Chapter 224 Don't even think about using this to suppress me again...
Asagiri instinctively took a step back. She disliked the way the Heavenly Emperor looked at her, as if he were looking at prey.
Such a gaze had terrified her even when she was still Shuyue. After a moment's hesitation, Chaowu forced herself to speak, "Your Majesty, did you summon me for something?"
"Chen Yi has already told you, hasn't he?" the Heavenly Emperor said directly.
Chaowu looked over in surprise, not expecting him to bring up Chenyi Immortal Lord directly. After realizing what he meant, she immediately denied it, "I don't know what you mean."
“You don’t need to deny it, I know you remember everything, Goddess Shuyue.”
"So what do you want from me?" Since the other party already knew and had brought it up, Asagiri stopped pretending to be stupid.
The Heavenly Emperor sighed, “I had no intention of harming you. Think about it, if I wanted to kill you, why would I wait until now? Child, I just hope you won’t be deceived by them. Think about it, I am the Heavenly Emperor. If I wanted to destroy all this, wouldn’t it be easier to just issue an order in the name of the Heavenly Emperor?”
Asagiri looked over and hesitated before saying, "What you said does make some sense."
“Child, I want to help you too. In my heart, I’ve always treated you like my own daughter. Haven’t I been good to you? Come, tell me, where is Chen Yi? Don’t be deceived by him. He never tells the truth.”
Asagiri looked at the Heavenly Emperor before her, still hesitant and conflicted. "What you two say is indeed different, but how can you prove that what you say is true and that the other person is lying to me?"
"You still don't believe me?"
"What if you're both lying to me?"
"It's certainly a good thing to be on guard." The Heavenly Emperor took something from his sleeve and handed it over.
“Your father, Chongshi, was my senior brother. This is what he left me. Since you have Chongshi’s help, you should believe me, right?”
Chaowu took the letter; it was a letter from her father, Chongshi Shenjun, to Chen Ge, saying that they should cooperate with him to take down Chen Yi and prevent him from continuing to wreak havoc on the Three Realms.
The handwriting on this is exactly the same as the Chongshi manuscript that Asagiri just saw.
What a coincidence! She had just discovered the notes her father had left behind when the Heavenly Emperor came looking for her and showed her these letters. She still couldn't be sure whether she had written those notes herself.
"Now, you should be willing to believe me, right?"
Asagami looked up at the Heavenly Emperor and said, "If that's the case, why didn't you investigate my affairs back then? Did you also think that I burned the Spirit Udumbara and killed Brother Qingyue, which is why you ordered me to be punished by lightning?"
“I had my own difficulties back then, child. Of course I believe you wouldn’t do such a thing. To this day, I still feel extremely guilty for not being able to save you back then.”
Asagiri looked at him, "But now my identity has been replaced, and Gengo doesn't recognize me. Even if he said it, it would probably be meaningless."
"How could there not be? That flower fairy is just a substitute for you. She can't replace your place in Xuanwu's heart. As long as Xuanwu knows that you are the real Shuyue, he will definitely return to your side."
"Really?"
"certainly!"
Asagiri sighed, "I believe you mean well, but how can I help you?"
The Heavenly Emperor looked at Chaowu and smiled, "Good child, as long as you can lure him out, I can capture him. I haven't told the Empress about this yet because I'm worried she won't be able to accept it. You're a good child, you certainly don't want your aunt to worry, right?"
Asagiri nodded. "You're right. We can't let Auntie worry."
Upon hearing Asagiri's words, the Heavenly Emperor's lips curled into a smile.
"It's so good that you're willing to believe me."
Asagiri laughed, then changed the subject, "Of course I believe my uncle, but unfortunately my uncle isn't you."
As she spoke, the morning mist gathered spiritual energy and blasted it towards the Heavenly Emperor.
The Heavenly Emperor avoided the question, looking at Chao Wu with a sinister smile, "This little girl has been reincarnated, and her mind is much smarter than before."
"You call Chen Yi 'uncle,' and I am practically his uncle as well. I just want to help you, so why don't you believe me?" The Heavenly Emperor reached out to stroke Chao Wu's hair, but she dodged it warily.
She even reached out and pulled out the insect that the Heavenly Emperor wanted to use to ambush her.
Asagiri looked at the Heavenly Emperor and crushed the insect. "Do you think I'm easy to fool? This isn't the first time you've tried to kill me. I haven't forgotten that you were the one who threw me into the Demon-Subduing Seal and caused the deaths of my parents."
The Heavenly Emperor withdrew his hand, clicked his tongue twice, and although he was smiling, his expression was extremely cold. "What an unlovable child. If only you had never remembered, I could have given you a quick death."
Looking at the Heavenly Emperor shaking his head and sighing, Chaowu's hands behind her back were once again filled with spiritual power, waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to this evil spirit.
"You want to kill me?"
Asagiri's expression hardened. She hadn't expected the other party to see through her intentions, but she didn't say anything. She just looked at him warily.
Ask him if he did those things, and I'll record it for you using a recording stone.
"Why aren't you saying anything?" The Heavenly Emperor raised an eyebrow and looked at Chaowu.
Asagiri twitched the corner of her mouth. "If I tell you, will you answer me?"
"If you really want to know, I can answer you."
Asagiri withdrew her gaze from the words that were passing by and looked at the Heavenly Emperor in front of her. She did indeed have too many questions. "How did you trick Brother Qingyue into helping me escape from the Heavenly Prison?"
The Heavenly Emperor clasped his hands together and looked at Chaowu with a smile. "It's been a while, and I don't remember the specifics very well, but I told him some truths, and he couldn't take the blow."
At this point, the Heavenly Emperor suddenly laughed, "He was just a simple child. I only said a few words, that I was his father and a devil who had committed countless evil deeds, and he believed me and almost went mad. Then I took the opportunity to do something to him, and when he ran away from the Heavenly Prison with you, I let the guards know about it. When the immortals were about to arrive, I cast a spell from not far away."
The Heavenly Emperor raised his hands. "His soul was instantly torn to pieces. Although I was just an evil soul separated from his father, I loved him just like a father would, and I didn't let him suffer too much in his passing."
Tears streamed down Asagiri's face. "The Spirit Udumbara was destroyed twice, wasn't that your doing? Weren't you on Mount Ling last time too?"
"That's right, that's me too. They're just some useless flowers, so what if they're destroyed? I wanted to destroy those flowers in a way that was more valuable, but it's all because you, Shuyue, wouldn't cooperate."
Asagiri clenched her fists, and the spiritual energy gathered in her hands behind her back almost dissipated due to her excitement.
"Those Flower Spirit sisters who impersonated me, were they also hired by you?"
“That’s right. Although they are twin spirit flowers, the two sisters are not very harmonious. I need to take back the soul in Xuanwu’s hands, and they are my best candidates. I didn’t expect that Xuanwu would also bring her hair down to the mortal world. The hair was tainted with the aura of the mortal world and actually transformed into a hair demon, which stole your soul and unexpectedly allowed you to take back your own soul.”
The Heavenly Emperor looked at Chaowu, "That Xuanwu is so easily fooled. He still believes that the one beside him is the real Shuyue. Ayue, you know you love Xuanwu so much. Seeing all this, aren't you heartbroken?"
With his gaze falling on Chaowu, the Heavenly Emperor sighed, "You actually broke the love spell I cast. It seems your skills are much better than Xuanwu's."
"When I first met Xuanwu, you tampered with me, making me fall in love with him against all odds. The demon taking my soul was also your deliberate scheme, and you even put a love curse on my soul, all to make me fall in love with Xuanwu again. You not only want to kill Brother Qingyue and me, but you also want to get rid of Xuanwu, because he is the child of the Father God and the Mother God, and you are afraid that something might happen to him."
The Heavenly Emperor laughed, "Ah Yue, how come you've become so much smarter after reincarnation? It's a pity that Xuanwu is just of noble blood; he's not actually a very intelligent person. Compared to him, I'm more wary of you, the only one who can hear the Wujiu Sword's ringing."
Asagiri unleashed the gathered spiritual power towards the Heavenly Emperor, saying, "Since you fear me so much, you should be able to die without regrets by my hand, right?"
The Heavenly Emperor tried to dodge to the side, but Xiang Bei directly slapped a freezing talisman on him. The talisman, which could freeze a god, cost her a lot of points.
All the spiritual energy struck the Heavenly Emperor, and his form was quickly shattered. But this was not the end of it. This was just one of the Heavenly Emperor's incarnations; his true self was not here at all.
Even as the Heavenly Emperor disappeared, Asagiri didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief.
I closed the door, leaned against it, and closed my eyes for a moment.
Her spiritual power began to dissipate again. Her all-out attack had only managed to destroy one of the Heavenly Emperor's avatars. If the Heavenly Emperor himself, possessed by an evil spirit, were here, things would likely be much more complicated.
With her current abilities, she is no match for the evil spirits, not to mention that her spiritual power could dissipate completely at any moment.
How can the seal on her body be broken?
Asagiri sat on the futon, looking at the notes on the table. In the end, everything that had happened today was just a test from that evil spirit.
He was able to tell me all those things because he wasn't afraid of being exposed. He came here perhaps just to test the waters.
Now he probably has a good grasp of his own abilities.
Her father's journal was almost entirely filled with accounts of his interactions with his wife and daughters. She read it over and over again, trying to find her own memories of her parents within it.
But there was nothing there.
Aside from a vague impression, I can't remember anything.
Asagi hadn't gone out for several days, and even Lord Liujing was a little worried. He came to check on her a few times and, knowing that she was just looking at the notes left by her father, couldn't help but sigh.
That was indeed Chongshi Shenjun's handwriting; even Liujing Shenjun could recognize his senior brother's handwriting.
The parents Liu Jing learned about from her aunt were quite different. She also said that Liu Jing used to look exactly like her mother, Ling Shuang, and their personalities were very similar as well.
"If your father and mother saw you like this, I wonder how heartbroken they would be."
Asagiri leaned against Ryukyou-shin-kun without saying a word.
She will definitely find a way to destroy the evil spirit. Her parents should not have had to sacrifice their own bodies to seal the Demon-Subduing Seal. All of this was caused by the evil spirit. As her daughter, how could she not avenge her parents?
Lord Liujing held her hand, "No matter what, you must remember that you still have me as your aunt."
"Thank you, Auntie."
Chaowu went to see Immortal Lord Chenyi again, and his soul was even weaker than the last time she saw him.
Chaowu told Immortal Lord Chenyi about Chen Ge's search for her.
She looked at her hands. "My spiritual power is being absorbed by the seal. Uncle, if you can't break the seal, I'm afraid there's no way to deal with that evil spirit."
Immortal Lord Chenyi sighed, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly turned his head to look to the side and said in a deep voice, "It's here."
The Heavenly Emperor emerged from the shadows.
Asagiri only then realized that she was being followed by the Heavenly Emperor without even noticing, and that her spiritual power was dissipating so severely.
"Good child, thank you so much for finding him for me," the Heavenly Emperor said with a smile to Asagiri.
"How shameless!"
The Heavenly Emperor was not angry; instead, he laughed and said, "Take this as a compliment."
He reached out to Asagiri, "Good boy, come here."
Just as Asagiri was about to speak, she found that her body was not obeying her commands and was walking towards the Heavenly Emperor.
That insect was a decoy; in reality, the Heavenly Emperor had already tampered with her.
It was Immortal Lord Chenyi who stopped Chaowu, halting her steps. "What did you do to her?"
"I just did a little something to her to make her work for me, just like I did to your son Qingyue. There's nothing surprising about it."
"mean!"
"Don't you think what you're saying makes no sense? I am your evil spirit, and to call what I've done despicable is to praise me."
The Heavenly Emperor looked at Chaowu, made a hand seal, muttered something under his breath, then threw a dagger to Chaowu and shouted, "Good boy, don't waste any more words with him, just kill him."
Immortal Lord Chenyi reached out and pressed down on Chaowu, preventing her from moving.
Asagiri's hand caught the dagger uncontrollably, and then she turned around and raised the dagger towards Immortal Lord Chenyi.
"Stab him! Stab him in the chest!"
Asagi was conscious, but her hands were out of control. She struggled desperately, not wanting to hurt Immortal Lord Chenyi.
"Chen Ge, this is between you and me, don't involve the child."
"How can you say it's an implicator, Chen Yi? I am your evil spirit. I killed her parents, which is the same as you killing them. They were your most respected senior brothers and sisters. You also killed your son. Chen Yi, you deserve to die even more than me. Being killed by the daughter of the senior brothers and sisters you killed is what you deserve. Are you going to resist?"
With that, Immortal Lord Chenyi did indeed let go.
The Heavenly Emperor sneered, "You only have these remnants of your soul left. How can you fight me? Good child, use the dagger in your hand to stab him in the heart and kill him."
"Asagiri, he's right, I do owe you this. If you die by your hand, it will atone for some of my sins."
"No! No!" Asagiri closed her eyes. She saw her seal and could feel the spiritual energy near it.
She doesn't want to be controlled by anyone, no!
As the dagger pierced through, Chao Wu missed, only tearing Chen Yi Xianjun's clothes. Chao Wu opened her eyes, broke free of her restraints, and threw the dagger towards the Heavenly Emperor, shouting, "Here, take this back!"
The dagger pierced the Heavenly Emperor's heart, and his body did not dissipate; this Heavenly Emperor was the original.
The Heavenly Emperor's expression changed drastically. "What a powerful divine soul! No wonder she is the Goddess Shuyue, who can hear the sword's ringing of Wujiu."
The dagger was pulled out, and Chao Wu took the opportunity to attack. Xiang Bei then used a talisman to immobilize the Heavenly Emperor.
Asagiri struck the Heavenly Emperor in the chest with a palm strike.
"Immortal Lord Chenyi, hurry!" Chaowu shouted.
In the next instant, Immortal Lord Chenyi transformed into a beam of light and entered the Heavenly Emperor's body, squeezing out the evil soul.
As the evil spirit was being squeezed out, Asagiri used the Binding Immortal Rope to bind it.
"What a scheme! You knew I was following you? That's why you and Chen Yi put on this whole act?" The evil spirit glared at Chao Wu.
Asagiri shook her head. "No, I really didn't notice you following me. It was just a plan that Uncle Chenyi and I came up with on the spot. Speaking of which, I really have to thank you. When you called me 'good boy,' it made me wary to the core."
That's what the Heavenly Emperor called her before. He tricked her, took her away, and threatened her parents to make them open the ancient Demon-Subduing Seal.
His parents refused, so he threw himself into the seal.
"I will not be deceived by you again. I will avenge the death of my parents myself."
The evil spirit tried to break free of the Immortal Binding Lock, but found that the more it struggled, the tighter the lock became.
"Stop struggling. This Immortal Binding Lock was specially made to deal with you, Chen Ge. This time, I won't let you escape."
"Chen Yi, don't be so smug. Even if you capture me, what can you do? Can you kill me? As long as I live, I'll have a chance to start over. Chen Yi, you created me. You are the real culprit. You are the one who deserves to die."
Seemingly not satisfied, Chen Ge continued, "What do you mean by 'devoted cultivation,' Chen Yi? If you were truly a god-king with a heart for all living beings, how could you have a malevolent spirit like me? You're nothing but a hypocritical villain. You're jealous of your senior brother Chong Shi's powerful spiritual energy, and you want to replace him. Dare you say you've never even considered any of this?"
"I've thought about it." Immortal Lord Chenyi looked at Chen Ge and said frankly, "I did envy and be jealous of Senior Brother Chongshi's powerful spiritual energy. Gods also have desires. I don't deny my desires, but I just wanted to work hard to cultivate so that I could be on par with Senior Brother in the future. I never thought of killing Senior Brother and Senior Sister Lingshuang."
Chen Ge's gaze instantly darkened. "So what? No matter how eloquently you speak, it doesn't change the fact that I am your evil spirit. I am you. I killed Chong Shi because you wanted Chong Shi dead."
"No, from the moment my senior brother separated you from my body, you were no longer me. Before, I was always trapped in the idea that you were me and I was you, which is why you were able to find an opportunity to suppress me. I am not you, and you are not me. It was you who killed my senior brother, not me. Don't even think about using this to suppress me anymore."
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