Chapter 1134 — The Human Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping
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Bai Yuqiong left the Qionghua Heavenly Palace, her figure flickering like a ghost before she vanished without a trace. Yet within the Qionghua Heavenly Palace there remained another Bai Yuqiong, solemnly attending to affairs of state.
Her cultivation art was exceedingly strange: the Bai Yuqiong who stayed behind in the Qionghua Heavenly Palace was in fact an Imperial Throne expert as well, no different from her in speech or bearing! Anyone who could cultivate to the Imperial Throne realm and seat himself upon the throne of Heavenly Master was no empty name.
Bai Yuqiong was all the more so; her clashes with Yin Tianzi, the Black Emperor, had long since made her incomparably cunning.
After dying and returning to life again and again, she had learned from bitter experience and devised one means after another to preserve her life, until at last she even schemed in secret against Yin Tianzi. Though Yin Tianzi had always been the one to scheme against others, there were several occasions on which he had nearly died at her hands. It was precisely for this reason that the Heavenly Court, valuing her methods and abilities, had made her the Heavenly Master in charge of the Westfall Sect.
Before long, Bai Yuqiong had ferreted out the whereabouts of Shen Mu and Long Qilin, and her expression turned peculiar.
"Venerable Mu? That young man who showed me his treasures is Venerable Mu?
He does not look it. When he came to the Heavenly Court, I saw him from afar. . . Ah, yes. I have heard that Venerable Mu, by a stroke of fortune, can travel through time back into the past, and that he made his name in the early years of Longhan.
In other words, his appearance in remote antiquity was not the same as his appearance today. .
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" She could not help but feel uneasy: "In remote antiquity, why did Venerable Mu give me that jade pendant? Why did he shield me from Yin Tianzi's schemes?
And why did he trick me out of the plume feather Venerable Yue gave me? " She could find no answer to any of it, and at last she too made her way toward the spirit-energy transfer bridge of the Westfall Sect. "Venerable Mu has gone to the Yunluo Heavenly Palace this time, has he not? The Yunluo Heavenly Palace is the domain of Emperor Yunluo, Wei Suifeng, and I have heard that Wei Suifeng is Venerable Mu's senior fellow disciple. " Bai Yuqiong knitted her brows slightly, a trace of unease in her heart: "Venerable Xiao discovered that Wei Suifeng was a disciple of the Kaihuang remnants and ordered me to lay a trap and seize him with the Azure Emperor.
That fellow is a ruthless sort; it was only by joining hands with the Azure Emperor to ambush him inside the Yunluo Heavenly Palace that we brought him down.
Venerable Mu is luring me to the Yunluo Heavenly Palace—could it be to avenge his senior fellow disciple?
" She studied the Vermilion Bird plume feather, wavering in doubt. The feather gave off blossoms of Vermilion Bird sacred fire.
That sacred fire burned all things without exception and was exceedingly formidable; it was the fire of the Way second only to the Great Way of Heavenly Fire, yet its deadliness surpassed even heavenly fire. Heavenly fire is a fire of microscopic crystals, ordinarily quite stable, and so long as it is not disturbed it will not unleash its power. The Vermilion Bird sacred fire, by contrast, was incomparably violent, radiating at every moment a power that could destroy heaven and earth.
Yet the Vermilion Bird sacred fire did not harm her in the least.
Bai Yuqiong was deeply puzzled as well.