God Emperor

The Glazed Temple floats above the vast cosmic nebula. Planets are dotted like gems in the colorful nebula, and occasionally streaks of divine light can be seen passing through.

Zhang Ruochen is dressed in a green robe and has his hair tied up with a wooden hairpin. He is elegant and has the charm of an immortal. He held a bamboo painting tube and walked up to the temple.

When the dozens of stone beasts of different shapes guarding the temple saw this intruder, they all bared their teeth and claws, and white smoke surged from their noses, full of evil aura.

However, Zhang Ruochen just stared at him, and the fierce stone beasts immediately retreated like kittens and lay on the ground.

"Greetings to Lord Di Chen!"

The two goddess generals from the Zhenhun Clan knelt on one knee in front of the temple gate.

Ling Xi followed Empress Shiji to practice, and the monks from the Soul Realm and Zhenhun Clan naturally moved to the star area surrounding the Liuli Temple.

Ling Xi walked out of the temple quickly. The wide dark black robe on her body was in sharp contrast with her white skin. She had an immortal and infinite momentum, and there was an indescribable tenderness in her eyes.

She has always been an extremely contradictory person, from the cold and cold Shadowless Fairy at the beginning, to the sinister and calculating King of Xi, to the forbearing and submissive person in the hell world, to the bright and sacred Lord of the Judgment Palace after returning to heaven. and later Queen Xi and Mother Soul.

Today, there is no obvious light or evil in her body. She has truly grown into a powerful person, with extremely high attainments in both spiritual power and martial arts.

"Meet Di Chen."

Ling Xi bowed slightly in front of the temple door, but also blocked Zhang Ruochen's path.

Zhang Ruochen raised his hand with a smile, walked inside and said, "What is our relationship? Why are you being polite to me?"

"Di Chen!"

Lian Xi called Zhang Ruochen, a little embarrassed, and said: "Empress's rules..."

"I understand! I burned incense and took a bath before I came here. If you don't believe it, you smell it."

Zhang Ruochen walked into the temple and saw a beam of light shining on the throne above, and then the incarnation of Empress Shi Ji sat on it. She is still so beautiful, graceful and graceful, with flying hair on her temples, but she doesn't have the image of a strong person at all, leaning back on the chair.

Empress Shiji held her head with one hand and said, "Where has Di Chen been for the past five hundred years? Do you know how many monks in the world are looking for you?"

Zhang Ruochen walked step by step to the center of the hall and glanced at a small bead curtain door ten feet away to the right of the throne. Through that door, there was the small world of Baiyuan Garden.

The Little World of Baiyuan Garden is the residence of Empress Shiji, isolated from the outside world.

"Of course I am in seclusion to recuperate. The battle with the corpse nightmare was too serious." Zhang Ruochen sighed.

Lian Xi, who followed from behind, asked two divine generals from the Zhenhun Clan to bring up a chair and put it behind Zhang Ruochen.

Zhang Ruochen did not sit down, but put the painting tube in his hand on it.

Empress Shiji was moved and said: "I have heard that you and Tianmu teamed up to fight against the ancestor, and they almost tied."

"A tie? How can it be that easy? The monks below are just bragging!"

There was both strong fear and infinite longing in Zhang Ruochen's eyes, and he said: "Zombie Nightmare really wants to go all out, Tianlao and I can't hold it back. If Ling Yanzi hadn't taken action, I'm afraid..."

Empress Shi Ji asked: "What is going on over there at Ling Yanzi? Why did the Ancient Divine Nest suddenly disappear again?"

Zhang Ruochen opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly thought of something, and said: "Empress, this emperor comes in his true form, but you greet me in his incarnation. How can I discuss such a big matter with you?"

Anyone can hear Zhang Ruochen's dissatisfaction.

Ling Xi hurriedly said: "Facing the ancestor, everyone is under great pressure. The empress is at a critical moment in her cultivation and wants to reach the realm of the ancestor as soon as possible. Please bear with me, Di Chen."

Zhang Ruochen turned to look at her and said, "Luan Xi, whose side are you on?"

"I……"

Lian Xi didn't know what to say.

"When did Di Chen, who has a broad mind, become so careless? I thought it was a rumor, but I didn't expect it to be true. Zhang Ruochen, you have really changed!" Empress Shi Ji joked.

"A woman must be disciplined more, otherwise she will become more and more unruly. Lian Xi used to be gentle and obedient, but it was you who spoiled her."

Zhang Ruochen stared at Empress Shi Ji above, his eyes gradually softened, he opened the painting tube on the seat and said: "Before coming here, I bought a gift for empress. I believe empress will like it."

The painting tube contains naturally paintings.

The scroll unfolded in Zhang Ruochen's hands and hung to the ground.

In the painting, it is none other than Empress Shiji.

Wearing a light blue dress, wearing a hosta on her head, and a vermilion butterfly flower between her eyebrows, her lines are soft, lifelike, vivid and natural.

But after seeing it, Empress Shi Ji frowned and said with disgust: "Where did Di Chen buy this painting? It's... not even average, it's simply unsightly."

"This doesn't look like a queen at all!"

After Lian Xi held the painting, she also frowned.

Zhang Ruochen smiled and said: "This is already at the level of a mortal master! But he has never met the empress. He just copied the paintings of his predecessors."

"Besides, how many people in the world have seen my true face? No matter how good the painter is, it is difficult to paint one-tenth of her beauty."

"Except for Su Zilian back then!"

After Leng Buding said this, Zhang Ruochen stared straight into Empress Shi Ji's starry eyes.

Empress Shiji said angrily: "Su Zilian's painting skills have already reached the Taoist level. Even your fourth Confucian ancestor from Kunlun Realm may not be able to compare with her. How dare you compare her with a mortal painter?"

"Su Zilian's peak cultivation is only at the Heavenly Master level, but the Fourth Confucian Patriarch is a half-ancestor. They are both famous for their paintings, but I think the Fourth Confucian Patriarch is more skilled." Zhang Ruochen said.

Empress Shiji smiled disdainfully: "In our time, whether the so-called fourth Confucian ancestor could reach the semi-ancestral state is still a matter of debate. Besides, how can painting skills be judged based on cultivation?"

"That's true! Your Majesty must have loved the paintings Su Zilian painted for you for so many years. It's a pity that they were destroyed during the battle with the Soul Mother in the Soul Realm!"

Zhang Ruochen suddenly became interested in the portrait and said, "How about I paint one for you?"

A moving smile appeared on the corner of Empress Shi Ji's lips, which seemed to be able to enchant the soul, and said: "How can Di Chen be so elegant?"

"If it were anyone else, I wouldn't be interested. Your Majesty is the most beautiful woman in ancient and modern times. It is my honor to paint for you." Zhang Ruochen said.

"What you said really aroused people's curiosity. Di Chen shouldn't be bad at painting, right? Where is it? Right here?"

Empress Shiji put away her laziness and sat upright, her waistline became more slender, and her jade neck was as slender as a white swan, exuding a sense of pride.

Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said: "When painting an incarnation, it is inevitable that there is no form but no spirit."

Empress Shi Ji smiled sweetly: "Zhang Ruochen, Zhang Ruochen, do you have to see my true form today?"

"It would be best if I could see my true body! The true body I am referring to is not the physical body, nor the Six Directions Heavenly Venerable Cauldron. Your Majesty, should you understand what I mean?" Zhang Ruochen said.

Empress Shiji narrowed her eyes slightly, her smile faded, and said, "What kind of riddle is Di Chen trying to make?"

Zhang Ruochen looked up to the sky and smiled: "Haha! I'll go to the Little World of Baiyuan Garden and have a good talk with the empress."

No one could stop him, Zhang Ruochen walked straight towards the door covered with bead curtains and curtains, and then entered the Baiyuan Garden.

After passing through the door of space, you are immediately greeted by the blue sky and white clouds, the fragrance of flowers and the chirping of birds. You can see exotic flowers and plants everywhere, as well as endless pavilions and pavilions, which are quiet and secluded from the world.

Not far away, the Six Directions Tianzun Ding was suspended on the lake.

The body of the tripod is oblate, about two meters high, and its six legs are each wrapped with carvings of a strange beast: a golden crow, a phoenix, a red centipede, a divine dragon, a white fox, and a magic spider.

Dark energy and dark rules are constantly escaping from the hollow patterns on the tripod's body.

These dark energies and dark rules poured into the lake, making the lake a hundred or a thousand times darker than ink.

Zhang Ruochen looked at the bottom of the lake with his spiritual eyes. There was a translucent palace at the bottom of the lake. The palace was built on an altar.

The real body of Empress Shiji is sitting in the translucent palace.

After Lian Xi chased into the Baiyuan Garden, she saw this scene and said: "The empress's cultivation has already reached the level of the quasi-ancestor. If you want to attack the ancestor, you must first break away from the dark cauldron and let the physical body and the cauldron body completely Separation is no longer restricted by it. This step is extremely dangerous and is also the time when the empress is at her weakest, so she ordered that no monks be allowed to enter the Baiyuan."

"This emperor is a bit presumptuous!" Zhang Ruochen said.

"Wow!"

Suddenly, a huge whirlpool appeared on the lake surface, and the endless dark energy accelerated towards the bottom of the lake.

Zhang Ruochen could tell that the dark energy contained the soul mist belonging to Empress Shiji.

In order to prolong her life, Empress Shiji hid her soul in the Six Directions Tianzun Cauldron, turned into the cauldron spirit, and lived out her second life. At this moment, all the souls were withdrawn from the cauldron and entered the physical body.

At the bottom of the lake, in the translucent palace, every inch of Empress Shiji's skin exudes jade-white brilliance. The brilliance continues to increase, like a bright magic lamp, which is extremely dazzling.

When the glory dissipated, Empress Shiji appeared on the lakeside, wearing a light blue straight skirt, a white tube top, and a plump chest, standing seven steps away from Zhang Ruochen.

She opened her palms, and the Six Directions Heavenly Lord Cauldron flew from the lake, shrinking continuously and turning into the size of a bell.

Zhang Ruochen said: "Congratulations, congratulations! Your Majesty's physical body is completely separated from the Cauldron of Darkness and is no longer restricted by it. Today, there should be no one in the world who is closer to the First Ancestor than your Majesty in terms of cultivation."

As the dark energy dissipated, the lake surface became clear again, with rippling blue waves.

The beauty of Empress Shiji is indeed unparalleled. Just standing there, she blends in with everything around her, injecting aura into the whole world, like a picture of heaven and man, making people indulge in it unconsciously.

Facing such a beauty, no matter how bad the mood is, it will become happy.

Empress Shi Ji looked at the reflection of Zhu Lou and Green Willow on the water, and said: "It doesn't matter if you have a high level. If we really want to fight, you may not be Di Chen's opponent. Do you still paint that painting?"

"It depends on whether the empress can take out her true body." Zhang Ruochen said.

Empress Shiji said: "Luan Xi, please retreat first!"

Ling Xi always felt that Zhang Ruochen's visit to Liuli Temple this time was unusual, and his conversation with Empress Shiji was full of mystery, but she couldn't guess the reason.

"Ling Xi, go!"

After Zhang Ruochen also spoke, Lian Xi finally left the small world of Baiyuan Garden.

Empress Shiji said: "I once asked you a question, who is more beautiful, me or the Moon God? You fooled me, and now I want to ask you again."

"Is this issue that important?" Zhang Ruochen asked.

Empress Shiji turned around and looked at Zhang Ruochen with her breathtakingly beautiful fairy eyes, saying, "Of course it's important! You have already tasted the beauty of the Moon God, so why not try Shiji too?" So soft?”

As she spoke, she Shi Shiran took off her outer clothes, and the long skirt fell off under her legs.

The white tube top on her chest is still there, but her long, plump arms and flawless back are exposed, and her collarbone is very obvious and sexy.

The tube top did not completely cover the most mysterious and beautiful part of her body.

Zhang Ruochen just glanced at her lightly. It must be said that this was an ultimate look. No one could imagine that Empress Shiji would stand in front of a man in this posture.

She is such a beauty-loving woman who has amazed people throughout the ages, even so-called goddesses and fairies cannot match her.

Originally a peerless half-ancestor who had absolutely nothing to do with glamor and beauty, at this moment he was willing to throw himself into her arms. No matter how determined the man in the world was, he would not be able to resist.

Even though Zhang Ruochen had seen countless beauties, he only dared to look at Empress Shi Ji's unsealed upper body. His eyes moved to her waist, and he immediately closed his eyes, not daring to look at the naked lower body.

Empress Shiji's face was filled with a proud look as if she had won a battle, and her voice was beautiful: "Didn't Di Chen want others to show me my true body? My true body has never been shown to any man, and I haven't fully grasped it yet." Come out and you close your eyes."

Zhang Ruochen said: "I just think that once a woman like the empress takes off her clothes and takes off her belt, most of her beauty and temperament will be lost. In the past, I may have thought that the beauty of the empress was thought of the moon god. Now, I have a different answer. !”

A cold look flashed in Empress Shi Ji's eyes, but she soon became indifferent, as if she didn't care what Zhang Ruochen thought of her.

She walked up to Zhang Ruochen with her bare feet and slender legs and said, "I have always cherished my body and beauty the most. Do you know why I can have no reservations in front of you?"

"I am also very curious?"

Zhang Ruochen could smell the body fragrance of Empress Shiji, and it was as if his whole body had been soaked in a hot spring. Most of his body was getting softer and softer, including his bones.

Empress Shiji chuckled: "You will know in the future. Tell me, what do you want to know?"

"Can the empress put on your clothes first?" Zhang Ruochen asked.

Empress Shiji said: "If you don't even dare to look directly at my body, where did you get the courage to break into Baiyuan?"

Zhang Ruochen let out a long sigh: "Okay! I admit that beauty is fatal to any man. There is no fatal reason, it can only be that the beauty he encounters is not fatal enough."

"But, do you really think that beauty can make me sink? Can it make me give up pursuing the truth?"

"There is another way to break the beauty trap, and that is to use it as a trap. Beauty is like delicious food. You are most greedy only when you see it, smell it, and haven't eaten it. Every time you eat it, the attractiveness will decrease. Then it won’t be fatal! How many times do you think this move can be used against me?”

When Zhang Ruochen opened his eyes again, Empress Shiji was already neatly dressed, looking like a fairy in a painting, holy and elegant, as if it was a blasphemy for a man to touch her even a finger.

Zhang Ruochen said: "Everyone in the world knows that immortality is related to a painting. Both the Heavenly Demon and the Fudo Mingwang are looking for this painting, and the Fourth Confucian Patriarch of this era is also looking for it. That painting is Painted by Su Zilian. Empress Shi Ji was born in the same era as Su Zilian. Do you know this painting? "

Empress Shiji said: "Su Zilian painted many paintings in his life. Who knows which one they are looking for?"

"I know, it's about the paintings of Kasyapa Buddha." Zhang Ruochen said.

Empress Shiji shook her head slightly: "I don't know about that."

"Indeed, such a long time has passed, and it is inevitable that the queen will forget some things. How about I remember it for the queen?"

On the bluestone path, Empress Shi Ji was walking in front, and Zhang Ruochen was following behind. There were lush foliage on both sides, and sometimes gorgeous and exotic flowers poked out, delicate and weak, blocking the path.

The woman is like jade and the man is like Heng. They are like lovers having a tryst, telling love words that cannot be known to others.

Zhang Ruochen said: "Su Zilian is the most amazing and outstanding person of the White Fox Clan after the Twelve-tailed Sky Fox. It's just her accomplishments in painting skills that later generations of monks ignored."

"What later generations of monks didn't even know was that Su Zilian was extremely beautiful."

Empress Shiji said: "Does Di Chen even know this?"

Zhang Ruochen said: "Eighty thousand years ago, I went to the White Fox Clan. I investigated Su Zilian in detail and checked all the files about her. In the ancient books, just one sentence of "beautiful beauty belies the past and present" can be imagined. How beautiful it is.”

"It's a pity that such a peerless beauty has countless paintings in her life, but there is not a single painting of herself left. Doesn't your Majesty find it strange?"

Empress Shiji said: "There have been tens of millions of beauties in ancient times, but only a handful of them can leave behind a picture."

Zhang Ruochen smiled and shook his head, obviously not agreeing with this view, and continued: "Legend has it that the empress loves beauty so much that in your time, any woman who was rated as the most beautiful woman in the world would not survive the next day. I'm curious, Why can a woman whose beauty belies the past and present survive?”

Empress Shiji said: "Why does Di Chen think she survived? Just because she painted a painting for me? It's possible that after finishing the painting, I will kill her."

It seemed like a joke, but Zhang Ruochen nodded seriously and said, "So, I went to look for Su Zilian's grave."

"The results of it?"

"It's empty inside."

Empress Shi Ji burst out laughing and said: "Why are you so honest? Since ancient times, who among the strong men has not worried about being turned into a war corpse after death, or having blood drawn to make bones? Women are even more worried. After we die, , The body is not rotten, if someone digs it out and rapes her, she will die with her eyes closed, so she will be on guard. How can it be so easy to find her real tomb? "

"Besides, it is also possible that Su Zilian died in the Yuanhui disaster and was wiped out in ashes."

"Or maybe it was really me who killed him, and his bones have been shattered into ashes."

Zhang Ruochen shook his head and said, "How could someone who cherishes her body and beauty so much, the queen, kill herself?"

Empress Shiji stopped.

"What are you talking about?" she said.

Zhang Ruochen said: "I say, there is only one possibility, the empress is Su Zilian."

Empress Shi Ji turned around and said coldly: "Don't Di Chen think this possibility is ridiculous?"

"Not ridiculous."

Zhang Ruochen looked at her and said, "Heaven has no mercy on you, but you pity yourself. This is what is written in the book about the origin of Su Zilian's name."

"It is said that it was because when she was young, there was a turmoil in the night earth, and the tellurium, which was suppressed by the six tribes, acted strangely. That turmoil caused all of Su Zilian's family members to die in battle, and because of her young age and weak body, she It’s understandable that people who have been abandoned by their tribe and bullied will become self-pitying and narcissistic when they grow up.”

"Is it because of this reason?" Empress Shi Ji asked.

Zhang Ruochen said: "I want to ask the queen a question that I have always had. Yu Sanjie once told me that under your statue in the Shiji Temple, there is a word tellurium stepped on. Why is this?"

Empress Shiji's eyes became more and more profound. After a long silence, she said: "Su Zilian is from the White Fox Clan, and I am from the Stone Clan, and the Shiji God Star was my body in the previous life. Di Chen felt that a living being of flesh and blood , how to become a stone?”

Zhang Ruochen said: "If the Shiji God Star is really the original body of the empress in her previous life, how could she give it to Qing'er? Besides, the transformation between living beings and undead is not difficult. The Great Demon God and the Nine-Death Emperor are not the same. Have you experienced different changes in each life? The Nine-Headed Stone Man has been seen before!"

Empress Shiji said: "So you just think that I am Su Zilian?"

"It's not completely confirmed either." Zhang Ruochen said.

"oh!"

Empress Shi Ji showed a surprised look.

Zhang Ruochen said: "I think the empress is either Su Zilian or Ming Zu. There is no third possibility!"

"Okay, then I'll follow you and I'll be Su Zilian. So what?" Empress Shiji said.

Zhang Ruochen said: "If the empress is Su Zilian, the empress is the disciple of Ming Zu."

"In short, you must label me as a monk of the Mingzu faction?" Empress Shiji said helplessly.

Zhang Ruochen said: "Su Zilian was abandoned at a young age, but returned to the White Fox Clan forcefully many years later. How could it be possible without some kind of adventure?"

"Did Ancestor Ming help her?" Empress Shi Ji asked in surprise.

Zhang Ruochen nodded and said: "Su Zilian was from the White Fox Clan in his first life, a Stone Clan in his second life, and the empress in front of him in his third life. Isn't this the immortal spell given to the Great Demon God by Ming Ancestor?"

"According to what you said, where is the Cauldron of Darkness? Which life is it?" Empress Shiji said.

Zhang Ruochen said: "This question is not difficult to answer! Why don't you let me meet someone first?"

"who?"

"The former master of the Temple of Light, Ke Luo."

Empress Shi Ji's eyes gradually turned cold, and she no longer had the interest to continue to defend herself, and said, "How do you know?"

Zhang Ruochen said: "By relying on the demon niche that I seized from Ju, I used the power of the river of time to rescue Ke Luo from me in the Mar Temple. This is too risky! I really feel that with the advantage of realm, I can Didn't Zhang Ruochen notice it? My dear, you underestimated me."