Chapter 496: Their Embarrassment—What's It to Me?
Luo Wusheng felt a little panicked.
As for why he had revived after only seven days instead of later, he couldn't figure out the reason for now—there were simply too many complicated possibilities.
But as for why he had revived in the Imperial Pool… that, he actually had some clues about.
He had considered possible resurrection locations before. The most likely answers had only been a few.
First was the gap-space inside the Antediluvian Nether Eye, where the Ancient Phoenix Essence had once been accidentally stored.
However, during the resurrection process, Luo Wusheng discovered that the Antediluvian Nether Eye space had once again returned to rejecting his physical body. Only his soul origin had undergone rebirth there, growing anew from an embryonic state, while his physical body had revived elsewhere.
That left only a few highly probable options: Xiaofeng Mountain outside Qifeng City, the Imperial Pool, Ascending Immortality Lake, and possibly some Ancient Phoenix Great Netherfiend–related location in the Netherland.
Now it seemed he had revived according to the location of the Antediluvian Nether Eye.
'I honestly felt Ascending Immortality Lake was very possible too… Before I dissipated last time, I clearly sensed that the Imperial Pool and the bottom of Ascending Immortality Lake were connected through space. That's why the Ancient Phoenix Essence manifested a parasol tree over there…'
Quite a few people, seeing the giant tree now standing in Ascending Immortality Lake, would probably assume that he would revive there, right?
But looking at it now, that place seemed more like a smokescreen.
A thin sheen of cold sweat formed on Luo Wusheng's back.
He now understood why his body had revived in the Imperial Pool—his soul revived inside the Antediluvian Nether Eye, while his body revived outside it. That was simply the natural progression.
But why was the Antediluvian Nether Eye inside the Imperial Pool?
If he were to say the answer out loud, wouldn't that expose the fact that when Her Majesty had been watching that sex video before, he had—at least in some sense—been present at the scene as well? That the two "leading actors" had technically been watching together?
—Wouldn't Her Majesty silence him permanently for that?
That settled it. He's going to play dumb to stay alive.
"Why I'm in the Imperial Pool or whatever… don't ask me, I have no ide—"
Before he could finish, Luo Wusheng sensed something off.
His left eye was faintly burning.
His left eye housed the Antediluvian Nether Eye. After his revival, this Netherkin race Artifact had returned from the Imperial Pool.
And at this moment, the bright, lively eyeball seemed to sense its master's thoughts. As if activated, it began to flicker.
Then, a screen of light appeared out of thin air.
At that very moment, a spatial rift opened in the void, and a head wearing a mask with scaled patterns poked through…
Three breaths later, the Demon Sect Holy Saint twisted his face and forcibly suppressed his rampaging left eye. The screen vanished.
But the image it had displayed was already deeply engraved in the minds of everyone present.
The scene shown on the light screen was simple—and familiar.
To put it plainly…
"Imperial Pool, The Empress, Pornhub."
A perfect third-person perspective, clearly displaying the scene of a girl watching a pornographic film.
Luo Wusheng silently shrank his entire body back under the blanket…
He was doomed. There was no bluffing his way through this.
And the head that had just poked through the rift—if nothing unexpected had happened—should have belonged to the Empress, disguised as Miss Kirin. Boss and employee swapping identities, and together welcoming this double dose of social death.
Ah, how terrifying when the air suddenly goes quiet~
What now? Would he be besieged to death?
And this time, if he died, there would be no resurrection…
The more Luo Wusheng thought about it, the more cowardly he felt. Only the thin blanket over him provided the slightest sense of security.
At that moment, the girls outside finally reacted.
A despairing wail rang out.
"Imperial! I'm going to fight you to the death!!!"
Luo Wusheng: ?
Wasn't that the wrong target for mutual destruction?
He cautiously peeked out from under the blanket with his scheming eyes.
Then he saw the girl in imperial robes, face flushed red, forcefully shove the head protruding from the spatial rift back inside. Immediately afterward, a ripple of spatial distortion followed, and the imperial-robed girl likewise vanished.
Boom!
A thunderous explosion sounded from outside.
The force transmitted through space made the bed beneath Luo Wusheng tremble noticeably.
He quickly sensed multiple surges of power rising outside…
"All of you, withdraw! I am merely sparring with Kirin of the Six Gate Bureau. No one is to watch or probe!"
The several presences immediately shrank back in fear.
After the Netherkin chaos had passed, the Empress's control over the Immortal Nation had grown even stronger. After all, everyone now knew that the sovereign they had once believed to be merely Nascent Soul could, at any moment, unleash power at the Divine Transformation level.
At the same time, the surrounding space was completely sealed off. Luo Wusheng could still feel the battle outside, but beyond that, he could sense nothing.
Likewise, the outside world could not perceive the commotion here.
The thunderous crashes rang out one after another.
Luo Wusheng swallowed, when suddenly a calm and familiar voice sounded beside his ear.
"Mm… Imperial is about to counterattack."
Still wrapped in his blanket, Luo Wusheng turned his head toward the source of the voice. There sat a breathtakingly beautiful young woman in Daoist robes, calmly seated by his side at some unknown moment.
The Empress Daoist Alter Ego, Ji Yanyao.
Before he could react, the continuous rumbling outside abruptly stopped.
"—That's enough! What's the point of venting at me? If we're talking about embarrassment, isn't your disgraceful moment even worse? You even called him 'Daddy'!"
"Y-you— I was suffering backlash and had no choice! Unlike you—pretending not to watch while secretly watching more enthusiastically than anyone else, and then syncing the memories afterward…"
"W-who was secretly watching?! How can you slander me out of thin air?!"
"I am you. Wouldn't I know whether you secretly watched or not?"
"I said I didn't, and that means I didn't! What would you, a disgraceful daddy seeking pervert, understand about me?!"
"Pah! You lecherous tyrant obsessed with men!"
Crackle crackle
They started fighting again.
Luo Wusheng: "..."
What kind of split-personality battlefield was this?
Luo Wusheng looked at Ji Yanyao beside him, who seemed completely unaffected by the chaos outside, and blinked.
After hesitating for a long while, he finally asked,
"Um… is it okay to let them fight like that?"
Ji Yanyao, however, wore an expression that said, don't make a fuss.
"You'll get used to it. Just dogs biting dogs."
Luo Wusheng: ¿
Was that description really appropriate?
"Uh, aren't you all the same person? Why do you seem like…"
"Like I have no care whatsoever?"
Ji Yanyao took over smoothly. "Heh. Whatever embarrassing things those two did—what does that have to do with this poor Daoist?"
What a masterful tactical separation!
At this moment, Ji Yanyao truly carried the aura of one who had attained enlightenment. Calmly, she said, "As the Daoist Alter Ego, what I comprehend at the core is the Daoist Heart of Great Forgetfulness of Emotion. Recently my insights have deepened considerably. I will no longer let such trivial matters shake my state of mind."
Indeed, for any Daoist disciple, surviving repeated social-death incidents that nearly shattered their Dao heart—and then rebuilding from the ruins—would cause their cultivation of the Great Forgetfulness of Emotion to skyrocket.
If Ji Yanyao had previously been at the level of "Seeing that I am myself," she had now advanced to the new realm of "Seeing that I am not myself."
Luo Wusheng was sincerely impressed. "Dao-dao, magnificent!"
Ji Yanyao: "..."
The memories of the three bodies had already synchronized. She naturally understood that the "Dao-dao" in the Holy Saint mouth was referring to her.
Just as she was debating whether to correct the Demon Sect Holy Saint's form of address, she suddenly saw him throw off the blanket that had been covering his body.
"Y-you— what are you doing?!"
The girl who had just been wearing the calm expression of a Daoist nun instantly failed to maintain it; a blush spread across her face.
"Obviously to put on clothes. I can't exactly stay naked under the blanket forever, can I?" Luo Wusheng replied matter-of-factly.
"Th-then at least let me step aside first…"
"Huh? Setting aside what happened with the Imperial Pool footage earlier—this time, when you… when you all moved me here from the Imperial Pool, wasn't I already completely seen by you? If that's the case, what's there to avoid now?"
"Guh!"
The flawless logic left Ji Yanyao speechless. Even so, her eyes didn't linger long on the boy's body; flustered, she quickly looked away, leaving only the faintest trace of peripheral glances.
Meanwhile, Luo Wusheng's hand had already reached into the void.
Before his resurrection, all of his equipment had been sent—through the connection of the Ancient Phoenix Essence—into the gap-space within the Antediluvian Nether Eye. Later, he transferred everything into the Demon Moon space, which was now entirely under his control.
Luo Wusheng finally had a proper personal storage space. Not like before, when he only had the heavily restricted Antediluvian Nether Eye space.
Reaching into the void, he retrieved a storage bag.
With a sweep of his hand, a set of black clothing fell into his grasp.
In truth, he had wanted to change into something less distinctive to his personal style… Now that he had revived ahead of time, and aside from the split-personality Empress, no one else knew. The Ancient Heavenly Gate had not yet opened either. If possible, he wanted to avoid news of his resurrection spreading and instead operate from the shadows.
Unfortunately, he hadn't prepared any other outfits.
He dressed quickly and neatly, just as the sounds of fighting outside subsided.
"It's over?"
Luo Wusheng voiced his confusion.
His current condition had yet to fully recover; his perception was significantly dulled.
"They know that if they keep fighting, they'll only embarrass themselves further. After venting, they ran off… They probably won't come to see you for a while." Ji Yanyao responded flatly.
At some point, her pretty little face had gone stiff again, as though unmoved by masculine allure.
Yet when she looked at Luo Wusheng—now fully dressed, his figure overlapping with that god-and-demon-like presence from the day of the Netherkin chaos—a faint glimmer flickered in her eyes.
So handsome… no.
Great Forgetfulness of Emotion! Great Forgetfulness of Emotion!!
Ji Yanyao's face became even more rigid. "They said they don't care anymore about why you revived in the Imperial Pool. But they hope you'll forget what should be forgotten."
"Understood, understood. I know nothing."
Luo Wusheng flopped back onto the bed like a salted fish.
If things could end peacefully like this, without being hacked to death by socially mortified girls, that was naturally for the best.
"Mm. You've just revived and need time alone to familiarize yourself with your current physical condition. This place also happens to help alleviate the issues with your body… I'll go check on Imperial and Mortal first, so I won't stay here."
Spatial ripples suddenly rose around Ji Yanyao. As though fleeing from something, she vanished in an instant, leaving only her unfinished words drifting into Luo Wusheng's ears.
"If you need anything, just call for me. Later, I'll also send over the intelligence reports compiled by the Six Gate Bureau over the past seven days. You can review them yourself."
Her voice faded.
Luo Wusheng looked at the room, now once again empty except for himself, and fell into deep thought.
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Note: Link to the character Illustration:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkIcPnCxeyuyZA4Kkb621dPC05UvWjhD
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Dao-Dao / Ji Yanyao (Daodao means Daoism)
Di-Di / The Empress (Didi means Empress)
Fan-Fan / Kirin (Fanfan means Commoner)
Cultivation Realm:
1, Qi Refining
2, Foundation Establishment
3, Golden Core
4, Nascent Soul
5, Divine Transformation (Formerly Known as Tribulation Crossing)
6, Tribulation Transcendence
7, Land Immortal
Note: Link to the character Illustration:
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