Chapter 1975: Ancient Demonic Sound
During this time, Chi Wuyue had been doing everything in her power to discover what exactly the spatial strange artifact in Mo Beichen's memories was.
The abnormal agitation and stabbing pain of the Nirvana Wheel Demon Soul time and again made her extremely certain that this spatial strange artifact was, even at the cognitive level of a Demon Emperor, an existence of immense power and extraordinariness.
It also proved... that it was likely related to the ancient demon race. However, before Yun Che could go to the Abyss, she no longer had time to obtain the most accurate answer, and could only give him a warning.
"Alright." Seeing Yun Che's extremely solemn promise, Chi Wuyue nodded slightly, then slowly spoke the last matter he must agree to: "The third matter..." Her snow-white hand lifted lightly, taking hold of Yun Che's wrist, and as his eyes flickered with slight surprise, she guided his finger to touch her brow: "I want you to completely read my entire life... all of my memories!" Yun Che's gaze abruptly contracted, then he swiftly withdrew his hand, without any hesitation: "No! Absolutely not!" Human nature is complex, changeable, and unpredictable.
Even the most great and noble person has a dark side to their nature, and their memories conceal secrets and filth that are unknown and even unwilling to be known.
No one, even when facing the person closest and most trusted in their life, would ever be willing to let the other party peer into every single one of their memories without omission.
Yun Che's hand, which he had instinctively thrown off, was caught again by Chi Wuyue in the next instant. His reaction did not surprise her at all. Her demon eyes looked at Yun Che, her gaze as calm as the eternal stillness of a dark void: "I hope that the one agreeing to these three matters is not Yun Che, but the Cloud Emperor!"
"The Cloud Emperor, whose every decision determines the future destiny of the entire present world!"
"The resolve of an emperor must cast aside all personal feelings and private interests!"
"..." Yun Che stood frozen, his hand powerless to pull away. Chi Wuyue said gently, "Growth does not happen overnight. Even Zhouxuzi, Nan Wansheng, Qi Tianli, and others who have endured ten thousand or even a hundred thousand years of vicissitudes as world-dominating Divine Emperors have their own narrowness and flaws. As for you, though you are an emperor of your era and have experienced countless ups and downs in your life, you ultimately... have only thirty years of life experience."
"Yet you must go alone to confront an Abyss that is millions of times more treacherous and evil than the present world."
"And as the Divine Empress of this world, I have an unshirkable duty to make you grow in the shortest possible time, even by the most extreme means." Chi Wuyue's voice suddenly became deep and slow at this point: "Everyone in the Northern Domain knows that my origin is nothing more than a common woman, born in the lowest levels of the Northern Domain, in a dark swamp where even dark profound beasts are too lazy to hunt."
"But in the end, I stepped by step to become one of the three emperors ruling the Northern Domain. Now, I am even the Divine Empress who governs the entire Divine Realm."
"No woman in the world is above me." Chi Wuyue's gaze slowly fell, no longer meeting Yun Che's eyes: "Matching that, the experiences of my life cannot be imagined or compared by any woman."
"Among them are countless difficulties, dangers, and desperate situations, countless dilemmas and bitter choices made with bleeding hearts, and what I most want you to see... the means I used when facing all kinds of people and situations." Chi Wuyue continued, "Many of these means are vicious, cruel, and dirty enough to surpass the limits of your imagination. Especially... in your bones, you are a person who values feelings greatly, while I am the one most adept at exploiting feelings. Even towards a benefactor who saved my life, or a master who taught me, I would step on them without hesitation as stepping stones." Yun Che: "..."
Her demon eyes slightly closed, her deep voice continued slowly: "After feeling all the experiences of my life, you might feel aversion and disgust towards me, but no matter what..."
"No." Yun Che interrupted her, shaking his head without any hesitation: "You are the Divine Empress of all worlds, and even more so, my Wuyue. We have long since merged without any gaps. Your past life is also part of my life. How could I possibly 'loathe' you?" Chi Wuyue raised her eyes and smiled slightly: "In that case, you have even less reason to refuse." As her words fell, her snow-white wrist twisted, guiding Yun Che's palm to gently press against her brow, and from her demon eyes suddenly burst forth an endless, pure, and profound dark soul light.
Yun Che's fingers instinctively twitched in withdrawal, but only for a moment before he no longer tried to resist. Instead, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and focused his mind, allowing his consciousness to be drawn into the sea of soul that Chi Wuyue had completely opened to him.
The entirety of Chi Wuyue's life, filled with endless waves of upheaval, poured unreservedly into his world.
As she said, growth does not happen overnight. Although Yun Che had become the Cloud Emperor, his life experience was still too shallow. The current world had also been actually governed by her all along.
Another world, with no one by his side — how could he face the vast Abyss alone? And the experiences of her life were the thing she could think of that could most roughly force him to grow.
How effective this method would be, she could not predict. This kind of forced growth might not even be true growth.
But at least, when he faced different situations in the future, he could perhaps choose appropriate countermeasures from her experiences.
When to show kindness and weakness to the enemy... when to be vicious and ruthless... when to use cunning... when to
"sincerity"... when to advance, when to retreat, when to turn a companion who had been through life and death just moments ago into a shield of flesh and blood... As for her strongest ability — probing and controlling human hearts — that was by no means an easy thing to
"transfer". In such a short time, if Yun Che could truly grasp one percent of it, that would already be enough to meet Chi Wuyue's expectations.
Three days passed. But for Yun Che, it felt as though he had lived an extremely long life.
Finally, at some moment, he opened his eyes. Then, he stared blankly at Chi Wuyue, unmoving for a long time, even forgetting to remove his hand from between her brows.
No matter how detailed and elaborate historical records or others' descriptions were, they could never compare to seeing with one's own eyes and feeling with one's own heart.
Chi Wuyue, with the most humble origins, had stepped by step become the Demon Empress whose might shook the world in the era of the harshest environment in the Northern Domain. Her experiences — a thousand mountain collapses, ten thousand raging waves could not describe even one ten-thousandth.
And what moved Yun Che the most for a long time were her thousand schemes and ten thousand methods. It was as if countless black demon threads always silently entwined around every living being that appeared in her world.
None could escape. He also realized more clearly than at any moment that if the Chi Wuyue before him had not chosen to become his Demon Empress back then, but had simply treated him as a chess piece... .................... She was his Demon Empress, so there was no "if".
"The time is about what I estimated." Chi Wuyue slowly opened her eyes, looking at Yun Che, who had been in a daze: "In the next few days, try to digest as much as possible that might be useful to you. I will give orders that no one is to disturb you." Having said that, she averted her gaze and silently turned to leave.
Her voice was very calm and flat, but in truth, the turmoil in her heart far exceeded her expectations by several times.
Those years of unscrupulous means truly exceeded the limits of what ordinary people could imagine. Anyone who witnessed even a fraction of it would feel immense fear of her.
Before doing all this, she had prepared herself for Yun Che to feel aversion and fear towards her because of it.
But at this moment, all the psychological preparations she had made before had completely collapsed... She let Yun Che digest in peace, but in reality, it was her escape and flight in panic.
The current Chi Wuyue was no longer the invincible Demon Empress of the Northern Domain. She had a weakness, and a huge one at that.
But as soon as she took a step, her slender waist was gently wrapped by an arm. Yun Che embraced her from behind and whispered in her ear: "Between you and me, words of thanks are no longer needed, but you have given me far too much... Everything I possess now will be my greatest support in the Abyss."
A faint mist glimmered in her eyes, and the corners of Chi Wuyue's mouth twitched slightly. With just this one remark, it was enough.
....................
Leaving Yun Che alone to digest, Chi Wuyue walked out of the Imperial Palace. A cold wind greeted her, and her vision blurred.
Taking the initiative to infuse one's long life memories into another person was by no means something an ordinary person could do, and of course, the feeling was far from pleasant.
In this process, her sea of soul seemed to have been roughly churned and washed, and even for someone like Chi Wuyue, it would be impossible to completely calm down in a short time.
However, her memories were not completely without reservation. For example... the child who disappeared together with Shen Xi, named "Yun Xi", who had not even seen the light of day before dying at the hands of Long Bai.
The space beside Chi Wuyue rippled, and a light and ethereal female figure appeared: "Master, your complexion... has something happened?"
Hua Jin had been by Chi Wuyue's side for many years and knew that for a Demon Empress with a deep scheming mind like a night abyss to show such an abnormal expression, it must be something beyond imagination, forcing her to appear and inquire.
But Chi Wuyue shook her head with a smile: "Don't worry, it's just that my sea of soul has been stirred too violently, making it difficult to calm down for a while. It's not an external invasion... Hiss!"
A look of pain suddenly appeared on Chi Wuyue's face, and her body lunged forward violently as she swayed.
"Master!?" Hua Jin was greatly alarmed and hurriedly stepped forward to support her.
Chi Wuyue's face was pale, as if countless steel needles were madly piercing her sea of soul.
Deep within her sea of soul, which surged with immense pain, suddenly came a roar from ancient times: "If not for the loss of the Dark Mirror and the Demon Pearl, how could it have come to this..."
"How could it have come to this!"
"How could it have come to this! ~~" ...
The shouting was extremely blurry and distant, carrying an endless demonic might that could overturn all ages.
But every sound was filled with sorrow, every word was despair.
At this moment, Chi Wuyue suddenly raised her head. She straightened up and said in a deep voice: "Hua Jin, quickly send an order to the Qilin Realm to immediately open a dimensional profound array to the Long Shen Realm."
"I must... re-examine the ancient texts of the Dragon God!" ............