# Chapter 1402: Hatred Fills Xi's Soul
The Dragon God's power was unmatched in the current world... especially when unleashed in a sudden strike under chaos and loss of reason.
Although it was merely a dragon-shaped beam of mystic light, the moment it was unleashed, the entire Reincarnation Forbidden Land instantly turned dim and dark. Space, sound, and light were all devoured by the overwhelmingly terrifying force. The beam's target was unmistakably Shen Xi's lower abdomen... the child she conceived with Yun Che.
No one knew better than Shen Xi the obsessions that had consumed Long Bai over these years.
She was also the one in the current world who was most familiar with the path Long Bai had walked throughout his life, as well as his temperament.
He possessed the highest talent of the Dragon God Clan, with sufficient ambition and righteous spirit. After becoming the Dragon God Emperor, he dominated the world yet never lost his original heart. He wielded the strongest power in the world, occupied the highest stratum, yet never bullied or oppressed others. Whenever major events occurred in the God Realm, he always took them upon himself as his own responsibility.
One important reason for all this was Shen Xi's constant guidance and instruction over the years. It was also because of such a Dragon God Emperor that the Dragon God Clan could stand at the pinnacle of all realms in the God Domain for hundreds of thousands of years—unshakeable not only in strength but also in prestige.
Another reason was that over these hundreds of thousands of years, Shen Xi had continuously bestowed—and only bestowed upon the Dragon God Clan—the Life Divine Water and Longxi Jade Liquid, ensuring that every generation of the Dragon God Clan produced geniuses that other star realms and races could never hope to match.
But...
In this world, no one could truly and completely understand another person. Because in this world, there had never been anyone who could truly understand themselves. No one would ever know how terrifying the dark side they had buried deep in their hearts—a side even they themselves were unaware of—could become once triggered.
Shen Xi had anticipated that the Dragon God Emperor might lose composure. Although this loss of composure was so intense it bordered on the loss of reason, she was not overly surprised. Amidst her disappointment, she even felt a trace of guilt—after all, it was true that she had once agreed to the title of "Dragon Empress." Otherwise, his wound might have been slightly lighter.
But she could never have dreamed, even in her wildest nightmares, that the Dragon God Emperor would actually attack her.
She was pregnant, her aura naturally weaker than usual, and completely off guard. The distance between her and the Dragon God Emperor was barely a dozen steps... for someone of his level, that distance was essentially non-existent.
Shen Xi's immortal countenance changed abruptly... She didn't even have time to release her Light Profound Force before the Dragon God's Profound Qi struck her abdomen directly.
*Boom!*
In that instant, all the divine flowers, exotic herbs, butterflies, bees, birds, and insects in the Reincarnation Forbidden Land... the bamboo house that belonged only to Shen Xi and Yun Che—everything was obliterated into the finest dust.
All space within sight collapsed. The earth was lifted dozens of yards into the air, but instead of falling back down, it vanished directly into nothingness.
*Pfft—*
Within the collapsing space, the white radiance around Shen Xi scattered completely. Her face was as pale as paper, and a stream of blood-red arrows sprayed from between her lips. Like a pale butterfly losing strength in a violent gale, she flew far, far away.
"Ah... aah..." Having existed for countless years, the greatest forbidden ground of the Dragon God Realm—the purest place in the entire God Realm and the entire Chaos Space—was instantly reduced to rubble. Amidst the rippling space and drifting dust, the Dragon God Emperor stood rooted to the spot, his body trembling violently, his pupils contracting and flickering wildly as if pierced by needles.
He stared at his trembling hands, unable to believe what he had done.
"I... what have I done... what have I done..." He murmured in chaos, as if his soul were being twisted: "No... no... it wasn't me... it wasn't me..."
Shen Xi slowly rose. Her pure white outer garment was stained red with blood over a large area. Her beautiful eyes were covered with an abnormal white glow. She did not attend to her injuries. The first moment she regained her senses, her hand flashed like lightning to her lower abdomen, and the white light in her eyes instantly transformed into the most chaotic, most terrified gaze of her life.
"Xi'er? Xi'er... Xi'er... Xi'er!!"
Her voice lost all its usual detachment and gentleness, becoming so tremulous: "Xi'er... please answer your mother... answer me... you must be sleeping, right... wake up... wake up quickly... please, I beg you, answer me..."
*Drip...*
On her blood-soaked white garment, a single water droplet fell softly. Then, tears poured down like a burst dam: "Xi'er... please don't scare your mother... Xi'er... Xi'er..."
The once celestial sound became so despairing and piercing. Every moment felt like ten thousand blades stabbing through Long Bai's heart. His features twisted. He took a step forward, then stumbled and fell to his knees, and then crawled forward frantically: "Shen Xi... I didn't mean to... I didn't mean to..."
"Don't come near me!!"
Four chilling words, each carrying blood and... an icy, heart-piercing hatred.
Yes, that was hatred... In the three hundred thousand years he had known Shen Xi, this was the first time he had seen her tears, the first time he had sensed the emotion of "hatred" emanating from her—and it was so bone-chillingly cold... a hatred born for him.
He froze in place, then slowly knelt, his dragon eyes vacant: "Alright... I... I won't come near... Shen Xi... I really didn't mean to... I was just possessed by a demon just now, truly just possessed... Let... let me help you... Your child must be fine... I... I can find a way to save her... The Dragon God Realm can definitely save her..."
These were the most trembling, terrified words Long Bai had ever spoken in his life. But Shen Xi showed no reaction at all. Her palm covered where her child should be, but she could no longer feel her presence, could no longer hear her voice... It was a kind of pain and despair she had never imagined.
Tears mixed with blood, falling like broken beads of blood... She had never thought she would one day become a mother. The child in her womb was an accident between her and Yun Che. When she discovered this accident, she realized that such beautiful accidents could exist in the world.
From then on, the colors of her life, the colors of her world, had completely changed.
Yet on this day, in the hands of her most trusted clansman, everything turned into the endless gray of despair.
"...It was mother... who harmed you..." Each word carried tears, each word broke her heart: "If mother... back then... had not saved him... had not helped him become the Dragon God Emperor... this day... would not have come... It was mother... who... harmed... you..."
Her body trembled violently again. Blood from her wounded heart flowed backward, silently spilling from her pale lips.
She looked ahead blankly... For the first time, she was a mother. For the first time, she lost her child. For the first time, she learned that such pain and despair could exist in this world.
Suddenly, the light in her eyes shook violently...
"The Reincarnation Well... The Reincarnation Well..." She murmured in a daze, then suddenly looked up, as if seeing a faint glimmer of light in the darkness. She turned around urgently, her palm pressing against the ground. With a flash of strange white light, a white whirlpool appeared before her.
The whirlpool emitted a pure white radiance, but at its center was bottomless darkness.
"..." Long Bai, lost in his crumbling will, stared blankly at the white whirlpool. His remaining capacity for thought could not identify what it was.
Gazing at the white whirlpool so close at hand, Shen Xi's eyes became incomparably cold and resolute. She looked at Long Bai, and word by word, each dripping with hatred: "Long Bai... you... listen... if anything happens to Xi'er..."
"I will abandon the light... transform into a demon... and make you taste every torture in this world!"
"I will scatter your blood... and your ashes... to every corner of this God Realm... so that for eternity, you will be trampled by all living things!!"
Bearing the Light Profound Force, she possessed the world's only sacred body and sacred heart—the least likely person to give rise to resentment and sin.
Yet at this moment, toward Long Bai, she unleashed the most extreme hatred and uttered the most venomous curse.
Her figure then leaped into that strange whirlpool, and in an instant, she vanished along with the whirlpool.
"Shen Xi... Shen Xi!?" Long Bai cried out in alarm, then frantically lunged forward, but only grasped emptiness.
Her figure, along with the white whirlpool, had completely disappeared. Even her aura had vanished entirely from the world, leaving only scattered blood and tears on the cold, ruined ground.
"Shen... Xi..."
*Thud...* Long Bai fell heavily to his knees. He slowly extended his right hand, trembling violently. It was this hand that had suddenly struck out just moments ago...
"I... what... have... I... done..."
He clenched his hand into a fist and then smashed it fiercely against his own heart.
*Boom!!*
A deafening crash, heaven and earth shattered. His chest caved in deeply. Dragon blood spewed wildly from his mouth, but he felt not the slightest pain. His body slowly collapsed. His head, which no one had the right to make him lower, struck the ground heavily. Then his features began to twist and convulse, and he burst into a collapse of loud wailing...
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"Ah!!"
Yun Che cried out in shock, his body curling up sharply, his hand clutching his chest tightly.
"Ah!" Yun Wuxin beside him was startled badly. She hurriedly dropped the fishing rod in her hand and rushed to Yun Che: "Father, you... what's wrong?"
This was the Southern Sea of the Tian Xuan Continent. They, father and daughter, were on a small boat, engaged in their favorite fishing competition.
Yun Che's body stopped trembling. Then he suddenly raised his head and made a funny face at Yun Wuxin, grinning: "Hehe, got you again! How many times have I told you, when fishing, your heart must be even calmer than the water's surface. Don't be easily disturbed by external things, only then can you—Ah!"
"Hmph!" Yun Wuxin pinched Yun Che's arm hard, then pouted her lips as she returned to her seat, picked up the fishing rod again, and turned her face away, ignoring him: "Father always tricks people. You're already an adult, yet you act like a child."
"Father found so many aunties for me—he probably didn't use such childish methods, did he?" Yun Wuxin pouted even more... because she had really been scared just now.
"Uh..." Yun Che's old face flushed slightly: "When you grow up, I'll discuss this topic with you."
"Heh!" Yun Wuxin stuck out her tongue at him: "I stopped being a child a long time ago. Hmph."
"..." Yun Che said nothing, seemingly having no retort.
Yun Wuxin did not see that although Yun Che wore a playful grin, his chest was heaving violently.
"Master..." Within his sea of consciousness came He Ling's worried voice: "What's wrong with you? Your heartbeat is so chaotic..."
"It's nothing," Yun Che replied.
But his brow was furrowed, and the hands holding the fishing rod were unconsciously tightening.
*What's going on...*
*Why did my heart suddenly hurt so much... as if it had been pierced by a knife...*
He stealthily glanced sideways at Yun Wuxin's serene profile. After a long while, his heart finally calmed slightly.
He silently swore to himself: *No matter what else may come in the future—disaster or trial—I will face and bear it all. But no matter what, I will never let anything harm my daughter again!*