“Brother, what’s wrong?” Seeing Yun Che suddenly stop and his expression change, Xiao Yun and Number Seven Under Heaven immediately became nervous.
“Alas, it looks like there might be some minor trouble.” Yun Che said helplessly: “Let’s go down.”
As the largest Xuan Cultivation family in Floating Cloud City, the Xiao Clan stood out from the sky. Yun Che did not land at the main gate, but almost subconsciously landed on the east side of the Xiao Clan, near a courtyard in the back mountain.
It was very quiet here, and the entire Xiao Clan was very quiet. The courtyard in front of me was very small, with only simple furnishings and simple houses. In the corner of the courtyard was a green grape trellis, hung with bunches of green and purple grapes. Next to the grape trellis, there was a simple stone table and two slightly smaller stone benches. The stone bench on the right was covered with several long cracks.
Standing in the center of the courtyard, looking at everything in front of him, Yun Che's eyes flickered slightly, and he was momentarily distracted.
“Brother, where is this place?” Looking at Yun Che’s expression, Xiao Yun asked curiously.
“This is the place that carries almost all of my memories before I was sixteen.” Yun Che spoke softly.
“Ah? This is… Brother Yun’s home?” Number Seven Under Heaven looked around and said in surprise. In Floating Cloud City, owning such a courtyard was considered luxurious for ordinary people. But for Number Seven Under Heaven, who was born in a guardian family and was the only princess of the Tianxia family, such a home was too simple and shabby… He was the young master of the Yun family, the demon king of the Illusory Demon Realm, and he could even be said to have saved the fate of the entire Illusory Demon Realm… She could not imagine that the place where Yun Che grew up would be so simple and shabby.
“Yes, it’s my home.” Yun Che smiled slightly. “I’ve lived here since I can remember. But at that time, this place didn’t belong to me alone, but to my aunt and me. At that time, we were together day and night. Wherever I went, she went there, and wherever she went, I would go there too. We were like each other’s shadows… until I was ten years old, when grandpa said that we couldn’t live in the same courtyard anymore, and found a new courtyard for my aunt. Because of this, my aunt cried for many days, and I protested to grandpa with all my strength. But grandpa, who usually doted on us in every way, refused to give in on this matter.”
"After that, my aunt who moved into the new courtyard would often sneak back to sleep with me, but when my grandfather found out, he would scold her harshly... Until later, we gradually understood that men and women should not be intimate with each other, and my aunt never came secretly again."
Yun Che spoke softly, smiling faintly. His smile at this moment came from his soul, without any impurities. In those years, although he was often ridiculed and occasionally bullied, and always endured contempt and pity, at that time, because of his aunt, he was happy much more than sad, and even his inferiority complex was very light.
Over the years, he is no longer the useless man with damaged profound veins and no future. His strength is getting stronger and stronger, and he is admired and even feared by more and more people. His position is much higher than that of Xiao Zong, who is worshipped as a god by the Xiao Clan. However, his world is always filled with storms, and he can never return to the happy world with only his little aunt.
More than six years had passed since the last time he came here. But everything here was almost exactly the same as in his memory, without any changes… Whether it was the door, the window, the stone table, the grape trellis… even the lantern that was hung there when he and Xia Qingyue got married six years ago, they were all still there, but had been weathered beyond recognition.
The entire courtyard was extremely clean, not at all the dilapidated and dirty appearance that Yun Che had expected after being idle for six years. It was as if someone swept here every day. Yun Che stepped forward and stood in front of the stone table. He gently pressed his hand on the stone surface and moved it. When he raised his finger... there was not a trace of dust on it.
This place...has just been cleaned...
Yun Che’s heart trembled. Could it be... Could it be...
"Xiao Che...is that you?"
In this world, there are very few voices that can directly touch Yun Che's rock-hard soul, but Xiao Lingxi's voice is definitely one of them. Yun Che's heart and soul moved violently, and he turned around almost instantly... At the entrance of the courtyard, Xiao Lingxi was wearing a light green dress, and her beautiful eyes were filled with a thick layer of mist.
“Aunt…” Yun Che said softly. His arm was raised forward completely involuntarily, wanting to cross the space and touch the girl who was closest to him, most familiar to him, and most important to him in his life: “I’m back…”
“Ah…” Xiao Yun couldn’t help but utter a sound. He looked at Xiao Lingxi and said in a daze, “She is…is…”
The “little aunt” that Yun Che called out proved to him the identity of this girl… This girl with a beautiful appearance, a delicate temperament, and who looked younger than himself, was… his little aunt… a relative who was connected to him by blood…
Xiao Lingxi pressed her small hand heavily on her lips, and her crystal tears fell like jade beads from a broken string. After time froze for a brief moment, she moaned softly, shedding tears and threw herself towards Yun Che, throwing herself heavily on his chest, hugging him tightly with both arms, and her rushing tears soon soaked a large area of his chest.
“Xiao Che… Xiao Che… Xiao Che…” She called out over and over again, and soon she was sobbing and unable to speak.
“I’m sorry, little aunt… I promised you that I would be back in a month, but… I made you wait for three years.” Yun Che raised his arms and gently hugged the girl in his arms. Her waist was more slender than three years ago, and her body was more delicate… Even her profound strength had declined instead of improved. In three years, Yun Che’s height had grown by about half a foot, making the girl in his arms look even more delicate and exquisite in front of him. What hurt Yun Che the most was her crying… His familiar little aunt would laugh loudly when she laughed and cry loudly when she cried, especially in front of him, she would release all her emotions without reservation.
But the little aunt in front of him, although she was crying, she tried hard to suppress her sobs, only her shoulders were twitching violently. She lost some of her spiritual energy, and instead, she was filled with a melancholy that was so heavy that it almost broke Yun Che's heart and suffocated him.
In the past three years, the news of her own "death" and the great disaster that befell the Blue Wind Nation had left so many cruel scars in her heart...
Yun Che clenched his hands silently. He raised his head, and there was a trace of pain in his eyes... When I was useless and my profound veins were still crippled, the smile I saw the most every day was my aunt's. Now that I am getting stronger day by day, why do I bring heartbreak and heartache to my aunt again and again...
I pursue power... for what?
Xiao Lingxi shook her head vigorously and hugged him tighter with her arms. The chest she leaned on was broader than before, and his chest was the only place in the world that made her feel truly at peace and satisfied. She sobbed and said softly, “I know… Xiao Che didn’t mean it… It’s good that Xiao Che is back… I thought I would never see Xiao Che again… My Xiao Che… is finally back…”
She murmured, with the pain of missing and the joy of regaining. Yun Che took a long breath, lowered his voice, and said firmly: "Aunt, I promise you, I will never let you..."
Yun Che’s voice suddenly stopped, and his entire body suddenly stiffened. His eyes, which had instantly turned icy cold, suddenly swept to the back, and his body quickly turned around with Xiao Lingxi in it.
Because at that moment, he was suddenly locked by an extremely cold breath... He had a water spirit body and was not afraid of cold. But when this breath enveloped him, he felt a piercing coldness, and all the hairs on his body stood up. In his mind, he even vaguely saw a pair of dark devil eyes like the abyss, and he suddenly felt as if he was in a terrifying dark hell.
Could this unprecedented, cold, eerie, and extremely uncomfortable aura be the...devil energy that Jasmine mentioned?
Who is it?
The moment he turned around, Yun Che's eyes were already firmly locked on a black figure floating in the air... He was slightly shorter and thinner than Yun Che, dressed in black, with long hair that was as black as day and night, hanging down to his waist, his face was stiff and pale, his eyes were lifeless, and there was no trace of light. The breath emanating from him was filled with a chill that penetrated into the bone marrow, but Yun Che could not sense the slightest breath of life from it... It was as if the person floating there was not a living person, but a dead body.
When Yun Che saw the face of the black shadow clearly, his brows twitched violently, and a look of deep surprise appeared on his face.
“Fen Jue… Chen!?” Yun Che’s voice was filled with obvious hesitation when he shouted the last word.
His appearance and eyes were exactly the same as the Fen Juechen in his memory. But the Fen Juechen he knew definitely did not have such an aura. Moreover... he clearly felt a clear and cold sense of danger from this man in black! With Yun Che's current realm, the one who could make him feel dangerous would have to be at least the strength of an early emperor. When he let Fen Juechen go three and a half years ago, his profound strength was only at the Spiritual Profound Realm. In just less than four years, it was impossible for him to reach a realm that could threaten him.
"Huh? It's this person." Jasmine's voice was also filled with surprise.
“Yun… Che!!” His face was still stiff. Neither his expression nor his dim pupils showed any sign of trembling when he spoke. However, his voice was filled with icy hatred: “You’re still alive… You’re actually still alive!!”
“…” The aura that enveloped Yun Che instantly became dozens of times colder, and as soon as the man in black opened his mouth, Yun Che was certain… this person was definitely Fen Juechen! Because this voice, this tone, and this resentment were exactly the same as when he let him go that year! !
"Do you know how much hatred and pain I felt when I heard the news of your death? All these years, I have been dreaming of you coming back to life so that I can tear you apart with my own hands!!"
Fen Juechen's hands were shaking, and two balls of black air were floating around his palms, becoming increasingly dense. Yun Che glanced at the two balls of black air... Just a glance, and an extremely uncomfortable feeling spread throughout his body. He turned his gaze back and stared at Fen Juechen without giving in: "It seems that your dream has come true, but... do you really think that you can kill me now?"
Before Fen Juechen could reply, Yun Che heard Jasmine’s cold laugh in his heart: “His current profound strength level is at the fifth level of the Sovereign Profound Realm. Coupled with the special nature of his demonic profound strength, if we fight head-on, he will definitely be able to kill you!”
“~! @#￥%…” Yun Che’s eyes twitched greatly: “You are not… kidding!!”
Back then, he destroyed the Burning Heaven Sect, but spared only Fen Juechen. The main reason was that he had indeed saved Xiao Lingxi, and Xiao Lingxi pleaded for mercy. The secondary reason was that he subconsciously did not think that Fen Juechen's survival would pose any threat to him. At that time, a thousand Fen Juechens could not hurt him. In addition, his unparalleled growth rate meant that even if Fen Juechen's talent was ten times higher, he would only be further and further away from him, until he became an ant in his eyes.
The blood and divine power he possessed were beyond the reach of ordinary people! His master was Jasmine, who existed beyond this plane. In the Profound Sky Continent, no one could match him in terms of growth speed.
Xia Yuanba was able to grow at such an astonishing rate because he possessed the Overlord Divine Vein! And it was also this kind of heaven-defying talent that made the Huangji Holy Land, which ranked first among the holy lands, regard him as a treasure.
Fen Juechen was only at the Profound Spirit Realm back then... How could he become a mid-stage Emperor in less than four years! !
“Do you think I’m kidding?” Jasmine said coldly, “But you don’t have to be too surprised. His strength is not gained through cultivation, and even his demonic energy is not derived from his own will. Instead, a demonic source has been injected into his soul!”
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