Chapter 2129: The Emperor of the Abyss (Part 1)
The sudden appearance of a divine casting barrier immediately diverted everyone's attention, followed by the cold sneer of the Wuming Divine Venerable:
“This is the so-called perfect divine rank of the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom? So pathetic, simply laughable!”
Although the Wuming Divine Venerable could not see, her spiritual perception was extremely terrifying. Every wisp of aura from those present, even the slightest change in their facial features, was clearly reflected in her perception.
To outsiders, the sudden formation of this barrier was because Yun Che could not bear the divine pressure of this place and needed to use an isolation barrier to adjust and calm himself.
Facing Shen Wuyanye, Meng Kongchan showed no pleasant expression and said in a deep voice: “My son has only returned for a few short years. His cultivation is still shallow, only at the fourth level of the Divine Lord Realm, so naturally it is hard for him to bear the spiritual pressure here.”
“As for the Wuming Divine Venerable, with the status of a Divine Venerable, you actively challenge a junior you meet for the first time. What? Could it be that the appearance of a man with a perfect divine rank has touched on a sore spot of the Wuming Divine Venerable?”
It was widely known that Shen Wuyanye had been hurt by her beloved and greatly despised men. But those who dared to directly mock her to her face like this were few and far between… Meng Kongchan was naturally one of them.
Shen Wuyanye, however, was not angry. Instead, she let out a low laugh that sent chills down people’s spines: “A man with a perfect divine rank is truly remarkable. Then Dreamless Divine Venerable, you had better watch carefully. Never let him die young again.”
“…” Meng Kongchan gave a faint snort, as if disdainful to respond.
But deep in his pupils, a flash of extremely cold silver light passed.
Shen Wuyanye’s words undoubtedly touched his reverse scale. But this was after all a verbal exchange between Divine Venerables, and although it multiplied his aversion to Shen Wuyanye, it was not enough to make him lose composure.
But, as a fellow Divine Venerable, he ultimately underestimated—or rather, he simply could not comprehend the terrifying madness born from Shen Wuyanye’s extremely twisted nature.
In Shen Wuyi’s soul sea, a sound transmission from the Wuming Divine Venerable resounded.
“Find an opportunity yourself, and cripple Meng Jianyuan.”
Compared to her identity as a Divine Venerable, she was even more a complete lunatic.
“Yes.”
Faced with this command that was so insane as to be terrifying, Shen Wuyi accepted without a hint of hesitation. Even her expression did not waver in the slightest, only an eternal, unchanging cool indifference.
Hua Caili’s beautiful eyes clearly could no longer remain calm. In just a few breaths, she had already been unable to resist several times wanting to approach Meng Kongchan to ask about Yun Che’s safety.
“Rest assured a million times.” Hua Fuchen again comforted her in a soft voice: “With his father god by his side, it’s hard for him to have any trouble. All your worry is unnecessary.”
He sighed inwardly that his daughter was truly a love fool; once it involved Yun Che, her state of mind would easily shatter.
But at the same time, he also had a slight doubt in his heart.
He had personally witnessed Yun Che’s strength that far exceeded his cultivation level, and combined with his extraordinary state of mind, logically he should not be like this…
The world inside the barrier was completely empty.
Only the sound of Yun Che panting heavily.
With a heavy thud, he knelt down heavily, his hand pressed to his chest, his whole body trembling like a sieve, and his chest heaving as if about to burst.
“Heh… hehe… ha… wu… er…”
He hung his head, his falling hair covering his twitching features. He seemed to be laughing, but what came out of his mouth were broken sobs.
“Ah… haha… hiss…”
“Heavens… have… mercy… you’re still here…”
“You… really are still here…”
Fate had once again given him a gift as beautiful as a dream.
Li Suo’s figure slowly materialized in front of him, silently watching his current state.
Since stepping into the Abyss World, every wisp of emotion in Yun Che was within her perception. She experienced his determination and loneliness, felt every step he took, the heavy pressure borne by every decision, and…
The absolute rationality, caution, and cold sobriety he had to maintain at all times.
And at this moment, in the highest place of this Abyss World, at this Eden Cloud Summit where he absolutely could not allow himself to show a single flaw, he let his emotions completely overflow.
Because, the person who had just entered his vision, the woman called Shen Wuyi…
“Is she… Xia Qingyue?”
She asked softly.
When she followed the Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal and attached herself to Yun Che, Xia Qingyue had already fallen into the Abyss of Nothingness. So she had never seen Xia Qingyue with her own eyes.
But she had listened to Yun Che’s conversation with the Primordial Will, and had walked with Yun Che through that moon memory entangled with too many emotions and karma.
She could not clearly understand romantic love, but she knew clearly enough what the three words “Xia Qingyue” meant to Yun Che.
Extreme pain, extreme regret, extreme hurt and love.
When he learned that there was another livable world beneath the Abyss of Nothingness, the first wish that sprouted in him was that Xia Qingyue might still be alive.
Entering the Abyss World, he had always used the name Yun Che. Even when he exhausted efforts to enter the Weaving Dream Divine Kingdom, he did not hesitate to face resistance and still used the name Yun Che. A big reason was the hope that if Xia Qingyue was still alive, she could hear his name.
He had once used the name of the Xuanji Hall to search… but in the vast Abyss World, there was simply no surname “Xia”.
And even less did there exist a woman whose countenance could compare with the Heaven-Breaking Divine Maiden.
After that, he never tried to search again.
Xia Qingyue fell into the Abyss four years earlier than him. With the temporal black tide stirred by the Abyss, she should have spent forty years in the Abyss World. If she was still alive, with her beauty, talent, and cultivation, forty years would make it absolutely impossible for her to be unknown. Even if she had changed her name from the start, she could be easily found.
So, the answer was already in his subconscious.
It was just that he dared not touch it, and never mentioned it again, forcing himself to tightly hold onto that thread of hope as faint as a distant star’s trace.
And now, this originally shattered extravagant delusion was presented before his eyes so unexpectedly.
“It’s her… it’s her…”
He muttered with a trembling voice, responding to Li Suo, but even more telling himself:
“I absolutely… absolutely cannot be mistaken… she’s still here… she’s still here…”
“Too good…”
“Really… too good…”
“I… finally… I…”
He could no longer form words.
“I can feel that you are very agitated,” Li Suo said softly. “Your soul is chaotic, but also warm, as if about to burn.”
“In these years in the Abyss, the joy and satisfaction I have sensed in you, perhaps all combined, do not equal this single moment.”
“So…”
Li Suo reached out, her snowy finger covered in white light gently touching Yun Che’s trembling brow: “You must not fail even more so, correct?”
“Otherwise, not only will your homeland suffer a catastrophic calamity, even this beautiful dream will turn into shattered bubbles.”
The light soothed his soul, quickly calming the raging waves in Yun Che’s soul sea.
One breath… two breaths… three breaths…
The heaving of his chest was no longer violent, his exhaled breath no longer rapid, and gradually, the trembling of his body also ceased little by little.
Yun Che slowly raised his head, his eyes misted. In the next instant, the mist had dispersed, revealing once again those eyes that forever hid sobriety.
“Mm, of course.”
He smiled… it was the first smile since entering the Abyss that had not a trace of impurity. But very ungracefully, the water mist that had just dissipated once again blurred his eyes, forcing him to quickly dispel it again.
She looked at Yun Che, worried no more, and her figure silently vanished, leaving only a faint line:
“Protect yourself well.”
Yun Che closed his eyes… a moment later, he slowly opened them again. He no longer gave himself more time, and extended his hand to touch the barrier.
A soft chime, the barrier shattered, and Yun Che’s figure returned to everyone’s sight.
Still as before, clear and elegant, with a faint, seemingly nonexistent, warm and harmless smile at the corner of his mouth, and his demeanor completely relaxed and composed, without any of the embarrassment of “being forced to isolate and regulate breathing in public”.
Yun Che’s appearance also made Meng Kongchan’s heart relax, and he showed a smile: “How is it?”
“Especially good.” Yun Che responded with a smile. The three words sounded deliberate, but in fact they were not enough to express the ten-thousandth part of the joy in his soul.
“Mm.” Meng Kongchan nodded. “If you feel unwell, don’t force yourself, and even less need to care about others’ gazes.”
“Senior, rest assured.” Yun Che said with a smile. “With you by my side, why would I force myself?”
“Hahaha!” Meng Kongchan laughed heartily, very pleased with Yun Che’s answer. Faintly, he sensed that after Yun Che came out of the barrier, his soul state seemed to have a subtle change.
As if a switch that had been tightly locked had suddenly, and completely, been opened.
On the other side, Pan Buzhuo, who had been staring blankly at Shen Wuyi, suddenly shuddered and turned his head sharply, meeting Pan Yusheng’s cold gaze.
“Buzhuo,” Pan Yusheng’s face was gloomy. “She is the daughter of Eternal Night. Don’t forget the lesson of that rebellious son Pan Buwang!”
Pan Buzhuo quickly focused his mind and immediately said seriously: “This woman’s appearance is indeed stunningly beautiful. Your son was not on guard, so I lost focus, but only just now. To your son now, even if she were ten times more alluring, she would be an Eternal Night demoness to be avoided like snakes and scorpions!”
After staring at him for a good while, Pan Yusheng nodded in satisfaction: “It’s good that you know.”
Yun Che shifted his gaze, feeling that the sky light here was exceptionally bright, and the floating pure white clouds no longer carried the oppressive discomfort, but were like immortal realm mist, refreshing the heart and mind.
He looked at Hua Caili, giving her a comforting look… Unconsciously, his gaze was still pulled by an uncontrollable invisible force, falling on Shen Wuyi.
Every time he reunited with her, she underwent subtle transformations.
Only later did he learn that it was the gradual awakening of the Glazed Heart and the growth and fusion of the Exquisite Body.
When they met again, she had changed once more. In her eyes and on her body, there was a faint divine light that had not existed before, like an indestructible bright moon, always reflecting eternal moonlight on her.
She had become so beautiful. The Moon God in the distant dreams of youth was not even a fraction of her.
Thinking back to himself at sixteen, when facing her, he always had to casually conceal the inferiority he couldn’t completely dispel, and later worked so hard to prove himself worthy of being her husband…
And if he had faced her as she was now at that time, perhaps he would have hardly had the courage to look directly at her or touch her.
Feeling the man’s gaze upon her, Shen Wuyi’s eyes suddenly shot over, like a beautiful but merciless glazed cold thorn, piercing straight into Yun Che’s pupils.
Such a gaze was enough to chill anyone’s heart.
But Yun Che did not avoid her gaze; instead, the corner of his mouth lifted into a smile.
“Then, is it really her?”
Li Suo’s voice sounded in his soul sea. She didn’t want to shatter Yun Che’s dream, but she still voiced doubt: “But the look she gave you was strange and cold, without any emotional warmth.”
“Even you almost lost control of your emotions under the sudden shock. I don’t believe she could disguise herself so perfectly in an unprepared meeting.”
“Mm, you’re right. But… that is her. Even if my soul only had one last remnant fragment, I could not mistake her or forget her.”
He did not deny it very hastily, but responded in a very gentle tone: “Now she is called Shen Wuyi. I think, just like the rumors, she has lost her past memories.”
Among the rumors about the Eternal Night Divine Maiden, one is that she lost the past before becoming the Divine Maiden.
Perhaps she suffered some trauma causing amnesia, but more people speculate that the Wuming Divine Venerable, in order to create a flawless Divine Maiden, stripped away all her past memories and traces.
Yun Che recalled the words spoken by the Primordial God’s will before it dissipated:
『With the disappearance of the “Fate Artifact,” the fate lock between you has also vanished. I no longer have any reason to remain here. After today, I will return to slumber to restore my depleted source power as soon as possible.』
She was born as a “Fate Artifact.” As the fate lock between him and her was broken, the initial meaning of her creation and existence also ended…
Could it be that her life as a “Fate Artifact” also vanished with the completion of her “mission,” severing all past and memories, and returning to a completely independent, completely free life…
No… it doesn’t matter…
Whatever the possibility, whatever the case…
As long as you are still here, as long as you are still alive, this is already the most beautiful outcome.
“The timing also doesn’t seem to fully match.”
Li Suo continued to question. Facing Shen Wuyi, she appeared even more rational than Yun Che.
“Xia Qingyue fell into the Abyss four years before you. With the Abyss’s temporal black tide, when you entered the Abyss, she had already existed in the Abyss for forty years.”
“And Shen Wuyi became the Eternal Night Divine Maiden twenty years ago.”
“Then, when she became the Eternal Night Divine Maiden, her age should not be half a Jiazi, but a full Jiazi.”
“Twenty years ago, Shen Wuyi’s cultivation was at the peak of the Divine Lord Realm, consistent with Xia Qingyue when she fell into the Abyss. But Xia Qingyue possessed the Nine-Xuan Exquisite Body, with no bottlenecks in her Xuan Dao cultivation. In her twenty years in the Abyss, it is impossible that she had no breakthroughs…”
Li Suo did not want to provoke Yun Che, so her words were extremely gentle and slow. At the same time, she understood that such an obvious fact could not be unknown to Yun Che.
“Perhaps… the rumors about her age and cultivation when she became the Eternal Night Divine Maiden are erroneous.”
Yun Che timely moved his gaze away from Shen Wuyi, but still kept a faint smile at the corner of his mouth: “I know all this, but… it’s not important at all.”
“Her being here surpasses everything. As for those blank twenty years, I’ll wait for some future day for her to tell me herself.”
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