Chapter 149: Immortal Reincarnation?
“How dare you!”
“Who are you?!”
“You actually dare sit on His Majesty’s throne!”
“Guards! Where are the Imperial Guards!”
Several guards, none beyond the Golden Core stage, shouted and rushed into the hall, surrounding Lu Qingyang and his companion, berating them fiercely.
As a Void Return True Lord, Lu Qingyang had restrained his own aura and pressure.
Otherwise, these Golden Core cultivators would have long since been crushed to dust.
How could they possibly still be shouting here?
As for Gong Luo, standing on the threshold, after seeing her subordinates’ actions, her pretty face instantly went pale.
For a moment, she hastily shouted.
“Stop!”
“Stand down!”
Her tone carried a thick unease.
“Your Majesty, this general is the Grand Commander of the Imperial Palace. An offense of this magnitude against the imperial carriage absolutely cannot be forgiven!”
“Your Majesty…”
“Stand down!”
Gong Luo shouted again, her tone now carrying a hint of anxiety.
Seeing this, the guards, though they did not understand, did not dare continue to make trouble, and dispersed one after another.
Gong Luo took a deep breath.
Forcing herself to calm down, she looked toward the blue-robed figure within the hall.
“Sect Master Lu.”
“May I ask what brings you here personally?”
“Without even notifying me in advance, so I could have led the officials to welcome you.”
“Heh heh… I don’t need your welcome. However, I want to know one thing.”
Lu Qingyang spoke calmly, with no intention of beating around the bush.
The gaze he directed at her also carried a trace of scrutiny.
“What is it?”
Gong Luo’s heart tightened.
Could it be that the matter has come to light?
Combined with Mo Chen’s disappearance, Gong Luo felt there were all sorts of connections.
Sure enough, she had guessed right!
“Speak. Using my Chaotian Sect’s name to sell puppets — were you prepared to offend me?”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
As his words fell, the aura of a Void Return True Lord erupted instantly.
His entire being was like an exiled immortal seated high upon the imperial throne.
The great hall was filled with a terrifying pressure.
Even though Gong Luo was now a Nascent Soul, under this pressure, she could not help but tremble all over.
Her knees shook without pause.
As if in the next second, she would collapse to her knees!
And on the imperial throne, Lu Qingyang looked at the slightly golden-red Fate Pattern fortune above Gong Luo’s head, and his eyes narrowed.
At this moment, that golden-red Emperor Fate Pattern was also trembling without pause.
As if struggling against him!
“Hmph, so it’s just a Chosen One. My sect has plenty. What do you have to be unconvinced about?”
Lu Qingyang raised an eyebrow, and faintly increased his pressure.
He even released a trace of Dragon Awe.
At this, Gong Luo finally could not hold on. Her legs gave way, and she knelt straight to the ground.
“Boom!”
As Gong Luo knelt, the Emperor Fate Pattern above her head violently churned.
Then, roughly one-third of the golden-red Fate Pattern aura slowly drifted toward Lu Qingyang…
“Sect Master Lu!”
“My Great Qian was founded, and the people suffered. Borrowing your sect’s name was my mistake. Please, do not harm my subjects!”
Gong Luo knelt on both knees, silver teeth clenched, her heart full of humiliation.
More importantly, she felt as if she had lost something.
Yet she could not say what it was. She only knew it was something very important to her…
And on the other side, Lu Qingyang watched with his own eyes as the Emperor Fate Pattern that belonged to Gong Luo was seized by him — one-third of it.
His heart was shaken!
Hm? This is…
His eyes narrowed as he looked at the other’s Emperor Fate Pattern.
Sure enough, compared to before, it was missing a strand!
And on his own body, at this moment, besides Dragon Awe, there was actually an additional inexplicable imperial majesty!
Hiss…
I suppressed a Chosen One?
Lu Qingyang was startled. He seemed not to have expected such an unexpected harvest.
“Senior!”
As for Gong Luo, seeing Lu Qingyang silent for so long, she thought Great Qian might today suffer a bloodbath.
In desperation, she could not help but cry out.
Forget it. She borrowed my name to steal my饭碗, and I seized her Fate Pattern. Either way, I’ve gained more.
There’s no need to push her to death right now.
As for seeking revenge… heh, this woman is at most a second-tier Chosen One now.
To me, she poses no threat whatsoever.
Thinking this, Lu Qingyang slowly withdrew his full pressure.
“Phew…”
Gong Luo let out a breath of relief.
She collapsed onto the ground.
Her whole body drenched in fragrant sweat, she felt as if she had walked a path before the gates of hell!
After a long while, she finally spoke softly.
“Thank you, Senior, for sparing my life!”
“Heh~”
Hearing this, Lu Qingyang could not help but laugh.
Then he looked at Gong Luo, a trace of something strange flashing in the depths of his eyes. “You know I won’t kill you?”
“If Senior wanted to kill me, you would not have been willing to listen to my nonsense for so long.”
“Hmph, do not act cheeky with me.”
“I am your guide. Sending you to this realm was even more of a great support.”
“What? This is the attitude with which you repay me?”
Lu Qingyang put on an angry expression, questioning in a deep voice.
“This junior would not dare!”
Gong Luo hastily lowered her head.
“Hmph, I don’t believe you have the guts.”
“Let me ask you: who refined the puppets imitating my Chaotian Sect?”
“If you answer honestly, I will spare your entire nation.”
“Otherwise… death may be forgiven, but punishment is unavoidable!”
Lu Qingyang’s eyes narrowed, his gaze like lightning.
Hearing this, Gong Luo’s heart was full of struggle and conflict.
But after seeing Lu Qingyang’s eyes, her heart finally yielded.
“It was my State Preceptor, Mo Chen.”
“State Preceptor? Where is he?”
“He ran. He was still here three days ago, but now I don’t know where he’s gone.”
“Hm?”
Lu Qingyang, who had shown no excess emotion from beginning to end, at the moment he heard the chief culprit had fled, a trace of surprise appeared between his brows.
“He was still here three days ago? And now he’s gone?”
“In other words… the other party knew I was coming?”
“This State Preceptor is that divine?”
Lu Qingyang sensed something was wrong in an instant.
This Mo Chen was definitely no ordinary person!
“Tell me everything about this person. Do not conceal anything!”
Lu Qingyang stared at Gong Luo with a dark gaze.
Gong Luo’s heart tightened, her face bitter.
“Senior, this person was the first local cultivator I encountered after establishing myself in the Seven Stars Sea Region. Later…”
Gong Luo spent half an hour recounting Mo Chen’s past.
But everything was from after he arrived in Great Qian.
In other words, she also did not know Mo Chen’s past, nor his true origins.
But from these fragmentary words, Lu Qingyang also gleaned some useful information.
That was, this Mo Chen seemed to know everything, and could do everything!
Artifact refining, puppet making, divination and deduction, alchemy and statecraft… tsk tsk, is this still a mortal?
If you told me he was an Immortal reincarnated, I’d believe it!
No, I have to ask him properly!