Chapter 478 - Shen and Shang (1/2)

It was too intense, way too intense.

Chi Xue had just expressed her discontent right in front of Western Mother Empress's face, flagrantly revealing her dangerous ambition without any veneers or flowery words!

If Western Mother Empress wanted, Chi Xue could be killed with just the snap of a finger!

It was rather tensed inside of Chi Xue's palace.

Zhong Yue had been holding a tensed heart, he was concerned of Chi Xue's safety.

After the death of the other heiresses, the loss of the Peaches of Immortality and the Mother Empress's impending death, it was true that Chi Xue was now the only choice that the Western Mother Empire had to succeed the throne, but…

This was the Western Mother Empress they were talking about!

The overlord that command the entire Kun Lun Realm!

No one in Kun Lun dared to defy her words, and no one dared to go against her. This was not to mention threatening her!

For an existence such as her, the Western Mother Empress's emotions were unpredictable. Even though Chi Xue might seem to have the upper hand now, she was, in fact, in a more precarious position than ever!

Every word that came out of her mouth could potentially cause the empress to lash out. She was venting out all of her dissatisfaction and disappointment at the empress. Zhong Yue knew it very well in his heart, after all, it was he who killed everyone that Chi Xue was claiming to have killed!

He was even the main architect of Shang Qing's death!

For Chi Xue to take all the responsibility of his actions onto herself could only mean that she wanted to protect Zhong Yue or trigger a reaction from the Western Mother Empress!

She wanted to be acknowledged by the empress; she had cultivated hard, doing everything she could just so she could further increase her cultivation base. She had become the most prominent star of the whole Western Mother Celestial Race, even opening the sixth secret realm, achieving what not even her their ancestors could.

Yet, what she got from the empress she respected most were qualms and reservations. She felt wronged but continued to try her best to earn her acknowledgment. She entered the Returning Ruins and sought to bring the best Peaches of Immortality back to her empress.

But the series of events inside of the Returning Ruins had caused her bottled up emotions to spiral out of control, and somewhen in the Returning Ruins, hatred began to burgeon in the deepest parts of her heart, only growing stronger with every event that had recently transpired.

The palace then turned quiet and oppressive as how it was seconds ago.

After a long time, Western Mother Empress finally broke the oppressing silence, she sighed and said, "You have still said out your heart. You are more talented, stronger, and better; no matter in what aspects, you are stronger than everyone else and that you are the rightfully the best heiresses to the throne. But do you know why I chose them but not you?"

Chi Xue nodded puzzingly, emotions started to falter from her eyes and she slowly regained her usual composure.

Western Mother Empress said placidly, "Because I want to live again, I still want to be the Western Mother Empress when I resurrect."

Chi Xue was startled and so was Zhong Yue, this was an answer completely out of their expectations.

Western Mother Empress continued, "Be it Qing'er, Yun'er or Yue'er, none of them were the best candidate to be the next Western Mother Empress. Even Shang Qing wasn't considered as the best. Although he was the Moon Innate Spirit Body and had the Twin Spirits, his prowess was on par with yours, but his temperament was lacking. Hesitation and indecision always held him down. He takes way too many things into considerations and was too weak to make a decision when it was needed. He is not fit to be a ruler at all.

"But you are different — decisive, smart, intelligent, and calm. You can come out with many solutions even in the most perilous situation and make the best decision out of the limited choices. In addition to your incredible talents, you will make a great empress. But at the same time, you are the biggest obstacle to reclaiming the throne.

"Because you are too remarkable, you as an empress, will never give me even with a chance to revive. When the throne is passed into your hands, you will be the greatest empress in the history of the whole Western Mother Empire. I will never able to reclaim the throne from your hands and the best outcome I can have is to act as a guardian spirit to the Western Mother Empire. That's why, I won't pass the throne to you."

Chi Xue was completely stunned, she mumbled, "But you are an existence who is even listed in the Legendary Board, while I'm only in the sixth place of the Godlike Board. If you are to revive into a second life, I won't be possibly be of your match…"

The empress then shook her head and answered, "How old was I back then and how old are you now? The Legendary Board is already the limit to my potential but you are still young, your potential is yet to come to a limit. You can still climb, till one day, you will be stronger than my peak days.

"But the main reason is the sixth secret realm you have opened. The opening of the sixth secret realm will connect the mortal body and Yuan Shen together, allowing the two to share a balanced lifespan. I'm only ten thousand years of age and death is already upon me. But with the sixth secret ream, you can live for at least 50,000 years. If I want to revive into a second life and become the empress again, I will have to wait for when the death arrives at your doorstep. But that is too long, far too long for me; by then, even my spirit would have dispersed into thin air already. But if I chose Shang Qing, Chi Qing, or anyone else, I can easily take back my throne in the snap of a finger at anytime I desire so."

Western Mother Empress breathed a long sigh, she said, "But I can't if the throne is in your hands. Fifty thousand years of time, it is more than enough for you to surpass my achievements as a cultivator, as well as an empress! Thus, this is why I will never choose you."

Chi Xue raised her brows, and a bitter smile spread across her face as she said, "Are you explaining all of this to me so that I can die in peace?"

Western Mother Empress had explained everything to Chi Xue, which could only mean that she intended to kill Chi Xue!

As soon as Western Mother Empress started explaining, Chi Xue knew very well of her end already.

However, Western Mother Empress suddenly shook her head and said, "No, I will not. Because you are right, I have no other options left, you've killed every potential competitor and shortened my time. If I kill you today, the Western Mother Empire will collapse right after my death. Every single effort our ancestors have poured in to build this empire will be taken to ground overnight. So, from today onwards, I will take you under me and teach you the way of how an empress should act and behave. You will be nurtured as the next Western Mother Empress. After all, I have no other options left."

Chi Xue was quiet, she didn't know what to say nor how to react.

"Now, I've just taught you your first lesson as the Western Mother Empress." Western Mother Empress turned around and walked toward the palace door as she said in her usual placid, hoary tone, "As the Western Mother Empress, you can have all the wild ambitions and greed you want, you can kill your sisters who eyed your throne; you can kill your daughters, your descendants and anyone else, but these can only be your second priority. Your first priority shall always be the Western Mother Celestial Race! The purity of the royal family is the most important and every other thing else can only be placed behind it!"

Chi Xue's heart shuddered violently, even Zhong Yue who was at the back palace was stunned.