Xiaomen, another courtyard.
Yun Wuxin picked up the Mysterious Shadow Stone that Chi Wuyao had given him and exhaled a faint mysterious aura. Suddenly, the image within it appeared under the night sky.
The light was dim, and the faint sense of movement in space showed that this might be on an extremely fast Xuanzhou.
In a narrow corner, a black figure was sitting there diagonally, his whole body curled up as if he was in a biting cold wind.
His face was dull and his half-open eyes showed almost no spirit, and were as turbid as a pool of dead water of despair.
He gently pressed the three three-color glaze stones that she had made by herself against his chest, and his fingers mechanically stroked them over and over again.
His lips kept opening and closing slightly, and his eyes were dull, yet filled with pain that penetrated his soul.
Yun Wuxin stood there, his fingers unconsciously covering his lips.
"This is your eighteenth birthday."
Chi Wuyao came over at some point. She stood beside Yun Wuxin and looked at the man in the projection. “That day, he killed the son of Zhou Xuzi, the person he hated the most, and forced Zhou Xuzi to the brink of collapse. You can’t imagine how terrifying he was that day, and how hideous his face was. He would never want you to see that.”
Yun Wuxin: “…”
"But, when your figure falls into his heart, he will become the most pitiful person in the world."
Chi Wuyao exhaled softly, “I know that you must have many complaints against him over the years. He lost you time and time again, and broke his promises to you time and time again, but…”
"Please believe that in this world, no one loves you more than he does."
"Over the years, your waiting and worrying were unbearable torment, but he endured the most direct and thorough pain and despair. After all, he watched with his own eyes as you turned into dust along with the Blue Pole Star... No one can empathize with that kind of pain."
“And along with the pain, there was a terrifyingly strong determination to die. The emotions that he was feeling during that time… I don’t even dare to recall them anymore.” Chi Wuyao slowly closed her eyes, her demonic voice faintly saying, “At that time, he had already decided to die after his revenge. If it weren’t for some things that happened later, I don’t know how to erase his determination to die.”
This was also the reason why, when Chi Wuyao faced Qianye Ying'er, who had not concealed her hostility, she smiled and said, "I am very grateful to you."
“……” Yun Wuxin’s fingers covering her lips tightened little by little. She tried hard to suppress her sobs, but could not stop the tears from falling. Her slender body began to tremble constantly.
Chi Wuyao continued, “Your father is also far more remarkable than you think. The most remarkable thing about him is not that he saved the God Realm and stepped into the four realms, but that after going through all of this, he still did not fall into the abyss of evil, but instead gave forgiveness.”
"So, don't blame him anymore. He has overcome the cruelest and most difficult obstacles in this world in order to be reunited with you. Even now, he still has many deep wounds in his heart. And perhaps only you can give him the best comfort for these wounds."
The image went out, Yun Wuxin suddenly turned around, his figure swept away into the distance, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.
"You really dote on him."
A cold voice sounded from behind Chi Wuyao.
“Dote?” Chi Wuyao smiled slightly and turned around gracefully: “You use this word well.”
Chu Yuechan: "..."
Chi Wuyao’s gaze remained fixed on Chu Yuechan for a long while, and her smile was somewhat charming: “You and Fei Xue, whether in appearance, aura, or eyes, are indeed somewhat similar. No wonder…”
"Feixue?" Chu Yuechan frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"
“You will meet her in the future… maybe.” Chi Wuyao’s lips curled up slightly: “Speaking of which, I have something I want to ask you.”
Chu Yuechan said: "You are the Demon Queen of the Northern Territory, the Emperor and Empress of the God Realm. Your status is far beyond my reach. I am far from worthy of your guidance."
Everyone knows what the words "Empress" mean... They are the absolute queen in the eyes of the world.
Even a person as ruthless as Chu Yuechan cannot completely ignore it.
“You’re being too polite.” Chi Wuyao smiled and said, “We are just sisters. There is no so-called Demon Queen or Emperor. And according to the customs of your Profound Sky Continent, I should call you Sister.”
“…No need.” Chu Yuechan was surprised that Chi Wuyao, the empress who controlled the divine world, could lower her attitude so much. Her eyes became less indifferent. “What do you want to ask me?”
“Ask someone.” Chi Wuyao’s breath became slow and gentle: “Xia Qingyue.”
"Qingyue?" Chu Yuechan frowned slightly.
“Yes.” Chi Wuyao said: “From what I know, when she was in the early stage of the profound way, she took Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace as her master and your sister Chu Yueli as her teacher. You also took good care of her. Including when you met Yun Che, it was also when you were looking for an opportunity for Xia Qingyue to break through.”
"Why do you ask about her?"
“Because I find it hard to let go of her.” Chi Wuyao sighed and said, “I have a bad habit of not being able to keep things that are difficult to understand in my heart. Otherwise, they will always be like a thorn in my heart and it will be difficult to let go for a long time. Therefore, I want to know as much as possible about her, at least to let me understand where my judgment of her was wrong.”
Chu Yuechan's brows furrowed in thought at Chi Wuyao's words. She felt something in her heart and whispered, "When he came back last time, he mentioned Qingyue several times, but this time, he didn't mention her at all... What happened to her?"
Chi Wuyao: “…”
“I can tell you anything you want to know about her.” Chu Yuechan turned her gaze and looked at Chi Wuyao. Her beautiful eyes reflected the lonely and cold night moon. “But you have to tell me what happened to her… After all, she is also my disciple.”
“Okay.” Without hesitation, Chi Wuyao nodded slowly, “However, you must first tell me everything about her. If I start by telling you everything, it will definitely affect your memory of her.”
"…If you want to know anything, just ask."
Chi Wuyao had set up a soundproof barrier around the two women.
Yun Che was already unwilling to mention it, and he didn’t even want to hear the three words “Xia Qingyue”, so Chi Wuyao naturally wouldn’t let him hear him asking Chu Yuechan about her.
However, Chi Wuyao did not hold too many expectations. After all, when Xia Qingyue was in Frozen Cloud Immortal Palace, she was still a young girl, and her character might not have been formed yet.
But the doubts deep in my heart have turned into a kind of unwillingness... so strong that it is unprecedented.
…………
On the roof, Yun Che, who had been staring at the night sky for a long time, turned his gaze downwards and saw a graceful figure.
The shadow approached with the night wind and fell beside him.
“Wuxin.” Looking at his daughter who had grown up to be as beautiful and devastating as her mother, Yun Che raised the corners of his lips and called out softly.
Yun Wuxin didn't say anything. She looked at her father steadily, then took light steps and sat down beside him. She slowly leaned her head on his shoulder, and hugged his arms with both hands, her fingers tightening silently.
"..." The melancholy and complexity in his heart suddenly turned into endless warmth. He tilted his head, touched his daughter's hair with the tip of his nose, and smiled: "Moving from the East Region to the South Region, the night sky has indeed become different, but the mood and state of mind are exactly the same."
"This is my homeland. No matter how far away the world is, it can never be replaced."
"Father," Yun Wuxin said softly, "After a while, can you take me to travel to the world called the God Realm? I want to see where father has been."
“Okay!” Yun Che replied with a smile, and said with great pride: “You can go wherever you want. Now the entire universe is ours. As long as we don’t want to go, there is no place that we, father and daughter, cannot go!”
“Hehe…” Yun Wuxin laughed and gently rubbed her head against Yun Che’s shoulder, as if she had returned to the past when she was the little girl who played coquettishly and laughed in her father’s arms.
In the distance, Qianye Ying'er watched from afar, her long skirt fluttering in the night wind for a long time, but it never came closer.
Even she couldn't bear to break this scene.
"Isn't it just a daughter?" She whispered angrily, "If you like me so much, I can just give birth to a few more in the future... Humph! A bunch of mortal women from the lower world, how can they compete with me!"
After saying that, she turned and walked away, too lazy to look anymore.
Yun Wuxin closed his eyes, and the tip of his delicate nose hummed lightly with his breathing.
Each of her aunts, even her master and mother, would sometimes fight for her, but she was the only one that no one would ever fight for. So in those years, she occupied the most time with her father and was already familiar with his taste.
His world had obviously changed dramatically over the years, but the smell in his nose had hardly changed at all.
Even though he has reached such a high position, his attachment to his homeland has never changed, and his love for her has never contained even a trace of impurities.
Chi Wuyao’s words made her feel so heartbroken that she could barely breathe. The last bit of resentment in her heart turned into a deep, warm pain.
"Father," Yun Wuxin whispered, "I really like the birthday present you gave me. In fact, I also have a gift for you."
“Oh? What is it?” Yun Che’s eyes clearly lit up.
Yun Wuxin smiled softly. She cupped her hands together and when she opened them, a small, white jade stone appeared.
The jade was pure icy white in color, with a faint icy glow. Under the faint moonlight, it presented a mysterious glimmer, reflecting the girl's whiter-than-snow skin on her palm.
"Eternal Shadow Stone?"
This was exactly the Eternal Shadow Stone that he had obtained from Mu Feixue and given to Yun Wuxin.
The Eternal Shadow Stone is essentially a type of Mysterious Shadow Stone, but it is a Mysterious Shadow Stone that will never collapse. No matter how much time has passed, there is no need to worry about the image engraved in it being lost.
With a gentle push of her slender fingers, a faint icy light bloomed, spreading out a clear image in front of the two people.
In the video, there was the familiar Yun family courtyard, and the charming and pretty daughter that had been deeply engraved in his memory over the years.
"Dad, today is my fifteenth birthday. I received many precious gifts, but Dad did not come back on time."
The delicate face and voice of those years had lingered in countless dreams over the years... Yun Che's heart and tear glands were instantly touched extremely violently, and his heart and eyes felt an uncontrollable warmth.
"But it doesn't matter. I know that Daddy must be tied up by something very important." The girl smiled, as pure and beautiful as an angel. "But when Daddy comes back, he must make up for my birthday present."
"Also, if you don't keep your word, you must be punished... I'll use this as evidence, you can't deny it, hehe."
The scene switched, and the girl in the image had lost some of her childishness, becoming even more stunningly beautiful, with her night-long hair hanging down to her waist... In just one year, she had undergone a complete transformation.
"Daddy, I'm sixteen years old, why haven't you come back yet?"
"I've grown a lot taller. Grandpa, grandma, master and aunt all said that I've become as beautiful as mother. I really want you to see it."
"I'm so worried...but I know that Daddy is the most amazing person in the world, nothing will happen to him, I will be a good boy and wait for you to come back."
The projection changed again, and Wuxin in the picture looked like he was seventeen years old.
She no longer had any childishness, only a graceful figure and a face so beautiful that people dared not look directly at her. Her eyebrows and eyes reflected a bit of the coldness inherited from her mother.
"Dad, this is what I looked like when I was seventeen... My mom said that missing my growth would be your biggest regret, so I will use the Eternal Shadow Stone you gave me to carve traces of my growth."
"But why don't you come back? Why did you leave me for so long again?..."
Yun Che: “…”
The background of the projection turned into an endless pale snowy area. The eighteen-year-old Yun Wuxin's figure was similar to Chu Yuechan's, standing in the flying snow, like a solitary snow lotus born in the snow.
"Father, you were not here for my coming-of-age ceremony. You told me more than once that you wanted to see me grow up sooner. Now that I have grown up, where are you..."
"Everyone is very worried about you. Rumors have begun to spread in the Profound Sky Continent and the Illusory Demon Realm that you have fallen into the outside world. I know that those rumors are all false. You must be very peaceful, right? Even if... even if you are just greedy for that higher world and don't want to come back."
The wind and snow passed, and the girl in the video had long hair that reached her hips. It was also her birthday, but she was standing alone on a mountain of unknown height, gazing up at the sky of unknown distance:
"I wanted to go to the God Realm to look for you, but no one agreed. I also didn't want my mother and the others to worry about me anymore."
"If you don't come back, I will hate you, and I will hate you until you come back..."
"ah!"
With a cry, the video was hastily put away. Yun Wuxin lowered her head, pinched the hem of her skirt, and said nervously and panickedly: "This... this doesn't count... I... I was just talking nonsense at the time, that's why I didn't hate my father."
There was no response from her father, so she looked over quietly and found that he was pursing his lips tightly, with stars twinkling in his half-closed eyes.
She raised her eyes and said in a low and mischievous voice: "Father, you are not...crying, are you?"
Yun Che turned his face away abruptly and snorted, “You are kidding! Your father is the Emperor of the God Realm. To put it in a broader sense, he is the Lord of Chaos. I have seen all kinds of scenes. How can I shed tears so easily?”
As he spoke, he had already quickly activated his profound energy, and rather awkwardly dispelled the mist in his eyes.
Yun Wuxin stopped teasing him. She leaned her body against Yun Che again and whispered, “Aunt Qianye said that when you were the emperor in the God Realm, you appointed many concubines. In the future, you will definitely have many other children. At that time, will you still spoil me like you do now?”
“…” Yun Che’s old face felt slightly hot: “Don’t listen to her nonsense, actually… it’s not that much.”
“Really?” Yun Wuxin pinched Yun Che’s arm with his fingers: “Aunt Chi said that she brought nine witches as a dowry.”
“Ahem.” Yun Che’s face became even hotter, and he said guiltily, “She acted on her own initiative. I had no idea about it beforehand!”
"Aunt Qianye also said that when you made an engagement with that young aunt surnamed Shui, she was only fifteen years old."
“~!@#￥%…” Yun Che almost spit out saliva… One hundred and eighty ways to punish Qianye Ying’er quickly flashed through his mind!
"But it's quite strange to say." Yun Wuxin tilted her head, her delicate face showing a thoughtful expression: "I have so many concubines, and you have so many imperial concubines in the God Realm, why haven't you given me a brother or sister after so many years?"
"Father, you don't... really have any strange questions, do you?"
“How is this possible!!” Yun Che yelled as if he had been electrocuted. He remained calm and said with his heart pounding wildly: “I just don’t want to! For a person as powerful as your father, controlling this kind of thing couldn’t be easier!”
"Besides, I already have a wonderful daughter like you. Even if I don't have any other children in this life, I won't feel any regrets." He said half seriously.
"Hmph! My father is indeed a playboy. He can easily come up with words to coax women... Too bad it doesn't work on my daughter!" Yun Wuxin said with a smile.
“…” Yun Che was speechless.
"Oh, right!" Yun Wuxin suddenly thought of something and raised his eyes to ask, "Father, did the transfer of Blue Pole Star happen on the tenth day after you left that year?"
Yun Che thought for a moment and said, “That’s right…how did you know?”
He told them everything that happened that year, but he didn't remember saying anything very specific.
"Sure enough." Yun Wuxin understood and said, "Because on that day, both the Profound Sky Continent and the Illusory Demon Realm experienced a brief strange phenomenon. I even used the Hengying Stone to record it... Father, take a look."
The Eternal Shadow Stone once again released that special icy light in Yun Wuxin’s hand, and another image was cast in front of Yun Che:
The image was of an endless sky. The sky was shaking, the entire space was visibly shaking, the clouds were breaking up in the sky, and a red light was spreading rapidly, becoming thicker as it spread, and in the blink of an eye, it covered the entire sky as far as the eye could see.
Although it was somewhat dim, and far inferior to the soul-piercing red light of the crimson crack, Yun Che recognized it at a glance. It was the unique spatial divine light of the Qiankun Thorn.
The planet was transferred across the star field, and the space divine power was forcibly activated by its own strength... As strong as the Qiankun Thorn, the red light covering the sky lasted for five or six breaths before finally dissipating... Although, this time can only be described as short for the world.
The vibrations in space also gradually stopped.
From a distance, the scene in the distant sky has undergone subtle changes. However, with the spiritual perception and eyesight of the creatures of the Blue Pole Star, it is almost impossible to notice it clearly.
The image faded, and Yun Wuxin said slowly: "At that time, many people speculated that either an earthquake occurred that affected both continents, or that the Blue Pole Star collided with a huge meteorite containing a strong fire element."
"Because it lasted only a short time and did not cause any serious consequences, it didn't take long for anyone to talk about it anymore."
"But at that time, no one could have imagined that the entire planet had taken an ultra-long-distance journey. The magic of the world is indeed beyond the reach of imagination. It is simply a great miracle."
“It’s indeed a miracle.” Yun Che sighed.
If it weren't for this miracle, he couldn't imagine what he looked like at this moment, or what the divine world looked like at this moment.
“Are the Eastern Divine Region and the Southern Divine Region very far apart?” Yun Wuxin asked.
“Yes, it’s very far.” Yun Che replied: “So far that it’s beyond the reach of billions of Profound Sky Continents and Illusory Demon Realm.”
Yun Wuxin blinked her beautiful eyes, as if trying to imagine how far away it was. She suddenly said softly: "The aunt surnamed Shui who transferred Lan Jixing is really a very gentle person."
“Hmm? Why do you say that?” Yun Che asked curiously.
Yun Wuxin had never had any contact with Shui Meiyin, and his description did not mention her temperament.
"It's easy to guess." Yun Wuxin smiled and said, "Then such a long-distance space transfer will almost inevitably cause changes in the climate of a huge planet."
"However, after the strange phenomenon occurred that year, no abnormal change of seasons seemed to occur anywhere. Floating Cloud City still has spring all year round, and the Ice and Snow Region is still as cold as ever."
Yun Che: “…”
"If Floating Cloud City becomes freezing cold, and the ice and ice palace in the Ice Pole Snow Region gradually melt away, that would be a huge pity. However, after such a long distance transfer, nothing has changed."
"This must be the case when the Shui aunt chose the best area when she moved. Not only is the environment the closest to that in the Eastern Region, but even the position of the planets and the orientation of each continent have been adjusted to the most perfect state. This must be the case."
The girl's eyes sparkled with stars: "Not only did she save all of us, she is also such a gentle, kind, and considerate aunt. I really want to meet her sooner."
“…” Yun Che was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, “Maybe it’s just a coincidence.”
Shui Meiyin had never been to Blue Pole Star, let alone where Flowing Cloud City was or where the Ice and Snow Region was.
"I don't believe in such a magical coincidence." Yun Wuxin said with a smile.
“…” Yun Che was somewhat absent-minded for a moment.
The night sky was vast, and the bright moon and stars cast a layer of glittering jade on the girl's body. Yun Wuxin leaned against her father and fell asleep quietly without realizing it.
Long eyelashes curled, jade lips smiling... Yun Che gently kissed her forehead. The carefree sleeping face of the girl was a beautiful picture that he was willing to protect with everything in his life.
(End of this chapter)
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