Chapter 569

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Inside Donghuang Palace.

Gu Yuan also heard the news.

Hong Yun bled to death, Zhenyuanzi wailed in grief, Kunpeng and Minghe turned against each other.

A living, breathing Great Wasteland grand performance.

"Tsk tsk, truly tragic." Gu Yuan clicked his tongue, yet there wasn't a trace of sympathy on his face.

This is the fate of supporting characters without a protagonist's halo, who took what they shouldn't have taken.

He knew clearly in his heart that Hong Yun's death was merely a beginning.

This missing strand of Primordial Beginning Purple Qi would, in the future, stir up even greater storms of blood and rain.

However, none of this had anything to do with him.

What he cared about now was something else.

Inside his head, a light screen unfolded before Gu Yuan.

On the light screen were the images of two women.

One wore moon-white palace attire, her temperament cold and noble, like ten-thousand-year-old profound ice that never melts — she was precisely the foremost of the Taiyin Goddesses, Xi He.

The other wore a pale yellow gauze skirt, her features delicate and pretty, her eyes lively, carrying a few parts of a young girl's vivacity — she was Xi He's younger sister, Changxi.

"Mm, not bad, both are top-grade beauty seedlings."

Gu Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

Immediately after, as if thinking of something.

"Xiao Ai, help me conjure some things, I want to send them to Taiyin Star."

【Master, may I ask what you want to send? An Innate Spiritual Treasure, or top-grade divine materials?】

"No need."

Gu Yuan shook his head, the corner of his mouth hooking into a mysterious smile.

"Just send a set of Five-in-a-Row, plus a storybook of 'Overbearing Heavenly Emperor Loves Me'."

【…Hah?】

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Guanghan Palace.

This is the only palace on Taiyin Star, built entirely of Wanload Xuan Ice, shrouded year-round in cold moonlight, appearing solitary and desolate.

In the depths of the palace, two peerlessly beautiful figures sat facing each other.

They were precisely the two mistresses of Taiyin Star, Xi He and Changxi.

"Elder sister, what do you think that Yao Clan Heavenly Emperor actually wants to do?"

Changxi propped her chin, listlessly fiddling with the jade stone chess pieces before her, and asked with some curiosity.

A hundred years ago, Di Jun's decree to convene a "Ten Thousand Immortals Discussion of the Dao Grand Assembly" at the foot of Mount Buzhou naturally reached this cold Taiyin Star as well.

"What else could he do?" Xi He's voice was cold, like the moonlight of this Guanghan Palace. "Nothing more than wanting to use this opportunity to show off his Yao Clan Heavenly Court's muscle to the entire Great Wasteland."

She held no good feelings toward Di Jun.

That Three-legged Golden Crow was too overbearing, too flamboyant; the True Fire of the Sun aura on his body made her instinctively feel dislike.

"But he actually dared to put up the Three Light Divine Water bestowed by the Ancestor of the Dao as the victory prize — his guts are too big." Changxi blinked. "And I heard he even refused the Ancestor of the Dao's offer to take him as a disciple, not even wanting the Primordial Beginning Purple Qi."

"Foolish, that's all." Xi He evaluated indifferently. "Without achieving sanctification, one remains an ant in the end. He refused a heaven-great opportunity today; one day, he will surely have a day of regret too late for tears."

Changxi stuck out her tongue, not daring to continue the conversation.

She knew her elder sister had always had impossibly high standards; even the Three Purities' disciples of the Ancestor of the Dao were, in her eyes, merely so-so.

Just as the two sisters were chatting idly.

A servant girl hurried in from outside the hall, holding a delicate jade box in her hands.

"Oracle to the two Highnesses, a Yao Clan envoy has come from outside the palace, claiming to be sent on the orders of Prince Donghuang Taiyi, delivering a modest gift."

"Donghuang Taiyi?"

Xi He and Changxi looked at each other, both seeing the doubt in the other's eyes.

Di Jun's name was known to them like thunder piercing the ear.

But who was this Donghuang Taiyi?

"I heard he is Di Jun's own younger brother." Changxi thought for a moment and said. "Seems he was born with a congenital origin defect, a sickly weakling at the Golden Immortal realm; in Zixiao Palace, he was even publicly humiliated by Yuanshi Tianzun."

"A sickly weakling, sending someone to give us a gift?" Xi He's elegant brows furrowed slightly. "What is he thinking?"

"Open it and see, won't we know?"

Changxi was quite interested; she waved her hand, and the jade box automatically flew before her, slowly opening.

Inside the jade box, there were no spirit treasures glowing with pearl light and treasure aura, nor divine materials radiating rosy light in myriad paths.

Only a chessboard polished from unknown black and white jade stone, and two boxes of round chess pieces.

Besides that, there was also a thin booklet.

"What is this?"

Changxi curiously picked up the booklet, only to see on the cover, written in dragon-flying phoenix-dancing calligraphy, a line of large characters.

"Overbearing Heavenly Emperor Loves Me".

"Pfft—"

Changxi had just read it aloud when she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This name, truly strange.

Xi He also came over, and when she saw that book title, a trace of ancient odd color could not help but surface on her clear and cold face.

She picked up that chessboard, divine sense probing into it.

Very quickly, a passage about Five-in-a-Row's rules flowed into her mind.

Rules extremely simple to the extreme, even a three-year-old child can understand.

"Interesting." Xi He's eyes, for the first time, revealed a thread of interested expression.

And on the other side, Changxi had already impatiently eagerly flipped open that storybook.

"He, is the Ruler of Nine Heavens Overbearing Heavenly Emperor, Ten Thousand Demon Race Lord, one command issued, stars fall."

"She, is the clear cold proud Taiyin Goddess, in charge of Cold Moon, unstained by mundane dust."

"An accidental encounter, a destined entanglement..."

Changxi read while emitting giggling laughter.

The things written in this book, too interesting.

What "woman, you have successfully attracted my attention", what "I allow you to like me", what "for you, I am willing to be enemy of the wilderness".

These words, straightforward and overbearing, and carrying a kind of novelty she had never experienced before.

Especially when she read to the part where the Heavenly Emperor in the book, to win the female lead a smile, actually willing to give up Saint Position, only for long-term companionship with her, Changxi's heart, for no reason, trembled once.

Although she knows this is fake, is a made-up story.

But what if it is real?