Weaver Girl Takes Action

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Jiang Zhe suppressed his excitement and carefully drew the strand of primordial chaos creation divine lightning into his body.

There was no hurry.

Once he reached Flower-Fruit Mountain, he would find a secluded spot and fully fuse with it without leaving a trace!

He raised his head and gazed at Weaver Girl Star, shimmering in the sky, then rubbed his slightly swollen head.

"Um, do you know where Flower-Fruit Mountain is?"

As soon as he spoke, the star, which had been twinkling steadily, suddenly paused.

Immediately afterward, a patch of stars in the south began flashing fiercely.

"South?!"

"Then let's go take a look!"

Jiang Zhe turned around and sprang to his feet.

But the moment he took a step, he froze.

It was hundreds of kilometers away!

Even though he had now completely shed his mortal body, there was one problem! He didn't know a single spell! He couldn't even perform the most basic cloud riding!

Fortunately, he had at least left the realm of ordinary people behind.

With the boost from his magic power alone, and with Wild Bull Force already being good at tempering the body, he pushed off with his legs and moved at a decent speed.

"Come to think of it, since there's a Flame Dragon Armor, there should be a Flame Dragon Steed too, right?"

Jiang Zhe muttered as he raced along.

"But I reckon, knowing how the system pisses, I'll probably have to rely on a lottery draw to get it!"

"All right, I'll save up merit bit by bit!"

Beneath the night sky, Jiang Zhe darted and leaped through the forested mountains like an agile cheetah, twisting and bounding with movements as nimble as Tarzan's.

Meanwhile.

In the Heavenly Court.

Weaver Girl had just finished dealing with a group of curious sisters who had crowded around her!

"Oh, it was nothing, nothing at all. I just went down to the mortal world for a bath!"

"My clothes? I didn't lose them, I didn't lose them. I got them back!"

"Tribulation? What tribulation? How could this fairy possibly have a tribulation?"

She gave Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Following Ear, who had come over after hearing the news, a sweet smile and greeted them discreetly.

Seeing that the two merely glanced at her as a matter of routine and did nothing further, Weaver Girl secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She dared not delay. Taking advantage of the change of shifts among the generals patrolling the heavens, she carefully slipped into her imperial father's library.

"Hmm... which cultivation technique is the most powerful?"

Weaver Girl threaded her way between the densely packed bookshelves, rubbing her temples in frustration.

Her own technique was a companion art born alongside Weaver Girl Star, suitable only for her. Other people couldn't even understand it! There was no way to copy it!

And her karma with that scholar involved a debt for saving her life.

By rights, according to the normal course ordained by heaven... she should have offered herself to him in marriage.

But before she could exchange more than a few words with her benefactor, that old ghost Thousand-Mile Eye seemed to notice something amiss and immediately fixed his gaze on her!

On top of that, her sisters had all been calling her back as though their lives depended on it. With no other choice, she could only put it off for the time being.

But she had no intention of shirking that karmic debt!

Recalling the request the scholar had made before she left, Weaver Girl pinched her chin, her gaze resolute.

Wasn't it just a cultivation technique?

Her father was the Jade Emperor! The dignified lord of the Three Realms!

For her, getting a technique from this library should be as easy as lifting a hand, shouldn't it?

But when she looked up!

The library was packed with jade slips, dense and vast as the sea!

Weaver Girl's eyes went wide.

"Th-there are so many... which one am I supposed to choose..."

She picked up a few at random and looked through them, but couldn't understand a single word.

"Come to think of it, what technique does imperial father cultivate again?"

She muttered to herself as her gaze swept over the rows of jade slips. Suddenly, inspiration flashed through her mind.

"That's right! The technique my cousin cultivates seems to be pretty famous..."

Weaver Girl narrowed her eyes and thought back.

Her cousin who wielded the Seal of the Heavenly God of Justice and whose might shook Guanjiangkou! Yang Jian!

"The technique my cousin cultivates... the Nine-Nine Arcane Arts?"

She frowned and shook her head.

"No, no... it should be!"

She suddenly clapped her hands.

"The Eight-Nine Arcane Arts!"

A jade slip glowing faintly gold suddenly floated out from deep within the shelves and hovered before her. Two ancient seal-script characters were engraved on its face:

Eight-Nine!

Without the slightest hesitation, Weaver Girl grabbed it!

A technique her imperial father had chosen to keep separately couldn't be all that bad!

"Is just a technique a little too little...?" She pinched her chin and began pondering again.

"That's right! The presence I felt from him before I left! It was fire! Intense fire!"

"In other words, that scholar is good at using fire..."

"Then I need to get him a fire technique to go with it!"

She searched along the shelves marked with fire-attribute labels.

"Fire techniques... Orthodox Fire Division Method? No, no, this one's too common..."

She bit her fingernail and continued searching farther in.

Suddenly!

"Huh?"

Weaver Girl paused.

A jade slip, crimson throughout and faintly patterned with phoenixes, lay quietly in a corner.

[Fire Virtue Star Lord · Fire Virtue True Art]

"What's this... how did it end up in imperial father's library?"

Weaver Girl was puzzled for a moment, then tossed her confusion aside! Never mind that, she would take it first!

Clutching the two jade slips, she carefully tucked them into her robes, then stood on tiptoe, poked her head out, and looked around.

After making sure no one was paying attention, she transformed into a streak of light and vanished with a whoosh at the far end of the library.

"Your Majesty... this?"

Not long after Weaver Girl disappeared, the figure of a middle-aged man in a luxurious robe slowly emerged.

Beside him, Taibai Jinxing looked at the man before him with a helpless expression.

"My daughter is mischievous. It's of no consequence."

The Jade Emperor spoke mildly.

But in the next second!

His expression suddenly turned cold!

He slowly stretched out his hand, golden light flowing across his palm. He held a wisp of karma formed from Buddhist light between his fingers and gently clenched them.

Poof!

It turned to powder and scattered away!

"The West is going too far!"

The Jade Emperor's voice was icy.

"Although the mandate of heaven lies with Buddhism... a mere Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal actually dares to set his sights on me!"

Hearing this, Taibai Jinxing's expression also turned somewhat colder.

"Your Majesty, shall this old minister go and inform the Western Sect?"

"No need."

The Jade Emperor waved his hand.

"The secrets of heaven are in chaos. Even if we try to divine them now, we won't learn anything. Unless a sage personally intervenes!"

He narrowed his eyes slightly, starlight glimmering faintly within them.

"However... if we can't divine it, we can calculate it."

"Weaver Girl and Cowherd were originally fixed stars ordained by heaven!"

"Weaver Girl Star has long since taken its place! Weaver Girl is Weaver Girl Star!"

"As for the person chosen by Cowherd Star, its starlight has already dimmed and is on the verge of falling... presumably, the chosen host has already perished."

Taibai Jinxing's heart tightened.

"Perished? Cowherd... is dead?"

"Not only is he dead, he died at that lad's hands."

As the Jade Emperor said this, a meaningful smile flashed in his eyes.

"Since Cowherd Star's position is vacant, the one to whom Cowherd Star belongs can now only be chosen... on its behalf by Weaver Girl Star."

He paused and looked up at the starry sky beyond the library.

"Judging by how eager she looked, she presumably went rummaging through the scripture library to repay a debt of gratitude."

"In that case, we'll simply let nature take its course."

"The Heavenly Dao will guide all of this."

Hearing this, Taibai Jinxing looked somewhat bewildered.