913 14.189 Last Violet Star – Peace before the Storm.

Learning the cultivation stages in the Immortal Realm left Yun Huaxia, Lu Yi, Jin Shiyan, Bai Qiyin, Bai Lili, and Lu Er dumbfounded. Like the rest of the mortals, they treated all people in the Upper Realm as Gods and Goddesses with immortal life. Only now they had understood that even in the Upper Realm there is a measure of strength like in the Mortal Realm.

The requirements to increase strength and cultivation stage were harsher than the ones from their realm. Like divinity, purity of bloodline, and things like that. Mortals weren’t usually born with special and strong bloodlines like the other races. They have ordinary bloodlines and they have weaker physiques than the other races.

But despite that, in this world, the strongest are still the humans who have gained divinity. They can find ways to purify their bloodline or find a way to create it. The Immortal Emperor did the same. He was only a mortal who ascended to Godhood. To get his current bloodline, he had to undergo many hardships in the process. No one knew how many pills, rare medicines, and weird beast cores he consumed to strengthen his body and soul.

No one knows how he underwent all torture in the world can give he experienced just to increase the purity of his blood and how many beings he killed to achieve the strength he has right. It’s just that he was already an Immortal Emperor when the others remembered him.

The men continued drinking their wines and eating their food when suddenly Bai Qiyin asked his elder brother a question.

Sect Master Bai Qiyin asked, “How about you, Gege? What is your cultivation stage right now?”

Once Bai Qiyin asked such a question everyone was interested in the answer and looked at them. Xia Jieye kept helping his wife eat while feeding him himself and didn’t care about the answer to such a question. As he already knew the answer to it, on the other hand, the rest had anticipating looks imprinted on their faces.

Hei Anjing smiled and said, “Me… I used to be the strongest after my father, the Immortal Emperor. But after my trial, I was punished for 1000 years which greatly crippled my strength. After healing I immediately descended into the Mortal Realm to find A’Xia. It took a while for me to recall everything and for A’Xia to remember everything. My strength is connected to my other half. Once his strength had returned to normal, so did I. If you want to know my strength shouldn’t be asking me but A’Xia…”

This time everyone looked at Chun Hongyun-Jun. The latter wanted to ignore them and keep feeding his wife but Yun Huaxia, his elder brother, spoke and asked the question to be answered. ．𝙘𝙤𝙢

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Xia Jieye says, “Sigh~ True God Stage, if alone. Beyond Primordial God Stage together.”

“What!?” Everyone exclaimed in shock.

Lu Yi asked, “Does that mean you can leave the world anytime?”

“Yes.” Xia Jieye answered.

Yun Huaxia asked, “Is the reason why you are staying in the Mortal Realm because you are waiting for us to ascend?”

“Yes.” Xia Jieye.

Hei Anjing smiled and said, “We will only leave once you guys all ascend. Plus I still have not done my Dao Ceremony with A’Xia yet.”

“We can do it anytime you want to.” Xia Jieye asked.

Hei Anjing smiled at his husband and said, “I know. But I wanted everyone to be able to attend. Let’s do it after the thing with the Demons is done.”

“Shall I eliminate them for you?” asked Xia Jieye.

Hei Anjing said, “No need. We are here to help them pass the tribulation of the human race and not to do it for them.”

“We will do as you wish.” Xia Jieye said.

Yun Huaxia said, “Don’t worry. We will do our best!”

“That’s right! As long as they aren’t any Devils with the same strength as yours we should be able to handle them.” Bai Qiyin said.

Bai Lili commented, “Please don’t create such a flag for us, brother. Especially with your crow’s mouth.”

“Okay. Can I take back what I said?” said Bai Qiyin as he believes that his mouth is indeed poisonous as his little sister said.

Hahahahaha~

Everyone laughed at these siblings’ antics. They have always been carefree and direct with their words unlike the other siblings in big clans whose rivalry would sometimes equal the fight in an emperor’s harem. They were enjoying their day of peace and unknown to them. The impending danger from the Infernal Region had finally resurfaced in their own realm.

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At the boundary of the Mortal Realm and Infernal Region…

Numerous groups of varying demons had slowly marched out of the Infernal Region under the leadership of the Devil that rules Wrath. Devil Fennu was leading the whole group with Devil Shulan supporting him. If Devil Jidu and Tanlan weren’t captured and killed by Hei Anjing, they would be standing beside Devil Fennu to lead. Unfortunately, before they could even complete their mission they were eliminated by Hei Anjing as they’d touched someone they should have.

Devil Fennu looked at the scene of the used to be fertile land turning black under their feet. He had lived in the Mortal Realm for quite a long time after Jin Baihua had become his vessel. He had watched the progress of human life and how they lived for those years. To say he had no attachments to such peace is a lie but to say he wasn’t envious of the land where the mortals leave is also a lie.

What kind of world is the Infernal Region? To the humans, it was the land of death. But for the devils and demons, it was the only land they could live in. Because the other races reject their existence.

But does the human race really reject the existence of Devils? If so, how can someone like Jin Baihua accept him so openly when he tries to use him? Do all humans hate the demon race? If yes, then how come to that demonic serpent which is an outcast of their race is allowed to stay by the side of the Human Emperor?

There are too many contradictions and yet there are too many things that complement as well. It was only now that Devil Fennu realized that he had chosen the wrong side to follow. Maybe if he didn’t sign that equal contract with Jin Baihua that the latter wouldn’t need to help him destroy the barrier and the Mortal Realm wouldn’t end in such a state.

Now that the scene in the Mortal Realm he used to see is now gone and the scenery of the human land is not much different from the land of the dead he used to see. Devil Fennu realized that the peaceful scene he had seen before is now completely gone and he purposely destroyed it in his own hands.

They marched and walked towards the former city of snow. Now the white snow was replaced with red one, the houses and buildings were all ruined and the waters were all polluted. This is the former Northern City which was well-known for its pure white scape. Now even that was no more.

When they arrived at the Eastern Lands, all Jin Baihua could see was old traces of the booming street of merchants which is now only made up of a pile of debris from the destroyed buildings and houses. There are only ruins everywhere and dead trees and a feeling of desolation. All the familiar scenes he had grown up in were all gone. Even the small house where he and his mother used to live as well as his mother’s tombstone. It was all gone as it was destroyed by himself.

For some reason, the scene of destruction of the Eastern City left Jin Baihua dazed. No one knew what he was looking at nor no one knew what he was thinking. Devil Shulan and his Vessel, on the other hand, were too sleepy. That they had a few demons under Shulan’s rule to carry them away in an open sedan with a soft bed laid onto it and the two just had to lay down to sleep.

Devil Shulan saw Jin Baihua with his loss as he stared at his former home and said, “What now? Are you missing your home? But there are no traces of it left. Even the tombstone of your mother we’ve poured money into was also destroyed.”

“I don’t remember where I put my mother’s tomb.” Jin Baihua said.

Devil Fennu sighed and held Jin Baihua’s arm, pulling him over to a location within the destroyed city and walking a distance with a small pile of fallen tombstones. Obviously, this area used to be a cemetery. After pulling Jin Baihua to a certain area, Devil Fennu helped him look for a tombstone with Jin Baihua’s mother’s name on it.

The coffin of Jin Baihua’s mother was empty and this tombstone was only to respect the name of the dead. Jin Baihua was only a child when his mother died from an illness. During that time he learned about his father and begged him to bury his mother’s remains. At that time, Jin Baihua wasn’t welcomed in the Jin Clan and no one was there to help him and even the Old Jin Sect Master ignored him.

His father was a scum. He loves a woman and sleeps with almost everyone he fancies. Jin Baihua’s mother was one of them and not the special one among the rest. This old man had so many illegitimate children and only loved his legitimate sons. So Jin Baihua was unloved by him from the beginning.????e??????????o??e??. c????

But Jin Baihua was resolute and kneeled in front of the Jin Tiangui Sect and pleaded with his father to bury his mother’s remains. There are too many eyes from the other great sect that the old sect master can’t just throw Jin Baihua away. To keep his appearance he sends a servant to help the boy. But who would have thought that things were too late when Jin Baihua had gone home?

The people in the city had smelled the rotten body of Jin Baihua’s mother and thrown it in a mass grave somewhere. When Jin Baihua returned, his mother’s body was no more. This was the first source of hatred in Jin Baihua’s heart and his greatest regret. When he reached the apex of strength, the first thing he did was to erect the most luxurious tombstone for his mother with Devil Fennu but inside the expensive coffin was empty. There is no corpse at all. This is the last filial action Jin Baihua did for his human side.

When he was converted into a devil, he forgot most about his past as a human. Even with Devil Fennu’s help, he still forgot most of his memories. He didn’t even remember anything about his mother’s name nor her appearance at all but when he saw the ruined land of the former gold city in the Mortal Realm, his missing memories come back as if his late punishment.

When Devil Fennu found a broken tombstone with Jin Baihua’s mother’s name and gave it to him, a stroll of blood tears fell from his crimson eyes. No one knows if it’s because of regret or guilt, maybe both.

“Mother?”

In this scene, Devil Fennu could only pull him in a hug. As the only kin in his bloodline, Jin Baihua is his partner, his child, and his only family. The most important one in his life.

“Don’t cry. I’m here, my Bai.” Devil Fennu murmured while hugging the sole treasure in the world he found in the land of mortals.

For the sake of Jin Baihua, he is willing to do everything. Whether to kill all the human race to avenge the life his beloved had suffered to or to accompany him until the end of their lives. Jin Baihua’s life is connected to Devil Fennu. He sold his soul and everything to him. Because of this, his everything became Devil Fennu’s very treasure.

“If you want to kill all the humans, I will do it for you. Just… Stay by my side until the end.” Devil Fennu said.