Chapter 1623 - Heaven’s Lone Swan (1/2)
The God Realm of Absolute Beginning.
Two slender and graceful women stood in this ash gray world. They clearly stood out, giving off a feeling that they did not quite belong in this place.
“Are you sure it’s here?”
Xia Qingyue floated in midair, her beautiful eyes surveying the scene below her. The ground in this place was full of pockmarks. Furthermore, only power on the level of a Divine Master could devastate the land in the God Realm of Absolute Beginning.
Even though these marks of destruction were very startling, when they took everything into account, it was clear that this fierce battle that was on the Divine Master level had not lasted for too long… In fact, this battle was extremely short, and it was very likely that it ended in the span of a few short breaths.
“Reporting to Master, this maidservant has already used the secret technique to verify this many times. It is indeed in this place,” Lian Yue replied without any hesitation. “The traces of blood found in this place have also been confirmed to be the blood of an Eternal Heaven Guardian.”
Xia Qingyue thought about it for a moment before speaking, “Has there been any changes with Zhou Qingchen?”
Lian Yue replied, “There have been no changes in the situation. The news coming out of the Eternal Heaven Realm is that the Eternal Heaven Crown Prince sustained heavy injuries when he was training in the God Realm of Absolute Beginning seven months ago. He is currently recovering from his wounds in seclusion and no one is to disturb him.”
“So his brothers and sisters, and even the Guardians themselves, are not allowed to visit him, correct?”
Lian Yue considered the question before she replied, “That seems to be the case.”
Xia Qingyue closed her eyes and remained silent for a long period of time.
“Master,” Lian Yue raised her delicate head and spoke in a puzzled voice. “Even if an Eternal Heaven Guardian truly did fall here, it isn’t of much concern to our Moon God Realm. Why would Master even deign to come all the way here to personally confirm this?”
“...” After a long period of silence, Xia Qingyue’s beautiful eyes opened, an icy purple light shining in them. “The person who killed that Eternal Heaven Guardian was Yun Che.”
“What!?” Lian Yue’s head jerked upwards, unable to believe what she had just heard. Her very first reaction was that something had gone wrong with her hearing.
What sort of existences were the Eternal Heaven Guardians, whereas Yun Che… Even if he had truly come to this place, how could he possibly have killed an Eternal Heaven Guardian.
“He killed Qu Hui, killed a Guardian, but Zhou Qingchen is still alive…” Xia Qingyue muttered in a relaxed voice. “But of course. Since they happened to meet him, how could he let go of such a perfect opportunity to take revenge?”
Lian Yue’s lips parted slightly, and she was still dazed.
Even if it had been anyone else, they would still not be able to register the phrase “Yun Che killed an Eternal Heaven Guardian”.
“Lian Yue, you can go first,” Xia Qingyue suddenly said. “There’s no need to monitor the Eternal Heaven’s affairs any longer. Devote all of your efforts towards investigating【those two people]. You can start right away.”
“Yes,” Lian Yue replied. She was just about to take to the skies when she noticed the direction that Xia Qingyue was looking in. She blurted out, “Master, you…”
“I still have other things to do.”
“Yes, this maidservant will take her leave.”
Lian Yue departed and Xia Qingyue also took to the skies as she flew straight into the depths of the God Realm of Absolute Beginning… the most dangerous place in the entire Primal Chaos.
In the deepest part of the God Realm of Absolute Beginning was a place that many records speculated was the center of the God Realm of Absolute Beginning——
The Abyss of Nothingness!
An abyss that stretched out for an eternity, an endless and eternal gray fog.
Xia Qingyue slowly descended from the sky and faced this terrifying “world” that could bury everything, that could return everything to nothingness. Even a god emperor such as herself was as tiny as a grain of sand in front of it.
She slowly walked forward, and she only stopped when her feet came to rest at the very border of this terrifying place. The soundlessly moving mist coiled around her feet and if she even took another step forward, she would fall into the abyss and dissolve into nothingness… even if she was the Moon God Emperor.
In the history of the God Realm, there were countless people who tried to explore its mysteries and anyone who could make it this far was undoubtedly a person who stood at the peak of the profound way. But once something fell into this abyss, whether it was a living creature, a corpse, an inanimate object, aura, or even light, it would be completely annihilated, they would disappear without a trace.
Thus, no one knew what this “Abyss of Nothingness” was actually hiding and no one knew the reason for its existence. This was even the case during the Primordial Era of the Gods.
One day...
Two days...
Three days...
Xia Qingyue quietly stood at the border of the Abyss of Nothingness, her eyes dyed ash gray.
She stood like this for seven days before she finally turned around and soundlessly left.
As she departed, a very light and shallow smile flitted across her face, a faint smile that no one would ever be able to understand.
When she returned to the Moon God Realm and reached the outskirts of the Divine Moon City, she sensed several auras that did not belong to the Moon God Realm. However, she did not stop or even spare those auras a glance. She simply returned to her own bedchambers.
Very soon, Jin Yue rushed over to make a report. “Master, you’ve finally returned… The new realm king of the Glazed Light Realm, Shui Yingyue, and their former realm king, Shui Qianheng, have already been waiting outside Divine Moon City for several days. They are here to visit Shui Meiyin, who has been imprisoned in the Seventh Moon Prison.”
“Throw them out.” Xia Qingyue didn't even turn her head to glance at Jin Yue. She simply said those three words in an incomparably cold and harsh manner.
“...” Jin Yue was slightly taken aback by that response. She strove to bury the unwillingness in her heart as she replied, “Yes.”
“Tell them,” Xia Qingyue continued, “that they must honestly face up to the consequences of doing such a stupid thing. During these thousand years, Shui Meiyin can forget about taking even half a step out of her Moon Prison, and they can forget about seeing her until her imprisonment ends as well.
“This time, I am only going to throw them out. If they dare to come and disturb us again… I will personally cripple one of Shui Meiyin’s legs.”
“...Yes. This maidservant will convey your words to them,” Jin Yue anxiously replied. After that, she hurriedly took her leave.
The Moon God Emperor discovered that the Glazed Light Realm had hidden the devil Yun Che back then. Even though the Eternal Heaven God Emperor pleaded on their behalf, the Glazed Light Realm was still punished severely. Shui Qianheng had been crippled and Shui Meiyin was imprisoned in the Moon God Realm for a thousand years. This was something that the entire world knew about, drawing countless sighs.
But the people were not sighing about how Shui Qianheng ended up. Rather, they were sighing about Shui Meiyin’s fate. This was a woman who had been blessed with the Stainless Divine Soul by the heavens themselves, whose life had been illuminated by a dazzling halo. She was the next person to be crowned with the title of “Goddess” after Qianye Ying’er and she should have had a boundlessly dazzling future. However, because of a single error in judgement, she had protected a devil that was being pursued by all the king realms and ended up in her current situation.
Given the Moon God Emperor’s vicious ruthlessness toward Yun Che, one could well imagine that Shui Meiyin’s fate in the Moon God Realm would not be good at all… In fact, it was very likely that her fate would be a miserable one, so miserable that no one even wanted to think about it.
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Northern Divine Region.