Owing the Heavenly Dao a Favor? A Masochistic Divine Maiden

The instant his words fell, the Diya Sword formed in his palm.

Dark-gold inscriptions lit up one after another, and the primordial Dao patterns on the blade burned.

Su Linxian gripped Diya.

He tilted his head up toward the Heavenly Dao Eyes, his long hair whipping wildly through the void.

He looked nothing like a human daring to defy the Heavenly Dao.

Instead, he resembled a deity who had walked out of the ancient past, waiting for the ants to make their choice!

The Heavenly Dao Eyes fell silent.

Countless eyes stared at the white-robed figure. Their pupils remained utterly emotionless, yet that cold, rigid will stalled at that moment.

As though weighing its options!

The entire void was terrifyingly quiet.

Su Linxian did not hurry them.

He simply stood there, the Diya Sword held across his body, two Order Divine Laws circling him. His aura was as deep as an abyss, as vast as an ocean. The void trembled beneath his feet, lightning twisted around him, and even time seemed to slow beneath that crushing pressure.

In the distant void, Luo Wutian and the others were completely dumbstruck.

Their pupils trembled violently, their bodies icy cold.

"The... Heavenly Dao Eyes... not only spoke, but they're actually hesitating..."

"Heavens above, am I dreaming...?"

The Heavenly Dao was emotionless and wordless, unchanging since time immemorial.

Yet now, the Heavenly Dao Eyes were actually hesitating before the Divine Son!

Smack!

Without warning, Luo Wutian suddenly sent the subordinate beside him flying with a slap.

The solid impact registered in his palm.

Breathing rapidly, Luo Wutian gazed at that figure with feverish adoration.

It's real!

I'm really not dreaming!

The next moment.

An unbelievable sight unfolded.

The Heavenly Dao Eyes spread across the sky slowly closed, one after another.

Within the gray-white pupil of the enormous Heavenly Dao Eye that had appeared first, that icy will gradually dispersed.

Its enormous eyelid lowered inch by inch, as though the entire vault of heaven were slowly closing.

"Member of the Su Family."

"You owe the Heavenly Dao a favor."

The voice faded, and the lightning tribulation filling the sky receded like an ebbing tide.

The Heavenly Dao Eyes...

Had retreated!

Su Linxian sneered.

His cultivation and combat strength had long since far surpassed the peak of the Emperor Realm.

He had touched that domain. Even if the Heavenly Dao itself appeared, he would have nothing to fear.

Su Linxian glanced at Luo Wutian and his party, who had followed him through the void and were now frozen like wooden chickens.

Then he withdrew his gaze and appeared before the Great Unity Primordial Origin.

The restrictive seal upon the origin had shattered. Gray-white miasma no longer leaked out, instead circulating quietly within it.

Hum, hum, hum...

The Primordial True Beast Embryo trembled violently, the craving it conveyed growing even stronger.

"Eat."

Su Linxian raised his hand and fed it the Great Unity Primordial Origin.

The instant the origin touched the embryo—

Boom!

Gray-white light exploded within the system space, like an ancient star suddenly awakening after a slumber of countless billions of years.

Miasma of utmost density poured from the origin, enveloping the entire embryo. Chaos energy swelled and churned furiously inside it, and the patterns on its surface lit up one after another, as though some ancient life were gestating within at an accelerated pace.

At that moment.

The myriad surrounding Dao domains all shook violently.

"Ah!"

Yu Yao screamed, her scales suddenly bristling all over.

Her golden slit pupils abruptly narrowed to thin lines. Her small body trembled uncontrollably, her limbs went weak, and she collapsed onto the deck with a thud, as though an invisible mountain had pressed down upon her back.

"M-master..."

"Hurry, put that thing away!"

"What... what a terrifying aura... it feels like something is suppressing me from deep within my bloodline!"

That fear came from the depths of her bloodline, more primal and ancient than what she had felt before the Heavenly Dao Eyes!

Elsewhere, unmistakable emotion appeared on Mu Chiyu's cool face for the first time, her eyes fixed upon the Primordial True Beast Embryo.

She murmured.

"A Primordial True Beast... an existence even the Divine Emperors of the Imperial Court would not lightly provoke in the past."

"I've never heard of any Primordial True Beast being able to devour another Primordial True Beast's origin..."

Ancestors of all living creatures, each was an innate being born when heaven and earth first opened, possessing a complete Order Divine Law and an innate divine ability powerful enough to defy heaven.

True beasts had fought and tried to devour one another before, but none had ever succeeded.

Yet now, the embryo in Su Linxian's hand was devouring the Taiyi True Beast's origin.

Mu Chiyu dared not pursue that thought.

"Su Linxian..."

"You truly are the person I've been searching for."

[Ding!]

[Primordial True Beast origin absorbed!]

[True Beast Embryo hatching progress: 60%!]

[Origin fused. Bloodline ability enhancement acquired!]

[Enhancement effect: 100!]

[Bloodline evolution probability: 5%]

Its hatching progress had surged by fifty percent in one go!

Su Linxian looked at the wildly surging Primordial True Beast Embryo before him.

"No wonder this thing drew out the Heavenly Dao Eyes..."

"Its very existence challenges the rules of the Heavenly Dao."

"I wonder what terrifying creature it will become once it hatches..."

At this rate, it would probably hatch within a few years.

Su Linxian poked the true beast embryo, then stored it in his sea of consciousness.

He turned toward the ancient divine maiden whose cultivation had been sealed.

Mu Chiyu was imprisoned by golden chains in a corner of the Spirit Boat.

Her long golden dress spread across the deck, like an immortal blossom flowering in the mortal world.

Her face was exquisitely cool, her features seemingly sculpted with painstaking care by heaven and earth. Her brows were distant mountains veiled in frost, her eyes cold pools reflecting the moon, her lips pale cherry blossoms, and her skin luminous white jade.

Her long hair fell to her waist, gleaming with a cool, faint light beneath the stars.

An extremely faint golden divine halo surrounded her—the innate Dao resonance of the Immortal Dao Embryo Body.

Even imprisoned and sealed by chains, the nobility and antiquity emanating from her very bones could not be concealed.

She was looking at him as well.

An indescribable emotion churned within Mu Chiyu's cool eyes.

Suddenly, she spoke.

"The Slaughter Divine Law you possess..."

"Is mine."

Su Linxian paused slightly.

Mu Chiyu continued, her tone placid.

"Back then, I fell into a slumber from which I could not awaken. I had no choice but to strip the Slaughter Divine Law from my body to draw someone here."

"Yang Kong was drawn here by the Slaughter Divine Law."

"Without that, I would never have awakened from my slumber."

Su Linxian said indifferently.

"So you're planning to take it back?"

Mu Chiyu looked at him and said.

"No."

Then she delivered a startling declaration.

"It's my dowry."

"Pfft!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Su Linxian's pupils contracted. He coughed heavily several times as though something had caught in his throat, unable to process her words for a long moment.

"What did you say?"

Yu Yao scrambled up into a crouch. She looked at Su Linxian, then Mu Chiyu, then Su Linxian again.

Countless question marks sprang up over her head.

"A dowry?"

Yu Yao said with a grin.

"Master, you know what? You're an Emperor Clan's Divine Son, and she's the Imperial Court's Divine Maiden. You even sound like a perfect match!"

Mu Chiyu ignored Yu Yao beside her and spoke with a calm, earnest expression.

"Do you know of the Kunwu Mirror?"

Su Linxian frowned.

The Kunwu Mirror, the supreme divine artifact of the Primordial Imperial Court, was said to reflect the past and future and see through the long river of fate.

He had seen records of it in the Su Family's ancient texts. That mirror had vanished without a trace after the Primordial Imperial Court's destruction and had not appeared for countless eras.

Mu Chiyu continued.

"During the Imperial Court's reign in the Immortal Antiquity Era, I once saw you through the Kunwu Mirror."

Her tone was as placid as water, but her words struck Su Linxian's sea of consciousness like an exploding thunderbolt.

"Our child will become the ruler of both worlds."

Su Linxian's face darkened.

"You're insane."

Su Linxian could not be bothered with her anymore and turned to leave.

He had gained quite a few Villain Points this time and could exchange them for plenty of Great Dao laws in the System Shop.

He still had over two thousand years.

Before obtaining the final Order Divine Law, what he needed to do now was fuse all the remaining divine laws.

Just then.

Mu Chiyu spoke again.

"I know of many Immortal Antiquity ruins."

Su Linxian stopped.

Mu Chiyu said, "If you marry me, I'll tell you where to find another missing fragment of the Primordial Imperial Court, as well as the Kunwu Mirror."

Su Linxian turned around and asked.

"Why?"

Mu Chiyu sat on the deck, her face especially cool beneath the starlight, like a fairy from the moon palace who had fallen into the mortal world.

"Because the Primordial Imperial Court..."

"Needs a new master."

"He isn't you, nor is he me."

As the last survivor of the Primordial Imperial Court, who had slept through millions of eras—almost the entire history of the myriad heavens—

The destiny for which she existed was to bear a child.

And then rebuild the Imperial Court!

Mu Chiyu said, "With you here, the Primordial Imperial Court cannot revive."

"But a child of yours and mine would be different."

"After all, no one would lay a hand on his own son, would he?"

Her voice was calm, as though she were stating something perfectly natural.

Yu Yao said, "Wow, Master, the Divine Maiden is throwing herself at you."

What the fuck kind of logic is that?

If you can't beat him, marry him?

The corner of Su Linxian's mouth twitched as he said.

"Say..."

"Is there something wrong with your head?"

Mu Chiyu said, "The Imperial Court itself is a supreme treasure, not to mention the various divine abilities from Immortal Antiquity within it. There's even..."

"Something that can help you advance beyond Divine Emperor."

Something that could help him advance beyond Divine Emperor?

Su Linxian's eyes flickered.

The incomplete Imperial Court he had obtained from Shenkong Ye was merely a fragment of one corner.

When that Imperial Court's power emerged, even that single incomplete corner could suppress several Emperor Realm experts.

Su Linxian said, "This Divine Son has changed his mind."

"If you tell me now, I can consider sparing you."

"Otherwise, die."

Mu Chiyu remained unmoved.

She was as stubborn as a mule.

"Either marry me or kill me."

Su Linxian's brows furrowed.

Bang!

Su Linxian's figure suddenly vanished from where he stood.

"If you want to die, I'll grant your wish."

The next instant, he appeared before Mu Chiyu.

His slender fingers clamped around her neck with unerring precision, lifting her bodily off the Spirit Boat's deck.

Su Linxian's long hair whipped in the wind, divine markings woven from dark crimson and gold flickering across his skin.

Two Order Divine Laws circled him, his aura as deep as an abyss and as vast as the sea, pressing down until the entire sky trembled.

"You think I wouldn't dare?"

Yu Yao instinctively drew her neck in and took two steps back.

"M-Master..."

"Why don't we just let it go?"

Mu Chiyu's face turned deathly pale, her delicate body trembling slightly in midair.

"Cough, cough!"

"If you want the Primordial Imperial Court..."

"Then..."

Crack!

There was a crisp sound of breaking bone.

Mu Chiyu's neck was forcibly snapped in his grip, her head tilting at an impossible angle.

Emperor Power poured from his fingers, pulverizing every trace of vitality within her. Her soul, meridians, blood and qi—everything was utterly crushed!

Thud.

Her golden dress spread across the deck, her long hair falling in disarray.

[Ding! Era protagonist Mu Chiyu's origin has been damaged. Heaven-Destined Points decreased by 100,000!]

[Congratulations, Master! You have gained 100,000 Villain Points!]

"Gasp—Master! You really killed her?!"

Yu Yao's eyes widened, her little face turning chalk-white.

"She's... she's really dead?!"

"Tsk." Su Linxian clicked his tongue.

The Primordial Imperial Court's divine abilities from Immortal Antiquity truly were strange and unfathomable.

"There's a seal within her soul. I can't even use Soul Search..."

"Enough. Stop pretending."

"Get up."

Su Linxian waved a hand and spoke indifferently.

"Someone with the Immortal Dao Embryo Body doesn't die that easily."

As his words fell.

A hum rang out.

Golden light surged from Mu Chiyu's body, like countless invisible threads reconnecting her broken neck bones and weaving her shattered vitality back together.

Her head slowly straightened, color returning to her pallid face as her chest began to rise and fall again.

Mu Chiyu opened her eyes and sat up on the deck.

She raised a hand to rub her reddened neck and said.

"Although my constitution can restore my body indefinitely, it isn't without limits."

"Every restoration consumes my origin."

"If I die three more times, I'll really be dead."

At that, she lifted her head and looked into Su Linxian's eyes.

"Are you still going to kill me?"

This woman really seemed unafraid of death.

Su Linxian waved his hand, a hint of impatience in his voice.

"This Divine Son is in a good mood today. Get lost."

What was there to say to a crazy woman whose mind worked in such bizarre ways?

Mu Chiyu said, "I've changed my mind now."

Su Linxian asked, "What do you mean?"

"The last Primordial Imperial Court is in the Immortal Mountain," Mu Chiyu said.

The Immortal Mountain?!

Su Linxian's pupils contracted.

Ancestor Shengyang had just said that he had obtained the Great Unity Primordial Origin by chance in the Everlasting Yin Mountain!

A short while later.

"So you're saying..."

"The Primordial Imperial Court is the Immortal Mountain?" Su Linxian murmured.

"Yes." Mu Chiyu nodded slightly and said.

"The Immortal Mountain isn't a Life Forbidden Zone at all."

"Long ago, the remnants of the Primordial Imperial Court fell and became a world unto themselves. After countless eras of weathering, the Imperial Court Dao Markings on its surface were buried beneath dust, leaving only the name 'Everlasting Yin Mountain.'"

"The complete Primordial Imperial Court was the strongest Emperor Weapon of the Immortal Antiquity Era. Its power is far beyond your imagination."

"And that incomplete Imperial Court you carry is nothing more than its outer shell."

"Its true core lies deep within the Immortal Mountain. Sealed inside are the Imperial Court's origin and all the wealth and treasures of the Immortal Antiquity Era!"

At those words.

Even Su Linxian could not help feeling his heart jolt.

The Primordial Imperial Court had been the most powerful force of the Immortal Antiquity Era.

Even after a million eras, the tiniest fraction of the wealth it held would be enough to drive all the heavens mad, sending everyone into battles that left heads cracked and blood flowing!

Yet the woman before him had refused to speak no matter what, even when he gripped her neck and snapped it.

But once he told her to get lost, she volunteered the information instead...

A masochistic divine maiden?