# Chapter 1937: Calamity Night Engulfs the Sky
To act so recklessly in Diyun City would have gotten anyone else kicked a thousand miles away by the Three Yan Ancestors with a single kick each. But facing Jun Xilei, they could only carefully block her path, not daring to act rashly for a long time, lest they incur some other calamity.
"Little Sword Lord?"
Just as Yan Yi was about to say something, Cai Zhi's low murmur came from behind. Yun Che's aura also appeared within perception.
As Yun Che and Cai Zhi stepped out ahead of time, the Three Yan Ancestors instantly felt relieved and quickly released their hindrance on Jun Xilei.
The moment she saw Yun Che, Jun Xilei's chaotic state of mind completely collapsed. She ignored everything else, staggering as she pounced toward Yun Che, her ice-cold hands gripping the fabric of his chest tightly: "Yun Che, you have to go... run! You cannot die... Only you... absolutely must not die!"
"...!?" Yun Che's brows, which had gathered in confusion, immediately sank.
Given Yun Che's current strength and everything under his control, not to mention making him die, there was hardly any real threat left in this world.
Anyone hearing Jun Xilei's words would only take them as a deranged joke.
The sudden annihilation of the Primordial Dragon Emperor had raised great doubts in his mind, leading him and Cai Zhi to end their secluded cultivation early. But now, Jun Xilei's eyes and aura were so disturbed and abnormal that, combined with her words, his doubts suddenly transformed into an unbearable unease.
He reached out and pressed his hand on Jun Xilei's shoulder, looking into her eyes: "What happened? Tell me slowly."
Yet the aura from Yun Che could not quickly calm the chaos in Jun Xilei's soul. Her eyes trembled as she let out broken, hoarse words: "People from... the Abyss of Nothingness... The Primordial Dragon Emperor is dead... Master... Master..."
Having been struck by an extremely terrifying pressure and shock nearly to the point of soul collapse, the mention of her master now caused sorrow to surge forth, making her instantly unable to continue speaking through her sobs.
Tears fell like rain, but she was still the Little Sword Lord after all. She lowered her head and choked out in a trembling voice: "Look at my... memories..."
Her soul sea opened completely before Yun Che... This was, in the midst of extreme grief, an act of trust stemming from the deepest subconscious.
"You know how the Primordial Dragon Emperor died?" Cai Zhi stepped forward abruptly.
Yun Che raised his hand to block Cai Zhi slightly, his palm on Jun Xilei's shoulder tightening a bit as a trace of soul force gently infiltrated Jun Xilei's defenseless soul sea.
The memories of Jun Xilei from the past quarter-hour were thus fully displayed in Yun Che's consciousness... A moment of absolute silence, then his pupils slowly contracted bit by bit, his aura silently constricted, and his unchanging features quickly spread with a dark gloom.
"What happened!?"
Yun Che's aura changed too drastically, causing Cai Zhi, who was already somewhat unsettled, to have her heart tighten sharply.
Yun Che did not speak. He raised his hand, his fingertip touching Cai Zhi's forehead, silently pouring the memories he had just acquired into her soul sea.
In an instant, Cai Zhi's aura froze as if seized by thousands of magnets.
Effortlessly suppressing the Sword Lord and his disciple, raising a hand to obliterate the Primordial Dragon Emperor...
An unfamiliar figure, unfamiliar phenomena, unfamiliar words, unfamiliar power...
Both Yun Che and Cai Zhi stood at the highest planes of this era, clearly knowing the limits that current power could reach.
Thus, they were all the more certain that what came from Jun Xilei's memory was clearly power surpassing—far surpassing—the limits of this world!
It was terrifying power that simply should not exist in this age!
The shock in Cai Zhi's heart was beyond measure—it was a collapse of cognition. And accompanying this collapse, the very world that Yun Che had firmly grasped in his palm... suddenly underwent a drastic change!
"How... could... how could this be..." Cai Zhi muttered absentmindedly, her body as dazed as her eyes: "Who are they..."
"Abyss..." Yun Che stared ahead, his hands unconsciously tightening.
The sudden death of the Primordial Dragon Emperor had alarmed him and Cai Zhi, but he could never have imagined that the cause of all this would be... an existence beyond cognition.
Abyss...
Passage...
Yuan Chen...
Yuan Huang...
Knight...
Pioneer of the new era...
Divine True Scale...
One after another, words from Jun Xilei's memories struck Yun Che's soul sea, each one shocking the world, each word like the sky collapsing.
"Run... run!"
Jun Xilei's hands still gripped Yun Che tightly, letting out sobbing tones that bordered on pleading: "Go to a place... where no one can find you... Those people are monsters... Only you cannot die... Only you... are the future... the only hope..."
Though her soul was chaotic, frightened, and sorrowful to the point of nearly shattering, she still clearly understood what the appearance of those "monsters" meant for this world.
Yun Che did not speak. He stared ahead, maintaining a terrible silence for a long time. The Three Yan Ancestors deeply sensed the strangeness of the aura and dared not even take a deep breath.
Finally, Yun Che gently pushed Jun Xilei away. Ahead of him, a sound transmission profound formation silently spread out, followed by his voice, calm yet heavy:
"Meiyin, immediately use the Cosmic Thorn to bring the Demon Empress, Xuanyin, Qianying, Cang Shitian, Qi Tianli, Qinglong..."
His voice suddenly paused, then Yun Che changed his words: "Wait. Conserve the Cosmic Thorn's power as much as possible. Bring only the Demon Empress to Diyun City as fast as possible."
The transmission ended. Shui Meiyin did not ask a single word. Yun Che's words and tone were enough to make her instantly understand that something of tremendous gravity had occurred.
One breath... two breaths... three breaths...
A faint crimson divine radiance flickered, and the figures of Shui Meiyin and Chi Wuyue appeared before them.
"What happened?"
In the very first instant, Chi Wuyue sensed the abnormality in the atmosphere. Especially the faces of Yun Che and Cai Zhi, which showed an expression that should never have appeared—a dark gloom.
"The brief peace has ended."
Yun Che let out an uneasy sigh and transmitted the memories from Jun Xilei to Chi Wuyue and Shui Meiyin.
When the shock was too intense, too strong for cognition and perception to bear for a time, it did not trigger emotional turmoil but rather blankness and speechlessness.
For the first time, even someone as mentally formidable as Chi Wuyue had her aura and soul imprint frozen for a long time.
"Demon Empress," Yun Che spoke: "I want to hear your judgment."
"..." Chi Wuyue's demonic eyes moved slightly, then slowly closed, remaining silent for a long time.
The brief memory, the short words, a mere seven people... but it required her powerful demonic soul the longest time and most careful method to digest.
"Abyss of Nothingness..." Shui Meiyin murmured softly: "They really came... from the Abyss of Nothingness? That is supposed to be an abyss that... reduces everything to nothing."
"Could the records be wrong? Is there... another world beneath the abyss?"
"The records are not wrong," Yun Che said heavily: "Just a year ago, I once... communicated with the consciousness of the Primordial Divine."
"...!?" Chi Wuyue's closed eyes moved sharply. Shui Meiyin, Jun Xilei, and Cai Zhi were all shocked.
The Primordial Divine—this was the absolute supreme being. The shock these three words brought was imaginable.
Given the current situation, he had no choice but to reveal this secret, which he had intended to bury forever in his heart, so early: "She told me that the world we now inhabit is not the complete Primordial Chaos world. Back then, to create a world that could give rise to many living beings, she separated the birth and destruction of the original chaos."
"The world we are in is the world of life. And the Abyss is the world of destruction. The power recorded to reduce everything falling into it to nothing is that original power of destruction. The two worlds use the Tai Chu Divine Realm as their connection point—one of life, one of destruction, existing in balance."
"But... in the final stages of the God-Demon War, the Primordial Will, which had never completely dissipated, happened to discover a clear anomaly in the chaotic world. Hongmeng Qi, Divine Path Spiritual Energy, Dark Demonic Breath... all flowed inexplicably toward one direction."
"The Abyss of Nothingness."
"It was then that she realized with shock that the laws she had bestowed upon the Abyss of Nothingness during creation, after an extremely long passage of time and the impact of the God-Demon War, had developed cracks and were rapidly crumbling... ultimately completely breaking away from the original laws, to a degree that even the remnants of the Primordial Will could no longer probe."
"That is to say," Shui Meiyin said in a very soft voice: "From that time, or perhaps even earlier, the Abyss of Nothingness, having broken away from its original laws, was no longer just the Abyss of Nothingness of destruction? And it might have... gradually formed its own laws, its own world..."
"..." Yun Che could not answer. What kind of mutation the Abyss of Nothingness, having broken away from the laws of the Primordial Divine, would undergo, even the Primordial Will could not give an answer. What she had always worried about was the Abyss of Nothingness, out of control, using its power of destruction to counterattack the world of life—that was also why she chose to be reborn through a thousand reincarnations.
But Yun Che could never have imagined that the abyssal calamity the Primordial Will had feared would manifest so quickly... not as a counterattack of destruction power, but as the emergence of...
Seven true terrifying monsters to the present world!
"Now is not the time to trace the origins. No matter how shocking or bizarre the truth behind this, it is no longer important."
Chi Wuyue finally spoke. Her demonic eyes opened, releasing the deepest black gleam she had ever displayed.
All eyes focused on Chi Wuyue.
She spoke slowly: "The outsiders are not the frightening part. What is frightening is that they possess power that simply cannot be resisted."
She emphasized with somewhat redundant words: "With just their aura immobilizing the Sword Lord, and annihilating the Primordial Dragon Emperor in a few breaths—not difficult to resist, but utterly impossible to resist."
"What is even more frightening is that these outsiders harbor a hatred for this world."
With a sigh, she softly breathed out slow, oppressive words: "A world beyond the world... truly absurd."
Yes, truly absurd. Like a nightmare that descended upon the world with no prelude or omen, no rules or celestial principles.
Behind them, the Three Yan Ancestors exchanged glances, their faces bewildered but their hearts shaken.
Though they were slaves beneath Yun Che's feet, beyond the slave mark, their cognition of the world was complete and intact. Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, regardless of their knowledge or records... they had never heard of any world beyond the world.
"Hatred..." Recalling the images and sounds in Jun Xilei's memory, aside from the excitement and elation released by the leading figure, there was indeed a chilling hatred. The method of killing the Primordial Dragon Emperor carried a sense of venting and cruelty.
"That is to say," Shui Meiyin spoke slowly: "They come for destruction?"
"No," Chi Wuyue shook her head: "From the words they spoke, what they want to become are rulers, not destroyers. Therefore, their hatred carries restraint. Although they killed the Primordial Dragon Emperor, they never went so far as to kill the Sword Lord and his disciple... because, compared to momentary venting, what they need more is a 'guide.'"
Yuan Huang... These two words struck Chi Wuyue's consciousness, weighing heavily on her, making her choke with suffocation.
These seven utterly terrifying figures were merely pioneers.
Though it was only a fragment of memory from Jun Xilei, the profound reverence these seven terrifying individuals held toward "Yuan Huang" at the deepest level was clear to perceive.
What kind of existence was that?
Shui Meiyin's eyes remained dark as ever, not a single light rising from Chi Wuyue's words. She said in a low voice: "Whether they come for destruction or for domination, it makes no difference to us. If the divine realm falls into their hands, others may choose to submit, but the former sovereign... inevitably..."
She raised her eyes to look at Yun Che, her fingers twisting around his sleeve: "The Little Sword Lord is right, Yun Che big brother. We can only temporarily retreat. As long as Yun Che big brother is here, no matter how terrifying they are, in the future... Yun Che big brother can create infinite possibilities."
Shui Meiyin was right. Anyone could submit. But only the sovereign... even if he kneels, he would only face execution.
"Temporarily retreat"—this was already the euphemism Shui Meiyin could think of.
"Run... run quickly! For all that's holy... do not act on impulse!" Jun Xilei's cheeks were stained with tears, her body still trembling slightly. She was sorrowful, fearful, yet utterly lucid. Having personally endured the pressure of those seven, she knew better than anyone that they were a power Yun Che absolutely, absolutely could not oppose.
Chi Wuyue did not continue. Her demonic eyes fixed on Yun Che: "The decision is yours. This concerns survival. I know that even if my decision contradicts yours, I cannot stop you."
As soon as she finished speaking, everyone's hearts suddenly seized.
From the distant dome of the sky came a continuous low moan, as if the entire heaven and earth, the entire world, had begun to tremble faintly... and it went on for a long time without ceasing.
Yun Che, Chi Wuyue, Cai Zhi, Shui Meiyin, Jun Xilei, the Three Yan Ancestors... and countless experts of the divine realm—their gazes, as if pulled by an irresistible invisible force, all suddenly turned toward the distant starry sky... there, where the Tai Chu Divine Realm lay.
"They... have come out..." Jun Xilei murmured absently.
All around, the fear of the entire divine realm trembled. Chi Wuyue let out a faint breath: "It seems you have hardly any time left to deliberate and hesitate."