Ye Xuan pointed beyond the mountain gate and issued an uncompromising order to leave. “Madam Lu, if you have no other business today, you may go. I still have a wedding to prepare for. I have no time to entertain an acquaintance from a past life.”
“No... no! You are my husband! How dare you... how dare you marry another woman?”
The Azure Emperor suddenly raised her head. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she shook her head frantically with the stubborn desperation of a crazed lioness.
The terrifying pressure belonging to the Azure Emperor surged uncontrollably around her, causing the surrounding void to crack apart inch by inch.
The moment Ye Xuan saw this, his gaze turned cold to the extreme.
He abruptly raised the golden command token in his hand—the symbol of the Sword God Palace’s supreme authority. Countless ancient sword energies instantly locked onto the Azure Emperor’s brow, their deafening hum resounding through the air!
“If you want to die here, I can grant you that wish right now!”
Ye Xuan’s voice carried undisguised, bone-chilling killing intent.
Facing Ye Xuan’s cold, merciless eyes, brimming with the intent to kill, the Azure Emperor’s face went pale. Her entire body trembled uncontrollably.
The husband who had once nearly died for her in the Myriad Poison Abyss... who had once been as gentle as water with her in the peach blossom grove... who had once, even when covered in wounds, insisted on saving the finest resources for her...
In the end, she had still lost him with her own hands.
A sorrow so deep it left her unable to breathe engulfed her.
“Husband... no, Ye Xuan...”
The Azure Emperor staggered back two steps in a daze, tears blurring her vision.
She cast aside all her pride and dignity, wailing like a beggar with nowhere left to go.
“I won’t leave! I want to stay by your side! Even if I have to be a lowly servant who serves you tea and runs errands, even if you beat me, curse me, and humiliate me every day, I still want to remain by your side and atone for my sins!”
“I only beg you... don’t marry Ye Jiuhuang! Don’t abandon me!”
Hearing her plea, humble to the very depths of despair, Ye Xuan merely laughed cruelly. “And why should I?”
“Because I am your Dao companion!” the Azure Emperor cried hysterically. “We were betrothed long ago! In life, I am yours; in death, I am your ghost!”
“What a joke!”
Ye Xuan’s expression was filled with scorn and contempt. “Ten thousand years ago, you wore a crimson wedding gown and held that grand wedding with Lu Yanchen before the eyes of the entire world.”
“From that moment on, you became Lu Yanchen’s woman—not Ye Xuan’s!”
“No! That wedding was a sham! I never became his Dao companion! I never let him touch me!” The Azure Emperor shook her head in collapse, repeating the same pale, powerless explanation again and again.
But at that moment—
An incomparably cool and aloof voice suddenly rang out from behind the White Jade Plaza, carrying a terrifying majesty that seemed to stand above the nine heavens.
“Husband, who are you arguing with? Why have you invoked the Sword God Token?”
As the voice fell, the roiling spiritual energy in the area was instantly suppressed by an invisible sharpness, pressed firmly to the ground.
The next instant, a woman slowly approached.
She wore a dark sword robe, possessed peerless beauty, and seemed like a celestial goddess descending from the nine heavens.
She merely stood there, yet countless invisible strands of sword qi swirled around her. Her entire being was like a peerless divine sword capable of cleaving the heavens asunder.
The newcomer was none other than the Number One Sword Under Heaven—the Sword Sovereign, Ye Jiuhuang!
The instant he saw Ye Jiuhuang appear, the Azure Emperor’s expression changed drastically, her pupils contracting sharply.
As a peerless powerhouse who had ruled over an era, the Azure Emperor was naturally formidable beyond measure.
Yet before Ye Jiuhuang, the Number One Sword Under Heaven, she could still sense an edge sharp enough to shred even her soul to pieces at any moment.
A trace of fear and trembling could not help but rise within her heart.
Ye Jiuhuang walked over to Ye Xuan’s side. The icy, aloof look in her eyes melted into a pool of spring water the moment she looked at him.
With utmost intimacy, she rested her head against Ye Xuan’s shoulder. She even reached out naturally to straighten his collar for him.
But when she turned to look at the Azure Emperor standing opposite them—
those exquisitely beautiful eyes instantly became colder than ten thousand years of black ice.
“Azure Emperor.”
Ye Jiuhuang’s voice was freezing and piercing, carrying an imperious authority that needed no anger to command respect. “You, the dignified head of the Qing clan, have come to my Sword God Palace to make such a commotion. What exactly are you planning to do to my husband?”
Watching Ye Jiuhuang lean so intimately against Ye Xuan, the Azure Emperor’s heart welled with endless bitterness and jealousy. Tears once again streamed down her face against her will.
But she knew better than anyone that she was no match for the Sword Sovereign now.
If she forced herself to attack, she would only end up reduced to ashes—without even the chance to atone for her sins.
The Azure Emperor bit down hard on her lips, enduring the agonizing pain in her heart as she said sorrowfully, “Palace Master Ye... Ye Xuan and I once shared a bond. We...”
“Shut up.”
Ye Jiuhuang cut her off without mercy, a flash of disgust passing through her eyes. “My husband has mentioned you to me. The so-called past you speak of was nothing more than suffering for him in his previous life.”
Ye Jiuhuang lifted her chin slightly and looked down at her coldly. “That was a matter of his past life. And not only did you fail to cherish him—you allowed others to abuse him and drove him to the point of self-destruction. A heartless, ungrateful woman like you has no right even to speak his name.”
“So heed my warning. I do not wish for you to disturb him again, nor do I wish to hear you use that laughable past to pester my husband.”
Ye Jiuhuang’s eyes narrowed slightly. A terrifyingly supreme sword intent flashed before her, slicing off a strand of hair beside the Azure Emperor’s cheek.
“Otherwise, bear the consequences yourself.”
Though she had revealed only the faintest trace of killing intent, the swordly might capable of splitting heaven and earth made the Azure Emperor—a peak Great Ascension cultivator—tremble from head to toe, as though she had fallen into an icy abyss.
The Azure Emperor’s lips quivered. Feeling Ye Xuan’s utter indifference—his unwillingness to spare her even a second glance—all her resistance and pride shattered completely in that instant.
She knew that she had lost—lost utterly and completely. She did not even have the right to sit at the table.
The Azure Emperor nodded in despair. Her peerlessly beautiful face now looked as withered and wretched as dead wood.
Gathering the last of her strength, she forced out a smile even uglier than tears:
“Palace Master Ye… you misunderstand. I came here… only to offer my congratulations on your wedding.”
As he spoke those words, the Azure Emperor felt as though his heart had been chewed to pieces and swallowed whole.
“Oh? To congratulate us on our wedding?”
Ye Jiuhuang let out a cold laugh. She withdrew her killing intent, her expression returning to its lofty, aloof chill.
“Since you say so, a guest is a guest. My Sword God Palace will naturally be gracious enough to arrange lodgings for you.”
“However, while you are in Sword God Palace, Madam Lu, you had better behave yourself. Do not approach or harass my husband again. Otherwise, I would not mind making sure you never leave.”
After delivering her icy warning, Ye Jiuhuang turned toward Ye Xuan, and the frost on her face instantly melted away.
“Husband, the wind is strong outside. Let us not waste our time on someone who spoils the mood.”
Taking Ye Xuan’s hand, Ye Jiuhuang’s voice softened until it seemed almost capable of dripping with sweetness. “I need to see to the sect’s affairs. You should go back and rest first.”
Ye Xuan gave a slight nod, his expression gentle. “All right. You’ve worked hard.”
With that, he turned around and took the maid Ying'er by the hand. Without sparing the Azure Emperor even a glance from the corner of his eye, he walked resolutely toward the depths of the grand hall.
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e, Immortal Body, Transmigration, System, Progression Fantasy, Academy Setting, Third-Person Perspective. Alternate Title: Transmigrating into a High Martial World and Reading Live Comments. Bad news: I transmigrated. This is a terrifying high-martial world, and my original, pathetically weak body fell into a coma and never woke up. Good news: I got a Popularity Points system upon arrival. I can see live comments and even create an unkillable alternate identity. Starting out, the alternate identity has all stats at 1. The system tells me that to grow stronger, I must participate in the plot, gain popularity points to allocate stats and grow stronger, and ultimately awaken my original body. And so, carrying my original body on my back, I officially entered Huaqing Academy, where the story's protagonist resides. From that moment on, Chen Guan kicked the original plot to pieces. Live Comments: [Doesn't anyone find this mysterious coffin guy creepy? He can summon indescribable grey misty hands.] [Is this guy a hero or a villain? What kind of onion became a spirit?] [By the way, does anyone know who's in the coffin? Shouldn't the debt for saving his life be repaid by now?] [According to unofficial histories, the person in the coffin was Chen Guan's first love. Their love was once passionate and earth-shattering, but they were separated by life and death due to worldly circumstances. What a star-crossed pair.] ... Years later, the world knew of a demon god born from a coffin, shrouded in grey mist, impossible to gaze upon directly. His foremost divine emissary often wielded a scythe, reaping lives like the god of death. As war approached, facing former friends and a boundless sea of enemies, Chen Guan merely raised his scythe. "Would you like to dance as well?"
