Starting From A Son In Law To Build An Long Lasting Family Chapter 1868: 482: Fame Shakes the Southern Wilderness, Quasi-Spiritual Treasure!
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A lady donning a five-hued mask over her features and wrapped in a vivid robe brimming with otherworldly celestial allure examined the jade slip message clutched in her palm, her eyes reminiscent of fall foliage displaying a hint of real fascination.
"Maybe just as my parents mentioned, the Southern Wilderness stands on the brink of a once-in-ten-thousand-years colossal turmoil. Even though this era overflows with shadows and carnage, it might also bring forth a dazzling era of splendor and triumph?"
Though the lady's visage lay hidden behind the mask, and her stance remained relaxed and laid-back with legs folded, her supreme loveliness shone through clearly, bestowing upon her an undefinable poise and magnetism.
In particular, her right foot, smooth as fine jade, bore a fantastical high-heeled shoe that dangled loosely from her toes, softly swinging, overflowing with temptation, tempting others to grasp and stroke it, while radiating an air of regal sophistication.
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Jiang Country, Great Dream Immortal City.
"Yangming True Master sacrificed lifespan to support Azure Phoenix True Monarch, as the pair united to slay Heavenly Silkworm True Monarch, Purple Grey True Monarch..."
Within the City Lord Mansion, Ling Zixiao, her refined and stately lovely countenance filled with shock, stared at the reports about the Vast Sand Illusion Realm.
As one of Lu Changsheng’s nearest spouses, she of course recognized that Yangming True Master was none other than her husband.
She knew too that Lu Changsheng had ventured forth to seek Lu Ping’an, ventured into the Vast Sand Illusion Realm, faced perils inside the hidden domain, and then lent aid to Azure Phoenix True Monarch.
However, when Lu Changsheng shared these happenings with her, he had skimmed over the particulars.
Now, faced with these reports, a wave of dreamlike unreality washed over her, like she was trapped in a reverie.
After all, the reports portrayed Yangming True Master as having ignited his vitality in a fierce clash against seven Nascent Soul True Lords together with Azure Phoenix True Monarch.
In the end, the duo suffered grave wounds, retreating into the vast emptiness, whereas among the seven Nascent Soul True Lords, Heavenly Silkworm True Monarch of Beast God Mountain saw his dharma body severed, with only his Nascent Soul fleeing, and Purple Grey True Monarch of Purple Grey Sect had his Nascent Soul Spirit Body utterly destroyed, devoured by Yangming True Master’s spirit beast, the Peng bird...
But her husband had come back entirely unharmed, describing the hidden domain incidents casually, as if they were mere trifles.
And the Peng bird that had swallowed Purple Grey True Monarch's Nascent Soul Spirit Body, the Golden-Winged Heavenly Peng, currently slumbered in the City Lord Mansion's rear garden, now and then offering pointers to Lu Baixi in her cultivation...
Ling Zixiao gazed at the jade slip in her grip, then glanced toward Bi Lake Mountain, sensing a profound gap between truth and hearsay.
Were Lu Changsheng not away from Great Dream Immortal City, she would rush to check on her husband's well-being, demanding the full story of what occurred.
"Hmph, he definitely put his life on the line to help Azure Phoenix True Monarch in those escapades, on purpose brushing them off..."
Ling Zixiao grasped her husband's nature intimately, aware of Lu Changsheng’s love for amorous pursuits, how he couldn’t resist temptations when away.
Yet back at home, in front of her and the rest, he bore a touch of remorse.
After pondering briefly, she resolved to seek out Hong Lian, to ask if she had noticed anything unusual in her husband’s bodily state, if he had endured well before.
"Don't worry, husband bears no wounds, and he truly seized chances to advance on the trip..."
Hong Lian held a Nascent Soul Spirit, Spirit Embryo Physique, and through paired cultivation with Lu Changsheng, she could keenly detect his magical power and bodily condition.
Even without Lu Changsheng detailing the hidden domain events, she could infer them precisely.
"Alright."
Ling Zixiao's heart eased at these words, dimly surmising her husband's dealings with Azure Phoenix True Monarch.
Reflecting on the soon-to-be legendary icon of Jiang Country, the top loose cultivator about to grace Bi Lake Mountain, a flicker of oddity crossed her graceful features.
In her thoughts, she wondered if those fabled Nascent Soul female cultivators from tales in scrolls might also get drawn into her husband’s household...
No sooner had this idea surfaced than vivid pictures began flooding Ling Zixiao’s imagination.
But aware she lingered at the Foundation Establishment Stage, a pressing wave of haste surged inside her.
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"Yangming True Master..."
Positioned amid the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range, Chu Qingyi likewise obtained the reports on the Vast Sand Illusion Realm.
Reading how Yangming True Master and Azure Phoenix True Monarch fought seven Nascent Soul experts and felled two, she couldn’t stop her crimson lips from pressing firmly together.
Memories of their time in the Tianyuan Secret Realm, the Yiming Ghost Sect matters in Liang Country, raced through her thoughts.
Back then, Lu Changsheng’s realm matched hers, at Core Formation Second and Third Layers.
Owing to her ruined Core Formation, reforging it, shattering and rebuilding, restarting her cultivation path, thirty-six years had flown by, and she had merely attained the Fifth Layer of Core Formation.
Still, this pace counted as extraordinarily fast!
But Lu Changsheng... had silently advanced to the stage of slaying Nascent Souls.
Even Chu Qingyi, hailed as a prodigy from youth, experienced an unmatched burden.
She dreaded falling hopelessly behind him...
"How is he doing now..."
Eyes on the report noting Yangming True Master’s heavy injuries from the desperate battle, her chest tightened with concern, urging her to go see him.
But then it hit her, where could she even locate him?
Bi Lake Mountain...
Or maybe Great Dream Immortal City?
Under what excuse...
Chu Qingyi, her brows etched with icy and valiant appeal, furrowed them deeply, her gaze brimming with anxiety, her pale hand like jade clenching her robe fiercely, a far cry from her typical frosty and detached Sword Immortal Child aura.
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As the Vast Sand Illusion Realm's events came fully to light, undercurrents roiled across the Southern Wilderness Northern Territory.
In Liang Country's cultivation circles, Heavenly Silkworm True Monarch’s dharma body from Beast God Mountain got decapitated, leaving just his Nascent Soul Spirit Body, while Yun Mei True Monarch from Barebody Sect not only took dire wounds inside the hidden realm, but afterward almost fell to Xuanjian True Monarch of Jiang Country’s Heavenly Sword Sect.
Without the timely arrival of Nine Spirits True Monarch, the Grand Elder of Beast God Mountain, to provide aid, both Yun Mei True Monarch and Heavenly Silkworm True Monarch’s Nascent Soul Spirit Bodies could have perished at Xuanjian True Monarch's hands.
Even so, Liang Country suffered a massive drain on its vital forces, prompting Yue Country to swiftly declare conflict, aiming to reclaim lands Liang had seized in past years.