Chapter 1504 - The Devil Emperor’s Decision (1/2)

Instead of examining the “brand new” world around her, You’er followed Hong’er into the Sky Poison Pearl. Soon, both of them had fallen asleep.

It would be a long time before either of them got used to the new shape of their souls.

You’er was now a half-human, half-sword like Hong’er, but at least her soul was finally complete. Given enough time, she would eventually regain her emotional expression, speech, sense of touch, sense of smell, and even a real body. She would be truly alive.

“With this, I have no more regrets,” Jie Yuan whispered to herself.

But is that really true? Do I really have no more regrets in this world...

“What did you say, Senior?”

Jie Yuan’s whisper was so soft that Yun Che didn’t hear her fully. However, the indistinct voice that entered his ears still felt different from usual.

Jie Yuan looked at him solemnly and indifferently. “Now, Hong’er isn’t the only one who shares your life. You’er is part of you as well. From here on, my daughters’ fate, our daughters’ fate is in your hands.”

Yun Che said seriously, “Don’t worry, Senior. I swear I’ll…”

“Hmph. That is unnecessary.” Jie Yuan interrupted him before he could finish. “There’s nothing more laughable than promises in this entire world. I’m doing this not only because you are my only choice, but also because I trust you.”

“Okay.” Yun Che nodded and said, “I won’t disappoint you, Senior.”

The supreme Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had just placed her daughters’ fates on a mere mortal like him. This had to be the biggest, heaviest trust in the entire world, not to mention the pressure that came with it.

“In that case, it’s time for me to fulfill my promise.” Jie Yuan then proceeded to say in an indifferent tone something that would shock Yun Che completely, “I will destroy the passage on Wall of Primal Chaos with the World Piercer and prevent my clansmen from returning. They’ll never be able to harm the current Primal Chaos.”

“...” Yun Che stared at her blankly for a very long time.

Jie Yuan… was saying that she would prevent those devil gods from ever returning!

If that was true, then of course they wouldn’t be able to hurt anything within the Primal Chaos!

Yun Che would never imagine such an answer from her. No one would ever believe it was true.

After all, Jie Yuan was practically betraying her own people for the sake of the current world!

At Jie Yuan’s level, the people of the Primal Chaos were nothing more than lowly mortals. Just like the tiniest of ants, she could flick a finger and decide the life and death of all mortals and star realms.

No one doubted that her clansmen, the people who had suffered with her for millions of years outside the Primal Chaos were more important to her than anyone and anything in this world!

But now… she was saying that she would abandon her own clansmen by her own hands!!

“Senior… you… you’re… serious about this?” Yun Che sounded a little strained.

“Do you remember what I said the first day I came?” Jie Yuan said slowly without any change in her expression. It was possible that she had made up her mind a long time ago. “At the time, I told you that I wouldn’t hold them back from venting their hatred on the world. I couldn’t even if I wanted to.”

“...” Of course he remembered everything she said.

“Although I am the Devil Emperor of the Heaven Smiting Devil Race, and my order is basically the mandate of heaven…” Jie Yuan hid a sigh before continuing, “Their souls are ultimately weaker than mine. The million-year long pain, hatred, and despair twisted their minds a long time ago, and all of them have transformed into pure demons of hatred.”

“If they were allowed to return, they would vent everything onto this world like madmen. No one, not even me will be able to stop them.”

“Moreover, more than ninety percent of my clansmen lost their lives outside of the Primal Chaos, and the ones who did survive are at their limits. Even the ones with the longest remaining lifespan… only have about ten thousand or so years left.”

“If they’re going to spend the rest of their lives committing sins and ravaging this fragile world, then I might as well…”

Jie Yuan suddenly stopped as if she couldn’t bear to speak any longer. She turned away slightly to hide a tiny flash of pain.

Yun Che didn’t interrupt her once during her explanation. Her promise hadn’t just dragged the Primal Chaos away from the brink of the abyss, it had pulled it right back into the heavens. He could already imagine in his head how happy the people of the God Realm would be once they heard all of this.

Yun Che should be overjoyed himself, but right now he was more stunned than anything.

He never imagined that Jie Yuan would be willing to sacrifice all her clansmen for a world that had once betrayed her, and now had almost nothing to do with her whatsoever...

She wouldn’t be able to face her clansmen after this, and more than that herself. Her pain would no doubt be bigger than anyone else’s.

This was her reply, the reply of a devil, the emperor of devils herself no less!

He couldn’t even begin to express how stunned he felt.

“You may return to those people now. You may as well set them at ease sooner rather than later,” Jie Yuan said. “When the time comes, I will return to where I came from and destroy the spatial passage… I am the only one who can destroy it. Once it is destroyed, there will never be another spatial passage like this.”

“...” Yun Che gave her an unnaturally stiff nod before saying, “Okay.”

“I’ll be entrusting Hong’er and You’er to you. Don’t forget your promise to me… if you dare hurt or abandon them, I’ll never forgive you no matter where I am, alive or dead!”

“Don’t worry, Senior. I will…” He was about to swear a solemn oath again when he suddenly noticed something wrong with Jie Yuan’s words. Then, he frowned and blurted in astonishment. “Senior, where… where are you going? Aren’t you going to stay by Hong’er and You’er’s side?”

“Where else?” Jie Yuan smiled before looking toward the distant east with black pupils. “I’ll be staying with my clansmen, of course.”

Shocked again, Yun Che said hurriedly, “Senior, you…”

“I was the reason they were exiled from the Primal Chaos.” Jie Yuan knew what Yun Che was going to say, so she shut him down coldly before continuing, “The reason they managed to struggle this long outside of the Primal Chaos was so that they could return one day. However, I will be betraying them and extinguishing their only hope.”