Chapter 513 - 255: The Heavenly Emperor’s Decree (Part 2)

Chapter 513: Chapter 255: The Heavenly Emperor’s Decree (Part 2)

But the one brought to Jiang Yiyi was given to her personally by two good sisters. Could they really have made a mistake? Or was it intentional?

Chu Xuan suddenly remembered rumors from his past life, like "four people in a girls’ dorm have six chat groups" or something like that, all involving scheming and plotting.

With Jiang Yiyi’s naive character, she seemed too easy to deceive. It wasn’t impossible for her "good sisters" to have schemed against her.

The only problem is, if Jiang Yiyi was really "sent down by heavenly decree," her friends daring to secretly trip her up would be incredibly audacious.

Chu Xuan voiced his speculations, and Jiang Yiyi listened in disbelief, shaking her head repeatedly, "Impossible. Ah Xuan and I have a great relationship; she wouldn’t intentionally harm me."

"Unless," Jiang Yiyi hesitated, "she did it for my own good..."

Chu Xuan’s eyes narrowed, meaning that in her friend’s view, Jiang Yiyi living untroubled in the mortal realm might be better than obsessing over "saving the human world."

Plus, there’s evidence—Jiang Yiyi’s forgotten memories are just those from the Heavenly Court, while her memories from cultivating on Earth remain, allowing her to connect easily with the disciples there.

If it was accidental ingestion, it couldn’t have been this coincidental, could it? Clearly this "Ah Xuan" did it on purpose.

If this is true, secretly making maneuvers against the higher-ups is a pretty bold move.

Jiang Yiyi clearly thought of this possibility too, feeling a bit worried, "If it was intentional, Ah Xuan broke heavenly rules—is she going to be arrested?"

Chu Xuan frowned, "Yiyi, be honest with me. What exactly does the Heavenly Court want you to do, that your friend keeps trying to thwart you?"

"I told you, just managing natural disasters, don’t overthink it." Jiang Yiyi’s eyes darted around, avoiding Chu Xuan’s gaze.

She wasn’t good at lying, or else her first words should have been to correct his title for her.

Chu Xuan didn’t expose her lie, instead patiently asking, "But Xiang’er said that even though you’ve done your best, you still can’t stop the disasters. What’s the Heavenly Court’s actual plan?"

Jiang Yiyi shook her head, "It seems difficult now because my internal power hasn’t been fully unsealed. Once my immortal skills are back, dealing with disasters will be a piece of cake!"

She said confidently, hands on her hips.

"Then why were your powers sealed?" Chu Xuan calmly pointed out this question, which Jiang Yiyi had deliberately avoided earlier.

Jiang Yiyi hesitated, shaking her head, "It’s a Heavenly Court secret, I can’t say."

"And the use of that stone?"

Jiang Yiyi lowered her head, clutching her clothes, her voice as soft as a mosquito’s buzz, "That can’t be said either."

It wasn’t that she was shy, just that her refusal to speak made her seem distrustful toward Chu Xuan, making her feel guilty.

Chu Xuan was silent for a moment, then hugged his teacher closely, whispering in her ear:

"If you die, I’ll be really upset."

Jiang Yiyi’s eyes reddened at his words, her nose tingling as she held back tears, choking on her words in Chu Xuan’s arms:

"Don’t speak nonsense. Your teacher is an immortal with divine techniques, sharing the heavens’ lifespan and shining with the sun and moon. How could I die?"

"Little guy, stop overthinking. You’re making me feel... feel like crying..."

"Nothing’s gonna happen, nothing to anyone. Just leave it to me."

Chu Xuan could see Jiang Yiyi’s determination, so he didn’t press further, only bending down to kiss away her tears.

"There, there, don’t cry. It wouldn’t look good if you cry yourself into a big tabby cat."

Jiang Yiyi pouted, "You’re the big tabby cat~"

"Let’s talk about something else. Are Mengyao and the junior brother also involved in that heavenly salvation plan?"

Jiang Yiyi seemed confused, "I don’t know. The orders I received didn’t include that part."

"But, but the Seven Killing Stele is a treasure with deep karmic ties, embodying the Killing Dao, emerging from the Netherworld Blood Sea, with imagery of ’ultimate destruction.’"

"Its original owner, the Killing Daoist, was a Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, essentially a Saint."

"He’s long left this universe, rumored to be traveling beyond the heavens."

"The Seven Killing Stele was his Dao-proving artifact, and I didn’t expect it to still exist in the human realm, let alone being wielded by someone as junior as Mengyao."

"Logically, even if her will was firm and her destiny marked by disaster stars, she still shouldn’t be able to handle this treasure."

Chu Xuan was shocked, realizing the Stele’s background was grander than he imagined.

Even though during the Ancient Primordial Era, when the Killing Daoist wielded it, he hadn’t proven his Dao, it was still an innate treasure used by a Saint.

This made Chu Xuan worry more. The imagery of ’ultimate destruction’ seemed irrelevant to salvation; was the plan for the senior sister to obliterate disasters completely?

Yet, collapsing heavens and splitting earth was symptomatic—could the Stele annihilate that?

"As for Ye Xingming..." Jiang Yiyi furrowed her brow, "I can almost confirm now he’s an immortal reincarnated."

"And he’s gone through numerous cycles, not just someone who was an immortal in his past life."

Chu Xuan was thoughtful. His junior brother, who used to claim he was the "Child of Destiny," now seemed it might be true.

"I don’t know which immortal Ye Xingming was, but I used divine techniques to deduce his origins recently."

"His Emperor’s Heart Sword Body is a clue, possibly pointing to a Sword Immortal, but as I calculated, I found his lineage bears traces connecting to you."

Chu Xuan was confused, "Me? What does it have to do with me? You’re not suggesting I’m an immortal reincarnate too, are you?"

Jiang Yiyi rolled her eyes, "I’m talking about traces of Time Dao laws on you."

"How did you, by what means, achieve time reversal on your body?"

"I suspect it’s related to the junior brother."

Chu Xuan’s expression changed! He murmured, "Could there really be such coincidence?"

Jiang Yiyi perked up, clinging to Chu Xuan excitedly, "Tell me, tell me."

So Chu Xuan spoke of the Sun and Moon Time Ruler, especially how he obtained it on the Ancient Battlefield.

Jiang Yiyi pondered after hearing, "So, you suspect Ye Xingming’s lineage goes back to that ancient immortal who died in the Dao-Demon war?"

"Yes, he was called Huaguang, and the inscriptions he left on his cave’s stone wall contained a fierce Sword Intent, undiminished after millennia."

"That matches up with the junior brother’s amazing Sword Dao talent."

Chu Xuan remembered another detail, "This Huaguang Immortal once asked me to visit the Underworld and ask a Ferryman on the River of Forgetfulness if she still resented him?"

"Later, I think I went, and the Ferryman, a woman, didn’t seem to resent him anymore, even reincarnating to find Huaguang herself. I even wished them a chance to meet in centuries to come."

"What do you mean, think and seem?" Jiang Yiyi didn’t understand.

Chu Xuan tapped his forehead wearily, "My memory isn’t completely restored. This part is missing—I deduced it from the inscriptions I left on the stone wall."

Jiang Yiyi’s expression was complicated, "Are you saying that might be..."

"Zhang Ping’er?!" They both said simultaneously.

This female cultivator from the Heavenly Ruin was the one that caught the notoriously indifferent Ye Xingming’s interest at first sight.