Chapter 134: Wu Shi: Holy Emperor, Please Forgive Me

The universe is far too vast and boundless.

Even those as powerful as Holy Emperor Gu Xuan and the Wushi Great Emperor cannot know everything.

However.

For existences like them, if they target a specific person or matter, they can also communicate with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao, and learn many truths that ordinary people find difficult to touch.

Just like this moment.

As the Current Era Great Emperor, Wu Shi communicated with the Heaven's Heart mark, and in an instant comprehended the various karma of Di Li Si after she parted from him hundreds of years ago.

Di Li Si, a woman who stunned the world, like a lotus emerging from water, flawless and pure, clear and beautiful, transcending the dust.

In the Star Domain she was in, being able to break shackles and achieve a Female Saint could be said to be exceptionally difficult.

She absolutely counted as a generation's Heaven's Pride Divine Maiden, covered by a Divine Halo, with all eyes on her, unknown how many admirers she had!

However.

She instead abandoned everything, walked the road alone, facing the cold and dark Universe, constantly pursuing.

Using a Female Saint's true heart to pursue, yet it was only to once again find the tracks of that peerless hero, following behind, using a lifetime to look up.

The long years, a single person's lonely road, causing one to sigh with emotion.

And the final moment ultimately still had to arrive.

Somewhere Outside the Domain, Di Li Si had just experienced a terrifying Void Collapse; even though she was a Female Saint, her Origin was injured.

Not long after, she encountered a rare Cosmic Storm, and suffered heavy injuries.

Old injuries she had barely suppressed could no longer be controlled, and she was almost about to sit in meditation and pass away immediately.

Strands of Dao Transformation's Dao Principles circulated around her; although her appearance was still peerlessly elegant, it could no longer conceal the traces of time.

"Pfft..."

Di Li Si held the pendant Wu Shi left her against her chest, a mouthful of bright Holy Blood surged from her red lips, falling onto the pendant.

At the final moment, she seemed to once again see that towering figure; although still surrounded by divine light, with Chaos Qi blocking the view, she would not mistake it!

It was the person she missed day and night, searched for a lifetime.

"Chi!"

Immortal Light exploded, her graceful figure turned into a rain of crystalline petals.

This is the power of time, difficult to block.

Red dust turns to skull, she sat in meditation and passed away in a corner of the Desolate Universe.

Such a lonely old life, no one knew her final state of mind.

No result, no hope, yet ultimately such an ending, causing one to sigh.

This moment.

Wu Shi couldn't help but recall the journey he once walked with Di Li Si.

Without a doubt, that was a stunningly beautiful woman.

And for Wu Shi, perhaps he had not deeply responded to Di Li Si's feelings.

Because his life was filled with pursuit and guarding of the Great Dao, without too many thoughts of romantic love.

But at this time, when he learned of Di Li Si's ending, his heart ultimately could not avoid that indescribable sorrow and regret.

And he also understood that the feelings in his heart for Di Li Si were real and existed.

But if it was already missed, even if he was the Current Era Great Emperor, he could not reverse heaven and earth, could not change the time that had passed.

This relationship, perhaps destined to only become a regretful past in his life, just like Yao Huang Xue Yue Qing recorded in Ancient History.

However.

Wu Shi suddenly abruptly woke with a start, raising his head to look at Gu Xuan.

He knew, since the Holy Emperor raised this matter, there would definitely be a follow-up.

"Senior, could it be that you..."

In his eyes, a divine radiance containing a strand of hope flashed.

And indeed.

Gu Xuan had watched Wu Shi's reaction from beginning to end, and in his heart had already reached a general conclusion.

This kind of sorrowful and pitying gaze, demeanor cannot be faked.

He was not forcing a match.

At this point, Gu Xuan naturally had no need to sell any more suspense.

He reached out and grabbed the void, drawing a massive Divine Source from a Da Yue behind him; sealed within it was precisely Di Li Si's Soul.

It was precisely back when she sat in meditation and passed away, that he used Peerless Divine Power to preserve it, not letting her truly die.

And having reached his and Wu Shi's current heights, even if Di Li Si only had a strand of Soul, with a wave of his hand he could also let her live out a Second Life.

Of course.

Gu Xuan could also completely have done this long ago.

But some things, letting the person involved do it themselves, the effect is obviously much better, and doesn't need him to overstep his role.

Indeed so!

Looking at the massive Divine Source suspended on the other party's right palm, a thought flashed through Wu Shi's heart, and in an instant he knew the past of Gu Xuan saving Di Li Si.

This is a kind of dust settling after some trepidation, can also be said to be the relief of a hope come true.

He knew the Holy Emperor would not shoot arrows without a target; since he mentioned Di Li Si, he would definitely have an action.

Di Li Si in the Divine Source, her figure illusory, is a spirit body.

Even in such a state, one can still see she is a woman beautiful to a startling degree, transcendent and dust-free.

"Many thanks, Senior!"

Wushi took Di Li Si's Primordial Spirit from Gu Xuan's hands, and even his majestic, peerless face was moved.

To make a Great Emperor such as him react this way, it was obviously excitement from the depths of his heart.

The next moment.

Right before Gu Xuan's eyes, Wushi cast his Self-Created Secret Technique.

A mysterious and vast fluctuation spread out, passing through those layers of Divine Sources, crossing into Di Li Si's Soul.

"Di Li Si, return."

Wushi murmured softly, gentleness revealing itself in the depths of his eyes.

When the two powerhouses' gazes fell upon it, the Divine Source cracked open, and the woman within, in spirit-body state, opened her eyes.

"Wushi, I actually saw you? I've searched for you for so long... am I in a dream?"

Di Li Si sat up, her peerlessly beautiful face full of joy and excitement, looking at the Wushi before her, eyes misted with tears.

But very quickly, her smile froze, and she spoke: "No, it seems I... died. That Cosmic Storm, I couldn't avoid it."

"Is this the world after death? But how did you come too? You shouldn't have come... go back quickly!"

Di Li Si's eyes were full of tears, containing regret, and also desolation.

Such a scene made even the Wushi Great Emperor feel heartache, and also boundless pity.

He continued to cross over the strongest Divine Rules, helping Di Li Si thoroughly stabilize her state, "No, this is the world of the living. Holy Emperor Senior saved you, and now I've returned to visit you."

"Holy Emperor Senior?"

Di Li Si turned her head, and saw that majestic, peerless existence sitting cross-legged in the Chaos Light Cocoon opposite, also watching her with a smile.

It was actually the Holy Emperor of a generation from tens of thousands of years ago, unexpectedly still alive, and now saved her?!

Di Li Si's beautiful eyes couldn't help but widen, as if she couldn't believe what she saw before her.

But very quickly, she finally recalled the moment before she was about to fall into Darkness, a gentle fluctuation had wrapped her up — that must have been the Holy Emperor's supreme means!

"I pay respects and thank the supreme Holy Emperor Senior, the grace of saving my life, I shall never forget for all eternity!"

In mid-air, Di Li Si kowtowed with a grand salute, kneeling to thank Gu Xuan.

The latter also didn't stand on ceremony; after receiving her three kowtows, he sent out a gentle fluctuation, helped her up, and sent her to Wushi's side.

In his gaze, there was a faint smile, or perhaps one could say a kind of relief.

Di Li Si was slightly shy, but more than that, brave. Since she had revived and returned, she would certainly never wish to part from Wushi again, and the latter was the same.

And not long after.

The Wushi Bell manifested, drawing Di Li Si inside, letting her be nourished within.

As for the Rou Ti, then after returning to Wushi's own Dao Chang, naturally full Preparation could be made, and it would certainly be perfectly Restored.

"Hum!"

The Wushi Bell did not immediately withdraw, but continued to float suspended in mid-air between Gu Xuan and the other.

Obviously.

Wushi also seemed to have matters to speak of, and Gu Xuan also perceived this.

"Holy Emperor Senior, this junior was entrusted by another, and has a presumptuous request; if there is offense, please forgive."

Wushi seemed to be weighing his tone, carrying a probe, carrying a trace of rare trepidation after becoming a peerless master of his generation.

"Between you and me there's no need for such formality, but please speak."

Gu Xuan, on the contrary, appeared magnanimous and grand, his gaze brilliant.

"It is like this..."

Wushi spoke slowly, a certain anticipation once more surfacing in his eyes.

Yet what he said made Gu Xuan involuntarily, visibly awkward.

"The matter is just so... still requesting Senior's forgiveness."

And the following matters were not limited to just this.

One saw the Wushi Bell hum and stir, from within slowly manifesting a figure — that was unexpectedly a woman.

Queen Mother of the West!

This generation's Holy Lord of Yaochi Holy Land.

Called Queen Mother, Holy Lord, but she looked to be only twenty years old or so, and was stately and peerlessly beautiful, of immortal bearing and graceful poise.

Now she is also a powerful female Quasi-Emperor, truly Rare.

She was also Yaochi's Holy Maiden of the previous generation, elegance unmatched in her age, crowning Beidou, high above, all Tian Xia's outstanding talents went mad for her.

However.

At this moment, in this Holy Emperor's Dao Chang, the Queen Mother of the West was like a child, or like a maidservant, hands joined in salute, kowtowing, her posture respectful to the utmost.

"Holy Emperor above, in years past I was fortunate to glimpse you once. This little woman Zhao Tao has admired you for long; if I could become a maidservant at your seat, it would be the utmost glory."

Finishing speaking, a generation's Queen Mother of the West directly performed a grand salute of worship, requesting Gu Xuan to grant it.

"Ah this..."

Although Gu Xuan had already learned from Wushi's mouth beforehand that this time the Queen Mother of the West also wanted to come pay respects to him, and he had no objection to this.

Of this female Nüxiu, he also had an impression.

After all, a thousand years ago, when he wanted Wushi to appear and guard this life, he had met the West Emperor Pagoda and the Queen Mother of the West before him.

However.

It was just this sole meeting that made the Queen Mother of the West famed under Tian Xia have her impression in her heart reach the extreme!

But.

Upon careful thought, this is completely understandable.

The current Gu Xuan has long since become a Heavenly Emperor-level peerless existence.

In the Queen Mother of the West's view, if there are Immortals in the world, they are likely only Peerless Emperors like the Holy Emperor who have reincarnated through several lives.

Although she had only met him once, separated by infinite Divine Rules, that supreme Dao Rhyme was so powerful it would inevitably make her unable to forget for all eternity.

However, for such feelings to arise in her heart is exceedingly rare.

The Yaochi Holy Land has never strictly forbidden marriage throughout its generations, but the conditions are exceptionally strict.

Generation after generation of Yaochi Holy Maidens, those who marry out are not common; even more so for a Holy Lord-level figure like the Queen Mother of the West, the vast majority preserve their chastity like jade and end their lives thus.

And for this generation's Queen Mother of the West, it can be called extremely fortunate.

She not only unsealed Wu Shi from the Divine Source, but also took care of him for several years; she can be said to be one of the Wushi Great Emperor's foster mothers.

Moreover, she had the peerless rare opportunity to see the Holy Emperor Gu Xuan of a generation.

On the Dao Platform.

Xi Wangmu Zhaotao bowed her head, her entire upper body nearly pressed against the Dao Platform, and her body trembled slightly; clearly her heart was extremely uneasy and excited.

This was bound to happen; a single thought from Gu Xuan would decide whether her feelings could be realized and her heart's wish fulfilled.

And speaking even deeper, if there is a chance to see an Immortal in this life, probably only the Holy Emperor could bring her to achieve it; even Wu Shi only counts as a latecomer.

On the other side.

Gu Xuan couldn't help but give a slight bitter smile.

He originally thought to use this opportunity to meet with Wu Shi to let Di Li Si return to the world.

It would also count as settling the karmic bond between her and Wu Shi, or perhaps Gu Xuan's own heart's wish.

But he didn't expect this fire would actually burn onto himself as well.

No matter what, he never expected that Xi Wangmu Zhaotao would actually want to follow him!

However.

Having reached this current realm, Gu Xuan has long since possessed the bearing of a generation's Heavenly Emperor; in heart and on face, there was not much surprise, as if everything was natural.

"Queen Mother, raise your head, look at me."

He spoke, his voice clear and gentle, yet carrying a unique Dao Rhyme.

Xi Wangmu Zhaotao heard this and slowly raised her head; bright eyes and white teeth, immortal bearing and jade beauty, somewhat shy, yet ultimately she still looked forward.

Gu Xuan's expression was calm; on his peerless martial face there was not a ripple; his gaze was clear as water, fixed on Zhaotao's eyes; it was ultimately the first time he looked at her this carefully, as if wanting to see her through and through.

And Zhaotao had long since had a sudden spiritual realization.

She was ethereal as an Immortal; her heart was completely at peace, letting go of everything, gazing at Gu Xuan; the Dao Platform was utterly quiet.

Unknown how much time passed; Gu Xuan saw some scenes in those clear-as-water eyes.

It was a girl with a heart pure as jade, peerless in grace; from a young age she grew up in the Yaochi Holy Land, her natural talent stunning; until she became a generation's Holy Maiden, she was also a divine maiden with all eyes on her.

And she walked on, heart clear as water; from a young cultivator she cultivated into a female Great Saint, ultimately becoming the Lord of Yaochi.

Until later, a vast and supreme Divine Sense came from the depths of the Star Sea, causing the Immortal Tears Green Gold Pagoda left by the Western Emperor to recover, and then wrapping her, brought her to a secret realm in the Starry Sky, where she saw the most deeply impressive powerful man of her life.

This was a completely unreserved heart-stirring, and also a woman's most sincere admiration.

From then on, a seed of longing was planted in her heart field, taking root and sprouting day by day, until later it was like a towering tree, no longer able to be hidden.

Xi Wangmu Zhaotao, as the Yaochi Saintess, was originally holy like jade, yet ultimately she still didn't want to deceive her own most real heart any longer.

Therefore, there was the request to Wu Shi, and also this moment's true feelings revealed to Gu Xuan.

……

This moment, Gu Xuan's gaze was no longer clear, but deep, flowing with Nine-Colored Immortal Light.

He understood; the one before him was also a true heart, no different from Di Li Si.

And opposite him, the Wushi Great Emperor even revealed anticipation in his eyes, almost about to say "grant it."

Zhaotao was the first Yaochi female cultivator he saw after breaking the seal and appearing; she had the grace of care and nurturing toward him; their bond naturally goes without saying.

This was also that day; when he heard this shocking news from her mouth, despite being extremely shocked, he still made up his mind to help her this once, bringing her along to face Gu Xuan together, and openly and secretly helping her gain permission.

After a light sigh.

"Since it is so, then stay."

Xi Wangmu Zhaotao was instantly both shocked and delighted, to the point of being unable to control herself; she kowtowed repeatedly, only to be lifted up by Gu Xuan with a gentle Dao Wave.

She ultimately was able to remain by the Holy Emperor of a generation's side.

This is absolutely an unprecedented peerless opportunity!

And on the other side, the Wushi Great Emperor was also exceptionally delighted; this can also be called a rare happy event!

(Chapter End)