She was just rather cool by nature. No matter how worried she was, she wouldn't say it out loud.
After all, she preferred taking action to talking!
So she directly bought a Myriad Worlds Shuttle Card, intending to visit the Douluo World where Qian Xunji was and see what was going on.
Where had she gotten the points to buy the Myriad Worlds Shuttle Card?
Well, she'd casually uploaded a few cultivation techniques she didn't think much of and earned tens of thousands of points.
However, before she could use the Myriad Worlds Shuttle Card, Qian Xunji came online.
Seeing that, she had no choice but to put the card away.
After all, forcing her way into someone else's world without informing its owner was hardly friendly.
Before, she could have said she was worried about Qian Xunji's safety. But now that he was online, insisting on going anyway would be going a little too far.
Because of the inexplicable fondness she felt for Qian Xunji, she didn't want him to think she was ill-mannered.
Seeing that Ruthless Great Emperor showed no intention of taking credit, Qian Xunji wasn't surprised. After all, in his mind, Ruthless Great Emperor had always been a cool woman, like a flower blooming on a high mountain, beyond anyone's reach.
Still, he'd clearly come out ahead in his deal with Ruthless Great Emperor. Not only had he received the promised holy medicine for healing, but he'd gotten twice as much as agreed. And on top of that, she'd included the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art, an imperial scripture, as a bonus.
It could be said that Ruthless Great Emperor didn't owe him anything. He was the one indebted to her!
So he still wanted to express his gratitude to Ruthless Great Emperor.
Besides, he'd now inherited Ruthless Great Emperor's Heaven Swallowing Devil Art.
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "In any case, thank you, Fellow Daoist Empress. No, perhaps I should call you Master now?"
Well, having a peerless beauty of such extraordinary talent as Ruthless Great Emperor for a master sounded pretty good.
Seeing Qian Xunji's message, Dongfang Bai's eyes lit up.
Sunrise in the East: "Master? Could it be that the group owner has inherited the Empress's legacy? Which one is it? The Heaven Swallowing Devil Art or the Immortal Heaven Art?"
If she remembered correctly, the only two imperial scriptures that represented Ruthless Empress's legacy were the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art and the Immortal Heaven Art.
The Heaven Swallowing Devil Art had been created by Ruthless Great Emperor. It could devour anything under heaven—nothing was beyond its reach. By swallowing all things to strengthen oneself, it was arguably the most domineering technique in the world, containing the law of devouring, one of the three thousand great laws!
As for the Immortal Heaven Art, she'd created it in her later years. With it, she shed her demonic body, breaking free of her old body like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. She shed a divine embryo, severed the karma of her past, and transformed into the supreme Chaos Body, allowing her to live another lifetime.
Whichever technique it was, anyone who cultivated it to the highest realm could become an Emperor.
Thinking of this, Dongfang Bai felt both envious and jealous. She wanted to inherit Ruthless Great Emperor's legacy too.
Martial Soul Hall Pope: "Yes, I received the Empress's legacy. I don't mind telling you which one—it's the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art."
Qian Xunji had no intention of hiding that he was cultivating this technique just because of its fearsome reputation. He didn't think there was anything wrong with the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art.
Power itself was never evil. It was the people who used it who were. As long as he put his power to good use, who would call him a villain?
Besides, there was no such thing as good and evil in this world, only victory and defeat. Since time immemorial, the winner with the stronger fist had been the one called righteous!
What's more, the Myriad Worlds Shuttle Card was already available. It was only a matter of time before he visited other worlds.
And if he ever got into a fight, there'd be no way to hide his strength or the techniques he cultivated. He might as well tell everyone now and keep bolstering his image as a virtuous gentleman.
Seeing Qian Xunji's reply, Dongfang Bai wore a somewhat strange expression.
If she remembered correctly, it was always the demonic body that gave rise to the divine embryo, just as the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art gave rise to the Immortal Heaven Art.
The Immortal Heaven Art was the perfected version of the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art. That meant cultivators of the Immortal Heaven Art naturally countered those who practiced the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art.
In fact, cultivators of the Heaven Swallowing Devil Art were practically nourishment for Immortal Heaven Art cultivators. The greater their achievements, the stronger the Immortal Heaven Art cultivator became after devouring them.
For example, Hua Yunfei from the original Shrouding the Heavens was a pitiful victim who'd made a wedding dress for someone else!
Could it be that the Empress intended to make the group owner nourishment for her true successor?
That was a little too much, wasn't it?
Thinking of this, Dongfang Bai immediately felt somewhat displeased with Ruthless Great Emperor.
But she wasn't willing to pick a fight with Ruthless Great Emperor over it.
After all, Ruthless Great Emperor was far too powerful!
With a single sword strike, she could level a Life Forbidden Zone; with one hand, she could suppress the Dark Turmoil. Dongfang Bai had only been practicing martial arts for a little over ten years. Against such a terrifying being, she'd be gone if the other woman so much as breathed on her.
And her world would be gone along with her.
Besides, this was only her own guess. She had no proof.
Maybe the other woman had no such intentions!
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