Chapter 1909 (1/2)
He had gone through an untold number of trials and tribulations to arrive at where he was today. He was no longer the careless person who would let a detail—especially one that felt off—slip past him just because it had felt minor and inconsequential.
So he summoned the profound energy and replayed the projection once more.
This time, he gathered his mind and—besides the split spiritual perception that was following Yun Wuxin—kept his eyes and his full perception trained on the projection.
Blue Pole Star’s space was shaking, and the crimson divine light of the World Piercer was spreading quickly. When the red light fully encompassed the entire projection...
… he caught sight of that purple flash once more.
It only appeared for a brief instant, but it more than confirmed that it wasn’t just a hallucination of his mind!
At the same time, his heart started beating wildly.
That purple was...
No...
No...
It cannot be…
He pressed a palm to his chests. His heartbeat was so strong that it actually felt like it was physically ramming against his palm.
He shook his head powerfully and replayed the projection again.
At the same time, he pressed a finger imbued with profound energy against the projection.
Sometimes when a person’s nervousness and tension reaches a certain level, they might feel as if the world itself had fallen silent.
That the flow of time itself had become infinitely slower.
He stopped breathing, but even then he couldn’t suppress the mad beating of his heart. When the replay finally reached a certain moment, he unleashed the profound energy imbued in his finger.
It felt like a miracle. The replay froze at the exact moment the purple flash appeared.
Equally frozen was Yun Che’s body, face, breathing, blood flow and heartbeat. It was as if everything had become frozen in ice.
Everything, except his rapidly dilating pupils...
This was the frozen scene in the projection: the crimson light of the World Piercer was enveloping the blue sky, and outside of it was an unusually thin yet deep layer of purple light.
There were countless purple-colored powers in the entire universe. Thunder profound practitioners practically inhaled and exhaled purple with every boom of thunder.
However, Yun Che was at a level where he could easily differentiate any power on sight no matter how similar their colors were.
That was why he could declare with certainty that this wasn’t the first time he had seen the purple light in the projection… one might even say that he was all too familiar with it.
It had protected him, almost killed him, fought against him...
He remembered every moment it had appeared in his life clearly to this day.
After all… it was a power that had belonged to the Moon God Realm, the divine light of the Purple Pylon Moon God!
The bearer of its legacy was none other than Xia Qingyue, the deceased Moon God Emperor herself!
The snow blew at erratic speeds. It wasn’t long before Yun Che was covered in a layer of pure white snow.
However, Yun Che remained as frozen as a lifeless statue. One breath stretched to ten, and ten stretched to a hundred. Perhaps the passage of time itself had become completely meaningless to him. He was too busy contending with the violent shock that was drumming inside his brain with the power of ten thousand crashes of thunder.
He couldn’t believe his eyes, but even less could he fool himself to believe that the translucent, crystal-like purple on the projection wasn’t real.
There was only one Purple Pylon divine power in this universe.
There couldn’t be a second bearer of the Purple Pylon divine power.
So... what… is… this…?
Before calamity struck, it was Meiyin who used the World Piercer to move the Blue Pole Star to the south of the Southern Divine Region.
The day Yun Wuxin engraved this image was the same day the Blue Pole Star was about to be destroyed. The red radiance in the projection was without a doubt the spatial divine power of the World Piercer as well.
So why did her power appear at the same time as space as this spatial divine power?
Why did the person who destroyed the “Blue Pole Star” before my very eyes...
What is going on...
What the hell is going on here…?
He abruptly bit the tip of his tongue. Blood flooded his mouth as pain brought clarity and order back to his chaotic thoughts. However, his pupils still refused to contract.
It was at this moment a couple of unimportant questions and contradictions that he had almost forgotten altogether surfaced from the depths of his mind:
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“Some time ago, I took a trip to the Dragon God Realm and I found out about some matters regarding Senior Shen Xi. However, it is not the right time to tell you about that now… the reason why I am mentioning it to you right now is to tell you that you do not need to visit the Dragon God Realm in the near future.”
This was what Xia Qingyue told him before everything had gone to hell. He was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Xia Qingyue before the Wall of Primal Chaos and getting ready to see off the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor.
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Beyond the destroyed Blue Pole Star, she had pointed the Purple Pylon Divine Sword oozing with purple light and the stench of death at his lifeless face. She had watched him with a pair of purple eyes as cold and desolate as the abyss itself and said in a pitying voice,
“I suppose that there’s no harm in telling you one thing before you die.”
“I told you yesterday that there was something I needed to speak to you about when the time was right, but… it would appear that such a time will never come. In that case, I may as well tell you about it now.”
“Shen Xi… is dead.”
“Some time ago, I went to the Dragon God Realm and discovered that the Forbidden Land of Samsara was completely destroyed. All the plants are dead, no one is around, and its spirit energy is completely spent,”
“Later on, I went to the center of the Forbidden Land of Samsara and found a pool of blood in the middle. Although a long time had passed, the blood showed no signs of drying at all… it’s because it had pure light aura in it.”
“Can you guess whose blood it was?”
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After he killed Long Bai, reentered the Dragon God Realm and forcefully dispelled the barrier that surrounded the entire Forbidden Land of Samsara, a doubt had sprung from his mind.
It was because the barrier had been imbued with Long Bai’s draconic soul. It was almost impossible for anyone to breach it without being noticed.
He once asked Qianye Ying’er, “Qianying, are there any methods that will allow someone to slip into this kind of soul-infused barrier undetected?”
She had answered, “The first is to use the Eternal Heaven God Realm’s Great Void Cauldron. As the strongest spatial artifact of this era, slipping through a soul-infused barrier shouldn’t pose a problem to it, no matter how many layers there are. The second is a special spatial profound technique from the Purple Micro Realm called the ‘Prime Purple Micro’.”
“However, I cannot guarantee that the Great Void Cauldron can slip through a soul-infused barrier of this level undetected. As for the ‘Prime Purple Micro’ technique, it’s a skill that no one in the Purple Micro Realm has been able to cultivate for two hundred thousand years.”
“The third is naturally the World Piercer that Shui Meiyin currently owns. As a Profound Heavenly Treasure and the undisputed strongest spatial divine artifact in the history of the Primal Chaos, an artifact that can even switch planetary objects across the universe, penetrating a mere soul-infused barrier like this one is nothing more than child’s play.”
“The Moon God Realm doesn’t have any similar secret spatial techniques, correct?”
Qianye Ying’er answered again, “I remember you telling me that it was Xia Qingyue who told you about Shen Xi’s death. So you are wondering why Xia Qingyue would be able to figure this out even though Long Bai had personally set up a soul-infused barrier around this area, right?”
“Hmph, there’s nothing strange about that. Every king realm has their own deeply-hidden secrets and trump cards. It wouldn’t be strange if the Moon God Realm possessed some sort of secret spatial art or hidden spatial artifact that no one else knows about.”
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“However, Senior Devil Emperor did not want the World Piercer to accompany her into her eternal exile from the Primal Chaos. So, she handed it over to me before she left... The World Piercer was born in the core of the primordial universe. So she said these words to me. ‘Only your Stainless Divine Soul, birthed by the primordial energies of this universe, can nurture and temporarily awaken the needle spirit that slumbers within the World Piercer’...”
“The Stainless Divine Soul was then used as a medium to connect to the needle spirit which had been roused from its slumber for a little while, and I would then proceed to use my own strength to forcibly activate the World Piercer’s dimensional powers.”
This conversation had occurred when Shui Meiyin was telling him the whole truth. It was to let him know that her Divine Stainless Soul was the only thing in the world that could temporarily awaken the World Piercer’s slumbering spirit to activate its spatial divine power with her own powers.