Chapter 794: Hazy Dream

“Where… is this?”

Before Yun Che’s eyes lay a world of endless white.

“My husband…” Cang Yue’s voice drifted to his ears. Her figure, clad in a phoenix robe, appeared before him. Her exquisitely beautiful face bore the gentle tenderness she reserved only for him. “Please take good care of yourself. I will wait for you in the Imperial City… Once you have fulfilled all your wishes, I will accompany you wherever you wish to go. I don’t need anything else.”

“Senior Sister Xue Ruo… Yue’er…” Yun Che struggled to reach out, wanting to grasp her soft hand. “Don’t worry, I won’t make you wait too long. In this life, I have wronged you too much. But I promise… I will never fail you, not in this life, nor in any life to come.”

But his hand only met an illusion.

“Little Che, are you hurt again?”Xiao Lingxi’s soft weeping voice rang in his ears. “We’ve only just reunited after so long; you absolutely cannot let anything happen to you again. Otherwise, I truly don’t know how I would live, Little Che… Her voice choked with sobs.”

“Little Aunt, don’t worry, I’ll be fine… As soon as I leave this place, I’ll return to Floating Cloud City.”

“What about me? When will you come back to see me?”A voice filled with anger came from behind him. He turned his gaze to see the Little Demon Empress, petite and delicate, yet exuding a daunting presence, standing right before him. “You said you’d come back soon, but you’ve been gone for half a year with no news, your whereabouts unknown! Do you even remember I exist?!”

Yun Che quickly said, “Caiyi, how could I ever forget you? Every day since I left the Demon Imperial City, I’ve thought of you. It’s just that too many unexpected things have happened here. Once everything is settled on my end, I will definitely return as soon as possible, and I’ll bring many people with me.”

Behind the Little Demon Empress, the figures of Yun Qinghong and Mu Yurou appeared. Yun Qinghong’s face was calm with a faint smile, as if always serene and unburdened. “Che’er, you are a true man, the greatest pride of your father’s life, and the pride of our Yun family. Go, my child, do not be held back by too many restraints or worries. Do what you believe is right, do what you believe must be done!”

“No, don’t listen to your father!” Mu Yurou’s eyes were tearful. “Che’er, hurry home. Your mother misses and worries about you day and night… Your mother doesn’t ask for great achievements from you, even a lifetime of mediocrity is fine, as long as you are safe and sound forever, never suffering even a bit of hardship…”

“Father, Mother…” Yun Che called softly, reaching out. But before he could touch them, their figures completely vanished.

“Yun Che, I have gone to a very, very distant place. Perhaps in this lifetime, we will not meet again. Please take good care of yourself.”The voice was soft and gentle, yet almost devoid of emotion. Yun Che abruptly looked up and saw Xia Qingyue, dressed in blue, standing amidst the clouds, her entire being beautiful and ethereal, like a celestial maiden from the heavens. Her beautiful eyes briefly met Yun Che’s before she turned and drifted away with the clouds.

“Qingyue! Where are you… Don’t leave! Tell me where you are now!”No matter how he called out, Xia Qingyue continued to recede into the distance, fading into obscurity until she completely disappeared from his world.

“Hey, brother-in-law, even though my sister’s whereabouts are unknown, I’m really powerful now! Even more powerful than my sister!”Xia Yuanba appeared before him, waving his arms and clenching his fists, which looked like forged steel. “Before, it was always brother-in-law protecting me. From now on, let me protect you! If anyone dares to bully brother-in-law, even if I can’t defeat them, I’ll fight them to the death!!”“So, brother-in-law, before you find my sister, please, please don’t let anything happen to you… Bah! I mean, brother-in-law and sister should always be well and never encounter any danger again!”

“Yuanba…”

“Brother Yun, please… you must return safely. Xue’er will wait for you here. If you don’t come back for ten years, Xue’er will wait for ten years… If you never return, Xue’er will stay here with you forever…”Feng Xue’er knelt there, hands clasped together, crystal tears glistening on her cheeks. Her cherry lips murmured a prayer, and a heartbreaking aura emanated from her.

Yun Che frantically rushed forward. “Xue’er, I’m fine, I’m well now, and I’ll be out for you to see very soon. Xue’er… Xue’er!”But Feng Xue’er couldn’t hear his voice. No matter how he called out, she continued her tearful prayer, her sorrow endless.

“Yun Che, without realizing it, we’ve been separated for many years… I’ve been waiting for you in a peaceful place, and I even gave birth to a lovely daughter for you. Why haven’t you found us yet…?”At the edge of his vision, a faint snowy silhouette appeared. Though only a back view, it was still as beautiful as a dream. Yun Che was utterly distraught with emotion, desperately trying to move closer, screaming at the top of his lungs, “Little Fairy! Is that you…? Where are you! Quickly tell me where you are! Answer me!!”

He received no answer. His vision blurred slightly, and the silhouette completely vanished.

Then, directly in front of him, two figures appeared simultaneously. Staring at them, Yun Che was completely stunned. “Ling… er…”To his left was Su Ling’er, standing gracefully in a simple white dress, her expression mournful, with an air of sorrow seemingly etched forever between her brows. To his right was also Su Ling’er, but a young one, barely ten years old, her tender face already revealing the grace of her future adult self.

She spoke softly, “Yun Che, though you wronged me in this life, I have no regrets. Do you know, the moment before I died was the happiest time of my life, because I felt the tear you shed on my face.”“If there is a next life, even if the outcome is the same, I am still willing to be a moth drawn to a flame…”

“Ling’er…” Yun Che fell to his knees, his chest filled with endless guilt, bitterness, hatred, and regret…

“Brother Yun Che.” The young Ling’er’s eyes radiated the purest, most innocent longing. “You promised you would definitely come back to marry Ling’er. Ling’er waited every day… every single day. But many years have passed, and Ling’er has grown up. Why hasn’t Brother Yun Che come yet…?”

“Ling’er… I’ve failed you! But I’ll soon find a way to Cangyun Continent. Just wait for me a little longer… a very short time! In this life, I will never hurt you or fail you again, never…”

Shatter!!The pale world suddenly disintegrated at that moment, replaced by an endless darkness.

“Ugh…”A dry groan escaped Yun Che’s lips. He painstakingly opened his eyes, and before him, there was still an endless darkness.

“Jasmine… I should… still be alive, right?” Yun Che managed a slight grin.

“Hmph! Why aren’t you healing yourself right away?!” Jasmine exclaimed angrily. “Your old wounds haven’t even healed, yet you dared to activate ‘Heaven Smasher’ again! If you hadn’t gambled everything and burned your Phoenix blood and Golden Crow blood, you’d already be a pile of shattered corpses!”

“Heh…” Yun Che, however, let out a triumphant laugh. “I told you, I would… succeed!”

Jasmine: “…”

“It’s just that this time, the injuries are… a bit severe,” Yun Che murmured, then took a long, deep breath with all his might. He then focused his mind, calmed his vital energy, and slowly entered a state of recovery.

His extraordinarily abnormal recovery ability had always been his greatest reliance when fighting with his life on the line.

Yun Che opened his eyes again several hours later.His old wounds had not healed, and now he had severe new ones. Even with the power of the Evil God and the Dragon God’s body, Yun Che couldn’t hope for a full recovery in a short time. However, a few hours of rest had stabilized his injuries. But due to excessive blood loss, his entire body felt a profound sense of weakness and lightness.

The recovery of his strength also encountered significant obstruction.

“I’ve recovered about forty percent of my strength, but a full recovery seems like it will take quite a long time,” Yun Che muttered to himself. At least, the degree of strength recovery was better than his physical injuries.

“You forcefully activated ‘Heaven Smasher’ twice in a row, causing your profound veins to severely deplete! Being able to barely recover forty percent of your strength right now is already a blessing! Even with the Evil God’s profound veins, it will take at least half a month to fully recover!” Jasmine said irritably. “Additionally, you burned your Phoenix source blood and Golden Crow source blood… Although it wasn’t completely consumed like that time a few years ago, the damage is still severe! Within the same half month, the power of your Phoenix Flame will be greatly diminished, and the power of your Golden Crow Flame will also decrease by about thirty percent!”

“The price you paid this time is truly…” Jasmine’s voice trailed off, her emotions too complex to continue speaking for a moment.

Yun Che sat upright, then stood up, wincing as the wounds covering his entire body stretched and throbbed with pain. He extended his arm, and a flame ignited in his palm… Although it was still the Golden Crow Flame, its destructive aura was indeed greatly weakened.

“It’s fine, it’s not like it’s permanent damage; it’s just half a month,” Yun Che said with a relaxed smile after extinguishing the flame. “Compared to the outcome, this small price is nothing at all.”Before he fell unconscious, he felt four Netherworld Udumbara flower petals being harvested by the Sky Poison Pearl’s power… Otherwise, he wouldn’t have willingly succumbed to unconsciousness.

“A small price? Was that a ‘small price’?!” Jasmine grew furious. “Don’t you understand what you went through?! You were just a hair’s breadth away from utter destruction of your body and soul! And now you… you don’t even seem to care?!”

“While the result wasn’t perfect, I still managed to obtain four petals. As for the process, why bother dwelling on it?!” Yun Che remained smiling, seemingly unfazed by any lingering fear from the Netherworld Udumbara flower. “Jasmine, don’t you suddenly feel that I’m far more amazing than you imagined?! I actually succeeded in doing what you thought was absolutely impossible!”

“You… you’re truly stupid, the biggest idiot… an idiot!!” Jasmine cursed, her voice filled with frustrated anger, sounding as if she wished she could appear and beat him senseless.

Yun Che closed his eyes, preparing to let his consciousness enter the Sky Poison Pearl… Suddenly, he opened his eyes again, looking around with a puzzled expression.

To resist the terrifying soul-separating power of the Netherworld Udumbara flower, he had used the Dragon God’s Soul and had even forced out his Phoenix Soul and Golden Crow Soul, exhausting them all at the last moment. Upon waking now, not only were his body and strength weak, but his spirit should also have been exceptionally frail and heavy.However, at this moment, his spirit was not chaotic at all; instead, it was full and exceptionally clear! What was even stranger was that deep within the Moon Slaughter Devil Nest, his spiritual perception had been suppressed to a range of only a dozen steps. Yet now, he could clearly sense the flow of aura within a full dozen zhang!

What’s going on? Why is my spiritual power…?However, at this moment, his attention was focused on the Netherworld flower petals, so he didn’t dwell on it much. He directly concentrated his consciousness and entered the Sky Poison Pearl.