paranoianovel Chapter 59 Ruthless Emperor
Chapter 59 Ruthless Emperor
In the live stream, viewers had different thoughts about the masked woman who suddenly appeared, and the comments were varied and diverse.
"Sister Yu, I have a feeling you've been betrayed?"
"Haha, the person upstairs is right. Suddenly a little sister appears and calls him 'brother,' Yu-jie must be confused, right?"
"I bet five cents that this is definitely the Heavenly Emperor's long-lost sister!"
"I love this plot! Is it a sisterly reunion or a palace intrigue drama?"
"Don't panic, Sister Yu! Show some of your true sister's spirit!"
After the initial shock, the comments in the live stream quickly turned into a teasing mode, with people enjoying the spectacle.
Although separated by a screen, viewers could almost feel Jiang Yu's momentary shock, mixed with a touch of grievance and disbelief.
Blue Star, Jiang Family.
Jiang's parents also saw this scene through the live broadcast. They looked at each other, both somewhat bewildered.
"Who...who is this girl? Why is she calling me 'Brother Xiaofeng' too?"
Jiang's mother asked in confusion.
"I don't know, I've never seen it before. It probably doesn't belong to our family, right?"
Jiang's father scratched his head and said with certainty, "Xiaofeng is our biological daughter. Xiaoyu is our only younger sister, so this definitely has nothing to do with us."
Despite saying that, looking at the woman on the screen with her ethereal aura, as if she had stepped out of a myth, the two of them felt a little apprehensive.
Could it be that my son... has really found another sister over there?
On the Heavenly Court Square.
Jiang Yu recovered from her initial shock. She grabbed Jiang Feng's arm, her face slightly flushed with anxiety and a touch of inexplicable grievance, and looked up to ask:
"Brother! What... what's going on? Who is she? Why is she calling you brother? I didn't know I had any other sisters?"
Jiang Feng's gaze remained fixed on the white-clad figure who seemed to have emerged from the river of time.
Hearing Jiang Yu's question, he looked away, glanced down at her, his expression calm, his tone tinged with helplessness: "How would I know?"
But in his heart, when he saw that iconic ghost mask and felt that unique Daoist charm that transcends time and time, not for immortality but only to wait for someone to return in the mortal world, he already understood.
Ruthless Emperor.
That extraordinary woman whose talent is unparalleled throughout history.
With a mortal body, relying on unparalleled talent and terrifyingly tenacious obsession, he created the Devouring Heaven Demon Art and the Undying Heaven Art, devouring the origins of various kings along the way, defying the heavens to prove the Dao, and finally becoming an immortal in the mortal world, achieving the supreme Dao fruit.
Her life was full of legend and tragedy. She did not seek immortality or eternal life, but only waited in this mortal world for her brother, who had long since disappeared into the river of time, to return.
She is powerful, aloof, and mysterious, yet she carries the deepest loneliness and obsession.
Jiang Feng knew quite a bit about her, and knew that in the original timeline, she had mistaken Ye Fan from Blue Star for a woman who resembled her brother, and had wholeheartedly helped him, thus forming a good relationship.
Perhaps from the very beginning, given her level of understanding, she might not have truly admitted her mistake entirely, but that slight resemblance, that lingering attachment, was enough.
But this seems to have nothing to do with Jiang Feng...
He is neither the Ancient Sacred Body nor Ye Fan who transmigrated from Blue Star.
His path to power seems to have no connection with his brother in the memories of the Ruthless Great Emperor.
and many more……
Jiang Feng's thoughts suddenly paused as a detail he had almost forgotten surfaced in his mind.
System - Panel Theft.
In the early stages of his rise to power, before he had attained enlightenment, he used this ability to steal many special physiques and origins in order to quickly accumulate a foundation.
Among them... it seems to include a fragment of the Dao Fruit of the "Ancient Sacred Body," which is relatively ancient but whose origin is almost exhausted.
At the time, he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was just a legacy left by a saintly sage who had long since passed away in history, which he had luckily obtained and integrated into himself, making up for part of his spiritual foundation.
Could it be... that fragment of the sacred body is not an unclaimed object?
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Instead, he belongs to... the brother that the Ruthless Great Emperor has been searching for?
Or rather, it wasn't that he directly belonged to that person, but due to some causal connection he didn't know about, he was tainted with a similar aura or causal relationship to that person.
Or perhaps... it's some kind of variable in the future?
After all, we are currently in the period between the end of the Primordial Era and the beginning of the Ancient Era.
The Ruthless Great Emperor wasn't even born yet.
The woman before them, who had traveled against the flow of time, possessed an unfathomable aura, at least at the level of a quasi-Immortal Emperor, clearly originating from an incredibly distant future.
Her appearance may have already disturbed or even changed the original trajectory of ancient history.
There are too many questions to answer in a short time.
But Jiang Feng was certain of at least one thing.
The woman before me is the Ruthless Great Emperor, an unparalleled empress whose obsession with finding her brother can span countless ages.
She harbored no hostility towards him; the emotions conveyed in that "brother" were complex and difficult to discern, but there was absolutely no murderous intent.
On the other side, Jiang Yu heard her brother say he didn't know. Although she was still unsure, seeing how calm her brother was, as if he wasn't facing an enemy or a stranger, she became a little bolder.
She took a deep breath, leaned halfway out from behind Jiang Feng, and faced the white-clad figure in the sky, trying to make her voice sound more imposing: "Hey! Who are you? Why are you trying to steal my brother? I'm my brother's only sister!"
However, the white-clad figure wearing a bronze ghost mask seemed not to have heard her words at all, and did not even shift his gaze in her direction.
Those eyes, clear yet seemingly containing the vicissitudes of time, peered through the mask, still gazed at Jiang Feng quietly and intently, as if he were the only person left in the world.
This feeling of being completely ignored made Jiang Yu both annoyed and frustrated.
Seeing this, the viewers in the live stream started making a fuss again:
"Sister Yu, you know what, even though we can't see this woman's face clearly, just her aura and her presence... tsk tsk, she's way ahead of you."
"We're both younger sisters, but there's a huge difference between us. Sister Yu, why don't we accept each other as younger sisters? I'll be happy to be your little sister."
"Don't be discouraged, Sister Yu! Let's go for the cute look! Let's not try to be aloof like her!"
"Seriously, is this really the Heavenly Emperor's sister? Why does it seem like she only has eyes for the Heavenly Emperor and doesn't care about Sister Yu at all?"
"Could it really be someone who was stranded abroad? Is there a story behind it?"
Jiang Yu was both angry and anxious about the comments on the screen. Just as she was about to say something more, Chuan Ying, the general next to her, suddenly stepped forward and blocked her way. At the same time, he said quickly in a very low and serious voice:
"Your Highness, please be careful with your words! This person... no matter who she is or what her relationship is with His Majesty, she must not be easily provoked or angered!"
His voice trembled slightly, a tremor that was his body instinctively warning him:
Although this old minister's cultivation is shallow, he has followed the Emperor for many years and has seen many powerful figures of the imperial path.
But the Daoist aura emanating from this woman… is profound and far-reaching, beyond the comprehension of this old minister. Even if she were truly a legendary immortal descended, she might not be as terrifying as the person before me! Just what kind of being is she?
Even the god of Chuan Ying used the word "terrifying" and believed that it might be even more terrifying than a true immortal!
Upon hearing this, not only Jiang Yu, but also the viewers in the live stream instantly went wild!
"More terrifying than a true immortal? My God!"
"Wouldn't that make him even more powerful than the Heavenly Emperor?"
"Didn't she just shatter the Heavenly Emperor's aura? Could she really be here with ill intentions?"
"Oh no, oh no, we've really bitten off more than we can chew!"
"Run, Heavenly Emperor!"
Sensing Jiang Yu's tension and Chuan Ying's wariness, Jiang Feng finally turned his gaze away from the Ruthless Great Emperor. He gently shook his head, his tone still calm, carrying a reassuring power: "Don't worry, she has no hostility."
He paused, looked up at the still slowly flowing illusory river of time, and at the hazy figure at its front, and slowly said:
"This person... is not from this era. She must have come from the lower reaches of the river of time, flowing upstream to this era. She is... a person from the future."