Chapter 741: Mo Li Freed from the Nightmare
Huan Yao Realm, Yao Huang City.
More than three months had passed since Yun Che brought Xiao Yun and the Tianxia siblings and left the Huan Yao Realm.
In three months, the blood and storm in Yao Huang City gradually subsided, and it began to show a peace and tranquility that had not been seen in a hundred years. Xiao Yaohou had also become the absolutely supreme existence in the entire Huan Yao Realm, with no one daring to oppose her, no one able to oppose her.
「...The last foreign spy was just found and executed in the south of the city. A hundred years ago, the Tian Xuan Continent had inserted nineteen foreign spies, and now they have all been eradicated! Among these nineteen, eleven came from one of the Four Sacred Grounds of Tian Xuan Continent, the Supreme Sea Palace, and the other eight came from the Tian Wei Sword Domain.」
In the great hall, Mu Yubai knelt on one knee, respectfully reporting to Xiao Yaohou. The reason they knew there were nineteen was naturally due to the Yun family's Arcane Firmament Soul-Seizing. After extracting the first one, its number, purpose, approximate locations of others, and how they entered and what they did could all be known clearly.
Xiao Yaohou wore a crimson-gold long dress, a purple glazed crown on her head, and a crimson-glow ribbon around her waist, exuding extreme nobility and majesty from head to toe. Her snow-white delicate face, though without makeup, was incomparably beautiful, lips like cherry petals, eyes like cold stars. Although she no longer had the dead silence and dominance of before, she was still cold. No one would doubt that if those beautiful eyes could curve gently in a smile, they would surely enchant countless beings and overturn a thousand eras of splendor.
But the gentle light in her beautiful eyes would only bloom for Yun Che alone.
「Direct execution? Did you use Arcane Firmament Soul-Seizing on this last foreign spy?」Xiao Yaohou asked. Her cold, clear gaze caught the abnormality deep in Mu Yubai's eyes.
「Reporting to Xiao Yaohou, before execution, we did perform Arcane Firmament Soul-Seizing,」Mu Yubai paused, a worried expression appearing on his face: 「From his mouth, we obtained a piece of bad information.」
「Speak.」Xiao Yaohou's face, so beautiful that it could not be described by mortal words, was filled with coldness and awe-inspiring majesty, expressionless.
Mu Yubai said each word carefully: 「These foreign spies from the Tian Xuan Continent carried a very special sound transmission stone, which sealed a very powerful sound transmission profound formation that could transmit sound directly from our Huan Yao Realm to the Tian Xuan Continent. This kind of sound transmission stone was extremely precious and rare, and once used, all its profound power was lost. When we eradicated the eleven from Supreme Sea Palace, according to Arcane Firmament Soul-Seizing, they brought seven such special sound transmission stones, and all were used up a year and three months ago. The last message sent back to Tian Xuan Continent was before the Yao Hou Ceremony had yet to be held.」
「You already said these months ago. Bringing it up again, could it be that the sound transmission stones of the Tian Wei Sword Domain were not all used up?」Xiao Yaohou's crescent brows sank slightly.
「Yes.」Mu Yubai nodded, his furrowed brows never relaxing: 「The eight from Tian Wei Sword Domain only brought three sound transmission stones, but in the past hundred years, they only used two, and the last one... was used only three months ago!」
「What!?」Xiao Yaohou's face suddenly sank. Because she clearly knew what this meant.
「And there was no luck... In the last transmission, that person heavily mentioned matters regarding Yun Che! And it was extremely complete... including his identity as a son of the Yun family, coming from the Tian Xuan Continent, bringing back the demon king's remains from the Cang Feng Kingdom, quelling the Huai Wang rebellion, obtaining the Golden Crow inheritance, marrying Xiao Yaohou... all of it was transmitted back to the Tian Xuan Continent!!」
These were not only not secrets in the Huan Yao Realm, but could be said to be known to everyone! In the Huan Yao Realm, everyone knew Xiao Yaohou, and even more, everyone knew the first demon sovereign in Huan Yao history!
Xiao Yaohou's already icy gaze became even more piercingly cold, causing Mu Yubai's whole body to stiffen, barely able to breathe. After a long while, he finally caught his breath and continued: 「In this way, the Tian Wei Sword Domain must already know Che'er's identity. He is in the Tian Xuan Continent... in danger! Although Che'er has extremely high talent and rapid progress, there is no way he can be a match for the Sacred Grounds.」
「...」Xiao Yaohou knew of the existence of the Primordial Mystic Ark on Yun Che's person. With the Primordial Mystic Ark, no matter how great the crisis, he could flee far away, so he should not be in fatal danger. But to let her be completely at ease was even more impossible... Her father had fallen in the Tian Wei Sword Domain, and Yun Canghai and the Yun ancestors had also been brought down by the "Tian Wei Soul Suppression Formation" of the Tian Wei Sword Domain. One Tian Wei Sword Domain was already so terrifying. Once Yun Che's identity was exposed in the Tian Xuan Continent, what he would face would be more than just one Tian Wei Sword Domain. The consequence... would be almost the entire Tian Xuan Continent turning against him!
「Did that foreign spy mention the Lunhui Jing during the transmission?」Xiao Yaohou asked in a low voice.
「He did say it!」Mu Yubai then remembered that he had omitted an extremely important point. His face changed again, and he gritted his teeth: 「On the day of Xiao Yaohou's grand wedding, it was announced that the Yao Huang's supreme treasure, the Lunhui Jing, was given as a betrothal gift... This sentence was also transmitted completely by him... Damn it!」
「It is indeed a very fast bad news.」Xiao Yaohou turned her face away, not letting Mu Yubai see the worry stirring in her cold pupils. During the Yao Hou Ceremony, everyone learned that the long-lost Lunhui Jing was on Yun Che's person. But he had returned the Yao Huang Seal, yet never mentioned returning the Lunhui Jing. Xiao Yaohou had mentioned it three times, but he shamelessly refused to return it. After that, she simply announced the Lunhui Jing as a betrothal gift... After all, Yun Che, who married her, had also entered the Yao Huang clan.
Although the Lunhui Jing was a supreme treasure guarded by the Yao Huang clan for generations, no one knew its function or how to use it.
But the Tian Xuan Continent... was crazily obsessed with the words "Lunhui Jing"! The Huan Yao disaster back then, Ming Wang's scheme, was all triggered by the Lunhui Jing! It all started with the Lunhui Jing!
If the Tian Wei Sword Domain knew that the Lunhui Jing was very likely on Yun Che's person, then they might not publicly expose Yun Che's identity, and instead seek an opportunity to "monopolize" the Lunhui Jing... But this did not make Xiao Yaohou relieved at all, because she thought of an even more terrifying point:
The Tian Wei Sword Domain knew Yun Che's identity... but Yun Che would not know that the Tian Wei Sword Domain already knew his identity!
「How much longer until the Yun family's Duan Kong Ring recovers its power?」Xiao Yaohou suddenly turned around, her voice ice-cold.
「The entire Yun family is also worried about Yun Che's safety, so they spared no expense in using all the Purple Vein Divine Crystals they had received before to fully restore power to the Duan Kong Ring. But even so, to fully restore it, the shortest time would be three months, but it would not exceed six months at most...」
The Duan Kong Ring was the secret tool used by Yun Qinghong and his wife to infiltrate the Tian Xuan Continent back then.
「Three months...」Clearly, Xiao Yaohou was very dissatisfied with this time. Her gaze shifted, and she suddenly said: 「How is the search for Ming Wang's whereabouts going?」
「Shamefully, there has been no progress in the recent month. We will certainly...」
「I will give you another three months!」Xiao Yaohou coldly interrupted Mu Yubai's words: 「Within three months, you must find Ming Wang's hiding place! But do not rashly attack as before; you must inform me at once! Although Ming Wang's vitality is greatly damaged, he is still not someone ordinary people can deal with! I only need to know his hiding place, and I will personally act to take his life!」
The blood escape technique Ming Wang used to flee back then, Xiao Yaohou had thoroughly understood based on the jade slip recording the [Fallen Flame Demon Art] found underground in Huai Wang's mansion. If Ming Wang fell into her hands, even if he once again used blood escape at any cost, he would not be able to escape.
「If you still cannot find Ming Wang's location within these three months, all of you will sever one finger to apologize!」
Mu Yubai's whole body trembled, and he said fearfully: 「Yubai has been ineffective in handling matters. Please calm your anger, Xiao Yaohou... Within three months, Yubai will surely not disappoint Xiao Yaohou again.」
「Withdraw... Have Yun Qinghong come see me quickly!」Xiao Yaohou turned around, her back to Mu Yubai. An overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere heavily filled the entire hall, making Mu Yubai dare not breathe deeply.
「Yes!」
Mu Yubai withdrew, and only after leaving the hall did he heavily exhale. His hand touched his forehead, coming away covered in cold sweat.
「Sigh... she's still my nephew's wife after all.」Mu Yubai muttered with full grievance, carefully walking away.
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At the same time, Tian Xuan Continent, Bing Yun Fairy Palace.
In the early morning, the sky was already bright. At this time before, Yun Che would already be using Overlord Pills to increase the profound strength of the Bing Yun women. But now, Yun Che was still lying on that ice bed where Chu Yuechan had slept for decades, his eyes still closed, as if he was still fast asleep.
At that moment, a flash of red light suddenly appeared beside him, and a petite, exquisite girl with red hair and red clothes appeared there. Her face was cold and still, and her eyes flickered with an eerie brilliance.
Yun Che opened his eyes and sat up immediately: 「Mo Li, why did you come out?」
「Today is the day of your agreed battle with Fen Juechen. You haven't forgotten, have you?」Mo Li raised her slender brows and said indifferently.
「Of course not. That's why I'm conserving my energy.」Yun Che said with a relaxed expression.
「It seems you really aren't worried at all. I already reminded you that his profound strength will certainly have skyrocketed compared to three months ago... Hmph, forget it. Before that, there is good news. Do you want to hear it?」
「Good news?」Yun Che was about to ask when he suddenly noticed that Mo Li's body no longer had the purification aura of the Heavenly Poison Pearl. He immediately lunged forward and said in surprise: 「Could it be... that the demon poison on your body has been completely purified?」
「That's right, all of it!」Mo Li turned her face away, but Yun Che could see a slight upturn at the corner of her mouth... But this time, it was not a cold smile, but a very faint, but truly genuine gentle smile!
Counting carefully, from the time he met and accompanied Mo Li until now, it had been a full six years and ten months.
Yet this was the first time he had seen Mo Li show a real smile... although it was very slight and brief.
「Excellent!!」Yun Che exclaimed softly. His joy came from the bottom of his heart, from his soul. Not because being freed from the demon poison nightmare could provide him with great assistance, but simply because she had escaped the nightmare of the demon poison.
「As expected of the Heavenly Poison Pearl. This kind of demon poison, with the name 'Godslayer' that also invades the soul, can actually be completely purified. When I first realized I had been poisoned with this kind of demon poison, I thought I was doomed.」Mo Li looked at her palm and said softly. Now, her soul body was completely pure as before, without a trace of Godslayer Desolation Poison. Regarding the terror of this poison, she understood far more than Yun Che... Even an ancient true god, if poisoned with this, would basically only face annihilation.
Yet she had survived, and even completely purified the Godslayer Desolation Poison. And it had taken less than seven years.
「Hey... it's clearly my merit, okay? It's thanks to that night I picked~~ you up at the back mountain of the Xiao Sect, and I happened to have the Heavenly Poison Pearl on me, otherwise... hmph, hmph.」Yun Che said with a dissatisfied expression.
Mo Li gave a cold laugh and said disdainfully: 「Hmph, if you hadn't met me, you would have died eight hundred times if not a thousand!」
「...」Yun Che was speechless.
「There's another thing I can almost tell you.」Mo Li raised her face, which was even more exquisite than the most delicate porcelain doll, and said with slight pride: 「That year, I claimed to have sealed my own profound strength... it was actually a lie!」
Mo Li finished speaking and waited for Yun Che to show a shocked, wide-eyed, or frantic expression, but after hearing her words, Yun Che just silently looked at her and nodded: 「Oh, I know.」
「You know?」It was Mo Li who became surprised: 「When did you find out?」
「Probably around the time on the Primordial Mystic Ark.」Yun Che pillowed his hands behind his head, leaning against the ice wall, and said in a soft voice: 「During those eighteen months of enduring the spatial storm on the Primordial Mystic Ark, every time my body and mind were about to reach the final breaking point, the spatial storm would suddenly slow down, giving me a brief moment to catch my breath... For eighteen full months, the time I could endure increased each time, but every time it slowed down at the critical point, without exception.」
「During those eighteen months, all my mental focus was on survival; I couldn't spare a single extra thought for anything else. Later, when the spatial storm stopped, as I recalled those eighteen months, I began to guess that you must have interfered with the spatial storm, because it was impossible for such a coincidence to last a full eighteen months. And you shared a body with me, so you could clearly feel when I was on the verge of collapse.」
「...Then why didn't you call me out?」Mo Li looked at Yun Che with some surprise. The spatial storm was her interference, and the Primordial Mystic Ark finally stopping in the Huan Yao Realm was also caused by her interfering with the ark's trajectory unintentionally: 「When you encountered Ming Wang in the Jinwu Thunder Flame Valley, forced into a desperate situation, even almost dying at Ming Wang's hands, you never seemed to think of borrowing my power!」
「Because I knew your intention in doing this was to prevent me from subconsciously relying on you, which would severely affect my growth. Besides... I was only guessing after all. I had been constantly telling and suggesting to myself that it was just a guess, so that in any situation, I would have to rely on myself without holding back, and dare not rely on your 'possibly unsealed power'—it's as simple as that.」
Mo Li: 「...」
Mo Li's pink cheeks puffed slightly. This kind of adorable, annoyed expression was one that Yun Che might not see even once in two or three years. He was about to tease her when he suddenly thought of something. His gaze froze, and he sprang forward, his upper body almost pouncing directly in front of Mo Li, saying urgently: 「Mo Li! Now that all the demon poison has been purified, does that mean you can freely use your own power? Hurry... help me find out where Xiao Xiannü is! This is something you voluntarily promised me back then!」
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