Chapter 1454 - The Only Hope (1/2)

Yun Che’s sudden appearance caught everyone’s attention. However, it was quickly followed by scorn and pity...

The Eternal Heaven God Emperor was sentenced to death simply because he spoke up one time against the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor. As the weakest profound practitioner in the entire group, it was already strange that he followed them over to this place. Now, he was even standing up and addressing the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor directly… Was he hopelessly stupid, or did he suddenly find life too tedious to live?

“Will you allow this junior to say something?”, he said. In their eyes, his words were both foolish and lamentable.

“Big Brother Yun!” shouted Shui Meiyin in shock.

“You…” Shui Qianheng’s eyes turned round with deep anxiety, but he found himself so deep in shock and fear that he could hardly move a finger.

But then everyone’s expressions gradually became replaced by bewilderment.

The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor stopped moving all of a sudden. Her palm froze in midair just like that, and the black energy sitting inside it didn’t spread out and claim another life. In fact, it was flickering wildly like an unsteady flame.

Her abyssal gaze became fixed on Yun Che’s body. It remained unmoving even though three breaths had passed.

“...?” The Eternal Heaven God Emperor had closed his eyes earlier and awaited his death in despair. However, when he realized that nothing was happening to him, he opened his eyes in confusion and was greeted by an even more puzzling picture.

The situation took a strange turn, but no one dared to even breath too deeply.

What… what’s going on here?

What happened?

The devil emperor… couldn’t possibly have fallen for a pretty face because she was stranded beyond the Primal Chaos for millions of years, could she!?

The black energy in Jie Yuan’s palm and the black aura holding down the Eternal Heaven God Emperor, Qianye, the Star Gods, and the Moon Gods disappeared in a sudden gale. Then, Jie Yuan appeared in front of Yun Che, pierced his blood colored profound energy and made a grabbing motion at his neck...

But then a split second hesitation made her change her mind and grab him by the collar.

She stared straight into Yun Che’s eyes, her black pupils shaking slightly behind the distortions of his profound energy, “Why… why do you have ‘his’ power!?”

At her level of power, she could literally eliminate Yun Che’s profound energy with a single thought. However, not only did her palm not affect his aura at all, she didn’t try to do anything against the blood-colored profound energy that was rubbing against her body and her eyes.

It was because it was the fifth realm of the Heretic God Arts, “Hell Monarch!”

Yun Che didn’t try to struggle out of her grasp. He was even feeling less fearful and apprehensive because the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had reacted far more intensely than he had initially predicted. Had she displayed a complete lack of reaction, he would be feeling the exact opposite.

“It’s because I am the inheritor of his will and power,” Yun Che said calmly… or at least that was how it looked at least. In reality, he was worried for his life because the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor could accidentally kill him with a breath if she exhaled a little too strongly.

When the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had appeared to the world, the masters of the God Realm were so afraid that their courage threatened to shatter under pressure. Yun Che was the only one who felt a bit of optimism because he knew that this arriving devil emperor wasn’t just a random devil emperor… She was also the Heretic God's woman.

The Heretic God was honored by the Ice Phoenix divine being as the “greatest god in the entire world”, and he was someone who would choose to shorten his lifespan in order to leave behind hope for the future. If he could go so far as to break the taboo to fall in love with the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, if he could gift her something as precious as the World Piercer, then Yun Che was certain that she wasn’t a cruel and merciless devil by nature.

Even if millions of years of exile would naturally fill her with hatred, Yun Che was still fairly sure that it wasn’t enough to change her soul and nature, especially because she was a devil emperor!

He chose to believe that his actions could move her heart… not that he had another choice to choose from.

The world was completely silent in this moment. Stunned and confused, no one dared to make even the slightest noise.

The profound energy of “Hell Monarch” was as red as blood. Its color was only more striking in this cold, oppressive and dark environment.

The world froze again, the only thing still moving being the hand around Yun Che's collar. Their faces were less than thirty centimeters away from each other, and Yun Che could clearly see her scarred, bluish black face shaking a little with emotion... She looked like she was holding back an immense amount of pain.

“Is he… dead too?” It was four words, but it almost looked like Jie Yuan had to squeeze them out of her mouth.

Jie Yuan’s reaction caused a surge of excitement in Yun Che’s heart. It was because he knew where this could possibly lead to...

Yun Che nodded lightly, “Since millions of years ago, both the God Race and the Devil Race have already gone extinct… the Creation God of the Elements was the last god to perish.”

When Jie Yuan and the Heaven Smiting Devil Race were exiled from the world, the Heretic God was still known as the Creation God of Elements.

Jie Yuan wasn’t the only one who heard Yun Che clearly. Everyone present could hear him as well.

As the highest existence of the world who knew the truth of the scarlet crack, the divine masters and god emperors were all shaken by Yun Che’s words. As they stared at Yun Che’s blood-colored profound light with wide pupils, they finally recalled the fact that Yun Che had used a total of three elements during the Profound God Convention, defeated a Divine Spirit profound practitioner while he was still a Divine Tribulation, and defeated a Divine King while he was still a Divine Spirit...

“Could… could it be…” the Eternal Heaven God Emperor muttered to himself.

Jie Yuan’s hand abruptly clenched together, and Yun Che’s collar instantly crumbled away into pitch black pieces.

Her black pupils trembled chaotically, and Yun Che could clearly feel a deep sense of pain and sorrow spreading from the center of Jie Yuan. Grabbing her own forehead and clenching her teeth tightly, she groaned, “Ah… ahhhh… ah…”

She looked like a wild beast who had suddenly succumbed to despair. Her laments were unclear and distorted… It was a sorrow that defeated even a devil emperor’s willpower...

“Dead… dead… dead…”

Crack… crack… crack crack… It was the sound of the devil emperor’s teeth threatening to break under pressure.