Chapter 1396: Return to Cang Yun
Yun Che took out another jade bottle and turned his gaze to Cang Yue. "Next, it's Yue'er's turn."
"Ah?" Cang Yue exclaimed softly, looking at the jade bottle in Yun Che's hand. She immediately guessed something. "Could it be... the same spiritual liquid as Xin'er?"
"Mm!" Yun Che nodded. "Soon, you will have the profound power of the Divine Dao just like Xin'er. Then, on this plane, no one will be able to hurt you."
"..." Cang Yue's lips parted, then she shook her head with a smile. "With you and all my sisters by my side, I don't need any profound power. Such a divine object must be extremely precious; it shouldn't be wasted on me."
Yun Che had anticipated that given Cang Yue's nature, she would respond like this. "I know you have no interest in the Profound Dao. However, achieving the Divine Dao is not just about increasing profound power; more importantly, your lifespan will also be extended to over ten thousand years."
He put on an anxious expression. "You wouldn't... be unwilling to accompany me for that long, would you?"
"..." Cang Yue's eyes trembled, then she looked at Xiao Lingxi and the others.
"It's not just Xin'er and Yue'er; I have prepared for everyone." Yun Che reached out and took out another jade bottle. "This one is for Lingxi."
"This one is for Yuechan."
"This one is for Xue'er."
"This one is for Linger."
"This one is for Caiyi."
"This one is for Xian'er."
"Eh?" Feng Xian'er was taken aback, then stepped back a little, her face full of panic. "I... I have one too? No... that's not possible, I'm just... something so precious, how can it be wasted on me?"
Yun Che looked at her and said with a smile, "Don't worry. This thing is a heaven-defying treasure in this world, but in the Divine Realm, it's easily obtained. Back when I was in the Divine Realm, I drank this like plain water. I still have plenty on me, so there's no need to feel sorry. It would be a waste not to use it on Xian'er."
(He Ling: Damn!)
Feng Xian'er fell silent, lowering her head and standing there, seeming even more nervous.
The hesitation in Cang Yue's heart vanished, and she smiled happily. "Alright... in this life, of course I will forever be by my husband's side."
Although Yun Che had only recovered less than a third of his power, this level of light-based assistance consumed very little energy and wouldn't put any strain on him.
So then, following Yun Wuxin, Yun Che helped Cang Yue drink and refine the Life Divine Water and Dragon Dawn Jade Liquid... then Chu Yuechan... Xiao Lingxi... Feng Xue'er... Shui Meiyin... Su Linger... Feng Xian'er.
He raised all their profound power to the Divine Origin Realm.
As for Feng Xue'er, whose profound power was already in the Divine Dao, she even reached the peak of the Divine Origin Realm, just one step away from breaking through to the Divine Soul Realm.
What is the gap between levels?
In the history of Lan Ji Star, the first person to possess power at the Divine Dao level was undoubtedly Xuanyuan Wentian. To achieve this, he spent countless years in cultivation, scheming, planning, and enduring... finally even abandoning his body, distorting his soul, and shortening his lifespan, before finally obtaining Divine Dao power... and it was even a false Divine Dao.
Yet Yun Che, relying on a few drops of spiritual liquid obtained from the Divine Realm, casually created seven Divine Dao cultivators in a single afternoon... and they were at the true Divine Dao realm!
If Xuanyuan Wentian were still alive at this moment, he would be angered to death without Yun Che even needing to lift a finger.
And not just Xuanyuan Wentian... even someone from the highest level of the Divine Realm, the King Realm, would vomit eight liters of blood on the spot if they knew that Yun Che had used eight full drops of Life Divine Water and eight drops of Dragon Dawn Jade Liquid on eight mortals from the lower realms.
Especially the Dragon God Realm... they would absolutely hate him to the point of wanting to devour him alive.
Yun Che spoke very lightly in front of the women, as if these things were worthless in the Divine Realm. They had no idea that the Life Divine Water and Dragon Dawn Jade Liquid they had drunk were among the most divine of divine treasures in the Divine Realm, things that even the imperial princes and grandsons of the King Realm's Divine Emperors dreamed of but could not obtain.
"There are still nine drops left." Yun Che took out the jade bottle containing the Life Divine Water and carefully calculated. "One drop for Father, one for Mother, one for Grandfather, one for Grandfather-in-law, one for Yuanba, and the Bing Yun Fairy Palace side should also..."
"Master..." A weak voice rang out in his soul, the voice of He Ling. "The Dragon Dawn Jade Liquid still has plenty left, but the remaining nine drops of Life Divine Water are the last nine drops in existence. Master, do you really want to use them all on others?"
"Eh... the last nine drops?" Yun Che was stunned.
"Master Shen Xi takes an average of three hundred years to condense a single drop of Life Divine Water. The seventeen drops she gave me were all of her accumulation, with nothing left over. Each drop of Life Divine Water not only greatly increases cultivation but also quickly restores and heals injuries, and can save your life in critical moments. Master, please keep some for emergencies, okay?"
"..." Yun Che pondered for a long time before replying, "At my current realm, the Life Divine Water doesn't have as much effect on me. Using it on them will put my mind more at ease."
He Ling had no choice but to stop persuading him.
Yun Che unconsciously raised his hand to his chin, the ethereally beautiful fairy-like shadow of Shen Xi appearing in his mind.
So that was all of the Life Divine Water and Dragon Dawn Jade Liquid, plus what he had drunk during his time in the Reincarnation Forbidden Land...
She was so generous to me...
Well... she even gave herself to me, so I guess it's not that strange?
Could she have actually fallen for me... Yun Che thought, but this notion only lasted for an instant before he ruthlessly crushed it.
Obviously, given Shen Xi's indifferent nature, this was absolutely impossible.
Yun Che had always clearly sensed that Shen Xi seemed to be using him in some aspect, but he couldn't figure out which aspect or why. Moreover, he had never lost anything, and she had never gained anything from him. Not only did she save his life, but she also gave everything away.
Why was that...
It seemed the answer to all this would only come when he returned to the Divine Realm and Shen Xi told him herself.
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Above the Death Wasteland within the borders of Cang Feng Kingdom, a streak of white light fell, instantly covering the entire Death Wasteland and quickly calming the many frantic and out-of-control auras.
The beast roars that had filled the skies, and the day-and-night calamity of the Death Wasteland subsided. The manic aura that had persisted for so long was swept away like leaves in a gale, vanishing without a trace.
"That's great. Now Sister Cang Yue can finally be completely at ease." Feng Xue'er looked down and smiled.
Yun Che, however, shook his head. "It won't last too long, and it might even get worse."
The worst-case scenario would undoubtedly be when even mortals, and even profound practitioners, are affected. If it really comes to that... a world where the negative emotions of all living beings are stimulated and amplified would be truly unimaginable.
"The source of all this must be found."
"Have you already found the cause?" Feng Xue'er asked.
"Not yet." Yun Che turned his gaze to the east. "But there is one place I must go see."
When he had lost his power, he was powerless to care about all this. Now that his power was restored, he had to take on this responsibility.
Feng Xue'er's gaze followed his to the east, seeming to guess something. "You mean... Cang Yun Continent?"
"Right." Yun Che nodded. "I'll go now."
"Then I'll go with you."
"No need." Yun Che said, the dark abyss appearing before his eyes. "There is a very special small world there, and only I can enter. It's best I go alone."
While he was speaking with Feng Xue'er, he was completely unaware that above them, there was a pair of icy eyes that had been watching them all along. Those icy eyes were trembling violently the entire time.
Mu Xuanyin.
This was not her first time coming here.
The first time she came to Lan Ji Star, she saw Yun Che still alive but having lost all his power. After returning to Yin Xue Realm, she resolved never to set foot on Lan Ji Star again, and forbade Mu Bingyun from coming as well.
But after just three short months, she came again...
After that, each time, she secretly vowed it would be the last, that she would never come see him again, cut off all thoughts of him, and forever forget his existence... but at most three months later, she would again hide it from Mu Bingyun and everyone else, and come here, even though each time she only watched him from afar, silently, for a little while.
It was as if she was bewitched.
But this time, upon arriving, she suddenly discovered that Yun Che's aura had completely changed.
He had actually recovered his former power!
She didn't know what had happened during this period, nor how Yun Che had recovered his power.
And she didn't know whether to be glad or to feel lost. Because his recovery meant he could once again be swept into the currents of the Divine Realm.
After parting with Feng Xue'er, Yun Che headed straight east.
Although Yun Che was not skilled in spatial laws, the space of Lan Ji Star was too fragile. Under his power, it was like thin paper, easily torn and traversed. He moved his fingers, shuttling through spatial rifts again and again, rapidly closing in on the distant Cang Yun Continent.
And above him, a fairy-like shadow that he could not detect followed him all along.
As soon as he entered Cang Yun Continent, the scene before his eyes made him frown deeply.
In his previous life, he had spent twenty-seven years on this continent. Although he no longer had attachments, he still felt a special connection.
Both were on Lan Ji Star. Although Cang Yun Continent had fewer top-level experts than Tian Xuan Continent, they were on the same level, with similar auras and elemental laws. Especially in terms of ecology and Profound Dao rules, it was basically identical to Tian Xuan Continent.
But before his eyes... everything had changed.
From all around came the furious roars and screeches of countless profound beasts, each more manic than the last, interspersed with the sounds of profound power erupting and the earth being destroyed.
Wherever his gaze and spiritual sense reached, whether it was former profound beast territories or human lands, they were filled with a ferocious aura. All the profound beasts seemed to have gone mad... This scene was very much like the occasional beast uprisings in Tian Xuan Continent and Huan Yao Realm, but the level of horror was incomparable.
Because this aura of chaos and calamity actually covered the entire Cang Yun Continent. Even more terrifying was that Tian Xuan Continent and Huan Yao Realm only had low-level beast uprisings, but here... Yun Che clearly detected a large number of high-level, and even extremely high-level hidden profound beasts.
These high-level beasts, every time they released their power, would undoubtedly bring down a terrifying disaster on a huge area.
It was easy to imagine that such a Cang Yun Continent had completely become a disaster battlefield where humans and profound beasts fought desperately. It must already be a scene of devastation, with countless lives lost under this calamity.
As he extended his spiritual sense, Yun Che became increasingly shocked. Soon, a terrifying thought arose in his mind: If this continued, today's Cang Yun Continent would very likely be tomorrow's Tian Xuan Continent and Huan Yao Realm.
Yun Che was silent for a moment, then his figure flickered and he appeared in a place he was all too familiar with.
Jueyun Cliff!
Standing at the edge of Jueyun Cliff, the dark abyss below was like the open mouth of a demon. Yun Che frowned slightly, then leaped down without hesitation.
Above, Mu Xuanyin's icy eyes suddenly focused, and her snow-white hand subconsciously reached out.
During her first visit to Lan Ji Star, she had discovered the existence of this dark abyss due to the abnormal dark aura and had even tried to probe it. So she knew that within it was hidden an extremely terrifying dark world... so terrifying that even a restored Yun Che would be in mortal danger inside.
Yun Che's figure disappeared into the darkness the moment he leaped into Jueyun Cliff... Mu Xuanyin's gaze flickered. Finally, her figure moved, maintaining her concealed state, and descended into the Jueyun Abyss along with Yun Che.
This time descending, without the previous concerns, Yun Che's speed was extremely fast. Soon, the barrier sealing the dark world was right below him, and at the same time, a dense and abnormally strong dark aura surged up from below, causing Yun Che to frown deeply.
In the darkness, his figure hovered above the barrier, silently looking down.
A dark aura, like invisible smoke, slowly seeped upward.
Without a doubt, this dark profound aura came from the sealed dark world below.
The leakage of dark profound aura was not a recent occurrence. Many years ago, due to a slight loosening of this barrier, some dark profound aura began to leak out... It was because of this that Mo Li discovered the existence of this dark world.
But now, the extent of the dark profound aura leakage was clearly far greater than back then.
This made Yun Che suddenly feel puzzled and uneasy.
There were two things he couldn't understand:
First, the dark world below was most likely a relic from the ancient era of the gods. Therefore, this dark barrier should have existed for at least a million years. Over such a long time, it was normal for it to loosen. However, for a barrier of this level, the loosening process should be extremely slow and gradual. It took a million years to have the previous tiny amount of demonic aura leakage, but now, only six years had passed since his last visit. Why had it loosened to such a degree?
Second, even if the loosening was ten times worse than before, the leaked demonic aura wasn't particularly intense. It might affect Cang Yun Continent, but even if it maintained this level for six years, it absolutely should not have affected the distant Tian Xuan Continent and Huan Yao Realm.
Moreover, although this demonic aura was of a high level, it was far from being beyond his ability to perceive.