Chapter 1865: Cannot Say the Secret

While the Northern Divine Realm rested, the God Realm was plunged into its greatest turmoil ever. The Western Divine Realm, in particular, was utterly chaotic.

The Dragon Monarch forcefully mobilized all the Divine Masters from the six King Realms of the Western Region. Using the Heaven and Earth Dragon City to traverse space, he directly pressured the Northern Divine Realm's encampment. When this news spread, all cultivators in the God Realm were incredibly excited and invigorated.

During the six hours Long Bai ordered his forces to wait for Yun Che, the news that the Northern Divine Realm's formation was completely overwhelmed also spread without doubt. At that time, almost everyone was certain that the Dragon Monarch, upon his return, would strike with lightning speed and extreme ruthlessness, annihilating the Northern Divine Realm in a single battle.

During the battle between the two sides, more than half of the Southern Divine Realm trembled, and countless Southern Realm cultivators desperately tried to flee throughout. However, when everything ceased, the news that emerged almost shattered everyone's hearts with shock.

The Western Region collapsed, Long Bai died, and all Divine Masters from the Dragon God, Imperious, Huitian, and Myriad Manifestation Realms were annihilated… including all Dragon Gods and Dragon Sovereigns… all of them! Only the Qilin and Azure Dragon Realms remained.

When this news arrived, everyone's first reaction was disbelief… they couldn't believe a single word of it. Only the people from the Azure Dragon Realm and the Qilin Realm, after receiving the transmission that spanned across the divine realms, felt dizzy and disoriented for a long time in the face of such a terrifying reality.

Within the Heaven and Earth Dragon City. As the barrier dissipated, Yun Che exhaled with extreme satisfaction. Then, he immediately saw Caizhi sitting before a jade couch, her face expressionless as she looked at him.

His lewd grin instantly froze on his face. His lips twitched several times before he managed to stammer out a dry voice: "Cai-Cai-Caizhi, you're awake?"

"I've been awake for three hours," Caizhi said coldly… During this time, she had even circled the Heaven and Earth Dragon City three times.

"!#￥…" Mu Xuanyin turned around, the faint icy aura quickly dispersing the strange scent from her body. Her figure vanished instantly, too fast for Yun Che to even react.

Yun Che was caught between chasing and not chasing. The Northern Region Devil Master, who just hours ago had been incomparably mighty, burying the powerful Dragon God Realm into the abyss, was now flushed in the face, his scalp tingling, wishing he could split himself in half.

"Indulging in debauchery with other women in front of your official wife," Caizhi's milky-white face was rigid and emotionless. "Is this how you promised to treat me, and my sister, before?"

The word "sister" uttered from Caizhi's lips instantly froze Yun Che in place. The comforting words he had prepared vanished, not a single one able to be spoken.

"Caizhi, I…" Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a soft chuckle near his ear. He looked up in disbelief and saw Caizhi's rosy lips slightly curved, her eyebrows arched in a smile… For a moment, he felt as if he was seeing "Little Jasmine" from years ago, as delicate and pure as an elf, yet as mischievous as a little devil.

"Hmph, you're the Devil Master now, yet still so easily scared, hehe." Caizhi shook her head, her delicate feet swinging back and forth in front of the couch, her demeanor completely different from moments ago. Her lips slightly upturned, she said: "If it were any other random woman, I'd definitely be angry, especially that wicked woman Qianye. I wouldn't speak to you for a month."

"But it's Sister Xuanyin, so I'm not angry at all. If it weren't for her, back then…" She didn't continue. Instead, she reached out to Yun Che: "Brother-in-law, come here."

Caizhi's demeanor had changed considerably since waking. Clearly, she knew what had happened while she was unconscious, and perhaps because of this, she had released the heavy shackles she had long imposed upon herself.

Yun Che walked over and sat beside her, asking affectionately: "Caizhi, is there anywhere you still feel uncomfortable?"

Caizhi didn't answer. She leaned her head gently against Yun Che's chest and closed her eyes… After a long time, she softly spoke: "Brother-in-law, it's all over, right?"

"Yes, it's all over," Yun Che said. "Long Bai is dead, and almost everyone who deserved to die has perished. Only Zhou Xuzi, I spared his life. Letting him die just like that would be far too easy for him."

"In this world, there is no longer anyone who can threaten us. The rules of the future world will also be determined by us."

"Mm," Caizhi softly responded. Then, she suddenly whispered: "Why is it that… only sister cannot see all of this… why… only sister…"

Her gentle words were like a dream, each one heart-wrenching.

Yun Che reached out and held her, letting out a long breath.

The Blue Pole Star was intact, his homeland, all his loved ones and confidantes were there. He had successfully exacted his revenge, the Northern Divine Realm had defied its fate, and even Mu Xuanyin, whom he thought he had lost forever, had returned to his life.

Only Jasmine… Even if he tortured Zhou Xuzi for thousands of years, he would never be able to find his Jasmine again.

As soon as Mu Xuanyin left the bedchamber, she saw Chi Wuyao, who had been waiting there all along.

"How many times?" Chi Wuyao asked with a playful smile.

"…" Mu Xuanyin now really wanted to hit someone.

If not for her millennia-old icy composure, her face would likely have been flushed crimson by now. Never in her life had she been so flustered.

In just three hours, Yun Che had been domineering, unruly, disrespectful, blasphemous… and towards the end, almost brutal and ravaging with her. He was using this most unrestrained and extreme method to tell her, and himself, that he was no longer her disciple.

Unable to bear Chi Wuyao's gaze at that moment, Mu Xuanyin's icy figure moved quickly. But she didn't escape far before she suddenly stopped, waved her snow-white hand, and created a light blue sound-insulating barrier around them.

"What did you see regarding Long Bai?" Mu Xuanyin asked in a low voice, her icy brows furrowed.

Chi Wuyao's smile instantly faded.

She raised her fair hand and, within the sound-insulating barrier created by Mu Xuanyin, constructed another layer, intertwining the Nirvana Devil Soul upon it.

With a double-layered barrier reinforced by the Nirvana Devil Soul, even powerful soul practitioners like Yun Che and Shui Meiyin wouldn't be able to penetrate it.

Chi Wuyao's jade lips parted slightly, and she spoke in a very soft voice: "When Shen Xi died, she had… Yun Che's child in her womb."

"…" Mu Xuanyin suddenly whirled around, her icy face changing dramatically: "What… did you say!?"

"When Yun Che left the Forbidden Land of Samsara back then, he clearly didn't know that Shen Xi was already carrying his child," Chi Wuyao said in the gentlest possible voice. "Shen Xi knew of Long Bai's twisted affection for her, so she always concealed the child's existence, never allowing it to be born."

"However, this indirectly proves something," Chi Wuyao continued. "It seems Shen Xi's feelings for Yun Che were not purely for exploitation, but rather involved emotions, whether deep or shallow. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been willing to take such immense risks to keep their child… and she also poured incredibly deep affection into that child."

The words Shen Xi cried out and the venomous vows she swore after losing the child in her womb moved Chi Wuyao deeply.

However, those words were too cruel and heart-rending for her to tell Mu Xuanyin.

Mu Xuanyin remained silent for a very long time before muttering to herself: "No wonder… no wonder…"

That Long Bai killed Shen Xi was something no one would believe upon hearing. After all, who in the Divine Realm didn't know of Long Bai's infatuation with the "Dragon Queen" for hundreds of thousands of years? No matter how angry he was, he wouldn't suddenly strike to kill.

It turned out that child was the last straw that broke Long Bai's sanity and led to his complete collapse.

"A boy or a girl?" Mu Xuanyin asked, her fingers clenching, her heart tightening in a throbbing pain.

"I don't know," Chi Wuyao replied. "In Long Bai's memories, Shen Xi called the child 'Xi'er.' Based on the name, it was more likely a girl."

As she spoke these words, Chi Wuyao's mind flashed with the heart-wrenching image of Yun Che holding the Glazed Sound Stone his daughter had given him, making her chest tighten with a prolonged suffocating ache.

It was imaginable what would happen if Yun Che were to learn of this…

"Is she truly… dead?" Mu Xuanyin asked again.

"That palm strike, Long Bai aimed it at Shen Xi's abdomen… with full power," Chi Wuyao sighed softly.

The memories she had extracted were the scenes that had flowed through Long Bai's consciousness in the half hour before his death. Most of these memories were fragmented due to the dissipation of Long Bai's soul, but they were enough to discern the general outline.

"…" Mu Xuanyin closed her eyes, remaining silent for a long time.

"However," Chi Wuyao whispered, her crescent brows slightly tilted, "in Long Bai's final memory fragments, there was no image of Shen Xi's death. All his memories of striking Shen Xi were only of that one palm… and when he recalled that palm, it was accompanied by immense regret and pain in his soul."

"Regret? Pain?" Mu Xuanyin's voice was chilling. "Does he deserve to feel it!?"

After speaking, her tone suddenly shifted: "Are you saying that Shen Xi might still be alive?"

Chi Wuyao, however, shook her head: "I'm not certain. In these past few hours, I've painstakingly sorted through all the memory fragments from Long Bai multiple times and discovered something rather strange."

Mu Xuanyin: "?"

"Before his death, his last thought wasn't hatred for Yun Che, but rather a longing for Shen Xi," Chi Wuyao said, her expression somewhat complex.

In the half hour before Long Bai's death, he was facing the brutal war between the Northern and Western Divine Realms, his own crushing defeat and abuse by Yun Che, and the Northern Divine Realm's counter-slaughter of the Western Divine Realm… Under such circumstances, no one should have been able to divert their attention to anything else.

Yet, a large portion of Long Bai's consciousness was actually filled with Shen Xi! Especially during his confrontation with Yun Che, his mind was consumed entirely by the frantic desire to prove himself to Shen Xi.

His obsession with Shen Xi had reached an extremely pathological level… so extreme that others might not even be able to comprehend it.

"However, that longing wasn't a desire to find Shen Xi in another world after death, but rather…" Chi Wuyao paused slightly, then after another moment of thought, said: "It was a desperate longing for Shen Xi to reappear and save him."

Mu Xuanyin said: "Meaning, Shen Xi most likely didn't…"

"Don't be overly optimistic," Chi Wuyao shook her head again. "Shen Xi possesses special profound energy of light. Before Yun Che, that power was unique to her in this world."

"Long Bai knew her for hundreds of thousands of years and was extremely familiar with her aura. If she were still alive, with her unique light aura and the vast power of the Dragon God Realm, there's no reason Long Bai wouldn't have found her all these years."

This irrefutable reasoning instantly dimmed the icy glint in Mu Xuanyin's eyes.

"Long Bai's final soul images might be him, after killing Shen Xi, unable to believe, forgive, or accept the fact of what he had done. He might have given himself a soul suggestion, telling himself that Shen Xi had merely disappeared. This way, his pain and regret could be greatly alleviated, and he could forgive himself."

"Or perhaps… Shen Xi truly isn't dead, but is hidden in a place even the Dragon God Realm cannot find her."

"But…" She looked at Mu Xuanyin: "Can we give him this hope?"

"No," Mu Xuanyin shook her head immediately, without any hesitation.

Having experienced the soul-piercing agony of that year and the dark abyss of these past years, Yun Che had already accepted the fact of Shen Xi's death.

If they were to give him such hope now… it would likely only lead to the intense pain of renewed disappointment.

However, if Shen Xi truly isn't dead, then her reappearance one day would undoubtedly bring a miraculous and immense surprise.

"Even more, don't tell him about the child," Mu Xuanyin turned back, looking into the distance. "He has endured far too much these past years. From now on, I only wish for him to indulge in life, free from worries, even if he succumbs to hedonism, wastes his life, or even becomes a tyrant. We absolutely cannot drill another unhealable hole in his soul."

In her eyes, this world owed Yun Che far too much; no amount of compensation or atonement would be excessive.

Even if Yun Che were to truly turn the God Realm into a hell of disaster, she would not stop him.

After all, she had one significant difference from others around Yun Che… she had truly died once.

Chi Wuyao nodded deeply: "Only the two of us will know about this."