Chapter 1278: Liuli Qingyue

The Moon God City immediately filled with gasps and whispers, and everyone's gazes became intensely fervent.

The Moon God Emperor's declaration… the profoundly mysterious Divine Empress, for whom the Moon God Emperor had gone as far as to display the Moon God in the sky and shake the entire world for her wedding, was finally about to reveal herself before them!

High in the distant sky, Qianye Ying'er’s phoenix eyes, veiled by her golden mask, narrowed slightly. “Let me get a good look at this woman who has made the Moon God Emperor practically ecstatic,” she murmured.

Even Gu Zhu, typically as unperturbed as an ancient well, showed an unusual divine glint in his eyes.

"Qing… Yue!?"

The name spoken by the Moon God Emperor caused both Yun Che and Mu Bingyun to momentarily stiffen.

Mu Bingyun looked at Yun Che and whispered, "What a coincidence."

Yun Che nodded slightly. "Yes, it is quite a coincidence. Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I last heard that name."

"Coincidence?" Huo Poyun overheard him and asked, "Brother Yun, do you know this Divine Empress?"

"Of course not." Yun Che shook his head and frankly told him, "My first wife in the lower realm was also named 'Qingyue,' so suddenly hearing these two words makes me feel a bit nostalgic."

"Ah... I see," Huo Poyun nodded, but the expression on Yun Che's face clearly conveyed more than just "a bit nostalgic."

The name "Qingyue" stirred waves of emotion in Yun Che's heart.

Twelve years ago, in the small city of Flowing Cloud, he married Xia Qingyue—the young woman who had granted him dignity during his most humble and helpless days.

They had been betrothed since birth, officially married with proper rites, a truly legitimate couple—though they had never consummated their marriage.

The Azure Wind War… the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm… his dream return to Cangyun… their joint defeat of the Sword Saint… entering the Immortal Palace together… their relationship had been subtly changing all along. Yun Che had secretly delighted in feeling Xia Qingyue's icy heart gradually melting for him…

But all of this came to an abrupt halt on the day he departed for the Divine Phoenix Empire.

He "perished" in the Primordial Profound Ark…

The Ice Cloud Immortal Palace faced calamity, and Xia Qingyue, as their last hope, was teleported to an unknown world.

Three years later, he returned to the Profound Sky Continent, but Xia Qingyue has remained unreachable to this day.

Unbeknownst to him, eight years had already passed.

The boundless world was incredibly vast; no one knew where the dimensional array Mu Bingyun had left in the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace had truly transported Xia Qingyue, nor was there any way to find her. He could only hope that one day Xia Qingyue would return to the Blue Pole Star and the Profound Sky Continent on her own.

Seeing Yun Che suddenly fall into a state of melancholy, Mu Bingyun comforted him, "There's no need to worry; she is blessed by Heaven."

She had returned to the Profound Sky Continent three times and had long ago seen Xia Qingyue from above the clouds, slowly coming to understand her relationship with Yun Che.

Yun Che smiled. "She also said that Qingyue is a person blessed by Heaven, so there's no need to worry."

"She" referred to Jasmine. Jasmine had told Yun Che that Xia Qingyue possessed both the "Nine Profound Exquisite Body" and the "Ice Snow Glazed Heart." The former was the world's finest dual cultivation cauldron, while the latter was a body blessed by Heaven.

With billions upon billions of beings in the world, it was perfectly normal for names to be similar or identical. Yun Che quickly suppressed his melancholy, turning his expectant gaze towards the Moon God Emperor's side, awaiting the mysterious Divine Empress's appearance.

The Moon God Emperor's unusual actions and the Divine Empress, who had never appeared before, deeply piqued the curiosity of everyone in the Eastern Divine Region. They did not have to wait long; as the Moon God Emperor spoke in a gentle voice, a figure slowly emerged from the Vanishing Moon Immortal Palace and took a place beside him.

For a moment, Moon God City, teeming with countless powerhouses from the Eastern Divine Region, became so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Everyone seemed to have been struck hard in their hearts and souls, holding their breath completely.

She wore a moon-white gown, its long train sweeping the ground, as if she had slowly emerged from the moon itself. Her figure was ethereal and dreamlike, her skin like flawless mutton-fat white jade, or like frost and snow shimmering under winter sunlight. Her countenance seemed to have been imbued with all of Heaven's meticulous care and favor; even the most magnificent words in the world could not capture a fraction of her divine allure.

The moment she stepped out, it was as if an incredibly bright and dazzling ray of light shone into everyone's eyes, making the entire world appear exceptionally brilliant.

The Moon God Emperor was one of the four God Emperors of the Eastern Divine Region, the most esteemed man in the entire God Realm. Yet, as she stood quietly beside him, her presence almost eclipsed his, dimming nearly all the brilliance in the world. Even the divine moon, shining brightly overhead, seemed to lose some of its luster.

"She… she's so beautiful…" Shui Meiyin murmured in a daze, her hand hovering over her lips.

"..." Shui Yingyue’s gaze was fixed, unable to tear away. As a Divine Maiden of the Eastern Divine Region, renowned for her exquisite beauty and noble birth, she distinctly felt a profound sense of suffocation at this moment, coupled with an unprecedented feeling of self-abasement stemming from her very soul—a sensation she had never experienced before.

"Based solely on her temperament and appearance, she is already worthy of the Moon God Emperor," stated Shui Qianheng, the Glazed Light Realm King.

Those present were by no means ordinary mortals, yet countless were captivated and enthralled, left utterly stunned.

"Wow…" Huo Poyun gasped softly. "Although I haven't seen the Dragon Empress Divine Maiden, surely the legendary Dragon Empress Divine Maiden would be, at most, like this, wouldn't she?"

After speaking, he looked at Yun Che, awaiting his affirmation, but the moment his gaze shifted, he was instantly stunned.

Yun Che stared intently at the woman beside the Moon God Emperor, his eyes wide open, his entire body motionless, as if his soul had suddenly been ripped from him.

At first, Huo Poyun assumed Yun Che was merely stunned senseless by her beauty. However, he noticed Yun Che's dazed eyes, where his pupils violently dilated and contracted. Gradually, Yun Che's slightly parted lips began to tremble, and finally, his entire body started to shake uncontrollably.

His entire face even rapidly took on an utterly abnormal pallor.

"Brother Yun, what's wrong?" Huo Poyun quickly asked.

"..." Yun Che offered no response, but his state awakened Mu Bingyun, who had also been dazed. She snapped her head back, and her icy eyes filled with shock and turmoil.

Because the woman who appeared beside the Moon God Emperor, the one about to become the Moon God Empress, was someone she had seen before—and someone Yun Che had seen even more frequently.

Xia… Qing… Yue!

"She truly is quite the beauty," Qianye Ying'er remarked from high in the distant clouds, her voice devoid of discernible emotion.

"Heh heh," Gu Zhu chuckled obscurely. "She is the first to receive Young Miss's praise for her appearance."

Qianye Ying'er's lips curved in a faint, unreadable smile. "Such a celestial appearance, it would be no exaggeration to call her the most dazzling in the Eastern Divine Region, yet she's been completely unknown, which is strange. However… if that's all there is to it, Yue Wuya shouldn't have gone to such lengths, should he?"

A strange glint flashed in Gu Zhu's cloudy old eyes. Between his dry, bark-like lips, he slowly uttered three hoarse words: "Glazed… Heart."

"..." Qianye Ying'er's body stiffened for a moment, then her expression changed dramatically, and her gaze towards the ground completely altered.

After a long time, she finally withdrew her gaze and murmured to herself, "So that's how it is…"

Concurrently, in the main hall, the Heaven Smiting God Emperor slowly rose to his feet. His brows furrowed; his initial confusion rapidly transformed into profound shock as his gaze settled.

"Heaven Smiting, what's wrong?" the Brahma Heaven God Emperor frowned. For the Heaven Smiting God Emperor to display such an expression, it had to be an earth-shattering discovery.

The Heaven Smiting God Emperor remained unresponsive, his stunned expression indicating he could barely believe what he was seeing. Only after several breaths did he slowly utter, in a rather low voice, "Glazed… Heart…"

"What!?" These three words caused everyone from the Royal Realms seated in the main hall to simultaneously gasp, their expressions instantly shifting.

The Heaven Smiting God Emperor's voice, carrying an almost uncontrollable penetrative power, was clearly heard by all profound practitioners in the outer hall. For a moment, as if three startling thunderclaps had split the air around them, Moon God City instantly erupted into a clamor.

"A Glazed… Glazed Heart!?"

"An Ice Snow Glazed Heart? Is… is it really true? Didn't they say it was no longer possible for a 'Glazed Heart' to appear in the world?"

"This comes directly from the Heaven Smiting God Emperor's own mouth; how could it be false?"

"No wonder… no wonder the Moon God Emperor changed his usual demeanor, no wonder he made such grand arrangements… A Glazed Heart, a Glazed Heart blessed by the Heavenly Dao!"

"If the legend is true, and the Moon God Realm gains this Glazed Maiden as their Divine Empress, then in the future, wouldn't it… wouldn't it…"

"Of course the legend is true! Isn't the Heaven Smiting God Realm the best proof?"

An extreme degree of shock was visible on everyone’s face. Throughout the history of the God Realm, many individuals were born with unique innate bodies: some could wield dual divine powers, others possessed an affinity for specific elemental profound energy, and a few, like Luo Changsheng, could command multiple elements and divine powers. However, the most extraordinary and rarest forms to appear were the "Immaculate Divine Body," like Yue Wugou’s, and the "Immaculate Divine Soul," like Shui Meiyin’s.

However, if there was one divine body that could cause a massive upheaval throughout the entire God Realm, it would undoubtedly be the "Glazed Heart."

According to ancient records, the "Glazed Heart" was a fragment of the heart and soul left behind by the Ancestral God after her self-destruction at the dawn of chaos, containing the world's last trace of "Ancestral Power." All life, power, and rules in the world originated from the Ancestral God, and the Glazed Heart, bearing this final "Ancestral Power," was an existence that even the Heavenly Dao was compelled to protect at all costs.

Perhaps because the Ancestral God was female, all who possessed a Glazed Heart were women, referred to in records as "Glazed Maidens" or "Maidens of the Heavenly Dao."

Interestingly, Yun Che's current title, "Son of the Heavenly Dao," was incredibly fitting.

Records showed that even during the Age of Gods, individuals possessing a "Glazed Heart" were exceedingly rare, and in the entire history of the God Realm, only one had ever appeared.

That was the Heaven Smiting Ancestor from six hundred thousand years ago!

If the ancient records claiming that Glazed Maidens received Heaven's blessings were difficult to fully credit, then the Heaven Smiting Ancestor, who possessed a "Glazed Heart" six hundred thousand years ago, clearly demonstrated to the world, in a state of profound shock, what Heaven's blessings truly entailed.

The Heaven Smiting Pearl, the only supreme profound treasure to ever appear in the world, voluntarily recognized her as its master and was controlled by her.

Under her guidance, the Heaven Smiting Realm transformed from an ordinary star realm into a Royal Realm overlooking the Eastern Divine Region in just a thousand years, surpassing both the Star God Realm and the Moon God Realm, and has proudly maintained its preeminence to this day.

From that point on, no one doubted that the "Glazed Heart" would receive Heaven's blessing. Yet, they also believed that in an era where the Age of Gods had concluded, and chaos grew ever more turbid while primordial qi became increasingly sparse, the emergence of the Heaven Smiting Ancestor was the final miracle, making it impossible for another Glazed Maiden to appear in the world.

But…

Before their very eyes, the woman standing quietly beside the Moon God Emperor—the one for whom he had not hesitated to send invitations throughout the Eastern Divine Region and display the Moon God in the sky—not only possessed the bearing of a goddess and a world-shattering beauty, but was astonishingly also a "Glazed Maiden" with a "Glazed Heart"!

The second divine miracle since the Heaven Smiting Ancestor!

In that moment, they fully understood why the Moon God Emperor had gone to such extraordinary lengths for this wedding ceremony and this Divine Empress.

No, to gain a Glazed Maiden as Divine Empress, even if he had been ten or a hundred times more extravagant, it would have been perfectly justified!

While everyone else was either stunned into a daze or profoundly shocked, Yun Che alone seemed to have suddenly plummeted into a frigid abyss. His entire body trembled violently, and his eyes reflected a terrifying chaos.

Gradually, even his aura began to spiral out of control.

"Yun Che…" Mu Bingyun's icy brows furrowed, her voice laced with urgency.

*Crack…*

The jade goblet Yun Che held in his hand shattered under his uncontrollable profound energy.