My Wife Turns Out to be an Empress of the Dynasty

"Brother Gu has finally come out of seclusion!"

"Could he be about to break through to the God Realm?" Qin Huangmo murmured to himself, unable to conceal the excitement in his eyes.

Over the years, not only had there been continuous war across the Ninth Heaven of the Immortal Realm, but the Earthly Realm had also been impacted. Extraterrestrial entities had infiltrated the three thousand Earthly Realms; though their numbers were small, they could hide within cultivators, inciting internal conflict and chaos among them.

Jianmu Earthly Realm, being one of the stronger realms, could resist the invasion. However, smaller Earthly Realms had descended into complete disorder. Fortunately, the Immortal Demon Alliance and the Lanyan Royal School had managed to cleanse these extraterrestrial entities and gained significant experience in combating them. With the help of members from these organizations, the Earthly Realm had gradually expelled the extraterrestrial forces.

Now, with Qiushui stationed in Jianmu Earthly Realm, Qin Huangmo had been taking a hands-off approach, though he had come to the East Sea Dragon Palace on a mission. Gu Lan's seclusion in the Earthly Realm was no longer a secret within the Six Realms. Over the years, several hidden agents from the Bright Clan had attempted to attack Lanyan Royal School. Fortunately, the school's powerful defensive arrays had thwarted these attempts.

To be cautious, Qin Huangmo had proactively come to the East Sea Dragon Palace to guard the realm for Gu Lan. Though he only possessed Imperial Realm strength, he carried a branch of the Jianmu Divine Tree, which allowed him to wield some of the tree's power and briefly withstand attacks from a Main God Realm expert.

"Don't worry, Brother Gu! I'll guard you!" Qin Huangmo said, casting a glance at the brilliant spiritual light over Jing Nation. Without hesitation, he activated his escape technique. Behind him, members of the East Sea Dragon Clan and the Mermaid Clan also took flight, filling the sky with streams of spiritual light.

The changes over Jing Nation's skies instantly caught the attention of countless factions.

"The Divine Son's prediction was right; the master of Lanyan Royal School isn't just regaining his strength—he's comprehending divine powers!"

"We can't let him succeed so easily; we must stop him!"

"Xieyi, send in your forces!" a white-robed elder said loudly to a shadowy figure.

"Calm down!" The shadow laughed sinisterly, emerging from the shadows to reveal a form. The figure looked exactly like the Divine Son Arthur.

Seeing the figure, the elder furrowed his brows. "How dare you desecrate the Divine Son's appearance! This is blasphemy! Where do you extraterrestrial entities get such audacity?!"

The elder raised a golden staff, its light flashing as he prepared to strike the figure. But just as he moved, another white-robed elder behind him plunged a hand into his chest with a swift chop.

"Fifth Elder, you're still so impulsive. You can't treat our leader like this!" The elder's eyes turned pitch-black, and his mouth twisted open into a gaping maw, swallowing the golden-staff-wielding elder whole.

The scene unfolded so quickly that, before the surrounding angels could react, all the white-robed figures in the area had transformed into extraterrestrial entities.

"These angels can't be corrupted by evil. Kill them all!" Xieyi, disguised as the Divine Son Arthur, commanded, and his followers grinned viciously, pouncing on the angels.

A brutal slaughter erupted instantly.

"Those who use my clan as pawns must always be prepared for backlash."

"Arthur, who would have thought you'd face a day of suffering, hahahaha!" Xieyi looked on wildly, watching as the angelic army was devoured.

Over the years, extraterrestrial entities had fought bitterly against the Six Realms, losing nearly half of their forces. Xieyi and the remaining extraterrestrial entities had been seething with rage, but Arthur's overwhelming power kept them in check. Now, with the Bright Clan attempting to ambush Gu Lan during his breakthrough, they had summoned all the entities from the Endless Abyss to the human realm, providing Xieyi with the perfect opportunity.

"If you fear the master of Lanyan Royal School so much, I'll let you fight each other to mutual destruction and reap the rewards myself!" Xieyi sneered, casting a greedy gaze upon the corpses of the Bright Clan elders. These elders were all Divine Realm experts—devouring them would be a tremendous boon!

As he prepared to reveal his true form, a cold, merciless voice suddenly echoed in his ears: "Xieyi, you've grown cleverer."

"Arthur!" Xieyi's face changed drastically as he looked around, but no one was there. All the Bright Clan elders had been slain by his minions; no other Bright Clan members were present. As for the emotionless angelic forces, though they restrained extraterrestrial entities, they were too few to pose any real threat.

"Stop looking!" The voice reappeared, identical to the Divine Son Arthur's tone, as if it were whispering in Xieyi's ear.

"Show yourself, Arthur! I'm not afraid of you now!" Xieyi roared, his face twisting in rage, a sinister shadow appearing across his features. Deep inside, a blend of dread and fury surged, bringing him back to the days before the ancient Demon-Sealing War, where he'd endured unspeakable torture at Arthur's hands—a terror far worse than death.

"Oh? Look down," Arthur's icy voice sounded once more.

Xieyi looked down and saw a face identical to his own, glowing with a golden light. In the next instant, his consciousness found itself in his primal soul space.

Inside this soul space, he saw his true form bound tightly by golden chains. Standing before him was a radiant figure—it was Arthur.

"A splintered spirit!" Xieyi cried out in horror. "You planted a splintered spirit within my soul! Arthur! Aren't you afraid that my clan will assimilate it?!"

Xieyi's true form erupted with dark energy, yet no matter how he struggled, he couldn't break free from the golden chains binding him, chains rooted in his own soul's essence.

"Assimilate?" Arthur's splintered spirit was unmoved. "I am divine—how could mere evil creatures assimilate me? Today, I'll borrow your power; let's see if you can even begin to assimilate me!"

Arthur's splintered spirit stepped closer, placing a hand on Xieyi. The moment they touched, darkness and light clashed.

"Ahhh!" Xieyi screamed in agony outside his soul space, his pupils shifting between gold and black. After a few moments of struggle, one of Xieyi's eyes turned gold, while the other turned black.

"What's happening, Boss?" his fellow extraterrestrial entities asked, eyeing Xieyi with a mix of fear and doubt after they had just decimated the angelic army. "Why do you have that guy's aura?"