CHAPTER 650: CHAPTER 650: THE TRUTH ABOUT MU QINGXUE’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TIME EMPRESS! (PLEASE FOLLOW)

After the World Tree encountered the aura of Decay Dao, a certain switch inside the tree heart had been triggered, and the entire tree was in the midst of transformation.

Xiao Ye guessed that this transformation would need quite a bit of time.

Back then, the Saint Realm remnant soul that had parasitized Mu Qingxue had been a wisp of soul left behind by Mu Qingxue before her previous life’s reincarnation, but no one knew where it had ended up—it simply hadn’t reappeared.

Xiao Ye hadn’t bothered to care about it, either.

But now that the Saint Realm remnant soul showed up, it clearly had to be dealt with.

Meanwhile, deep in a cave within the Dragon Country’s Demon Cave, an ugly-faced woman, hair wild and mouth dripping with black blood, was itching and tearing at the blood and flesh of a Venerable Realm Demon Beast.

Her actions were ridiculously crude, her face twisted in a snarl, eyes bulging out — honestly terrifying, like some crazed villain.

But she was actually over the moon, bursting into a wild, defiant laugh,

"Hahaha, I, Mu Yan, am finally revived, my body rebuilt, my soul body whole again."

"So many years have gone by, and my days of hiding are over at last."

"Mu Qingxue, you’ll die by my hand one day, I’ll refine your soul body and absorb it, purifying my own soul body."

Her body and soul body might’ve been complete, but there were tons of flaws.

But she believed that as long as she kept refining and fusing Demon Beast and human soul bodies to perfect herself, and devoured Demon Beast blood and flesh for energy, she’d return to the Saint Realm in no time — and take her revenge on Mu Qingxue.

A flash of dazzling light.

Xiao Ye, the Ancestral Empress, Mu Qingxue, and the Time Empress blinked into the depths of the Demon Cave, stopping not far from Mu Yan, who was hunched on the ground munching away.

Staring at this dumpster-diver getup and her maniacal movements, totally resembling a demon lord gone mad,

Everyone just stood there, dumbfounded.

Mu Qingxue’s expression was complicated, "This is my previous life’s remnant soul? How’d she end up like this sorry freak, ugly as sin."

"If she couldn’t make it to the Emperor Realm, at least climb to the Quasi-Emperor Realm, be all high and mighty, get adored and worshiped!"

"Pffh, what a disgrace to me!"

Xiao Ye’s mouth twitched.

The Ancestral Empress’s eyes flashed with surprise, and she said doubtfully,

"Sister, this person’s aura, it feels a bit like yours."

"Is this your daughter, your kid?"

The Time Empress shook her head, "Nonsense! I’ve been alive a million years and still a virgin — where would kids come from?"

"But this one’s divine soul does have some of my mark, that much is true."

Mu Qingxue asked in surprise, "Time Empress, then what about me, what’s my connection to you?"

She did look just like the Time Empress, both wielding time attributes.

The Time Empress frowned, *"That, I have no idea. Maybe I did something dumb back in the day."*

The Ancestral Empress’s eyes went wide,

*Did something dumb, Sister’s not pure anymore?*

The Time Empress’s brows furrowed in deep thought, *Where did things go wrong, that a being so similar to her showed up in the Mortal Realm?*

Their chatting wasn’t quiet, so the ugly-faced Mu Yan noticed immediately; she lifted her head, revealing a face streaked with blood, monstrous in expression, eyes bulging and blood-red.

With the dark lighting and awful smells of the Demon Cave as a backdrop, the sight was honestly a bit horrifying.

Mu Yan let out a shriek, heart full of hatred, and yelled,

"You, Mu Qingxue."

"And you, Xiao Ye!"

"You all showed up just in time, saved me a trip — I’m eating you alive right now!"

The pressure of the Quasi-Saint Realm spread instantly, a surge of force swelling up.

Rumble! Rumble! The Demon Cave began to shake, gravel tumbling from the walls, as if the place would collapse under the weight of a Quasi-Saint’s aura.

Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue both wore odd expressions.

Quasi-Saint Realm?

*That was a relic of the distant past.*

*A tiny little Quasi-Saint, and she dared attack them?*

"Boom!"

The hideous Mu Yan raised a hand, unleashing a Talent Skill: [Time Slash Blade — upon hit, deals ten thousand years’ worth of lifespan damage, and after losing lifespan, the target enters a period of weakness]

A formless blade, laced with temporal elements and Time Rules, slashed straight for the four of them.

Xiao Ye, the Ancestral Empress, and Mu Qingxue stared back coolly, absolutely unmoved.

When that temporal innate skill reached them, it shattered with a crisp crack — it didn’t even scratch their base defense.

"Immune to time-based attacks!"

Mu Yan’s face changed instantly; her filthy body retreated, hatred in her eyes fading, replaced by heavy wariness.

*Able to shrug off Quasi-Saint attacks, their Realms were beyond imagination, at least Saint Realm level!*

*Or, maybe they carried high-grade Saint Realm Defensive Treasures!*

She triggered [Future Prediction: Foresight of upcoming events], time elements blooming as Rule Power began to churn.

Crack, crack, crack!

But that talent skill sputtered out like a jammed machine, offering up nothing but fog — she saw no future at all.

Mu Yan was startled out of her mind, *completely shocked inside.*

*Mu Qingxue was already at the Saint Realm?*

*That fast?*

*It’s barely been a year or so.*

*Run, I have to run.*

*Otherwise, who knows what the hell will happen!*

Seeing her try to use a talent skill to bail, Xiao Ye said calmly, "Qingxue, this one’s your old nemesis — you handle it."

Mu Qingxue nodded, her eyes calm, and said,

"You’re my remnant soul from a previous life — we could’ve peacefully coexisted, but you’ve always wanted to harm me. Since it’s like this, you’ll have to die."

She reached out, and Mu Yan was snatched up in a Great Hand Seal of energy.

With just a squeeze from Mu Qingxue, both Mu Yan’s body and soul body would be squashed instantly.

"That kind of energy — you, you broke through to the Emperor Realm?" Mu Yan’s face twisted with shock, her eyes nearly popping out.

Back in the ancient era, even seeing an Emperor Realm had been rare.

And Mu Qingxue’d actually reached Emperor Realm.

*Unbelievable.*

Mu Qingxue rolled her eyes, "Emperor Realm? That’s weak stuff."

"You done with your last words? It’s time to go."

BOOM!

She flexed her jade-like hand, and Mu Yan’s body and soul body exploded, turning into nothing but nickel powder.

The Time Empress cried out,

"I remember now, why Mu Qingxue and this soul body even exist in this world!"

"I did that stupid thing, that’s how my ’descendants’ ended up on Blue Star!"

Xiao Ye and Mu Qingxue were stunned.

The Ancestral Empress’s face changed, "Sister, you got together with a man from the Mortal Realm? Had children?"

"No way, Sister — you actually let a human pollute you?"

"?"

The Time Empress glared, annoyed, "I’m still a virgin, never been with anyone!"

"The reason there are souls in the world so similar to mine is because of that incident..."

Remembering, she began to explain it all.

Everyone listened, and to sum up—

Back when the Time Empress had been at Emperor Realm Perfection, she’d stolen a fortuitous opportunity from a madwoman in deep space, and got hunted down in revenge.

The Time Empress figured she’d lose, and that the madwoman’s Supreme Treasure would erase her consciousness, so she split off a few strands of will, tossing them into Blue Star’s river of time, hoping to revive in the future.

Later, she used the opportunity, broke into the Star Domain Realm, and ditched the crazy woman’s pursuit.

As for those separated strands of will — she just forgot about them.

Those strands reincarnated, giving rise to the ancient Mu Yan, and Mu Yan’s reincarnation led to the current Mu Qingxue.

Mu Qingxue came to a sudden realization.

*No wonder she looked just like the Time Empress — like two peas in a pod, stamped from the same mold.*

The Time Empress now looked troubled, "My breakthrough to Star Domain Realm was rushed, so I left myself with major side effects. Even after hundreds of thousands of years, I’m only Stage Three in Star Domain Realm, can’t break through again."

Mu Qingxue was surprised, "Xiao Ye, didn’t you fix the beast girl’s physical flaws? Can you check the Time Empress’s problems?"

The Time Empress counted as her ancestor. They weren’t related by blood, but without the Time Empress, there’d be no Mu Qingxue today.

Xiao Ye took a long look at the Time Empress’s elegant figure, then nodded, "Sure, let me have a look."