Chapter 1665 - The Ploy of the Burning Moon (1/2)
“Master, where are you going?” He Ling asked worriedly.
“The Burning Moon Realm,” Yun Che replied.
“But…”
He Ling looked up. A faint, black color had dyed the pocket world inside the Sky Poison Pearl, so she gave up and stopped talking.
He Ling probably knew Yun Che better than even Qianye Ying’er and Chi Wuyao.
Her life was connected to Yun Che’s, so not only did she experience everything he did, she could feel his soul at all times.
The Burning Moon Realm was a king realm in the Northern Divine Region, and Burning Moon God Emperor Fen Daojun was one of the three strongest profound practitioners in the Northern Divine Region. Yun Che was no match for him even if he possessed the Eternal Calamity of Darkness.
But she also knew that there was nothing that could change Yun Che’s mind or stop him from what he was planning to do right now.
Yun Che passed through many black star regions and dark stars. Soon, the Burning Moon Realm appeared before him once more.
The dark light in his eyes stabilized as he slowed down a little. However, the darkness hidden behind the back of his pupils grew even colder.
He landed in front of Burning Moon Royal City after entering the Burning Moon Realm.
The capital’s barrier had been sealed up again, but there was no barrier of darkness that could stop him.
“The capital is not open to the public. Anyone who comes close without permission will die!”
An imposing voice reached him the moment he landed on the ground. The aura of the owner of the voice was cold and scary.
Yun Che replied indifferently while staring toward the front, “Please inform the Burning Moon God Emperor that Yun Che is here to pay a visit.”
A short silence later, the voice exclaimed in shock. “Yun… Yun Che!?”
The spars that took place at the Burning Moon Main Hall earlier were the spars of Divine Masters, so practically everyone in Burning Moon’s capital had felt the commotion caused by them. That was why the arrival of the Devil Queen and especially the name Yun Che had spread throughout the entire capital in no time.
Moreover, the Burning Moon God Emperor just sent an order and recalled all the Moon Eaters and Burning Moon Divine Envoys who were away. Even the most insensitive person in the capital had noticed that something deeply unusual was going on.
“I thought Yun Che just left with the Devil Queen…”
“Maybe he’s a fake?”
“It doesn’t matter whether he’s a fake or not… send word to the commander so he may speak of this with the God Emperor!”
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The air in the Burning Moon Main Hall was unusually dreary.
The Witches of the Soul Stealing Realm only served Chi Wuyao, but the Moon Eaters of the Burning Moon Realm had their own star regions to govern. It was rare enough for them to be summoned on urgent notice, much less an emergency summon that required them to drop everything immediately.
Every Moon Eater and Burning Moon Divine Envoy had returned to the Burning Moon Capital in less than two hours. Some of them even activated the profound dimensional formation they hadn’t used in years just to return home in the shortest amount of time possible.
Inside the hall, the Burning Moon God Emperor was sitting at his throne with a calm expression on his face. However, there was no mistaking the invisible but frightening aura that was constantly rolling off his body.
Below him, the Moon Eaters, the Burning Moon Divine Envoys, and dozens of princes and princesses were waiting in silence.
“Is the situation really that bad, my king?” a Moon Eater that just returned from outside asked.
It was Fen Zhuo, the second strongest Moon Eater who was second only to Fen Daozang.
The Burning Moon Realm didn’t have any level ten Divine Master beside the Burning Moon God Emperor. However, their numbers were greater compared to the ten Yama Devils of the Yama Realm or the Nine Witches of the Soul Stealing Realm.
They had a total of twelve high level Divine Masters.
Fen Daozang shot him a glance before saying in a voice so low it sounded like it came from the abyss. “You wouldn’t ask that if you had witnessed it with your own eyes.”
In Fen Daozang’s case, not only had he witnessed the impossible with his own eyes, he had personally experienced how it felt to be suppressed by two level eight Divine Masters. He was full of anger and shame at the time, but after he got smacked face first by thunderous words such as “Calamity and Misfortune”, “Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor”, and “Eternal Calamity of Darkness”, the memory no longer seemed as unbearable as before.
Instead, it now sat in his heart like a weight that refused to be removed.
Fen Zhuo looked around him. He quickly discovered that the Moon Eaters who were here before him were all wearing faces of unprecedented heaviness.
“Have we recalled all the spies we sent to Soul Stealing Realm?” the Burning Moon God Emperor asked.
“We have recalled everyone, my king.”
The Burning Moon God Emperor slowly let out a sigh of relief.
The Burning Moon God Emperor didn’t particularly enjoy conflict, and after the Soul Stealing Realm rose to power and replaced the Clear Sky God Realm, he never once provoked them without very good reason.
However, he had never feared them as much as he did now.
A prince asked, “Does Yun Che really wield the power of the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor? Have we not considered the possibility that the Devil Queen was just playing a trick on us? Also, maybe the Eternal Calamity of Darkness isn’t as powerful as it seems, at least not on us mortals. For example, that Brahma Monarch Goddess couldn’t even withstand a single blow from royal father.”
“Naive,” the Burning Moon God Emperor said coldly. “This emperor isn’t so blind that he would misjudge the power of a devil emperor! Not only do I suspect that the power affecting the two Witches was just the tip of the iceberg that was the Eternal Calamity of Darkness, its true power will be greater than even your wildest imagination. Do not forget that what you saw was just the show of the two weakest Witches of the Soul Stealing Realm and one Eternal Calamity formation.”
“According to the ancient records, the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor was the first ever devil created by the Ancestral God. It was why her power was called the ‘First Darkness’. Therefore, I’m certain that perfect control over darkness was just the tip of what the Witches can do.”
Everyone in the hall felt suffocated.
As a god emperor of the Northern Divine Region, the Burning Moon God Emperor knew the devil emperors of the ancient times better than most.
“As for the Brahma Monarch Goddess…” The Burning Moon God Emperor frowned slightly. “Something was wrong with her at the time. Her true strength is nothing like what you saw earlier.”
“What should we do then, my king?” Fen Zhuo asked, “If the Eternal Calamity of Darkness really is as scary as they say, if the Witches, the Soul Spirits, and Soul Attendants have all been fully transformed by it… and if the Devil Queen plots to invade the Burning Moon Realm with her newfound strength, how are we going to… defend against it?”
It didn’t take a genius to figure out that he was just being polite.
If the two weakest Witches could already suppress their strongest Moon Eater using “Calamity and Misfortune”, they couldn’t imagine how much power it would take for them to deal with the First Witch. They probably couldn’t win even if they were to combine their strength and attack them together...
The Burning Moon God Emperor looked at the man sitting next to Fen Daozang. He had black hair, but no facial hair. He looked to be around thirty to forty years old, and he wore a set of white clothes and a flat hat. His skin was far whiter than any of the Moon Eaters, and he was completely lacking in imposingness, the perfect image of an elegant and refined gentleman.
He looked nothing like a Moon Eater of the Burning Moon Realm, but he was.
“What is your opinion, master?” the Burning Moon God Emperor asked.