Chapter 814: Jian Wushuangs Arrival (1/2)
Chapter 814: Jian Wushuang’s Arrival
After returning from the Ox-Herder’s imperial palace, Li Qiye had been staying at the Tie Clan the whole time. Outside of chanting to the old monument outside of the mansion, he had been training as well.
He would also occasionally teach the old turtle a thing or two about cultivation. Although the old turtle was a Heavenly Sovereign, calling his merit law as an indescribable, chaotic mess was not an exaggeration.
There was no other way. He was a vagabond cultivator with a lowly origin. His merit laws were all either stolen or found. Moreover, they weren’t great merit laws to begin with.
It could even be said that it was a miracle for him to reach his current level. Any other cultivator would have already suffered from qi deviation long ago.
Li Qiye could only make this comment: “You had a good river gestating you. If this wasn’t so, then you would have died countless times over.”
It was impossible for the old turtle to completely change his merit laws outside of completely restarting his cultivation, which required destroying his current dao foundation and cultivation. However, he was quite old. Destroying his cultivation was the same as taking his life. He would immediately die from old age, so Li Qiye could only mold his incorrect training methods.
As for Tie Lan, Li Qiye was too lazy to care about her. Whether she cultivated to enter the dao or not was not important to him. He had given her the merit law, the rest was up to her.
Tie Lan was also a cold person with an unyielding stubbornness. She remained unwelcoming towards Li Qiye’s stay at the Tie Clan and never gave him a friendly gaze. She never went to him to ask questions about cultivation either.
Of course, she was puzzled by Li Qiye’s actions. If, say, he was here for her clan’s treasures, then he should be searching around the Tie Clan. However, he didn’t try to search in any of the broken pavilions or buildings.
He only did one thing at the Tie Clan, preach at the ancient monument of their clan. This was quite ridiculous. Preaching an entire day to a monument — if any outsiders saw this, they would a.s.sume that he was mentally ill.
On one day, after finis.h.i.+ng his daily preaching, Tie Lan came. She looked at him a bit with her usual ice-cold demeanor: “Someone is here for you!”
Having said that, she stood to the side without saying anything else.
Jian Wushuang came in right after Tie Lan, still as beautiful and charming with that air of arrogant n.o.bility as always. No matter the time and location, she would resemble a phoenix showing off its most gorgeous feathers; no matter the time and location, she was always confident and arrogant like this.
This was Jian Wushuang. If there was one day when she didn’t display this imperious aura, she would cease to be herself!
Tie Lan couldn’t help but take a better look at Jian Wushuang. Although she was a mortal, she also had experience on the battlefield and had even become a general at a young age. Thus, she was naturally very confident as well.
However, Tie Lan’s cold and confident demeanor was overshadowed by Jian Wushuang’s temperament. She was inferior to Jian Wushuang in both looks and aura.
“You found me so quickly.” Li Qiye smiled; he was surprised to see Jian Wushuang here at the Beast Realm.
Jian Wushuang looked at him and said: “I have always valued time! When are we going to the Bi’an Beastworld?” She went straight to the point without any unnecessary blabbering.
“This matter can’t be rushed.” Li Qiye brought her into the Tie Clan. When there was only the two of them left in the room, he sat down and looked at her: “The pathway to the beastworld will take some time to open. But first, I need to touch your body a bit.”
“Touch my body?” Jian Wushuang immediately glared at him with her never-changing and aggressive demeanor. Of course, she didn’t misunderstand what he meant.
“Hmm, I’m afraid you won’t dare to face it.” Li Qiye touched his chin before speaking: “I have to let you know beforehand, this process is very painful. Will you be able to withstand it?”
“Just reveal the alteration.” She leered at him. In fact, back during her oath with Li Qiye, she was already mentally prepared.
Li Qiye slowly said: “In terms of physical conditions such as talents, apt.i.tude, and merit laws, very few youths can compare to you! However, I want to turn you into an unprecedented divine general, thus I will have to change you. Are you interested?”
“I suppose you can train me into an Immortal Emperor.” Jian Wushuang proudly smiled. [1. Left out one line here: “Her smile was still beautiful and charming as before”. We see this line a lot with female characters. I’m not sure if it adds anything at all. Do comment whether you want to see these lines kept in or omitted within reasons.]
Li Qiye’s initial annoyance at Jian Wushuang’s arrogance had turned into appreciation. He shook his head and smiled: “You are not only arrogant but ambitious as well! Alas, you were born in the wrong era since this Heaven’s Will belongs to me.”
“Then how about an existence capable of challenging Immortal Emperors?” Jian Wushuang aimed to challenge Li Qiye. Although she had pledged loyalty to him, it didn’t mean that she couldn’t challenge him.