Chapter 855

Yan Buji suddenly grabbed her wrist. The Human Emperor Scripture suddenly circulated; he saw through Ji Mingyue's internal dark injury, at her heart meridian entwined with the power that shares the same source as the grey-robed man, that is, the Abnormal Beast; clearly he had been ambushed.

"Are you also an Abnormal Beast?" Yan Buji looked doubtful.

"That is a secret technique for controlling Abnormal Beasts, and it can also.... control the Human Emperor bloodline." Ji Mingyue's face looked grim.

"Let's go together." He grabbed Ji Mingyue's waist without hesitation and slammed his right fist into the ground!

Amidst the dust and smoke, Yan Buji activated the Instant Movement Secret Technique, consuming a great amount of Cosmic Dao Mark power to take Ji Mingyue away.

He wasn't doing it out of kindness; he just wanted to get some things clear.

Xuan Yuan Elder roared furiously; the Houtu fragments burst forth with immense black light. Countless Youming ghost hands merged into a sky-covering giant palm, an invisible void-restraining force arrived, Yan Buji's Instant Movement Secret Technique failed, and he swiftly fled with Ji Mingyue.

Ghost hands pursued in close pursuit; seeing they were about to be captured, Yan Buji gritted his teeth and took a deep breath.

"Zodiac Battle Formation!"

Time and space froze at this moment!

The twelve zodiac signs suddenly appeared around Yan Buji; the next moment, a torrential downpour fell all around, the fluctuations of heavenly and earthly spiritual qi and the changes in law seemed like a genuine rain from heaven, but in fact Yan Buji activated the second layer of the Time Secret Technique, the Four Seasons Scene, altering a region of heaven and earth, making the ghost hands' pursuit sluggish.

With Yan Buji's power simultaneously amplified, the two quickly broke free from the ghostly grasp and fled far away!

"Damned old beast..." the old man's furious roar spread in all directions.

After three breaths, they had already fled a thousand li.

Yan Buji's complexion, yet he clung tightly to Ji Mingyue, refusing to let go: "What do you know?"

"Dao friend, why be so obstinate...." Ji Mingyue furrowed her brows.

Yan Buji furrowed his brow, sensing her discomfort, he guessed perhaps his face was too old, not to her taste; if he were a handsome, suave youth, she might be playing hard to get.

Yan Buji snorted, releasing Ji Mingyue: "I saved you for no other reason, nor do I wish to meddle in your Imperial Bloodline clan affairs; what do you know?"

Ji Mingyue gave a bitter smile: "Three years ago I ventured into the depths of the Return to the Void and discovered the Imperial Sovereign's Canon had already been tampered with. If you weren't bearing the aberrant Dao Mark, you'd likely be a puppet now."

She suddenly coughed violently, spitting out blood flecked with starlight, and instantly went limp on the ground: "That secret art... has finally flared up..."

Yan Buji looked at her indifferently and asked: "How can you not die? At least tell me what happened."

"You.... you have obtained the Imperial Sovereign's Canon.... and the Martial Dao fortune.... your blood."

Blood?

Yan Buji hesitated, slicing his fingertip, while attempting to infuse some Fortune Dao power into the blood. A drop of blood imbued with Fortune Dao power dripped into Ji Mingyue's mouth.

Only to see the secret seal at her pulse point, like snow meeting the scorching sun, gradually melt away.

After watching Ji Mingyue recover for a while, he then asked:

"Why did you save me?" Yan Buji stared at her face gradually regaining color.

Ji Mingyue's eyelashes fluttered: "Because I saw in the river of fortune..." Before she finished, her eyes widened and she shoved Yan Buji aside: "Watch out!"

The stream water suddenly reversed, forming a water prison that trapped the two. The void split open, and a palace-clad beautiful woman resembling Ji Mingyue stepped out, a brilliant star‑light gem embedded in her brow.

"What a pair of lovebirds on the run." The beautiful woman chuckled: "Mingyue, how many times have I told you, the Imperial bloodline must avoid emotional entanglements."

Yan Buji felt the delicate body in his arms stiffen instantly.

Yan Buji turned his head, looking at the woman: "Are you blind?"

Huh?

The beautiful woman looked at Yan Buji's aged cheeks, then at Ji Mingyue, covering her forehead: "Oh Mingyue, I've been saying how you've been these years; I've found you so many talented youths, yet you glance at none, and you actually like an old man?!"

Yan Buji's face darkened, Ji Mingyue's complexion grew even darker: "Mother, my taste is fine!... Oh no, I mean, Dao friend, I'm not saying you're bad, just..."

Yan Buji waved his hand: "I'm used to seeing big scenes, and I'm not unfamiliar with ridicule. Since this senior is Ji gongzi's mother, I suppose I have nothing to do with this."

He realized that although the woman's speech was off‑key, she was indeed a genuine Harmony Dao cultivator!

Yan Buji, only now at the Nascent Soul level, realized he couldn't possibly win; after saying that, he turned his head and thought of fleeing.

Ji Mingyue's voice came, laced with bone‑deep hatred: "Mother... no, Ji Wuya! You planted that secret art in my body back then, just for today?"

The beautiful woman did not answer, merely lightly stroking the gem on her brow.

As the starlight flowed, Yan Buji horrifiedly discovered that the sword qi that had previously dissipated at Ji Mingyue's pulse point had re‑condensed, and was now ten times more violent than before!

"You think the Imperial Sovereign's Canon is easy to obtain?" Ji Wuya's smile gradually twisted, "From the moment you entered Falling Star Valley, it was prepared as a bridal gown for my son Xuan Ce!"

Yan Buji's face twitched.

Ji Mingyue's complexion turned ashen, looking at Yan Buji: "Dao friend, you must flee quickly!"

"You can't get away, you bold lass, daring to give the precious treasure I prepared for your brother to someone else!"

"Mother, he isn't...."

Yan Buji sighed, turned his body and slowly opened his eyes. The aberrant Dao Mark in his left eye fully unfurled, actually projecting a phantom of the Imperial Sovereign's Canon within his pupil.

The consumption of Fortune Dao power has already plummeted below the baseline!

"Old demoness, don't force me to call for help."

"Oh? What's your background?" Ji Wuya laughed, her eyes full of mockery.

As they spoke, Yan Buji suddenly produced the two stone tablets inherited from the Martial Ancestor, placing them in his palm: "Old demoness, let me tell you the truth! I am the chief disciple of Sect Master Wukonghou of the Shenlong Sect; if you dare to strike me, believe it or not I will smash these two Primordial stone tablets!"

You....

Wukonghou?!

Ji Wuya clearly had heard of that name; otherwise she wouldn't show such apprehension.

And Yan Buji's evidence is equally sharp: the two Primordial stone tablets inherited from the Martial Ancestor bear a mysterious Martial Dao aura so profound that even someone of Ji Wuya's strength cannot see it clearly, yet that Primordial Martial Dao power exists both on Yan Buji and on the tablets—doesn't that mean....

Are you truly Wukonghou's disciple?

"Or should I contact my master from the Youming Realm, or summon Senior Hong Yuan and the other Martial Dao elders, so that you, old demoness, will finally own up?" Yan Buji said lightly.

Ji Wuya's face darkened as she looked at Ji Mingyue: "So that's it—he isn't of the Imperial bloodline yet can bear the Imperial Sovereign's Canon; turns out you knew he was a successor of the Martial Ancestor?!"

Huh?

Yan Buji subconsciously guessed that there might indeed be some secret between the Imperial Sovereign and the Martial Ancestor!