Chapter 1863 - The Secret That Cannot Be Revealed (1/2)
While the Northern Divine Region was resting, the God Realm had entered its greatest turmoil in history.
This was especially true for the Western Divine Region. One might even say that their world had changed overnight.
When the news that the Dragon Monarch had forcefully mobilized all the Divine Masters of the six western region king realms, and descended upon the northern region current headquarters like magic using the World Dragon City, every profound practitioner in the God Realm was shaking with joy.
When Long Bai laid down the order to wait for Yun Che for twelve hours, the news that the Northern Divine Region’s line-up was completely surpassed by the Western Divine Region’s was unveiled as well. In that moment, almost everyone was certain that the Dragon Monarch’s unnaturally fast and brutal counterattack would wipe out the Northern Divine Region for sure.
The ensuing battle had caused more than half of the Southern Divine Region to shake like the apocalypse was upon them. Countless southern region profound practitioners had dropped everything they were doing and escaped in the opposite direction of the battlefield with all their strength. However, when the dust settled, and the news of the final outcome of the battle was spread, what they heard nearly caused their hearts to implode on their own.
The Western Divine Region had lost. Long Bai was dead. All the Divine Masters of four realms—the Dragon Gods, the Emperor Chi, the Hui Dragons, and the Myriad Manifestations—were dead, and yes, that included the Dragon Gods and the Dragon Sovereigns! Everyone!
The only survivors of the battle were the Qilin Realm and Blue Dragon Realm.
Of course, everyone’s first reaction was to disbelieve the news, every word of it. Only the profound practitioners of the Blue Dragon Realm and the Qilin Realm were beset by a seemingly permanent sense of dizziness after receiving confirmation from their own kind that the seemingly impossible news was in fact, horrifyingly true.
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At the World Dragon City.
After the barrier disappeared, Yun Che stretched and let out a refreshing breath of air. Then, he saw Caizhi sitting on the jade bed and examining him expressionlessly.
His lustful smile immediately froze on his face. The corners of his mouth twitched repeatedly before he was finally able to stutter out the words, “Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-you woke up... Caizhi?”
“I’ve been awake for six hours,” replied Caizhi coldly. In fact, she had flown around the entire World Dragon City three times already.
“[email protected]#\%...” A short distance away, Mu Xuanyin hurriedly turned away, dispelled a certain smell with her ice energy and vanished into thin air. She had acted so quickly that Yun Che didn’t even have the time to react.
For a time, Yun Che was paralyzed by the decision to chase after Mu Xuanyin or leave her be for the moment. The peerless northern region Devil Master who just buried the entire Dragon God Realm in the abyss half a day ago looked red enough to die from embarrassment. The man certainly felt like cutting himself in half so he could take care of both Mu Xuanyin and Caizhi at the same time.
“Is this how you plan to fulfill your promise to my sister?” Caizhi’s milky white face was so cold that not a trace of emotion could be seen from her face. “To drown yourself in another woman’s pleasure right before me, your formal wife?”
Yun Che’s entire body stiffened when the word “sister” escaped Caizhi’s lips. All the consoling words he wanted to say suddenly died inside his throat.
“Caizhi, I…”
He was about to say something when he heard a sudden snort. When he looked up, he saw in disbelief that the girl’s lips were pressed into a trembling straight line, and her eyebrows were curled into crescents. She… she was trying to stifle her giggle! He realized in a daze. For a second, he felt like he had traveled back in time to when Caizhi was still the cute and devilish “Little Jasmine” he knew.
“Hmph. Devil Master or not, it looks like your ability to handle scares is as bad as ever, heehee,” a smirking Caizhi said while shaking her head and swaying her legs to and fro. The intimidating aura that surrounded her a moment ago had vanished completely. “If it was a random woman—especially that damned Qianye—then yes, I would’ve been absolutely livid. I would’ve ignored you for an entire month.”
“But Sister Xuanyin? No, I would never be angry at her. If it wasn’t for her sacrifice back then, you would’ve…”
She stopped there and beckoned Yun Che to come closer. “Sit with me, Brother-in-law.”
Caizhi’s behavior seemed to have changed drastically after she awoke from her slumber. She was clearly aware of what had happened while she was unconscious. Maybe this was why she had finally removed the heavy chains she had wrapped around her own heart all these years.
Yun Che obeyed and sat down beside her. He then asked in an affectionate voice, “Are you feeling okay, Caizhi? Is there anywhere you would like me to check?”
Caizhi didn’t answer the question. Instead, she lay her head gently on Yun Che’s chest, closed her eyes and just listened to the sound of his heartbeat. A very, very long time later, she finally whispered, “It’s all over, right?”
“Yes. It’s all over,” Yun Che replied. “Long Bai is dead. Everyone who deserves to die is more or less dead as well. I kept Zhou Xuzi alive though. There’s no way I’m going to let him die quickly after everything he has done.”
“There is nothing left in this world that can threaten us. We are also free to make or unmake the laws of the world as we wish.”
“Mn,” Caizhi responded shortly before letting out a sudden murmur, “This is all a dream come true, so why… doesn’t sister get to witness the future she wanted? Why… only her…”
Her voice was as quiet as a dream, but each word shattered Yun Che’s heart again and again.
Yun Che wrapped his arms around Caizhi before exhaling heavily.
The Blue Pole Star was unharmed. His homeworld, his family and his beloveds were all safe and sound. He had successfully exacted revenge on his enemies, he had reversed the irreversible fate of the Northern Divine Region, and he had even reclaimed Mu Xuanyin, the person he thought he had lost to death forever.
But Jasmine…
He could torture Zhou Xuzi for another ten thousand years, but she would never return to him.
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The second Mu Xuanyin escaped the bedroom, she immediately ran into Chi Wuyao. The Devil Queen had been guarding by the entrance all this time.
“So? How many times did you do it?” Chi Wuyao teased smilingly.
“...” Mu Xuanyin barely resisted the urge to hit her.
If her complexion hadn’t been frozen for tens of thousands of years, she would look as red as an apple right now. She had never felt this meek in her life.
In just six hours, Yun Che’s treatment of her had gone from being forceful and disrespectful to almost violent and violating. He had used the most insolent and extreme methods possible to remind her that their former master-disciple relationship was well and truly a thing of the past.
Unable to withstand Chi Wuyao’s gaze any longer, Mu Xuanyin strode away in an attempt to escape the woman. However, when a thought suddenly struck her, she stopped in her tracks and conjured a light blue sound isolation barrier around herself and Chi Wuyao.
“What did you see during Long Bai’s final moment?” Mu Xuanyin asked softly and seriously.
The Devil Queen’s smile vanished like it was never there.
She raised her hands and constructed another sound isolation barrier within Mu Xuanyin’s sound isolation barrier. She even imbued it with her Nirvana Devil Soul.
This way, not even Yun Che and Shui Meiyin’s abnormally strong souls would be able to pierce the double-layered veil.
Finally, Chi Wuyao said in a mosquito’s voice, “When Shen Xi died, she… was with child by Yun Che.”