ACER-Chapter 28: He Owes Her Far Too Much

For the onlookers outside, the five years were directly skipped by the light screen.

With a flash, it was already Di Yange five years later.

Five years later, she was lying on the icy ground, her hair spread across the ice, framing that somewhat enchanting face and stirring endless imagination in others.

Even though her clothes looked a bit small and a bit comical, they couldn’t conceal her unmatched elegance.

At this moment, her eyelashes trembled slightly as she slowly woke up, looking around in evident confusion.

After a while, she frowned and sat up.

The onlookers couldn’t help but feel a brief moment of sympathy for Di Yange.

Previously, their Qingyang Great Emperor had only endured three days of pain before collapsing to his knees in unbearable agony, and that was only half of the suffering.

Yet their demon emperor had endured five full years of torment. What kind of terrifying willpower was required to last five years in such a place? How could such a person fail to achieve greatness?

For a moment, they even felt some admiration for their demon emperor.

But what they couldn’t understand was that if she could endure such suffering, how did she later go astray?

The crowd became even more curious.

What exactly happened afterward to turn their demon emperor into the ruthless person she was now?

……

Di Yange herself had no idea how long she’d slept, until the woman appeared again and said to her, “Five years have passed, and you still haven’t changed at all.”

“What did you say?” Di Yange looked at her in shock, her eyes full of disbelief.

She had long heard that cultivation knew no time, but she had only laid down to cultivate for a short while.

Just like that, five years had already passed.

This was too damn terrifying.

If the next time she cultivated and woke up as a skeleton, what then?

“You…”

The woman was about to speak again, but Di Yange interrupted her, “Cut the nonsense. Why are you here? I don’t want to see you.”

Di Yange felt the churning in her dantian grow more intense. She estimated that it wouldn’t be long before the tribulation lightning would shatter this place completely. If one strike wasn’t enough, then another, she didn’t believe that it couldn’t be destroyed.

Thinking about how she had wasted five years here made her furious.

“You!!!” Although the woman was also very angry, she still said, “I can let you leave. But you must agree to one condition!”

Even if Di Yange suffered in her place and she could leave, she still couldn’t go too far from here.

After being trapped for so long, she had also grown bored.

After thinking it through, she decided to take a gamble.

She originally thought that after five years of suffering, Di Yange would be overwhelmed with gratitude upon hearing that she could leave, perhaps even kneeling to beg her.

But instead, Di Yange only looked at her coldly with disdain, “Hah. You think you can just let me go whenever you want? I’m not leaving. Let me tell you, I’ll find my own way out. I don’t need an old thing like you meddling around.”

She had wasted five years of her time, broken her promise, and shattered her dream of going home. If she didn’t blow this place to pieces, how could she justify the grievances of these years?

“You!!! Then what do you want?”

The woman was angered again, clearly not expecting Di Yange to be so tough.

That bad temper was actually just like her own.

“I’ll leave when I want to. Get lost, I don’t want to see you.”

“You!! Then I’ll compensate you, alright?”

As she spoke, the woman produced a pile of glowing treasures, “You can choose two items here.”

These objects shone brilliantly. Any ordinary person would’ve rushed to pick something, but Di Yange was no ordinary person.

She sat there with her eyes closed, completely unmoved.

The woman was so furious she almost wanted to kill her on the spot, “You… Do you believe I’ll kill you?”

“Hah. If you have the guts, do it already. Stop talking nonsense.”

Di Yange simply closed her eyes.

The woman was angered again. Although she really wanted to kill Di Yange, she ultimately didn’t take action. Instead, she produced an even larger pile of items, like a small mountain, and pushed it in front of her.

“I’ll give you all of this. Is that enough?”

“Hah.”

Di Yange remained completely indifferent.

Today, either she would kill her, or she would blow this place apart.

The woman finally lost her temper.

She slowly said, “Let me tell you my story. Actually, I was once the guardian of the Heavenly Dao Mirror, Jin Yu. My senior brother is Golden Que Great Emperor. Everyone should’ve heard of him. My senior brother and I grew up together as childhood sweethearts, and we almost got together. But later, I was deceived by a man. I thought it was happiness, but he imprisoned me here for tens of thousands of years of torment for the sake of another woman.”

“…I hope that after you leave, you will tell my senior brother what happened here.”

“Golden Que Great Emperor?” Di Yange finally opened her eyes, looking at Jin Yu with a strange expression.

At the mention of the Golden Que Great Emperor, Jin Yu became excited, her face flushing. “Do you know him? I knew it, who in this world doesn’t know him?”

Seeing how much Jin Yu valued Golden Que Great Emperor, Di Yange said, “Golden Que Great Emperor has already died. Since you are his junior sister, didn’t you realize that the boy you threw out earlier, Xiao Jue, was holding the Golden Que Sword?”

“Impossible, how could my senior brother be dead?”

Jin Yu’s already pale face turned even paler. In the next moment, she grabbed Di Yange by the throat.

Di Yange once again felt death approaching.

Jin Yu tightened her grip slightly, “Tell me that my senior brother is still alive.”

Di Yange spat in her face and deliberately provoked her, “He’s dead, I killed him. If you have the ability, then kill me to avenge him.”

At those words, Jin Yu was instantly enraged. She nearly strangled her to death.

Fortunately, she regained a trace of rationality.

“Impossible, you’re a small Foundation Establishment cultivator. How could you possibly kill my senior brother?”

Jin Yu raised a finger and pressed it to Di Yange’s forehead, planning to use a soul-searching technique.

At that moment, Di Yange felt as if her soul was about to be pulled out.

Fortunately, the inheritance of Golden Que Great Emperor instantly protected her divine soul.

Jin Yu released her immediately, her beautiful face filled with lifeless despair.

“It’s my senior brother’s aura. Senior brother! It was me who harmed you. If I hadn’t fallen in love with the wrong person and left, those outer demons wouldn’t have broken the seal and come into this world, nor would they have harmed you. And after harming you, I almost harmed your inheritor as well. I deserve to die.”

When Jin Yu looked at Di Yange again, her expression was full of gentleness.

Just as she was about to speak, thunder suddenly echoed.

Normally, sounds from outside couldn’t be heard here. Jin Yu had never heard anything from outside in tens of thousands of years.

She looked at the steadily rising aura around Di Yange in confusion.

“You… you can actually cultivate here? And you’re about to undergo tribulation here?”

Jin Yu was astonished. Di Yange had been restrained and unable to use her cultivation, how could she cultivate?

Unless she was a peerless genius who found another method to cultivate.

In just five years, right under her nose, how did she do it?

“Child, my senior brother having an inheritor like you makes me happy for him.” Jin Yu smiled in relief. “You must be planning to use the Golden Core tribulation lightning to destroy this place. But even ascension tribulation lightning wouldn’t be able to destroy it.”

“Hmph.”

Di Yange snorted, acknowledging the point.

But she wouldn’t yield. If this attempt failed, she would try again. One day, she would blow this place apart, her stubborn temper had locked onto this goal.

Boom boom boom……

The thunder was already close at hand.

Jin Yu looked up in disbelief. Above them was still the same icy blue ceiling, yet her expression grew solemn.

Suddenly, she burst into laughter, “You’re actually not human.”

“……” This was the second time Di Yange had heard that, and it didn’t sound like a compliment no matter how she listened to it.

At that moment, Jin Yu removed the jade hairpin from her head and slipped off a jade ring from her left middle finger, placing them into Di Yange’s hands.

“This hairpin is for you. And everything I have is inside this spatial ring. I hope you won’t dislike it.”

“…Thank you. I finally know my senior brother’s fate. I was willful in the past, now I only want to accompany him.”

“…I’m sorry. If there is a next life, I will repay the wrongs I have done to you.”

With that, Jin Yu disappeared once again.

……

The onlookers exclaimed in shock, “The junior sister of Golden Que Great Emperor? The guardian of the Heavenly Dao Mirror? Then that jade hairpin she gave Di Yange wouldn’t be the Heavenly Dao Mirror, right?”

The Heavenly Dao Mirror had countless forms, turning into a hairpin was also very normal.

“So Brother had already given the Heavenly Dao Mirror to me.”

Luo Ziyin gazed blankly at the Heavenly Dao Mirror glowing with golden light.

Soon after, his face filled with self-mockery.

This was something his brother had given him, yet he used it to punish her.

Guilt overwhelmed Luo Ziyin. He owed her far too much, so much that he didn’t even know how to repay her.

He even felt like accompanying her in death wouldn’t be enough.

Meanwhile, the others glared at Luo Ziyin.

A trace of jealousy flickered in their eyes.