If you die, I will be able to inherit your cultivation.

Seeing Zhou Ming speechless and unable to defend himself, Bai Jie, who was standing to the side, could no longer suppress her laughter and burst out laughing.

Her shoulders heaved, her body swayed slightly, and her face was full of the smug satisfaction of having just discovered some juicy gossip.

From the time she met Zhou Ming to the time they stayed together, these were the long years that followed.

Throughout their journey to this point, she has always been the one who suffers setbacks in front of Zhou Ming; this is the first time she has seen Zhou Ming suffer a setback.

Speechless after being questioned by Su Mingyue, he couldn't even utter a decent reply.

Zhou Ming also heard Bai Jie's laughter and turned around to glare at her fiercely.

In the past, no matter what complicated problems Zhou Ming encountered, he could always find a way to deal with them calmly and have everything under control.

But now, he was speechless in response to Su Mingyue's questioning, which was quite rare.

He suddenly remembered his parents from his previous life. His father was a big, burly man who was also a soldier. Ordinary people could not get close to him.

Even so, he was often scolded like a grandson by his mother, who was less than 1.6 meters tall.

"Sure enough, he's following in his father's footsteps again," Zhou Ming thought to himself.

Su Mingyue glanced at the silent Zhou Ming, then turned to look at Bai Jie, who was laughing uncontrollably to the side.

Bai Jie, however, showed no restraint and continued to ridicule Zhou Ming.

Upon seeing this, Su Mingyue gave a cold snort.

"You should stay here and reflect on your actions. When you have figured things out, then come back and report to me."

"Bai Jie, let's go."

As soon as she finished speaking, Su Mingyue raised her hand, grabbed Bai Jie's arm, and the two of them left the Imperial Garden together.

Bai Jie, who had just been laughing heartily, immediately became serious when Su Mingyue pulled her.

He followed quietly beside Su Mingyue, looking obedient, like a lackey, and followed Su Mingyue out of the garden gate.

The two walked away quickly, one after the other, leaving Zhou Ming alone in the empty Imperial Garden.

Zhou Ming stood there, watching the two women's departing figures, then slowly took a step and walked towards the pavilion in the garden.

He walked into the pavilion, pulled out a chair, and slowly sat down.

Su Mingyue had clearly completely subdued Bai Jie.

Bai Jie is usually flamboyant and speaks and acts in a carefree manner, and she doesn't seem like someone who will easily back down.

Bai Jie was once the leader of a sect, in charge of a region, and possessed considerable knowledge and strategic acumen.

However, in the past, Bai Jie's confidence in doing things mostly relied on Du Yue's support from behind.

Once she loses her support, she becomes clearly weak in manipulating people's hearts and controlling the situation.

But Su Mingyue is different.

Born into a noble family, Su Mingyue overcame numerous obstacles to rise from a mere daughter of a noble family to the throne, ultimately becoming a ruler who could command thousands of worlds.

Long campaigns and power struggles honed her extraordinary character and ruthless methods.

In the human world, it can be said that she has reached the very top level.

Even though Bai Jie's cultivation level was much higher than Su Mingyue's.

However, in terms of scheming and manipulating people's hearts, he is still no match for Su Mingyue.

It's understandable that we're now completely under their control.

Zhou Ming sat quietly in the pavilion for a long time.

As the sun slowly sank below the horizon, the light on the horizon gradually dimmed, and the sky gradually became completely dark.

Zhou Ming sensed that Su Mingyue had dismissed all her servants and was alone in her palace, so he knew that Su Mingyue was giving him a chance.

Zhou Ming's figure flickered, and he teleported directly, appearing in Su Mingyue's palace in the next instant.

There's a saying that goes: couples who quarrel in bed make up at the foot of the bed.

The two hadn't seen each other for millennia, so naturally, their fates were intertwined.

After the fierce battle, Su Mingyue's anger subsided considerably.

Su Mingyue lifted her leg and kicked Zhou Ming off the bed to the ground, speaking calmly.

"Go to Bai Jie's place. I don't need you to stay and serve me anymore."

Zhou Ming fell to the ground, stunned and unsure how to react.

He knew, of course, that Bai Jie was waiting for him.

"What are you still standing there for? Get out of here!" Su Mingyue looked at Zhou Ming, who was still in a daze, and spoke again.

Zhou Ming chuckled, said no more, and vanished from the palace in a flash.

In the days that followed, Zhou Ming stayed in the imperial palace of the Ming Dynasty.

Spending every day with Su Mingyue and Bai Jie, he lived a very leisurely and carefree life.

He almost completely forgot about the important matters he needed to attend to and stayed there for a whole year.

During that year, Zhou Huai'an and Bai Ling'er returned to the palace several times.

But each time, the two of them would be sent away by Zhou Ming shortly after they appeared.

Zhou Ming didn't want the two of them to disturb his blissful sexual time.

A full year of blissful days passed before Zhou Ming suddenly remembered that he had important matters to attend to and could no longer linger in the palace.

After bidding farewell to the two, Zhou Ming flashed back into the cave.

What he is about to do is extremely risky; a slight misstep could trigger a major crisis.

If they were to take action in the human realm, and things got out of control, it could easily implicate Su Mingyue, Bai Jie, and the others.

That's why Zhou Ming deliberately chose to return to the cave.

Zhou Ming sensed the location of the split soul left in the outside world once again.

Once the location was complete, he raised his hand and tore open a narrow spatial door in front of him.

Then, Zhou Ming took out the True Spirit that he had personally severed, which was wrapped in a thick layer of causal net. With a flick of his wrist, he threw the True Spirit out of the spatial gate.

In the distant celestial realm, atop a towering mountain, a fragment of a soul, now in human form, stands silently.

Sensing the spatial fluctuations, he raised his hand and caught the true spirit flying down from the spatial passage.

At the very moment the divided soul's palm touched the true spirit, the causal net that had been tightly wrapped around the true spirit instantly disintegrated and vanished.

All those dense, tangled threads of cause and effect have faded away.

At this moment, the true spirit appears no different from any other true spirit in the world.

However, before the blink of an eye could pass, countless new causal chains extended from the void in all directions.

One after another, they approached this true spirit, continuously establishing connections with it.

A portion of the causal chain had just connected with the true spirit and was not yet stable when it broke off.

After the break, these causal chains did not dissipate, but instead coalesced into jet-black spheres, quietly dormant and contained within the true spirit.

These newly generated energies, which condensed into black spheres, were more numerous and purer in quality than the black spheres in his previous causal network.

Zhou Ming speculated that the reason for this difference was that after the causal chain broke, Zhou Ming closed the Qiankun World and could no longer inherit cultivation.

Therefore, when a cultivator who practices the Crossing the World Scripture dies, their energy is completely gathered and eventually sealed into these black spheres.

At the mountain peak, the divided soul held the true spirit covered with a web of cause and effect in its palm, remaining motionless, waiting for the old man from the chaos to arrive.