Cultivation knew no passage of years; time flew by.
Lu Chen and Zixia cultivated in seclusion within the Immortal Pool in the Jade Pool Ruins, and ten years passed in a flash.
As an innate Dao embryo, Zixia shared the same physique as the Queen Mother of the West. Ten years of comprehending the Dao before the emperor's corpse had granted her the peerless Female Emperor's complete inheritance.
Having grasped her Dao and arts, Zixia's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds. Not only had she broken through the barrier to the Great Saint Realm, she had reached its Third Heaven.
Over those ten years, Lu Chen had tempered himself with true imperial might and reaped considerable gains as well. He had advanced from Great Saint Fifth Heaven to the Eighth Heaven and was on the verge of reaching the pinnacle.
"To think that the Queen Mother of the West, a peerless Female Emperor whose brilliance dazzled the ages, who reached the pinnacle of the Great Dao as a woman, still spent half her life in sorrow!"
Sorrow and wistfulness filled Zixia's eyes. Over the years, as she comprehended the Female Emperor's Dao and arts, she had also witnessed the Western Emperor's desolate final years, when he had been forced to end his own husband's life with his own hands.
The curse upon the Human Sacred Body lineage had been cast by the Supremes of the Underworld together with the Tongtian Nether Treasure, the Immortal Artifact Ming had left behind. In their twilight years, it seized control of their bodies, seeking to turn them into tools.
Even someone as powerful as the Queen Mother of the West could not lift the curse that afflicted a sacred body in its twilight years. She could only endure the agony of ending Wushi's father's