Chapter 1549: Chapter 73: Sovereign of Evil Spirits

Feng Zishuang gently caressed Zhou Sisi’s face and said kindly, "Mm, your mother has recovered, I’ve regained my strongest Combat Power, regained my greatest abilities. Now, even the Evil Spirit Master wouldn’t dare easily make a move against us! From today on, your mother will properly be your guardian!"

"Mm, Mother, just now you helped me, letting my Realm directly leap countless steps to step into a state close to a Half-step Monarch. It’s a pity my heart is unstable, I have too many attachments, so I let you down. Mother, I’m sorry. Your child wasted so much of your painstaking effort."

Zhou Sisi said guiltily.

"Silly child, like this, your mother is instead very gratified, because this is the sign of having feelings. To have feelings is ultimately better than being without. As for your attachments, you don’t need to worry too much. I know your heart is tied to Hou Chen, and although... in terms of Bloodline you are a bit close, it doesn’t matter. The Emperor and Nuwa were blood siblings and could still be together, so of course you can as well."

"Once we reach our kind of Realm, the inheritance of the Bloodline no longer has any flaws; it will only make the descendants more perfect. Hou Chen, that child, has had far too much pain in his past and in his future, so if some things happen, you must not blame him."

"No matter what happens, you must remember, if you love deeply, then you must trust."

"What your eyes see is not necessarily true, what your ears hear is not necessarily true either. You must rely on your own instincts to comprehend, to sense that love."

"In his most desperate moments, he longs intensely for a simple trust, a sincere love."

Feng Zishuang seemed to know something, her tone turning rather solemn as she spoke.

Zhou Sisi, however, did not think that far, but still nodded heavily and said, "Mother, Sisi is not a child anymore, nor that willful little girl of the past. All of this, I’ve already experienced personally many times. So, no matter what Senior Brother Hou Chen does, it won’t affect my love for him."

"Sisi, you truly have grown up. Because of Yanyan, we really did neglect you most of the time. We... have wronged you as well."

Feng Zishuang let out a sigh and said.

"Mother, compared to Sister Yan Yan, how blessed am I, how could I not know? Now, Yanyan is even trapped in a cage, controlled by the Evil Spirit, without a self. She has always been so pitiful, she can’t even properly face and acknowledge her own feelings.

She has always been so lonely and alone, without even a single person at her side she can really talk to."

"But when she was with me, time and again she put everything down to take care of me. Compared to her, it’s Sisi who feels truly ashamed."

"Sisi has done many wrong things. In the Soul Burying Starry Sky, I personally ruined Father’s plan, destroyed Father’s incomparably important body, and even... if not for those past events, Father would not be in such hardship now, so passive, nor would he be struggling with all his might every single moment like this."

As Zhou Sisi spoke, she couldn’t help but start crying again.

This time, her crying was so heart-wrenching.

"Sisi, your father has never once blamed you, so you don’t need to be like this. And if your father knew you were like this, he would only feel even more guilty, because he also never properly took care of you. So, if you can let go of all your knots, and join your heart with your father’s, your father will also be very gratified."

"Mother, I will."

Zhou Sisi wiped away her tears, yet still answered very obediently.

Although she was still crying like pear blossoms in the rain, this outpouring of emotion could be considered a complete eruption, instead of being stifled deep in her heart, always lurking there.

In this way, she could be considered to have undone the long-sealed knot in her heart.

Feng Zishuang let out a long turbid breath; for such a situation she was quite satisfied. At the very least, the knot in Zhou Sisi’s heart had been dissolved, and regarding matters of Hou Chen, with this reminder now, if some things she cannot bear to face happen in the future, perhaps it will not feel so sudden...

Thinking of this, Feng Zishuang was also a little helpless.

Immediately after, her gaze became firm once more.

"Sisi, you mentioned your Sister Yan Yan being controlled by the Evil Spirit. As for this, your mother now already has the ability to resolve it. So now I’ll take you... to bring them home, alright?"

"Ah... Mother, i-is this really true?"

"Of course it’s true. How could your mother lie to you? After fully recovering, I have fully recovered the strength of the Ancient Life Clan.

The Ancient Life Clan... Sisi, you still don’t know what kind of race this is, but Mother can tell you, this race is even stronger than the ancient Ancient Sacred Spirit Race."

"The ancient Holy Spirits—Azure Dragon, White Fox, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, and Qilin. These five great Holy Beasts and Holy Spirit Races are very powerful, but hidden within them, the Ancient Life Clan is the truly strongest."

"Your mother, and Zhou Lingyi whom you’re familiar with, as well as Zhou Ying, are actually all clansmen of the Ancient Life Clan. It’s just that our missions... are different, that’s all. Alright, let’s not speak of this. I’ll take you to the Cold Ice Palace."

When Feng Zishuang spoke of "mission," her expression flashed unnaturally for an instant, but because Zhou Sisi had just reconciled so harmoniously with her mother, she did not notice this change.

Zhou Sisi said with some worry, "Mother, the Ancient Life Clan is indeed powerful, but that Mu Qingyan, the Lord of Ice and Snow, is an Invincible existence who can suppress the Thunder Flame Monarch..."

"Sisi, don’t worry. Once you go, you’ll understand."

As Feng Zishuang spoke, she extended her hand.

Zhou Sisi hesitated for a moment, then placed her own hand into Feng Zishuang’s.

At that, Feng Zishuang smiled faintly, and then her gaze flowed; Endless golden leaves suddenly flickered in the Void, and within the Void, Endless Singularities actually arranged themselves into a sheet of Runes.

The Runes formed a long Heavenly Ladder.

Where this Heavenly Ladder led to was unknown.

However, when Feng Zishuang led Zhou Sisi onto this Heavenly Ladder, the ladder very naturally began to travel forward on its own.

Such a method was simply defying the heavens to the point of making one tremble. Even with Zhou Sisi’s current Realm and Combat Power, she still felt a deep sense of suffocation.

In this feeling, Zhou Sisi’s eyes were wide open, as if afraid of missing any change in the scenery.

Feng Zishuang only smiled faintly at Zhou Sisi’s adorable behavior and did not take it much to heart.

After only a few breaths, the Heavenly Ladder descended into a sea of clouds. Then, with a light breath from Feng Zishuang, the Cloud Sea rose and surged, revealing within its Domain a stretch of Endless, vast white snow.

Snow blanketed everything, as though all things were wrapped in pure silver, a world of holy white.

In this Heaven and Earth, all was deathly still, without the slightest trace of Holy Spirit Breath manifesting.

But after Feng Zishuang arrived, she led Zhou Sisi to descend directly onto the Snow Peak Summit beside the Cold Ice Palace.

This Snow Peak Summit was a place no Life or Holy Spirit dared easily set foot.

Yet Feng Zishuang had stepped onto this place.

Zhou Sisi was still very curious, but there was some worry in her expression as well.

Feng Zishuang, however, felt no worry. After they descended here, her gaze swept around the surroundings, and she finally sighed and said, "Younger Sister, Elder Sister has come again. This time, come out and see me."

"Come out and see me. Elder Sister indeed wronged you in many ways in the past, but now, we both should think for our husband. Our husband has already risen, so we shouldn’t leave too many regrets."

Feng Zishuang spoke again.

Heaven and Earth remained as silent as ever.

Just as Zhou Sisi thought Mu Qingyan would not appear, a sorrowful sigh echoed between Heaven and Earth.

"Sister Zi Shuang, since you’ve already recovered, then I no longer have any meaning to exist. After all, I am not you. Many of my actions have already crossed certain bottom lines. If he knows, it will only trouble him, only cause him pain."

"Qingyan, you are truly mistaken. I came here because you revived me, but... you don’t know that when you suppressed me back then, I also calculated against you, which is why you are... incomplete. But it wasn’t because of those Illusory scenes; all of those were false. Can you still not distinguish the True Void? If you don’t believe me, let me remove the shackles of the Evil Spirit for you, and you’ll understand."

"Of course, I know that the Evil Spirit on you can’t really be called shackles, because in reality you’re able to control the Evil Spirit. You are truly one of the Evil Spirit Dominators; it’s just that you chose to sever feelings for the sake of severing feelings. But that’s no longer necessary. We should believe in our man, our husband, and entrust this final everything to him, let him take that last step."

As Feng Zishuang spoke, she began releasing the Endless Origin Power of the Ancient Life Clan.

This Origin Power poured out like a golden ocean, directly surging toward some unknown place.

In that instant, Mu Qingyan’s figure was forced to appear, then gradually changed from Illusion to solid fullness.

At the same time, the Endless pitch-black energy on her body was washed away bit by bit by the golden energy, beginning to turn complete and holy.

The Evil Spirit loosened; it seemed that the deliberate shackles of the Evil Spirit were also slowly disappearing within the tower-shaped mark.

After the tower-shaped mark vanished, the streaks of Sword-shaped Thunder Flame Seal between Mu Qingyan’s brows finally began to appear.

Mu Qingyan clearly had not expected things to change in this way. When she once again looked toward Feng Zishuang, her eyes had become complicated.

"When you first came to our husband’s side, you also had your own purpose, didn’t you?" Mu Qingyan asked, a trace of bitter smile in her voice.

"Yes. Just like you, I came with a purpose, with a mission, as an undercover at our husband’s side. So you schemed against me and I also schemed against you..."

Feng Zishuang could only give a wry smile.