Chapter 1896 (1/2)

Yun Che left Emperor Yun City behind and flew toward the north alone.

“Where are you going, Master?” He Ling couldn’t help her curiosity.

Since her life became one with Yun Che’s, their experiences became shared as well. There shouldn’t be anything about Yun Che that she didn’t know, and yet she couldn’t recall him asking a special favor from Chi Wuyao at all.

“Patience. It’s not too far away from here.”

His reply only made her more curious and mystified.

It wasn’t long before a small star realm entered their vision.

He Ling thought that they would fly over the star realm, but he flew straight toward it.

“This is your destination, Mast… ah!?”

He Ling’s puzzled tone abruptly turned into a cry of shock.

“This aura… no, these auras are…”

Her voice grew increasingly soft and agitated.

Yun Che sped up, and the distant star realm grew bigger at a much faster pace. Eventually, his senses became fully attuned to the vast world before his eyes.

It was a planet covered in emerald green. Even from a distance, he could feel an impossibly pure aura washing over his person, expelling the darkness in his heart and cleansing the impurities of his soul.

He came to a stop above the star realm and looked. Emerald wood, new bamboo and blue grass connected heaven and earth. Between them were countless other plants and flowers.

The sky of this planet was unusually high, and it merged seamlessly with the blue sea below. The clouds were pure white, and the breeze seemed to ignore physical boundaries and seep into one’s very soul.

This planet would seem like a forgotten paradise to those who were used to a world polluted by sin, strife and desire.

He Ling manifested beside Yun Che. For a long time, she simply stared at the world below her with increasingly blurry eyes...

“Sis! Don’t fly so fast, sis! I, I can’t keep up with you!... Ah!”

The childish voice that ended in a cry of surprise belonged to a boy. He wobbled unsteadily as he crash-landed into the bamboo forest below him.

The girl he was chasing after stopped in her tracks before flying to where the young boy had fallen. Placing her hands on her hips, she said, “You’re so useless, Little E! I could’ve flown all the way to Penannular Emerald Peak when I was your age.”

“If this was in the past, hmph, you would be the first to be captured by a bad person.”

Both the boy and the girl had dark green hair, greenish-blue pupils, and sharp ears. Their aura was so pure that it was like an unreserved gift from Mother Nature herself.

Anyone who saw them would know that they were juvenile Wood Spirits.

The boy climbed to his feet and said smilingly, “We’re not in the past though! Now that Emperor Yun is protecting us, no bad person will ever dare to bully us again.”

The two children were currently in a vast wilderness. If this was in the past, they would never be allowed to come here without adult supervision.

Even with adult supervision, they would be spending every waking hour hiding themselves from view.

When they awoke from their slumber, they would occasionally find one or more of their kin had vanished for eternity.

Those days had been the nightmares of nightmares.

“That’s why we should be more alert than ever!!”

The girl blinked round, emerald eyes at her younger brother and said in a serious voice that she had obviously copied from an adult, “One of our clan’s ironclad principles is to always return the favors we owe! We must never forget the one who gave us the land beneath our feet and the peace we currently enjoy! If we don’t become stronger now, how can we possibly repay Emperor Yun’s favor in the future?”

The girl had led a fugitive’s life since the moment she was born. She was only a dozen or so years old, but she had already “moved” countless times, survived countless tragedies, and even witnessed them right before her very eyes. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that she had lived in terror her whole life… until Yun Che had overturned the previous order.

Today, not only had Emperor Yun, sovereign of the four Divine Regions, enacted the harshest Wood Spirit protection law ever in the history of the God Realm, he even purified and modified an entire star realm for the wood spirit race.

Moreover, they were protected 24/7 by the enforcers stationed all around the star realm. Without the Enforcer Bureau’s permission, no one could even get close to it.

They no longer had to live in fear and drift from place to place.

They wouldn’t ever have to return to that dreadful past.

To the Wood Spirits, this outcome was something they didn’t even dare to dream of. That it actually became a reality was… they didn’t know how to begin to return Emperor Yun’s favor.

The girl’s speech caused the boy to fall silent for a moment. Then, he clenched his teeth and struggled to his feet. He declared with boyish determination, “Sister is right. We won’t be able to repay Emperor Yun’s favor if we don’t become stronger.”

“Mm!” The girl nodded once before saying in a soft tone, “There was a Wood Spirit in the projection when Emperor Yun was attacking the Eternal Heaven Realm, and grandpa said that she might very well be a princess of the royal family. She may even be watching over us from somewhere right now. This is also why we must grow stronger! We must return Emperor Yun’s favor, and we must not disappoint the princess!”

The girl wasn’t just encouraging her younger brother. She was also encouraging herself.

“...” He Ling’s tears had turned into a cascade at this point.