Investing In My Crippled Heavenly Empress Wife Gets 100,000x Returns

The dilapidated ruins of the Ice Palace were left far behind.

The massive bronze warship tore through the clouds, sailing toward the realm passage leading to the Desolate Heaven Immortal Domain at an astonishing speed.

At the bow, Ji Siyu stood leaning against the railing, her plain white dress fluttering in the howling heavenly wind, making her figure appear all the more thin and lonely.

She did not look back, nor did she dare to.

That cold ruin had swallowed the most important warmth of her life, leaving behind only bone-deep hatred and endless emptiness.

Return to the Primordial Holy Land?

No!

That place could not give her the power for revenge.

Her enemies all hailed from the Immortal Forces of the Upper Realm.

To avenge Chen Chuan, she had to enter that broader world and become strong enough there.

Ahead, Gu Yue stood quietly, her elegant palace attire outlining her slender figure, her temperament graceful and poised.

Her gaze occasionally swept over Ji Siyu’s back, carrying a hint of scrutiny and expectation.

She had lent her help not entirely out of pity.

This woman was able to obtain the core Legacy of that Ice Palace in such a desperate situation; her potential and even her Luck were extraordinary.

The Aura on that altar made even her heart skip a beat; it was definitely no ordinary Legacy.

Investing in a future peerless powerhouse was an extremely worthwhile deal for the Tianyu Divine Dynasty.

Providing help in a time of need was far superior to adding icing to the cake.

And Ji Siyu was equally aware of her own situation.

All alone, carrying precious treasures, and surrounded by enemies.

She needed the prestigious name of the Tianyu Divine Dynasty as a temporary sanctuary.

She needed a relatively stable environment to digest the Legacy and improve her strength.

This was a tacit agreement, each taking what they needed.

”We are about to enter the realm passage. It might be bumpy, so be careful,” Gu Yue’s gentle voice came.

Ji Siyu nodded slightly in response, her gaze still hollowly watching the churning sea of clouds ahead.

The scene of Chen Chuan dissipating into points of light played over and over in her mind like a nightmare, each time bringing a piercing pain to her heart.

This pain was her only motivation to live on and become stronger.

The warship jolted suddenly, the surrounding scenery changing instantly as the colorful light walls of the passage receded rapidly, and the power of space distorted slightly.

Just as the warship completely left the Sacred Martial Continent and entered a stable flight, a sudden change occurred.

”Ugh!”

Ji Siyu suddenly let out an uncontrollable groan of pain.

She suddenly clutched her head with both hands, her delicate body trembling violently, the color draining from her face until it took on a transparent paleness.

An unimaginably cold will, like a Vicious Beast that had slumbered for eons, suddenly awakened from the depths of her Soul Sea.

That cold will, carrying a majestic Emperor’s Might that could crush everything, began to frantically assault her self-awareness.

”Lady Si Yu!”

Gu Yue’s expression changed, and she stepped forward quickly but did not dare to touch her rashly.

She could feel the temperature of the space around Ji Siyu dropping sharply, with tiny ice crystals even condensing in the air.

At this moment, within Ji Siyu’s Soul Sea, a perilous struggle for control was taking place.

”Get out! This is my body!”

Ji Siyu’s Soul Fire flickered violently, letting out an unyielding cry.

Chen Chuan’s death had given her unprecedented resilience.

She could not fall now; with her hatred unavenged, how could she be willing to be replaced by another?

”A mere ant’s thought dares to block this Emperor’s return?”

A cold, haughty female voice, sounding as if it originated from the end of an eternal ice plain, rang out with unquestionable majesty.

It was the residual Emperor Soul consciousness of the Ice Phoenix Divine Emperor.

It had originally been temporarily suppressed by Ji Siyu’s intense emotions and the Legacy process.

But the stimulation of leaving the Sacred Martial Continent and entering the realm passage of a higher-level plane acted like a key, completely triggering the instinctive power of this wisp of Emperor Soul.

That Emperor Soul consciousness was cold and massive, like a vast glacier, carrying eternal vicissitudes and indifference.

It ruthlessly washed over Ji Siyu’s consciousness, attempting to assimilate the Soul Fire that represented her.

Fragments of memory swept through like an ice storm.

The loneliness of looking down upon all living beings, the majesty of wielding control over heaven and earth, the grandeur of freezing star rivers... the past belonging to the Ice Phoenix Divine Emperor forcefully tried to overwrite Ji Siyu’s short decade or so of life.

”No... Chen Chuan... I want to avenge you...”

Ji Siyu held onto the last bit of clarity in her mind.

Chen Chuan’s smile, his resolute back, his playful yet firm confession—these became the only light and anchor in her Sea of Consciousness, resisting the cold erosion that was enough to freeze the Soul.

However, how could the majesty of a God Emperor be easily dealt with?

Even if it was just a wisp of residual Soul consciousness, its essence far exceeded the Soul Power of the Void Breaking Realm.

Ji Siyu’s resistance was like a candle in the wind, growing weaker and weaker.

That cold consciousness gradually gained the upper hand, forcibly suppressing and freezing Ji Siyu’s emotions, memories, and obsessions into the deepest depths of her Soul Sea.

Outside, Gu Yue saw the painful struggle on Ji Siyu’s face gradually subside; her body stopped trembling, but the chill became increasingly piercing and bone-chilling.

She slowly lowered the hands clutching her head and stood up straight.

Just such a simple action gave an illusion that she was the center of heaven and earth, with the Laws operating accordingly.

She opened her eyes.

What kind of eyes were those?

The eyes that originally held grief and deep affection now contained only endless coldness and indifference.

Like two stars carved from ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, they were deep, cold, and devoid of any human emotion.

As her gaze swept past, it felt as though even time itself could be frozen.

When Gu Yue met those eyes, her Soul suddenly trembled, and a fear stemming from biological instinct nearly suffocated her.

That look was like a deity looking down upon the ants of the mortal world, a supreme being disregarding the Reincarnation of all living things.

She even felt her thoughts being frozen by that gaze, and her whole body uncontrollably broke into a violent shiver.

”Si... Si Yu?”

Gu Yue suppressed the horror in her heart and called out softly in a tentative manner.

Ji Siyu slowly turned her gaze, her eyes landing on Gu Yue without any ripple, as if she were looking at an insignificant object.

She did not answer Gu Yue’s inquiry, but instead spoke in a voice so cold it contained not a trace of warmth: ”This place is no longer meaningful. This Emperor is leaving.”

Her voice was flat, yet it carried a natural tone of command that brooked no question.

Gu Yue’s heart tightened, and she quickly spoke: ”Lady Si Yu, the outside world is full of dangers. Why not follow me back to the Tianyu Divine Dynasty to rest for a while...”

Before she could finish, she was interrupted by a single look from Ji Siyu.

The chill and majesty emanating from that gaze caused Gu Yue’s subsequent words to get stuck in her throat, unable to be spoken.

She had no doubt that if she dared to say more, a single look from the other party could wound her Divine Soul.

”Your Highness, why bother speaking so much with this woman? She is disrespectful to you; let your subordinate take her down!”

A general of the Tianyu Divine Dynasty, seeing that this woman who had just been under their protection dared to so blatantly ignore and even intimidate the Princess, was instantly enraged.

He took a step forward, his majestic spiritual power transforming into a giant hand that grabbed directly toward Ji Siyu.

The spiritual power hand contained the power of rules, locking down the surrounding space, clearly intending to imprison her.

Gu Yue opened her mouth but ultimately did not stop him.

She also wanted to see exactly what kind of power this drastically changed Ji Siyu had obtained.

Facing the angry strike of a Ninth Level of the Transcendence Realm expert, Ji Siyu’s expression did not change in the slightest; even her gaze did not flicker.

She merely lifted her eyes slightly, and an invisible Emperor’s Might spread out like spilling mercury.

Buzz!

The originally aggressive spiritual power hand silently collapsed when it came within three zhang of her, dissipating into specks of spiritual light.

”What?”

The general of the Tianyu Divine Dynasty’s expression changed drastically, filled with disbelief.

And in Ji Siyu’s hand, a longsword had appeared at some unknown moment.

The blade was azure, as if condensed from ten-thousand-year-old profound ice, with a frigid divine light flowing through it, and the hilt guard was shaped like a Phoenix spreading its wings.

It was her natal divine sword, the Frost Divine Sword!

As soon as this sword appeared, the temperature of the entire warship instantly dropped to the freezing point, and the ship was covered in a thick layer of ice at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A terrifying Sword Intent that seemed capable of freezing the Soul and severing Reincarnation soared into the sky, locking onto everyone on the warship.

”An... Emperor Weapon? No, this Aura is even more terrifying than an Emperor Weapon!”

Another Elder at the Peak of the Transcendence Realm cried out in shock, his face filled with horror.

Although the spiritual power fluctuations emanating from Ji Siyu were still only at the First Level of the Void Breaking Realm.

Under the enhancement of that majestic Emperor’s Might and the Frost Divine Sword, her Aura was like that of an awakened ancient god of war.

The feeling she gave everyone was that she only needed one strike to annihilate everyone present along with the warship.

It was a fundamental gap, the despair of an ant facing the firmament.

The experts of the Tianyu Divine Dynasty, including the general who had attacked, all froze in place, cold sweat pouring down their foreheads, not daring to move.

Locked by that terrifying Sword Intent, they even found it difficult to breathe, as if any slight move would invite a devastating blow.

Ji Siyu indifferently scanned the group of people who seemed frozen in ice and said nothing more.

Her figure swayed slightly, and like a blue light, she charged out of the warship, finally disappearing from everyone’s sight.

Not until that suffocating pressure and Sword Intent had completely vanished did the people on the warship sigh in relief as if they had collapsed; many slumped to the floor, panting heavily with lingering fear.

”Pri... Princess, this woman... she...”

The general who had attacked was pale, his voice trembling with lingering fear.

A well-informed Elder took a deep breath and said in a heavy voice:

”Princess, I’m afraid this woman didn’t simply obtain a Legacy.”

”In my humble opinion, she is very likely the Reincarnation of some peerless powerhouse! Now, her past life’s memories have awakened.”

Another person added:

”Exactly! That’s the only explanation.”

”The so-called Miracle Secret Realm on the Sacred Martial Continent was likely prepared as an Awakening place for her, a reincarnated being.”

Gu Yue looked in the direction where Ji Siyu had disappeared, her beautiful eyes flashing with light, which finally turned into a complex, soft sigh.

She nodded, agreeing with everyone’s speculation:

”It must be so. How could a peerless powerhouse who has awakened be someone we, or even the Tianyu Divine Dynasty, could forcibly restrain?”

In her heart, there was both the regret of failing to recruit this potential powerhouse to her side and a sense of relief from having survived a disaster.

Fortunately, the other party seemed to have no intention of being their enemy; otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Gu Yue seemed to have a feeling that the waters of the Desolate Heaven Immortal Domain might be stirred into monstrous waves because of Ji Siyu’s arrival.