# Chapter 1959: Azure Shadow
Mo Beichen's power of despair was terrifyingly formidable. If not for the protection of Divine Embers force, with Yun Che's current physical condition, he would likely have been shattered to pieces like Cang Shitian.
And the consequences of detonating profound energy like this while being ravaged by Heaven Poison were undoubtedly extremely cruel.
"Hiiiissss—aaaaaahhhhh—"
Mo Beichen's already miserable wailing suddenly became several times more piercing, as if thousands of hellish ghosts were simultaneously subjected to the most brutal torture in the world.
Amidst the screams, his demigod body, in this extremely short time, directly transformed from a light green into a horrifying bright green, accompanied by convulsions and distortions so severe they were terrifying, as if every bone and every nerve had completely lost control and deformed.
And what was being corroded by poison was not only his body but also his divine soul and power.
His bent arms—one hand grabbing his head, the other frantically digging into his broken chest—seemed to want to tear out, at any cost, the venomous snake wreaking havoc inside his body.
Everywhere on his body was pain, everywhere was despair, everywhere was death.
His flesh was being torn apart piece by piece, his soul was being gnawed bit by bit, and his power was draining away like water bursting through a dam.
He fell amidst desperate struggles and howls. As he twisted and thrashed, his increasingly emerald-green eyeballs suddenly caught a faintly glimmering golden light.
The world in his eyes had turned into a blurry murky green. His ravaged five senses were rapidly becoming chaotic and weakened every moment.
But that glimmer of golden light, which was by no means strong within the calamitous aura, pierced like a venomous sting more toxic than Heaven Poison, stabbing deeply into the depths of his soul.
Causing his divine soul, which was already on the verge of collapse from despair and pain, to suddenly experience a moment of terrifying clarity.
Because that was the golden light attached to Yun Che's body!
A violent, ferocious gleam exploded in his pupils and the depths of his soul... Extreme pain, despair, and fear instantly gave birth to the most intense resentment.
At this moment, the dignity and duty of a knight, the great ambition of the Abyss Emperor, the supreme loyalty to the Abyss Emperor... none of it mattered anymore.
He only wanted Yun Che dead!
Even if it meant that the Abyss Emperor, who would descend in the future, would forever lose the heritage of the Evil God and the Demon Emperor!
At any cost... he wanted Yun Che to be buried with him!
The painful shrieks from his throat took on endless ferocity...
He mobilized all the remaining will in his demigod divine soul, locking onto Yun Che's aura.
He squeezed out every ounce of operational power in his body, condensing it in front of him into a seven-foot rock spear.
The remaining clarity made him fully aware of the consequences of forcibly releasing power in such a state.
But he did not hesitate, only madness born of despair!
"Die... AAAAHHHHHH!"
The rock spear tore through the air, blasting toward Yun Che, accompanied by Mo Beichen's wailing, which became several times more miserable.
*Clang!*
The last glimmer of golden divine light on Yun Che's body flickered urgently and then finally extinguished.
The eighteen Southern Abyss Divine Sources, along with the four from sixteen days ago... all twenty-two strands of divine source power left in the mortal world by the ancient Southern Abyss Divine Clan were now completely gone.
The Southern Abyss lineage was now truly and meaningfully severed forever.
The Divine Embers state could no longer be maintained. With the closure of the sixth realm gate, Yun Che's profound energy aura dissipated rapidly, replaced by the backlash and burden that his normal body could not bear.
His already shattered body suffered a severe blow again. Yun Che's life force was draining quickly, becoming extremely weak. Even the sensation of pain in his body was rapidly fading.
He tried to turn his body... but when his will reached out, he could no longer perceive the existence of his body.
He had never been so weak.
So weak that... it seemed he could reach out and touch death, yet he could not move even a single finger.
His body was still flying backward at extreme speed, fast enough to cut through space, carrying away the flesh and even broken bones that were constantly separating from him.
But fortunately, by now, he had flown very far, out of the calamity space filled with demigod power. Otherwise, when the Divine Embers force disappeared, he would surely have died.
Mo Beichen should be dead by now...
After paying such a great price, how could he not die...
It's just...
The price was truly, truly too great...
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Were humans so insignificant before gods... and he was merely a demigod...
His soul was gradually dissipating in weakness. Various thoughts swirled chaotically in his weakened sea of consciousness.
At this moment, a terrifying withered light suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness.
Carrying an aura of death so strong... that it could plunge him into ten thousand layers of death.
In his ears were the piercing shriek of a breaking void and countless terrified soul cries.
Mo Beichen, being ravaged by Heaven Poison, had already withered to the point where the power he could mobilize was pitiful. The seven-foot rock spear was a world apart from the previous ten-thousand-foot rock spears.
But a dying beast, its remaining claws could still crush ants.
The rock spear released by Mo Beichen in his death throes still carried the residual might of a demigod.
If it struck head-on, it would still be enough to kill a present-world Divine Lord!
At full strength, Yun Che should have been able to withstand it head-on and survive... but in his current state, even if it didn't hit him, just the lingering power nearby would be enough to kill him instantly.
"Yun Che!!"
"Yun Che—"
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The chaotic shouts were completely swallowed by the piercing scream of the rock spear... Yun Che silently closed his eyes.
In the end, it came to this after all...
But dying this way was really somewhat... unwilling...
Chi Wuyue, Mu Xuanyin, Qianye Ying'er, Cai Zhi... at the moment the rock spear was shot, all their faces turned deathly pale.
Amidst their shouts, they all struck out at the first moment.
Ice light, demonic light, sword energy...
But the most despairing thing was that the direction Yun Che had been blasted away in was west, opposite to where they were.
A vast distance, opposite directions. Their power could never catch up to Mo Beichen's rock spear.
There was no longer even a moment to hesitate. Shui Meiyin gritted her teeth and unleashed the spatial divine power of the Cosmic Thorn to the maximum extent.
A vast distance, with the still-unsettled demigod calamity zone in between, which distorted vision, perception, and even laws.
And Yun Che was in a rapid backward flight.
A crimson divine light descended over a wide area...
But it just barely missed touching the tips of Yun Che's swiftly passing feet.
All color drained from Shui Meiyin's face in an instant.
"..." Chi Wuyue, in violent panic, suffered an outbreak of her demonic soul wound and fell from midair.
But before the Calamity Heart and Calamity Soul could support her, she twisted her body in midair, enduring the heavy soul injury, and flew forward.
But even if their speed were ten or a hundred times faster, they could never cross that distance—not long under normal circumstances, but now every inch was despair.
They could only watch helplessly as that terrifying withered light drew closer and closer to Yun Che... closer and closer...
Just as the spatial tremor caused by the rock spear was about to touch the space where Yun Che was, a streak of azure light shot across the dim sky at extreme speed.
It was a speed nearly surpassing the limits of the current world. The space it crossed left behind a lingering azure ripple that lasted for a long time.
The direction Yun Che flew west was the Azure Dragon Realm.
When the withered yellow rock spear shot in this direction, the first reaction of all Azure Dragons was to flee at full speed.
But one azure light, facing the terrifying rock spear that gathered the aura of death, flew toward Yun Che, who was already shrouded in death, at her ultimate speed.
"...Your Majesty!" Looking back at that azure shadow, Azure Dragon Divine Attendant Qing Ruo was momentarily stunned, then let out a terrified cry.
This shout made all the fleeing Azure Dragons turn their heads abruptly, and then all were greatly shocked.
Because that azure light was none other than the Azure Dragon Emperor!
In terror, Qing Ruo, forgetting everything else, struggled to fly toward the Azure Dragon Emperor, but could only watch helplessly as that azure light grew farther and farther away from her and closer and closer to that terrifying withered light.
The withered light hunted, the azure light met it head-on...
Finally, an instant before the withered light approached, the azure light was one step faster, overlapping with Yun Che's figure, appearing between Yun Che and the rock spear as a tall, proud azure silhouette.
*BOOM—*
The rock spear struck the azure figure directly.
In the pupils of all Azure Dragons, which were suddenly splitting, the spear tip pierced through the heart, broke out through the back. Under the immense force, the azure figure, which had been speeding forward, was sent flying backward...
Flying toward him even faster than Yun Che, who was already flying backward.
Mo Beichen's withered power was still extremely terrifying. Moreover, the divine consciousness attached to the rock spear was tightly locked onto Yun Che. After it pierced through the Azure Dragon Emperor, its residual power would still pierce Yun Che.
But even if the rock spear was completely blocked by the Azure Dragon Emperor, the violently exploding rock profound energy would instantly affect Yun Che and kill him.
However...
The rock spear that had pierced through the Azure Dragon Emperor's body did not completely pass through. Instead, it remained in that cross-piercing posture... as if it had been strangely sealed inside her body.
A water-blue barrier spread from her body, enveloping herself and the rock spear.
When it formed, it was only a zhang wide, like a water bubble that would break at a touch.
In the southwest, not far away, sprawled on the ground, Qi Tianli stared blankly at the azure figure pierced by the rock spear.
He had known the Azure Dragon Emperor for a hundred thousand years. The profile, so familiar to him, now showed a determination he had never seen before.
Water and ice belonged to the same system, but very few people cultivated both.
The Azure Dragon cultivated both ice and water, with water as the main.
The extreme of ice in the current world was Mu Xuanyin.
And the extreme of water was undoubtedly the Azure Dragon Emperor, Qingque.
The control ability of water-type profound energy was the best among all elements, and in the hands of the Azure Dragon Emperor, it was unparalleled in the world.
And this unparalleled control ability was now unreservedly applied to herself.
Crystalline blue light flowed over the rock spear like thousands of converging streams.
Each water gleam was so soft and lingering, yet they converged into a flawless water wall, completely enclosing the rock spear's power, and even its externally released power aura.
*BOOM—RUMBLE—*
The power of collapsing rock carried by the rock spear was triggered and exploded violently.
And that heavy calamity force, along with the rumbles like mountain collapses, were all sealed within the water light and exploded entirely within the Azure Dragon Emperor's body.
Not a trace leaked out.
Her jade-like face lost its color, her azure robes stained red. The ancient, indifferent azure light in the Azure Dragon Emperor's eyes scattered like a dried-up blue lake. Her body tilted with her dissipating consciousness.
The water wall shattered, and the rock spear, its power exhausted, also turned to dust and scattered. The remaining residual power only caused a slight tremor in the surrounding few zhang of space.
*Bam!*
The blood-stained azure figure collided with Yun Che but did not even stir up a trace of his blood foam.
Their bodies pressed together, their blood intertwined, and together they flew very, very far in the bleak wind.
Until they hit a water curtain, hastily cast down by Qing Ruo, soft and layered.
The water curtain quickly dissipated their backward momentum, and they landed together in a ball of gentle profound energy.
"Your... Majesty..." Qing Ruo cried out in sorrow as she flew over, the azure light in her eyes also turning into the gray-white of grief.
But no one answered her.
Yun Che did not move. His consciousness remained, but his blurred eyes were blank.
Before him was the azure robe spreading with crimson red... Even though his vision was already so blurry, the spreading red was so piercing and heart-wrenching.
Mo Beichen's power was so terrifying. In just those extremely brief moments, a Divine Emperor's aura was extinguished to the point of a dying seedling.
She was the Azure Dragon Emperor, the one he himself had personally appointed, yet always treated with indifference... his Azure Consort.
That was a hollow name...
A chess piece for him and the Demon Empress to control the Western Divine Region...
Why...
Why...
Her last life aura was dissipating so clearly...
Leaving only a faint thread of soul voice, pouring into his sea of consciousness:
"The name of... emperor's consort... is as vain as a fleeting illusion..."
"But... in the end... I... did... not... fail... you..."
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"..." Yun Che's faded pupils trembled. His lips moved faintly, as if he was desperately trying to say something.
But the endless dark night mercilessly swallowed his consciousness... As his sight and consciousness turned completely into darkness, he finally fell into a dead faint.