Chapter 1897 (2/2)
“No.” But Yun Che shook his head and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. “You do not need to, for you are my daughter.”
“If you wish to strive to become a powerful person, I will cheer for you and provide you with any help you need. If you simply want to become an ordinary person and lead a normal life, I will cheer for you all the same.”
Yun Wuxin: “...”
“I have had enough pain, loss, terror, loss of control and more to last many lifetimes. The reason I crawled to a peak I don’t even like is because I want my loved ones to be able to choose freely and lead whatever life they wish to lead. If you want something, take it. If you dislike something, reject it. You may even choose to hesitate on something for evermore, for I am here to give you that choice, forever.”
Yun Wuxin’s lips parted slightly. A long time later, she said with a bit of mistiness in her eyes, “Father, I’m going to be a bad girl if you keep coddling me like this.”
“Hahahaha! If you want to become a bad girl, you may take some lessons from your Auntie Qianye!” Yun Che half-joked while guffawing.
……
They arrived at another middle star realm with an excessive amount of lightning element in the air. As a result of the environment, most of the profound practitioners of this realm cultivated a lightning profound art.
However, a couple of dark auras were surging beneath the unstable thunderclouds today.
“You are going too far, friends from the northern region! This mine may be small, but it has belonged to us Purple Profound Clan for three hundred years! Every sect and profound practitioners in this vast thunder domain can prove it!”
The old man in purple robes was fuming, but it was obvious that his words were restrained. He was accompanied by a hundred or so profound practitioners wearing the same color. Standing on the opposite side were thirteen men in black clothing and emanating a black, foggy aura.
Although the Purple Profound Clan profound practitioners vastly outnumbered the dark profound practitioners, the latter were all Divine Kings… there was no way the former could do anything against them.
“We broke our own rules to let you in because you are friends from the northern region, and Emperor Yun has decreed that all profound practitioners are to interact amiably with northern profound practitioners. However, nowhere in the decree is it stated that you are allowed to rob us blind for your own rapacious designs! Aren’t you afraid that—”
“Afraid? Afraid of what?” The leader of the dark profound practitioners interrupted the old man rudely before lifting his arm. While admiring the dark fog surrounding his palm, he said, “Did you forget that Emperor Yun was the great Devil Master of the Northern Divine Region before he was the great emperor? His protection is as eternal as darkness itself!”
“On the other hand, you people are simply the losers of the war against the Devil Master and us!”
“You’ve tormented us for a million years, and now you want to live in peace with us after we’ve won? Could YOU accept this were you in our position!?”
“You can keep the mine,” said the dark profound practitioner to his leader’s right arrogantly. “Instead, you will submit three thousand tonnes of Purple Crystals as tribute after the thirteen of us have founded our sect here.”
“This is our final offer. If you don’t learn your place soon, there will be one less Purple Profound Clan in this world!”
“You!” The purple-robed old man grew even more furious, and his facial muscles looked like they would tear themselves apart. However, the enemy was far too strong for them to overcome. He simply couldn’t bear to take that last, irreversible step.
Emperor Yun was formerly the Devil Master, and the Devil Master had risen to power from the Northern Divine Region. Together, they had crushed the other three Divine Regions beneath their feet. There was no one who didn’t know about this.
Following that logic, it was perfectly natural for Emperor Yun to take the dark profound practitioners’ side and protect them.
The purple-robed old man sucked in another deep breath to restrain his bursting anger. “Don’t forget that the sects of the Great Wilderness Thunder Domain are as one! If you rip us off, our allies will take action against you!”
“Is that so? You can try.” All the dark profound practitioners snorted as if they had heard a joke. “I can’t believe everyone on this Great Wilderness Thunder Domain is as blind and stupid as you lot though!”
“You!”
The purple-robed old man was going to say something more when a middle-aged man behind him let out a pained sigh. “That’s enough, senior uncle. Just give them the mine so we can protect the sect.”
“Emperor Yun rose to power because of the devil people. He himself is a devil person. How can he not defend his own kind? Sigh.”
“Master,” a youngster interrupted in a small voice, “our clansmen have reported this to the newly established enforcer bureau. The enforcers may yet stop this.”
“It’s no use.” The middle-aged man shook his head pessimistically. “Their commander is also a dark profound practitioner. Why else do you think these devil people are this fearless?”
Right as he finished his sentence, a shout that sounded like a thunderclap suddenly boomed through the air:
“Who dares to disobey the law within the jurisdiction of the enforcer bureau!”
The shout was imbued with the power of a Divine Sovereign. It shook everyone’s heart and threatened to shatter their eardrums.
They looked up. A dozen or so people were flying toward them at high speed, and the leader of the group had a chiseled face, fiendish eyes, wore a set of black clothes and billowed a black aura that could only belong to a dark profound practitioner.
The man’s name was Sikong Hanzhao, and he was the commander of the enforcer bureau and a Divine Sovereign of an upper star realm of the Northern Divine Region. He had been tasked to command the enforcer bureau of this star realm.