Chapter 3: The Light of Salvation?

The others traveling with him were still unconscious. Yu Shan knew this was because they were all low-level martial artists and could hardly withstand such a long-distance teleportation; damage to their spiritual sense was inevitable.

She had no right to complain that Dongfang Yu had set up the teleportation array without her consent and forcibly teleported them all here.

The long-distance teleportation took three whole days, and now her most urgent task is to return her soul to her body.

Once she was on someone else's turf, even if she had a very negative impression of him, she could only trust him for the time being.

Dongfang Yu's cultivation level was high enough that returning the soul to the body was a piece of cake for him.

However, in order to alleviate the pain of the feather fan, he deliberately slowed down the process.

Two hours later, Yu Shan finally woke up from her original body. She slowly stood up, her stiff body unable to support her strength. She swayed and almost fell over.

Dongfang Yu caught her in time. His actions were very polite, and he did not take the opportunity to be frivolous. Yu Shan politely said, "Thank you, Venerable One!"

“I have known the Holy Maiden since I was a nobody. It is too formal to address her as ‘Venerable One.’ May I call her by her name?” Dongfang Yu said sincerely.

“I’d be honored to accept your offer! I will address you as Mr. Dongfang. My name after my reincarnation is Zuo Shan, and my husband’s surname is Bai. You may call me Mrs. Bai. After all, from the moment I died, I was no longer the Holy Maiden of the Holy Witch Clan,” Yu Shan said frankly.

“I remember that your Holy Witch Clan is a matriarchal society, so I will call you Madam Zuo.”

"Your old name is still remembered by too many people. With your current cultivation level, any old acquaintance who harbors ill will towards you could potentially harm you," Dongfang Yu said.

"Alright! Now, please take me to a secluded place, Mr. Dongfang, and remove the celestial artifact that is obscuring the secrets of heaven."

"I want to test whether the Heavenly Dao of this world is still as persistent as before, determined to make me vanish into thin air!" said the feather fan.

Dongfang Yu originally thought that she would not have the same demeanor as before when he saw that her physical cultivation was so low after her reincarnation. Unexpectedly, she was able to face life and death so calmly.

The slight contempt that had initially arisen for her due to their unequal social status vanished at this moment, replaced by the respect she once held for her.

That reverence was etched into his very bones. The worship and love a mortal had for a high-ranking fairy had not been completely erased just because he now stood at the pinnacle of the cultivation world.

“Alright! If there is divine punishment, I am willing to bear it in your place. This will be a way of repaying the kindness you showed me when you saved me from dire straits,” Dongfang Yu said.

"How can divine punishment be substituted? Don't you know that divine punishment is bestowed according to an individual's cultivation level? The higher the cultivation level, the heavier the divine punishment."

Furthermore, those who take the punishment of heaven on behalf of others will receive double the punishment.

I saved you on a whim, and you set up a teleportation array for me, saving me the hardship of searching for my way home in the vast universe. We're even now.

"It was my own choice back then; no one forced me, so I will bear my own punishment. No one needs to take my place," said the feather fan.

"But aren't you worried about the baby in your womb?" Dongfang Yu's eyes were filled with deep concern.

After discussing it for a long time, the two finally chose a compromise: to wrap the feather fan's entire body in the veil, leaving only one arm exposed, to test whether Heaven still cared about punishing her.

In the wilderness, the feather fan lifted the veil wrapped around his arm, and clouds immediately gathered from afar in the once clear sky.

But the clouds weren't thick or dense enough; they looked like they were only enough for a thunderstorm.

"What does this mean?" Feather Fan asked, puzzled.

"It should be that although Heaven still remembers your aura, it no longer intends to destroy you."

But I wouldn't be satisfied without punishing him, so I decided to give him a small but serious lesson. "Dongfang Yu said.

When he learned that the Holy Maiden had been punished by the heavens, he specially collected various records about divine punishment, so no one in the world knew more about divine punishment than him.

"Oh, so you wanted to chop me a few times? Well then, I'll just let you chop me!" Yu Shan smiled brightly at the sky, casually tearing the veil off his body and handing it to Dongfang Yu.

At this moment, a large mass of dark clouds had gathered in the sky, and the feather fan was prepared to be struck a few times.

She wasn't worried about the baby in her belly because she had absorbed a lot of dragon souls. Although it was still a fetus, it was much stronger than her, the mother.

But no sooner had she exposed her entire body than the large cloud of darkness seemed to be blown away by a blower, splitting into smaller pieces and scattering away at top speed.

"What... what's going on? Did I scare it?" Feather Fan was even more confused.

“It must be because of… the fetus in your womb,” Dongfang Yu said hesitantly.

"Xi'er? She wasn't born in this world, and her body and soul haven't fully formed yet. Why would the Heavenly Dao of this world favor her so much?" Yu Shan was even more confused.

"Actually, when I asked that expert to divine the future, his original words were: the saintess will be reincarnated in another universe, and her reincarnation will bring the light of salvation from my Misty Heavenly Realm to appear in that low-level interface called the Flowing Light Star System."

At that time, I thought this light of salvation referred to a magical artifact that you unexpectedly obtained, or your partner.

"Now it seems that the light of salvation actually refers to the child in your womb. Otherwise, Heaven would not have been so kind to her, even turning a blind eye to the divine punishment you were supposed to suffer for her sake," Dongfang Yu said with a complicated expression.

If it weren't for the words "Light of Salvation," he would have ordered his third clone to forcibly send her low-level martial artist partner far away the moment they met the Holy Maiden, so that he would never reach the Misty Heaven Realm.

In Dongfang Yu's view, the reason why the Holy Maiden married a low-level martial artist was simply because she had not awakened the Holy Maiden's memories and her reincarnated body had very poor aptitude.

That kind of man is not good enough for her.

However, that person's divination had never been wrong, so he couldn't afford to gamble and had no choice but to have Number Three bring the Holy Maiden and her entourage back together.

Now he regrets not getting rid of that man sooner. With the saintess's intelligence, if he were to do something now, she would surely be able to figure it out.

Since that was the case, he stopped interfering.

Once he reaches the Misty Heaven Realm, the man will remain at the bottom. Over time, he will naturally see the gap between himself and the Holy Maiden. At that point, without anyone trying to separate them, he might even feel ashamed and want to go back to his hometown.

As an old friend of the Holy Maiden, he could still lend him a hand by activating a long-distance teleportation array to send him back to the Flowing Light Star System.

When Yu Shan, who had once saved his people, heard that Xi'er was the savior of this world, his first reaction was to frown.

She wouldn't be complacent about it.

To save the world means that this world will face a great crisis.

She saved her clan back then, but suffered the backlash of the Heavenly Dao that caused her to be reduced to ashes. This time, her Xi'er is going to save the world. How much suffering will she have to endure?

As a mother, she felt very sorry for Xi'er from the very beginning, causing her to suffer the backlash from the Heavenly Dao of Green Algae Star along with her, and then leading her on a journey of hardship and displacement.

Having finally returned to her homeland, on her very first day, she was told that the unborn Xi'er would bear such a huge responsibility.

“Mr. Dongfang, please keep this a secret. I thank you on behalf of Xi’er,” said Yu Shan.

“I understand that you don’t want her to bear the burden, and I will keep it a secret. But that person’s divination has never been wrong, and I’m afraid she can’t escape it in the end,” Dongfang Yu said.

“Even if I can’t escape it in the future, at least I will let her grow up in peace and happiness. That’s what I owe her,” Yu Shan said.