Chapter 529: The Principal Body

“I don’t believe you,” Shi Hao laughed. His hand gently traced across her snowy, smooth back, feeling its silken warmth and translucence.

To his dismay and sense of defeat, her skin, soft as silk, soon developed little bumps—an eruption of gooseflesh.

At this moment, Yue Chan’s hair stood on end as though serpents had crawled over her skin. Uncomfortable and disturbed, she smacked his hand away and said, “What I said is true.”

“Do you have to be so discouraging?” Shi Hao frowned discontentedly while caressing her glossy, raven-black hair. “Think of my extraordinary talent, my heroic bearing unmatched in this world—yet in your eyes, I’m so despicable that just a single touch makes your skin crawl? This is unforgivable!”

“Why do you never believe me when I tell the truth?” Yue Chan blinked, her luminous eyes sparkling. Her beautiful, radiant face emanated an irresistible sacred glow.

Frowning, Shi Hao asked, “Then tell me, I’m listening. You claim to be her yet you’re different—why would you tell me this?”

While speaking, he carefully weighed her words, questioning whether she was deceiving him or trying to stall for time.

Moonlight vanished, dark clouds thickened overhead, veiling the capital in blackness. The newlyweds’ chamber, its candles extinguished, grew pitch dark.

However, Shi Hao’s eyes shone with divine radiance, allowing him to see clearly despite the darkness. Beside him, her pale, exquisite body appeared even more mesmerizing—faintly glowing and translucent.

“She is she, and I am I. After we split into two divine embryos, we couldn’t possibly remain completely the same. At least until we reunify, we will inevitably differ,” Yue Chan explained.

“You’re still one being in essence. Would you betray your main self and really choose me?” Shi Hao scoffed doubtfully. Mischievously, he pinched one of her delicate ears, warping its shape.

Yue Chan slapped his hand away. A blush rose across her beautiful face, tinged with annoyance and indignation, as though she wanted to sever his hand entirely.

She was an immortal fairy of the Heavens-Repairing Sect, a noble being of extraordinary origin. Revered and sacred in mortal eyes, she was not to be defiled—but he had the audacity to toy with her flawless ear, treating it so casually. It was infuriating.

Shi Hao smiled unconcernedly, withdrawing slightly, and asked, “Is that all? Your argument lacks convincing power.”

“I fear she will come to kill me,” Yue Chan finally admitted.

“Why would she kill you? She’d more likely come for me—saving you would be more fitting,” Shi Hao said, his eyes reflecting deep thoughts and intrigue. He didn’t dismiss her concern lightly.

“If she fails to kill me, she may decide to eliminate me entirely, solving all problems at once.” Yue Chan’s eyes flickered with a sharp light, her body tightening slightly.

Both the main and secondary forms were genuine flesh-and-blood beings—divine embryos. So long as one survived, the other could be reborn in an immaculate divine body.

However, this transformation required one of them to perish first. Only then could a third celestial body emerge.

“Relax. There’s no need to be tense. She won’t appear tonight, nor would she be so coincidentally ready. Even if she dared, she’d target me first. You’re my bride, and I will protect you well,” Shi Hao teased.

He reached out again, gently stroking her pale, delicate skin to comfort her. However, this only made Yue Chan even more rigid, tensing like a piece of fine jade.

“Sigh, I’m truly a failure. Making love to my bride feels like she’s confronting a venomous serpent. You do this on purpose to undermine my confidence, don’t you? Just look at my godlike talent—how could you still react like this?” Shi Hao feigned resentment, giving her snowy, full bosom a sharp pat in protest.

“Are you even listening to me?” Yue Chan’s lovely face flushed red. Her frustration intensified under his repeated provocations, yet she was powerless to change the situation, biting her teeth in secret fury.

“I’m listening. Go ahead, tell me everything. Even if the night is long, delaying such an enchanting moment is a waste of our lives,” Shi Hao said casually, completely at ease.

Suddenly, a tremor surged through his heart, causing his body to stiffen like Yue Chan’s. His eyes radiated brilliant divine light, illuminating the entire hall like two beacons.

Yue Chan was startled. In this moment, Shi Hao seemed like a fierce young war deity, exuding golden light and immense power.

In the next instant, Shi Hao leapt like a nimble cat toward the window, facing the night breeze, his long flowing black hair trailing behind. He gazed at the sky and said, “Is it going to rain?”

The dark clouds pressed even lower, bringing a heavy and oppressive feeling.

“Boom!”

Suddenly, lightning tore through the sky, accompanied by violent fluctuations and formidable divine energy.

Shi Hao’s pupils contracted sharply as he stared into the heavens.

The lightning was strange—it did not split sideways or arc but fell vertically like shafts of light piercing heaven and earth, dazzling and terrifying.

Within the palace, powerful guards sensed the anomaly, turning their heads in unison. No one had ever seen lightning so eerie and unnatural—it was vertical!

“It’s a meteor shower!” someone cried.

The tranquil night was shattered by the outcry. Many people awoke in panic. All the guards stood ready for battle. This was an unimaginable celestial disaster!

“It really is going to ‘rain’—but it’s a meteoric downpour!” Shi Hao’s eyes gleamed dangerously as he watched the sky.

The meteors fell vertically from above the dense black clouds, moving at tremendous speed. Their trails of light stretched long, radiant, and fearsome.

Such a calamity could annihilate not just the palace but even massive cities, turning them into ruins—possibly even reducing entire regions to wastelands.

They came so densely that meteor followed meteor, their beams illuminating the night sky with an awe-inspiring spectacle.

All the meteors converged upon one point—the imperial palace!

Not a single one deviated beyond the city walls, indicating clearly this was no random wrath of heaven, but a catastrophe orchestrated by human hands. The thought alone was terrifying enough to make even revered experts tremble.

Though this was the wrath of heaven, it was controlled by a living being, powerful enough to shock the entire world. Such a massacre could wipe out countless lives.

“She… she actually came!” Yue Chan rose abruptly, uncaring that her snow-white skin was exposed, and moved beside the window to gaze into the sky, her eyes flickering with light.

“So you were merely indulging me at first? You never truly believed she’d come back?” Shi Hao turned to look at her.

Yue Chan’s pupils shimmered with divine brilliance, shifting and changing, lost in thought.

Her icy, flawless body glowed under the flashing lightning like the perfect masterpiece ever crafted—utterly exquisite without any flaw.

“You hesitated and played with me earlier—you deserve punishment,” Shi Hao said, pulling her slender body into his arms and kissing her ruby-red lips.

Yue Chan jolted, her beautiful eyes widening in shock and confusion. Despite the imminent peril, he remained so calm and daring.

“There’ll be more punishment later,” Shi Hao continued, wrapping an arm around her narrow waist, not letting go, as the two of them watched the meteoric deluge together.

This was a disaster unlike any seen in countless years—targeting the palace alone. Meteors rained down like storms, their blinding beams piercing the heavens and earth.

Even divine protective arrays would be pierced, Yue Chan realized. The grand divine power of this “disaster” seemed insurmountable.

The palace erupted into chaos, with countless cries of alarm. To the terrified people, this felt like the end of the world.

“Boom!”

Finally, the first meteor struck. Approaching at immense speed, it slammed into the grand heavenly palace above, unleashing a dazzling array of divine radiance—a terrifying shockwave spreading far and wide.

In that instant, people almost ceased breathing, their hearts nearly stopping.

The colossal energy attacked Shi Kingdom’s palace mightily, shaking heaven and earth. However, just before the meteor made contact, it exploded, releasing cascading beams of light in all directions.

The earth shook, divine lights blazed infinitely, and the entire palace quaked under the intense glow.

“It wasn’t pierced!” Many feared but also shouted in relief.

Each palace building radiated with ancient symbols, as if massive magical artifacts had awakened. Engraved with the marks of time and the patterns of protective arrays, they glowed strongly.

The meteors poured like a waterfall, seemingly capable of ending the world. From above the dark clouds, they rained endlessly, white beams piercing heaven and earth.

Such divine might was beyond human resistance. Even revered experts could be reduced to ashes.

The only solace was that the protective arrays of Shi Kingdom’s palace had withstood the assault. One after another, the falling stars exploded in the air, bursting into radiant lights.

Within the palace, crowds cheered. Though terrifying, the divine wrath capable of destroying many great cities was blocked by ancient arrays.

No matter how many beams struck the palace grounds, all exploded harmlessly—none could penetrate.

Shi Hao narrowed his eyes, his sharp gaze piercing. Had he not immediately reinforced the palace’s divine arrays upon returning from the Xuan Region—using divine materials brought back from Immortal-Not-Dying Mountain and enlisting the Divine-Stone to set multiple extra layers—the palace might have crumbled.

The wrath of heaven poured endlessly, one meteor after another summoned from the void, cascading down upon the earth with unimaginable energy.

At this moment, Yue Chan trembled and turned her gaze toward a particular spot in the clouds.

Shi Hao lifted his head, his divine eyes blazing like lightning. Through the meteoric rain, his eyes shot beams of light capable of piercing the clouds, revealing a figure cloaked in a mysterious glow. This being, ethereal and superior, seemed like a god overlooking the mortal world from above.

Her sanctity surpassed Yue Chan’s, her aura stronger, more perfect—almost celestial, completely removed from the earthly world.

Her face remained obscured in radiance, and at this moment, her gaze fell downward, watching Shi Hao. Though her eyes gleamed, they bore no emotion.

Shi Hao knew then that when body and shadow were too close, they could sense each other, united as one.

Gazing at the saintly figure above, he revealed a row of his white teeth in a bright smile. Then, turning his head, he kissed the fallen fairy beside him.

At this moment, both Yue Chan and the heavenly saintly figure above trembled. Violent waves of divine energy radiated from her celestial form.