ngfei blinked and took in her surrounding. She was in a room she didn’t recognize, not her Jade Peak Palace or her Heaven, Earth, Man Trinity Palace. In fact, it seed closer to her place back in the Xi Dynasty when she was a re imperial princess, still unloved by her Consort-Mother and Emperor-Father.
It was a large room, certainly at least equal to her bedroom. Silken beddings, obscuring drapes, jewelry boxes, masterfully crafted furniture, white porcelain painted blue by seasoned painters, and an assortnt of snacks upon the table.
The Sword Empress circulated her qi. She could still feel her cultivation. Only it felt as if she was encased by a second skin of foreign origin.
ngfei looked around for a few monts longer before opening the doors and walking out.
“Mada, the master is asking if you are ready to leave.”
ngfei paused. She took in the one who called out to her. It was a young servant girl of the first rank. But she could not feel any hint of qi or cultivation from her at all like she was a regular mortal. And who did she an by mada?
“Leave? Where?” ngfei asked.
The servant girl showed a surprised expression before schooling it at once. “Today, mada and master are going to visit the Emperor and the Noble Consort.”
ngfei furrowed her brows. “Does Emperor-Brother need sothing of ?”
The maid showed a panicked expression. She quickly looked around to see if anyone overheard ngfei. “Mada, even if you are the most favored imperial princess, you cannot joke like this!”
ngfei’s confusion grew even more. She tried to recall what happened before she awoke here as the maid led her out towards the main hall.
The last thing she rembered was Emperor Soulfish’s clone, Mirrorevil, emitting a brilliant light that caused his glass body to erupted and engulf herself and her fellow Immortal Emperors, Zhang Cuiying, Eternal Night Emperor, and Cloud Goddess.
As the youngest Immortal Empress, Xi ngfei was imnsely talented and caused all those old monsters to sigh in admiration. She was already less than a hundred years old when she transcended mortality and ascended to the True Immortal level, known as the Pathfinding Immortal Realm.
From there, within a hundred years, she perfected and carved her own Dao and entered the Seamless Immortal Realm, becoming the youngest Immortal Monarch.
But progressing from the Seamless Immortal Realm into the Extremity Immortal Realm was not easy. It might have taken ngfei tens of thousands of years.
Of course, such speed would still be considered heaven-defying. Other Immortal Emperors needed over a hundred thousand years.
But thanks to a trendous stroke of luck, after participating in the Dragon Emperor clash, ngfei broke through and beca famous to the point that other realms and worlds heard of her na.
But that also ca with a weakness. Among all the Immortal Emperors and even so Immortal Monarchs, her heart and mind were lacking in comparison to her battle strength. This ant that certain soul techniques were especially effective against her.
And ngfei guessed that Emperor Soulfish used his clone as a catalyst to unleash a devastating soul technique against her and her fellow Immortal Emperors… and Cloud Goddess.
“Master.” The maid bowed to the man waiting at the grand hall. ngfei observed him.
He was almost two ters tall, with broad and dependable shoulders. He had a pleasant face with a scar on the side of his cheek and sported a small goatee. He looked about ten years ngfei’s senior based on appearance alone, but his body had not a hint of cultivation.
If you were to compare their real age, then ngfei would be over ten tis his senior.
“Dear.” ngfei flinched and stepped back when the man reached out with his hand, causing him to helplessly furrow his brows.
“After all these years, you still aren’t used to my touch?”
ngfei observed the man and found so slight similarities to her Emperor-Father, about twenty percent. Judging by his word and the maid’s action, he was likely her husband by all logic.
Had she stayed in the Xi Dynasty, perhaps she would have been married and gained a Prince Consort.
“Nevermind.” The man shook his head. “It’s fine. Eventually, you will understand my heart. Co, let us go visit Emperor-Father and Consort-Mother.”
At this ti, a small blur ran into the hall and crashed into ngfei. ngfei looked down and felt a pair of short arms wrap around her waist.
“Mother!”
ngfei found herself revealing a small smile when she saw who the small blur was. He had an adorable but immaculate face, but his most outstanding features were no doubt that pair of eyes that resembled hers so much.
“Yi’er.”
The blur, Tianyi, smiled rather foolishly. But there was no hiding the glimr of wisdom in those young eyes.
“Mother, hurry up. I haven’t seen Emperor-Grandfather and Consort-Grandmother in such a loooong ti!”
ngfei blinked. She was not used to Tianyi acting so spoiled, and before she realized it, she was in a black sandalwood carriage pulled by three pairs of horses on her way to the Imperial Palace.
“General Han! Mingzhu Princess!”
The palace guards saluted the group of three once they passed the gates. Three sedans were pulled up for ngfei, the man, and little Tianyi.
For them to use carried in sedans in the Imperial Palace spoke of great favor. Typically, only the highest ranked of the Emperor’s won were allowed to used sedans within the Imperial Palace. For ngfei, a wedded princess, and her husband and son to receive such treatnt spoke of great favor.
In her mories, she was just an ignored and unfavored princess. She hadn’t been given a title, and even if she reached of age, it was unlikely for her to receive a blessed title such as Radiant Pearl (Mingzhu) Princess.
But what shocked ngfei the most wasn’t the treatnt, but what the palace called her husband.
General Han.
Back when she was trapped in the hell that was the inner palace, she had heard of the na of the great General Han, Han Fei.
He was the great War God of the Xi Dynasty. His background was that of a commoner. But through his abilities, he rose teorically through the ranks and beca the supre commander of the Xi Dynasty Army.
The most important thing was that he was young when he attained the rank and enjoyed great trust from the Emperor. Those two factors were quite attractive to many unmarried females.
However, it was the third factor that made many heads over heels for him. Han Fei was a widower. His wife was the daughter of a low ranked official, but she tragically died while he was at war. Even so, he never remarried, citing his deep affection for his departed wife.
Thinking back, perhaps this was also the reason why the Emperor trusted Han Fei so much. With no sons or daughters and no longer marrying, Han Fei posed almost no threat to the Xi Imperial Family.
But back to the main point.
Han Fei’s fa was great to the point that even she, an isolated and unloved princess, had heard of him. She had heard rumors of how much he loved his deceased wife, including the woman who married him would be the most loved woman in the dynasty.
At that ti, ngfei imagined marrying him and finally being experienced what it ant to be loved.
As a woman of the dynasty, she had also been taught the three heavens. First heaven, her father, second heaven, her husband, and the third heaven, her son. It would be her duty to serve all three faithfully.
She thought that since her first heaven did not love, why not seek it out from her second? But before any of that could happen, she was discovered by her master and taken away to embark on the path of cultivation.
ngfei looked towards her son in this world. In contrast to the foolish expression he showed within the General Compound, Tianyi now sported a lofty and elegant bearing. ngfei allowed herself a slight smile that she did not realized she had at how so things never change before a thought struck her.
If she was married to Han Fei in this world, then didn’t that an Tianyi’s surna changed from Xi to Han?
Xi Tianyi
Han Tianyi.
ngfei frowned at the thought. She felt an unknown and unpleasant feeling well up in her chest. Her brows still furrowed, ngfei pushed down the unpleasant feeling.
The trio arrived at the Palace of Harmony, where the Emperor and Noble Consort waited.
“Subject greets the holy one.” Han Fei kneeled and greeted the Emperor.
“Subject-grandson greets the holy one.” Han Tianyi followed his father’s example.
The only one who didn’t kneel was ngfei. She stood with her back straight like the lofty Sword Empress she was. There was a deep unwillingness in her heart that ngfei herself didn’t understand.
After she had been taken away, she had never returned to the Xi Dynasty until her Emperor-Father passed away, so such a situation never occurred back in the real world. Her Emperor-Father may have passed away, but her Consort-Mother still lived.
But ngfei left before seeing her Consort-Mother. According to her Emperor-Brother, Consort-Mother lived to the age of ninety-three and was honored due to being ngfei’s mother.
The situation left ngfei feeling confused. She rembered how her Consort-Mother would say that she couldn’t live without Emperor-Father many tis. Yet when Emperor-Father died, her Consort-Mother enjoyed being the most honored woman of the Xi Dynasty for decades more.
“Quick, beloved subject and filial grandson, rise.” The Emperor laughed before looking at ngfei and sighing in helplessly. “Fei’er, you’re already a mother. Although we and your Consort-Mother don’t mind you acting willfully in private, you must rember the rules on official occasions.”
ngfei unknowingly curled her lips.
Willful, her?
Her days back then were saturated with rules to the point that it felt like she was an emotionless doll.
But despite all this, when ngfei looked at her imperial parents again. She felt a slight resentnt and anger, but more than that, she felt peacefulness.
ngfei knew this was all false. But that didn’t an her muted reaction to seeing her Emperor-Father and Consort-Mother didn’t surprise even herself. She watched on with emotionless eyes as her Emperor-Father and Consort-Mother interacted with her current family of three. Occasionally they would ask her opinion or converse with her, only to get muted replies. But none of them minded and seed used to it.
The Emperor kept ngfei and the two for lunch. Rather than an Emperor and his subjects, it seed more like a picture of a harmonious family. When they left, the Emperor bestowed many gifts for them to take ho, causing those onlookers to watch in envy at how favored Han Fei and ngfei were.
The next few days passed with relative normalcy as ngfei got accustod to her life in this false world. The experience resembled how she would experience countless different possible lives in her ditation.
When a Transcending Mortality Sage entered the Immortal Realm, he would be in the Pathfinding Immortal Realm. It was then that one truly began to comprehend and seek their own Dao, hence the na.
When one discovered their Dao, they would develop it until it beca seamless, hence the Seamless Immortal Realm.
To reach the Immortal Emperor level, they would have to push their Dao to the extre, hence the Extremity Immortal Realm. But for an Extremity Immortal to reach the next stage, the Origin Immortal Realm, they would need to experience different path lives.
ngfei had already experienced multiples of such lives. Yet this one was too unique as if all her innermost desires were granted. Despite experiencing such a perfect world, she could not bring herself to truly live within it. Yet, at the sa ti, she couldn’t bring herself to shatter such a world.
For ngfei, who had always been decisive, this was an unknown experience for her. A few months passed, and just as ngfei was about to shatter the false world, a change occurred.
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