# Chapter 1427: "Destiny"
[Reminder from Mars with ill intentions: This chapter contains a massive pitfall originating from the novice village, so it's best to pay attention]
A faint purple light flickered beside Mu Xuanyin, and Xia Qingyue's figure materialized. She looked in the direction where Shui Qianheng and his daughter had departed, with an expression that was neither a smile nor a frown. "Yun Che's luck with women is truly excellent. So it was in the lower realm, and so it is in the God Realm."
"That little girl is truly extraordinary. She now shakes the realms with her fame, overwhelming Luo Changsheng, and there is no one in the world she cannot match. Yet she willingly lowers herself, and even willingly submits to the soul mark left by the backlash. It's simply incomprehensible." Mu Xuanyin's tone was unreadable, neither praise nor criticism.
"The Little Princess of Liuguang's Stainless Divine Soul and my mother's Stainless Divine Body both originate from the now-rare Primordial Chaos Qi. They are 'miracles' of the same level." Xia Qingyue said. "Therefore, what her soul perceives is different from anyone else's, and perhaps even exceeds what the two of us can comprehend."
Mu Xuanyin: "..."
"According to the memories passed down through generations of Yue Shen Di, those who possess a Stainless Divine Soul can easily peer into others' minds and directly see 'essence' and 'truth.' Perhaps that is why certain 'essences' within Yun Che hold an irresistible attraction for her." Xia Qingyue smiled. "Compared to a 'soul imprint,' this might actually be the main reason."
"Peer into... minds?" Mu Xuanyin frowned slightly.
"Mn." Xia Qingyue said. "Perhaps just now, when she was beside us, she could vaguely perceive what we were thinking."
Mu Xuanyin: "..."
"Actually, compared to the Little Princess of Liuguang, I'm more curious about another person." Xia Qingyue turned her gaze, looking at Mu Xuanyin's exquisite profile. "Senior Mu, why are you so good to Yun Che?"
"He is my disciple!" Mu Xuanyin answered coldly. "Since he is my personal disciple, protecting him is only natural. Otherwise, wouldn't it shame me as the Master of the Bing Huang God Sect?"
Xia Qingyue turned her gaze back, staring ahead at the endless world of ice and snow, speaking as if asking, as if talking to herself: "Is that all?"
Mu Xuanyin had answered too quickly. So quickly that... she had already obtained her answer.
"He truly is adept at winning the favor of women." Xia Qingyue said softly. "Even Senior Shen Xi, who never wished to involve herself in mortal affairs, was willing to teach him the Light Profound Force. Regardless of Senior Shen Xi's reasons, this alone grants him another layer of protection. If he can resolve the demonic energy on Zhou Tian Shen Di, then Zhou Tian Shen Di will surely protect him with all his might. Add that to Senior Mu's protection... then even Qianye Ying'er, who covets Yun Che's greatest secret, should think twice before making a move."
Yun Che's current cultivation was at the first level of the King Xuan Realm. His strength was unparalleled among his peers, and no one would forget his achievement of being first in the Feng Shen Platform. However, all of this was limited to the younger generation.
Yet, someone like him, upon his return, stirred up forces from all directions—and those forces were the most top-level existences of the Eastern Divine Region.
By this alone, I fear no second person could achieve the same.
"You've left out his greatest support." Mu Xuanyin looked at her.
Xia Qingyue shook her head slightly, but did not explain. Instead, she suddenly said: "Senior Mu revealed your trump card for another reason—to intimidate Qianye, correct?"
"..." Mu Xuanyin slowly nodded.
"Actually, Senior Mu need not worry too much." Xia Qingyue said. "Qianye will not set foot in Yin Xue Realm anytime soon."
"Oh?" Mu Xuanyin's brows twitched slightly, then she fell into thought. "Before coming here, you forced her back? It seems you paid no small price."
"Just a small trick, hardly a price." Xia Qingyue said lightly. "Since everything is fine now, I should return."
The Xia Qingyue in Yun Che's memory had almost never smiled. Now, having become Yue Shen Di, she seemed to have learned to smile—but not the kind Yun Che wished to see.
"Wait," Mu Xuanyin called out to her. "It's rare for you to come here. Don't you want to talk with him more?"
"No need," Xia Qingyue closed her eyes. "Having you by his side is enough. The bond of husband and wife between us has already been severed. The things I need to do require me to be as far away from him as possible... Coming here today was already a mistake."
"Don't you want to know how he died back then? Where he has been these past few years? And why he returned?" Mu Xuanyin said slowly. "You are not a saint. Occasionally allowing yourself a moment of respite is not a sin."
Xia Qingyue: "..."
"I can tell you. These three years, he returned to the planet where you both originated. And that planet has not been peaceful in recent years, plagued by calamities. That is the main reason for his return."
"..." Xia Qingyue finally showed the slightest sign of emotion.
Mu Xuanyin continued: "But for himself, these few years have been extremely comfortable. He even found his own daughter. If not for the calamity on that planet, I suspect he wouldn't have wanted to return at all."
"Daughter?" Xia Qingyue's eyes flashed with surprise. What moved her even more was the word "found." She turned around and asked: "The mother of his daughter is..."
"Chu Yuechan." Mu Xuanyin said.
"..." Xia Qingyue lifted her head, a myriad of emotions surging within her. She murmured softly: "So that's how it is. His life has finally been spared one great regret."
However, her emotional fluctuation lasted only an extremely brief moment before returning to calm. She said softly: "Thank you, Senior Mu, for telling me. But Qingyue has already stayed too long. It's time for me to return... See you at Zhou Tian."
Mu Xuanyin's brows furrowed, a deep look of incomprehension on her face: "What exactly are you thinking?"
Xia Qingyue: "..."
"Four years ago, you severed the bond of husband and wife with Yun Che. At that time, you were certain that in order to break the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal, he would need to remain in the Reincarnation Forbidden Land for fifty years. You feared that during those fifty years, your revenge against Qianye would either fail or lead to your death, and you didn't want to drag him into it completely. But what about now?"
Mu Xuanyin stood before Xia Qingyue, looking into her eyes: "He left the Reincarnation Forbidden Land early and returned to the Eastern Divine Region. Your conflict with Qianye has yet to truly begin. Now, Yun Che has my protection, the protection of Liuguang, a connection with Dragon Queen Shen Xi, and likely the full protection of Zhou Tian... The reason you once had no longer exists. You have also succeeded as Yue Shen Di, and your position is secure. Yet in your words and actions, you still deliberately distance yourself from him..."
Xia Qingyue: "..."
"I don't believe this is your true intention, otherwise you wouldn't have appeared here." Mu Xuanyin's icy brows tightened further. "What exactly are you thinking? Or is there some special reason?"
"..." Under Mu Xuanyin's direct gaze, Xia Qingyue's eyes remained utterly still.
After a long silence, Xia Qingyue finally spoke, but asked a very strange question: "Senior Mu, has Yun Che ever mentioned to you that he carries a special 'mission'?"
This question startled Mu Xuanyin, and she nodded: "He mentioned it, just yesterday... Did he tell you?"
"...No."
"Then how do you know?"
Xia Qingyue did not answer. She gazed into the distance, her voice ethereal and lingering: "Yun Che carries the Evil God's divine power, a creation divine power that has never appeared before. Beyond that, he holds many other secrets—each one breaks history, astounds the world, and is far from ordinary."
"And I am the first person to simultaneously possess both the 'Lapis Heart' and the 'Exquisite Body'—another abnormal existence that breaks history and common understanding."
"..." Mu Xuanyin did not know why she was bringing this up, but she listened in silence.
"Yun Che and I originated from the same planet, the same continent. But perhaps you don't know that not only were we on the same continent, we grew up in the same small city. We are even the same age. From the moment we were born, an arranged marriage was set for us—meaning from birth, my fate was already divinely tied to his."
Mu Xuanyin: "..."
"Later I learned that his parents were not from that continent, and my mother was also not from that world. Neither Yun Che nor I should have been born and raised there, yet we both grew up in that small city until we were sixteen, and married in that same year."
"After that, I separated from him and entered a different world. I thought we would never cross paths again. But less than a year later, I reunited with him... Later, he even joined the same sect as I did—a sect that had never accepted men... Later, when the sect faced calamity, I was sent to this world. But despite the vast gulf between two worlds, I met him again in the Yue Shen Realm."
"It seems that from birth, the two of us have been connected by invisible threads. No matter how fate changes, no matter how space separates us, we always end up together again... Sounds strange, doesn't it?"
"..." Hearing this, Mu Xuanyin's slender brows trembled slightly.
The same age, the same birthplace, similarly peculiar origins, similarly extreme and abnormal talents—being separated and always reuniting quickly... If you consider just one or two of these points, you could call it coincidence. But when you take all of them together, calling it coincidence is indeed too strange.
Especially... their talents, which were so extraordinary. Even the God Realm had never seen the like, yet they both appeared simultaneously in the same small city of the same lower realm...
"What do you mean by all this?" Mu Xuanyin asked.
"Before, I never found these things strange, or perhaps I never paid attention to them. Until one day..." She paused, then changed the subject: "Senior Mu, have you heard that those who possess the Lapis Heart are called 'Daughters of the Heavenly Dao'?"
"This title has been known to all since the time of Zhou Tian's founding ancestor." Mu Xuanyin said.
"The concept of the Heavenly Dao is ethereal and intangible. Even someone as powerful as my adoptive father could not escape the death prophecy of the Tianji Realm. I still cannot fully believe in the existence of the 'Heavenly Dao.' Until three years ago, when I inherited my adoptive father's Purple Que Divine Power, my Lapis Heart began to awaken rapidly as my cultivation increased... In a few moments, I saw several very blurry images."
"...?" Mu Xuanyin was taken aback, pressing further: "What kind of images?"
"I cannot put them into words." Xia Qingyue shook her head slightly. "It was these images that made me suddenly realize that the intersection of our fates since birth was filled with so much strangeness... even eeriness."
Mu Xuanyin frowned tightly: "What you're saying—how does it relate to the question I asked you?"
"His special power comes with a special 'mission.' And I am the same. The difference is that mine is likely not a mission, but a 'destiny.'" Xia Qingyue's gaze grew even deeper. No one could understand what was contained in her eyes. "I very much wish I knew nothing. I want to believe that what I saw was merely an illusory hallucination... But since I have already seen it, I am destined to never truly pretend I haven't."
"Also, when I heard that Yun Che was still alive, I wasn't too surprised. Instead, I felt a sense of 'inevitability.' This feeling seems to corroborate something... and it's very bad."
"...??" Mu Xuanyin did not understand Xia Qingyue's words at all. But she could also sense that what Xia Qingyue said was not random nonsense.
"This is all I can answer." She closed her eyes. "I'm surprised I'm telling you this. Perhaps it's because, from everything I've seen, heard, and felt, I believe that you will never harm him."
"But I haven't understood a single word, and I don't know how it relates to the question I asked you." Mu Xuanyin stared at her.
Xia Qingyue turned around, her body slowly rising, and spoke a sentence that was utterly ethereal and vague: "Perhaps one day you will understand, and perhaps... no one will ever understand. Although... 'that day' should be very close."
As her voice faded, she pushed her palm forward, and a piece of purple jade flickering with strange light floated into Mu Xuanyin's hand: "In the future, if Yin Xue encounters any unsolvable matters, Senior Mu can use this to send me a message. Qingyue will do her utmost... And please do not tell Yun Che what I just said."
Xia Qingyue flew away, disappearing from Mu Xuanyin's sight in an instant.
Mu Xuanyin stood rooted to the spot, her brows tightly knit for a long time: "What exactly... is she talking about?"
She had only asked a question that puzzled her, but the answer she received only puzzled her even more.