Split in... two halves?
The Ice Phoenix girl was saying something that he couldnât understand at all again.
âWhat do you mean by split in two halves?â asked Yun Che in astonishment.
The Ice Phoenix girl replied, âThe offspring between the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor is a girl. Since she inherited both the Evil Godâs divine power and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperorâs darkness devilish power, she is undoubtedly a half-man and half devil who is unaccepted by the god race or the devil race.â
âAlthough Lord Mo E had beaten the Evil God, my guess is that Lord Mo E knew that it was an unfair battle, and that he had no face to wipe the daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor from existence completely. That is why he had suggested a middle ground instead.â
âHis request to the Evil God was to wipe out the âdevilishâ part of her and leave the ânon-devilishâ part of her untouched. That way, sheâd be able to stay with the god race.â
Yun Che, â...â
âThe Evil God had no other choice. This was the best and only path that was left for him. Therefore, he destroyed his daughterâs body and split her soul in half... separating the âdevil soulâ from the âdivine soulâ. I know that the notion of remaking a divine soulâs body may sound unbelievable to you, but it is something a Creation God can achieve easily.â
âThe splitting of oneâs soul meant that the soulâs original memories would fade away completely. This means that the divine soul who was reborn in a new body would become a completely new existence. In fact, that wasnât Lord Mo Eâs only request. He may have allowed her divine soul to remain with the god race, but no one was allowed to know that she was the daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor. The Evil God was forbidden from meeting her for the rest of his life too.â
Yun Che frowned deeply and clenched his fists without realizing it. From the standpoint of the gods and devils, Lord Mo Eâs request was perfectly normal. But from the standpoint of a father, he understood just how cruel a request it was to the Evil God.
He just couldnât imagine himself being unable to see Wuxin, and Wuxin not realizing that she had him as a father, for eternity.
âAfter that, the Evil God entrusted his daughterâs âdivine soulâ to the god he trusted the most to remake his daughterâs divine body, and she stayed with the clan of that god after she was reborn... Maybe the Evil God himself was completely disappointed, disheartened, or guilt-ridden by everything that had happened to his daughter, but some time later he abandoned his former title as the Creation God of Elements and called himself the âEvil Godâ. After that, he hid himself from the world and never concerned himself with the god race or the god he had entrusted his daughter to ever again.â
He abandoned his supreme title as a Creation God and called himself the Evil God...
The title âEvil Godâ was a divine title that was highly respected and admired by all living things... and yet Yun Che could clearly pick up a deep sense of sorrow from it.
âThe god the Evil God had entrusted his daughterâs divine soul to was a clan leader, and this clan leader made preparations so that the Evil Godâs daughter would appear to be his daughter to everyone. At the same time, he gave her the best treatment and protection he could afford... The reason he treated her so well was because his clan owed the Evil God a great favor. That was why he was willing to spend everything he had to protect his daughter and guard this secret for eternity.â
âAs for the Evil God daughterâs âdevil soulâ... the Evil God couldnât find it in his heart to wipe her out no matter how he tried, so he used an unknown method to fool Lord Mo Eâs senses and hid her in a secret place he had created at the last moment. He transformed it into a world of darkness that was suited for her, and he populated the world with many dark creatures because he was afraid that she would be too lonely.â
The Ice Phoenix girlâs story ended here. The story was obviously a combination of rumors from ancient times and the Ice Phoenix Girlâs own assumptions, but for some reason it felt almost... familiar to him? Déjà vu?
âIce Phoenix Spirit, what does this have to do with the âtrump cardâ that will help me persuade the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor better than even the Evil Godâs will you mentioned?â asked Yun Che.
The Ice Phoenix girl said slowly, âThe daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor... is still alive.â
âWhat!?â Yun Che exclaimed.
âThat terrible battle directly led to the destruction of the gods and the devils and the Evil Infant calamity, but due to the clan doing everything they could to protect the girl with the divine soul, she was miraculously able to survive the calamities in a profound ark imprinted with the World Piercerâs power... As for the one with the devil soul, she was completely unaffected by the calamities because she had been hidden in a pocket world in the lower realms. She too continues to exist to this day.â
Yun Che, â...â (That strange feeling of familiarity and déjà vu is growing stronger.)
âNone of this is knowledge that Iâd learned during the ancient times. It all comes from you, the very first person to know that the daughter of the Evil God is still alive in this day and age.â
The Ice Phoenix girlâs words completely stupefied Yun Che. âMe? You mean I saw her... them, before?ân/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
The Ice Phoenix girl gave Yun Che an obvious hint. âThe God Clan the Evil God had entrusted his daughterâs divine soul to was called... the Sword Spirit God Clan!â
âThis God Clan possessed a certain profound ark that was famous since the Era of Gods! The interior of this profound ark is an individual world of its own. It is a gift from the Evil God to the Sword Spirit God Clan while he was still the Creation God of Elements, and it possesses incredible space traveling abilities because the Evil God had engraved its power of space with the World Piercer itself!â
âThis profound ark is none other than the Primordial Profound Ark in your memories!â
â......â
â.........â
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Yun Cheâs eyes widened bit by bit. His mind turned blank like he was struck by thunder, and it wasnât until a long time later that he opened his mouth and spat out a certain girlâs name with great difficulty, âHong... er!??â
âHer real name is âLing Wanhuâ, and in public she is known as the daughter of the chief of the Sword Spirit God Clan, âLing Zhenâ. I even met her in person back then.â The Ice Phoenix girl said, âOf course, I could never have imagined that she was the daughter of the Evil God back then.â
â...â Yun Cheâs mouth was wide agape. He just couldnât close it no matter what.
A long time ago, Jasmine had told him that there was a clan called the Sword Spirit God Clan among the ancient gods who could transform into swords...
Given enough spirit energy, the Primordial Profound Ark supposedly could travel to any space...
And finally, the profound, meaningful words that dying soul had said to him before he entrusted Hongâer to him...
âI am only a guardian... my little mistress.. and my race... has long been forgotten by the world... there is no need to mention them anymore... my little mistress... her body has been inflicted with a terrible devilish poison... within all the realms... only the Sky Poison Pearl can cure her... in order to stem the invasion of this devilish poison... our little mistress was sealed into the Coffin of Eternity....â
âChaotic turmoil... the terrible battle of Gods and Devils... the overturning of the sky... the weeping of the Gods and the Heavens... I brought my little mistress with me into the ark to flee.... The âCoffin of Eternityâ sealed her body and soul... allowed her presence to disappear into the chaotic space... and allowed her to escape that heaven-destroying calamity... if one day the Sky Poison Pearl can cleanse the devilish poison from her body... and she can once again awaken... then my bitter life will finally come to a happy end....â
Everything matched up to the Ice Phoenix Spiritâs words perfectly!
Even the sword Hongâer could transform to... was called the Heaven Smiting Devil Slayer Sword...
Heaven Smiting...
The Heaven Smiting Devil Clan!
Was Hongâer really... the daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor!?
âIn that age, the younger daughter of the Sword Spirit God Clan Chief, âWanhuâ was known to everyone because she was the most pampered child in the entire Sword Spirit Clan. The clan chief and his wife loved her more than any of their offspring, and absolutely no one suspected that she wasnât actually the Sword Spirit God Clan Chiefâs true daughter.â
âLater on, after Lord Mo E, the Heaven Punishing God Emperor had passed away, and the Heaven Punishing Ancestral Sword had become masterless, the grudge that had been accumulating between the gods and the devils since forever finally erupted in full force. The Sword Spirit Clan was blessed Lord Li Suoâs light divine energy, and the sword they transformed into was the âDevil Slayer Swordâ, a great bane against any devil. That was why the devil race had spared no effort in attacking them and wiping them out before any other races of the gods.â
âIt is said that the devil race had despicably used a terrifying devil poison that not even Lord Li Suo could purify before it kills its victims. Countless sword spirits including the chief and his wife passed away because of the poison...â
âHowever, it was later discovered that the body of the sword spirit little princess, Wanhu was nowhere to be found. The Sword Spirit God Clanâs main profound ark, the Spirit World of Heaven and Earth was missing as well.â
The Spirit World of Heaven and Earth... was the Primordial Profound Ark currently in Yun Cheâs possession right now!
âAt the time, the gods thought that the sword spirit little princess had died in both spirit and body, and that the devils had claimed the Spirit World of Heaven and Earth for themselves. In reality, the Spirit World of Heaven and Earth had concealed their presence completely and slipped into a spatial rift... Iâm sure that even the Evil God thought that she had died as well, since he couldnât verify her whereabouts without the World Piercer.â
âAfter passing through countless space and time, fate finally arranged her to meet you, the owner of the Sky Poison Pearl.â
â...â Right now, Yun Che was feeling completely dizzy. It was because the Ice Phoenix girlâs story was just too... extraordinary!
Hongâer had come to him as a complete âaccidentâ. She was a naughty, hyperreactive, gluttonous, sleepy, eccentric, undisciplined, and queer little monster who was even more monstrous than your usual monster...
But now the Ice Phoenix Spirit was telling him that she... was the Evil Godâs d-d-d-d-daughter!?!?
Yun Cheâs brain and heart shook uncontrollably...
The f*ck...
âIâm guessing that the Sword Spirit God Clan Chief himself was the one who remade her body after the Evil God had entrusted his daughter to him. However, her divine soul was ultimately incomplete because it had been split in half, so in order to complete her soul and convince everyone that she really was her daughter, he gave up his own divine power and divine soul so that her divine soul could âgrowâ into completion. After that, she became Ling Wanhu and... Hongâer. Thanks to the Sword Spirit God Clan Chief, she possessed both the divine powers and the characteristics of a Sword Spirit God. She had light divine energy and the divine aura of a Sword Spirit God, and the sword she transformed into possessed the âdevil slayingâ attribute as well.â
âHowever, she wasnât just a Devil Slayer Sword!â
âHeaven Smiting... Devil Slayer Sword.â Yun Che whispered, âDid the âheaven smitingâ part of her title... come from the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor herself?â
âThat is correct,â said the Ice Phoenix girl. âEven with the devil half in her separated from her soul, her âessenceâ was still the same because nothing could change the fact that she was the daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor. Even if Hongâer didnât have the Sword Spirit God Clan Chiefâs divine power and soul in her, she still wouldâve had the ability to transform into a sword because the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor herself and her race, the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan, was a race that could transform into swords in the first place.â
â...â Yun Che nodded numbly in response. When he had âpicked upâ Hongâer at the Primordial Profound Ark, Jasmine had told him that there was a race each among the god race and the devil race that could transform into swords. One was called the Sword Spirit God Clan, and the other the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan.
When Hongâer had transformed into a sword for the first time, Jasmine had had a strange reaction when she saw the words engraved onto the body of the sword, âHeaven Smitingâ and âDevil Slayerâ. There were several times Jasmine had looked like she wanted to say something when he asked her about them... but in the end, she simply said âitâs not possibleâ and left things there.
âThe sword a member of the Sword Spirit God Clan transforms into is called the Devil Slayer Sword. It is the bane of all devils. On the other hand, the sword a member of the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan transforms into is called the âHeaven Smiting Devil God Swordâ. It is the bane of all light profound energy.â
The name âHeaven Smiting Devil God Swordâ caused a shiver in Yun Cheâs heart... It was because he recalled what the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign had shouted during the battle when he was summoning Hongâer. The Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign had cried out the name âDevil Slayer Swordâ first, followed by an even more surprised shout, âHeaven Smiting Devil God Swordâ.
âAs the devil emperor of the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan and one of the four devil emperors that of the devil race, the sword the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor transforms into is the ultimate form of the Heaven Smiting Devil God Sword, the âHeaven Smiting Devil Emperor Swordâ.â
âHowever, the sword Hongâer transforms into is incredibly strange. It is a âHeaven Smiting Devil Slayer Swordâ that contains the characteristics of both the Devil Slayer Sword and the Heaven Smiting Devil God Sword, and something like this has never appeared even during the ancient times. She is an existence that defies all common sense, and her future and her limits are both unpredictable and unimaginable.â
âSo... which one of the two sword spirit clans eat swords to increase their powers?â asked Yun Che.
âThe answer is none of them. I am not talking about just the Sword Spirit God Clan or the Heaven Smiting Devil Clan either, Iâd never heard of a race in the past or now who can consume swords to increase their strength... not to my knowledge at least.â
Yun Che, â...â
âThe only explanation I can give is that Hongâerâs... extraordinary background and tragic fate have caused her to undergo some sort of unusual change that is beyond even my understanding. After all, she is the daughter of the Evil God and the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, a first in the history of the Primal Chaos and the only proof that gods and devils have ever bonded with one another. Moreover, Hongâer is an existence at the level of a Creation God, so she is beyond the understanding of a normal divine spirit like me.â
Hongâer... her somewhat abnormal behavior aside, she was just a simple girl to him. She was so simple that the only thing she cared about in her life was feeding and sleeping, and nothing ever seemed to worry her in the slightest.
Her vermillion-colored eyes especially looked like they were eternally pure and clean.
To think that something like this would be hidden beneath her simple appearance and behavior...
Suddenly, a thought struck Yun Cheâs mind like thunder. He looked up abruptly and asked, âYou mentioned that the devil half of her soul is still alive. Could... could it be that youâre referring to...?â