“You want to make a move? Admirable courage.”
Gu Lingxiao did not even assume a defensive stance.
He simply walked up to Jiang Qingxue, placed his large hand on her head, and directly performed the Soul-Seizing Technique.
This action shocked Jiang Qingxue even more.
For top-tier experts, aside from having all their memories and secrets exposed after a soul search, the act itself was an enormous humiliation.
It was like being stripped naked before the other party.
Consider Jiang Qingxue’s identity.
A dignified Saint Realm expert. Ever since she became a saint, everyone who met her treated her with utmost respect.
Even those who secretly looked down on her still maintained courtesy on the surface.
She had seen many aristocratic prodigies like Gu Lingxiao. Not one had dared speak to her this way.
They would address her as “Saint Jiang” or “Saint Qingxue.”
Who would speak to her without even a title and order her around like this?
Years of pride made Jiang Qingxue unable to endure Gu Lingxiao’s attitude. She felt deeply humiliated.
That humiliation reached its peak when Gu Lingxiao began searching her soul.
The anger from humiliation surged to her crown. She wished she could slice Gu Lingxiao into thousands of pieces.
But when she tried to turn hostile, she realized Gu Lingxiao’s hand pressed down like a mountain, suppressing her so completely that even moving a finger was nearly impossible. She could only stare at him with wide eyes.
As vast amounts of memories flooded in, Gu Lingxiao discovered, somewhat unexpectedly, that Jiang Qingxue had not lied.
It was not that she refused to tell him. She had not yet fully awakened her past-life memories and truly did not know why she had reincarnated.
“Investigate the major events that occurred in the Palace of Myriad Realms.”
Gu Lingxiao spoke calmly.
A faint spatial fluctuation rippled through the void.
Although he did not know what had happened within the Palace of Myriad Realms, someone in the Gu Family certainly did.
Within a few breaths, he received the information.
There was nothing particularly dramatic.
The palace master had mysteriously disappeared, and the palace had split into several factions.
Some suggested finding the missing palace master.
Others proposed selecting a new one.
Jiang Qingxue belonged to the latter faction.
There were many candidates for the new palace master, causing that faction to further divide into multiple groups.
Jiang Qingxue herself was one of the candidates.
However, compared to the others, she held no obvious advantage. The source of this chapter is novelping.com.
So she made an extremely bold decision—reincarnation and cultivation from scratch.
She had not done so recklessly. She relied on a rare Heavenly and Earthly Divine Item to reincarnate.
While reincarnating, she could retain her memories, rebuild her foundation, and expand the upper limit of her talent.
In other words, that divine item could raise her potential ceiling, at the cost of requiring reincarnation with memories intact.
But she was overly proud. Confident that her faction had no traitors.
She was betrayed.
Her memories were lost during reincarnation.
If Gu Lingxiao had not appeared, she would likely have remained forever as one of Ye Han’s female leads, never returning to the Palace of Myriad Realms.
As for the safeguard she left behind, it would not have altered the larger outcome.
Gu Lingxiao’s evaluation was simple.
Fool.
When it came to truly important matters, he always handled them personally.
Meanwhile, during the soul search, Gu Lingxiao made another discovery.
Within Jiang Qingxue’s soul, there was a faint and severely damaged wisp of another soul.
It belonged to the Jiang Qingxue of the Sky Vault Continent.
The moment he found it, Gu Lingxiao understood what had happened.
Lingyue had killed Jiang Qingxue, pushing her to the brink of complete soul destruction.
At that moment, the safeguard left by her past self—likely a fragment of Saint Jiang Qingxue’s soul—had preserved her life. The two soul fragments fled together three months into the future.
Later, Gu Lingxiao dragged her soul back. The saint’s soul gained the upper hand and began communicating with him.
In the end, however, she still fell to a soul search.
Now that he understood what had happened in the Palace of Myriad Realms, Gu Lingxiao reassessed Jiang Qingxue’s value.
What was most useful about her?
Her proud personality?
Her powerful strength?
Clearly not.
It was her identity as a palace master candidate.
According to the information he had received, the Palace of Myriad Realms had yet to select a new palace master.
Thus, Jiang Qingxue’s status as a candidate remained valid.
In other words, by controlling Jiang Qingxue, Gu Lingxiao could influence the Palace of Myriad Realms.
He never had too many vanguards.
And this vanguard was far stronger than the uncertain Gu Clan and Fu Clan.
Would Jiang Qingxue obediently comply?
No.
Gu Lingxiao expressionlessly crushed the soul of Saint Jiang Qingxue.
Only the fragment belonging to the Jiang Qingxue of the Sky Vault Continent remained.
Whether it had been damaged by Lingyue’s strike or during the struggle for control between the two souls, that fragment was now nothing more than an idiot.
Gu Lingxiao quite liked this idiot.
An idiot had no ability to resist. He could shape her as he pleased.
He summoned a purple four-leaf plant from his storage space—Soul-Nourishing Grass.
With its assistance, he began using a secret technique of the Gu Family to nurture Jiang Qingxue’s soul.
The damage was fresh. This was the best time to treat it.
At the same time, an unquestionable command entered Jiang Qingxue’s mind as he performed the technique.
Gu Lingxiao’s command was absolute.
Yes, he intended to control her completely.
In the Chaotic Immortal Domain, one’s identity was determined by the True Spirit.
No matter how many times one reincarnated, the True Spirit remained identical.
The Jiang Qingxue he now controlled shared the same True Spirit as the one before reincarnation.
They were fundamentally the same person.
Controlling palace master candidate Jiang Qingxue brought him one step closer to controlling the Palace of Myriad Realms.
Jiang Qingxue slowly opened her eyes, looking around in confusion, unaware that her True Spirit had been branded deeply by Gu Lingxiao.
A flood of memories poured into her fragile soul, giving her a headache.
But those memories could be summarized simply.
She remembered she was Jiang Qingxue of the Palace of Myriad Realms. During her reincarnation, she had been betrayed and fallen to the Lower Realm.
After surviving life-and-death struggles in the Lower Realm, she had been rescued by Gu Lingxiao and reborn anew.
“Thank you, Young Master, for saving me. Qingxue will serve you faithfully and repay your kindness.”
Jiang Qingxue shakily rose from the ground and bowed to Gu Lingxiao.
“I will arrange for someone to take you back to the Upper Realm. Cultivate diligently and strive to return to the Saint Realm as soon as possible.”
“Yes!”
Jiang Qingxue replied respectfully.
Gu Lingxiao’s figure flickered and vanished before her.
Next, it was time to review the gains.