Chapter 1521: Extreme Fury

Jasmine, along with the Calamity Heaven Devil Wheel, the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, and the Devil Gods, was gone, forever trapped in the outer chaos. There was no possibility of their return.

Everything happened in an instant. The crimson channel disintegrated, and the Evil Infant was simultaneously blasted into a newly appearing chaotic rift by the Eternal Heaven God Emperor. All of it was completely unexpected. The aura of the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor vanished, the aura of the Devil Gods vanished, the aura of the Evil Infant vanished—all of them completely gone. The spatial collapse and cosmic storms quickly subsided, and everything began to settle into peace and tranquility.

After the initial shock and confusion, boundless elation spread across everyone's faces. The sudden approach of the Devil Gods had filled them with dread and brought them to the brink of despair; their own strength was utterly powerless against such an overwhelming force. Yet the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor had blocked the Devil Gods. The Evil Infant had then appeared, destroying the crimson channel and completely cutting off the only path for the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor and Devil Gods to enter the Primal Chaos. Almost simultaneously, the Evil Infant herself was blasted into the outer chaos by the Eternal Heaven God Emperor, using a strike that had pooled everyone's combined power. The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, the Devil Gods, and the Evil Infant—the three greatest calamities and threats facing the Primal Chaos world—had all been completely eliminated within a single day!

Though the process was somewhat ironic, given that the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor left willingly, the Devil Gods were obstructed by the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor, and the channel was destroyed by the Evil Infant. Without the Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor and the Evil Infant, the world-destroying catastrophe would have already befallen them! The Evil Infant, however, had been ambushed. Her vulnerability stemmed from expending all her energy to blast the crimson channel, which not only depleted her power but also left her injured from the recoil. Nevertheless, regardless of the process or the method, the final outcome was undeniably the most perfect imaginable.

"Good... good! Excellent! This is excellent!"

"It truly is the blessing of the Heavenly Dao!" an excited Upper Realm King exclaimed.

"All three threats are gone... Heaven has truly blessed us!"

"As expected of our Lord, to have such a swift reaction and decisive action in a situation like this," sighed Grand Venerable Tai Yu.

"Oh no," Xia Qingyue murmured. The sudden approach of the Devil Gods, the abrupt appearance of the Evil Infant, and the Eternal Heaven God Emperor's sudden strike—everything had been unexpected, unfolding in mere moments. No one could react, let alone intervene. She looked at Yun Che, her heart sinking. Yun Che had accumulated too many enemies in the God Realm and possessed the sole inheritance of the Creation God. With Jie Yuan before him and the Evil Infant behind him, no one had dared to harm him. But once the Evil Infant's deterrence was gone...

Yun Che stood frozen, his eyes fixed on the spot where Jasmine had vanished. His pupils constricted, and his body trembled. To others, this was a sudden, immense blessing, but for him, it was undoubtedly an abrupt nightmare. "Jas...mine..." he whispered her name, then, as if jolted awake from a nightmare, he stumbled and lunged towards the Wall of Primal Chaos, only to be violently thrown back. The Wall of Primal Chaos—the most despair-inducing barrier in existence, one that no power could breach. Beyond it lay the outer chaos, a world of destruction, inhabited by a host of deranged and violent Devil Gods. And Jasmine herself had just suffered severe injuries... She could never return... and she couldn't possibly survive! She had vanished completely from this world, and utterly from his life.

"Gah... ah... ah..." His pupils constricted wildly, his heart felt as if it were bleeding, and his entire body was engulfed in a frigid agony, as if he were trapped in the cruelest ice prison, the cold seeping from every pore to the deepest reaches of his soul. He turned with an agonizing slowness, his body contorted. He stared at the Eternal Heaven God Emperor, the very individual he had once held in the highest gratitude, admiration, and trust in the Eastern Divine Region. His pupils, alternately constricting and dilating, turned blood-red, as if stained with gore. "Why... why... you... why..."

The space fell silent as all gazes turned to Yun Che, their expressions complex. Some, though, held a touch of unsettling strangeness.

The Eternal Heaven God Emperor closed his eyes, seemingly unwilling to meet Yun Che's gaze. He sighed, "As long as the Evil Infant remained, the world could never truly be at peace. The opportunity that just presented itself was one in a million... I could not allow myself to miss it."

"Gah... hah..." Yun Che's breathing grew incredibly heavy, his chest heaving as if it would explode. Overwhelmed by extreme anger, sorrow, resentment, and disbelief, his emotions and aura became chaotically turbulent as never before. Even the world before his eyes blurred into a crimson haze. "You... what did you promise me before?! I, on Jasmine's behalf, willingly stepped back... promised to live forever in the lower realms... You promised not to harm Jasmine! Your own spoken promise!!"

"Alas..." The Eternal Heaven God Emperor sighed deeply. "That was merely a choice made when there was no other option, because I knew I lacked the power to eradicate her. A forceful encirclement would only have invited a devastating counterattack and endless future troubles."

"And her existence in the lower realms... was still an existence. No one could guarantee what she might do in the future; no one would truly forget that an awakened Evil Infant existed in this world, and no one could ever truly be at peace..."

"As a God Emperor, I broke my word," the Eternal Heaven God Emperor murmured, his voice filled with sorrow. "I am ashamed before you, and ashamed of the title of God Emperor. But... even if I earn your hatred, even if I am scorned and reviled by all beings, I will never regret what I did."

"She saved you! She saved all of you!!" Yun Che roared, a mad, desperate scream. "If it weren't for her, that channel could never have been destroyed! The Devil Gods would have poured in... you would all die! Everyone would die!!"

"She saved your lives, she saved everyone's lives, she saved the present and future of the God Realm!!" Yun Che's roar turned completely hoarse, each word tearing from his throat as if bleeding: "And you... you... you actually took that opportunity to harm her! To harm the very person who fought with all her might to save you!"