Chapter 1861 - The Ascendancy of Yun (2) (1/2)

“Sinner Qi Tianli, realm king of the Qilin Realm, greets the Devil Master.”

The Qilin Emperor brought along his Divine Master Qilin as they respectfully bowed to Yun Che and awaited their fate.

“...Blue Dragon Realm King Qing Que greets the Devil Master.”

The Blue Dragon Emperor imitated the Qilin Emperor’s words and mannerisms as she bowed next to him, but she didn’t seem willing to crown herself with the title of “sinner”.

Her destiny was no longer in her hands and she had already composed her heart, so she was ready to accept her fate, come what may.

Yun Che had been silently watching the distant northern region profound practitioners clean up the bodies of their kin. It was only after a long period of time had passed that he was finally willing to turn around and look at them.

When he turned around, his eyes subconsciously jumped upward as his entire body leaned back.

The Qilin Emperor’s face was weathered, his skin was dull, and his body was withered and shrunken. This coupled with the fact that he was doing his best to suppress his god emperor aura in front of Yun Che made him seem like nothing more than a humble and refined-looking old man.

As for the Blue Dragon Emperor...

She was bent at her waist in a gesture of respect… but shockingly enough, she was still a half an inch taller than Yun Che!

Whenever a man faced a woman who was taller than he was, it was common for them to feel a strange sort of pressure.

The Devil Master of the North was no exception to this rule.

Yun Che’s eyes unconsciously wandered toward the lower half of her body… The diaphanous water-blue robes seemed to be playing a game of hide and seek with a pair of slender and lovely jade legs so long that his jaw nearly dropped to the ground.

“... Kneel!” Yun Che barked out in a cold voice.

The Qilin Emperor kneeled down without any hesitation whatsoever.

The Blue Dragon Emperor followed after the Qilin Emperor.

When the invisible feeling of pressure immediately disappeared, Yun Che breathed a silent sigh of relief. After that, he gazed at the two kneeling emperors with cold eyes.

As western king realms which had accompanied Long Bai here, the Qilin Realm and the Blue Dragon Realm had suffered startlingly few losses.

From Chi Wuyao’s sound transmission, Yun Che found out that the two king realms had only lost about a tenth of their forces before Yun Che had emerged from the Eternal Heaven Divine Realm… They had suffered even fewer losses than the mightier Dragon God Realm!

This was because these two king realms had been taking it easy from the start. Their god emperors led by example and all of their Divine Masters fought as if they were hobbled. If not for the fact that they did not dare to offend the Dragon Monarch, they would have probably fled from the fight the moment it started.

After that, they were tasked with killing the Divine Masters of the Myriad Manifestations God Realm, Emperor Chi Realm, and Hui Dragon Realm… However, under that peerlessly dreadful Dragon God suppression, it was not much harder than chopping up some vegetables, so it was hard for them to die even if they tried. The worst they suffered were some wounds from the retaliation of the Myriad Manifestations profound practitioners.

“Your performance just now wasn’t bad at all. And I do ultimately need some proper stepping stones in the Western Divine Region.”

Yun Che’s words were completely cold and cutting.

The Qilin Emperor immediately said, “Please do not worry, Your Magnificence. The star realms governed by the Qilin Realm and the Blue Dragon Realm will all submit to the Devil Master. We definitely won’t be involved in anything suspicious. As for the other star realms of the Western Region, this old man and the Blue Dragon Emperor will do our best to…”

“Hmph!” Yun Che cut him off with a cold snort as he slowly raised a palm filled with violent and malicious energy in the air. “Before this, I want all of the people from your clans who have killed a profound practitioner of the devil race in this battle to step forward and commit suicide!”

“If even one of them does not step forward, I will slaughter your entire race!”

Yun Che’s words were filled with a murderous intent.

However, not a single one of the Qilins or Blue Dragons stood forward.

Yun Che’s expression immediately turned sinister and dark as a grim chuckle escaped his lips. “Very good. It looks like you want me to personally take action, huh? However, if my hand is forced, the guilty are not the only ones who are going to die…”

“No! Wait!” the Qilin Emperor hurriedly exclaimed. “Your Magnificence, it isn’t that any member of our race is afraid of death! It is that none of us killed any northern region profound practitioners. This is because this old man and the Blue Dragon Emperor gave a stern command that our kinsmen were not to kill any northern region profound practitioners in battle!”

“Heh!” Yun Che barked out a cold laugh. “How ridiculous! To think that you would actually be shameless enough to utter such ridiculous words!”

“It does sound absurd and ridiculous,” Chi Wuyao’s voice floated over the air. “But every word of it is true. If it wasn’t, I would never have told you to spare them.”

“I can confirm that,” Qianye Binzhu said in a dry voice.

“...?” Even someone like Yun Che was completely flummoxed by this turn of events.

“Your Magnificence, every word that my lord has uttered is true and without falsehood.” A Purple Qilin bravely spoke up in the back, his voice ringing like metal gongs. “Before we arrived here today, our lord gave us the stern command to find an opponent at our level of strength if we were forced to come to blows with the devil race. Moreover, he also ordered us to never deal the killing blow if we happened to end up in a situation where the other party had been pushed into a corner. We were only allowed to let our former allies do the killing.”

“Killing the devil race was a meritorious deed that our other allies were fighting for. However, to us… it was a heavy sin that our lord would surely punish us for,” another Purple Qilin said. “As a result, no one in our race would ever dare to strike the killing blow. On the contrary… we lost more than a few kinsmen to the last desperate strikes of the dying devils.”

“...” This was entirely out of Yun Che’s expectations.

“Why?” he asked the Qilin Emperor as he stared at him intently.

The Qilin Emperor let out a sigh filled with boundless sorrow before he replied, “We Qilins have always been regarded as auspicious beasts in this world. As the highest authority of the Qilin race, the supreme beings who ruled over them, we do not dare to stain this beautiful reputation of ours. The things we hate the most are fresh blood from slaughter and slaughter itself. We only hope for peace to abound in the world.”

“We did not dare to offend the Dragon Monarch, so we could only obey. However, I do not dare to offend Your Magnificence either… Your Magnificence is still young, but you have already obtained the Heretic God’s power and the Devil Emperor’s legacy. Even though I have been wizened by all of my years, I was still shocked time and again by your deeds. I gradually came to believe that Your Magnificence truly might have the power to overturn heaven and earth.”

“As a result, even though the forces of the west held an overwhelming advantage, I still wanted to preserve the last chance we had with you.”

“If the Dragon Monarch won, we would gladly accept his heavy punishment, but if the Devil Master won… we would have preserved our chance at life.”

Yun Che narrowed his eyes as he stared at the Qilin Emperor. After that, he chuckled dryly and said, “What a beautiful ‘preserve the last chance we had with you’. You really are a sly old fox and even the title of ‘Qilin Emperor’ can barely live up to you.”

The Qilin Emperor bowed his head once again. “We only seek peace and harmony. We have never had any ambitions for power or dominance. I also have never had anything but the utmost admiration and respect for the Devil Master. I only ask… for you to spare our lives.”

“Peace? Heh, what a cowardly and timid race. So if someone who has the power to overthrow me appears in the future, will you once again bend your knee to them?” Yun Che asked in a mocking voice.

“Yes,” the Qilin Emperor replied without any hesitation. “It is very hard for our qilin race to reproduce, so the mission that has been passed from generation to generation is to survive and prosper. As such, we have never abused anyone we have power over, and if it is out of our power… we can only go with the flow of things.”

The Qilin Emperor immediately followed up, “However, your might is already enough to shake the heavens and the earth. Even someone as strong as the Dragon Monarch was subdued by a simple flip of your hand. As such, I firmly believe that it is impossible for anyone stronger than the Devil Master to appear in the following generations. Thus, the qilin race will swear eternal loyalty to the Devil Master. This is the vow I make as the leader of the kings of the qilin race, the heavens and earth be my witness.”

“...” Yun Che’s gaze shifted slightly as he looked at the Blue Dragon Emperor. “Are you also the same?”

The Blue Dragon Emperor replied, “The Blue Dragons have always been a dragon race that protects. Our draconic bodies and might are purely for protection. The Devil Master just needs to do a quick check of my race’s history and you will find that our blue dragon race has never been the instigator of any conflicts. Neither have we involved ourselves in any conflicts.”

“Everything that happened to us today was something that was forced upon us. Even killing the Chi Dragons and Hui Dragons was something that was forced upon us.”

“...” The unnecessary addition of the words “forced” shocked the Qilin Emperor so badly that cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead, but he immediately swallowed the words he was about to say.