You Got in the Way of My Business, Facing My Greatest Enemy for the First Time
You Got in the Way of My Business, Facing My Greatest Enemy for the First Time
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Marry?
The word surfaced in Gu Changge’s mind, and then he smiled. “That’s only natural.”
The sky was the color of tangerines as dusk slowly descended. The two of them strolled side by side through the imperial palace, like a pair of immortal lovers.
Though they spoke in soft voices, Jiang Chuchu could always feel the surrounding guards secretly stealing glances at them.
“That Tuo Ba Xiaoyao is currently locked up in the Heavenly Prison. Should we go kill him and snatch the Sword of World Domination?”
“The Great Yu Celestial Dynasty’s Heavenly Prison shouldn’t be able to stop the two of us.”
On the way back to their residence, Jiang Chuchu inexplicably thought of this matter and suddenly asked.
Gu Changge hadn’t expected her to say such a thing. He reached out and rested his hand on her lovely face, smiling. “Kill him we naturally will, and I will take the Sword of World Domination. But it won’t be ’us’ — it will be me.”
“I can help you too,” Jiang Chuchu couldn’t help saying.
Gu Changge gently shook his head. “No need. Don’t forget your status. You are the Saintess of the Mortal Palace. This sort of thing isn’t suitable for you.”
Jiang Chuchu had been immersed in the scriptures and teachings of the Mortal Palace since childhood. Her heart held all living beings under heaven, and she upheld a sense of justice. Doing such a thing would only needlessly sully her heart toward the Dao.
“For you, I’ve already betrayed my sect. What do things like this matter?” Jiang Chuchu lowered her eyes. She understood what Gu Changge meant.
“But I don’t want you to fall into the mortal dust and be stained by worldly grime,” Gu Changge said with a smile.
Jiang Chuchu’s bright eyes fixed on his face, and in the end she softly murmured an “mm.”
At this moment, she felt that everything she had given up for Gu Changge was worth it.
When Gu Changge returned to the palace hall, just as he had expected, Yu Tianzheng was already waiting there.
He stood silent. Though he still appeared respectful, his whole bearing carried a trace of resentment, as if demanding an explanation from Gu Changge.
“You go rest first.”
Gu Changge smiled faintly, letting Jiang Chuchu leave first, and only then did he walk over at his own pace.
“Yu Tianzheng greets Young Master Changge.”
Yu Tianzheng’s appearance was extremely similar to Emperor Yu’s, with a square-set mouth and nose, though he looked somewhat older, exuding a weathered air.
He had followed Gu Changge’s instructions and called off the assassination plan targeting the Second Prince Yu Lie at the Hunting Event.
But he had never been able to figure out why Gu Changge wanted this.
If the Second Prince Yu Lie had died there, the entire Great Yu Celestial Dynasty would have fallen into chaos, and the many arrangements he had laid would have come into play.
This was also what he had always wanted to confront Gu Changge about.
Hearing this, Gu Changge smiled and spoke unhurriedly. “Oh? You came to see me — is there something the matter?”
He asked despite knowing the answer, wanting to gauge Yu Tianzheng’s attitude.
If Yu Tianzheng was smart enough to obediently follow his instructions and not pry into what he shouldn’t,
then Gu Changge could spare him.
If he didn’t know what was good for him, Gu Changge naturally wouldn’t show mercy either.
“There is one thing I don’t understand. I hope Young Master Changge can explain it to me.”
Yu Tianzheng raised his head, his words carrying a note of questioning. His heart had been full of unwillingness these past days.
“Oh? What don’t you understand?” Gu Changge still spoke unhurriedly.
Yu Tianzheng looked straight at him. “I came with sincerity, intending to cooperate with Young Master Changge. If I could take over the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, I would certainly swear a Dao Heart Oath and hand over the entire Great Yu empire to you. But Young Master Changge, without giving any reason, told me to abandon the assassination.”
“Did you forget the agreement between us? Or have you conspired with Emperor Yu to capture me?”
He had made many preparations before coming this time, so his words were not the least bit polite.
Before, it was precisely because he had been too polite that Gu Changge thought he was easy to bully and kept him under his thumb.
His cultivation was already half a notch stronger than Emperor Yu’s, and the techniques and Transcendent abilities the two cultivated were not the same.
After these years of enduring hardship and biding his time, even facing a True Daoist, he could put up a fight.
Moreover, Yu Tianzheng was certain that as long as Gu Changge still had designs on the Great Yu Celestial Dynasty, he wouldn’t make a move against him.
He said these things partly to vent the anger in his heart, and partly to make Gu Changge aware of his importance,
so that in the coming actions and plans, his words would be given more consideration.
“So you came here tonight specifically to question me?” Gu Changge’s face still wore a faint smile.
Yet for some reason, an ominous premonition rose in Yu Tianzheng’s heart.
He still forced himself to say, “It’s not exactly questioning. I just want Young Master Changge to give me an accounting. Otherwise, regarding the plans ahead—”
“The plans ahead, what?” Gu Changge interrupted him, asking with great interest.
“In the plans ahead, I’m afraid I won’t completely follow your instructions,” Yu Tianzheng said bluntly.
Gu Changge smiled. “It’s actually nothing much. The reason I had you cancel the assassination plan wasn’t because I worried you’d fail. It’s because you got in the way of my business.”
“Your business?”
Yu Tianzheng’s expression shifted slightly, his voice carrying some anger. “What business could be more important than the assassination?”
“That’s not something you need to concern yourself with.”
Gu Changge smiled faintly. Naturally, he would not tell Yu Tianzheng about the Sword of World Domination and Tuo Ba Xiaoyao.
“Fine. In that case, I’ll consider the plans ahead on my own.”
Yu Tianzheng was silent for a moment. Feeling that Gu Changge still didn’t take him seriously, his heart sank, and he cupped his fists directly, intending to leave.
But the next instant, before his words were even finished, shock and disbelief surfaced on his face.
“Gu Changge, you...”
Yu Tianzheng’s face was full of fury, his expression changing drastically.
Weng—
“Did I say you could leave?” Gu Changge’s expression was calm. He didn’t say much more, simply reaching his hand out toward him. At this moment, the void itself seemed to solidify.
A great hand wreathed in five-colored Chaos Energy reached forward, like the vault of heaven pressing down.
At this moment, every hair on Yu Tianzheng’s body stood on end, his divine soul trembled, and bone-chilling cold spread through his entire body.
He never imagined Gu Changge would strike so suddenly, so ruthlessly.
“In that case...” Yu Tianzheng roared in anger.
Even knowing he was no match, he still moved forward to block. He didn’t want anything unexpected to happen.
With a “qiang” of a sword’s cry, a crystalline Dao Sword wreathed in the supreme principles of heaven and earth was summoned forth, then slashed straight down.
This was a Quasi-Nirvana Grade Artifact. Though it had not yet awakened, it still possessed terrifying might.
Dang—
But Gu Changge’s great hand, wreathed in Chaos Energy, didn’t dodge at all, grabbing straight forward. The crystalline Dao Sword chopped down on a single finger, sparks flying in all directions, utterly failing to cut through.
This horrified Yu Tianzheng. His Quasi-Nirvana Grade Artifact was indestructible, forged from Creation Dao Gold, yet it couldn’t cut through a single one of Gu Changge’s fingers. It emitted a dreadful trembling hum, as if about to shatter.
He truly couldn’t fathom how Gu Changge had tempered his body. It was hard to imagine what realm he had reached.
Weng—
The next instant, the void before his eyes collapsed, unable to withstand the might of this palm.
And what drove Yu Tianzheng to despair was that the surrounding heaven and earth seemed to have become Gu Changge’s domain, sealing off every inch of void with a single thought.
Even if he wanted to flee, there was no way at all.
“Young Master Changge, spare my life! I was wrong...”
Fear surfaced on Yu Tianzheng’s face. Cracks actually appeared on the Dao Sword in his hand, about to be shattered by Gu Changge’s single palm.
One had to know, this was a Quasi-Nirvana Grade Artifact. In terms of forging material, it was already comparable to some True Daoist artifacts.
Yet it still couldn’t withstand a casual palm from Gu Changge.
...Seeking flowers...
He regretted it immensely. He had thought he was already strong enough, with many methods yet unused.
But now it seemed that even if he used those methods, they wouldn’t have the slightest effect.
Gu Changge was absolutely a True Daoist!
In the entire vast Beyond, there were probably not many who knew this news.
“I don’t like people who think they’re clever.”
“If you don’t want to die, release your Primordial Spirit and let me plant a Slave Mark.”
Gu Changge spoke indifferently. He had bound Yu Tianzheng and dragged his Primordial Spirit out from between his brows.
He didn’t plan to kill Yu Tianzheng just like that. Keeping him alive still had its uses.
But to ensure Yu Tianzheng would obediently listen from now on, he still planted the Demonic Manipulation Urn.
“Young Master Changge, spare me...”
“I’ll release my Primordial Spirit.”
Though having a Slave Mark planted meant a lifetime of servitude, at this point Yu Tianzheng had no other choice. He trembled as he spoke.
The terror of the Demonic Manipulation Urn lay in its insidious subtlety. It took root in the deepest depths of the Primordial Spirit, and even a True Daoist most proficient in the Primordial Spirits Path could never hope to detect it.
The matter of the Tuo Ba Residence’s Third Young Master provoking Emperor Yu’s wrath at the banquet and being thrown into the Heavenly Prison spread throughout the entire Imperial Capital almost as soon as the banquet ended.
Cultivators in every street and alley were discussing this matter, and Tuo Ba Xiaoyao, the person involved, was pushed into the eye of the storm.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had hidden his talents and bided his time for over twenty years, then shone brilliantly at the Hunting Event, becoming a Young Prodigy comparable to the Second Prince. For a time, he was glorious beyond measure, envied by countless people.
But in the blink of an eye, he fell from his pedestal and became a prisoner. Even the Tuo Ba Residence, whose gates had once bustled with visitors, was now deserted and desolate.
This heaven-and-earth difference left many people sighing with emotion.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s declaration that he admired the Eldest Princess Yu Feiya was treated as a farce, leaving everyone caught between laughter and exasperation.
Some busybodies even spread the evaluation Gu Changge had made at the banquet — “hardly fit for great use.”
The deep disappointment revealed in those words resonated with many people.
A chance to ascend to the heavens in a single step was laid right before his eyes, yet Tuo Ba Xiaoyao had stubbornly refused it.
If this wasn’t stupidity, if this wasn’t being unfit for great use, then what was it?
And while the outside world buzzed with discussion,
deep within the Great Yu Imperial Capital, the Heavenly Prison was extremely quiet.
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao’s figure was tall and straight, his countenance resolute. He sat cross-legged with closed eyes in his cell, seemingly deaf to all the affairs of the outside world.
Wisps of sword intent coiled around his body. In a trance, thousands upon thousands of strands of Sword Qi interwove, making one’s skin sting with pain.
Having lived several lives, he naturally knew the possibility of escaping the Heavenly Prison was virtually zero.
The only way was to wait for Emperor Yu’s anger to subside and for him to be released.
Or for his father, Yu Feiya, and the others to find a way to rescue him.
So he didn’t resist, nor did he have any thought of escaping.
Though the Heavenly Prison’s defenses were tight, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao was still somewhat worried.
With Gu Changge’s strength, if he wanted to sneak into this place, it would probably be very easy.
The numerous guards and jailers outside, and even the various Array Patterns, would all be as nothing to him.
And just then, Tuo Ba Xiaoyao sensed a sudden disturbance in the void before him. His eyes snapped open, a piercing sword intent flashing within them, his expression becoming incomparably wary.
Weng—
A layer of silver ripples spread out, the void collapsed, and a tall figure like a deity stepped out from within.
Gu Changge!
Tuo Ba Xiaoyao practically squeezed this name out through his teeth, one word at a time.
This was the first time since his rebirth that he had faced his greatest enemy so directly, and deep in his eyes was hatred he could not conceal.