997 Celestial Venerable Mus Manor (1/2)

Divine King Lang Wo was frustrated. 'Why does everyone say I'm Jue Wuchen?'

After all, she was the masters of creation's divine king and had little contact with the outside world. However, as the only divine king of the masters of creation and a being on par with Founding Emperor, she was cunning and deep. Although she was frustrated, she never said it.

As soon as Heavenly Lady Qiang spoke, she knew she shouldn't have, as it revealed a lot of information about her.

She shut up and fell into silence.

Qin Mu was stunned, and waves flooded his brain. He also went silent.

Only the select few who participated in the ambush to kill the ancient Celestial Emperor, such as the Heaven Alliance leaders and Celestial Emperor himself, knew about Jue Wuchen.

Back then, the Heaven Alliance wanted to work together to deal with Celestial Emperor, which led to them recruiting a complex task force to do so. Outside of the original Celestial Venerables, leaders of the half-gods, the son of Heaven Duke, the daughter of Earth Count, and even Celestial Emperor were involved.

However, not many people should have such a large reaction to Jue Wuchen. Outside of Celestial Empress and Mistress Yuanmu, the most likely person would be Celestial Emperor!

It would be interesting if Heavenly Lady Qiang was Celestial Emperor.

Qin Mu immediately thought about a possibility in the Dragon Han Celestial Heavens back then. Celestial Emperor might have split part of his soul to become Heavenly Lady Qiang, infiltrating his harem to prevent Celestial Empress from gathering the power of the harem and growing too powerful. After all, that could have threatened his rule.

He saw how Celestial Empress and Mistress Yuanmu caused trouble in his harem as Heavenly Lady Qiang.

When he went down and reincarnated to put down the Jue Wuchen that Mistress Yuanmu created, Heavenly Lady Qiang stayed in the harem.

Then, his corporeal body was in the celestial heavens as well. However, it was hollow without Celestial Emperor's primordial spirit.

Mistress Yuanmu and the Heaven Alliance then took out the reincarnated Celestial Emperor and excommunicated his soul. After that, Celestial Venerable Yun, Celestial Venerable Hao, and Mistress Yuanmu's Jue Wuchen rushed to the celestial heavens to try and steal his corporeal body.

These were things that Qin Mu already knew.

'What if they found out that Celestial Emperor's corporeal body had already been controlled when they rushed into the celestial heavens to control it?'

Qin Mu blinked. 'What if the one who controlled it was Heavenly Lady Qiang?'

Who was the third-party winner then?

Of course, it was only a theory. However, he was certain that if the ancient Celestial Emperor wanted to maintain his rule back then, he would have left someone behind to protect his corporeal body.

The simplest route was to leave a part of himself in his harem. Thus, that part of his soul could be hiding in the harem.

As such, Heavenly Lady Qiang and Heavenly Lady Yan could be Celestial Emperor. Given the former's surprised reaction to Divine King Lang Wo, the probability was high.

'Besides that, there was also something else—Celestial Venerable Hao's biological father.'

Qin Mu's gaze stayed on Heavenly Lady Qiang with his usual smile as he thought, 'Celestial Emperor might have fallen for Yuanmu. He might have wanted to give birth to a half-god to find a way to extend the longevity of half-gods, so he reincarnated. Becoming a human, he gave birth to a half-god, Celestial Venerable Hao, with Mistress Yuanmu, who was an ancient god. After giving birth to him, what happened to that version of him? Does it still exist? Is he hiding in the ten Celestial Venerables? If he is still here, Celestial Emperor wouldn't need Heavenly Lady Qiang or Heavenly Lady Yan, he would only need to leave a soul in that form.'

Celestial Venerable Hao's biological father had always been a secret. The only person who knew the real identity of the reincarnated Celestial Emperor was probably Mistress Yuanmu.

If Mistress Yuanmu exposed the identity of Celestial Emperor's reincarnation, her own identity would be exposed. This allowed them to maintain a delicate balance where their identities remained a secret.

In Celestial Emperor's chambers of concubines, Qin Mu, Heavenly Lady Qiang, and Divine King Lang Wo looked at each other in silence. The atmosphere was tense.

Only Divine King Shu Jun didn't care about the situation. He looked around and asked, ”This is Celestial Emperor's chambers of concubines? No wonder it smells so good.”

His words awakened the three of them.

Qin Mu's smile became more honest as he paid his respects to Heavenly Lady Qiang. He politely said, ”I pay my respects to you, Heavenly Lady Qiang. I have been here for so long, yet I was always busy, making me unable to see you. Please forgive me.”

Heavenly Lady Qiang returned the ceremony and smiled. ”Celestial Venerable Mu, you are too modest. I have been here for so long, yet I haven't visited you. You should be the one forgiving me.”

They kept their doubts to themselves, and everything they said was formalities.

Qin Mu said, ”We accidentally intruded. Luckily, we met you, or else we would have been in big trouble.”

Heavenly Lady Qiang laughed. ”The roads here crisscross a lot and are quite confusing. It's reasonable that you would accidentally intrude here, considering you don't know the way. If you can't find your way out, I will order people to lead you out.”

Qin Mu thanked her, and Heavenly Lady Qiang smiled back. ”A pleasure to help. I heard that you went on an expedition in the Great Void to find Carefree Village. There have been a lot of rumors claiming you died there with the whole army gone. I didn't think you would come back alive and enter here. Could the people with you be from Carefree Village?”

Qin Mu laughed. ”Of course not. You seem to recognize my sister, though? Have you two met?”

Heavenly Lady Qiang shallowly smiled. ”We have not. Celestial Venerable Mu, you haven't come here.”

Qin Mu smiled. ”I haven't seen you either.”

Heavenly Lady Qiang nodded and clapped. Two palace maids came. She whispered to them, and they nodded before gently saying, ”Please follow us, precious guests.”

They led them away. Heavenly Lady Qiang sent them off before frowning and whispering, ”Which one of the two wretches is she? This is strange, too strange…”

Qin Mu looked back, and Heavenly Lady Qiang smiled again. They smiled at each other from a distance.

Qin Mu followed the palace maids, who clearly recognized him. They looked at one another, but they didn't dare to speak.