# Chapter 1922: Moon Memories (Six)
**[Long, but short]**
The words Xia Qingyue spoke caused Yue Wuyai's laughter to stop abruptly.
"No... don't tell her!"
Before Yue Wuyai could respond, Yue Wugou spoke up in haste, her expression panicked.
Yue Wuyai turned his gaze and gave her a reassuring look, then said solemnly: "I can tell you... but not now either."
"Why?" Xia Qingyue asked.
"I cherish Wugou even more than myself," Yue Wuyai countered. "If I knew who it was that harmed Wugou back then, what do you think I would do?"
Xia Qingyue: "..."
"I would hate nothing more than to personally... tear them limb from limb!" Yue Wuyai's voice was calm, but the four words "tear them limb from limb" still carried a faint gnashing of teeth: "But, after all these years, I have still been unable to avenge Wugou and myself. Why do you think that is?"
A suffocating silence. After a long while, Xia Qingyue slowly spoke: "Is it... someone even Senior cannot deal with?"
"Correct." Yue Wuyai's gaze and voice both carried a deep gloom: "That person has a powerful background and origins, extremely high strength and status, and their mind and methods are exceedingly cunning and vicious. In their eyes, there is never good or evil, right or wrong—only benefit."
"While secretly striking at your mother, she also harbored another malicious intent—directing my suspicion toward the Star God Realm. In my rage and burning heart back then, I failed to investigate deeply, and instead... fell into her trap, making a grave mistake that led to even greater enmity between the Moon God and Star God Realms."
As he spoke, Yue Wuyai's hands clenched silently.
Outside the scene, Yun Che knew what "grave mistake" he was referring to.
He had thought it was Xing Juekong who had secretly struck, so he retaliated in kind, successfully kidnapping what he believed to be Xing Juekong's most important consort—the mother of Celestial Wolf Star God Xi Su.
Also, the mother of Mo Li.
And he caused her to take her own life.
And Yue Wuyai's ultimate end was dying at Mo Li's hands.
In a sense, it was a fitting end.
But at root, whether it was the tragedy of Xia Qingyue's family or the tragedy of Mo Li's family, the culprit was Qianye Ying'er from back then.
"Even someone I cannot act against lightly—what could you do if you knew?" Yue Wuyai said heavily. "In terms of cultivation, scheming, experience, and methods... the gap between you and her is far greater than the distance between heaven and earth."
"If I told you now, having a clear but unreachable goal, along with hatred that fills your chest but has no outlet, it would only disturb your cultivation and chaos your mind—pure harm with no benefit."
"And when you inherit and merge with my power in the future, even if you don't ask, I will tell you."
He looked at Xia Qingyue, his gaze filled with deep expectation: "With your Glazed Heart and Exquisite Body, the upper limit you can reach in the future will surely surpass hers. What I cannot accomplish, as long as you know how to bide your time and assess the situation... one day, you will surely achieve it."
Not receiving the answer she wanted, Xia Qingyue did not ask further but nodded deeply.
It was only at this point that Yun Che gradually realized that Yue Wuyai's influence on Xia Qingyue went far beyond just the inheritance of Purple Que Divine Power.
And until this moment, that one matter still swayed chaotically in his heart...
What exactly was going on with the bloodline fusion between Qingyue and Yue Wuyai!?
The timing was completely off, and Yue Wugou had clearly stated that she and Yue Wuyai had never been husband and wife in the true sense.
Could it really... just be an error?
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Back then, another space.
"Wh... what!? You're preparing to pass the throne to Xia Qingyue? Divine Emperor, are you... are you insane!?"
In his anxiety, Golden Moon God Yue Wuji directly blurted out insubordinate words.
"I have given this matter deep consideration." Yue Wuyai said. "Though we have the identity of 'Divine Empress' as cover, there will surely be great resistance. Wuji, I will need your help in this."
"It is far more than just great resistance!" Yue Wuji stood in front of Yue Wuyai, his face full of disbelief: "Xia Qingyue possesses the Glazed Heart and Exquisite Body. Choosing her as the inheritor of Purple Que Divine Power, to become the next Purple Que Moon God—I have absolutely no objection."
"But the position of Divine Emperor—I cannot understand it, cannot accept it!"
"What is there to not understand?" Yue Wuyai said. "The last person to possess a Glazed Heart was the founding ancestor of Zhou Tian! According to records, the Glazed Heart is said to receive heaven's blessing. If she becomes the Moon God Emperor, perhaps in the future, she will bring unprecedented glory to the Moon God Realm."
"Even if that is the Glazed Heart, even if the so-called blessing is real, Xia Qingyue is still an outsider after all... an outsider!" Yue Wuji emphasized: "For a Divine Emperor, the interests of the king realm naturally come first. But, even if one has no selfish motives, which Divine Emperor would be willing to hand over the king realm, which carries the accumulation of ancestors and the life's work of the emperor himself, to someone of a different surname!"
These words made Yue Wuyai freeze in shock.
"Moreover, she is still... the daughter of Yue Wugou and another man!" Golden Moon God Yue Wuji frowned deeply, shaking his head repeatedly: "Common sense... shouldn't you despise her instead?"
"..." Yue Wuyai was silent for a long time, waves of confusion flickering in the depths of his eyes.
He suddenly felt that Yue Wuji was not wrong.
Passing the position of Divine Emperor to Xia Qingyue would be tantamount to handing over the future of the Moon God Realm to an outsider... no matter how astonishing her talent.
As the daughter of Yue Wugou and another man, he should indeed despise her.
But why, even so, did he still not want to change his mind?
"Wuji," Yue Wuyai sighed lightly: "The heavenly prophecy says I will face a death calamity within five years. Whether true or false, consider it preparing for the worst. She is the best successor I can find in this short term."
"I will do my best to make the necessary preparations and lay the groundwork." He reached out and patted Yue Wuji's shoulder: "You will help me, won't you?"
Yue Wuji wanted to dissuade him further, but meeting Yue Wuyai's gaze, he finally sighed deeply and nodded helplessly: "In official matters, you are the Divine Emperor. In private, you are my brother from the same mother. Of course I will fully support your decision. It's just..."
"With those words, that's enough." Yue Wuyai revealed a smile: "Begin making all preparations."
"In the coming days, I will personally guide Qingyue in her cultivation. You will need to put more effort into the affairs of the Moon God Realm, big and small."
"Additionally, the Moon Abyss Jade originally intended for Xuange's body transformation to help him bear the Moon God inheritance, and the Flowing Moon Compassion Flower I had accumulated over the years to nurture the next Moon God Emperor—I will also use them all for Qingyue."
Yue Wuji's expression shifted dramatically.
"With Xuange's temperament, he certainly won't remain indifferent. In the future
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when Qingyue succeeds the throne, he will be a major destabilizing factor. You should also make preparations in advance."
Having said so much, Yue Wuyai's determination to establish Xia Qingyue as the next Divine Emperor was far more resolute than he had previously shown.
So resolute it was as if he had been bewitched by a mind-control curse.
"...I understand." Yue Wuji could only acquiesce.
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The world changed again, but this time, what appeared before Yun Che's eyes was a scene not unfamiliar.
Moon God Emperor City, the Divine Moon hung high in the sky!
It was exactly the ceremony that shook the Eastern Divine Region, originally meant to bestow upon Xia Qingyue the identity of "Divine Empress," as well as the day he and Xia Qingyue met again in the Divine Realm.
She had officially stepped out of her "confinement," making the vast Eastern Divine Region remember her name. Then, she suddenly learned... that her husband, thought dead for many years, was actually alive, right here in this Moon God City.
"Adoptive father, Qingyue has a request," in the Dun Yue Immortal Palace, suppressing the extreme turmoil and struggle within her, she said to Yue Wuyai.
"Please give the Dun Yue Immortal Palace to Qingyue."
"Hahaha," Yue Wuyai laughed heartily: "Qingyue, in all these years, this is the first time you've asked me for something. Good, very good."
"Before long, the entire Moon God Realm will be yours, so what is mere Dun Yue Immortal Palace! Since you want it, I'll give it to you now."
"Thank you, adoptive father, for granting this." Behind Xia Qingyue's gratitude was even deeper struggle and guilt.
"Adoptive father," she slowly spoke, each word as light as smoke: "Qingyue has one sentence that you must remember."
"In the future, no matter what happens, Qingyue... will never betray the Moon God Realm."
"Qingyue, you..." Her words undoubtedly made Yue Wuyai show confusion.
"Qingyue only wants you to remember these words forever... no matter what happens in the future, please recall them." She continued, each word very, very soft, like a whisper in a dream.
Though confused, with guests from various realms outside, he didn't press further and said cheerfully: "Qingyue, with these words, even if that 'prophecy' from the Heavenly Fate Realm comes true tomorrow, I will have no regrets." [1]
Yue Wuyai left. The Dun Yue Immortal Palace was empty of others, and Xia Qingyue could no longer hide the pain on her face. She closed her eyes, lost in thought for a long time.
"Should I send him a message now, tell him everything, or..."
She murmured softly, her gaze trembling, her expression anxious, as if standing on a cliff formed by the intersection of two worlds...
She thought of her mother... compared to her mother's bitter circumstances and difficult choices back then, her own were not even a fraction, yet they already pierced her soul so deeply.
Remembering back then, when she married Yun Che...
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"...You clearly said you were going back to the Bing Yun Fairy Palace. Marrying me was for the promise back then. So you definitely won't mind me taking concubines, right?"
"Fine!"
"That's what you said! Oh, by the way, I take concubines, that's my business. But you absolutely must not fool around outside! Even if I, Yun Che, am a waste, I'm still... ahem! A man of seven feet! This matter, you must give me your guarantee!"
"Ridiculous!"
"How is it ridiculous! A man's dignity is greater than heaven, especially in matters concerning women! You married me, but you won't let me touch you, won't let me hold you, and you're thinking of leaving and never coming back! What part of a wife's duties have you fulfilled? Now I'm just asking for the most basic guarantee, and you won't even give that! Even if it's just for a promise, for repaying kindness... at least show a little bit of sincerity, okay!"
"...Enough. I guarantee that I will not have any illicit relationship with any man, and I guarantee that I will do nothing to damage your man's dignity. Are you satisfied now!"
"Hmph, that's more like it! Hoo... Your looks are too dangerous out there. If one day you see some young master from a prestigious family and your heart starts fluttering... Hey, hey, I'm not finished yet!"
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"The marriage ceremony was fake, the identity of Divine Empress was false, but the whole world will know. This is too unfair to him." Xia Qingyue closed her eyes and murmured softly, tears falling slowly: "He has just made a name for himself in the Divine Realm. How can I let him be tainted with dirt because of me, ruining his future..."
"Mother, adoptive father... Qingyue is unfilial. I will only... atone for my sins with the rest of my life!"
Xia Qingyue's whispers, heard by Yun Che, were like words stabbing through his heart.
Back then, on the Dun Yue Immortal Palace, Xia Qingyue had told him everything in very plain words.
He knew then that Xia Qingyue must have gone through an extremely painful decision... And now, looking at Yue Wugou's situation and final wish, Yue Wuyai's great kindness to her, and the unspeakable bond of blood...
Only then did he truly understand how difficult and painful her choice back then had been.
And what a heavy burden of guilt it had buried in her heart.
And all of this, Xia Qingyue had borne alone afterward, without him sharing even a shred of it.
The scenes flowed rapidly—from Xia Qingyue using the Dun Yue Immortal Palace to escape the Moon God Realm with him, to encountering Qianye Ying'er's interception and being implanted with the Buddhist Soul Death-Pleading Seal... to her kneeling in front of the Reincarnation Forbidden Land, holding him who was gasping for death...
Handing him over to Shen Xi, she returned to the Moon God Realm and knelt before Yue Wuyai.
But what Yue Wuyai gave her was not rage, not severe punishment, but only a bitter smile:
"Qingyue, can't you just beg for mercy, act a little cute? Your stubbornness is nothing like your mother's back then."
For her, he had not only kindness, but also... tolerance and love far beyond that of an adoptive daughter.
Time passed. A year later, Yue Wuyai's "death calamity" prophecy indeed came true.
He died at Mo Li's hands.
Yun Che watched as Yue Wuyai, with his last breath, transferred the Purple Que Divine Power to Xia Qingyue...
It was just that the death calamity came too fast, too fast for him to pave the rest of the road for Xia Qingyue.
At the moment of his death, what he said to Xia Qingyue was not instructions or expectations for the future, but... his hatred for Xia Hongyi.
Yes, he had never let it go, and in his final moments, he shed tears that he had never shed in front of Yue Wugou... and so he died with tears and hatred.
Had he not witnessed it with his own eyes, no one could have imagined that the life of a generation's Moon God Divine Emperor would end so tragically and miserably.
That same day, Yue Wugou died for love, following him.
In the scene, he watched Xia Qingyue holding Yue Wugou's body, crying her heart out.
And the bronze mirror on Yue Wugou's body was pressed against her chest, becoming a memento of her mother.
From then on, she was completely alone in the Divine Realm... carrying an extremely deep guilt toward her mother and adoptive father, facing alone the resistance and heavy pressure from nearly the entire Moon God Realm.
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Knowing it would certainly invite opposition from the entire Moon God Realm, Xia Qingyue still forcefully buried her mother's body together in Yue Wuyai's imperial tomb.
She knelt before the tomb for three whole days and nights.
Yun Che silently watched for three days and nights, making no sound, never taking his eyes away...
If only back then, he could have been by her side like this. At least he could have shared some of the pain in her heart.
Finally, she stood up. But at that moment, her body shook violently, and she fell back to her knees.
A pair of eyes that had been as dead as still water suddenly began trembling with extreme turmoil.
"...!?" Though it was but a scene of illusory recollection, the too violent and eerie stirring of the soul almost touched his own soul directly through the image.
What... happened to Qingyue's body?
She raised both hands, pressing them tightly against her head, her body beginning to tremble violently, as if enduring some immense pain.
What's happening... what the hell is going on!?
Yun Che's sea of soul echoed with his overly urgent roar.
It was then that the ethereal feminine voice sounded:
"Her Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body allowed the Purple Que Divine Power to be perfectly inherited. The power matured overnight, and the soul changed overnight, spurring her Glazed Heart to awaken rapidly that very night."
"With a heart like glazed crystal, the world has no filth... She began to see through the 'truth beneath the void' far earlier than you, and far earlier than I expected."
"The truth... beneath the void?" Yun Che looked around blankly: "What... does that mean?"
"Are you not gradually beginning to see through it yourself... ever since you began cultivating the 'Heaven-Defying World Scripture.'" The woman's voice drifted through.
"Me?" Yun Che stiffened in shock.
But before he could think further, Xia Qingyue in the recollection scene finally stopped trembling.
She knelt there, slowly raising her eyes. Her tears, which had already been cried dry, flooded down her cheeks again in an instant.
"So... you really are my father... you really are... my father..."
Word by word, tear by tear, she could hardly speak from weeping.
What it brought to Yun Che was prolonged astonishment.
What exactly did she see?
Her murmured words... Was Yue Wuyai really her biological father?
The seamlessly fusing bloodline was not an error!?
But it was three years after Xia Hongyi and Yue Wugou met that Xia Qingyue was born. And Yue Wugou had almost sworn to Xia Qingyue that she and Yue Wuyai had never been husband and wife...
It was precisely these seemingly irrefutable "evidences" that had kept Xia Qingyue, even facing their fused bloodline, from truly believing he was her biological father, leaving only a lingering haze in her heart, making her willing to take him as an adoptive father.
Could it be that Yue Wugou and Xia Hongyi had both lied, or...
"No wonder... you always made me feel so close, so reliant... no wonder... you were so good to me, so tolerant..."
"So, I am your daughter... So... I was once... so deeply loved by my father..."
"But during your lifetime... I never called you Father even once..."
"And even your... final wish..."
Tears fell, words dripped with blood.
When Yun Che later returned to the Divine Realm and met Xia Qingyue, her narration of Yue Wuyai and Yue Wugou's deaths was light and brief, without a single tear or trace of grief, let alone mentioning... that Yue Wuyai was her biological father.
All the tears, guilt, pain, and regret... she buried them all deep in her heart.
And at this moment, recalling Xia Qingyue who had fallen into the Abyss of Nothingness, Yun Che's heart suddenly turned cold.
Because he realized with shock that this family of three—father, mother, and daughter—had none of them come to a good end.
As if cursed by a cruel fate.
The light gradually dimmed, the wind grew mournful, as if even heaven and earth were grieving deeply.
No one knew how long had passed before Xia Qingyue's sobbing quietly ceased.
She raised her eyes, looking ahead, but her gaze was vacant... After a long time, it slowly began to regain focus.
Then, bit by bit, it coalesced into a terrifying, bone-chilling cold.
"Mother," she called softly: "The mortal world has only given you bitterness. Now, you can enjoy bliss with Father in another world."
"Your hatred and anger—I will avenge them for you!"
"Father, you failed to protect my mother back then. This time, you must never... lose her again."
"And the Moon God Realm, which you devoted your life to—I will guard it for you!"
She slowly raised her hand, her fingertip pressing against her heart, her lips murmuring like the wind: "I, Xia Qingyue, hereby swear two vows for the rest of my life..."
"Kill Qianye, guard the Moon God!"
"If I violate either, may heaven and earth destroy me, and may my reincarnation be severed forever!"
Her fingertip pierced her heart, spilling crimson drops of blood. Her blood and blood oath were inscribed before the tombs of her parents.
And they almost pierced two holes in Yun Che's very soul, causing his sea of soul to spasm and churn for a long time.
Kill Qianye, guard the Moon God...
Qianye was under his protection...
The Moon God was destroyed by his hand...
And back then, she had truly held Qianye Ying'er's life in her grasp, yet chose to endure for a millennium, keeping her as Yun Che's safeguard.
In the end, she...
Outside the sea of soul, the body leaning against the cliff face shuddered as if pierced by a bone-chilling wind, his clenched teeth bleeding crimson.
No one could imagine the kind of spiritual torture he was undergoing at this moment.
In the scene, Xia Qingyue slowly stood up.
The moment she turned, the teardrops on her face scattered like broken stars, and the purple light reflected in her eyes was so fierce it could nearly shatter souls.
Through the trembling, blurry vision, Yun Che saw a Xia Qingyue completely different from before—that one turn was a transformation of heaven and earth.
The next three years of the Moon God Realm would see a new Moon God Emperor whom no one accepted, despite the late emperor's decree and the Moon Emperor's Glazed Heart.
And the terrifyingly rapid rise of the new Moon God Emperor's power, along with a baptism of cruel ruthlessness.
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**[1]: Chapter 1278**
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