877 Nice to Meet You, Wei Suifeng (1/2)
'Celestial Empress' sister… what is her corpse doing here?'
Qin Mu's mind was a blank, he could barely believe his eyes!
Celestial Empress' corpse was hidden on the ghost ship—Qin Mu's experience on the ghost ship was so bizarre that he would never be able to forget it.
To solve the mystery of the ghost ship, he had memorized every single detail of the ship and every cycle, so the memory of the ghost ship was abnormally vivid to him.
On the ghost ship, Celestial Empress and Jue Wuchen's corporeal bodies were both placed in the same coffin. Qin Mu had tried to summon Jue Wuchen's soul and found out that Jue Wuchen actually had no soul. She was a man-made beauty, a perfect woman that Celestial Venerable Ling had created using the technique of creation to get rid of the ancient Celestial Emperor.
Qin Mu then summoned Celestial Empress' soul only to shockingly find out that Celestial Empress wasn't dead and that she was still in this world!
After, he deduced the process of how Celestial Empress and her sister had joined forces with the Heaven Alliance to murder the ancient Celestial Emperor.
The two sisters had joined forces. The younger sister remained in the celestial heavens to keep the ancient Celestial Emperor in check, while Celestial Empress went back to her hometown to visit her relatives. While there, she made use of the nearby Dragon Count Country, allowing King Dragon Count to revolt and injure her, keeping her captive in the Ruins of End.
Celestial Emperor then ordered Wei Suifeng to lead the Feathered Forest Guards to suppress the rebellion. After rescuing Celestial Empress, the day before Wei Suifeng was set to return to the celestial heavens after quelling the rebellion, Celestial Empress was ambushed. The undercurrent spewed from the Ruins of End, two Celestial Empresses appeared in the night, and the real Celestial Empress perished.
Wei Suifeng retrieved the corpse of Celestial Empress and planned to return to the celestial heavens when he encountered Celestial Venerable Ling executing her powers on the celestial river. Wei Suifeng immediately used the fog to leave the Dragon Han Era and return to his own era. Meanwhile, the Feathered Forest Guards and the ship, through Celestial Venerable Ling's divine art, became the ghost ship that would end up traveling through time and space thirty-six times in cycles.
However, Celestial Empress wasn't dead. She had become Jue Wuchen.
The celestial heavens also announced that Celestial Empress hadn't perished. Qin Mu deduced that the Celestial Empress in the celestial heavens should be the younger sister of Celestial Empress.
Following this deduction, Celestial Empress and her sister were both involved in the plan to kill Celestial Emperor.
Yet, in front of him was the coffin of the younger sister of Celestial Empress, and her corpse was currently lying in the coffin!
What if, back then, Celestial Empress' younger sister hadn't stayed behind in the celestial heavens to restrain Celestial Emperor but had instead followed Celestial Empress to the Ruins of End and instigated Dragon Count Country to rebel. What if she then took the chance to get rid of her older sister but was instead killed by Celestial Empress?
The older sister then hid the younger sister's corpse within the Ruins of End. After, she pretended to have been ambushed, perishing in the process. She then let Wei Suifeng take her corpse to the celestial heavens, using the ghost ship to escape and finally transforming herself into Jue Wuchen.
Wei Suifeng had then realized something was fishy, and that the one who had really died was the sister of Celestial Empress. Therefore, he left a map behind to guide Qin Mu to uncover the truth.
'However, this guess has a loophole. That is, why did the celestial heavens announce that Celestial Empress didn't die?'
Qin Mu composed himself and fell into deep thought. 'The Celestial Empress in the celestial heavens is definitely one of the sisters. Which of them is it exactly? Perhaps there's another possibility, that both sisters schemed together. The younger sister pretended to ambush the older sister and killed her while everyone was watching. Then, the older sister faked her death and escaped, becoming Jue Wuchen, while the younger sister returned to the celestial heavens to become the legitimate Celestial Empress.'
'After the death of the ancient Celestial Emperor, Celestial Empress got rid of her younger sister and sent her corpse here to bury the truth! That was until Wei Suifeng came here and discovered the corpse of Celestial Empress' sister…'
'There are still areas that don't make sense! The corpses of the sisters, one is hidden in the ghost ship, and one is hidden in the Ruins of End… so who are they now? Is there still a Celestial Empress in the celestial heavens? Or could it be that Celestial Empress didn't kill her sister, that instead, both sisters are sharing the same body while remaining in the celestial heavens to control the corporeal body of Celestial Emperor?'
…
Qin Mu felt that his brain was about to explode, and he yelled out abruptly, ”Fatty Dragon, get down here and open the coffin!”
The dragon qilin trembled all over. He laid on the crystal coffin and didn't dare to move an inch. Qin Mu raised his hand to lift both him and the crystal coffin up. He then threw it to the side and, immediately after, executed the Overlord Body Three Elixir Technique.
Behind Qin Mu, the Gate of Heaven Influence emerged, yet what was peculiar was that the Gate of Heaven Influence was extremely faint—it faded in and out of existence and was completely unable to take shape!
Qin Mu's brows furrowed. The Ruins of End was extremely strange—it countered Youdu's divine arts, and he was unable to make use of the Soul Guide to check if Celestial Empress' sister was dead or alive.
'Wei Suifeng left the corpse of Celestial Empress' sister here as a precious artifact, could it be that he wants me to take this corpse out of here?'
His brows furrowed deeper, and he paced around the coffin as he looked at the corporeal body of Celestial Empress' sister within it in silence.
'Must I really take this with me?'
Suddenly, a monstrous water sound traveled in from outside. Qin Mu was taken aback. He walked out of the red palace with quick steps and raised his head to look outwards. The sound of water came from the sky outside, but it didn't reach the world within the flower.
'The celestial river was cut off, so where is this water noise coming from?'
Qin Mu was stumped. 'Could it be…'
At this very moment, a dense fog drifted through the sky, entering the world within the flower through the gaps and gradually filling up the entire flower world.
Yan'er was still fighting ferociously with the snake belle who was transformed from the stamens, and they faded in and out of visibility within the fog.
After a moment, the dense fog dissipated, and the sound of water also vanished. Suddenly, an extremely loud sound could be heard, and the world within the flower trembled violently. Following this, Qin Mu sensed that the two giant flowers were slowing rising upwards!
'These two flowers are about to rise out from the Ruins of End!'
Qin Mu's heart quivered slightly, and he immediately returned to the red palace, picking the dragon qilin up and pulling him off of the coffin.
Qin Mu covered up the crystal coffin. ”Fatty Dragon, stop shaking, I'll give you more meals. Hurry and call Sister Yan'er over. Let's leave this place while these two flowers are floating out of the abyss!”
The dragon qilin was invigorated, and he immediately dashed out of the red palace and scanned around his surroundings, yelling, ”Cult Master, the flower has opened up! Sister Yan'er and that ancient god have fought all the way into the dark world! It's too dark in there, I dare not enter!”
”Add two meals!”
The dragon qilin rushed into the dark world to search for Yan'er. Meanwhile, Qin Mu lifted up the crystal coffin and laughed. ”I don't know what kind of tricks Celestial Empress and her sister are playing, but once I carry this coffin out of here, I will know whether she is dead or alive…”
Just as he walked out of the red palace, a middle-aged man walked towards him. The man was dressed in rough clothes, looking travel-worn. He had big limbs and thick brows with big eyes, and on his waist was a belt made of rough weaving. In front of him floated a sheet of goatskin paper that moved as he moved.