Chapter 502: The Three Souls of the Empress
Tao Zi took the cup of tea but didn't drink it. She just asked, "Why is it so late?"
"You have been possessed by a demon."
Tao Zi completely understood from these four simple words: "From what I've seen in the past, Heaven wants me to become a demon, and you... you are playing against Heaven, and I am just a pawn in your hands?"
When she spoke of the latter part, she recalled her past experiences and her face turned cold.
"I'm sorry." The woman sighed softly, but there was no guilt in her words. "I never thought that person would do such a thing. It has lost its original intention."
Tao Zi asked directly: "Which things did you do, and which things did it do?"
"When you were young, you were separated from your brother and nearly killed by a foreign race. It led your master to rescue you, and I warned the Xujia Sect, but we were one step behind. Afterwards, it replaced the soul in your master's body with someone else, and I guided Lian Qingzhou to the Minglan Sect..."
"Wait a minute!"
Tao Zi suddenly stood up and stared at her closely: "My master?"
The woman nodded.
She clenched her fists tightly, holding on to the last glimmer of hope and asked, "Where is my master's soul?"
The woman's gaze passed over a blade of grass not far away, and she said gently, "Qinglan's soul has naturally been shattered. Aren't you curious why I led Lian Qingzhou to Minglan Sect?"
Tao Zi closed her eyes, her voice a little hoarse: "Why should I be curious? She just wants her to kill me to prevent me from becoming possessed by the devil, or she wants to hand the key to the ruins to me."
"Miss Yue reacted quickly. I had two plans. One was that Lian Qingzhou would kill you and you would continue to reincarnate. The other was that the Xujia Sect would find you and take you away from the Minglan Sect. You saw the result."
Tao Zi skipped over these things and asked directly: "Is what happened to my junior brothers and sisters also the work of heaven?"
"Just taking advantage of it."
Her heart tightened: "What do you mean?"
"Your junior brothers and sisters are destined to have a rough life and a tragic death. No one can change this fate, not even the laws of nature." The woman's voice was calm, yet tinged with a hint of cruelty.
Tao Zi said word by word: "What if I insist on changing it?"
"The soul is scattered and there is no afterlife."
Tao Zi was about to respond when the woman added, "It's them, not you."
She froze there.
"Miss Yue, if your chances of survival are close to zero, then they have no chance at all."
"Why?"
"It cannot be said."
Tao Zi suddenly laughed, her laughter sounding rather shrill: "Heaven is unfair, it's really unfair."
After she calmed down, the woman said, "Miss Yue, the more you know, the more desperate you become. Do you still want to continue listening?"
"Listen, why not? I want to see just how unfair this world is!" Tao Zi said expressionlessly, "But compared to the past, I want to know who, what, and what is the source of all this. Don't try to fool me with Yue Qiran's past anymore."
The woman was silent for a moment, then finally sighed and said, "There are so many things going on, so why not just do it this way? You ask, and I answer."
She calmed down and looked at her intently: "Are you the Emperor's Daughter, or the Way of Heaven?"
The woman laughed and said, "The Imperial Princess has passed away. She no longer exists in this world. You are not her, and neither am I. As for the Way of Heaven? Miss Yue, you can really joke. At most, I have some authority over the Way of Heaven, but I am far from being called the Way of Heaven."
Tao Zi understood the implication of her words, but was even more puzzled. "So you and I were both imperial princesses in our previous lives. But how is that possible? Without the three souls united, how can one enter the cycle of reincarnation?"
"If it's not possible for humans, what about God?"
Tao Zi suddenly looked at her and realized that she had touched the source of everything.
"The merits and virtues of the Imperial Princess during her reign are beyond your imagination. Furthermore, she possesses the royal family's good fortune and died for this world. Even if the laws of nature are damaged, it cannot prevent her from becoming a god."
"Since you have become a god, why..." Tao Zi stopped talking halfway when she understood what he meant.
"Whether gods or immortals, none can return to this world. The alien races are still wreaking havoc, and the Imperial Princess, with the empire in her heart, how could she be willing to become a god?" The woman sighed softly. "The moment she became a god, her soul dispersed. The seven spirits used their divine power to repair the broken way of heaven. The celestial soul sought the alien race's space, the earthly soul stayed on earth, and the human soul was reincarnated."
"Alien space." Tao Zi couldn't help but repeat the four words, and couldn't help but confirm again, "Alien base camp?"
The woman nodded with a smile.
Tao Zi was speechless. The Xuanyue Continent had repeatedly been at a disadvantage in front of the alien races. The reason behind this was simply because the cultivators could not find the alien races' base camp and could not wipe them out. They could only passively defend. Unfortunately, the battlefield was on the Xuanyue Continent, which constrained them greatly.
Who would have thought that three thousand years ago, the Emperor's daughter had solved this problem, but no one knew about it.
No wonder the alien races are so concerned about the affairs of the Emperor's daughter.
No one noticed that a blade of grass not far away was moving without wind.
"So how did things get to this point?"
"The Celestial Soul used divine power to establish a teleportation space. The alien race knew of its existence, but could not find it, much less erase it. However, upon returning, it discovered traces of the alien race within the Heavenly Dao. It then merged itself into the Heavenly Dao, gaining most of its authority to drive out the alien race and handing the teleportation space over to me. I then used my divine power to create the Imperial Daughter's Ruins to protect the teleportation space. Because my divine power far surpasses that of this world, the Imperial Daughter's Ruins became a space of its own, transcending Xuan Yue and becoming an existence untraceable to the Heavenly Dao. As for the human soul, although it cannot obtain divine power, it possesses a damaged godhood and supreme luck. As a mortal, it will live a life of carefree happiness; as a cultivator, it will be blessed with good fortune, making it the easiest to ascend."
Tao Zi looked at her without saying anything.
The woman smiled and continued, "That was how it was originally, but then a little trouble arose, and things became like this now."
"The Heavenly Soul was accidentally contaminated while expelling traces of the alien race. To protect itself, it was forced to erase most of its consciousness, only remembering its mission - to drive out the alien race and protect the Xuanyue Continent from invasion. Over the past three thousand years, its obsession has become increasingly terrifying, to the point that it has resorted to any means necessary to tinker with the Heavenly Dao, even attempting to erase the teleportation space to prevent the alien race from using it to invade Xuanyue."
"The Heavenly Dao's best nourishment is the destiny of an immortal. To this end, it forcibly assigns numerous fortunes to a single individual, then devours their still-formed destiny when they transcend tribulation and ascend. Those whose destiny is taken away can still be reincarnated, but the so-called Son of Destiny is shattered, with no chance of rebirth. And you, born with a shattered divine nature and inextricably linked to this world, if you were to be devoured, combined with the repairs it has made over the past three thousand years, the Heavenly Dao would instantly recover, completely blocking the alien races from entering Xuan Yue. At the same time, the teleportation space would also become ineffective."
"In order to protect the teleportation space, I had no choice but to fight for the authority of the already polluted Heavenly Dao so that I could fight against it."
Tao Zi suddenly asked, "The polluted Heavenly Dao authority... do you also have obsessions?"
The woman laughed and said, "I will sacrifice the lives of my entire tribe to bury the Xuanyue civilians and soldiers who died in vain, to comfort their souls in heaven."
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