Chapter 1848 - Vow of Peace (1/2)

When Yun Che emerged from the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm, what greeted him wasn’t the cool and calming aura of the Deep Sea Realm. He was assaulted by the thick stench of blood and smoke.

Yun Che calmly surveyed the area around him as the trembling Shui Meiyin gasped in shock.

When he saw Yun Che’s figure appear in front of him, Long Bai’s eyes immediately widened to their greatest extent. Hatred, restlessness, excitement, and agitation raced in his heart… along with several other complex emotions he could not quite put a name to.

He had even dreamed of ripping Yun Che to shreds in his sleep and his dearest wish had been to inflict the most cruel tortures imaginable on Yun Che’s body in the most painful way possible. Everything that he had done today was motivated far more by his desire to vent his hatred on Yun Che than it had been to destroy the devil race.

However, he didn’t immediately launch a wrathful strike now that Yun Che was in front of him. Instead, he took a few steps backward and roared in a thunderous voice, “Stop!”

The bloody and terrible battlefield instantly stilled as the Dragon Monarch’s voice boomed through the air. This was the Dragon Monarch’s command and every word he uttered was reverberating throughout every corner of their souls. No one even thought of defying that command.

All of the Western Region profound practitioners immediately withdrew their energies and the most terrible battle in history, a battle exclusively between those who stood at the very top of the universe, came to a forced stop in just a few minutes of time.

Before everyone could even puzzle out the meaning behind the Dragon Monarch’s words, he was already barking out another order. This order was also a single-word command. “Retreat.”

The state of the Northern Region profound practitioners was so miserable that even the western Divine Masters had started to feel pity for them. As more and more of the northern devils collapsed to injury or death, the already-huge advantage that the Western Divine Region possessed quickly became overwhelming. Given the current situation, they would have been able to exterminate all of the enemy forces before too long.

So this order to retreat was undoubtedly giving their enemy a free chance to rest and catch their breath.

However, no one would dare to defy the Dragon Monarch’s command.

The Divine Masters of the Western Divine Region immediately retreated, but they did not forget to pick up the bodies of their fallen kinsmen and comrades before they left.

The two armies, which had been trying to rip each other’s throats out just a few moments ago, both retreated and stared at each other across the intervening distance.

Even the battles happening in far off places had stopped as the Venerable Withered Dragons, the Qilin Emperor, and the Blue Dragon Emperor stopped fighting once they heard the Dragon Monarch’s command. However, Chi Wuyao and Mu Xuanyin had not stopped moving. They spun around and raced down to Yun Che...

The Dragon Monarch did not say anything, so Long Si and Long Wu did not move to stop them.

“Your Magnificence!”

“Your... Magnificence.”

“Your Magnificence!!”

……..

When Yun Che normally heard these cries, they were always filled with a healthy vigor and an excited pride. Sadly, right now those cries were mixed with choking sobs and most of the voices that called out to him had become hoarse and weak.

Furthermore, he heard far less familiar voices, sensed far less familiar auras.

Yan One and Yan Two did not even bother to catch a quick breath as they rushed toward Yun Che at the fastest speed possible. Their frail and withered bodies were normally only stained with the blood of other people, but right now, they were covered with all sorts of wounds.

This was especially true when it came to their arms. Most of the muscle and skin had been destroyed, displaying the white bone beneath, and even those exposed bones were full nicks and scratches.

He could not imagine just how dreadful their battle must have been and the terrifying pressure they must have had to endure throughout this period of time.

A painful wheezing sound rang through the air as Yan Three just managed to rush back to the battlefield. He immediately dropped to his knees but all four limbs were dripping with blood and he was gasping so hard that he looked like he was about to die from exhaustion. However, he still imposed his body between the enemy and Yun Che like some fierce guardian god.

“How did this happen… How did this happen…” Shui Meiyin muttered in a dazed voice as she observed the bloody battlefield around her. When her gaze came into contact with the city floating in the distance, she whispered, “The World… Dragon City?”

As the master of the World Piercer, she had inherited some memory fragments from it, so how could she not recognize the World Dragon City, an artifact which the World Piercer had helped to create?

This was something the Creation God of the Elements had gifted to the dragon god race and it was a profound ship that should have been destroyed in that ancient war.

To think that it would appear in this time and place…

When she laid her eyes on it, Shui Meiyin instantly understood the cause of this hellish calamity.

Her spiritual senses then came into contact with Shui Yingyue’s aura.

“Big Sister!” she screamed in shock. She immediately rushed over to Shui Yingyue’s side, all other thoughts banished from her head.

Shui Yingyue was using her Jade Rivulet Sword to prop herself up and her blue robes were stained in dirt and blood. She stared at the misty-eyed Shui Meiyin as a small smile appeared on her beautiful but pale face. She whispered, “Meiyin, as long as you’re safe… everything is fine…”

Now that her burden was lifted off her shoulders, Shui Yingyue’s entire body immediately grew weak and limp. She was no longer able to hold out any longer as she slumped unconscious into Shui Meiyin’s embrace.

Long Bai stared at Yun Che with indifferent eyes, but Yun Che had not looked at Long Bai even once.

His ice-cold divine senses chaotically swept through the area… The Deep Sea Divine Region was no more and only a devastated bunch of ruins remained.

He then found Caizhi’s aura. She was completely unconscious, but she was also being protected by the Dragon Emperor of Absolute Beginning. He could not sense the aura of the six Star Gods that had answered her call, but he could sense six different threads of Star God divine energy floating in the air around her… However, every single one of these threads of energy was as weak as a faint breeze that felt like they could disappear at any time.

Qianye Ying’er had exhausted all of her energy and even her lifeforce had grown unspeakably weak. In fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that she was on death’s door. The dormant Devil Emperor blood within her spoke of the resolute decision that she had made… If Qianye Wugu had not unhesitatingly transferred his lifeforce to her and protected her, she would have disappeared from his life before he could even return.

He sensed Mu Xuanyin’s aura next. When he saw her figure and matched gazes with her, elation should have wildly filled his heart… However, he couldn’t even feel a single ripple of joy in his heart right now, because there was something far too heavy weighing on his thoughts and emotions.

The Yama Devils and Moon Eaters had been reduced to four people apiece and the Nine Witches were all seriously injured, Jie Xin and Jie Ling included. There were only three survivors among the Brahma Kings Qianye Ying’er had brought along with her and nearly half of the Dragons of Absolute Beginning had fallen. The Northern Divine Region’s realm kings were the greatest casualties as more than sixty percent of them had died.

This calamity seemed to have happened in the span of a single night to Yun Che. It was as if he had gone to sleep and woken up to this nightmarish reality.

The Western Divine Region had come in full force as all six of their king realms were represented. Seven of the eight Dragon Gods still remained and there were the ancient draconic auras of five incredibly strong beings, beings he had no knowledge of at all.

“Do you feel despair?” Long Bai asked in a flat voice. He was like an exalted emperor who had arrogantly crushed a pitiful peasant underneath his heel. If he simply exerted a bit of force, he would utterly shatter the person beneath him.

He wanted to see shock, astonishment, helplessness, pain, fear, despair on Yun Che’s face… wanted to hear his pained cries, his roars of anger… wanted to witness the frenzied expression on his face as he slowly collapsed into a feral state...

However, as time slowly dripped by, he felt disappointment growing in his heart.

Yun Che’s face still remained cold and impassive even when he saw the dark blood pool around him like a giant lake. In fact, he was abnormally calm.

The only thing that betrayed his emotions was the drops of blood silently falling from his tightly-clenched fists.

“Where is Tianxiao?” Yun Che whispered. He still refused to look at Long Bai, and it was as if he hadn’t even heard his question in the first place.

What answered him was the sound of the surviving Yama Devils and Yama Ghosts grinding their teeth together. It was only after a long pause that Yan Wu finally whispered, “Royal father is tired… He has gone to his rest.”

A cold wind blew across Yun Che’s body as both Chi Wuyao and Mu Xuanyin landed beside him.

When Chi Wuyao first spotted Yun Che emerging from the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm, a scene they had been fervently hoping for since before the battle began, a dream-like ecstasy immediately filled her heart. However, it was quashed as quickly as it had started.

Yun Che’s profound energy aura was still at the tenth level of the Divine Sovereign Realm.

She had always thought that Yun Che would definitely be able to break through to the Divine Master Realm during the three years he had spent in the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm. And if he entered the Divine Master Realm, his power might very well transcend the limits of this current era. It would be enough to kill all of their strong foes and rescue them from their current predicament, no matter how dire things got.

However, he actually hadn’t managed to break through at all during the three years he had spent in the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm!?

“Yun Che,” Chi Wuyao sent a sound transmission to him, her grim voice echoing in his mind. “Prepare to leave this place immediately.”

Mu Xuanyin had already stretched out a hand to grab Yun Che’s arm.

Yun Che didn’t reply. He merely slowly and gently brushed off Mu Xuanyin’s hand with his own, his face still a mask of impassivity.

“Now isn’t the time for you to be wilful!” Mu Xuanyin said in a cold voice.

Chi Wuyao also spoke in a much softer voice, “Long Bai returned to the Dragon God Realm sooner than expected and immediately mobilized all of the Divine Masters of the Western Divine Region with an extremely overbearing command. He also awakened the Venerable Withered Dragons, five extremely powerful members of the dragon god race that had lain hidden until now. Furthermore, that World Dragon City that you see allowed him to move all his forces from the Dragon God Realm to here in the span of two hours.”

Yun Che, “...”

“I managed to discover all of these things in advance thanks to my link with Zhou Xuzi, so all of them had a chance to flee. However, not a single one of them chose to. All just to defend you until you could safely leave the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm… All for this moment!”

Yun Che, “...”

“As long as you live, the Northern Divine Region will still have infinite hope. But if you die… then all of them will have died for nothing!!”

Chi Wuyao’s voice grew harsh as she tightly gripped Yun Che’s ice-cold arm… but she was still slowly and firmly pushed aside by him.

Qianye Wugu descended together with Qianye Ying’er. His aura had grown exceptionally weak and thin and his face had become as white as a sheet of paper, but he still stood as proud as an ancient tree, his old face calm and composed.