# Chapter 1459: Tears of the Demon Emperor
Yun Che's words elicited no reaction from Jie Yuan. What he had said truly was the limit of what she could offer. Because aside from Yun Che, this world held nothing for her but unfamiliarity and emptiness.
Yun Che continued, "Because, in this world, there is still your home... and your family."
These words caused Jie Yuan, whose heart had been a frozen wasteland of confusion, to sharply furrow her brow. Her gaze snapped to him: "What did you say?"
"Senior, have you ever heard the name 'Lan Ji Star'?" Yun Che said slowly.
"Lan Ji Star? Never heard of it." Jie Yuan's brow sank deeper. "What exactly do you mean by that statement?"
Yun Che raised his left hand, thought for a moment, then ultimately didn't dare to call out Hong'er. Instead, he said, "Senior, I trouble you to take me to a place."
As he spoke, he condensed a spark of soul imprint at his fingertip.
Without even looking at it, Jie Yuan swept her spiritual sense over it once, then grabbed Yun Che. The Cosmic Thorn in her hand flashed with red light.
In an instant, the space before them shifted.
The scene changed not to a dark and gloomy world, but to an endless blue sea.
Ultra-long-distance spatial transfers, even with the most powerful spatial profound formations in the world, still require a considerable amount of time to traverse. But the spatial shift of the Cosmic Thorn... was so short it was imperceptible, a mere instant!
This was a water-blue planet. To any denizen of the God Realm, it would appear utterly ordinary—so ordinary they wouldn't even spare it a second glance. It was a lower realm planet.
Lan Ji Star!
It had been less than a month since he had left this place to return to the God Realm. Thinking back to what Jie Yuan had said earlier, the world before him—the world of his birth, the world he knew best—had undergone a massive transformation in his understanding. Before she could ask, he spoke: "This place is the 'Lan Ji Star' I mentioned just now."
"It is the place of my birth. Almost ninety-nine percent of the entire planet is ocean, with only about one percent being land, divided into three continents that are far apart from each other. Because the whole world is basically covered by the blue ocean, it is called Lan Ji Star."
He looked at Jie Yuan: "Senior, does this planet seem familiar to you?"
"Hmph!" Jie Yuan snorted disdainfully. "A mortal soul planet in the Eastern Divine Region, how could I possibly recognize it?"
Yun Che: "Eh...?"
Jie Yuan swept her gaze around and continued, "The aura of this planet is clearly very ancient, yet it is exceptionally thin. It seems that a very long time ago, it suffered external impact, undergoing multiple tribulations of destruction, leaving only this small, tiny bit of la—"
Before she could finish her words, her voice abruptly stopped, as if something had forcibly cut it off.
Her eyes, which had been cold and indifferent, began to tremble. She spun around, her gaze wildly sweeping across the four directions. Her Demon Emperor's spiritual sense surged like an uncontrollable flood, covering the entire azure-blue planet.
Her pupils trembled more and more violently. Then, even her body began to quiver slightly.
This aura... Could it be... Could it be...
The Demon Emperor's sudden abnormal reaction left Yun Che with no further doubts. He spoke slowly, "This planet is actually far more extraordinary than it appears. The Evil God's Divine Power I inherited, and even the Heavenly Poison Pearl, were all obtained on this planet. Also, three of the four Divine Souls I carry on my person—the Phoenix Divine Soul, the Dragon God Divine Soul, and the Golden Crow Divine Soul—were all acquired on this small planet."
Jie Yuan stared into the distance, her gaze trembling as she perceived everything in this world. Her aura was slightly disturbed, as if she hadn't heard a single word Yun Che said.
"After arriving in the God Realm, I truly understood that for an ordinary lower realm planet, having so many True God inheritances appear is highly abnormal... And back then, the Golden Crow Soul Spirit who bestowed the Golden Crow Divine Soul upon me told me that this planet was the first planet created by the Evil God in the primordial era."
"However, its current location seems to be very, very far from where Senior knows it to be."
Jie Yuan: "..."
"I speculate that when the great war between the two races erupted, and even gods and demons were annihilated piece by piece under that catastrophe, planets were naturally fragile beyond compare. Countless planets must have turned to dust. But, this planet, although ordinary and small, was the place where the Evil God and Senior met and united. The Evil God would never allow it to be destroyed. So, risking great danger and expending tremendous power, he protected it. Then, using some method I cannot imagine, he transferred it from the battlefield to this corner of the chaos, which was relatively peaceful at that time."
Jie Yuan stared ahead, mist forming in her eyes, and murmured in a daze, "It still exists... It actually still exists..."
Yun Che smiled gently. "Senior, not only does your home still exist in this world, but the daughter of you and the Evil God also still lives."
These words struck Jie Yuan like a massive, sky-toppling hammer. In that instant, her uncontrolled demonic aura sent Yun Che's body violently shaking, nearly causing him to spit blood. In the next moment, she had tightly grabbed the clothes on his chest, her pitch-black demon eyes pressing fiercely against his: "What... did... you... say?!"
Yun Che was completely suffocated. Using almost all his willpower, he barely managed to utter the words with extreme difficulty: "Senior... the daughter of you and the Evil God... she still lives! And... she is on this very planet!"
This time, Jie Yuan heard him with perfect clarity. Her demon eyes seemed to nearly double in size right in front of Yun Che: "Where? Where is she? No... no... you're lying to me! She couldn't possibly still be alive... You're lying to me!"
Millions of years of exile, and when she had returned, she had been eerily calm.
But now, her vision was clouded, her aura chaotic, her body trembling... like a beast that had suddenly lost its mind.
"..." Yun Che felt as if his body was about to be torn apart. He opened his mouth, but could no longer make a sound.
The hand gripping him suddenly released. Jie Yuan seemed to regain some clarity, but her aura was still somewhat chaotic. Her eyes, glowing with black light, still fixed on him: "If she were still alive, I would not be unable to detect her... You... must... be... lying to me!"
Yun Che clutched his chest, took a few deep breaths, and tried to calm himself. "I dare not deceive Senior. The reason she was able to escape the calamity back then, and the reason Senior cannot sense her existence, both have special reasons. Senior will understand once she sees her... I will take Senior to see her now."
From Yun Che's words and eyes, she saw no evasion or concealment. This made her heart pound violently. She said heavily, "If you dare lie to me... I will tear you apart right now!"
"Senior, please follow me."
The more intense Jie Yuan's reaction, the more reassured Yun Che felt. He quickly located the direction of the Cang Yun Continent and flew up.
He had barely flown any distance when his arm was grabbed by Jie Yuan, and her clearly impatient voice came to his ear: "At this speed, you might as well be a crawling turtle! Tell me the location!"
Yun Che activated the Phantom Lightning Extreme. Among those of the same level, his speed was absolutely unmatched. But in Jie Yuan's mouth, it was rated as "crawling like a turtle."
He released a soul imprint, informing Jie Yuan of the location of the Jueyun Abyss on the Cang Yun Continent, and then...
Whoosh!
His soul remained suspended in its original place, his mind hadn't even reacted, but his body had already been transported to another distant space...
By the time he finally came to his senses, he was standing at the edge of the Jueyun Abyss, his whole body weak and trembling as if he had been beaten for days and nights.
What the hell, this is no different from spatial travel... Yun Che's soul was also trembling violently.
Looking down into the bottomless dark abyss, Jie Yuan slightly frowned and murmured to herself, "Why is there a small world here..."
"This aura..."
She looked as if struck by lightning, and disregarding everything else, she plunged straight down.
"Senior!" Yun Che called out instinctively, but before the sound even left his mouth, Jie Yuan's figure had completely disappeared into the darkness.
After a brief hesitation, Yun Che jumped down as well, chasing at his fastest speed.
Falling rapidly, passing through layers of darkness, Yun Che once again arrived at this dark world he knew so well.
But this time, he didn't hear a single roar from any demonic beast. There was only a dark, dead silence.
Perhaps they had faintly sensed Jie Yuan's aura and were all lying on the ground trembling in terror.
Yun Che restrained his aura and flew towards You Er's location. Soon, he saw the familiar Netherworld purple light... and also saw Jie Yuan's figure.
She stood in the darkness, silent, looking from afar at the half-soul girl sleeping in the Netherworld Brahma Flower sea.
The light of the Netherworld Brahma Flower was mysterious and cold, but it was the girl's only companion in this dark world.
In the flower sea, she lay with her arms folded against her chest, her legs curled up, her whole body shrinking into a ball. She was like a cat that was fond of sleeping and a little afraid of the cold. She was very quiet, very lonely... and it made one's heart ache involuntarily.
Jie Yuan did not approach. She just stood there, far away, silently watching.
She had no need for Yun Che's information. She knew who that girl was... because no mother in the world could mistake her own daughter, no matter how many years had passed.
And with her level of perception, she clearly understood the girl's current state. No body. Even her soul was incomplete, barely surviving by clinging to the darkness here, preserved only by the Netherworld power of the Brahma flower sea.
All of this clearly told her that the half-soul girl in her sight could not leave this cold, lonely dark world, nor could she long leave this Netherworld flower sea where she slept.
Which meant... she had endured an excruciatingly long period of darkness and solitude.
"Senior?" Yun Che called out softly.
Jie Yuan gave no response.
Yun Che lightened his footsteps and walked to Jie Yuan's side. He was about to speak again when he suddenly froze in place, his expression turning dazed.
He saw... a scene he could hardly believe.
A trail of tears slid slowly down Jie Yuan's face, reflecting the purple light of the Netherworld, and then... silently dripped onto the dark soil.
Yun Che: "..."
This was a tear... from the Demon Emperor.
He was witnessing a scene that the ancient gods and demons had never seen and would not believe.
Jie Yuan slowly reached up, touching the wetness on her face. Perhaps even she couldn't believe she was crying.
But her eyes never strayed from the half-soul girl in the flower sea, not even for a single moment.
"Even if we were truly wrong..." she murmured in a daze, like a painful delirium. "Even if breaking the taboo between gods and demons must incur heavenly punishment... what guilt does our daughter bear?"
"Our... daughter... what... guilt... does... she... bear..."
Standing by Jie Yuan's side, every word she muttered made Yun Che acutely feel a pain like ten thousand arrows piercing the soul.
With her first glance, she knew that was her daughter.
Finding something lost after millions of years away should have been a moment of ecstasy.
But at the same moment she met her daughter, she also saw a remnant soul that had languished in darkness for millions of years...
The joy and excitement were drowned out. What followed was a spiritual torture more painful than the millions of years spent in the Outer Chaos.