Lord Shadow

The forces that she had built up could surpass some forces of normal sects.

Azief then ask when did she break through the grandmaster realm and how. She answers it is because of him.

Azief did not understand and ask her to explain.

She herself always wonder why she was stuck at the same realm for years.

When she regains back her memories after an injury fighting a mountain tiger, she once again regains her past desire.

She regains back her memory and with her memory her desire to kill the Emperor is once again awakened.

But she was also torn on whether to kill the Emperor first or to seek Wu Qi first. Now that she knows Wu Qi is still alive, it was like light, hope, dreams, love, joy, happiness and her future all once again returned.

But each time she tries to seek Wu Qi, he would disappear. Wu Qi was ashamed of what he had become and how he had turned out. He was no longer that dashing young lord while she still has many things to offer the world.

He would always say that he is unworthy of her when they correspond with letters. And even then, the letters stop and Lin Guifei could only sometimes hears the news of the Three Devils in Jianghu.

Lin Guifei of course knows that Wu Qi had been crippled and known in Jianghu as the Crippled Devil Han Xiao.

But she did not care about that. In the end, she decided to kill the Emperor first. This objective of hers is not known to Wu Qi. He did not even know that she had mastered a lot of martial art.

He was so consumed with the thought of revenge that he didn’t even bother thinking how she managed to find him

She tried assassinating the Emperor that year they stop corresponding but her attempt was foiled by Kneeling Saber Xu Yao.

Since then, the Emperor no longer hold back as he sent assassins against her. It seems Wu Mei is no longer inside the Imperial Palace.

By that time, she knew she had kicked the hornet nest. There were many martial arts units that went into the forest to capture her.

She was lucky that none of those who come for her is a match for her but she knew sooner or later she would be captured if she stays.

But she could not abandon the forest and leave all the war orphans she had taken in. It was then that she met the Beast Master of the Beast Manor and spoke with him.

In that talk she managed to convince the Beats Manor to enter an alliance with her villa.

She hid herself inside the forest and created many traps and contraptions to prevent anyone from entering and the beast would inform her if there is an intruder so she could be prepared.

She never made an attempt on the Emperor lives again and it seems that the Emperor have other things to worry about and slowly the constant attack on the forest slowly dwindle until no one came in the end

The forest become peaceful and some experts of the martial arts got to know there is a secret experts secluding herself inside the valley near the Beast Manor and that place is called the Lin Villa.

She trained to become a grandmaster and she knows she was at the brink of breaking through but she could never take the last step.

Her energy is sufficient and her will is clear.

So she never did understand why she could not take that last step. In the end, it was that two sword strike that pierces through Space and Time that allowed her to take that one last step into the realm of grandmaster

The day that she heard the news that the Emperor of Yong were beheaded by a sword light that came from a thousand miles always, her mind become clear and her heart truly become calm as she breaks through grandmaster realm.

It turns out she always felt guilty towards the emperor. She had never loved him and the Emperor neve loved her.

But while this is true, it is also true that the Emperor never purposefully try to harm her.

Whatever his fault with the Wu family, he had never hurt her and treated her cordially and even at times, treated her with affection of a man trying to soften the heart of a lady.

Love is a luxury in the imperial palace.

She knew that the only reason she was allowed into the imperial harem is because her parent was the one that pushed it strongly. Since her father is the general in the border, the Emperor had to acquiesce.

It would be understandable then to see her as an eyesore by his side. But the Emperor, while the August One did not love her, he did not punish her for the folly of her parents.

It wasn’t until she heard the news that he was dead, that one droplet of tears falls from her eyes.

Fates is really cruel. She found out that she did not hate him that much.

And maybe…and this is not something she would ever utter out of her mouth, but maybe, on the corner of her heart, she had a little bit of affection for that lonely Emperor sitting on that dragon throne

The only reason she hated him is because he kills the family of her lover and she thought that the Emperor kill her lover.

And maybe, he too had the same kind of affection she had.

She remembers back all the times the Emperor let her go. If the Emperor really wanted to kill her, he could have just burned the entire forest or send more people.

It is only after his death; she recognizes these kinds of thing. It is like until you lose something, you do not know what impact it had on your heart

Azief when hearing Lin Guifei told this matter to them notice the expression on Wu Qi face. He seems calm. It seems he has heard the story before.

Lin Guifei continued her story

When she understands that, she finally understands herself and knows why she could never take that one last step

For her, it was never the question of ability or energy. It was a matter of the mind.

She felt guilt and that guilt turns into an inner demon.

When she broke through and felt the feeling of being one with the heaven and Earth, she sighed a long sigh and look toward the direction of the imperial palace of Yong.

Her eyes closed as she slowly prostrate toward that direction, like sending off her husband. Whatever else feeling she had for the Emperor, it was true, that he was her husband. She wished that in another life, if she would reincarnate, she would pay back this debt.

He did no wrong to her, but she did a lot of thing wrong to him.

In this life, she would fight for her love. But in the next life, she is determined to pay back this debt of care and love.

She could see then an illusory thread.

Though she said she must have imagined it. When Azief heard it, he only sighed. Probably, there is Karma of past lives between the Emperor and Lin Guifei.

When Li Guifei said that she promised that she would pay that debt, Azief is sure that if she dies this time, next time she would be reincarnated and try to fulfill that promise unconsciously.

Destiny and Fate will push the will of the world to make sure that those two will meet.

Maybe next time they will meet, he would no longer be an Emperor and she would no longer be so beautiful.

Maybe that time, it will be his turn to hurt her, and maybe it will be her that will be dead earlier.

Or maybe, there is a happy ending for them in the next life.

Azief could see faintly the Karma thread around her intertwining tightly with Wu Qi in this life.

But he could also see a tight thread that is floating translucently up in the air. That one tight thread must be the thread of karma between her and the Emperor.

Azief of course did not say it. He knows that the souls in this world is the same soul recycled over and over inside this Sealed World. It is truly a sealed world.

Even death was sealed. In a way, they live forever. Only they don’t remember. They keep on reincarnating, playing a different role each time, like a puppet with a string.

Azief hated that. There is no string on him. If there is, he would cut it. He is an anomaly. His soul did not belong here. His entire existence did not belong here.

She continued her story and Azief keep listening.

And she also found out the news that The Three Devils of Han has followed the Sword God.

When she was packing her stuff to go to the Five Element Mountain to reunite with Wu Qi, she heard news that the Sword God had come down with his disciple and his attendants.

She also heard that they will come down to Yong since the Sword God is trying to emulate the deeds of Qu Yuan in the past, to challenge all the schools of martial arts in the world.

Knowing this, she returned and sent some of her children to inform her when the Sword God come down to Zhou

When she got the news that the Sword God and the Three Devils are at the Beast Manor she sends the most agile children he taught to fetch Wu Qi. It is the reason why Wu Qi or Han Xiao was so easily abducted.

And then everything after that is something that Azief and the other had known. Azief when listening to the story look at Han Xiao and Lin Guifei.

Azief knows that Wu Qi needs to make a decision. He smiles and then he said he will wait for three days and went out from the villa.

Azief, Xi Feng and the other two Devils went into another residence around the villa and take their rest there.

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