Chapter 1895 (1/2)

The front of the main hall was brimming with heavenly aura.

Every guard stationed in this area was a towering presence that could cower even a realm king to submission.

For a second, space itself froze when Yun Che stepped into the main hall.

Rumble!

Then, every person within sight dropped to one knee and saluted Yun Che.

“Welcome back, Your Majesty!”

“He who grasps the heavens with his bare hands and unites the four divine regions! May his power be unrivaled, his domination be unending, his rule to hold strong for eons, and his memory to last for evermore!”

The air shook, and heaven and earth themselves trembled before their cry.

However, Yun Wuxin’s reaction toward the paean was nervousness, shock and… second-hand embarrassment?

Yun Che shot his daughter a glance before lowering his voice, “Wuyao, who the heck is the one who made this paean?”

“I did, of course,” Chi Wuyao replied. “Is it not to your fancy?”

“~！@#￥%...” Chi Wuyao was without a doubt the shrewdest and scariest woman he ever met.

However, the paean she wrote was so embarrassing that he felt like something was crawling on his scalp even now.

To give a comparison, he felt as if he had gone from Great Emperor of the God Realm all the way down to a… clown.

To think… that she would have a weak point like this.

“It’s not that I dislike it,” Yun Che chose his words carefully, “I just think that this is the kind of stuff a mortal emperor would enjoy, not I—us.”

“... I see. I understand.” Chi Wuyao dipped her head a little at the same time she groaned in her mind:

Was it really that bad…?

It was at this moment everyone felt an aura speed toward the main hall. It belonged to none other than Cang Shitian.

The second he sensed Yun Che’s presence, he immediately withdrew his profound energy and imperial aura to a harmless degree. His posture was already half-bent into a bow before his feet could touch the floor.

Thump!

Finally, Cang Shitian sank to his knees and declared, “Cang Shitian greets the Great Emperor and the Empress! He who grasps the heavens with his bare hands and unites the four divine regions! May his power be unrivaled, his domination be—”

“That’s enough.” Yun Che’s scalp was tingling again.

“Huh?” Caught off guard, Cang Shitian looked up and saw something unexpected. It was a nervous-looking Yun Wuxin clinging to Yun Che’s left arm tight enough to break bones.

The fact that Emperor Yun had brought this woman to the first court he held since months spoke volumes about their relationship. That they were acting cozy right in front of the Empress spoke even more!

Not one to miss an obvious hint, Cang Shitian immediately bowed again before crying, “Congratulations to Emperor Yun for finding another concubine! She is as pretty as a sculpture by heaven’s hands, as dignified as a fairy, and a perfect match with—”

“She is my daughter,” Yun Che cut him off coldly.

Cang Shitian’s paean died in his throat. Then, he slapped his own face with everything he had before prostrating himself completely before Yun Che. He spoke in a trembling voice, “I have committed a grave offense. I ask  Your Majesty… and Your Highness to hand out my punishment.”

“Hmph!” Yun Che stepped forward with a cold look in his eyes. “Cang Shitian, you and I both know what a capable man you are, and it has been months since I traveled to the lower realms to accompany my wives and daughter. Are you really telling me that you have no idea about their existence at all!?”

“Your Majesty,” Cang Shitian looked fearful, but his eyes spoke otherwise and with surprising honesty. “I pride myself on being your keenest mad dog. For Your Majesty, I will gladly fondle even the darkest and filthiest secrets of them all.”

“However, the opposite is equally true. What Your Majesty doesn’t wish for others to know, I will never know even if I am equipped with a thousand times the ability and a million times the courage! And I most certainly will not allow others to know about it!”

Cang Shitian had almost shouted his declaration.

Forget Yun Che and Chi Wuyao, even the guards stationed outside the hall could hear him clearly.

Cang Shitian had to be the first king realm God Emperor ever to walk over himself so thoroughly to show his loyalty.

Even Yun Wuxin could only stare at him in utter shock.

Yun Che shot Cang Shitian a long look before turning away. “Come. We will speak inside.”

Nearly every palace in Emperor Yun City possessed an independent space of their own, meaning that they were much larger than they appeared on the outside. This was especially true for the heart of the city, the great hall.

Right now, Yun Che was sitting on his throne—the seat of power that represented the highest authority in the entire Primal Chaos—and listening quietly to Cang Shitian’s reports in the great hall. Just like Chi Wuyao had informed him earlier, Cang Shitian spoke mostly about the recent, important happenings of the three divine regions and the progress of the Enforcer Bureau.

He had resolved himself to perform his responsibilities… if he were to be honest with himself, he was extremely uncomfortable with serious scenes like this.

“... in the past one hundred days, there have been 1923 rebellion cases in total across all three divine regions. Half of them occurred in the Western Divine Region, 35% in the Eastern Divine Region, and 15% in the Southern Divine Region.”

“If I were to categorize them by scale, 1921 of them were small-scale rebellions, and only two were big-scale rebellions. They were all quelled within six days. In descending order, the strongest rebel was 1 Divine Sovereign, 13 Divine Kings, 101 Divine Spirits, and the rest were below Divine Spirit Realm.”

The numbers were much smaller than Yun Che had anticipated, but ultimately unsurprising.

There was no such thing as a perfectly smooth transition to a new regime, much less an era. Moreover, the three Divine Regions’ prejudice toward darkness in general had been cultivated for literally a million years. It was only natural that someone would remain firm in their beliefs and fight to the bitter end.

However, the strongest powers in the universe had already submitted to Yun Che’s rule. These rebellions could be a thousand times greater, and they still wouldn’t be able to threaten him one bit.

Moreover, the stronger a profound practitioner, and the higher they stood in the world, the more they would realize just how stupid it was to even try to defy Yun Che’s momentum.

It was why the strongest profound practitioners who participated in the past 100 days of rebellions were only one Divine Sovereign and thirteen Divine Kings.

“How do you plan to deal with these people?” Yun Che asked.