Chapter 1910 (1/2)
Yun Che slowly descended from the sky. He could already feel a familiar aura approaching him right as he touched down on Glazed Light Realm’s soil.
“Big Brother Yun Che!”
A sweet cry of pleasant surprise cut through the air as Shui Meiyin descended from the sky like a lithe black butterfly. “It really is you! Why have you come back all of a sudden? Did you miss me that much?”
She was just about to glomp onto Yun Che when she noticed his disoriented aura and expression. Her smile quickly disappeared as she asked worriedly, “What’s wrong, Big Brother Yun Che? Did something happen?”
Her spiritual perception swept through the area before she asked again, “Where is Wuxin?”
“Meiyin,” he stared straight into Shui Meiyin’s pitch black pupils, “was Xia Qingyue the one who gave you the World Piercer!?”
The sudden question smacked into Shui Meiyin’s face with the force of a blunt hammer, stunning her temporarily.
However, instead of the panic Yun Che had expected to see surfacing from Shui Meiyin’s eyes, he saw only natural astonishment and puzzlement.
“Uh… huh?” She tilted her head slightly in confusion. “The World Piercer… Xia Qingyue? I don’t understand what you mean? The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor was the one who gave me the World Piercer. How could it be Xia Qingyue? Why are you asking such a strange question, Big Brother Yun Che?”
He had caught her completely by surprise, but he couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary in her eyes or her expression.
If she was someone else, Yun Che’s suspicion might have faded for the most part.
Unfortunately, she was Shui Meiyin, owner of the Divine Stainless Soul.
He shifted his gaze away from Shui Meiyin’s eyes and toward the horizon. Then, he said in a calm tone, “Before we saw off the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, Xia Qingyue once told me that something had happened to Shen Xi and warned me away from it… when everything went to hell, right before she tried to kill me, she told me again that she had personally ventured into the Forbidden Land of Samsara and could confirm that Shen Xi was dead.”
Shui Meiyin: “...”
“After I eliminated Long Bai, I traveled to the Forbidden Land of Samsara and discovered that the barrier had been imbued with his dragon’s soul. I also discovered that her description of the place: ‘all the plants are dead’, ‘a pool of blood in the middle’ was completely correct.”
“So, the question is, how on earth did Xia Qingyue enter the Forbidden Land of Samsara without triggering the dragon soul on the barrier?”
Shui Meiyin was about to answer when Yun Che continued, “If she had the World Piercer, she could do so easily.”
“In fact, it may very well be because she had the World Piercer that she had no idea that the barrier was imbued with Long Bai’s soul. After all, why risk probing the barrier and potentially triggering its traps or alarms when she could just ignore it completely in the first place? That… was probably the first mistake she made.”
It was a suspicious point, but not a conspicuous one. It was why Yun Che had only puzzled over it for a short time, and Qianye Ying’er had overlooked it when they noticed it at the beginning.
Shui Meiyin frowned in puzzlement and worry. “Long Bai’s soul-imbued barrier is of course amazing, but the World Piercer is hardly the only spatial artifact that could achieve untraceable space-crossing. For example, the Eternal Heaven Realm’s Great Void Cauldron could do it. Every star realm that has survived long enough in this dangerous world to accumulate their strength must also have their own secrets, and spatial profound artifacts are easily among the most jealously guarded secrets of all of them because they can mean the difference between life and death in a crisis.”
“It is hardly unusual for a king realm like the Moon God Realm to possess a strange, powerful spatial artifact that could perform such a feat. As the Moon God Emperor, Xia Qingyue would’ve known all of them and been able to use them as she pleased.”
“This is not worth looking into at all. This cannot be why you’re suddenly asking me these strange questions, Big Brother Yun Che.”
Shui Meiyin’s answer was more or less identical to what Qianye Ying’er told him back then.
“There was another thing that puzzled me.” Instead of refuting Shui Meiyin’s point, Yun Che moved on like she hadn’t said anything. “Back when you told me the truth, you told me that your Divine Stainless Soul is the only thing that could forcefully activate the World Piercer’s spatial divine powers and complete Blue Pole Star’s teleportation. It was why the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor gave you the World Piercer in the first place.”
“Yes.” Shui Meiyin nodded lightly.
“However, the passage regarding the World Piercer written in the ancient records of the Dragon Gods clearly stated that anyone with the power of the primordial universe could perform the feat. It is definitely not a feat that is reserved for the Divine Stainless Soul alone.”
The ancient record had been left behind by the ancient Dragon God Tribe itself. There was little reason to distrust it.
“Besides the deceased Yue Wugou, the two other people who fit the bill are you… and the owner of Heart of Snow Glazed Glass, Xia Qingyue.”
“...” Shui Meiyin shook her head as her puzzled expression deepened. “I can believe that the ancient records are completely accurate, but so what? The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor saw that I have the Divine Stainless Soul, so she only told me that my Divine Stainless Soul could be used to forcefully activate the World Piercer if necessary. There’s nothing strange about this.”
Suddenly, she moved in front of Yun Che, grabbed his hand and stared straight into his eyes. She then said seriously, “You’re acting really strange today, Big Brother Yun Che. What in the world happened? You would never have come all the way here if these were the only matters that were troubling you.”
“Tell me? Please?”
Yun Che slowly raised his free hand and manifested the Eternal Imagery Stone.
Then, he released the frozen image he had engraved a while ago.
“This is?”
Shui Meiyin examined the image seriously. The crimson light was without a doubt the divine light of the World Piercer.
But what was that purple light at the edge of the—
“... !!” Shui Meiyin’s pupils contracted as if they had been pricked by needles. However, they returned to normal just as quickly.
“Seven years ago when the Blue Pole Star was teleported to the south of the Southern Divine Region, Wuxin happened to be engraving the exact moment with this Eternal Imagery Stone.”
Yun Che said quietly, “The red light is the World Piercer’s spatial divine power, and the purple light… is her Purple Pylon divine power.”
There was a hitch in his breathing before he continued in a seemingly calm voice, “You were the one who activated the World Piercer to teleport the Blue Pole Star, so why was her power the one that appeared in the image?... I wish to hear your explanation, Meiyin.”
Shui Meiyin watched him with slightly parted lips. There was puzzlement and astonishment in her expression, but still not one bit of panic.
The duo watched each other quietly for a moment. Then, Shui Meiyin covered her mouth and burst into a giggle as if she had just lost a staring match.
Yun Che: “...”
“You can’t be serious, Big Brother Yun Che?” She asked smilingly while examining Yun Che’s expression left and right. She looked as if she was trying to find the kinks in his expression and decide if this was a prank or not.
“Hello?” A short while later, Yun Che’s expression remained as stern as ever, so she started waving her hand right in front of his eyes. Her eyebrows curled further as if she was finding this situation more and more amusing by the second.
Yun Che caught her hand and repeated himself. “I wish to hear your explanation.”
“It’s very simple,” Shui Meiyin finally started while scratching the back of Yun Che’s hand playfully. “Have you heard of the Moon Brilliance Stone before, Big Brother Yun Che?”
Yun Che: “... ?”
Shui Meiyin explained smilingly, “Of the twelve Moon God divine powers borne by the Moon God Realm, the Purple Pylon divine power is considered to be the core and strongest of all of them. That is why the Purple Pylon Moon God was usually the Moon God Emperor.”
“Due to constant exposure to the Purple Pylon Moon God’s divine power, some of the profound jades in the Moon God Emperor’s divine hall would gradually transform into the purple divine jade known as the Moon Brilliance Stone.”