He had gone through an untold number of trials and tribulations to arrive at where he was today. He was no longer the careless person who would let a detailāespecially one that felt offāslip past him just because it had felt minor and inconsequential.
So he summoned the profound energy and replayed the projection once more.
This time, he gathered his mind andābesides the split spiritual perception that was following Yun Wuxinākept his eyes and his full perception trained on the projection.
Blue Pole Starās space was shaking, and the crimson divine light of the World Piercer was spreading quickly. When the red light fully encompassed the entire projectionā¦
ā¦ he caught sight of that purple flash once more.
It only appeared for a brief instant, but it more than confirmed that it wasnāt just a hallucination of his mind!
At the same time, his heart started beating wildly.
That purple wasā¦
Noā¦
Noā¦
It cannot beā¦
He pressed a palm to his chests. His heartbeat was so strong that it actually felt like it was physically ramming against his palm.
He shook his head powerfully and replayed the projection again.
At the same time, he pressed a finger imbued with profound energy against the projection.
Sometimes when a personās nervousness and tension reaches a certain level, they might feel as if the world itself had fallen silent.
That the flow of time itself had become infinitely slower.
He stopped breathing, but even then he couldnāt suppress the mad beating of his heart. When the replay finally reached a certain moment, he unleashed the profound energy imbued in his finger.
It felt like a miracle. The replay froze at the exact moment the purple flash appeared.
Equally frozen was Yun Cheās body, face, breathing, blood flow and heartbeat. It was as if everything had become frozen in ice.
Everything, except his rapidly dilating pupilsā¦
This was the frozen scene in the projection: the crimson light of the World Piercer was enveloping the blue sky, and outside of it was an unusually thin yet deep layer of purple light.
There were countless purple-colored powers in the entire universe. Thunder profound practitioners practically inhaled and exhaled purple with every boom of thunder.
However, Yun Che was at a level where he could easily differentiate any power on sight no matter how similar their colors were.
That was why he could declare with certainty that this wasnāt the first time he had seen the purple light in the projectionā¦ one might even say that he was all too familiar with it.
It had protected him, almost killed him, fought against himā¦
He remembered every moment it had appeared in his life clearly to this day.
After allā¦ it was a power that had belonged to the Moon God Realm, the divine light of the Purple Pylon Moon God!
The bearer of its legacy was none other than Xia Qingyue, the deceased Moon God Emperor herself!
The snow blew at erratic speeds. It wasnāt long before Yun Che was covered in a layer of pure white snow.
However, Yun Che remained as frozen as a lifeless statue. One breath stretched to ten, and ten stretched to a hundred. Perhaps the passage of time itself had become completely meaningless to him. He was too busy contending with the violent shock that was drumming inside his brain with the power of ten thousand crashes of thunder.
He couldnāt believe his eyes, but even less could he fool himself to believe that the translucent, crystal-like purple on the projection wasnāt real.
There was only one Purple Pylon divine power in this universe.
There couldnāt be a second bearer of the Purple Pylon divine power.
Soā¦ whatā¦ isā¦ thisā¦?
Before calamity struck, it was Meiyin who used the World Piercer to move the Blue Pole Star to the south of the Southern Divine Region.
The day Yun Wuxin engraved this image was the same day the Blue Pole Star was about to be destroyed. The red radiance in the projection was without a doubt the spatial divine power of the World Piercer as well.
So why didĀ herĀ power appear at the same time as space as this spatial divine power?
Why did the person who destroyed the āBlue Pole Starā before my very eyesā¦
What is going onā¦
What the hell is going on hereā¦?
He abruptly bit the tip of his tongue. Blood flooded his mouth as pain brought clarity and order back to his chaotic thoughts. However, his pupils still refused to contract.
It was at this moment a couple of unimportant questions and contradictions that he had almost forgotten altogether surfaced from the depths of his mind:
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
āSome time ago, I took a trip to the Dragon God Realm and I found out about some matters regarding Senior Shen Xi. However, it is not the right time to tell you about that nowā¦ the reason why I am mentioning it to you right now is to tell you that you do not need to visit the Dragon God Realm in the near future.ā
This was what Xia Qingyue told him before everything had gone to hell. He was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Xia Qingyue before the Wall of Primal Chaos and getting ready to see off the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor.
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
Beyond the destroyed Blue Pole Star, she had pointed the Purple Pylon Divine Sword oozing with purple light and the stench of death at his lifeless face. She had watched him with a pair of purple eyes as cold and desolate as the abyss itself and said in a pitying voice,
āI suppose that thereās no harm in telling you one thing before you die.ā
āI told you yesterday that there was something I needed to speak to you about when the time was right, butā¦ it would appear that such a time will never come. In that case, I may as well tell you about it now.ā
āShen Xiā¦ is dead.ā
āSome time ago, I went to the Dragon God Realm and discovered that the Forbidden Land of Samsara was completely destroyed. All the plants are dead, no one is around, and its spirit energy is completely spent,ā
āLater on, I went to the center of the Forbidden Land of Samsara and found a pool of blood in the middle. Although a long time had passed, the blood showed no signs of drying at allā¦ itās because it had pure light aura in it.ā
āCan you guess whose blood it was?ā
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
After he killed Long Bai, reentered the Dragon God Realm and forcefully dispelled the barrier that surrounded the entire Forbidden Land of Samsara, a doubt had sprung from his mind.
It was because the barrier had been imbued with Long Baiās draconic soul. It was almost impossible for anyone to breach it without being noticed.
He once asked Qianye Yingāer, āQianying, are there any methods that will allow someone to slip into this kind of soul-infused barrier undetected?ā
She had answered, āThe first is to use the Eternal Heaven God Realmās Great Void Cauldron. As the strongest spatial artifact of this era, slipping through a soul-infused barrier shouldnāt pose a problem to it, no matter how many layers there are. The second is a special spatial profound technique from the Purple Micro Realm called the āPrime Purple Microā.ā
āHowever, I cannot guarantee that the Great Void Cauldron can slip through a soul-infused barrier of this level undetected. As for the āPrime Purple Microā technique, itās a skill that no one in the Purple Micro Realm has been able to cultivate for two hundred thousand years.ā
āThe third is naturally the World Piercer that Shui Meiyin currently owns. As a Profound Heavenly Treasure and the undisputed strongest spatial divine artifact in the history of the Primal Chaos, an artifact that can even switch planetary objects across the universe, penetrating a mere soul-infused barrier like this one is nothing more than childās play.ā
āThe Moon God Realm doesnāt have any similar secret spatial techniques, correct?ā
Qianye Yingāer answered again, āI remember you telling me that it was Xia Qingyue who told you about Shen Xiās death. So you are wondering why Xia Qingyue would be able to figure this out even though Long Bai had personally set up a soul-infused barrier around this area, right?ā
āHmph, thereās nothing strange about that. Every king realm has their own deeply-hidden secrets and trump cards. It wouldnāt be strange if the Moon God Realm possessed some sort of secret spatial art or hidden spatial artifact that no one else knows about.ā
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
āHowever, Senior Devil Emperor did not want the World Piercer to accompany her into her eternal exile from the Primal Chaos. So, she handed it over to me before she leftā¦ The World Piercer was born in the core of the primordial universe. So she said these words to me. āOnly your Stainless Divine Soul, birthed by the primordial energies of this universe, can nurture and temporarily awaken the needle spirit that slumbers within the World Piercerāā¦ā
āThe Stainless Divine Soul was then used as a medium to connect to the needle spirit which had been roused from its slumber for a little while, and I would then proceed to use my own strength to forcibly activate the World Piercerās dimensional powers.ā
This conversation had occurred when Shui Meiyin was telling him the whole truth. It was to let him know that her Divine Stainless Soul was theĀ onlyĀ thing in the world that could temporarily awaken the World Piercerās slumbering spirit to activate its spatial divine power with her own powers.
It was why the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had purposely left her the World Piercer.
However, her claim didnāt quite match the records of the World Piercer written in the ancient records of the Dragon God.
[According to the Ancestral God Canon, the World Piercer and the World Piecerās needle spirit had been birthed side-by-side from the primordial universe. Therefore, if the owner of the World Piercer possessed a power that also originated from the primordial universe, they could channel their own energy through the medium that was the World Piercerās needle spirit, and use its spatial divine powers by force. However, this method of usage would greatly damage the World Piercerās needle spirit and especially the user, so it shouldnāt be considered unless there was literally no other choice.]
The writer had claimed thatĀ any power that originated from the primordial universeĀ could perform the action. The Divine Stainless Soul was one such power. The other wasā¦
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
The most ridiculous thought he ever had since this discovery, the biggest impossibility of all impossibilities sprouted in his mind.
The worst part of it all was that this supposedly ridiculous and impossible possibilityā¦ fixed all of the doubts and contradictions like it was the key to the lock all along.
Noā¦ noā¦
What am I thinkingā¦
Thatās just notā¦ itās impossibleā¦
His fingers slowly but surely clenched into a fist. He then engraved the frozen projection as a new projection inside the Eternal Imagery Stone.
Suddenly, he recalled something and fished out four jade stones glowing a faint blue profound light a bit clumsily.
They were the Illusory Glazed Imagery Jades!
These four Illusory Glazed Imagery Jades were the same four Shui Meiyin had used to secretly engrave the betrayal of the god emperors and divine masters after the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had left, and show the truth to the entire God Realm when Yun Che was invading the Eastern Divine Region. [1]
He played and watched all four projections at the same time.
The first jade showed the return of the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor.
The second jade showed the realm kings and god emperors calling him the God Child Messiah and lavishing him with praise.
The third jade showed the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor announcing to the same group of people that she was leaving the Primal Chaos, and the one who ultimately drove her decision was Yun Che.
And the final jade showed the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor speaking to the engraver (Shui Meiyin) herself.
Shui Meiyin had engraved these recordings in secret, so of course she didnāt show up in them.
However, now that he was rewatching them with a completely different mindset, he abruptly realized that Xia Qingyue didnāt show up in the jades either!
He wasnāt present in the scene in the fourth jade as a matter of course, but the rest of themā¦ the return of the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, him becoming known as the God Child Messiah, and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor announcing her departureā¦ he remembered clearly that Xia Qingyue was present for all of them!
The reason heāor anyone else for that matterānever questioned this was because there was simply no reason to when they first made it onto the Eternal Heaven Projection. Shui Meiyin declared that she was the one who engraved them, so it was. At the time, who in their right mind would even consider such an extreme, unlikely possibility?
Yun Che had experienced three out of four of the moments engraved in these Illusory Glazed Imagery Jades, so he could confidently say that they were much shorter than what had actually happened at the time. For whatever reason, a lot of scenes had been cut out from the recordings.
At the time, everyone thought that the scenes were cut short for clarity sake, that it was to present the truth to the world in the easiest and quickest way possible.
However, what if those scenes were removed to hide somethingā¦
If Shui Meiyin really was the one who engraved them, why would she purposely remove the scenes with Xia Qingyue in them? Was it a coincidence?
Or was it Xia Qingyue whoā
ā¦ā¦
No!
What am I thinkingā¦
Impossibleā¦ impossibleā¦ impossible..
How could I even consider this?
Sheā¦
Sheā¦!
ā¦ā¦
āWhat are you doing, Cheāer? Why did you let Wuxin run off on her own?ā
A cool voice entered his ears and chilled his soul to the core.
For some reason, Mu Xuanyin preferred to address Yun Che as āCheāerā in private. Maybe it was because she was used to it, or maybe she just didnāt want to change it.
When she caught sight of Yun Che after she and Mu Bingyun landed on the snow though, shock rippled through her eyes instantly.
Before Yun Che could react, she appeared in front of him and frowned deeply. āWhat happened? Why is your aura so chaotic?ā
Yun Che looked up and tried to pull the corners of his lips upward. It was one of his ugliest and most forced smiles to date. āItās nothing. Iām justā¦ feeling a bit cold.ā
āCold?ā His response only made Mu Xuanyin and Mu Bingyun more confused.
Mu Xuanyin gently grabbed Yun Cheās wrist and tried to say something, but the next moment she realized that Yun Che was holding her hand. The unnatural coldness of his skin made her shudder.
āXuanyin,ā he said quietly, āCan you watch over Wuxin for me? I need to go do something.ā
Then, still barely in control of his aura, he let go and took off to the south.
However, Mu Xuanyin appeared in front of Yun Che again and caught his wrist in a much tighter grip. āWhat happened? Tell me now, orā¦ Iām coming with you.ā
Yun Che shook his head and shot her a reassuring smile. Thankfully, it was a lot less forced than the previous one. āDonāt worry, itās not because of some sudden danger or anything. I just want toā¦ seek confirmation.ā
āUntil I have my answers, I donāt thinkā¦ I can rest easy for even a moment.ā
He removed Mu Xuanyinās hand gently after he said this. Then, he took off into the snow once more.
This time, Mu Xuanyin neither stopped nor chased after him. She simply watched his vanished figure with deep worry in her eyes.
āSister, whatā¦ happened to him?ā Mu Bingyun appeared beside her and stared at the horizon Yun Che had vanished to.
Mu Xuanyin didnāt give her an answer.
A long time later, she whispered a bit dazedly to herself, āWhat else in this world could throw his heart into such disarray?ā
ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦
Yun Che flew very quickly. The space he passed through was completely severed, and the resulting storm was so terrible that the smaller planets actually shifted out of orbit.
Was the truth he saw with his own eyes false?
Was the most impossible possibility the truth?
He cut a beeline across the Eastern Divine Region. He passed by planet after planet.
Finally, a ball of watery blue profound light entered his sight.
It was the Glazed Light Realm he visited with Yun Wuxin not long ago.
On the way, he only wished he could increase his maximum speed by another ten or a hundred times.
Now that Glazed Light Realm was in front of him though, his speed actually grew slower and slower.
The heart he had just calmed started beating wildly once more.
Meiyin, itās all just a coincidence, and itās all just my stupid imagination playing tricks with meā¦
You can give me a perfect explanation, right?
1. Chapter 1745: Crushing The Heart
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