Chapter 138: Finally Recognizing the Empress Mother

The vermilion scroll transformed into the illusory shadow of a three-legged golden crow, which joyfully gazed into the void.

Shen Qingli also looked over at once! Yet she saw nothing.

Accompanying that sonorous, overbearing imperial voice was a vigorous slaughtering divine power.

The shadow of that Xuanwu God Spirit was directly scattered……

"Pfft!"

The three Xuanwu Palace immortal envoys all spat blood, plummeting straight down from the heights, unknown whether dead or alive.

No one paid attention to them, not even Shen Qingli, because——

"Zhong! Ming! Lan!"

A faint roar came from beyond the heavens, impossible to tell if male or female! It also seemed like a male voice mixed with a female voice, howling sharply and harshly.

And the three characters "Zhong Minglan" shocked Shen Qingli's mind and spirit! She almost withdrew from the mustard-seed Sumeru state, but she couldn't bear to, she wanted to look.

Zhong Minglan, her true mother.

As it turned out, the Vermilion Bird Empress was Zhong Minglan.

It wasn't that her birth mother had changed; it had always been "Zhong Minglan," the mother who chose to nurture her with her own life, Zhong Minglan.

"You actually descended to the lower realm privately!"

"Do you even know what you're doing?!"

The mixed male and female voice kept questioning.

"If you keep doing this, your imperial status could be revoked outright!"

"You even harmed my Dao Spirit!"

These two sentences made Shen Qingli's heart leap into her throat!

However, Zhong Minglan's voice again burst forth vigorously, "You deserve it."

"You..." the Xuanwu God Emperor was so angry he seemed unable to catch his breath.

"My daughter, you also dare to act! Wait for me, or if I don't break your turtle shell, I'm not Zhong Minglan!"

"What are you saying! Your daughter!" the Xuanwu God Emperor exclaimed, his voice cracking, "Who did you have a daughter with?!"

"Get lost!" Zhong Minglan's voice rang like metal weapons, as if she had struck the Xuanwu God Emperor, who roared, "You're still attacking this throne!"

"Zhong Minglan! You don't want to live anymore! You're currently between the two realms, yet you're not afraid of falling into a spacetime rift?!"

"Hmph!" Zhong Minglan merely gave a cold snort! It seemed she did something else, but Shen Qingli only heard the Xuanwu God Emperor's roar.

Soon after, the Xuanwu God Emperor was clearly raging impotently, "Wait for this throne! I'll go report to the Dao Lord right away!"

"Trash." Zhong Minglan sneered, "Tell your Su Nv to wait for this emperor, don't think I've really forgotten everything."

"What do you mean by saying that?" the mixed male-female voice instantly turned into a clear female voice.

Zhong Minglan, however, no longer responded; the female voice kept questioning! But it also gradually faded away.

In a vague way, Shen Qingli seemed to hear, "You're still blocking Sheng Long Tian! What are you trying to do?!"

"You're crazy! For an illusory daughter, you've even violated heavenly laws! You…"

What came after, Shen Qingli strained to hear but couldn't catch.

However, she did hear another voice.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

"Protect the pretty one."

"The pretty one?"

"My daughter."

Zhong Minglan said matter-of-factly.

She still didn't know what Shen Qingli was called.

Shen Qingli couldn't even see her yet, but she could already feel that in that seemingly light utterance of "My daughter," there was a deep affection.

"Are you worried the Xuanwu God Emperor might be unfavorable to her?"

"Hmm." Zhong Minglan was absentminded, her brows slightly furrowed.

"Then you wouldn't go so far as to break heavenly laws, right? How would you explain this to the Dao Lord?"

"What's wrong with this emperor doting on her own daughter?" Zhong Minglan didn't care, but she felt that there seemed to be a presence besides her and the three-legged golden crow.

Normally, when she has this intuition, she is never wrong!

Usually, she would have hammered her divine power into the four directions and pulled out that trace of aura.

But now she hasn't, because deep down she has given rise to a subtle sense of affinity.

However, having been blasted away by her—and even having killed a trace of Dao Spirit—the Xuanwu God Emperor is already fuming.

Inside the Xuanwu God Palace.

"Nonsense!"

The furious roar almost lifted the roof of the Xuanwu Palace.

"Husband, don't be upset."

"How can I not be angry! That damned Zhong Minglan—does she even regard me at all?!"

"Obviously not."

"You're making me furious!"

Under the soothing of the gentle female voice, the violent roar only grew fiercer, not easing.

"No way, I'm going to find the Dao Lord right now!"

"Isn't the Dao Lord still in seclusion?"

"Well then, what do you suggest we do?"

The female voice paused briefly, then spoke in a gentle, flowing manner.

The Dao Lord is in closed-door cultivation; our Four Spirits' matters are naturally to be settled by us Four Spirits ourselves.

"You mean to look for that reptile and big cat?" The displeased male voice, apparently still looking down on the Azure Dragon God Emperor and White Tiger God Emperor, even said, "Su Nv, don't think I don't know—you're exchanging glances with them!"

"Husband, what nonsense are you spouting?" Su Nv's gentle voice full of grievance, "I'm also doing it for our daughter."

"What did Zhong Minglan mean by saying that just now?" the male voice suddenly asked!

Su Nv, however, doubted and asked back, "Which line?"

"Don't think she really forgot that line!"

"How would I know." Su Nv said mysteriously, "I feel she seems a bit confused."

"She's basically a lunatic! She actually gave birth to a daughter! Who did she have it with!"

The male voice, apparently very concerned about this, chattered on endlessly, while Su Nv fell silent, calmly looking at her husband—Shao Guan Wu, with a hint of ridicule at the corner of her mouth.

Qin Su Nv, Shao Guan Wu, naturally born together; if not united, they are the Black Tortoise divine spirit. Qin Su Nv often wants to kick this brainless brute!

Regarding the Vermilion Bird Empress Zhong Minglan, who can fully act as a divine spirit on her own, she has always been envious! Even jealous—what gives her the right?

As for this, Zhong Minglan actually faintly sensed it, but she currently doesn't care about Qin Su Nv; she only wants to know whether this wisp of 'aura' surrounding her is her little pretty one.

Only her little pretty one can make her feel affectionate, right?

"Is it you?"

Zhong Minglan suddenly asked, her voice very gentle.

The three-legged golden crow froze, "Your Majesty, are you speaking to your subordinate?"

Zhong Minglan couldn't be bothered to deal with it, her gaze wandering around, wanting to find the 'person'.

And her inquiry also stirred Shen Qingli's heart and mind greatly!

"It's you, right?"

Zhong Minglan faintly sensed the fluctuation, she closed her eyes, the Vermilion Bird light and shadow on her forehead glittering brightly.

Shen Qingli seemed to sense it as well; on her true form, the Vermilion Bird mark on her forehead also shone brilliantly.

Zhong Minglan's gaze immediately locked onto her! But even though she is a divine spirit, she cannot penetrate the temporal barrier of the ancestral land; yet she clearly sensed Shen Qingli and even discerned her state.

"Mustard Seed Sumeru?"

Zhong Minglan immediately calmed her mind and steadied her breath.

The three-legged golden crow almost jumped up in anxiety!

They are crossing the spatial barrier!

Her Majesty the Empress just fought a battle with the Black Tortoise God Emperor, not to mention!

And now she's actually not caring, directly cultivating here!

What is she trying to do! The three-legged golden crow almost had its soul scared out of it by this willful master!

But at this moment, Zhong Minglan really couldn't care about anything else!

She saw……

At the instant she saw it! Shen Qingli also saw it.

'Empress, Mother'

'Right?'