Chapter 221 Su Yuyao Inherits the Heavenly Palace
Thick, dark clouds still hung over the Heavenly Palace. The branches formed by the Cicada Feather Sword were hidden in the rising white mist. The golden energy, forged by the fire in the sea, had condensed into dazzling silver stones. The once unruly Ze Yuan was sealed in an ice coffin, and the clown-like demoness Hong Zhu was burned to ashes. The already chaotic situation had become even more chaotic!
"How can Lord Zeyuan continue to shoulder the responsibilities of a righteous Heavenly Lord in this state?"
"What responsibility? Judging from this situation, Lord Youdao is already in Lord Xuanfeng's grasp!"
"It's not as simple as just having a Heavenly Lord. I'm afraid the entire Heavenly Palace belongs to Lord Xuanfeng!"
"This Su Yuyao is really amazing! She was able to seal Lord Zeyuan and burn that witch!"
"That witch should have died long ago! Good riddance!"
"However, Su Yuyao's claim that she wants to refine the metal element is a bit too arrogant! Within the Heavenly Palace, there are countless roof tiles; if she were to make a move, wouldn't she become the target of everyone's criticism?!"
"He has plenty of courage! But he lacks maturity! He doesn't understand the doctrine of the mean!"
"Empress Yi has also lost her power and has been suppressed by Su Yuyao. This is going to be a good show!"
Listening to everyone's unspoken thoughts, Xuanfeng felt a pang of sadness. He gazed at Su Yuyao with pity; this once filthy, smelly girl had grown into a goddess comparable to his mother. He had once been fixated on not being able to be with her, but now he wanted to give up everything for her. But she was no longer there…
Xuanfeng sighed deeply, surveyed the area, the dark clouds had stopped, and the white mist had not dissipated. He wondered how many people this girl had brought with her, yet she dared to put on such an arrogant demeanor!
"Door gods!" Xuanfeng glanced at the door gods and asked softly, "How many people did the girl bring?"
The door god quickly stepped forward and whispered, "I don't know, only Miss Miao'er came to break through the Heavenly Gate at that time... Oh! And those insects!"
Xuanfeng gasped again, "You mean... she let the little one break through the Heavenly Gate by herself?!"
"Yes!" The door god nodded, then pointed to Luo Fengyue, who was appearing and disappearing in the white mist, and said, "However, judging from this situation, Miss Yao'er must have been following us in the insect mist the whole time!"
Xuan Feng frowned, glancing disapprovingly at Luo Fengyue. This girl was still so bold! What if…
"Bi Rong! What are you standing there for? Burn it!" Su Yuyao's voice interrupted Xuan Feng's thoughts.
What?! Burn?! Xuan Feng snapped out of his daze and looked at Su Yuyao, only to see Su Yuyao smugly directing Bi Rong, "Start burning from the bottom, keep burning all the way up..."
"Yes!" Bi Rong replied respectfully, ignoring Rui Xin's expression beside him, and glared at the roof with fiery eyes!
Xuan Feng swung his palm, a powerful gust of Qi pressing Bi Rong down. He strode up to Su Yuyao, gritting his teeth as he said, "The roof tiles of all the palaces within the Heavenly Palace were brought from the main family by Lord Ruixin! Even if something needs to be disposed of, it should be decided by Your Highness, don't act on your own!"
"I know." Su Yuyao blinked and nodded.
Xuanfeng frowned, staring intently into Su Yuyao's eyes, and said in a low voice, word by word, "Within the Heavenly Palace, all the roof tiles..."
"I know!"
"Then why did you still burn it?!"
"Don't worry," Su Yuyao patted Xuanfeng on the shoulder and laughed, "I'm not stupid enough to harm the descendants of the South China Sea and bring trouble upon myself, nor am I foolish enough to burn just one roof tile and become the target of everyone's criticism!"
As she spoke, she walked around to stand in front of Ruixin, who was gritting his teeth and enduring the pain, and asked with a smirk, "Ruixin-kun, what do you say?"
Ruixin raised his eyelids and looked up at Su Yuyao. The ghost fire in his heart suddenly ignited, and the excruciating pain instantly spread through all his meridians along his nerves!
"Hmm!" Ruixin pressed his hand to his chest, large golden beads of sweat slowly trickling down his temples.
Xuanfeng watched as a flame faintly appeared in Ruixin's heart. Ruixin actually possessed sea fire within her?! What on earth is this brat up to?!
Su Yuyao looked at Bi Rong triumphantly, raising an eyebrow slightly, "Bi Rong, burn it!"
Two streaks of orange-yellow flame shot into the air, instantly engulfing the entire rooftop! The archers didn't even have time to resist or dodge before they were consumed by the flames!
Ruixin stared with eyes filled with bloodlust, his face twitching and covered in golden sweat, blood slowly trickling from the corner of his trembling mouth.
“Su Yuyao,” Ruixin clenched his fist at his chest and said in a low voice, “I’ve done as you asked! You also promised not to hurt my people…”
"Hehe!" Su Yuyao laughed contemptuously, "Ruixin Jun, take a look at the current Mother Yi, is she still the same Wuji Mother from back then? And look at yourself, you've been worn down to nothing but an empty shell. If I hadn't used the Fire of the Sea to stabilize your mind, your physical body would have been reduced to ashes long ago! What right do you have to negotiate with me?"
Ruixin's face twitched even more violently, and the flames in his chest gradually burned up to his throat. He looked at his clansmen being engulfed in flames, and his meridians suddenly burst! He could no longer feel pain; he only knew that the pain he was enduring was the retribution for causing the entire Jin clan to fall into the abyss!
The gods and immortals, seeing Ruixin on the verge of collapse, began to worry again.
"Even the Empress Yi can't save Prince Ruixin, so the Jin family is probably doomed!"
"The metal element isn't so easily overthrown! Don't forget, the metal element is spiritual energy born within the earth element!"
"And don't forget, the current Kuntu... is probably not the Mother Goddess anymore!"
Xuanfeng glanced at the chattering crowd, but couldn't stop the gossip from reaching the ears of Yi's mother and Su Yuyao.
Holding the kitten-like baby, Yi's mother was both angry and anxious. For the sake of her reputation, she couldn't abandon the child. To prevent the Heavenly Palace from falling into the hands of others, she could only roll her eyes and helplessly watch Ruixin being bullied by Su Yuyao, powerless to help.
Su Yuyao didn't care about anyone's opinions, nor did she take Yi's mother's disdain to heart. She turned her red eyes and stared intently at the flames on Ruixin's chest, saying, "Lord Ruixin, take a good look at your people. They're about to turn into lumps of iron! Forever and ever, they'll just be roof tiles! I've refined so many palaces in the Heavenly Palace, one by one, like this!"
"Shut up..." Ruixin tried his best to suppress his anger, but the flames in his throat rose to his eyes. "Shut up!"
Ruixin's Qi field suddenly exploded, and a stream of black Qi burst out from his chest, transforming into a black arrow that shot towards Su Yuyao!
Xuanfeng quickly released his Qi to shield Su Yuyao, but Su Yuyao drew her sword and swept it, breaking through Xuanfeng's Qi shield!
*Thud!* The arrow pierced Su Yuyao's chest perfectly!
"Girl!" Xuanfeng roared, and the branches in the white mist suddenly swelled up, stirring up the thick dark clouds, and swirling with damp water vapor as they rushed towards Ruixin like a giant python!
Su Yuyao looked down at the black energy slowly melting in her chest and smiled triumphantly, "Heh! It's finally out!"
Su Yuyao slightly turned her wrist, and a wall of Qi blocked her way behind her!
Thump! Thump! Thump! Xuanfeng's python branch had no time to dodge and stood straight against the Qi wall!
"Su Yuyao! Have you gone too far?!" Xuan Feng hurriedly retracted the python branch and roared, "How dare you stop me?!"
"Hey! Hey! Don't be angry, sir!" Qi Men quickly stepped forward and said with a smile, "Sir, Yao'er has grown up and understands things very well!"
"You call this growing up?! This is just her wings hardening!" Xuanfeng pointed at Su Yuyao, who was trapped inside the Qi wall. "Has she been shot?! Even after being shot, she's still so willful?!"
Qi Men stroked his beard and explained with a smile, "My lord, you see, Rui Xin Jun's aura is constantly entangled with black evil spirits. Yao'er tried to remove them several times but failed. So, I could only use the fire from the sea to stabilize Rui Xin Jun's mind and bring him back safely! Just now, Yao'er used a provocation tactic, deliberately drawing out the black evil spirits from Rui Xin Jun's body, and then used her own body to completely remove the heart-cursing Gu from Rui Xin Jun!"
As Xuan Feng gradually calmed down, he noticed that the black arrow piercing Su Yuyao's chest was slowly merging into her body! "You brat! Are you out of your mind?! You're actually using your own Qi field to absorb the Heart Gu!"
Su Yuyao paid no attention to Xuan Feng's worries. She focused only on slowly breaking down the absorbed black energy. The needle-like pain traveled through her meridians and flowed into her sea of qi. Only when the last trace of black energy was integrated into her sea of qi did she breathe a slight sigh of relief.
“Su Yuyao,” Ruixin said hoarsely, his eyes filled with blood, “How much of my city have you destroyed? How many of my people have you hurt? I, Ruixin, have lived for ten thousand years, relying on my cunning to establish myself in the Heavenly Palace, yet I have fallen into your trap and ended up like this! I am not reconciled!”
“Rui Xin, you’re wrong!” Su Yuyao stepped forward, approaching Rui Xin’s blood-stained face, and said sternly, “It’s because you’re always scheming and never do anything that’s not profitable that your greed has grown so strong, like lamp oil that’s ready to ignite at the slightest touch! Someone has taken advantage of your greed and planted a mind-altering Gu in you. Not only did you not notice, but you were also possessed by the mind-altering Gu. All of this is your own fault!”
"Me? I brought this upon myself?" Ruixin's meridians slowly drifted away from his body, his eyes, mouth, nose, and ears gradually hollowed out, flames leaping out, his voice becoming hollow and ethereal, "I schemed for Jinyu, I painstakingly planned for the development of the entire Jin system, and I'm actually bringing this upon myself?!"
"You can plan for Jin Yu's future! But have you ever considered whether Jin Yu can shoulder the responsibility of the Mother of Wuji!" Su Yuyao took another step forward, raised her head to meet the flames emanating from Rui Xin, stared into Rui Xin's blazing pupils, and pointed at Tianyi Palace, saying, "Lord Rui Xin, look carefully. Although the metal-type clansmen are being refined in Tianyi Palace, and your daughter Jin Yu is in the palace, my daughter Xuan Miao is also under a sea of fire! No matter what you have done, I will always consider you and Jin Yu as my own people. I am willing to give you a chance. Whether you can seize it or not depends on your own will!"
Su Yuyao pressed forward again, her icy aura slowly pressing into Ruixin's meridians. The chilling energy instantly flowed through all of Ruixin's meridians. "That person completely disregarded Sister Jinyu's safety and dragged the entire Metal Element into the abyss. Are you still going to cover for him?"
The shattered meridians slowly reformed, gently receding into the scorching heat, and the flames piercing his body finally extinguished. Ruixin's eyes returned to normal, no longer entangled by black demons or troubled by blood qi. The brocade and mystery beneath the firelight grew increasingly blurry in his eyes.
With a wave of her hand, Su Yuyao unleashed a burst of icy energy, instantly transforming the flames in Tianyi Palace into icicles, beneath which lay rows of silver tiles gleaming with a cold light.
Ruixin stared blankly at the tiles, "They..."
"They were just following orders, why should I make things difficult for them? I only took away their cultivation and let them start cultivating again."
Ruixin slowly closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled, saying weakly, "I really don't know who he is. Every time we meet, he's just a dark figure..."
"So how did he do it?" Su Yuyao pressed.
Ruixin opened his eyes, his gaze deep and filled with regret, "There's a passage inside him..."
Su Yuyao's pupils dilated in shock. A passage?! He actually had a passage inside his body?!
"He integrated the channel into my Qi Sea, saying that this would allow us to communicate with each other's Qi fields and strengthen my Qi power. So I... agreed."
"And then you merged his channel into Sister Jinyu's body?"
"No!" Ruixin vehemently protested, "That's too dangerous! I wouldn't harm my daughter!"
“If you didn’t do it, then someone else did,” Su Yuyao said softly. “So, Sister Jinyu was also infected with the Heart Gu, which is why she was threatened and controlled! Fortunately, the Heart Gu wasn’t deep, and the evil energy wasn’t strong. I’ve already helped Sister Jinyu get rid of it!”
"What?!" Ruixin grabbed Su Yuyao's wrist and growled, "Who? Who is it?!"
Xuanfeng hurriedly stepped forward and pressed down on Ruixin's wrist, "Ruixin-jun, let go!"
Ruixin showed no sign of letting go; he stared intently into Su Yuyao's eyes. "Tell me, who is it?!"
Su Yuyao remained calm and said slowly, "Who it is is not important. What is important is their purpose in doing this! If it were simply to overthrow Empress Yi, they wouldn't need to go to such lengths, because Empress Yi is already old and it's only a matter of time before she abdicates!"
Just as Yi's mother had calmed the baby in her arms, she rolled her eyes again after hearing Su Yuyao's words.
Trembling under Xuan Feng's intimidation, Rui Xin released Su Yuyao's wrist. "What is he going to do?!"
Su Yuyao adjusted her wristband slightly and said casually, "He deliberately stirred up conflict between Xuanfeng and Lady Yi through you, and then dragged Lord Zeyuan into the chaos, hoping to cause a strife between the brothers and plunge the Heavenly Palace into chaos. However, he did not expect that Xuanfeng would retire, which not only prevented chaos but also allowed Lord Zeyuan to benefit from the situation."
Su Yuyao's words surprised everyone present.
"Although things didn't go as smoothly as he had hoped, the appearance of Hongzhu gave him hope again." Su Yuyao continued amidst the astonished gazes of the crowd, "He exploited Hongzhu's ambition and resentment, harming Shiyuan within the Wuji Dao, and pushing the South Sea into the open as cannon fodder. You, Sister Jinyu, and even the entire Jin system acted as his hidden cards. His goal is not only to overthrow the Heavenly Palace, nor just within the Wuji Dao, but to destroy this world!"
"What?! Destroy the world?!" Su Yuyao's words, though soft, reverberated throughout the entire Heavenly Palace.
"Su Yuyao!" Mother Yi could no longer bear it and said in a low voice, "All the gods and immortals are here, do not sow discord among the people!"
Su Yuyao gave Yi Mu a cold smile and said loudly, "Yi Mu, the changes in the Heavenly Palace and the chaos in the World Origin were deliberately caused by someone with ulterior motives. All the gods and immortals are not foolish people. How could they think that I am trying to sow discord among people's hearts, just like you, Your Majesty?"
"Wah..." The baby in Yi's mother's arms started crying again.
"Your Majesty!" Xuanfeng glanced at Yi's mother and said impatiently, "Keep an eye on the child."
Clutching the corner of the blanket swaddling the baby, Yi's mother glared at Su Yuyao and muttered under her breath, "You vixen!"
Su Yuyao glared back at Yi Mu, who proudly raised her head, and continued, "However, everyone need not worry. The crisis in the Heavenly Palace has been temporarily resolved, and the Wuji Dao is also becoming more stable. What remains are our family matters. Please, all gods, return to your positions, and all immortals, disperse!"
The crowd looked at each other, then at the white mist still lingering among the branches. No one raised any objections, but no one took the first step.
Su Yuyao smiled and glanced at the door gods, "Uncle Door Gods."
"Ah, ah? Oh! Miss Yao'er!" the doorman replied with a grin. "What are your orders?"
"If I wanted to close the Heavenly Gate and prevent anyone from entering or leaving, how long would it take?" Su Yuyao emphasized with a smile, "I'm asking about everyone!"
The gatekeeper was taken aback for a moment, then realized what he meant and replied with a smile, "Replying to Miss Yao'er, closing the Heavenly Gates is easy. As long as you give the order, all the Heavenly Gates can be closed in a quarter of an hour. No one can get out or get in!"
"Alright!" Su Yuyao announced loudly, "Everyone! I will immediately close the Heavenly Gate to handle family matters! Door Gods!"
"Your humble servant is here!" the door god replied in a gruff voice.
"Close! Heavenly Gate!" Su Yuyao shouted, her voice echoing through the sky.
"Yes!" the door god replied loudly.
"Miao'er!" Su Yuyao called out towards the main hall, "Lead the way!"
"Hee!" Xuanmiao came running out of the main hall, waving dried fish, stomping her feet rhythmically, puffing out her little cheeks, and calling out, "Aww—! Yo-yo—! Yo-yo-yo!"
The insect mist began to slowly gather, swirling in the air and forming a channel that extended into the white mist.
The door god held the mystery to his chest and stepped into the passage formed by the insect mist, proclaiming loudly, "Fellow deities, please follow me!"
Everyone hesitated and looked at Yi's mother, only to see her coaxing the baby with a dark face, while constantly rolling her eyes at Su Yuyao.
Seeing that no one had moved, Su Yuyao said sternly, "I won't stop anyone who doesn't want to leave, but if you get involved in our family affairs, you'll have to bear the consequences!"
Upon hearing this, everyone finally moved and followed the door god into the mysteriously prepared insect-mist passage...
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