âLetâs go!â Sovereign of the Seas Qu Fengyi threw the word out coldly, flinged his sleeve and coldly left... Xuanyuan Wentian had at least said something but she did not even look Feng Hengkong in the eye.
The three venerables who died at the hands of Moonflower had their bodies eroded from the poison and Mo Chenfeng had even turned into dust; they could not bring him back even if they wanted to.
All the Ocean Palace venerables and elders also swiftly followed and left. Zi Ji had stayed until the end, cupped his hands towards Feng Hengkong and said, âDivine Phoenix Sect Master, I bid you farewell.ân/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
âPardon me for not sending you off,â Feng Hengkong hurriedly returned the greeting.
âHmph!â Ye Meixie snorted coldly, gathered the people from Sun Moon Divine Hall and left as well.
Huangji Wuyu glanced at Feng Hengkong, before shooting Spiritual Master Ancient Blue with a mundane look. Spiritual Master Ancient Blue then said, âYuanba, we are going to leave as well.â
âAhh?â Xia Yuanba turned around, âMaster, Lord Sacred Master, my Brother-in-law and Little Sister Xueâer have just gotten engaged, I want to stay for a few more days.â
âThat is their matter, and Divine Phoenix Sectâs household matter. How is it appropriate for you to stay?â Spiritual Master Ancient Blue shook his head sternly.
âYuanba, you should go back.â Yun Che smiled as he said, before silently sending a sound transmission over, âAfter you leave, I should be immediately returning to the Illusory Demon Realm for a few years and it would probably be hard for us to meet. However, you do not have to worry about my safety because even if Xuanyuan Wentian attacks the Illusory Demon Realm tomorrow, there would be no problem. My master has personally said before that even if the Four Great Sacred Masters were to work together, they might still not be a match for the Little Demon Empress.â
Xia Yuanba clenched his fists tightly but still lightly nodded in the end, âBrother-in-law, for the next few years, I will work hard and cultivate. The next time we meet, I will definitely give you a huge shock.â
âHahaha, I believe that fully,â Yun Che laughed. All these years, Xia Yuanba brought him far too many miracles and surprises.
Huangji Wuyu brought Xia Yuanba and all the people from Absolute Monarch Sanctuary and left, similarly without saying anything to Feng Hengkong.
In the blink of an eye, the Four Great Sacred Grounds had all left and the atmosphere turned extremely awkward. When the other powerhouses saw this, they also gradually went to bid their farewells.
In a short amount of time, all the Profound Sky powerhouses, that had travelled all the way to attend the banquet, had all disappeared leaving behind a pathetic scene of a Phoenix City where the Phoenix Main Hall that once stood in the city center had been razed to the ground.
Feng Hengkong closed his eyes and inhaled strongly, his throat forced out a sigh that was extremely grim.
Having inherited the position of Divine Phoenix Sect Master and Divine Phoenix Emperor for an entire century, today was the first time that he had clearly felt reality.
Before and after Jasmine left... their predicament was even wider than heaven and earth.
âSigh.â Feng Tianwei and Feng Zukui also let out a similar deep sigh whereas the other elders and attendants still remained shocked and did not know what to do.
Feng Hengkongâs gaze turned towards Feng Tianwei and Feng Zukui. All three of them looked equally helpless. Feng Hengkong sighed inwardly and walked towards Yun Che and Feng Xueâer.
âYun Che, you should leave.â Feng Tianwei said, âYour identity of the Illusory Demon Realm Demon Emperor has been revealed. Furthermore, you possess the Mirror of Samsara. The Four Great Sacred Grounds will definitely not let you off. Now that your master has left, no one can protect you... Hurry up and leave to the place you think is the safest. Otherwise...â
Feng Tianwei looked up into the sky, âWhen everyone has dispersed, they might return immediately.â
Obviously, Feng Tianwei has seen through this as well. After all, during the Devil Sword Conference, he personally witnessed the Four Great Sacred Groundâs attitude towards this âDemon Emperorâ as well as their hideous expression when facing the âMirror of Samsaraâ.
âIâll leave immediately.â Yun Che had already planned everything as he held Feng Xueâerâs hand, âHowever, it will not be me alone. Iâll bring Xueâer along with me.â
Feng Hengkongâs expression flipped as he angrily retorted, âNo! Do you want to drag Xueâer into quicksand as well!?â
âNo,â Yun Che shook his head firm, âItâs precisely because Iâm worried about Xueâerâs safety that I have to bring her with me. Xueâer is now my fiancee. Those people that want to look for me might go after Xueâer when they cannot find me... Especially Xuanyuan Wentian, that despicable sly old fox. Heâs definitely capable of doing this!â
âMy Divine Phoenix Sect has the protection of the Phoenix God. Furthermore, Xueâer is the successor to the Phoenix God, who would dare to go after her!â Feng Hengkong howled, but right after he spoke, his might suddenly weakened... Because he suddenly remembered that Yun Che has long since known that the Phoenix God was dead.
âDonât worry, the place that Iâm going to bring Xueâer to is undoubtedly the safest place. She will not encounter any danger or face any threats. Otherwise, I would never choose to bring her along. Furthermore...â Yun Cheâs voice was very calm and it seemed as though he had everything planned, âI have ways to speed up Xueâerâs cultivation. After I bring Xueâer away, we might not be able to return for years. However, the day that we return, I assure you that Xueâerâs phoenix powers will have grown to a jaw dropping level.â
Yun Cheâs voice was so calm that it had an aura which one could not even try to question. Feng Hengkong looked at him for a while, before turning to Feng Xueâer, âXueâer, do you want to stay at home or follow him?â
âRoyal Father...â Feng Xueâer replied softly, âWhere ever Big Brother Yun goes, I will follow.â
â...â The corners of Feng Hengkong lips twitched, but he did not speak for a while. He then turned around and let out a long sigh before grimly saying, âYun Che, when you killed my sons... I fully deserved it and I could force myself to forget. However... if anything happens to Xueâer, I will not let you off even when I become a ghost!â
âRoyal Father...â Feng Xueâerâs tears shot out nearly instantly as she said in a trembling voice, âXueâer is unfilial. She has always made you worry all these years... Big Brother Yun and I will return soon... we will... Royal Father please take care of yourself...â
Feng Hengkong waved his hands behind and did not speak, as though asking them to leave immediately. Towards Yun Che, Feng Xueâer was more than infatuated with him; it could even be said that she had been bewitched by him. Although he could not bear it, was extremely worried and hated Yun Che, for a woman to meet a person she was willing to give her all for, perhaps it could be said to be happiness.
Feng Tianwei and Feng Zukui secretly listened in the entire time but they did not interrupt nor did they affect Feng Xueâer and Feng Hengkongâs final decision. Feng Zukui turned to an elder beside him and said, âQingshan, go bring all the Three-striped Phoenix Spirit Pellets over and let Xueâer bring them along.â
âYes.â The old man who was called âQingshanâ turned around and disappeared.
âBig Brother Yun, are we leaving now?â Feng Xueâer asked with tear filled eyes.
âMn,â Yun Che nodded, âWhen she left, regardless whether it was my identity or whether it was the Mirror of Samsara that I had on me, I must temporarily leave the Profound Sky Continent. However, this is good as well. After all, I promised to bring you to the Illusory Demon Realm to meet my parents... After we leave here, weâll go Blue Wind Imperial City to bring along your big sister Cang Yue. Then, weâll go to Floating Cloud City to bring along Grandpa, Little Aunt, Xiao Yun, and the rest before we proceed to the Snow Region of Extreme Ice to bring the people of Frozen Cloud Asgard... For the next few years or perhaps decades, you will have to stay with me in the Illusory Demon Realm.â
Before he left for the Illusory Demon Realm, he had to bring all related people along... including Frozen Cloud Asgard. Otherwise, they would definitely meet with a great calamity. Furthermore, since had been tasked by the late Gong Yuxian and had already developed strong ties with Frozen Cloud Asgard, he could not leave them behind.
Furthermore, with the massive inner world of the Primordial Profound Ark, bringing along the few thousand members of Frozen Cloud Asgard was an easy feat.
âAs long as itâs a place with Big Brother Yun, anywhere is fine,â Feng Xueâer looked at him and gently said. She did not have any worries or fears towards the unknown Illusory Demon Realm.
Just as she finished speaking, she felt Yun Cheâs body freeze and she immediately asked, âBig Brother Yun, whatâs wrong?â
The calm of Yun Cheâs face disappeared and he wore a serious expression. Even his eyes had a brutal gaze.
This feeling...
Why would there be a sudden sense of fatal danger...
This frightening feeling was more frightening than what he experienced when he initially encountered the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign in the Moon Slaughter Devilâs nest...
What was it?
Just where exactly did it come from?
He had a frightening sensitivity towards dange. In that previous moment, a sense of danger of unknown origin caused all the hairs on his body to stand. All the nerves in his body tightened as well... That frightening feeling seemed like a giant pythonâs mouth was just inches above his own head.
However, the surrounding ground had already been levelled by Jasmine. Other than the people from Divine Phoenix Sect, there was no other outsider present nor did any outsider approach. Furthermore, not a single person revealed killing intent. However, this extremely scary dangerous feeling lingered around creepily as though it was borne out of thin air.
Yun Cheâs palm grabbed firmly onto the helpless Feng Xueâer and pushed her behind him. He gritted his teeth and scanned the surroundings... Suddenly, on the empty ground, he spotted a strand of very fine and very minor reflection that one usually would not have been able to tell with the naked eye.
After forcefully plucking the Netherworld Udumbara Flower in the Moon Slaughter Devil Nest, Yun Cheâs soul force surged after he woke up from his unconsciousness. This extremely minor reflection entered his spirit sense and into his vision.
That was a strand of long hair... Right before Moonflower left, she dropped it from between her fingers.
The black and long strand of hair seemed to possess a dark green glow to it as well.
Yun Che looked at it dumbly before his expression drastically changed. His eyes widened till they nearly burst out as his gathered all the strength in his hands and roughly pushed Feng Xueâer away.
âXueâer leave, quick!!â
Splurt!!
Even before Feng Xueâer, who had been pushed away, managed to regain her composure, a violent piercing noise erupted from behind...
That strand of hair left behind by Moonflower turned into a thick deep green glow and shot towards Yun Che at a speed that he could not react to and could not even comprehend. It shot through his chest and came out from behind scattering the sky with... green blood.
Bang!
Yun Che was sent flying and landed hundreds of meters away. The green glow then disappeared, but on the left side of Yun Cheâs chest, a huge bloodied hole appeared... His heart had been completely destroyed.
The green poison began to spread on the side of the wound... However, it was quickly cleansed by the Sky Poison Pearl and completely disappeared.
Yun Che fell to the ground, his face pale white, his eyes unfocused and his lips trembling with difficulty...
âHong...â
Yun Cheâs eyes completely lost any signs of life and he fell silent.
Yun Che had received numerous injuries in his life and many times they were severe. However, his body and willpower exceeded that of a normal man. No matter how severe the injury, he would never let himself become unconscious. Even during the fight with the Moon Slaughter Devil Sovereign where he completely consumed all his profound energy, he managed to forcefully hang on and did not lose conscious immediately.
However, this time, he could not even shout out âHongâerâsâ name and had already lost his conscious. The hole before his chest and the pool of blood belonging to his body was a frightening sight.
Moonflower promised Jasmine not to mention Yun Che to anyone after she returned. This promise, would definitely be kept... because she promised to not mention Yun Che. However, she never said that she wouldnât kill him.
When she promised Jasmine... or perhaps when she detected Jasmineâs aura on Yun Che, Yun Che had already become a dead person in her eyes.
Although what she left behind was only a thin strand of hair, it possessed extremely frightening poison and divine power. No matter whether it was the poison or the divine power, it could easily poison or obliterate anyone single person from the Profound Sky Continent!
There was no chance of survival at all.
Yun Che possessed the Sky Poison Pearl which cleansed Moonflowerâs poison.
He possessed the Dragon Godâs Body, and was protected by Rage Godâs strength. That was why his body did not disintegrate on the spot. However, that was still the power of a god. Not only had a huge hole been pierced through, the energy that entered his body had torn his body completely apart from the inside, shattering all of his meridians and veins.
chinachu Notice:
I know I stated that I was going to China with mommychu to visit grannychu and was hoping to return sometime June or so, but mommychu struck again, pushing our flight to June 1st. My trip to China is also now extended from June to the middle of July. Due to this trip, the planned double daily month releases for MEN will now be even more delayed. They WILL still come out after my trip though! Any regular chapters for every one of our series will still be coming out when Iâm there (MEN 7, ATG 7, SR 8). I will try my best to get them out according to schedule, but if any chapters are missed due to chinachu problems, all of them will be made up when I get home.
I know some people do not read the chapter posts in their haste to read the chapter so Iâll be leaving this message at the bottom of each chapter as a reminder!