Chapter 1495: Cai Zhi's Transformation
"Mo Li, where exactly did you find the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel?" Yun Che finally asked this question.
Mo Li curled her fair, slender legs, lying on Yun Che's chest like a lazy cat, and murmured softly, "The Slay Moon Demon Cave."
She could no longer return to the Star God Realm, and there was no place left for her in the world… No, she should say that on the Lan Ji Star, being by Yun Che's side was the best place for her.
"Slay Moon Demon Cave?" Yun Che's expression shifted in surprise. Memories of that time quickly surged into his mind, and the shock on his face gradually turned into understanding as he muttered, "Back then, the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel, which had been unsealed and set free, used Shiyue Mojun as its vessel…"
"No wonder, no wonder Shiyue Mojun managed to survive until that time, and no wonder the Evil God only sealed him instead of killing him."
Mo Li's answer dispelled all the fog surrounding Shiyue Mojun from those days. In ancient times, Shiyue Mojun had been hijacked by the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel as a life vessel. Thus, while gods and demons perished, he survived. The Evil God discovered his existence but couldn't kill him… because his life was intertwined with the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel.
And even the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel, whose power had been depleted, could not be destroyed by the Evil God. He could only choose to seal both it and Shiyue Mojun together.
Until, after a long period of sealing, the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel completely lost even the strength to hold Shiyue Mojun captive… In the sealed place, the Slay Moon Demon Cave, only the living Shiyue Mojun remained—once the king of the Eternal Night Demon Clan of the demon race—alongside the silent Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel.
The Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel, that terrifying demon wheel bearing the name "The Wheel of World's End," had always existed on the Lan Ji Star.
Added to that were the Heavenly Poison Pearl and the Wheel of Reincarnation…
Among the seven Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, three actually existed on the Lan Ji Star!
On a lower realm planet that basically no one in the God Realm knew about, and wouldn’t even glance at if they passed by!
"Back then, do you remember the black jade left behind after Shiyue Mojun's death?" Mo Li asked.
Yun Che nodded. "I still carry it with me. Have you already figured out what it is?"
"That black jade is actually the first fragment of the 'Ancestral Divine Art' left behind by the Primordial Ancestral God," Mo Li said, but she noticed that Yun Che didn’t react too strongly. "It seems you already knew."
"I only found out not long ago," Yun Che said. Before coming to the God Realm, he had learned from Xiao Lingxi that the engravings on it were some inexplicable Heaven-Defying World Scripture. And just two days ago, he learned from Qianye Ying'er that the Heaven-Defying World Scripture was actually the Ancestral Divine Art.
"I also know that in ancient times, among the three fragments of the Ancestral Divine Art, one was with Heaven-Slaying God Emperor Mo E, another with Jie Tian Mo Di, and the third… was actually in Shiyue Mojun's hands. That's a bit hard to believe."
"No," Mo Li shook her head. "That black jade didn't belong to Shiyue Mojun. In his time, he was the king of the Eternal Night Demon Clan, but he wasn't qualified to touch the Ancestral Divine Art. That black jade actually belonged to the Evil Infant."
"Eh?" Yun Che was stunned.
"According to records, of the three fragments of the Ancestral Divine Art, one was with the demon race and two with the god race. But in truth, two were with the demon race and one with the god race—it's just that no one ever knew where the first one was. In reality, the first fragment of the Ancestral Divine Art was with the Evil Infant from the very beginning."
"The reason it ended up on Shiyue Mojun was that after hijacking him, the Evil Infant dropped it on him when it was exhausted. But Shiyue Mojun probably never knew what it was, let alone be able to decipher it. As for the Evil Infant, although it knew it was the first fragment of the Ancestral Divine Art, it was never able to decipher it either."
"The Evil Infant couldn't decipher it either?" Yun Che's brow furrowed slightly.
"The Ancestral Divine Art is inscribed in Taichu Divine Script. No living being except the Demon Emperor and the Creation God, who inherited fragments of the Ancestral God's memories, could possibly decipher it," Mo Li said.
"…Besides the Creation God and the Demon Emperor, there's really no possibility?" Yun Che asked, somewhat absentmindedly… Even the Evil Infant, an existence vaguely surpassing even the Creation God and Demon Emperor, couldn't decipher the Ancestral Divine Art?
"Mm." Mo Li answered simply and definitively. She sensed something off about Yun Che and lifted her head slightly. "Why do you ask?"
"Actually…" Yun Che's gaze was dazed, then he shook his head. "It's nothing important."
Mo Li didn't press further and said, "That black jade is useless to you, but you can hand it over to Jie Tian Mo Di. If Jie Tian Mo Di is truly someone unwilling to owe favors, then she will definitely owe you a huge one because of this."
Back then, Jie Yuan was lured by Mo E's Ancestral Divine Art fragment and fell into a trap. She clearly had a deep longing for the Ancestral Divine Art.
"Mm, I understand." Yun Che nodded. He indeed planned to do that.
The two fragments of the Ancestral Divine Art in his hands, plus the one Jie Yuan held, would make it… for the first time in chaos history, complete.
Thus, these two unexpectedly obtained fragments of the Ancestral Divine Art greatly boosted Yun Che's confidence when facing Jie Yuan… because they would undoubtedly be a huge bargaining chip in convincing Jie Tian Mo Di to restrain the returning world-destroying gods—perhaps even the biggest one.
Just then, Yun Che suddenly thought of the Star God Wheel given to him by Xing Juekong. He was about to take it out, but then his heart stirred, and he gave up the idea.
It was better not to add to Mo Li's mental burden. Right now, she definitely didn't want to hear anything about Xing Juekong.
"I heard that Cai Zhi is also in the Taichu Divine Realm and hasn't left in the past few years," Yun Che asked. "Do you often go see her?"
"…" Mo Li's breath caught for a moment, then she said softly, "I do often go see her, but she has never seen me."
"…" Mo Li's answer was exactly what Yun Che had expected.
"Back then, I forced the two of you to be together. I thought that after I died, she would remember your existence and wouldn't be left without a place for her heart, completely falling into the abyss of resentment. I never expected that I was ultimately too naive."
The turn of events back then was countless times worse than even the worst outcome Mo Li had imagined. Even she had vastly underestimated the limits of human evil… After all, no matter how much she pretended to be mature in front of Yun Che and Cai Zhi, she had only lived for a little over twenty years.
She had thought that after sacrificing herself to save Cai Zhi, Cai Zhi would still have Yun Che, and Yun Che would still have Cai Zhi. But the result was that both of them were conspired against and sacrificed by their own biological father and the Star Gods of the same origin. In the end, Yun Che died, Mo Li became the Evil Infant, and Cai Zhi, who experienced, endured, and witnessed all this, suffered a blow beyond anyone's imagination.
Already shrouded in darkness by the deaths of her mother, aunt, and brother, and teetering on the edge of the abyss, she fell completely into the abyss this time…
"She's deep inside the Taichu Divine Realm, and getting deeper," Mo Li said softly. "In the past few years, she has faced countless ancient beasts and gets injured every day… Before, under my strict orders, she never stained her hands with blood or took a life. But now, when she faces blood rain and death, her coldness frightens me."
Yun Che: "…"
"The awakening speed of her Celestial Wolf Divine Power is also terrifyingly fast. Every time I find her, even if only a month or two apart, her aura is completely different from the last time."
"Brother was once the strongest Celestial Wolf Star God, but Cai Zhi's Celestial Wolf Divine Power grows at least… ten times faster than his."
The terrifying compatibility and growth rate between Cai Zhi and Celestial Wolf Divine Power did not bring joy to Mo Li, only deepening worry.
"Let's go find her together," Yun Che said. "Let her see that I'm alive and well, and let her see that you haven't been affected in your mind at all, that you're still the sister who cares about her. She will surely…"
"No," Mo Li refused. "Where she is, you cannot approach. And… several times, I felt that she sensed me, but she never called out or sought me out. Each time, she moved farther away."
"Why?" Yun Che frowned deeply.
"When she wants to see us, when she wants to leave this place, she will leave. Before that, don't disturb or force her." Mo Li closed her eyes, her voice light, ethereal, and cold.
…………
At the same time, unknown depths of the Taichu Divine Realm.
Drip.
A drop of cool water fell onto a snow-white, flawless, elf-like delicate face. The girl opened her hazy eyes, sat up from her curled position under a withered tree, and gazed at the gray-white sky.
"It's raining…" she murmured softly, her half-open eyes still carrying the mistiness of sleep.
A cool breeze blew, lifting her seven-colored dress like a dancing butterfly… but the world around her—ten, a hundred, a thousand, tens of thousands of miles—was an endless expanse of gray, and she became the only splash of color in this gray world.
But that single color only painted endless loneliness.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The earth shook and mountains trembled as a ten-thousand-zhang giant beast burrowed out from the ground, charging at the girl who was so pitifully small yet exuded an aura that made it uneasy.
Its body was gray-white, perfectly blending into the world, its frame like piled gray stone. Its roar carried the terrifying might to destroy stars.
The girl wasn't panicked; her eyes remained hazy. In an instant, her butterfly-like body traced an illusory, colorful shadow.
BOOM——————
Her small, fair, ice-congealed hand touched the giant beast's chest, and at its chest, a ten-thousand-zhang wolf shadow, larger than the beast itself, exploded.
CRACK!!!
As if a blue lightning bolt had streaked across the sky, in that moment, the gray-white sky suddenly split apart, the fractured blue cracks stretching to the edge of vision, to the horizon of the sky…
This was the space of the Taichu Divine Realm. Its sky was many times more resilient than that of the God Realm.
The roar of the ten-thousand-zhang beast ceased. Within the blazing wolf shadow, beneath the shattered sky, its massive body froze in midair, then violently exploded, scattering countless fragments… and a torrent of blood rain more terrifying than the fiercest storm.
WHOOSH——
The rain of blood drenched the girl's colorful dress. A pungent, nauseating stench wildly filled the space. She stood in the center of the frenzied downpour, neither dodging nor shielding herself. She slowly raised her hand, looked at her fingers stained red again, and her eyes, once like embedded stars, were now frighteningly cold.
"Not enough… not enough…" she murmured softly.
The crimson storm finally ceased. From the distant space came the panicked sounds of countless retreating beasts… These dangerous existences of the Taichu Divine Realm, the ancient beasts that everyone feared, had developed an unprecedented terror of this girl.
"Sister… wait for me…" she whispered faintly, vague as a dream. "Those who bullied you… I will… kill them all… kill them all… all of them…"
"All… of them…"
As she whispered, her hand slowly lowered. A deep blue light flickered in her eyes… but that blue light, once symbolizing the Celestial Wolf Divine Power, had lost its former brilliance and taken on a terrifying darkness.
The darkness of Dark Profound Force!