Chapter 274: Leaving the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm
“I don’t know.” Yun Che didn’t deny it to Mo Li, but he couldn’t admit it either. After a moment’s hesitation, he hardened his heart and said, “But I did cross reincarnation. Because I was originally poisoned to death on the Tian Xuan Continent, then later reborn on the Cang Yun Continent, and at twenty-seven years old, I fell off a cliff… When I woke up, I was back on the Tian Xuan Continent, awakening in the body of the poisoned me… all the way to now. And Ling’er was the most important person to me on the Cang Yun Continent. She was clearly dead too!”
Mo Li: “…”
“To think that such a thing happened to you!” Mo Li was genuinely shocked. She had heard legends about the Lunhui Jing, but she had never seen it, nor witnessed its power. And if what Yun Che said was true, it matched the legendary power of the Lunhui Jing’s “crossing reincarnation”! Only the Lunhui Jing could do such a thing!
“Then, in your memory, is there something that has always existed on you… If I’m not mistaken, it should be that pendant you always wear around your neck, right? I remember that when you opened it, there was a mirror inside…” Mo Li slowly said, “So besides the Heavenly Poison Pearl, you also had another Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure on you! But where did this Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure come from?”
“I don’t know… It’s always been on me. The only reason I keep wearing it is because it’s the sole proof I have to find my biological parents.” Yun Che shook his head. “Right now, I just want to know: since the Cang Yun Continent is real, where exactly is it? And how can I return there… That is the real Ling’er… I have to find her again!”
“…If I could leave your body and act freely, I could find the location of the Cang Yun Continent in at most three days. But for me as I am now, it’s completely impossible. The Cang Yun Continent shouldn’t be too far from the Tian Xuan Continent. Once your strength reaches a certain height, you’ll naturally be able to see a broader world… For you, that is the only way to return to that continent.”
Not too far—that was from Mo Li’s level of strength! If it truly weren’t too far, how could the Tian Xuan Continent have no records or legends at all about the Cang Yun Continent? Even if, as Mo Li speculated, the Cang Yun Continent and the Tian Xuan Continent were on the same planet, the distance between them would still be unimaginably vast—a crossing more difficult than ascending to heaven.
Mo Li’s last sentence heavily struck Yun Che, who was in a state of confusion and panic, snapping him back to clarity.
That’s right… correct! Thinking wildly now is useless! At the very least, the core realization was that Ling’er was still in this world—that was an incomparably huge surprise. And to see Ling’er again, the only way was to make himself strong. If he was strong enough, strong enough to overlook heaven and earth, then the Cang Yun Continent would appear within his line of sight, and he could find Ling’er again!!
Yun Che’s emotions instantly became extremely calm. He took a deep breath and suddenly asked, “Mo Li, if it truly was the interference of a Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure that caused time to flow backward on the Cang Yun Continent, then would another version of me from that time and the Heavenly Poison Pearl appear on the Cang Yun Continent now?”
“That is of course impossible.” Mo Li said blandly. “And you’ve misunderstood one thing. If the power of the Lunhui Jing was truly triggered, then time reversal is only a small part of its interference. Its core interference lies in ‘causality’ and ‘reincarnation.’ Not only would there be no existence of you and the Heavenly Poison Pearl on the Cang Yun Continent now, but… they never appeared there at all.”
Yun Che: “…”
“Causality” and “reincarnation”—these were extremely illusory and mythical concepts, and moreover, existences that could never be touched. Yun Che had never imagined that such illusory existences could even be interfered with. He spread his palm, looking at the dim pendant, and asked in a low voice, “If this really is the Lunhui Jing, then what kind of person… could have created something like this…”
“There is no way to trace that.” Mo Li said. “But what can be confirmed is that interfering with ‘causality’ and ‘reincarnation’ is tens of millions of times more difficult than interfering with ‘dimension’ and ‘time’. When True Gods existed back then, they could indeed use divine power to slightly interfere with time, but not a single True God possessed the ability to interfere with ‘causality’ and ‘reincarnation’. Because that is the most fundamental law of chaotic order—something that should never be touched. Otherwise, chaotic order could fall into unpredictable and uncontrollable disorder. But the Lunhui Jing, against all odds, can interfere with this most basic chaotic law… That the Heavenly Poison Pearl merged with your body was also due to this ‘causal’ interference, making something originally impossible come to pass. No one knows who created it, nor with what power it was created.”
“There are many legends about the Lunhui Jing. In the distant past, it seems to have passed through many hands, until finally its whereabouts were lost… But for so many years, I’ve never heard of anyone being able to trigger its power. And compared to the Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasure, the thing that defies reason even more is you. You’re just an ordinary low-level human, yet you possess two Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures on your body… If I weren’t forced to rely on the Heavenly Poison Pearl, and if the Heavenly Poison Pearl weren’t merged with your body, I would unhesitatingly choose to kill you and take both Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures.”
“Yun Che, what’s wrong?”
The voice, cool with deep confusion, sounded by his ear. Yun Che closed his hand but didn’t hang the pendant back around his neck. Instead, he stored it inside the Heavenly Poison Pearl, then gave a casual smile to Xia Qingyue and said, “Nothing. Just suddenly felt a bit emotional.”
After consuming the water attribute seed left by the Evil God, Yun Che’s affinity for water elements now far surpassed Xia Qingyue’s. He didn’t feel the slightest cold even in this snow-covered land. He looked at Xia Qingyue with a strange expression and said, “I really want to see how astonished your master and everyone else will be when they find out you’ve already stepped into the King Xuan Realm.”
Without a doubt, once they left the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm and Xia Qingyue’s current profound strength was revealed, it would cause an unimaginably huge sensation. A seventeen-year-old King Xuan Realm—this had fully reached the level of the Four Sacred Grounds… A mere Cang Feng Empire producing a disciple at the Sacred Ground level might shake the entire Tian Xuan Continent.
Xia Qingyue looked deeply at Yun Che and suddenly said, “Thank you.”
“…Why thank me?”
“Powerful strength is very important to me. It’s something I will pursue all my life. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have reached the height I am now. So, thank you…” Xia Qingyue lowered her gaze and said softly. Back then in Liu Yun City, he had been a powerless and helpless youth, bullied in every possible way and cast out of his home, unable to resist. If not for her help, the people he cared about most would have met with disaster… Now meeting again, he had already begun to grow into a towering tree. The help he had given her surpassed hers by tens of millions of times.
“Hey, we’re husband and wife, so there’s no need for thanks.” Yun Che grinned. “If you really want to thank me, hmm… smile for me. We’ve known each other for so long, and I’ve never seen you smile.”
Xia Qingyue gently shook her head. “I can’t. Starting from when I was four years old, I forgot how to cry, and also forgot how to smile…”
Yun Che was momentarily stunned. From Xia Qingyue’s eyes, he saw a fleeting look of desolation. He thought for a moment and said, “Then can you tell me why you are so obsessed with pursuing strength?”
When he was young, he had been filled with curiosity about Xia Qingyue, to whom he was betrothed. When he played with Xia Yuanba, he often asked about Xia Qingyue’s affairs, and Xia Yuanba’s answer was always the same—she was cultivating.
She spent almost all her time cultivating profound strength. Even until Yun Che was sixteen, he had only seen her a few times, and each time it was just a brief glance. Her obsession with profound strength was beyond comprehension.
Xia Qingyue was silent for a moment. She extended her jade-like hand and gently caught a snowflake, then slowly said, “Aren’t you the same?… For what reason are you so obsessed?”
“For myself, and so that no one I care about gets bullied.” Yun Che answered without hesitation.
“No one gets bullied…” Xia Qingyue’s eyelashes fluttered, her voice as light as drifting snow: “I only seek… a family reunited.”
Yun Che’s heart stirred. He looked at Xia Qingyue with surprise, silently pondering the meaning of her words. After a while, he asked, “Does this ‘family’ include me? When it comes to family, as your husband, I am… your closest family, in name at least.”
The snowflakes slowly piled up in Xia Qingyue’s palm but did not melt for a long time. She lightly tossed her hand, watching the whiteness scatter in the cold wind, and a sorrow she herself could not name spread silently in her heart: “I am a person unworthy of having a husband… Because perhaps I will never be able to fulfill the duties of a wife… In the future, one day I will leave here and go to a very, very distant place, and might never be able to return…” She closed her eyes and murmured as if in a dream: “The you of the past, ordinary as dust, only made me feel occasional concern. Now you shine like a diamond, and it makes me, who has no future, increasingly fearful…”
Rumble… rumblllle………
A distant rumbling sound echoed, and the ground trembled slightly. Two rapidly expanding spatial vortices appeared in front of Yun Che and Xia Qingyue respectively.
“It seems it’s time to go back…”
Before Yun Che could finish his words, both of them were simultaneously sucked into the spatial vortices.
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