My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

Hearing the telepathic communication from the Spirit Devourer’s Spiritual Sense, Lou Mu Yan’s lips rose with sarcasm.

“‘This King’? ‘Deserve death’?” She looked at the Spirit Devourer as if looking at a joke, “I don’t know if you’ve heard of a saying.”

The Spirit Devourer looked up at her firmly with questioning in his eyes.

“‘A dragon that swims in the shallow waters is taunted by shrimps, a tiger that leaves its forest and ends up in the plains gets bullied by a dog, the cat that’s regarded highly is more ferocious than a tiger, and the balding phoenix is even inferior to a chicken¹’.” Lou Mu Yan’s red lips opened—if she didn’t know that there was a problem with this Demonic Beast, then she’d have lived her previous life in vain.

The little beast’s eyes widened, and a trace of anger flashed in his cold eyes, but, in an instant, his eyes grew dim again.

Lou Mu Yan chuckled softly and looked at the Spirit Devourer as she leaned her chin on her hand, “I don’t want to enquire about your secrets, but my guess is that you must really want to strengthen yourself right now, right?”

“So what if it’s a yes?” There was a haze in the cold eyes of the Spirit Devourer—this woman’s intelligence didn’t appear to be like someone who’s in their teens.

“I performed a Contract of Equals Incantation Spell, so we’re not in a master-servant relationship.” Lou Mu Yan fell silent, then raised her eyebrows and continued: “How about we cooperate?”

At first glance, this Spirit Devourer definitely had an extraordinary origin. Just earlier, when the powerful Soul Energy broke away from the Seal, she changed the type of Contract Incantation Spell she used. Towards the strong, she would give them the respect they deserved.

She knew that if she forcibly signed a Master-Servant Contract, then she would most likely receive some backlash from the Demonic Beast in the future. Many superior Demonic Beast races would rather die than succumb to being a human’s Spirit Pet, so she’d rather dig a hole from the very beginning that it would jump down into willingly².

What she lacked right now were helpers. Since she couldn’t really raise a Spirit Pet that had yet to bear wisdom, then she would at least not let go of such an experienced helper.

“You? A human being who’s only at the Great Sword Master cultivation base?” There was disdain in the eyes of the Spirit Devourer.

“Aren’t you just a Tier 2 Demonic Beast right now as well. What right do you have to belittle me?” Lou Mu Yan sneered, stood up, then looked down at the Spirit Devourer, “Right now, you have two choices—one, be my Spirit Pet, and we can be in a partnership; or two, if you refuse to accept it, then you can kill yourself.

“But I’ll remind you, the Spell that I used for the contract is a lost, ancient Incantation Spell. Even I don’t have a way to dispel it. If you want to forcibly break the contract, then don’t blame me if you get a backlash.”

She didn’t lie about this point. She found this Incantation Spell when she entered a Secret Realm and was an incomplete Contract Spell that was left behind by an Ancient Immortal. It only showed how to contract, but not how to terminate the contract.

Compared to ordinary contracts that subdued a Demonic Beast, the advantage of this Incantation Spell was that if a Demonic Beast wanted to forcibly terminate the contract, then it would suffer a very serious backlash, not to mention it couldn’t betray or kill its master either. So even if this Demonic Beast’s cultivation base was ten times or dozens of times higher than hers, it still wouldn’t be able to break the contract and harm her.

“Think about it yourself. I don’t like to force things.” Seeing the little beast on the table close its eyes and ignore her, Lou Mu Yan didn’t care either. After she finished speaking, she turned and left the room.

This kind of arrogant guy should be given some time to chill and let it comprehend its current situation and disadvantages. Then they would naturally be able to communicate later.

The door closed securely, and the Spirit Devourer opened its eyes that were filled with complex emotions. The colour of the red fur that appeared like a flame on his forehead grew even more vivid.

After that particular battle, when he was seriously injured and was about to perish, he performed the innate talent that only a Spirit Devourer King³ knew, the Reincarnation Skill. Eventually, he sealed his Beast Soul within a Crystal Core and performed a nirvana reincarnation. But he didn’t think that after he was born from the reincarnated egg, he would fall into this small interface.

The forceful contract that the Sword Monarch attempted to use on him activated the Seal on his Crystal Core and woke him early. Although he hadn’t yet awoken during the auction, but he was aware of everything that happened.

In retrospect, that woman’s act of blocking the sword for him made him admire her courage.

Even if it was impossible for him to die in the hands of that Sword Monarch, he was still touched by that woman’s actions, so when he launched his Mental Energy attack, he didn’t intend to kill her, but merely wanted to test her strength. The result astounded him—with such powerful Mental Energy, that woman must have a lot of secrets too.

A partner? Maybe he could try.

A day later, Lou Mu Yan, who was sitting in the Lou Clan’s practice room with her eyes closed, cultivating, suddenly opened her eyes and cast her gaze to the southeast direction outside the window.

She felt Spiritual Force pouring into a particular spot—it was Lou Mu Bai’s room. It appeared that her eldest brother was about to advance.

In a flash, Lou Mu Yan left her room and used Flash Step to move towards the courtyard where Lou Mu Bai resided.

There, the Spiritual Force of Heaven and earth in their air poured towards one are within the courtyard. She revealed a clear and attractive smile on her beautiful little face. Her eldest brother’s talent was indeed exceptional—he was comparable to her back in the Immortal Cultivation World with the Heavenly Spiritual Root.

The cultivators in this world didn’t have Spiritual Roots, but when her Soul and this body merged into one, she discovered that the strong comprehension abilities of her Heavenly Spiritual Root were also integrated. After merging, she could absorb Spiritual Force several times faster than ordinary Sword Masters, and she had the advantage when comprehending laws. Most importantly, she could also comprehend all the elemental attributes of this world.

The Spiritual Force hovered in the sky above the roof, forming clusters of Spirit Clouds. Then the Spirit Clouds were pulled into the room one after another, and the person sitting inside absorbed the Spiritual Force from the Spirit Clouds to their heart’s content.

Not long later, Lou Zhan Tian, Lou Mo Yu and Lou Mu Ting also arrived here from different directions. When they saw Lou Mu Yan who was already standing in the courtyard, their face revealed expressions of excitement.

All three of them had already finished absorbing the medicinal properties of the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and successfully cleansed their marrow and broadened their meridians.

“Grandpa, father, second brother, how are the effects after you finished absorbing the Marrow Cleansing Pill?” Lou Mu Yan asked the three with a smile, her eyes overflowing with warmth.

“HAHA…! Although I’m old now, but I still have successfully expanded my meridians by one third. I have hope of breaking through to a Sword Monarch within two years.” Lou Zhan Tian laughed, “My family’s Yan’er is the lucky star of the Lou Clan.”

“I doubled the size of my meridians, and my absorption speed of Spiritual Force also doubled. I felt that the bottleneck that I couldn’t break through before had loosened. I believe that I’ll be able to successfully breakthrough to Sword Monarch soon.” Lou Mo Yu said with a gentle smile with his eyes dyed in a layer of confidence.

Lou Mu Ting appeared even more excited and said enthusiastically, “I’m the same as Yan’er, also more than doubling the size of my meridians. I believe I’ll soon be able to breakthrough to Advanced-Phase Sword Spirit.”

Lou Mu Yan chuckled with an ease of mind. The Lou Family’s talents were indeed extremely outstanding. If the Marrow Cleansing Pill was taken by a Sword Master with average talent, then it wouldn’t have such a good effect.

The Spiritual Force surrounding them suddenly stopped surging, and the Spirit Clouds were slowly being absorbed by the person within the room until there were none. None of them spoke as they stared, transfixed, in that direction—Lou Mu Bai had reached the pivotal point of breakthrough.

But what people didn’t expect was that after an incense stick of time, Spiritual Force from all directions began to surge and gather above the room’s roof again, tumbling incessantly, forming clusters of Spirit Clouds, beginning another round of frenzied absorption by the person within the room.

About two hours later, the Spirit Clouds in the sky dispersed and a powerful aura released from within the courtyard. Lou Mu Yan’s eyes brightened, “Eldest Brother succeeded in breaking through to Sword King.”

“Eldest Brother is so abnormal.” Lou Mu Ting pouted, unreconciled, but the joy in his eyes revealed that he was also exceptionally happy and excited.

“HAHA…!” Her grandfather also laughed aloud, then said: “My Lou Clan has gained another Sword King expert today.”

Lou Mo Yu’s handsome and elegant face also revealed gratification. Lou Mu Bai’s advancement brought their Lou Clan’s overall strength to another level.

Translated product by May Our 梦 Come True

¹a poem by an unknown Ming Dynasty poet that’s used to describe a person, who loses their position and status etc., are even less than those who used to be their inferiors/weaker ones.

²‘dig a hole for someone to jump into means to prepare a trap. In this case, her trap is to make the Spirit Devourer remain contracted to her willingly by giving him better conditions.

³the author used 吞噬兽 instead of 噬灵兽. This wasn’t the first time, it happened once before, but that time I was certain it was a typo. But this time, it’s possible it’s a hint at the beast’s real identity that’s slightly different to a ‘Spirit Devourer’? They’re very similar translations, since both mean ‘devourer’. I’ll fix it in the future depending on which one the author uses and whether she gives us a more definitive explanation of this beast.