Chapter 1916 (1/2)

“Where... would he go?” Shui Meiyin said tearfully.

“Don’t worry too much. He will come through. After all, he’s no longer the…”

Her voice faded into silence before she could finish her sentence. In the end, Mu Xuanyin lowered her gaze and whispered, “I will follow him from afar. While I do so, please inform the Devil Queen about this. She’ll come up with something.”

“Mn,” Shui Meiyin responded as Yun Che’s back gradually vanished from their sight. “I can spy on a person’s soul, but I have never been able to see through Sister Qingyue’s. I can nurture a person’s soul, but again the one person I cannot help is Big Brother Yun Che.”

“It’s all my fault… if only I did better…”

“It’s not your fault.” Mu Xuanyin shook her head. “It is impossible to do any one thing to absolute perfection in this world. The coincidence with Wuxin’s Eternal Imagery Stone… was more like a twist of fate than it was an accident.”

She understood Shui Meiyin’s feelings better than she might think. It was because she too hid a secret she could never speak to Yun Che about.

The daughter he had lost forever before he even met her.

As Yun Che’s chaotic aura moved further and further away from them, Mu Xuanyin concealed her presence and started to follow him.

However, she paused in her tracks almost immediately before turning around to ask, “Meiyin, do you happen to know where the Moon Gods and divine envoys of Moon God Realm have vanished to?”

Surprise flickered across Shui Meiyin’s features for a moment before she nodded slowly. “Sister Qingyue used the World Piercer to create a special space at a faraway lower realm… it was the last resort in case her death wasn’t enough to save the Moon God Realm. At the very least, the core lifeline of the Moon God Realm would be saved.”

“... I thought so.” Mu Xuanyin sighed quietly.

For the past few years, Chi Wuyao had mobilized the forces of the divine regions to seek out the concealed Moon Gods and Moon God Divine Envoys to no avail. It was yet another thing that remained an unsolved knot in the Devil Queen’s heart.

Now she knew the truth.

There was one other thing that Mu Xuanyin noticed. Xia Qingyue wasn’t born in the Moon God Realm, and she wasn’t even its Moon God Emperor for more than a decade. However, she seemed unusually attached and even obsessed with it for some reason.

…………

The universe was a place that contained vast star regions and countless stars. However, their light failed to reflect even a bit of light in his eyes.

His body was dragged along by the chaotic streams of space to god-knows-where. He had no idea where he had even drifted to.

Once upon a time, he believed that Xia Qingyue was the one who destroyed the Blue Pole Star.

However, he was the one who really sowed the seeds of its destruction, while Xia Qingyue was its true silent protector.

She was the one who forced him to evolve and walk the path he should’ve walked from the beginning. She even saved him, his homeworld, his family, his soul, his everything...

Without her toiling away silently behind his back, he still would’ve lost everything even if he somehow survived the death trap. He would still be stuck in the cold and desolate Northern Divine Region right now; lost, lonely, and barely surviving.

But...

Why...

Why did you choose to leave without telling anyone...

I have become the man you wished for me to become. I am standing at the height you dreamed of me standing right now.

So why aren’t you here to witness it?

You couldn’t tell me the truth back then because the best way to spur on me to grow was to sever my attachments and hesitations completely.

But why did you choose what you did after that…?

What on earth were you bearing on your shoulders… Why wouldn’t you let me carry it and face it with you, no matter how hopeless it might be…?

You paved the road for me and guided me to the best life I could ask for, but why did you give yourself such a bleak ending?

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“The Yun Clan’s Yun Che has a wife from the Xia Clan, Qingyue. She is unfilial to her parents-in-law, she is enemies with her clansmen, she murdered her own father and brother, she is heartless and devoid of righteousness, she is as venomous as a scorpion and a snake… Even if I were to use ten thousand words, it would still be hard to list down all of her crimes.”

“I’ve decided to divorce you and we will sever every relation we have with each other from now on! From today onward, we owe each other nothing but hatred, a hatred that will carry on for all eternity!”

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“Hah… haha…” Yun Che laughed, but it was more sorrowful than tears. Scarlet beads of blood slid down his twitching lips again and again.

She had saved his whole life.

But he had left her with only the most hateful of gazes, the vilest of curses, and… the destruction of everything she treasured...

Even more soul rending was the fact that she was gone forever, so there wasn’t even a sliver of a chance for him to make it up to her or atone for his sins.

Before he knew it, he had arrived at an unusually silent space.

It was the emptiest star region in the vast Eastern Divine Region by far.

Just a couple of months ago, he had explained to Yun Wuxin in the calmest, most indifferent tone he could muster that it was the location of the former Moon God Realm. At the time, not a speck of the former star realm could be found already.

That’s right. No matter where he looked, not a trace of the Moon God Realm could be found anymore.

Yun Che stretched out a trembling hand toward the void in front of him.

Once upon a time, here lay the star realm she had commanded; the space she had lingered in for a long time.

His fingers gradually lost strength, but he couldn’t touch even a speck of her presence any longer.

His mind and body drifted once more. When he came back to himself after an indefinite amount of time later, he discovered that he was standing at yet another empty star region.

It was where he, Qianye Ying’er and Xia Qingyue had battled each other to the death. All the planets and stars in the surrounding star regions had been destroyed as a result.

“With my current power, I can only maintain this divine domain for a hundred breaths.”

Back then, Xia Qingyue had ignited her vitality to create the incredibly powerful Purple Pylon Divine Domain immediately after the battle began. She had even managed to put him and Qianye Ying’er at a disadvantage for a time.

Later on, she had spent nearly all of her power trying to kill Qianye Ying’er.

She had sentenced herself to death right from the get go. Everything she did during the battle was just to kill Qianye Ying’er.

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“Qianye Ying’er is now your slave. You can order her around, make use of her, vent your anger on her, humiliate her, and ravish her as you please… you can do whatever you want to her. But there is something that you must remember!”

“She is still someone that I must kill! Making her your slave with this scheme of mine does not mean that I don’t wish to kill her. Rather, it only means that I can’t kill her right now! Whatever happens between the two of you is none of my business. But… you definitely must not develop any feelings for her! Even more than that, you definitely must not have any children with her! Understand!?”

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