Chapter 1385: Furious Phoenix Flame
In the God Realm, who didn’t know the name “Yun Che”? During the Xuan God Convention, through the Zhou Tian projection, the entire Eastern Divine Region had firmly remembered Yun Che’s appearance. He was the number one of the younger generation in the Eastern Divine Region, and his master came from a mid-rank star realm, which made him a hero in the eyes of all mid-rank and lower-rank star realm profound practitioners. He was not just the first to be deified in the Xuan God Convention. Everyone in the Eastern Divine Region knew that Zhou Tian Shen Di and Fantian Shen Di were vying to take him as a personal disciple, Fandi Shennü actively wanted to marry him, and even the Chaos Supreme Dragon Sovereign publicly declared his desire to adopt him as a righteous son. Born in the lower-rank star realm of Gangyang Realm, Lin Qingrou naturally knew Yun Che. However, Yun Che was a dazzling star that even the king realms fought over, so she could only gaze from afar, never daring to hope for any contact. Today, she saw on this lower realm planet... a person who looked remarkably like him.
Her exclamation startled Feng Xue’er and the others. Yun Wuxin said in surprise, “Father, does she... know you?”
“Giggle giggle giggle giggle...” After the startled exclamation, Lin Qingrou’s laughter rang out. “Interesting! So interesting! There is such a resemblance in this world.”
Yun Che had lost his profound strength, but with Su Ling’er by his side, he was well-maintained from inside out, and his appearance had recovered to a fairly perfect state. Any person from the God Realm who saw him would first exclaim the name “Yun Che.” But it was only at that moment of first glance. They would quickly realize that this was merely a person who looked extremely similar, absolutely impossible to be the Yun Che they knew... because the latter was the universally admired first divine son of the God Realm, while the man before them was a trash living in the lower realm, without even a trace of profound aura. Moreover, in the God Realm’s perception, Yun Che had already died in the Evil Infant disaster of Star God Realm.
“Such a pity,” Lin Qingrou sighed leisurely. “With a face that all women in the God Realm admire, yet you are an utter waste. Your very existence is an insult to Divine Son Yun. It’s better for you to disappear.”
Her voice was soft and charming, like weeping and complaining, but the moment it fell, she suddenly struck out. A flash of flame exploded as her finger rose.
Although Feng Xue’er’s profound strength had entered the divine path, in terms of combat experience, she was far inferior to Yun Che. She completely did not expect a woman who had just met them for the first time, with no connection or grievance, to suddenly attack while speaking. Feng Xue’er, greatly alarmed, instantly pushed her profound aura forward and quickly erected a barrier. A dull sound, and the sea below was immediately churned. Lin Qingrou’s power was firmly blocked. But... behind her, Feng Xian’er, Yun Wuxin, and Yun Che were too close to her, too close to the point where the two forces collided. Feng Xue’er blocked Lin Qingrou’s power, but could not completely suppress the space tremor.
“Ah!!”
Before the age of eleven, Yun Wuxin grew up in seclusion with Chu Yuechan. After finding her father, everyone around her wished they could spoil her to the skies. She had never encountered such a situation. With a cry of alarm, her first reaction was not to protect herself, but completely instinctively, she shielded her father with her power. Feng Xian’er, even faster, poured all her power onto Yun Che. The spatial tremor from the collision of profound forces was not even a residual wave. Feng Xian’er possessed the power of a Throne, and Yun Wuxin had just become an Overlord Emperor; neither was injured. But for Yun Che, who was powerless even to truss a chicken, it was a disaster he could not bear. Yun Che’s body, like glass struck by a heavy blow, instantly shattered into countless cracks. He didn’t even have time to scream before he fainted... life or death unknown. If not for the protection of Feng Xian’er and Yun Wuxin’s power, he would have been torn into countless pieces.
“Father!!” Scarlet bloodstains quickly spread all over Yun Che’s body, also filling Yun Wuxin’s eyes. She let out a cry as if bleeding, her hand covering his body, frantically trying to seal the cracks in his body and stop the spurting blood. Her vision spun... like a nightmare, or the collapse of the world.
Feng Xue’er turned back, her phoenix-like face instantly turning pale. Flames burned on her body, and she shouted in a trembling voice, “Go quickly... take him to Ling’er... go!” His entire body was shattered, not only on the surface but also throughout his internal organs... for an ordinary person, this was a certain death situation! Everything happened too fast, too suddenly... they were enjoying a harmonious time together, everything was so beautiful. But a terrible nightmare descended without reason or warning.
“Oh?” Lin Qingrou’s brows moved slightly, as if surprised that Feng Xue’er could block her power. Her hands stained with the blood spurting from Yun Che, the life force in Yun Che’s body faded at a terrifyingly fast speed. Feng Xian’er’s reaction was not much better than Yun Wuxin’s. She felt as if falling into an abyss, and in her immense terror, she could barely even circulate her profound aura. Her shrinking eyes touched Yun Che’s face, which had lost all color... at that moment, in her heart, the words the Phoenix Soul Spirit had said to her that day suddenly echoed. Like a flame of hope rising in the darkness, her whole body trembled. In her panic, she took out a crimson feather as fast as possible. The moment that feather appeared, Feng Xue’er’s heart and soul felt a strong resonance. She turned her head like lightning, staring at that feather... A crimson feather, like a cluster of burning flame, releasing a dense, almost unbelievable divine aura.
“What is that?” she asked instinctively. But Feng Xian’er had no time to explain. Flames rose on the feather, and the released fiery light enveloped her, Yun Che, and Yun Wuxin... and in the next instant, it took them away from there. Only a remnant feather, quickly burning and dissipating in the flames, was left behind.
“Hmm? Space escape?” Lin Qingrou narrowed her eyes, but was too lazy to pursue. Her gaze kept scanning Feng Xue’er, the jealousy in her heart burning ever stronger.
Although she didn’t know what had happened or what that feather in Feng Xian’er’s hand was about, seeing them leave brought Feng Xue’er some relief. Then, the flames on her body rose rapidly with her anger: “You and I... are strangers, with no grievances or grudges. Why would you strike with such viciousness!”
If Feng Xue’er had been to the God Realm like Yun Che, she wouldn’t have asked that question. Do people from the God Realm need a reason to kill people from the lower realm? No, absolutely not! It’s like an ordinary person deciding whether to step on a few ants on the roadside; it’s not about reason, but mood, or just a casual step. Yun Che didn’t know about other divine regions, but in the Eastern Divine Region, there was a decree from the Zhou Tian God Realm that people from the God Realm must not kill lower realm people without reason. But Yun Che knew that this decree was virtually nonexistent. It wasn’t that the star realms didn’t respect the Zhou Tian God Realm, but... the Zhou Tian Arbiters couldn’t even manage the order of the Eastern Divine Region; how could they have time to care about the lower realms? And the lower realms, being bullied and slaughtered, couldn’t possibly complain to the Zhou Tian God Realm... they didn’t even know of the Zhou Tian God Realm’s existence. Furthermore, Lin Qingrou’s sudden attack was not without reason. The reason was that Yun Che looked too much like Yun Che! Yun Che was not only the first divine son of this generation in the Eastern Divine Region, but also the pride and hero of all profound practitioners from lower and mid-rank star realms. Lin Qingrou naturally admired him immensely... but unfortunately, although she was at the absolute top among her peers in Gangyang Realm, compared to Yun Che, she didn’t even have the qualification to grovel at his feet. Not to mention her, even her master didn’t. And a waste from the lower realm actually looked exactly like him... just as she had said earlier, it was an insult to “Divine Son Yun.” So she casually destroyed him. If Yun Che knew the reason for her sudden attack to exterminate him, who knows what he would think.
“Giggle giggle giggle,” Lin Qingrou laughed coquettishly, her buttocks and breasts trembling. “Little sister, who I want to kill is not for you to meddle in. Speaking of which, they’ve all escaped, why haven’t you left? Could it be that you want to fight me?”
“...” Feng Xue’er clenched her hands, the flames in her beautiful eyes growing deep. She didn’t know who the woman before her was, where she came from, why she was here... but her attack just now had pushed Yun Che into the abyss of death. Now, all over her body, besides anger, there was fear for Yun Che’s unknown fate... How could she leave!
Lin Qingrou’s gaze kept appraising Feng Xue’er. Even in her extreme anger, she was so beautiful it was dazzling. She said slowly, “A beauty like you, if offered to my master, he would be very happy. He might give me many rewards, but after that, I might lose his favor... troublesome indeed.”
“I don’t care who you are,” Feng Xue’er said coldly. “You dared to hurt him... today... you... must... die!!”
Boom—
Crimson Phoenix Flame flickered violently like a volcano before eruption. A rage and killing intent she had never felt in her life locked firmly onto Lin Qingrou. If Lin Qingrou’s master Lin Jun were here, he would immediately recognize this as Phoenix Flame. But unfortunately, Lin Qingrou, with shallow knowledge and no qualifications to even touch the level of the Flame God Realm, could not. Seeing the blazing flames on Feng Xue’er, she faintly felt something was wrong, but immediately she dismissed that feeling, curling her lips into a extremely contemptuous smile.
“Oh? Playing with fire in front of me?” she said with a smile. “I wonder if your lowly, inferior lower realm flame will be so pathetic it can’t even burn in the face of the God Realm’s divine flame?”
Feng Xue’er’s profound strength was at the third level of the Divine Origin Realm, while Lin Qingrou was at the fifth level. But in Lin Qingrou’s eyes, Feng Xue’er was not simply weaker by two small realms. After all, her divine path was cultivated in the God Realm, while the woman before her had cultivated her divine path in the lower realm... It was rare to achieve the divine path in this lowly, turbid world, but compared to their noble God Realm, it was not on the same level. Not only the divine path, but also at the level of profound arts, they were incomparable. So, let alone Feng Xue’er being weaker by two small realms, even if they were at the same level, she would still only disdain her.
In her disdain, she slowly raised her hand, and a ball of deep purple flame ignited in her palm. But immediately, her brows suddenly moved... because at the moment the purple flame ignited, it showed an abnormal cowering, as if afraid of something.
Feng Xue’er did not speak. A phoenix shadow flashed in her eyes.
Boom—
With an explosive sound, the flames on Feng Xue’er shot up a thousand zhang high, turning the sky above and the sea below a deep crimson. In that instant, Lin Qingrou’s face stiffened. The purple flame she had just ignited in her hand, like a terrified worm, extinguished in trembling. Space was instantly drawn close. The blazing flames on Feng Xue’er spread into a huge phoenix flame shadow, mercilessly enveloping the face-changing Lin Qingrou.
In terms of profound strength, Lin Qingrou was indeed above Feng Xue’er by two small realms, but the flame might that came down with the profound force was so powerful it shocked her. Lin Qingrou, who had only prepared to strike casually, even toy with her opponent, actually took two steps back, ignited her purple flame, raised her profound power directly to eighty percent, and met Feng Xue’er’s furious Phoenix Flame.
Boom—
Flames blazed to the sky. All the scattered clouds within sight were burned away. The sea below showed an extremely exaggerated depression, and after the depression, terrifying whirlpools formed. The disadvantage in profound strength caused Feng Xue’er to be blasted far away... but the flames on her body still boiled and blazed, the might of the Phoenix Flame undiminished. As for Lin Qingrou, although she seemed to have the upper hand, most of her purple flame was extinguished, and her originally pretentious expression darkened.