Xue Tu’s expression was odd. He found Zhang Ruochen and spoke hesitantly. “Master has come to Destiny Divine Domain.”
“You mean Mother?” Zhang Ruochen asked.
Xue Tu nodded. “The internal matters of the Undying Blood Clan are settled. Here in Destiny Divine Domain, this has become the greatest affair for the Xue Jue family! I cannot keep handling everything alone as the junior brother. An elder must come to preside.”
Since the wedding between Zhang Ruochen and Wu Yue was set, Zhang Ruochen had not appeared. Xue Tu had been running around on all sides.
Zhang Ruochen did not ask about the clan’s internal affairs. “Take me to see Mother!”
…
Since the wedding ceremony was to be held on Destiny Divine Mountain, Zhang Ruochen needed at least a proper mansion in Destiny Divine Domain, did he not?
These days, Xue Tu had been managing exactly that.
Zhang Ruochen’s mansion was expanded from the original Han Hai Manor in Han Ye City Domain, now more than ten times larger.
At the manor’s centre stood a majestic temple a thousand zhang high. Crimson divine jade formed the pillars, dragon bones the flying eaves. The walls were divine wood painted with heavenly charts, the tiles gold-patterned dark iron.
In the grounds, primordial sacred trees were everywhere.
In the lakes, sacred springs sparkled, ripples spreading.
The artificial mountains were indistinguishable from divine peaks. Waterfalls cascaded, seven-coloured flowers bloomed across the cliffs.
After the Hunting Heaven Battle, returning to Han Hai Manor again, Zhang Ruochen was secretly shocked. He found it hard to believe.
This was no longer merely a manor.
An ordinary great divinity’s cave heaven divine mansion would not match this scale and luxury.
Zhang Ruochen’s gaze turned strange as he looked at Xue Tu.
Xue Tu felt his scalp prickle under the stare. “Senior brother, you know how long junior brother has cultivated, how much wealth I have. Even if I poured everything in, I could never build such a mansion.”
Zhang Ruochen gave a cold laugh.
Xue Tu hurriedly added. “I only mentioned outside that I was building a mansion for senior brother and Hall Master Wu Yue, and was very short of divine stones. Then the divinities of hell realm sent treasures one after another. Especially the divinities of the Rakshasa and Undying Blood clans. Some came in person to Destiny Divine Domain, hoping to pay respects to senior brother!”
“Look at that Dust Heart Bright Moon Divine Temple. It surpasses the Seven Stars Imperial Palace by who knows how many grades. Divine arrays protect it, containing a universe inside. The materials used to refine this temple, by my rough calculation, even if I struggled for three hundred thousand years, I could not refine it.”
“Senior brother, marrying one person saves three hundred thousand years of struggle. Junior brother is truly envious.”
Zhang Ruochen asked. “Who sent it?”
“Treasures of this level, who would willingly give them? Naturally only Hall Master Wu Yue would take it out. After all, we will be family. Worthy of being a foremost figure in the worlds today.” Xue Tu sighed.
Arriving below the temple, they saw the plaque gleaming with divine light, bearing the four characters “Dust Heart Bright Moon”.
Dragon flying, phoenix dancing, each character like a sword.
Zhang Ruochen merely gazed at them, and felt four sword techniques slashing through the air. His heart shook, his divine soul surged.
“These characters were personally bestowed by Xu Tian. Such favour, cultivators across the worlds envy it.” Xue Tu said.
Along the way, Zhang Ruochen sensed all around. He found this temple truly extraordinary. Not only was the layout filled with beauty, carved railings, painted pillars, hanging scrolls and paintings, glazed lamps, but the defensive power hidden within was also remarkable. Even an Immeasurable realm striking would find it no easy task to shatter.
Wu Yue was indeed powerful, but could she refine such a temple?
Blood Empress sat at the highest position in the temple. Xia Yu stood beside her.
Below, Wu Yue sat in the foremost seat on the right. She wore heavenly venerable treasure gauze, starlight shimmering around her. Veiled, serene as water, she bore no trace of sinister aura. Elegant and beautiful, yet hidden in misty space, carrying an alluring mysterious charm.
Below her, the divinities of Spirit God Hall sat in order. Each possessed powerful mental power. There were Nether, Ghost, and Death clans, even a Rakshasa woman.
Though Blood Empress sat highest, in aura and presence, Wu Yue was unquestionably supreme.
Even though she appeared delicate and gentle!
The moment Zhang Ruochen entered, the divinities of Spirit God Hall immediately rose. As if rehearsed, they all bowed to him and said in unison. “We pay respects to Realm Venerable Ruochen.”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised. His gaze fell on Wu Yue. She smiled as she looked at him.
An unknowing cultivator present would truly believe the two were deeply in love, about to become newlyweds.
Zhang Ruochen ignored the bowing Dark Temple divinities. He bowed to Blood Empress and asked. “How long has Mother been in Destiny Divine Domain?”
“Just arrived not long ago. I have already visited your father on Destiny Divine Mountain!” Then Blood Empress beckoned Zhang Ruochen to sit quickly. She showed no divine aura, her eyes full of maternal love.
In truth, among divinities, Blood Empress counted as very young!
Zhang Ruochen sat in the first seat on the left, opposite Wu Yue. “What were you discussing? Has Hall Master Wu Yue been in Destiny Divine Domain these past months?”
Wu Yue’s voice was sweet, like pearls falling on jade. “Naturally I have. After all, you have been in secluded cultivation. The industries of the Twelve Divine Maiden Pavilions and Xue Jue family in Destiny Divine Domain need someone to manage. You must know that, before this, both the Twelve Divine Maiden Pavilions and Xue Jue family industries suffered devastating blows.”
“How could I trouble you with this?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Wu Yue said. “There was no choice. The forces that seized the Twelve Divine Maiden Pavilions and Xue Jue family industries were all tough bones. But no matter how tough, they have all been cracked. They paid the price they deserved. This is the fate of opposing our family!”
Xue Tu recalled something. His gaze towards Wu Yue revealed deep fear.
Three months ago, he had personally witnessed the battle between Wu Yue and Ghost Master in the Divine Maiden Tower of Destiny Divine Domain.
Just because Ghost Master refused to hand over the tower, the cultivators of Earth Fiend Ghost City inside were slaughtered clean. Even Earth Fiend Ghost City’s industries in Destiny Divine Domain were nearly wiped out.
In the end, Ghost Master himself acted, yet was humiliated instead, forced to crawl out of the Divine Maiden Tower. A laughingstock, losing all face.
Xue Tu naturally knew Ghost Master had fallen to illusion.
But for an existence like Ghost Master to fall victim, did that not mean Wu Yue could act freely below Immeasurable realm with illusion alone?
A divinity so humiliated would rather die.
Zhang Ruochen asked. “Has Hall Master Wu Yue recovered her memory?”
Wu Yue shook her head gently. “Though memory has not returned, with help from senior and junior brothers in Dark Temple, I have learned much of the past. Whether memory returns or not is no longer important!”
“Since we are family now, let past grudges drift away with the wind! What does Ruochen think?”
Since both were pretending, Zhang Ruochen said. “Fine!”
“Yushi and Dark Divine Maiden are with you, correct? Since we are family, can you release them?” Wu Yue continued. “If Ruochen truly likes them, you may keep them by your side.”
Zhang Ruochen looked towards Blood Empress.
Blood Empress said. “Wu Yue helped your grandfather greatly! Your grandfather’s view is that, since marriage is set, we are family. No need for conflict over small matters. Family harmony is most important. Do not let outsiders laugh.”
Zhang Ruochen felt strange inside. He had not expected Grandfather to think this way. Did he perhaps wish for great-grandchildren?
But Wu Yue helping Grandfather greatly was beyond Zhang Ruochen’s expectations.
Zhang Ruochen opened his palm. Space rippled in his hand. He released Yushi and Dark Divine Maiden.
“We pay respects to Master.”
“We pay respects to Hall Master.”
The two women bowed to Wu Yue.
Wu Yue nodded lightly. Divine light flew from her eyes, severing the restrictions in their bodies. Then she said. “The Dark Divine Sword is with you too, correct?”
“No!” Zhang Ruochen said.
Wu Yue’s beautiful eyes held mist as she gazed at him for a while. “Good then. I thought Frost City Demon died by your hand!”
“I only recently reached great divinity level. With the Yin Yang Eighteen Bureaus you helped refine for me, and the Sword Ancestor sword soul, I can indeed handle ordinary Taibai realm great divinities. But how could I kill Frost City Demon?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Yushi and Dark Divine Maiden knew nothing of outside events. Seeing Wu Yue and Zhang Ruochen sitting together so amicably, discussing sensitive topics like the Dark Divine Sword and Frost City Demon’s death in harmonious atmosphere, both felt it bizarre.
Wu Yue said. “I hear you offended Shen Tu Ghost Emperor?”
Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly. “It seems this Ghost Emperor, though high in cultivation, is truly not broad-minded.”
What happened in Angry Heaven Divine Palace, Ban Ruo, Que, and Kong Dao Hai could never have spread the news.
Yet Wu Yue knew so quickly.
No need to guess who did it.
Wu Yue said. “It is no great matter. You are now Tian Lao’s divine envoy, favoured by Xu Tian, backed by Xing Huan Tian’s Nine Heavens predecessors, and with Dark Temple as support. A mere Shen Tu Ghost Emperor, how dare he touch you?”
“I am merely curious why he is hostile towards me?” Zhang Ruochen said.
“That I do not know! Many things in this world have no reason.”
Wu Yue rose to leave. Recalling something, she said. “You are very short of divine stones?”
Not only did opening the sundial require divine stones.
With Zhang Ruochen’s current cultivation, secluded cultivation itself consumed vast divine stones.
A mid-god in seclusion for a thousand years consumed over ten thousand divine stones.
For Zhang Ruochen in seclusion a thousand years, a hundred thousand would far from suffice.
To defeat Hai Shang You Ruo was no thousand-year task. Zhang Ruochen had prepared for ten thousand years of cultivation on Destiny Divine Mountain. A million divine stones truly was not much.
Zhang Ruochen said. “I am not short of divine stones.”
Wu Yue said. “A Taibai realm great divinity’s divine source sold for only a million divine stones. Too low! If you hand Cang Changji to me, I will surely sell him for a high price.”
Cang Changji was Li Yuan Heavenly God’s junior brother, a Taiyi realm great divinity. On the way to Destiny Divine Domain, Zhang Ruochen had captured him.
Zhang Ruochen pondered briefly, released Cang Changji, and handed him to Wu Yue. His lips moved, but in the end he said nothing.
Wu Yue bowed slightly to Blood Empress, then led the Spirit God Hall divinities away from Dust Heart Bright Moon Divine Temple.
