My Top-Tier Tycoon Wife

A light drizzle began to fall from the sky.

Watari Kagura, holding a paper-and-oil-skin umbrella, strolled through the black flowerbeds. As she passed, the flowers and vines automatically parted, revealing piles of stark white bones at their roots. It was as if a path had long been laid for her. She stepped upon the bones, like a queen of both nobility and darkness walking through her own palace.

Suddenly, she frowned, sensing something was wrong.

He's still alive. A Core Formation Realm cultivator was struck by my Heavenly Control Hand. How could he not be dead?

The expected time for the technique to erupt had passed, yet there was no feedback from his aura. She was certain Luo Xiu had not died.

Forget it. I can't be bothered to go back and check. Perhaps it wasn't his time to die. Besides, for some reason, from the first moment I saw him… I had this strange feeling, as if the rest of my life would be intertwined with his.

Muttering to herself, she raised a hand to gently rub her right eye, which was covered by her bangs. Through her blurred vision, she saw a tear fall from her fingertip.

Why am I crying? Forget it. I don't have the energy to think about it. I should go find Messenger Lord now.

...

Lin Xiyue slowly opened her eyes to find herself in a vast, white space. The sheer whiteness of the area made the woman in the black gauze dress standing before her exceptionally conspicuous.

"Who are you?" she asked, watching the woman warily.

"You could consider me your savior. There's no need to be nervous. This is your own spiritual space. Your physical body is currently in a very poor state and under my control. I am saving your life."

As the woman in black spoke, she waved her hand. Lin Xiyue suddenly felt dizzy, and a screen of light appeared before her. However, the scene unfolding on the screen instantly made her blush. She was completely naked, sitting on top of a man!

That's... Dr. Chen?!

Lin Xiyue whirled to face the woman in black, her voice urgent. "What have you done? Stop him!"

The woman chuckled softly. "It is you who should be stopped. Look how wild you are right now, and how pitiful that young man is."

Lin Xiyue's face was scarlet. She turned away, unwilling to watch the shameful scene. She couldn't control her body, so there was nothing she could do. The woman in black waved her hand again, and the embarrassing image on the screen vanished.

"Speaking of which, you were quite lucky this time. Not only did you encounter a man, but he also possesses the Nine Yang Constitution."

"Nine Yang Constitution?" Lin Xiyue's heart skipped a beat. She suddenly remembered what He Dang Gui had told her long ago: as someone with the Nine Yin Constitution, she needed to find a man with a Nine Yang Constitution to cure her terminal illness. She had searched for a time but never found any clues.

To think that now, without even looking, she had found one. And it was a substitute member of her own team, the gentlemanly Dr. Chen Shuisheng! The only thing was, her illness was already cured, so she no longer needed the Nine Yang Constitution. Thinking about her body being on top of Dr. Chen at this very moment… her heart filled with a storm of emotions, and she felt incredibly awkward.

The woman in black spoke calmly, "Nine Yang and Nine Yin are a natural pair. But in the end, of the man and woman who possess these two constitutions, only one can survive."

Lin Xiyue snapped out of her thoughts and frowned. "Why?"

The woman in black smiled faintly. "It's a kind of mutual fulfillment. They love each other so deeply they are willing to sacrifice their own Essence Blood and life for one another. However, you no longer need it, as the side effects of your constitution have been completely eliminated. I cannot see the specific reason at the moment, but I imagine a Divine Doctor must have helped you in some other way."

Lin Xiyue's cheeks flushed. "If I don't need it, then why are you still controlling my body…?"

The woman in black replied, "Even if it is not needed, the Nine Yang Constitution is a treasure rarely seen in ten thousand years. It can bring you immense benefits. The Holy Origin Golden Pill you consumed earlier contained a Great Emperor's Essence Blood, and its Yang Power was too overwhelming. It caused an imbalance of yin and yang within you that could only be vented through a man. Coincidentally, this young man with the Nine Yang Constitution is the perfect outlet for you."

Lin Xiyue fell silent, her thoughts drifting involuntarily to Luo Xiu. He was the one who had refined that Holy Origin Golden Pill. Where did he get a Great Emperor's Essence Blood?

Could he be a Great Emperor himself?

As she was lost in thought, the woman in black spoke again. "I am the Nine Yin Great Emperor. Like you, I also possess the Nine Yin Constitution. The reason you came to these ruins was initially because of my influence. Simply put, I sensed your presence nearby and guided you to me."

Hearing this, Lin Xiyue recalled that while fleeing from Watari Kagura, she had indeed felt a mysterious message influencing her state of mind, which in turn affected her judgment and made her escape into the perilous Heitian Swamp.

"You guided me here for a purpose?"

"This is but a wisp of my Residual Soul left in this world," the Nine Yin Great Emperor said. "It will dissipate soon, so I will keep this brief. I once gazed across ten thousand years of time and space and glimpsed a scene from the future. That scene was this very moment, of you and I meeting here. Therefore, I have been waiting for you for ten thousand years."

Lin Xiyue's beautiful eyes trembled in disbelief.

The Nine Yin Great Emperor stepped forward and gently patted Lin Xiyue's head. "Little girl, are you willing to accept my inheritance, carry on my will, and save this world?"

Lin Xiyue's expression didn't change. "That sounds like a job for superheroes. I'm afraid I don't have that kind of ability."

The Nine Yin Great Emperor recalled eons past, her voice distant. "I am merely an insignificant speck of dust in the river of time. Back then, when the Six Emperors brought about the world's end, my people and I were swept up in the calamity. We were dragged into a rift in spacetime, and I fell in battle during the Emperor Fallen Era."

"What is the 'Six Emperors' world-ending calamity'? What is the Emperor Fallen Era?" Lin Xiyue asked.

The Nine Yin Great Emperor explained slowly, "The Primordial Ancient, Archaic Ancient, Ediacaran, Cambrian, Devonian, and Cretaceous—these six Great Emperors joined forces to shatter spacetime. They randomly seized one civilization from every era and cast them all into the rift. That was their world-ending calamity. The six Great Emperors then merged the civilizations from different eras within an isolated dimension, creating a new, chaotic era. That is what is known as the Emperor Fallen Era."

"Civilizations from different ages waged war in that isolated dimension. The six Great Emperors used the blood of billions of living beings in a ritual sacrifice, all for the sake of forging a single sword."

Hearing this, Lin Xiyue trembled, finding it all too incredible to believe. "A blood sacrifice of billions… just to forge a sword? What on earth did those six Great Emperors want?"

The Nine Yin Great Emperor shook her head with a self-deprecating laugh. "I do not know their ultimate goal. In that Emperor Fallen Era, beings like myself who had stepped into the Emperor Realm were everywhere. To those six Great Emperors, I was just another life to be sacrificed. I remember fighting the Cambrian Emperor for three whole years before he finally killed me and used me for his blood ritual."

"Although I don't know their purpose, I am certain that the sword will once again trigger a cataclysm between eras, one that will destroy this New Era you live in. When that time comes, not a single creature in this world will be spared. You must stop it. I have glimpsed the future and seen the end of this New Era: a vast sea of blood. And a man, holding that sword, stands atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood."

Lin Xiyue asked, "Where is the sword?"

"The sword is in the Tomb of Civilization," the Nine Yin Great Emperor replied. "After I fell in battle, a wisp of my Residual Soul wandered through those ruins and saw the sword placed upon an altar. I do not know if it is still there after so many years. Of course, the sword itself is not important. What you must stop is the man who draws the sword. You cannot let him destroy the world."

Lin Xiyue pressed, "Is the future you saw truly accurate?"

"In this world, there is no past or future, nor is there any so-called unknown. Everything that happens in the river of time is predetermined. Therefore, any scene I have witnessed will inevitably come to pass. Just as I once saw us meeting in this manner, it has now truly happened."

「A long, long time passed.」

Lin Xiyue opened her eyes and gently massaged her temples. Her mind was suddenly flooded with memories that did not belong to her, and she struggled to process them all at once.

Suddenly, she saw Luo Xiu standing nearby, and her face turned crimson. Remembering what had just happened between them, she didn't know how to face this man she had barely met.

"Dr. Chen... Dr. Chen, what did I... just do to you?"

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PS: For readers unfamiliar with the sword's origin, please see Chapter 92.