Chapter 6: The Moon Goddess Finally Comes to His Bed

Inside the Moon God Temple, Star God Emperor, drinking alone, had already waited for a long time. Just as he was growing impatient and was about to go find Xuan Yue Goddess for an explanation, he heard the main doors creak open.

Looking up, he saw Xuan Yue Goddess as if she had just stepped out of the bath. Her long black hair fell naturally over her shoulders, and the thin silk gauze gown she wore did nothing to hide her exquisite body. From her rounded, fragrant shoulders downward, large stretches of skin as white and smooth as snow were exposed, while the fuller curves of her chest were cleverly veiled by the gossamer collar, half-hidden and half-revealed, radiating a bewitching beauty.

"Your Majesty, I wonder what brings you to my Moon God Temple so late at night?" Xuan Yue Goddess said when she saw the heat in Star God Emperor's eyes, and her heart filled with disgust.

"Nothing much..." Star God Emperor quickly drew back the greed in his gaze and picked up a wine cup. "Come, try this. Fine hundred-blossom wine."

Hypocrite!

After cursing him inwardly, Xuan Yue Goddess walked up to him but did not sit across from him. Instead, she took the long couch beside him and sat right next to him. She picked up an empty cup and looked at him with a bright smile. "Aren't you going to pour me a drink?"

Star God Emperor clearly had not expected Xuan Yue Goddess to be so forward. After hurriedly pouring her a cup, he stared at her in a daze.

Her thin gauze dress was almost transparent. He could faintly make out the outline of her white, full breasts inside the neckline, along with the small peaks pressing against the fabric. Even more alluring was the gorgeous flush from her bath-warmed cheeks, the faint red glow just enough to hint at bashful charm.

Xuan Yue Goddess seemed to be tempting him. Her petal-soft pink lips lightly touched the rim of the cup, and the wine shimmered on her mouth, clear and glossy, wet and delicious, making Star God Emperor want nothing more than to kiss those lively, seductive lips.

From the corner of her eye, Xuan Yue Goddess noticed the lustful, predatory look in Star God Emperor's eyes. She lowered her own gaze, and sure enough, the bulge in his crotch was already standing high.

A trace of ridicule flashed through her eyes. Deliberately, she drank the wine in the cup, then extended her little tongue to lick the edge of the cup in a thoroughly seductive way.

But Star God Emperor was not looking at that. He was staring fixedly at her semi-transparent gauze dress, the voluptuous outline beneath it rising and falling with her breath, stoking the fire of desire in his chest. With one sweep of his arm, he pulled Xuan Yue Goddess into his embrace.

At the same time, her sweet voice brushed against his ear. "Your Majesty wants me to serve you tonight?"

Leaning against Star God Emperor's shoulder like a willow in the wind, Xuan Yue Goddess lifted his face with her slender jade hand, raised her delicate chin, and looked straight into his eyes. She gave a soft hum. "If Your Majesty doesn't mind that my body is dirty, then I will serve you."

Those words struck a nerve. The desire he had just been whipped up into instantly vanished, leaving only the body-driven need swelling to the point of pain.

Even though Star God Emperor was furious, he still tried his best to look calm. He lifted a hand and gently stroked Xuan Yue Goddess's smooth hair, his eyes filled with tenderness. "Xuan Yue, how could I ever mind you? I don't have enough time to love you."

This tender, intimate scene would have made anyone think they were a pair of lovers so deeply in love that they could not be separated.

Xuan Yue Goddess let him stroke her hair. She also lifted a few slender, green-onion-white fingers to trail over his cheek, while her soft lips breathed a faint fragrant warmth toward him. Then, in the next instant, her tone changed abruptly. "Your hypocrisy really hasn't changed at all."

"You!"

Star God Emperor flew into a rage and grabbed Xuan Yue Goddess's delicate hand, glaring at her. "My personal guard was wiped out. Was that your doing?!"

Clearly, Star God Emperor had come to settle accounts. In that case, Xuan Yue Goddess stopped pretending too.

She rose leisurely to her feet, her graceful white jade-like bare feet stepping through the air as she walked toward the inner chamber.

"I didn't make a move, and you should stop hiding things too. Doesn't it tire you out, wearing a hypocritical mask every day?"

"Hmph! Now that Lin Qingyun's life and death are unknown and my son is dead, do you have to drive us to total annihilation?"

"I know what you want. Heh... going to the sacred pool to purify your body is the kind of thing only a hypocrite like you could dream up..."

Xuan Yue Goddess reached the doorway and looked back, meaningfully, at the stunned Star God Emperor.

"As long as you stop here, I will agree to it. If you want my answer, then come here."

Even after Xuan Yue Goddess's figure disappeared from view, Star God Emperor could not calm down for a long time. The only member of the guard force he had sent back had brought back news that was shocking beyond belief: this continent actually still harbored a dragon from ancient times!

Even more, that dragon might very well be his love rival, Lin Qingyun's ally!

What shocked Star God Emperor even more was Xuan Yue Goddess's final line before she vanished. It was clearly an implied invitation, yet he felt as if he had suffered a tremendous humiliation.

He was the mighty Emperor of the Divine Mandate Empire. To get a woman, he had to rely on coercion, and sleeping with her would amount to nothing more than her condescension toward him. For him, that was no different from a monstrous disgrace!

Anger was anger, but when he caught the lingering fragrance left behind by Xuan Yue Goddess after she departed, that orchid-and-musk scent seemed to possess endless magic, enchanting his soul.

On the other side, Xuan Yue Goddess had already returned to her own chambers.

Her beloved son, Lin Jinyu, was still missing, and her husband, Lin Qingyun, was also life or death unknown. If she kept resisting, Star God Emperor would only grow to hate Lin Qingyun and his son even more. The world was only this big; finding someone was only a matter of time.

For the future that lay ahead, Xuan Yue Goddess had no choice but to sacrifice herself. If even her husband was gone, what meaning did preserving her chastity still have?

She also believed that Lin Qingyun would forgive her, but only if Lin Qingyun was alive and well!

As for Star God Emperor, she would just treat it as being bitten by a dog.

Star God Emperor strode into the chambers, and his restless body ultimately overpowered his reason.

"You said your son is dead. What happened?"

He did not immediately walk to the bed, but stood behind the gauze curtain, staring at the blurred, alluring figure on the bed.

"The man was killed by you. Do you still need to ask me?" Xuan Yue Goddess was unexpectedly calm.

That made Star God Emperor uncertain. Only one of the guards he had sent had returned, and the report he brought back was hard to accept. If Xuan Yue Goddess was telling the truth and her son was dead, then why was she still so calm?

At that moment, Xuan Yue Goddess said lightly, "Stop guessing. I had someone bring back his body. Tomorrow I will personally see to his burial. You won't refuse even that, will you?"

Hearing this, a smile immediately appeared on Star God Emperor's determined, square-faced features. He gently lifted the bed curtain and looked at the alluring body lying across the bed, then said with a smile, "How could I refuse? I'll accompany you tomorrow... Or should we give him an especially grand burial?"

With the rebellious son finally dealt with, even though Lin Qingyun was still barely hanging on to life, Star God Emperor's mood was much better than before.

Two days earlier, whenever he visited, Xuan Yue Goddess had always met him with a cold stare. But today, he could finally have the woman he had longed for day and night, finally taste the body that had haunted his dreams through countless nights.

At that moment, Xuan Yue Goddess lazily propped her delicate jade hand beneath her chin. Her face was slightly flushed, and the bright movement in her eyes flashed with alluring, seductive waves. Slowly, she parted her soft pink lips. "It's already very late. Are you getting into bed or not? If not, then please go back."

Hearing her say that, how could Star God Emperor still hold himself back? He hurriedly climbed onto the bed and pulled the beauty, who was lying on her side, into his arms. If he missed today, who knew when he would get another chance to share a bed with the goddess?

And Xuan Yue Goddess, held in his arms, let a flash of ice-cold mockery cross her captivating almond eyes.

She said nothing more, only leaned lightly into Star God Emperor's embrace, her lowered face and delicate features unable to fully hide the anger and unwillingness within her.

...

Far to the north of the continent, in the bitterly cold snowlands.

Endless snow-covered mountains and canyons were blanketed in thick ice and snow. Layer upon layer of icy peaks surrounded the entire Frozen City, condensing all the world's coldness within it.

In that desolate, frigid region with no sign of human life, two graceful figures in white were walking against the snow and wind, one tall and one small.

The leader was a woman of immortal elegance, her figure shrouded in drifting mist so that her face could not be seen clearly. Only a glimpse of eyes like a hidden spring could be caught.

"This day has finally come." She let out a soft sigh, her voice cold yet gentle, neither joyful nor sorrowful.

Beside her stood a delicate young woman, about sixteen years old, who followed at the immortal woman's side with cautious respect.

Beneath their feet, buried in the snow, was a young man wrapped in ice and snow, already frozen unconscious.

The young woman bit her lip and gathered her courage to ask, "Master, why did you come in person? If we're only here to save this child, I could have done it alone."

"Back then, I owed his father a favor. Now that his child is in danger, I should come personally." The immortal woman said softly, "From this day on, he will be your junior brother. I hope that when he grows up, he can sever those lingering thoughts and worldly ties."

"Yes, Master."

The young woman immediately nodded and lifted the ice-wrapped young man into her arms, then put a thick padded coat on him.