"What's wrong?"
Between sea and sky, two figures stood motionless. They were Zhao Zhugui and Empress Ji.
Ji Chen had given Empress Ji a new body, but her appearance was no longer as breathtakingly beautiful as before. Even so, one glance was enough to sense the boundless coldness and authority she unconsciously radiated.
Empress Ji did not care about her looks. Since rebuilding her body, she had possessed vast truths of the Martial Dao in her mind, but she could not quickly turn them into tangible strength.
That made her appearance and identity poison to her.
During this time, Empress Ji had been rebuilding her Martial Dao while following Zhao Zhugui, seeing mountains and seas as though she had no worldly cares.
The reason Empress Ji still stayed by Zhao Zhugui's side was that changing the Karma of the future required her to keep intervening, steering events along the course Ji Chen had envisioned.
Without her, Zhao Zhugui could never become one of the Three Saints who slaughtered the demon.
Although Zhao Zhugui possessed a Divine-level Grand Formation, he had no interest in cultivation at all. To him, traveling the world was his true calling.
What Ji Chen wanted was for Empress Ji to devour the demon slain by the Three Saints and absorb all of its accumulated power.
So from the very beginning, Empress Ji could not part ways with Zhao Zhugui.
Zhao Zhugui's development required Empress Ji's constant interference.
During this time, Empress Ji was always reminding Zhao Zhugui to cultivate, sometimes even forcing him to do so.
Since he possessed a Divine-level Grand Formation that could directly devour the energy of all things, Zhao Zhugui's progress was astonishingly swift.
By now, his Qi and Blood Path had already entered the Creation Realm.
His Horizontal Refinement Path was