Marching into the Nine Heavens

Jiang Yueye felt her scalp tingle with apprehension.

"Honored Ancestors, Jiang Che is a descendant of our Jiang family... We have already built a deep bond with him. Surely, he wouldn't turn against the Jiang family, would he?"

However, one of the Immortals shook his head.

They certainly knew Jiang Che's character; he wouldn't turn on the Jiang family out of spite. But... they had invested so much in him, and that investment could not go to waste!

Jiang Che had fully matured now, and they needed to reap some benefits from him.

Therefore, they had to demonstrate their sincerity. The main branch of the Jiang family boasted over ten thousand members, with countless beautiful maidens among them. Yet, the only one capable of securing a spot on the List of Peerless Beauties was Jiang Yueye alone!

Ranked within the top ten of the Nine Heavens' Peerless Beauties, Jiang Yueye was indeed beautiful enough.

"Alright, alright. If you truly have no feelings for Jiang Che, then Father naturally won't force you. I just want to ask you one thing: do you have any feelings for him at all?" Jiang Ritian looked at his daughter.

Jiang Yueye was his only child. Although she did not possess an Immortal Physique, she was born with the Five Elements Immortal Spiritual Roots—possessing roots of all five attributes. This talent was far superior to many so-called Immortal Physiques.

"Um..." Jiang Yueye furrowed her brows, Jiang Che's face and his past deeds flashing through her mind.

"What is it? Yue'er, do you dislike him?" Jiang Ritian felt a sudden panic.

"A... a little bit, perhaps. He... he's too much of a philanderer," Jiang Yueye voiced Jiang Che's greatest flaw.

"Oh, my dear Yue'er, you don't understand. Jiang Che has no choice in the matter! Have you forgotten? He bears the Haori Immortal Physique and is rumored to possess a latent Solar Constitution. With such an extremely Yang and masculine constitution... if he doesn't find more women to engage in Yin-Yang harmonization, something terrible will happen to him!"

"......"

Jiang Yueye didn't know what to say. It was obvious that her father and the others were speaking in Jiang Che's favor.

"Yue'er, just tell me... aside from being a womanizer, does he have any other faults?"

"No... none," Jiang Yueye bit her lip lightly. She hadn't truly spent time with Jiang Che, so how could she know his true personality?

"Then that settles it!" Jiang Ritian slapped his thigh so hard he startled Jiang Yueye. "Haven't you read those romance novels? You know, titles like 'Love After Marriage: The Domineering Demon Ancestor Falls for Me'? Let me tell you... Jiang Che's character is absolutely sound."

Jiang Yueye: "......"

In the end, under the relentless badgering of these old Immortal geezers, Jiang Yueye dazedly nodded her head in agreement.

"Old Seven! Hurry up and arrange the wedding hall. We won't make a big spectacle of it this time!"

"Old Fourteen, if I recall correctly... you have some Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Silk, don't you? Give me a good amount... I need to make a wedding quilt." Jiang Ritian couldn't wait to sell... no, marry his daughter off.

"Heavenly Silkworm Immortal Silk? Are you trying to kill me? That Immortal Silkworm I raised took a hundred thousand years just to spin that tiny bit of silk..."

"Quit your whining. Didn't you eat one of the Longevity Immortal Peaches Jiang Che sent over last time?"

"......"

Jiang Yueye watched as these Immortal Ancestors busied themselves. For a moment, she looked utterly dazed. Was she... really getting married just like that, in such a confused state?

Wasn't this a bit too hasty?

...

It wasn't just the Jiang family; the Jialan Clan was also reacting.

"Jiang Che... is coming to the Nine Heavens?" In the ancestral land of the Jialan Clan, the Jialan Empress fell silent, her emotions a chaotic mix.

Through dream-walking, she had 'clashed' with Jiang Che countless times. That young man was audaciously lecherous, yet his methods and abilities were terrifyingly unprecedented.

Jia Ling'er had completely become his woman. This left the Empress in a state of turmoil, feeling as though she didn't know how to face Jia Ling'er anymore.

She might have to face Jia Ling'er very soon, which would be even more of a headache.

"I've killed Jiang Che thousands of times in the dreams; he won't let me off easily," Jia Mengluo sighed softly, her voice filled with sorrow.

The mortal native she had once looked down upon had now become a legend possessing Four Immortal Physiques, the Lord of Destiny. There were even rumors that he was an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao or the reincarnation of the Demon Ancestor.

But she truly had no choice. What mother could sit idly by and watch her daughter be abducted by a man without doing anything?

......

The Mortal Realm.

Jiang Che had already boarded the Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat.

This so-called Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat appeared to be only thirty thousand zhang in length from the outside, but its interior actually contained an entire world!

The inner realm of the Immortal Boat was as beautiful as a fairyland.

The parents of Ye Mengyao and the others had all been settled within these inner worlds.

Jiang Che began to activate the Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat.

For a Six-Tribulation Immortal Emperor Artifact like this, activating it required a massive amount of high-grade Spirit Stones as fuel. At full speed, the number of Spirit Stones consumed per second was an astronomical figure.

Fortunately, while Jiang Che might lack many things, Spirit Stones were the one thing he had in abundance!

It was no exaggeration to say that after all the resources he had swindled, he had enough to open a massive Spirit Stone bank.

Whoosh!!!

As the Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat activated, the entire vessel erupted with dazzling light. Countless profound and complex formation runes manifested, and the aura of the Immortal Boat reached its peak.

The spiritual energy contained within the hundreds of thousands of High-Grade Spirit Stones Jiang Che had loaded was drained in an instant!

Hum—

Space trembled violently.

The Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat vanished, transforming into a streak of light that shot toward the realm barrier.

Breaking the Realm!!!

Even the realm barrier could not hinder the Immortal Boat in the slightest.

The Nine Heavens contained over ten million provinces, and its territory was so vast that it likely had to be measured in light-years!

Even if an advanced civilization invented a light-speed spaceship, traversing the Nine Heavens would take an immense amount of time.

However, the Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat utilized a superposition of spatial arrays and various other formations, completing over ten thousand spatial jumps in a single second.

......

The Otherworldly Evil Spirit Domain.

A woman in green robes stood quietly, gazing into the distance, toward the direction where Jiang Che's Realm-Breaking Immortal Boat had departed.

She was, naturally, the Demon Empress, Ji Qingyi!

Today, the Demon Empress was not dressed in her usual red, but had changed into simple, unadorned green robes.

No one could fathom what she was thinking at this moment.

Abruptly, countless black butterflies appeared around her. These butterflies coalesced into a human figure, kneeling on one knee beside Ji Qingyi.

"Demon Empress, if we act now to stop him... is there still time?"

Ji Qingyi merely glanced at her indifferently. "You cannot stop him..."

"Demon Empress, I..." The Black Butterfly Evil Venerable wanted to argue. She was, after all, a Five-Tribulation Evil Venerable...

Ji Qingyi yawned. "Hear my command: All Evil Spirits are to attack the Nine Heavens!"