As the Universe Turns - Chapter 123

Chapter 123 Counsel
It was already dark outside. The moon was dim tonight, and there weren’t many guests from Fengman Attic. Xiao Chen followed Yaoji outside the main building, passing through several gardens and arriving at a quiet palace.

This place was much colder than the rest of Fengman Attic. In front of the palace hung a dozen large red lanterns that swayed in the wind. There were several lotus pools nearby. White lotuses were blooming in the pond to welcome the moon, and fragrance floated in the wind.

“Childe, please.”

Yaoji smiled and waved the word “please”. The two of them arrived at the red lantern. Yaoji took a step forward and cupped his hands, saying, “Lou Zhou, Xiao Childe is here.”

“Mm …”

A slightly lazy woman’s voice came from the hall, “You can leave.”

“Yes.”

Yaoji cupped his hands before he stepped back and gradually disappeared into the night.

After a long time, Lady Rakshasa’s faint voice rang out from within the hall, “There is a heavy dew outside. Why does Xiao Childe not move forward?”

He also dared to barge into Blade Mountain Flame Sea, so how could a palace not dare to enter at this moment?

Xiao Chen walked into the palace. The moment he entered, he smelled a faint fragrance. The furnishings in the palace were pure and elegant, but it was where women lived. There were no dazzling things in the palace.

Going further inside, under the faint candlelight, one could vaguely see a veil swaying in the wind. Behind the veil was a beautiful couch, on the side of which lay a beautiful woman.

Even though it was only a candle flame, it was difficult to conceal that woman’s peerless beauty.

A gentle breeze blew over and blew up the thin veil. The woman was ice-skinned and jade-like, with one hand on her chest, lying on the beauty’s couch. She watched Xiao Chen slowly approach without blinking an eye.

If it was said that Wei Yang was a Celestial Immortal descending from the mortal world, one could only watch from afar without daring to blaspheme, then this woman in front of them was the peerlessly beautiful Demon Empress. A single glance was enough to cause one to be mesmerized.

When Xiao Chen was about ten meters away from Qing Sha, he stopped. It wasn’t that he was afraid of the terrifying Rakshasa Mistress in front of him, but that the other party was wearing only a light robe at the moment. It would be rude to approach her again.

“You were originally a disciple of Goddess Miaoyin of the Xuanqing Sect. Your future prospects are limitless, but I heard that … two years ago, you betrayed the sect for a woman of the Devil Religion, broke your meridians, jumped off the cliff, and your Nascent Soul was destroyed at that time.”

Lady Rakshasa looked at him and said with a faint smile.

“Lady Rakshasa told Xiao to come tonight. I don’t think it’s about these trivial matters.”

Xiao Chen looked at her motionlessly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him. Wei Yang was not a demonic woman, and he had not betrayed the sect as outsiders had said. However, what was the point of being an outsider?

Those who understood naturally understood, but those who did not, what was the use of saying more?

“Forget it, this is a matter of your Xianyuan Five Realms. What does it have to do with this palace?”

Lady Rakshasa smiled lightly and slowly sat up. She looked at him and said, “Right Envoy Yue has already told me about your Nascent Soul. It’s not difficult to recondense your Nascent Soul for you. It’s just that before this …”

At this point, she stopped and carefully looked at the change in Xiao Chen’s expression. However, Xiao Chen’s expression did not change at all. She calmly said, “Everyone gets what they want and seeks their own benefits … Lady Rakshasa, it doesn’t matter.”

“I want you to go to Wuji Palace and retrieve something for me.”

At this moment, Lady Rakshasa’s eyes suddenly became a little sharp. The thing she said was obviously something that she had to obtain.

Xiao Chen said, “Feng Manlou’s experts are like clouds. Wuji Palace is unfathomable. If even the many peerless experts under Lady Rakshasa are unable to obtain such a thing from Wuji Palace, what ability does Xiao have to retrieve it?”

Lady Rakshasa shook his head and smiled, “You Xianyuan Five Realms have a saying that you should never underestimate yourself. Didn’t Young Master Xiao agree to this two years ago when his name moved to the Five Great Regions? In that case, only Young Master Xiao would be able to obtain such a thing in the world.”

“Interesting …”

Xiao Chen smiled coldly. At this moment, there was a slight change in his expression. He didn’t know what she wanted to go to Wuji Palace to retrieve. He said indifferently, “I’m willing to hear more about it.”

Lady Rakshasa smiled and slowly walked out of the veil. However, he saw her bare feet, flawless skin, and a faint fragrance. Everything on her body was suffocatingly beautiful.

If it wasn’t for Xiao Chen’s concentration on cultivation at Purple Night Peak, if it wasn’t for him meeting Wei Yang, and if it wasn’t for his increasingly cold temperament, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn’t be moved by this peerless woman in front of him at this moment.

Lady Rakshasa slowly walked in front of him and smiled sweetly. His slender jade finger gently placed on his face, “Young Master, do you know what is the most different between you and the other men in this world? It is the way you look at me that is always so cold …”

Xiao Chen slowly stretched out his hand and separated her hand. “I don’t think that’s going to affect it. The Rakshasa woman is mainly the thing I went to retrieve,” he said indifferently.

“Haha …”

Lady Rakshasa covered his mouth and smiled, “What an interesting little fellow. Forget it, I won’t tease you anymore.” At this point, she turned around and continued, “I believe that Childe Xiao has already comprehended the’manipulation of life and death ‘in the Heavenly Book.”

“How is it?”

Xiao Chen looked at her with a calm expression.

Lady Rakshasa turned around and looked at him. “Don’t worry, I’m not interested in that Heavenly Book at all. After all, not everyone has such good fortune as Childe. Even that Devil Dao Heavenly Heart Ancestor spent his entire life and only managed to comprehend the tip of the iceberg in the Heavenly Book.”

“So.”

“Why don’t you listen to me, Childe?”

Lady Rakshasa looked at him with beautiful eyes. He paused for a moment before continuing, “What I want is the first volume of the Heavenly Sect Scroll. It is hidden by Yi Wuji in his Dark Asura Hall. No one can enter Dark Asura Hall except Childe Xiao.”

This time, Xiao Chen did not continue to ask. He only heard her finish her sentence.

“And Yi Wuji is skilled in a Northern Magic Art. He can refine living people into his puppets. These puppets are immortal. They rely on resentment and death energy for their livelihood. They are invulnerable to swords and spears. They are called ‘Corpse Puppets’.”

The more Lady Rakshasa spoke, the more serious her expression became. She continued, “The moment this corpse puppet smells the aura of a living person, it will definitely launch an attack. Once the corpse puppet launches an attack, it will definitely alert Yi Wuji, but …”

At this point, she stopped, and Xiao Chen had roughly guessed something.

She continued, “But Childe Xiao has already mastered the control of life and death. Within your body, you can create a surge of death energy. After Childe sneaks in, he only needs to release this kind of death energy slightly. Those corpse puppets will not attack you, and you can smoothly enter the Dark Asura Palace as if you were in an uninhabited land.”

“It’s that simple?”

“Of course not.”

Lady Rakshasa smiled and said, “You think Yi Wuji is that easy to deal with? Fortunately, on the 15th of next month, the three major powers have a Wind Setting Gathering. You should go back tonight. The night before the Wind Setting Gathering, you come here again and I will give you a complete plan.”

“Since that’s the case, I’ll take my leave.”

Xiao Chen didn’t stay any longer. He turned around and went outside. Lady Rakshasa smiled brightly as she looked at his departing figure.

Returning to the pavilion, the moonlight was cold. Xiao Chen sat by the windowsill and looked at the wisp of black Qi in his palm. Why was there a surge of death Qi in his body?

If … Wei Yang saw her now in the future, would she … still like her?

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Chen closed his eyes. Once he closed his eyes, it was as if he had fallen into that nightmare that had lasted for a long time. Blood flowed into the dream, corpses piled up beneath his feet, and his hands were stained with blood …

Suddenly, he opened his eyes. At this moment, his back was drenched in cold sweat. At that moment, a strange thought flashed through his mind.

Was his true self … actually already dead?