# Chapter 299: Seeing the Light of Day Again
In the dark underground space, Yun Che knelt for an entire three days and three nights.
For Yun Canghai, death was indeed a form of release. Over the past century, he had longed for death countless times, yet he could not die because he carried important objects and earth-shattering secrets of the Illusion Demon Realm. Now, he had entrusted everything to Yun Che. The time for his release had finally come. Moreover, his release could also buy Yun Che's freedom.
And this was not just about granting Yun Che freedom—it was also the only method to ensure his safety. Both the Xingtian Sword and the Starfall Chain bore soul imprints set by the Tian Wei Sword Domain. If Yun Che had forcibly escaped the Xingtian Sword's suppression, it would inevitably alert the Tian Wei Sword Domain, allowing them to investigate how he had emerged from beneath the sword's pressure. If he had tried to escape together with Yun Canghai, the consequences would have been even more unthinkable. With Yun Che's current power, he was not even an ant before the Tian Wei Sword Domain. Only by Yun Canghai ending his own life, causing the Xingtian Sword and Starfall Chain to withdraw their power for lack of a target, would Yun Che have the safest way to leave this place.
Yun Che understood all this, but to him, it was still too cruel. Because Yun Canghai was the first true blood relative he had found in both his lifetimes. Before he could fully experience the warmth and bond that only existed between blood kin, Yun Canghai had departed forever before his eyes.
Yun Che, who had originally been eager to leave, did not choose to depart immediately after gaining his freedom. Instead, he knelt before Yun Canghai for three whole days... keeping vigil for three days, and using those three days to calm all the grief and turmoil within his heart.
At the same time, a name was deeply etched into his heart during those three days.
**Tian Wei Sword Domain!!**
Three days passed. Yun Che finally stirred. He opened his eyes, rose extremely slowly, and carefully moved Yun Canghai's body into the Heavenly Poison Pearl. A soft, faint murmur escaped his lips: "Grandfather, you suffered a century of torment. You must long to return to your homeland. When I am capable of traveling to the Illusion Demon Realm, I will bring you back to the family you have always yearned for and worried about, allowing you to rest peacefully on the soil of your homeland... In the future, when I have children, I will bring my wife and children to visit you every year, so you will never be alone..."
As he murmured, Yun Che stood up straight and looked up toward the sky above... *Tian Wei Sword Domain. Regardless of whether you are righteous or evil, right or wrong, good or bad, just because you forced my grandfather to his death and caused the death of Uncle Xiao who saved me... on the day I have sufficient power, I will make you pay the heaviest price, offering it to the souls of my grandfather and Uncle Xiao in heaven!*
Yun Che's mental fortitude was far beyond ordinary. After three days of immense grief, with Yun Canghai now peacefully resting within the Heavenly Poison Pearl, his eyes became cold and clear, and his heart was empty and serene. He looked up, took a light breath, and leaped upward.
**Boom!!**
A thunderous sound rang out as the earth above, now free of the suppressing force, was shattered open by Yun Che.
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**Tian Jian Villa, Sword Control Platform, Mao Hour, Quarter Past.** (Approx. 5:15 AM)
The sky was just beginning to lighten. Ling Jie, as usual, arrived early at the Sword Control Platform to begin his morning practice. But in recent days, he had been easily distracted during his sword training, his mind filled with thoughts of Fen Juecheng and the Azure Moon Princess's wedding.
**Ssshh!**
The Tianyang Sword flew out of his hand, tracing overlapping flowing lights through the air like waves before swiftly returning to his grasp. At that moment, an unusual sound suddenly came from diagonally below. The strange noise made him freeze instantly. Just as he was about to listen carefully, a section of the platform in front of the Xingtian Sword suddenly cracked open, and a black figure shot out from within.
**"Ahh!!"**
The sudden change startled Ling Jie greatly. He let out an involuntary cry and stumbled backward. The figure that shot out rose more than ten zhang into the air, then quickly descended, landing heavily in front of Ling Jie. Under the crushing weight of the Dragon Gate, the rock below shattered over a large area.
**"You..."** Ling Jie took another step back, instinctively raising the Tianyang Sword in front of him. He had only shouted one word when his eyes suddenly widened, and a shocked cry escaped his mouth: **"B-Big Brother!!"**
Ling Jie's expression looked exactly like someone seeing a ghost in broad daylight.
A person who was supposed to have died over a year ago suddenly popped out of the ground right in front of him. If that wasn't seeing a ghost, what was it? For a split second, Ling Jie genuinely thought he had encountered a legendary corpse rising from the dead.
"Little Jie?" Yun Che looked at him with slight surprise. He hadn't expected that the first person he would see after emerging would be Ling Jie. Sixteen months had passed, and Ling Jie had grown a lot. Though there was still a trace of childishness in his expression, there was now more of a sharpness, like the edge of a sword.
Hearing his voice and sensing the aura of his power, Ling Jie finally snapped back to reality. An enormous joy appeared on his face. He put away the Tianyang Sword and rushed forward, speaking with extreme excitement: "Big Brother! You, you, you... you're not dead? You actually didn't die? You really aren't dead?"
"Nonsense. If I were dead, would I be standing here?" Yun Che said with a faint smile, sighing inwardly as well. There was no doubt—during this time, everyone must have thought he was dead. Those who cared about him... how heartbroken and grief-stricken they must have been.
"But... that day, after you were struck by that demon's palm and sealed down there together, there was no way you could have survived..." As Ling Jie spoke, his perception unconsciously swept toward the Xingtian Sword. He suddenly noticed that the invisible pressure from the Xingtian Sword had completely disappeared. In recent days, while practicing swordplay on the platform, he had always felt that something was off somewhere, but he had never associated it with the Xingtian Sword.
Ling Jie's eyes widened as he said: "Could it be... that you were so seriously injured that day but didn't die, and the demon didn't attack you again... and then you recovered and instead killed the demon? Wow! That must be it! Only if the demon died could you escape the suppression of the Xingtian Sword! Big Brother, you're incredible! Ahhh! As expected of my big brother, Ling Jie! There's nothing in this world you can't do! I'm so stupid, how could I believe that my big brother Ling Jie would die so easily... Hahaha! Big Brother, do you know? Right now, in the Cang Feng Empire, you are an unmatched legend. Once the news spreads that you're still alive, it will become an even greater legend!"
"Wow! Your profound energy aura now is even stronger than my big brother's! Could it be that your profound strength is already above Spirit Xuan Realm Level Four?" Sensing the thickness of Yun Che's profound energy aura, Ling Jie cried out even more in amazement. Sixteen months ago, Yun Che's profound strength was only at Spirit Xuan Realm Level One. Now, his profound energy aura was dense enough to surpass Ling Yun, who was currently at Earth Xuan Realm Level Four! Ling Jie's jaw nearly dropped.
At True Xuan Realm Level Ten, Yun Che had been able to defeat Xia Qingyue, who was at Earth Xuan Realm. Now, with Yun Che above Earth Xuan Realm Level Four, his combat power was simply incalculable!
"I'm at Earth Xuan Realm Level Six now... The demon didn't die by my hand. To grant me freedom, he severed his own heart meridian." Yun Che said extremely calmly.
"Earth Xuan... Realm... Level Six?" Ling Jie's eyes twitched violently, and a loud "gulp" sounded in his throat. Sixteen months, from Spirit Xuan Realm Level One to Earth Xuan Realm Level Six, and in an underground space with no resources whatsoever—this was simply a mythic speed. Compared to this overwhelming shock, the latter part of Yun Che's words had become essentially unimportant. Ling Jie stared at Yun Che with wide eyes, stunned: "Big Brother, you are simply an omnipotent god. My admiration for you can no longer be expressed in words... Although I've worked very hard this past year, I've only reached Spirit Xuan Realm Level Ten... Will you still take me on as your little brother?"
At seventeen, Spirit Xuan Realm Level Ten—this had already crushed Ling Yun, the former number one among the younger generation, causing a sensation at Tian Jian Villa and throughout the Cang Feng Empire. Ling Jie had even been quite proud of himself. But now he suddenly discovered that his achievements were nothing but a pile of pure garbage in front of Yun Che, who had gone from Spirit Xuan Realm Level One to Earth Xuan Realm Level Six in less than a year and a half.
Yun Che smiled casually and said: "Reaching Earth Xuan Realm was through a special method. It's actually not that extraordinary. During the time I was suppressed, many things must have happened in the Cang Feng Empire..."
"Mm-hmm, mm-hmm!" Ling Jie immediately nodded and said: "Big Brother, you don't know—after you died... bah, bah, bah—after you were dragged underground by the demon, your deeds spread throughout the entire Cang Feng Empire. During that time, almost everywhere in the empire, people were talking about you. Especially the young profound practitioners without any sect support, almost all of them regarded you as their faith. The Cang Feng Imperial Family also gained supreme honor because of you. I heard that this year, the number of disciples registering for the Cang Feng Mystic Palace and its various branch mystic palaces was seven or eight times higher than in previous years. The small courtyard where you lived in the inner court of the Cang Feng Mystic Palace has been specially protected. In front of the inner court's Tai Xuan Hall, there is even a statue of you. I heard that the inscription on the statue declares you as the most outstanding disciple in the history of the Cang Feng Mystic Palace. Even now, your legends are everywhere in the Cang Feng Empire. Speaking of which... Big Brother! You're simply too awesome! How in the world did you manage to do all those things?"
"..." Yun Che was dumbfounded. *I only got first place in the ranking battle. Causing a sensation for a while is normal enough, but having this much influence?*
He still had no idea that the real reason he had caused a national sensation was not primarily because of his ranking battle victory, but because he—a person with absolutely no background, whose name was hardly known before the ranking battle—had actually married Xia Qingyue, the recognized number one beauty of the empire and the top young genius of her generation. He had also gotten the Ice Chan Immortal, the former number one beauty whom countless sect masters could only fantasize about, pregnant. And he had even pledged himself to the empire's only princess, the most nobly born woman.
Such a person could only be described in four words: **Sky-high awesome!**
Every man either worshipped him to the point of prostration or was so jealous they wished he had died and gone to the eighteenth level of hell.
"Is it really that exaggerated?" Yun Che muttered softly, then asked cautiously: "After I was suppressed by the Xingtian Sword, what happened to the Azure Moon Princess, Yuan Ba, and the others? What happened afterward?"
When Yun Che mentioned the Azure Moon Princess, Ling Jie's expression stiffened, and all his excitement immediately cooled. His change in expression made Yun Che's heart lurch. He quickly asked: "What's wrong? What happened after that?"
Ling Jie took a deep breath and said somewhat hesitantly: "Big Brother... there's something... uh... after I tell you, please don't get angry... It definitely wasn't Princess Sister's intention... um... Princess Sister... she... she... she is about to marry Fen Juecheng..."
**"What!?"** Yun Che's body visibly trembled, and his face immediately darkened.
"Big Brother, don't panic. That definitely wasn't Princess Sister's wish. She might have been coerced, or there might have been some other unavoidable reaso..."
"Tell me, when is their wedding? Where is the location?"
Yun Che coldly interrupted Ling Jie's words, his voice incredibly calm... so calm that it sent a shiver down Ling Jie's spine. He answered almost instinctively: "The Fen Tian Sect's procession has already set out for the imperial capital to fetch the bride. At the latest, they will arrive by Chen hour tomorrow. The wedding will be held in four days at the Fen Tian Sect's Blazing Sun Hall..."
The moment Ling Jie finished speaking, Yun Che had already shot out like a gust of wind, disappearing dozens of zhang away in the blink of an eye.
"Wait! Big Brother!!"
Ling Jie quickly chased after him, simultaneously extending his left hand. With a flash of light, a large bird over two zhang long rushed toward Yun Che amidst a burst of wind: "This is my contracted profound beast, the Windflame Bird. With its speed... it might still be in time!"
The Windflame Bird was a high-level Earth Xuan Beast. In terms of speed, it was in no way inferior to the Stormwind Eagle, and its endurance was dozens of times greater. Yun Che turned his head, leaped high into the air, and landed on the Windflame Bird's back. Then, with the bird's long cry, they broke through the air, flying straight toward the direction of the Cang Feng Imperial City.
"Huff... it has to be in time!" Ling Jie clenched his fists. At that moment, he suddenly remembered that Chu Yuechan had been discovered to be pregnant sixteen months ago. He quickly shouted loudly: "Big Brother! Wait! There's another very important thing..."
But the Windflame Bird was extremely fast; it had already turned into a small black dot in his field of vision. His voice could no longer reach him... And at this moment, Yun Che, whose heart was burning with urgency, would definitely not turn back even if he heard his voice.
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