Chapter 124
Chapter 124
Ye Piaoling said, “I want to dress up the Ghost Po in a special way and pretend it’s a gift for the Xiliu State Preceptor. For one, we can test his attitude toward the Ghost Po. For another, if he really is the Heavenly Po of the Evil Lord, I guarantee he’ll be so mad his eyes shoot purple light! What do you think?”
Di Xiulan pondered for a moment, then said, “That works.”
Feng Jin never lost his temper in front of others, so no one had ever seen what he looked like when he was angry.
After they returned, Ye Piaoling began making preparations.
First, she made a panda mascot costume and put it on the Ghost Po, dressing it up like a derpy meme.
Then she made a congratulatory scroll.
Once she was finished, she brought it to Di Xiulan to look at.
Di Xiulan opened the coffin and saw a ridiculous panda mascot inside, its expression impossible to describe. Beside it was a congratulatory scroll.
He opened the scroll. There were only four words written on it:
Evil Lord, eat shit.
Di Xiulan: “…”
Ye Piaoling raised a brow and smiled. “How is it? If Feng Jin really is the Evil Lord, he’ll definitely take back this clone of his and show his rage!”
The corners of Di Xiulan’s lips twitched. He smiled and said, “As long as you’re happy.”
Ye Piaoling asked, “Then when do we leave? Who’s going this time?”
Di Xiulan said, “The New Queen of Xiliu will ascend the throne in a month. We only need to arrive a few days early. This time, it will just be the two of us. We’ll set out first, and Liang Yun will lead Dali’s diplomatic delegation behind us.”
Ye Piaoling was shocked. “This trip is just going to be the two of us?”
Di Xiulan asked, “What’s wrong with that?”
Ye Piaoling lowered her head with a blush, shyly fiddling with her fingers. “I-it’s kind of embarrassing…”
Di Xiulan: “…”
You run into my bed every single night. Why haven’t I seen you act embarrassed then???
Ye Piaoling said shyly, “Then… what about your bed?”
Di Xiulan said, “I’ll bring it.”
“That’s more like it!” Ye Piaoling clapped her hands, instantly becoming spirited as she laughed. “I’m very picky about beds. I can only fall asleep lying in your bed!”
Inwardly, she did a quick calculation. After all the consecutive nights of sleeping lately, in just over another month, she would have slept there a full hundred times!
At that thought, Ye Piaoling suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called out the System.
[System, after I obtain the bed, the ascension you mentioned means I’ll gain powerful magic power, and not that I’ll literally ascend and fly off to another world, right?]
Sand Sculpture System: [Huh? Why is the host suddenly concerned about this?]
Ye Piaoling: [Because I still have things I haven’t finished in this world. I can’t leave.]
Sand Sculpture System: [You clearly just can’t bear to part with the Regent King, gahaha!]
Ye Piaoling: [Don’t talk nonsense. Hurry up and answer my question!]
Sand Sculpture System: [Host, don’t worry. The ascension won’t make you leave your husband.]
After hearing that, Ye Piaoling let out a sigh of relief. [Oh, then I’m relieved…]
Ye Piaoling: [Wait! What husband? Since when do I have a husband? I’m telling you, stop slandering my reputation!]
Sand Sculpture System: [Gahaha! You’ve slept together so many times already, and you’re still saying he’s not your husband? Who are you trying to fool?]
Ye Piaoling: [Our sleeping together isn’t real sleeping together. We just lie under the blankets and chat.]
Sand Sculpture System: [No hurry. Sooner or later, it will be real sleeping together.]
Ye Piaoling: […?]
Sand Sculpture System: [Host, please rest assured. The ascension reward contains all sorts of wonderful hidden meanings, including but not limited to gaining magic power… In short, it will give the host a huge, huge surprise!!!]
Ye Piaoling gave a huff.
Although the System was ridiculous and had a sharp tongue, it did keep its word. The rewards it had handed out before had all been very useful.
In the days that followed, Ye Piaoling threw herself back into the grind with a sinister little cackle.
The trip to Xiliu would inevitably come with danger. If Feng Jin really was the Heavenly Po of the Evil Lord, then perhaps there would be a fierce battle waiting for them…
She had to grow stronger. She had to work hard to become a good partner to Lord Divine Venerable!
She wanted to join forces with him to fight monsters, not just be protected by him all the time.
Only once she began cultivating did she discover that after her Immortal Pulse recovered, her cultivation speed was indeed far beyond what it had been before. It was as if her meridians had formed some mysterious connection with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
That spiritual energy even surged into her body on its own, like rivers flowing backward into the sea, coursing through her meridians. Even when she slept, her cultivation was increasing!
At first, Ye Piaoling was pleasantly surprised.
But as time went on, a faint unease began to creep in.
These past few days, she felt that the speed at which she absorbed spiritual energy was simply too fast-so fast it was downright abnormal.
One day, she sparred with Hua Wuhuang. The two of them unleashed their big moves against each other, and somehow, they fought to a draw!
Hua Wuhuang exclaimed in astonishment, “Xiao Yezi, in just a few short days, you’ve improved this much? This is unbelievable!”
Ye Piaoling had originally only known martial arts; when it came to spiritual power, she had been far from adequate. Yet now, she was advancing by leaps and bounds!
Ye Piaoling lowered her head and looked at her own hands, her expression complicated.
Hua Wuhuang also had an Immortal Pulse. He was a genius, but there was no way his cultivation speed was anything like hers.
As for Xiao Changye, there was even less need to mention him. With his level of cultivation, his Immortal Pulse might as well have been decorative…
Cultivation on the Glazed Continent was not exactly standardized, and people did not really divide it into ranks.
But if one calculated it according to proper immortal cultivation levels-Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Soul Transformation-Hua Wuhuang’s cultivation could be considered at the Golden Core stage, while she herself had originally only counted as Qi Refining at best.
And now, it was as if she had gone from Qi Refining to Golden Core in only ten days!
That was terrifying. Even horror movies wouldn’t dare film it like this!
Ye Piaoling stared at the swastika-shaped mark on her pulse gate.
Something capable of producing such heaven-defying, terrifying cultivation results… was this thing really an Immortal Pulse?
Wasn’t it more like an evil pulse…
Since ancient times, only crooked, demonic paths could possibly obtain such abnormal cultivation speed!
That night, Ye Piaoling told Di Xiulan about her worries.
“Babe, I feel like something’s really wrong with me. It’s only been a few days, and my cultivation has already caught up to Hua Wuhuang’s!”
Ye Piaoling’s face was full of distress. “When my Immortal Pulse first recovered, I was really happy. I thought my cultivation speed had gotten so much faster. But now, all I feel is scared…”
She narrowed her eyes and said, “Do you know what it’s like? That feeling when cultivation takes no effort at all? Sometimes I even get this illusion that I was originally a part of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and that’s why I can connect with it so easily!”
Di Xiulan listened, then asked calmly, “Then how do you feel emotionally?”
“Emotionally?” Ye Piaoling was baffled by the question. “Fine, I guess. Just a little panicked. I feel like I’m not normal anymore!”
Di Xiulan said, “Then do you feel that the power you’ve cultivated is difficult to control? As though it might backlash against you?”
“Not really,” Ye Piaoling said. “It feels pretty smooth to use…”
Her expression turned somewhat nervous. “Is there really something wrong with my body?”
Di Xiulan smiled. “This king will help you examine your body.”
As he spoke, he reached his demonic claws toward her-