novel against the - Chapter 2105

Chapter 2105: Shadows of the Primordial Era

Although unable to clearly see Li Suo’s¹ expression, Yun Che could still clearly sense her confusion.

“It’s nothing, just thinking aloud,” Yun Che quickly composed himself, putting on a serious face, then suddenly sighed. “You really are unlucky, to have fallen into my hands. A dignified Creation supreme-rulerdess of Life, the most compassionate and holy existence between heaven and earth, forced to accompany me in this abyssal world, committing evil deeds.”

“If you were to regain all your past cognition and memories, I’m afraid you would wish to use your creation supreme power to turn me into holy smoke and dust.”

Li Suo’s hand paused slightly. She said softly, “I can vaguely recall some old acquaintances, but I can’t recall what I used to be like. And now… the emotions I feel, the cognition I possess, the world I perceive, all come from you.”

“I was lonely for a long time, so I fear solitude. Your appearance allowed me to escape a loneliness that felt like it would never end. Therefore, I can feel that my soul is close to you and grateful to you. And you, since coming to this world, the emptiness in your soul has grown with each passing day…”

“Stop, stop, stop, no need to say more,” Yun Che hurriedly stopped her soft voice. “I am now the Mist Emperor, shaking the entire abyss, so majestic and awe-inspiring. I only have this tiny bit of emptiness in my heart, yet you still have to point it out.”

“…” The light profound light remained endlessly gentle. Li Suo seemed to ponder for a good while before softly saying, “I will learn to correct this.”²

“Hmm…” Yun Che raised his eyes slightly in surprise, then a faint smile appeared. The inescapable sense of loneliness that Li Suo perceived seemed to inexplicably dissipate somewhat. “I guess… from ancient times until now, there has never been a person who, like me, has seen such an obedient Creation supreme-ruler”

Li Suo: “…”

Just then, Yun Che’s eyes suddenly narrowed, and he abruptly sat up.

“This time, the ‘prey’ has finally arrived.”

Northern Divine Region, Yama Devil Realm, Eternal Dark Bone Sea.

Black mist wreathed this place. Even though all the Eternal Dark Devil Crystals had long been removed by Yun Che, the concentration of dark aura here was still the strongest in the world.

Chi Wuyao had been here for several hours, with no devil witches accompanying her. In front of her was the black stone tablet³ that she had rarely been apart from recently.

Rip!

The barrier was violently torn apart. A snow-white ankle fell into Chi Wuyao’s line of sight. She raised her eyes and said with some helplessness, “Aren’t you supposed to be the Brahma Heaven supreme-ruler Emperor? What are you doing running back here again?”

Qianye Ying’er was about to speak, but Chi Wuyao interrupted her, “No need to speak. There is no news about him. And you should know, he has no way to send any messages back.”

“But…” Qianye Ying’er still persisted, “Didn’t you say you gave him a part of your Nirvana Devil Soul⁴? It’s the Devil Emperor’s soul, so it can’t be…”

“I’m sorry to say, it can’t,” Chi Wuyao rather cruelly shattered Qianye Ying’er’s rather pitiful delusion.

With her hopes dashed, Qianye Ying’er’s aura instantly became much gloomier and more irritable. She glanced sideways at the stone tablet in front of Chi Wuyao and said angrily, “You specifically came to the Eternal Dark Bone Sea just for this broken stone tablet? It’s been so long, if it really held any secrets, you would have discovered them already.”

Chi Wuyao, however, gently shook her head. “Although my Nirvana Devil Soul cannot resonate with it, I can always sense something hidden within. During this time, I have used dozens of methods, changed numerous environments, and still haven’t gained anything.”

Qianye Ying’er crossed her arms and said casually, “Although you obtained it in the place where the Nirvana Devil Soul resided, it doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily something related to the Nirvana Devil Clan. If you really can’t let it go, why not… try smashing it?”

“If it works, great. If it doesn’t, there’s no need to dwell on it anymore. It’s all over.”

“I knew it wouldn’t be a good suggestion.” Chi Wuyao smiled faintly. “It’s indeed very likely not something from the Nirvana Devil Clan. The three characters ‘Pan Xiaodie’⁵ on it are also proof. What I can’t let go of is, why would such a stone tablet, likely not belonging to the Nirvana Devil Clan, exist in the place where the Nirvana Devil Soul remained, and be so well-preserved?”

Speaking of this, she suddenly raised her eyes, and her devilish eyes, looking at Qianye Ying’er, suddenly flashed with a strange light.

Qianye Ying’er: “Hmm?”

“Qianying,” Chi Wuyao reached out, her fingertips touching Qianye Ying’er’s snowy fingers. “Lend me your blood!”

Qianye Ying’er was suspicious, but she didn’t resist.

A drop of blood bloomed on her fingertip, then was lightly sprinkled by Chi Wuyao onto the dark stone tablet. Qianye Ying’er’s words had suddenly reminded her that Qianye Ying’er possessed the Devil Emperor’s blood given to her by Yun Che back then.

The Heaven Smiting Devil Emperor possessed the purest dark profound energy among the four Devil Emperors. Her devil blood could accommodate any dark profound energy in the world. The Heaven Smiting Devil Calamity cast with Heaven Smiting Devil Blood could amplify all other dark powers… including the other three Devil Emperors.

Something that the Nirvana Devil Soul couldn’t awaken, the Heaven Smiting Devil…

Hum!

The moment the blood droplet touched the stone tablet, the tablet suddenly shone with a layer of rich dark light.

“It worked!” Chi Wuyao, who hadn’t held much hope, let out a soft gasp. Qianye Ying’er’s lips also parted slightly, clearly quite surprised.

The dark light lingered on the stone tablet. After a long while, something seemed to shatter on the tablet. Then, profound light was projected, displaying an exceptionally clear scene from the distant past.

“A projection!?” Chi Wuyao and Qianye Ying’er looked at each other, both seeing surprise and solemnity in each other’s eyes.

Within the projection was a dark land. Even across such a distant past, one could still feel a soul-chasing devilish might.

A woman in a black dress appeared in the projection. Although her face couldn’t be seen clearly, just her posture and the naturally emanating endless nobility left no doubt that she possessed devastating beauty.

Then, the figure of a man appeared in the projection. He wore a blue robe, his hair like the dark night, his eyes like the abyss, his appearance exceptionally bewitching. When he raised his eyes, the reflected gaze held an arrogance that excluded even heaven and earth, but when it fell upon the woman in the black dress, it instantly transformed into a tranquil, deep pool.

The woman in the black dress stopped and heavily knelt on the ground.

The blue-robed man’s expression froze, and then his boundless nobility and arrogance turned into panicked alarm. “Xiaodie, what… what are you doing!?”

“Brother Nie, please… please help me.” The woman spoke, each word laced with tears.

The blue-robed man quickly stepped forward, wanting to help her up, but the woman remained kneeling. He became even more flustered. “You… don’t cry. What happened? No matter what it is, I will help you. Get up quickly.”

However, the woman refused to rise, because she knew how selfish and excessive her request was. “The Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor… he… he wants to kill Brother Mosu⁶!”

Hearing the two words “Mosu,” the blue-robed man’s pupils trembled for a moment.

“The Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor (editor’s note: Mo E) wants to personally sink Brother Mosu into the Abyss of Nothingness… He has already announced this to the entire supreme-ruler Race with supreme decree. The Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor has an extremely stubborn temperament and never goes back on his word, let alone a publicly declared supreme decree.”

“Just now, the Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor has already taken Brother Mosu to the Abyss of Nothingness! He will die… He will really die…”

The woman’s voice carried a bone-piercing pain.

The blue-robed man’s eyes lost their color, and he said powerlessly, “That is the supreme-ruler Race’s affair. Moreover, the Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor is so powerful, if he wants to execute his own son, no one can save him. And, for our Devil Race…”

He wanted to say that Mosu was the strongest supreme-ruler of the younger generation of the supreme-ruler Race. If Mosu died, it would only be beneficial to the Devil Race, who were incompatible with the supreme-ruler Race… But facing the woman whose heart had fallen into the abyss and was in unbearable pain, he ultimately couldn’t bring himself to say it.

“No, there is a way to save him!”

The woman knelt forward, tightly gripping the corner of the blue-robed man’s clothes. “Brother Nie, please lend me the ‘Nirvana Devil Reverse Wheel Pearl’⁷ temporarily. I have the Pan Ming Mirror of Emptiness⁸ with me. Using the Devil Pearl to forcefully stop the wheel of time and the Mirror of Emptiness to pierce through the void, even if it’s the Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor, I can definitely save Brother Mosu.”

The blue-robed man’s body swayed, and he exclaimed in shock, “Xiaodie, are… are you crazy!? Do you know what you’re saying!?”

“That’s the Heaven Punishing supreme-ruler Emperor, the strongest and most intolerant of our Devil Race among the Creation supreme-rulers! Do you know what the consequences will be if you fail!? If the Mirror of Emptiness and the Devil Pearl fall into the hands of the supreme-ruler Race, the consequences will be unimaginable, and you will become the eternal sinner of the Devil Race… just for a mere supreme-ruler Race son!”

“I… I am indeed crazy… But… but…”

The sound of tears falling, even across such a long time, was still heart-wrenchingly clear. “He is my Mosu… I can’t… I can’t watch him die… I can’t…”

The blue-robed man’s gaze was dazed… The Pan Xiaodie he knew and admired possessed a fortitude and arrogance that surpassed all Devil Race men, and her temperament was even as violent as devilish flames.

Now, however, for a supreme-ruler Race man, she didn’t hesitate to kneel before him, crying so heartbreakingly.

“You should… ask your father…” The blue-robed man’s voice gradually became pained.

The woman in the black dress shook her head. “My father never tolerated… He would never agree… He even wanted to imprison me. If it weren’t for the Mirror of Emptiness, I wouldn’t have been able to forcefully escape, and I would have been completely hopeless…”

“Since you know he won’t tolerate it, even if you can save him, what about your future… how will you two be together?”

The woman in the black dress murmured, “I have a promise with him. If heaven and earth allow it, we will work together to break through any shackles, any trials. If heaven and earth ultimately don’t allow it… we will escape this world, to search for, to build a paradise that belongs only to us.”

The blue-robed man’s body swayed.

“I will… bring him back to the Devil Race. If my father doesn’t tolerate him, if the Devil Race doesn’t tolerate him, I will… abolish his supreme power, so that he will never be a threat to the Devil Race, and protect him by my side forever.”

“If they still don’t tolerate us… we will disperse all our power, go to a distant lower realm, and find a paradise where no one can find us.”

The blue-robed man slowly closed his eyes, his expression unclear whether it was pain or struggle.

“The Nirvana Devil Reverse Wheel Pearl is not only the most powerful time devil artifact of my Nirvana Devil Clan, but also the ancestral artifact of our entire Devil Race. It absolutely cannot be lost… I cannot give it to you.”

“Brother Nie…”

“Don’t say anymore.” The blue-robed man abruptly turned around, his voice strained. “Absolutely impossible!”

Although they could only see the back of the woman in the black dress, her instantly gloomy aura made Chi Wuyao and Qianye Ying’er feel as if they could see her eyes losing all their color.

She knelt quietly for a long time. Finally, she slowly stood up and whispered weakly, “I’m sorry, Brother Nie. It was I… who made such a selfish request… In the future, please be sure to protect yourself, and don’t repeat my mistakes.”

After speaking, she abruptly turned around… but was firmly grabbed by an arm.

“What are you doing!?” The blue-robed man’s gaze was almost ferocious. “Are you going to save him with only the Mirror of Emptiness?”

The woman in the black dress spoke softly, but each word was resolute. “If my lord lives, I live. If my lord dies, I die.”

“…” The blue-robed man turned his head away. After a while, he extinguished the intense pain in his eyes and said in a deep voice, “I only said I couldn’t give you the Devil Pearl, but I didn’t say I wouldn’t help you.”

He raised his hand, and a devil pearl wreathed in strange black light appeared in his palm. “You are not from my Nirvana Devil Clan. You can only barely control the Devil Pearl, far inferior to me. So, I will go with you.”

The woman in the black dress turned back, staring blankly at the blue-robed man, then gently closed her eyes. “Thank you, Brother Nie. The kindness you’ve shown me, I will never be able to repay it in this life.”

Hearing the tearful soft voice, the blue-robed man’s expression suddenly changed… because he found that he could no longer move his entire body, and he couldn’t even release profound energy out of his body.

Restraint!

This was… spatial restraint from the Pan Ming Mirror of Emptiness!

“Xiaodie, what… what are you doing!?”

The woman in the black dress reached out and took the black mist-wreathed devil pearl from the blue-robed man’s hand.

“Xiaodie… Xiaodie! Don’t do anything foolish!” The blue-robed man’s pupils dilated, his voice filled with endless terror. “Let me go quickly, I’ve already agreed to go with you. Let me go quickly!”

The woman in the black dress slowly retreated. She said sadly, “I know what I’m doing, but no matter what… I can’t watch him be buried in the Abyss of Nothingness… This is my sin and his sin, I can’t drag you into it.”

She turned her cheek towards the direction of the projection. “This projection stone has already recorded everything that just happened. Whether I succeed or fail, it can prove that I seized the Devil Pearl from you. It has nothing to do with you.”

“Brother Nie, I’ll be back soon… Then, together with Brother Mosu, we will apologize to you and accept any punishment you deem fit.”

With a flick of her black sleeve, the space was silently cut open. She stepped inside, her figure instantly vanishing. The spatial crack disappeared without a sound, as if it had never existed.

“Xiaodie! Xiaodie! Someone come quickly… Royal Father… Elder Nie Yuan… Xiaodie is in danger… Someone come quickly… Quickly go to the Primordial supreme-ruler Realm to save Xiaodie!”

“Ah—!!”

The last part of the projection was the Nirvana Crown Prince’s near-desperate scream.

The projection vanished.

Chi Wuyao and Qianye Ying’er’s reactions were vastly different.

“One lovesick fool and another lovesick fool?” Qianye Ying’er curled her lip seemingly disdainfully. “This thing that has been perfectly preserved from ancient times is actually just a… Hmm?”

She noticed Chi Wuyao’s strangeness and frowned abruptly. “Devil Queen, what have you discovered?”

Chi Wuyao sighed faintly, her voice heavy. “The Mirror of Emptiness… the Devil Pearl… My initial guess was actually completely correct.”

She sighed somewhat. What kind of mood was the Nirvana Crown Prince in when he sealed this projection into the stone tablet…

“Correct… what does that mean?” Qianye Ying’er’s mood also became heavy.

“It means…” Chi Wuyao extended a finger, lightly touching the three characters “Pan Xiaodie” on the dark stone tablet. “His opponent is the son of a Creation supreme-ruler”

“Moreover, it’s the son of a Creation supreme-ruler wielding two of the strongest devil artifacts.”

“…” Qianye Ying’er’s beautiful eyes slowly widened in terror, unable to speak for a long time.