Chapter 1994: Daughter of the Divine Venerable
The cliché of a hero saving a beauty is melodramatic and hackneyed, but undoubtedly very effective.
Especially for a maiden untouched by the dust of the mortal world.
Because the purer the white veil, the easier it leaves a mark, and the first mark is always the hardest to erase.
Of course, from the silver-clad man's perspective, what was unfolding before him was a farcical amusement.
A presence at the peak of the Divine Sovereign Realm, surely a figure of power in this Linyuan Realm. But unfortunately for him, in front of this man, he was no more than a clown who had actively jumped into his face... because he had no idea what kind of person he was provoking.
“And where did you crawl out from, you stinking bug?” He slanted his eyes, a contempt that was purely natural and required no effort.
“Again?” Yun Che smiled even more contemptuously than him: “Indeed, a stinking bug sees everything as a stinking bug. The stench emanating from your whole body almost made me vomit from ten li away, but at least your self-awareness is quite clear.”
“…” The girl’s lips curled involuntarily for a moment.
Yun Che had never lost a verbal battle; insulting others came naturally to him. But to the girl who had grown up in a perfect environment, this was far too novel.
So, this is how one could curse others.
The silver-clad man’s face abruptly darkened a few shades.
“Why aren’t you scramming!” Yun Che raised his hand, the flame in his palm gaining more intimidation: “Harboring sinister intentions, bullying others by relying on your power. In this Abyss World, the ones who should be most cleansed are people like you, whose hearts are filled with filth.”
Suddenly noticing that the girl was still behind him, he turned his head again, lowering his voice while adding a note of urgency: “Why aren’t you leaving quickly!”
“Heh, heheheh.” The silver-clad man laughed: “Do you know who you’re talking to?”
“…”
Yun Che’s lips twitched. As expected, birds of a feather flock together; even the lines were exactly the same.
“Make me scram?” The silver-clad man closed his folding fan, a strange ripple forming around his slightly drooping eyelids: “Do you believe that with just a move of my finger, you will obediently kneel down and kowtow until you die!”
“Is that so?” Yun Che showed no sign of weakness, the crimson flame in his palm leaping a zhang high: “If you don’t scram far away now, I’m afraid you won’t even have the chance to kneel!”
The girl secretly stuck out her tongue.
But deeply found it interesting.
“Very well!” The silver-clad man extended his finger, pressing it downward with a casual air.
In an instant, Yun Che’s knees abruptly bent, as if about to kneel down.
“…” The girl frowned, extending her jade-like finger, condensing it into a sword.
But before the sword light could form, she was astonished to find that Yun Che’s half-bent knees actually came to a halt, and then little by little... slowly straightened.
The sword light at the girl’s fingertip paused, and a hint of surprise gathered between her brows.
He actually, with his Divine Sovereign Realm cultivation... resisted the opposing soul pressure?
Shock also appeared on the silver-clad man’s face. He visibly frowned, then his gaze sank, and a strange light suddenly intensified several times deep in his pupils.
“Kneel!”
Crack!!
What followed the silver-clad man’s low shout was not the sound of knees hitting the ground, but... the sound of teeth about to shatter.
Yun Che’s body trembled, his features twisted violently, and sweat poured down his forehead like rain, clearly enduring immense pain.
But his leg bones and spine remained straight, and even the crimson flame in his hand refused to extinguish.
Even more, he tremblingly pushed his other arm backward, creating a wave of air that sought to shove the girl far away: “Quick... go! This person... is extremely... dangerous.”
The girl: “…”
“!?” A deep look of surprise flickered across the silver-clad man’s face, then turned to anger, and a violent, strange gleam suddenly appeared in his eyes.
But just as his soul power erupted, a piercing sound of rupture suddenly rang out.
Tch!
A line of azure mark imprinted between the silver-clad man and Yun Che, severing the space, and the soul pressure bearing down on Yun Che was completely cut off.
Yun Che’s body shook violently, he stepped back clutching his chest, and then looked with a face of “shock” at the girl who had walked to his side.
The silver-clad man’s pupils lost color for a moment, he staggered back a step, then abruptly raised his head to look at the girl. After a brief surprise, a playful smile curled at the corner of his mouth: “Not bad, to actually be able to sever my soul threads with sword intent. You really surprise me greatly.”
This time, it was the girl’s turn to step in front of Yun Che, the tip of her finger shining with an emerald-like sword light, and she spoke between a warning and a murmur: “Punishing the wicked is also a form of training.”
“Wicked? Hehe, hahaha.” The silver-clad man straightened his waist, laughing with certainty and arrogance: “Little sister, do you know... who I am?”
The girl’s lips parted slightly: “Your surname is Meng.”
Yun Che: “…”
The smile instantly froze on his face, the silver-clad man frowned: “How do you know?”
“The way you channel soul power is very similar to Meng Jianxi, and your external aura also has similarities.” The girl’s answer was calm and direct: “You and he should be of the same clan.”
When the three words “Meng Jianxi” entered his ears, the silver-clad man’s eyes visibly wavered for a moment, and his expression showed violent loss of control.
“You...” the silver-clad man’s tone changed: “You know my... younger brother?”
“Younger brother?” The girl’s star-moon beautiful eyes flickered slightly, and she thought of a line to attack him: “Such a disrespectful form of address. Given Meng Jianxi’s personality, if he knew, he would definitely be very unhappy.”
Such a line, which sounded completely unthreatening to an outsider, actually made the silver-clad man’s upper body shake violently.
“Oh~~ I see.” The girl suddenly thought of something: “A person who can call Meng Jianxi his younger brother, your name should be... Meng Jianzhou!”
The silver-clad man... Meng Jianzhou’s face changed again, his eyes fixed tightly, all lechery, arrogance, and certainty replaced by shock: “Who are you? Who exactly are you!”
Just then, a gray shadow suddenly descended from the sky, appearing beside the silver-clad man like a ghost.
An overwhelmingly terrifying aura descended, causing Yun Che to instantly focus his soul, his gaze locking onto that gray shadow.
This was exactly the terrifying aura he had sensed earlier!
An old man with a stiff cold face, wearing a gray robe, with short hair and a long beard.
This person, who was a hidden guardian, suddenly appeared like this, and despite such an aura, he emerged without any oppressive pressure, and not even a trace of air waves stirred... as if afraid of disturbing something.
Meng Jianzhou had never expected the old man to inexplicably appear; he opened his mouth in full surprise... but before he could utter a single word, his arm was grabbed by the old man: “Go!”
“Huh? Wha...”
“Shut up! Go!!”
Whoosh!
Profound energy surged, carrying the two away at lightning speed, disappearing from sight in an instant.
The eruption of Divine Annihilation Realm profound energy was terrifyingly powerful. Yet the air currents it stirred were deliberately... or rather cautiously confined within a few chi and zhang, not affecting the girl and Yun Che in the slightest.
It didn’t even stir a strand of hair.
Yun Che’s gaze quietly withdrew.
A person surpassing Mo Beichen, yet just now... like a dog whose courage had been broken!
He secretly glanced at the girl.
Indeed, a person with such appearance and charm, and clearly cherished and protected to the extreme, how could she be without protection when first stepping into the mortal world?
He himself had not detected it at all, and that was indeed because the other party was already so powerful that even with his spiritual perception, he simply had no qualification to sense them.
“Are you... alright?”
The girl’s voice sounded in his ear, her excessively dreamlike glass-like beautiful eyes falling on this man who acted rashly but had such a tenacious will, hesitating whether to heal his soul wounds.
That was Meng Jianzhou’s soul pressure... he miraculously resisted it, but he must be injured, right?
Yun Che straightened up, his face showing obvious pallor, but he said very calmly: “I’m fine. It seems I was meddling. This fairy sister, farewell.”
After speaking, he gave the girl a slight smile, then turned around and left without any hesitation.
The girl’s fair wrist unconsciously lifted slightly.
Just like that... he left?
Yun Che did not look back, and his speed increased. Soon, the two could no longer sense each other’s aura.
“Auntie, this person is so... so... so special.” The girl found a seemingly appropriate word, then said: “You’ve always told me to be wary of everyone who approaches, because everyone who does must have ulterior motives.”
“But look at him, he tried so hard to save me, even suffered soul damage, yet he just left like that. Not to mention schemes, he didn’t even ask my name.”
“Indeed, in this world, there are still many good people.”
Her beautiful eyes rippled lightly, and she smiled sweetly, as if the encounter with Meng Jianzhou and the gray-robed old man were mere dust unworthy of entering her heart, while what she spoke of was instead Yun Che.
“The world has a hundred faces, and people have a thousand sides.” A faint immortal voice came from her heart: “Meeting any kind of person is not surprising, and even more, do not easily judge anyone.”
“I know,” the girl replied with a slight smile.
“This place has no value for a long stay. Let’s leave.”
The girl thought for a moment and said: “Auntie said that the Lin Divine Realm, where the last qilin resides, only opens once every ten Jiazi. We were lucky enough to catch it just in time; it would be a pity not to go and see.”
“As you wish,” the immortal voice did not object.
Her training, naturally, she decided for herself.
At this moment, her curiosity was being stirred by all kinds of novel things. Forcibly suppressing it would instead hinder her complete understanding of the world.
Of course, the consequences were also for her to bear herself... She had already reminded that the restrictions at the entrance to the Lin Divine Realm were personally set by Yuan Huang, and the consequence of persisting was that she would have no way to enter at that time.
……
Yun Che walked far away before his expression completely retracted, and his brows slowly furrowed.
Meng!
This surname instantly made Yun Che think of the Divine Venerable surnamed “Meng” among the six divine kingdoms.
Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom — Dreamless Divine Venerable — Meng Kongchan!
“The profound practitioners of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom are extremely skilled in cultivating the soul”... Yun Che had Chi Wuyue’s description of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom etched in his heart.
That silver-clad man who seemed to be called Meng Jianzhou, he was very likely... the son of a Divine Venerable!
With such an identity, when out alone, it was only reasonable that he would be guarded by someone at the demigod realm.
Then, that girl...
The girl who made the demigod old man flee in terror, not daring to say even a single word...
She mentioned a name: Meng Jianxi.
Meng Jianzhou, a son of a Divine Venerable, upon hearing this name, which he referred to as his “younger brother,” showed extreme fear.
The most likely possibility... that was the name of the Divine Son of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom!
And the girl mentioned this name with no restraint, as calmly as a clear spring.
Then her identity...
He stopped in his tracks, suddenly thinking of a person Chi Wuyue had emphasized to him.
……
“Speaking of which, what can be extracted from Mo Beichen’s dissipating remnant soul are only the most basic cognitions and the memories most profound to him. Even the marks of the four great divine officials were too blurry to identify. Yet... he had quite deep memories of this Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden.”
“I could even capture a not-so-faint shadow from his thin remnant soul.”
“You mean... between him and this Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden...”
“Of course not. Even though Mo Beichen was honored as an Abyss Knight, he had no qualification to interact with the Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden. He merely glanced at her from afar when the Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden went to the Pure Land.”
“And a distant glance was enough to leave a mark for life.”
……
A strange light suddenly flashed in Yun Che’s eyes.
She is...
The Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden of the Zhe Tian Divine Kingdom!?
He turned around and looked at the distant dark sky.
If his conjecture was not off, then this time, he had indeed gambled and obtained a huge unexpected joy.
Only he didn’t know whether this tiny seed would bloom into a brilliant flower of surprise in the future.
……
Outside the Helian Imperial City, two figures sped rapidly, the raging surge of profound energy bringing rumbling thunder sounds.
The spatial cracks caused Meng Jianzhou’s face to ache violently. He asked again: “Master Zhe! What exactly happened...”
“Shut up! Don’t ask!”
The gray-robed old man’s expression was terrifyingly grave; he now only wanted to flee from this place with all his might, as far as possible, wishing he could tear through dimensions.
In an instant, the sounds around them suddenly vanished.
Even the scenery before their eyes quickly faded in color, leaving only a gradually deepening azure light.
This sudden eerie change left Meng Jianzhou utterly bewildered, completely unaware of what was happening. Meanwhile, the old man gripping his arm turned pale in an instant, and his body, as if tugged by an invisible hand, quickly came to a halt.
All sights disappeared, and the world they were in was only a dreamlike emerald radiance.
And... a faint, ethereally dreamlike azure figure.
The gray-robed old man opened his mouth; he clearly wanted to say something, but couldn’t utter a single sound, as if his throat was tightly strangled.
“Meng Kongchan’s sons, one more promising than the other.”
The immortal voice from the azure figure chilled the soul to the bone.
“Since he can’t teach his sons well, then I’ll teach them on his behalf!”
A flash of azure light, silent and noiseless.
But in the next instant, it brought forth Meng Jianzhou’s miserable scream... along with his entire left arm that flew off, spraying blood.
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