Chapter 94: What Exactly Happened?

Previously, Jiu Jiu felt she had made enough changes to the plot of this Reincarnation; in a sense, by utilizing her foreknowledge, she had perfectly resolved many of the problems encountered on the surface.

At least, within the matters literally provided by 【Mie Changsheng】.

Jiu Jiu had made many efforts.

It was just that she never expected that as soon as she used the Experience Card for 【Shushan Dao Venerable · Gu Jiangming】, Gu Jiangming would resolve all the problems completely hidden beneath the information of 【Mie Changsheng】.

The most important point is:

Her nearly two thousand years of Daoist cultivation gained through her back-and-forth, plus the memories from over ten thousand years ago regarding the deity Jingwei.

With these things added together, Jiu Jiu still felt she might not be a match for Gu Jiangming in his Shushan Dao Venerable form.

He was ridiculously strong.

Was this guy really from the same era as her?

"Let's go," Gu Jiangming's voice sounded.

"Huh?" Jiu Jiu pondered for a moment, glancing with some hesitation at the ordinary people within the Northern Wei palace.

No wonder it was said that her disciple in her memories, Xu Qingyun, did not like Jiu Jiu as his master's wife.

In this way, it had instead become a leisurely stroll.

You tell me, could a disciple like Xu Qingyun, who completely believed in the Shushan Dao, believe in a master's wife like Jiu Jiu?

This kind of conflict belonged to a matter of stance.

"Then why can't I feel your attitude toward me at all?" Jiu Jiu mumbled, saying with some bitterness, a belly full of grievances surging in her heart for a moment.

Gu Jiangming no longer lingered in the Northern Wei imperial palace and stepped onto the return journey; he had come aggressively, thinking the time on his hands might not be enough to squander, but in the end, he had resolved many problems without needing much time at all.

Although she possessed the divinity of Jingwei, what could not be replaced was her two thousand years of true life as a demon.

Better to kill the wrong person than to let one go; in such chaotic times, that was the hard truth.

Such a demonic way of thinking ran counter to the beliefs of Shushan.

Jiu Jiu did not know how much memory the 【Shushan Dao Venerable】 Experience Card would feed back to Gu Jiangming, so she wanted to ask clearly.

Gu Jiangming nodded.

Jiu Jiu, however, had a belly full of questions she wanted to ask, yet every time she opened her mouth, she held back, wanting to wait for Gu Jiangming to speak on his own.

He liked this point about Jiu Jiu very much.

Because Jiu Jiu was simply good to Gu Jiangming, but the character in her bones still believed in the demon's way of the strong preying on the weak.

Gu Jiangming's attitude toward her was too enthusiastic, and Jiu Jiu did not like it.

"My wife," Gu Jiangming looked at her with some amusement.

It was evident that Gu Jiangming had no intention of speaking, and if she kept her worries bottled up, that would not be Jiu Jiu's personality.

That was to say, she was amenable to persuasion.

What did the life or death of others have to do with her?

"They are all mortals, no need to worry," Gu Jiangming glanced at her, stopping Jiu Jiu's thoughts.

"Okay." Hearing this from Gu Jiangming, Jiu Jiu let go of her thoughts.

"Do you know who I am?" Jiu Jiu finally spoke.

But Gu Jiangming's attitude toward her was too cold, and Jiu Jiu liked that even less.

Her questioning at this moment was somewhat of an attempt to vent the dissatisfaction of being ignored by Gu Jiangming earlier; Jiu Jiu had never felt she was inferior to that stupid dragon in any way.

Yet, she, who had been sure of victory, had ended up hitting a wall several times.

"What attitude?" Gu Jiangming hesitated, "You wouldn't still be like a baby, wanting me to cuddle, hug, and kiss you, would you?"

"You—" Jiu Jiu had just been stubborn, stating her displeasure, but Gu Jiangming's words instead blocked her mouth.

Because this made her, Jiu Jiu, sound 'stupid,' like a woman abandoned and unsatisfied, so she simply pretended to be overbearing: "I don't care."

"I just want to know now, do you really like me or are you faking it? I always feel that when you met me back then, it was premeditated."

Gu Jiangming sighed and said: "It can't be called premeditated, just a spur-of-the-moment decision; seeing your appearance was not bad, it was just right for you to be my wife. Who would have thought that at the time I was just a mortal, and I ended up marrying a demon I could manipulate? What else could I have done?"

"You really do dislike me." Jiu Jiu looked at Gu Jiangming.

"At that time, liking you was seeing beauty and acting on it; later, liking you was truly liking you," Gu Jiangming said with a teasing tone: "Look, when people forced me to slay demons, how could I bear to?"

"I would have preferred to be killed by you back then," Jiu Jiu feigned anger: "Then I would have died and been done with it, and wouldn't have to miss you all day long."

"Speaking of which, what exactly is that Heavenly Emperor Solitude? Hearing it from you, it seems quite extraordinary." Jiu Jiu brought the conversation back to the main topic.

It seemed the 【Shushan Dao Venerable】 Experience Card had returned all memories to Gu Jiangming.

Then she had nothing left to worry about.

Hearing this, Gu Jiangming did not keep her in suspense: "It is indeed a powerful strange art; it might not even be a strange art in the traditional sense, but rather a kind of divine ability oriented toward inheritance, because its effects are too miraculous."

"How so?" Jiu Jiu asked curiously.

"It can pass the cultivation and memories of each generation to the next," Gu Jiangming pondered for a moment and replied: "The original idea of the founding emperor of Northern Wei was to hope that future generations would produce wise monarchs, to ensure the Northern Wei's reign would last forever, but he did not expect that as the number of inheritances increased and lasted longer, his descendants' pursuit of eternal life became more persistent, and their thoughts gradually became greedy."

Jiu Jiu gasped, "Hearing it like this, it is indeed powerful."

"That's right," Gu Jiangming added: "If it only passed on cultivation, then this Heavenly Emperor Solitude could only be called a mediocre technique."

"The power lies in the fact that... it not only passes on cultivation but also leaves behind some important memories. This experience in governance and the accumulation of such arts of controlling subordinates allow every generation of Northern Wei emperors to have an outstanding baseline."

"However, there are always those who are unwilling to become stepping stones for their descendants."

"When you stand at the highest point, with both power and strength, it is hard for anyone to be willing to lose everything."

"And the greed of every generation of Northern Wei emperors naturally accumulates over time."

"Pursuing longevity became the new goal."

"Since ordinary methods are difficult to achieve this goal, one can only seek some unorthodox paths," Gu Jiangming said slowly, "And the end of coveting to survive is to turn oneself into a monster that is neither human nor ghost."

"Rather than letting me live in such a state, it is better to seek an open-mindedness and die in the arms of the one I love; why is that not a kind of romance?"

Jiu Jiu pondered for a moment and flew into a rage: "You were romantic, but I was heartbroken for a long time."

"If the people of the world knew that you, the Dao Venerable of Mount Shu, were so glib, I wonder how many people's aspirations would be ruined."

"A gentleman judges by deeds, not by intentions," Gu Jiangming said calmly. "If one were to judge by intentions, where would there be any sages in this world?"

"Besides, there are only a few people I am willing to be glib with; if I were to speak to you as I usually do, pretending to be a sage with such a straight face, that would be hypocrisy."

"I am a human, not a sage, nor a deity; I am simply doing what I want to do and practicing the ideals I desire."

At the same time, on the screen of 【Mie Changsheng】, the vacancy in this hidden main storyline had been completely filled.

Resting at the inn, Wang Qinghe rubbed his head and looked at the message that had popped up.

What is going on?

I was only asleep for a moment.

And Gu Jiangming went off to save the world?

Meanwhile, in the deep sea.

Long Xi always felt as if the current time had regressed by several hundred years, because the Spirit Qi here was filled with a disgusting and turbid aura.

Listening to the sound ringing in her ears, she tried her best to open her tightly closed eyes.

What on earth happened?

(End of this chapter)