549 Epilogueception 3 Friday and Liu Yang (1/2)
= Friday / Dong Bai =
The empress duties drove Dong Bai nuts. Never in her wildest dream did she expect the job would be so busy to the point that she had to work from 4AM to 8PM.
More cultivators brought more trouble. Senseless killing and power abusing were everywhere, and Dong Bai was tired of keeping tabs on all civilians.
Dong Bai couldn't help but scold Tong every time that she found him slacking or mating with other concubines in the daytime.
Unfortunately, Tong was a sly pervert. He partook of Dong Bai and turning the activities into 3P or 4P, depending on which partner he was doing. Most of the time, Guo Jia, Zhuge Liang, Jia Xu, Lu Zhi, and other civil officers had to clean up the mess and the jobs, left behind by their empress and emperor.
Fortunately, Li Feihong was there to solve everything. Most of Dong Bai and Tong's tasks were shoved to this poor man.
After a year of pressure, Dong Bai finally rearranged and abolished some of her duties. Several superstitious traditional ceremonies were axed, but some creative ones remained. Half of the document jobs were assigned to power-hungry officials, who were fighting for influence, such as Zhuge Liang, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Ju Shou, Xun Yu, or Xu Shu.
Although this move was risky since they could wield too much authority, the same as the 10 eunuchs and emperor Ling, Dong Bai wasn't afraid of them. After all, Tong had the system in his control. The entire universe was his.
The men also understood this point. Moreover, everyone was busy finding faults of their rivals, so they were careful not to show a slight weakness to others.
The job handover went well. Dong Bai freed up 10-hour worth of daily work within one go.
She visited Tong and wanted to brag about it. But then, she realized that Tong only worked one hour a day for years since he came back from Lilim's dimension.
Getting angry by her lazy husband, Dong Bai assigned the rest of her remaining duties to him and forced him to work in the throne room. She forbade Tong from having outdoor sex with any concubine until he finished his daily work.
The trick worked like a charm. Aside from diplomacy meetings, ceremonies, or official visits, Tong finished 5 hours-worth of daily jobs within one hour every day so that he could get more time with his wives and families.
Dong Bai got the boon as she didn't have to work anymore. She also conspired with her mother, Medusa, to increase her night visit schedules.
In the end, she got the rare once-a-week tier with Tong. On the bed, Dong Bai was always the attacker, but she always passed out when Tong got serious.
A side note, half of Dong Bai's children were cursed children. Tong bestowed Dong Bai [Private Dimension] skill to store these troublemakers, but Dong Bai refused.
She transferred all her children to Lilim's dimension. The monster gangs mixed in and played together, becoming the same family.
When the multi-dimensional gate opened, Dong Bai wanted to enter it right away, but she was stopped by Diaochan.
Tong, Dong Bai, and Diaochan confronted the outsider, a gigantic dragon that stood several kilometers tall. However, they didn't fight.
Tong and the dragon seemed to know each other, but Friday and Medusa didn't remember where they met. They asked Tong, but he never told them anything.
The dragon invited them to a higher dimension and participated in a big event, called [Heavenly Dragon Gathering Festival]. It explained complicated rules and rewards that Dong Bai got confused about.
Still, she remembered a few rewards that caught her attention.
Universe Administration System
It seemed that administrator authority was a commodity, and the higher beings were treating them as rewards.
Tong and Diaochan asked something about universe size, upgrades, karma, and stability assistance tools, but Dong Bai couldn't understand anything.
Dong Bai wasn't so fond of this [Higher Being Competition Event], so she advised Tong and Diaochan to turn the invitation down. Tong also agreed with her and turned it down.
Unfortunately, before Tong could hand over the invitation card back to the dragon, Diaochan took it and expressed that she wanted to join.
Dong Bai doubted her mother for a moment. For a second, her eyes looked malicious as if she wanted to kill someone. Dong Bai discovered later that the dragon relayed the news about Morning Star's fate to Diaochan, which angered her as well.
In the end, Tong, Li Feihong, Diaochan, Liu Yang, Sun Shangxiang, Zhang Min, and Zhang Ying followed after the outsider dragon into the dimensional rift.
Dong Bai stayed behind to take care of Tong's empire as usual.
But that day became Dong Bai's greatest nightmare. Many years later, she cursed herself from letting Tong and others attending the event. It wasn't something that they should have participated in.
Li Feihong, Medusa, Zhang Min, Zhang Ying, Sun Shangxiang, and Liu Yang returned with heavy injuries all over their bodies. However, Zhang Tong never returned.
Zhang Min cried as she told Dong Bai the sad news.
Zhang Tong had been killed by the creator!
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= Liu Yang =
Aside from the usual once-a-week duty, Liu Yang's life was dull and boring.
Her strength boosted to 10 wings, but she got stuck there because of the oath she had with Medusa.
Since she had free time, Liu Yang tried to practice double cultivating by trying to awake a demon wing, as trained by Medusa.
One day, Liu Yang's doubt of Medusa's knowledge. The latter seemed to know something that nobody else knew. Thus, Liu Yang jested that Medusa was in the middle of transmigrating inception or an otherworlder of a higher dimension other than the Netherworld or some sort.