the personal notes of an Emperor Realm expert."
"On it was a single sentence: ’The Purple Spirit is born beside the Emperor, a great calamity.’"
Sikong Jiu scread dramatically, "The Supre Emperor, spare my life! Please, withdraw your Divine Skills, I’m really going to die...."
SWOOSH.
Xu Lai waved his hand.
Sikong Jiu felt the pressure on his back vanish. Gasping for air like soone who had just survived a catastrophe, his face filled with imnse relief.
"Which Emperor Realm expert?"
"The Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor!" This ti, the Heavenly Dao didn’t dare hide anything. "But the notes were already damaged when I obtained them, so I couldn’t see much."
「The annals of the Immortal Domain.」
In the sixty-third era, a Chaos Purple Lotus awakened its spiritual consciousness. Autumn arrived very late that year, and the naive Flower Demon gave herself a beautiful na: Chi Qiu.
In that era, a total of seven cultivators at the Nine Heavens of the Quasi-Emperor had the opportunity to pluck the Emperor Realm Dao Fruit. No one expected a Flower Demon to appear out of nowhere, slay all seven of them, and bathe in their Quasi-Emperor Blood to beco the foremost expert in the Immortal Domain.
The Sea of Myriad Flowers was ford from her remains.
This kid, the Heavenly Dao, has actually seen the personal notes of the Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor? Xu Lai remained skeptical.
"It’s true!" Sikong Jiu said, reminiscing. "It was three thousand years ago, on a bright, sunny afternoon. I was lying alone on a rocking chair, enjoying the cool air and eating my favorite candied hawthorns."
Xu Lai frowned. "Get to the point."
"Oh, oh, right." Sikong Jiu’s tone instantly weakened as he said carefully, "So Foreign Cultivators entered Earth. One was at the initial stage of the Nascent Soul Realm."
"As the Heavenly Dao, it is my responsibility and my obligation to protect Earth’s safety and to snuff out all dangers among the stars," the Heavenly Dao declared righteously. "So, I engaged him in a great battle! In the end, he gave so personal notes of unknown origin and begged to spare his life."
Xu Lai’s lips curled. The Heavenly Dao was timid to the extre.
It was one thing to be afraid of my group—Taotie, Anna, and myself, an Emperor Realm expert and two Quasi-Emperors. That was understandable. And we won’t even ntion Chong Yang, the ancestor of the Chongming Bird Clan, who is at the peak of the Immortal Venerable Realm. But that Chongming Bird Immortal Venerable who tried to kill Wei Qing was rely at the initial Immortal Venerable Realm, and the Heavenly Dao didn’t dare make a peep... So much for being the Heavenly Dao, for all that talk of responsibility and obligation. It was all nonsense. It probably only fought because it thought it could actually win against that Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, right?
The slight curl of Xu Lai’s lips made Sikong Jiu’s old face flush. He vaguely felt that perhaps he had boasted too much. He quickly returned to the topic, "Those notes contained so of the Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor’s life insights from her later years, and they ntioned that purple substance."
"’The Purple Spirit is born beside the Emperor, a great calamity...’" Xu Lai repeated.
"Yes, yes, that’s it." The Heavenly Dao nodded emphatically, its face etched with fear. "Moreover, The Supre Emperor, that sentence in the notes was written in blood and carried an endless resentnt."
"While the resentnt didn’t harm anyone, it destroyed the notes." The Heavenly Dao’s fear was mixed with regret. "I should have taken a closer look. What if a supre Emperor Scripture was recorded in it?"
Its words were probing. The Heavenly Dao had coveted the Emperor Qingfeng Scripture for a long ti. If The Supre Emperor was willing to teach it a move or two, it would be a massive gain!
However, Xu Lai paid the Heavenly Dao no mind and returned to the school infirmary. He mulled over the Chaos Purple Lotus Demon Emperor’s death. Could it be related to this thing she called ’Purple Spirit’?
Lost in thought, Xu Lai’s gaze fell upon the Cloud Water Rust Characters on the desk. He frowned, and in an instant, his Divine Sense achieved perfect clarity. This was the first ti he had entered the Dao in the eighty thousand years since becoming an Emperor, and it was likely inextricably linked to this second Cloud Water Rust Character.
Xu Lai gently reached out to touch it.
The next mont, the character transford into a streak of light and shot directly toward Xu Lai’s sea of consciousness. He instinctively tried to shatter it, but he failed.
The second Cloud Water Rust Character floated serenely above his sea of consciousness, not emitting the slightest hint of an aura. But then, to Xu Lai’s shock, the character began to shine with a purple light.
The light flickered incessantly, emitting an aura that was incredibly familiar to Xu Lai—it was the scent of ’Purple Spirit’.
"It’s absorbing the purple substance from the Spiritual Energy!" Xu Lai’s pupils contracted.
If he could enter that Dao-comprehending state again, Xu Lai would surely notice that the ’Purple Spirit’ around him was slowly disappearing. To be more precise, the Purple Spirit was ford because of his very presence. Even if he was unwilling, it would gradually rge into his body; it was just that he had never been able to perceive it before.
But now, with the ’Cloud Water Rust Character’ hovering in his sea of consciousness, the Purple Spirit could no longer rge into his body. Instead, it was being forcibly absorbed by the character. The Cloud Water Rust Character was exceptionally greedy, continuously absorbing all the Purple Spirit around Xu Lai.
Xu Lai touched his nose, unsure if this was a good or bad thing for him.
He checked the ti. It was 5:15 PM. Xu Lai panicked. Oh no, I missed the ti to pick up my daughter!
He imdiately cast all other matters aside and teleported to Galaxy Kindergarten. All the other children had already been picked up by their parents. Only Xu Yiyi was still on a swing in the garden. Qian Xiao was pushing her, wincing with every push as if aggravating an old injury.
"Uncle Xu is here!" Qian Xiao’s sharp eyes spotted him, and he called out instinctively.
Xu Lai rubbed his nose. "Yiyi, I’m sorry. Daddy’s late."
"It’s okay, Daddy." Xu Yiyi threw herself into Xu Lai’s arms, chirping happily. "Qian Xiao and I had a lot of fun, it’s just..."
"Just what?"
"Aunt Luo Chu found out about our trip to Chang’an City, so he got a beating." Yiyi blinked her large eyes. "Daddy, can you heal him?"
"Hahahahaha!" Xu Lai couldn’t help but laugh out loud. "He doesn’t need healing. Physical cultivators need to get beaten up often. It’s a good thing for him."
Qian Xiao was speechless. He glared at Xu Lai indignantly, his expression clearly saying: Uncle Xu, have a heart!
"Be a man, look on the bright side," Xu Lai said, patting Qian Xiao on the shoulder. The light tap sent the boy howling in pain. He dropped to the ground, rolling around and even spitting out a bit of white foam.
Xu Yiyi beca alard. "Daddy, why are you bullying Qian Xiao?"
Xu Lai’s face darkened. That little brat! How dare he put on an act for !
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