My CEO Bai Fumei’s wife

Before Li Dijun's steward had even left the cultivation room, Qin Yu had already made a decision seven thousand miles away.

"This young master is going to Wudi City."

Zhuge Chuchu's crystal-clear eyes flickered.

"The Martial Emperor City has a protective formation. Anyone below the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm who tries to break in will be killed by the formation."

"Who said I'm going to force my way in? I'm going to go in through the main gate."

"The main gate requires a pass token from the Martial Emperor City."

Qin Yu rummaged through Zhao Tianheng's storage ring and found something in it. The Tianlan Sect had an alliance with the Martial Emperor City, and Zhao Tianheng had a pass to the outer gate of the Martial Emperor City.

"enough."

Mo Nu carried everyone westward for three hours until the outline of Martial Emperor City appeared on the horizon. The city was ten times larger than Iron Mountain City. The city walls were made of a black metal that Qin Yu couldn't name. Every hundred feet there was an arrow tower, and each arrow tower had a Nascent Soul level formation in operation.

"Boss, the defense density here is twenty times higher than that of the Heavenly Craft Pavilion."

Kui Wu's nose twitched.

Qin Yu showed his token at the city gate, and the guards checked it and let him pass without giving him a second glance.

After entering the city, Zhuge Chuchu's crystal eyes locked onto a location in the core area.

"Emperor Li is in his cultivation room in the Imperial Palace in the center of the city. The Imperial Palace's defense level is five levels higher than that of the outer city."

No token is needed.

Qin Yu walked straight towards the Imperial Palace. He did not conceal his aura. The spiritual energy fluctuations of a Nascent Soul cultivator at the Great Perfection stage spread throughout Martial Emperor City like a pebble thrown into a lake, with ripples spreading to every corner.

All the guards at the gate of the imperial palace drew their swords.

"Halt! This is a restricted area of ​​the Imperial Palace. Unauthorized entry will result in death."

"Bring Emperor Li out. I have something to say to him."

"Who do you think you are? How dare you even meet the Emperor?"

Qin Yu didn't waste words with the guards. Mo Nu's oppressive aura emanated from his feet, and the aura of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator forced all the guards to the ground.

The palace gates opened from the inside.

Emperor Li walked out slowly, his gray robe unadorned, but when he stood there, the entire imperial palace seemed like an extension of his body.

"Qin Yu, you arrived three days earlier than I expected."

"You knew I would come."

"Of course, from the Elf Forest to the Heavenly Craft Pavilion and then to the Northern Abyss, every step you take is moving closer to the Martial Emperor City, and I see it very clearly."

Qin Yu's brow twitched slightly. Li Dijun's tone didn't sound like he was facing an enemy, but rather like he was facing someone he had been waiting for a long time.

"I'm not here to catch up with you."

“I know why you’ve come. You’ve come to retrieve the fragments of your wife’s soul.”

Qin Yu stopped in his tracks.

At the same moment, Zhuge Chuchu's crystal eyes detected an aura deep within the imperial palace that was completely identical to the fragment of Yan Mingyu's soul.

"The remaining fragments are all with you."

“Three copies: one from the Dragon Palace of the East Sea, one from the Southern Barbarians, and one from the Tianlan Sect. I spent fifty years collecting them from various places.”

Jiang Chen's intelligence indicated that the fragments were scattered in three locations, but Li Dijun managed to gather them all in Wudi City. This information was more impactful than any magical artifact.

"Why are you collecting her soul?"

"Because I knew you would come to collect it."

"You're using her as bait."

"That's one way to understand it."

The air at the entrance of the Imperial Palace became stagnant as Qin Yu placed his hand on the Chaos Refining Furnace.

"Hand over the fragments."

"You may hand it over, but you must answer one question for me first."

"You have no right to negotiate with me."

"This is not a condition, it's a fact."

Emperor Li raised his hand, revealing a seal hidden in his gray sleeve, with two characters engraved on it.

Emperor Wu.

Zhuge Chuchu's body stiffened. The moment her crystal pupils were focused on the seal, all the information rushed into her mind. The spiritual energy patterns on the seal were completely of the same origin as the protective array of the Martial Emperor City.

"You are Emperor Wu."

Emperor Li did not deny it.

"Li Dijun is an alias, Wu Di is my real name. Wu Di City was built by me three thousand years ago, and every brick and every formation was made by me." Qin Yu's reaction surprised everyone.

He smiled.

"I had already guessed it."

Emperor Li's hand froze in mid-air, the seal still held, but his expression changed—the blankness that comes with the revelation of his identity, hidden for three thousand years.

How did you know?

"There is a secret letter from the Tianlan Sect in Zhao Tianheng's storage ring. The letter mentions that the Emperor of Wudi City never meets with outsiders and all government orders are conveyed through stewards. It's too coincidental that an Emperor who never meets with outsiders and a Wudi Emperor who has not shown his face for three thousand years overlap in these two identities."

Emperor Li slowly lowered his hand.

"You are smarter than I thought."

"I'm not smart, I'm not stupid."

A surge of spiritual energy emanated from the depths of the Imperial Palace, and the aura of the three fragments of the soul suddenly intensified, sensing the presence of the fragment in Qin Yu's storage ring.

"The fragments are calling to each other, and the one in your hand has been restored to a point where it can be merged."

"I'll say it again, hand over the fragments."

"I have told you, you must answer one question first."

"What's the problem?"

"Would you be willing to stay in Martial Emperor City and guard the Northern Region for me?"

The cultivators from Martial Emperor City who were watching at the gate of the Imperial Palace were all stunned. The Martial Emperor had personally invited an outsider to guard the Northern Region, something that had never happened in the past three thousand years.

"I don't want to."

They answered faster than they asked the question.

"This young master does not work for anyone."

Emperor Li remained silent for three breaths.

"Then there's nothing to talk about."

His aura was fully released at this moment, and the pressure of the late-stage Nascent Soul stage crushed out from the Imperial Palace. The protective array of Martial Emperor City was activated at the same time, and the array power accumulated over three thousand years poured into his body.

"I spent fifty years collecting these fragments not to give them away, but to use them to forge something."

"What are you refining?"

"The Reincarnation Treasure is a magic weapon crafted from fragments of the Reincarnation Soul. It can break through the barrier of realm. I was stuck at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage for eight hundred years, and this was the step I was missing."

Qin Yu's chaotic power surged violently in his dantian. Under this pressure, his foundation at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage did not drop downwards, but instead rose upwards.

"You'll need to use my wife's soul to help you break through."

"Which cultivator in the world doesn't want to break through? I've waited eight hundred years for this opportunity."

"Then you've waited in the wrong place."

The chaotic power within Qin Yu's body broke through the shackles of the Nascent Soul Great Perfection stage, and the Nascent Soul in his dantian shattered and reformed, transforming into a ball of purple-gold light.

Transformation stage.

The breakthrough came without warning, but the logical chain had been established from the moment he stepped into Martial Emperor City. The foundation tempered by the Chaos Furnace Fire was ridiculously thick. The Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage was just the critical point. The pressure of Emperor Li's late-stage Nascent Soul stage became the final needle that broke through the window.

A beam of purple-gold light shot out from the top of the head, tearing apart the clouds above Martial Emperor City, and once again shrouding the entire Northern Region in chaotic energy.

Li Dijun's pupils contracted for a moment.

Having lived for three thousand years and witnessed countless geniuses break through, not a single person could be accelerated to the Nascent Soul stage under the pressure of a peak late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Your foundation runs deep."

"My foundation was forged piece by piece by the Chaos Furnace Fire. Every inch of my meridians has been tempered three times. Your pressure is not suppressing me, but helping me to undergo the final tempering."

The aura of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm has stabilized, but the power of chaos is still rising. It's not like someone who has just broken through; it's more like someone who has been living in the framework of the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm for a long time.

Zhuge Chuchu's voice was very low.

"The foundation laid by the Chaos Furnace Fire allowed him to skip the adaptation phase of the early Nascent Soul stage and break through to the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage."

Emperor Li waved his hand towards the depths of the imperial palace, and three fragments of his soul flew out of the treasure vault, but not towards Qin Yu, but towards his own palm.

"Even if you break through to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, there are still two major realms between you and my peak late stage Nascent Soul realm."

The three fragments converged in his palm, and the white light began to merge with his spiritual power, refining the energy of the reincarnated soul.

"You are refining the soul of my wife."

"You've come at the perfect time, to witness me break through to the Mahayana stage using her soul."

Qin Yu took out the jade box from his storage ring; Yan Mingyu's soul fragments were inside. As soon as the lid opened, white light surged out, echoing the three fragments in Li Dijun's palm. (End of Chapter)