Chapter 603: 12.5 Unknown Star - SSS World: Vearth, The Case of An Liang (5)
Standing tall like an immovable mountain. Using a mythical being like the dragon race as his mount shows his majesty and arrogance. A pair of scarlet irises which is as if it was dyed in the blood itself looking down not only on the earth but also at the heavens itself. Xia Jieye"s features were overly refined as if he is the most perfect being created that ever existed. His presence is overwhelming and n.o.ble, everyone in his presence couldn"t help but lower themselves in respect. His existence itself is the embodiment of immortality and strength.
The silence in the area was broken when the young man standing beside him suddenly spoke up.
Gui Xiajun said, "Big brother, this is the Hei Clansmen but why are half of the imprisoned inside Saozi"s Eternal Ice?"
"Who cares... Defeat the guards first. I"ll start healing the injured." said Xia Jieye.
Gui Xiajun nods his head and said, "Leave them to me, Big brother!" he said as jumped toward the guards and fought them with the other prisoners.
Another bout of chaos restarted
in the area but this time the side that was losing are the guards. Meanwhile except for the adults who are fighting those who are not were still looking up at Xia Jieye. Their bodies instinctively lowered their heads in his presence but they could hold back peeking at him.
Xia Jieye ignored the eyes on him and controlled a few light elements and spread them in the air like a light rain shower. Those who had received the golden-colored rain fall glow as they watch the wounds of their bodies heal and close up on their own. Though the light could regenerate limbs it was enough to cure internal and external wounds. Those who were almost dying from their fatal wounds were pulled out from their deeming deaths. They couldn"t help but cheer in happiness.
Despite the joyous scene before him, Xia Jieye"s eye remained detached as if he was an observer who is only there to watch but never gets involved. His emotionless face only changes when he feels the weak presence of his wife"s soul fragment.
He looked at the location where it was coming from and noticed a malnourished young lady who had a mixed features of Hei Jue and An Liang. Looking through his memories as Ye Xiajie, he recognized the little girl as his friend"s missing daughter, An Juehua. But he wasn"t Ye Xiajie, so he doesn"t have any good feelings toward the child. Only when he felt his Hei Anjing"s aura coming from him that he descended from the sky and fell down in front of An Juehua and the children.
A few pairs of large and round eyes were looking at Xia Jieye, making him a bit uncomfortable. The eyes of these children are innocent and know no fear towards him. Even though the children might not know he is an Evil G.o.d and his aura itself emits a dangerous feeling these brats wouldn"t care as they saw him save him.
He didn"t dare to scold them as even though he feels a bit uncomfortable he felt a bit entertained by their reactions as he himself had a son named Ye Jingxia. His eyes landed on An Juehua, making her shiver for a moment.
An Juehua"s thoughts, "Is this is Uncle Ye? He looks the same but he feels not at the same time."
"Girl, you are An Liang"s daughter, aren"t you?" said Xia Jieye.
The little girl nods her head instinctively while looking at Xia Jieye with bewildered eyes.
Xia Jieye said, "I am Xia Jieye. Ye Xiajie"s soul fragment. In short, I am your Uncle Ye yet at the same time not."
An Juehua"s eyes widen in shock she understood what his uncle is talking about.
"Uncle Ye? Greetings to Uncle, An Juehua the daughter of Hei Jue and An Liang welcomes~"
Xia Jieye nodded slightly and said, "Where"s your Uncle An?"
Once this question was asked An Juehua trembled as she took out something from her pockets and stretched out his hand towards Xia Jieye. The latter was a bit confused by his little niece"s actions and reached out a hand below the young lady"s closed fist. He watched as the small hand opened and a snowflake visible in the eye fell from it.
Xia Jieye"s breathing turned ragged at this sight. His eyes were stunned as he looked at the snowflake with the aura of his wife"s soul. Obviously, this snowflake is the soul fragment of his wife that he felt in this world but never had expected to see him in deep slumber. He couldn"t even hold back his hand from shaking.
The snowflake o. His palm is small and fragile. Xia Jieye was afraid that a single movement would cause it to break.
An Juehua felt the sadness coming from his Uncle Ye. She knows no one is sadder than him seeing Uncle An in such a state. His dad always told her that Uncle Ye and Uncle An love each other the most. This Uncle Ye in front of her seems to be expressionless but the remorse in his eyes at this moment rendered her speechless.
Xia Jieye asked, "Did he say something before he sleeps?"
"Uncle An says that Uncle Ye is already in this world. That Uncle Ye would bring us back to Vearth. He also always says that he loves Uncle Ye the most and was extremely worried at the lost memory he had seen is your... is Uncle Ye"s death."
[A/n: The Soul fragment in this abandoned world is the one that was taken from Hei Anjing"s main soul when Ye Xiajie was killed by Ye Mo. It was also because of this soul fragment being stolen that the Hei Anjing at that time failed to kill Ye Mo and the remnants of the Ye Gui race. This includes the second wife of Ye Mo who captures all these Hei Clansmen.]
Xia Jieye asked, "Did he... suffer in this world a lot?"
An Juehua and the rest were hesitant to answer. They had been imprisoned in this land for less than a decade but before they were brought here the first prisoner in the underground prison was Hei Anjing or more like his soul fragment. The second lady of the Ye Gui race had tortured that soul fragment for unknown long years. His soul was greatly weakened to the point that it looks translucent. He even saved them countless times within that decade until he completely disappeared one day.
They thought Lord Hei"s soul fragment disappeared after that day. That was until today when An Juehua was in great danger and he once again appeared for the last time. Before turning to a snowflake after that one last attack. An Juehua didn"t know how to explain the things to his Uncle An. She hasn"t seen a match but he knew from the expressions of the adults within her in the prison that his Uncle An"s soul fragment suffered badly all these years.
An Juehua honestly replied, "I"m sorry Uncle Ye... I don"t know much about that."
Xia Jieye"s crimson eyes almost flared with anger but instantly calmed down seeing the children"s innocent gaze on him and moved his gaze to the elders among the crowd. Everyone could feel the murderous aura emitted by Xia Jieye at this moment. Even Gui Xiajun who just finished his task of cleaning up the guards stayed silent at this moment.
Silence~
"No. One. Knows?"asked Xia Jieye, his cold expression and tone showing his current mood.
It was a time that the eldest among the prisoners approached Xia Jieye with fear in his eyes. He kneeled in front of Xia Jieye while begging for their lives to be spared.
"Venerable Lord. Please calm down your anger. This old man had seen more of what happened in the past and is willing to let the Esteemed Lord look through this old man"s memories for the Lord"s use." said the eldest prisoner among the crowd. This old man is one of the elders that used to serve Hei Mo and he is also one of his sworn brothers. He is a Great Granduncle of An Juehua because of his relationship with the former patriarch.
An Juehua worriedly calls, "Great Granduncle!?"
"That will do. Stand up and let me check it," said Xia Jieye.
The old cultivator stand up as he was told but didn"t dare to meet Xia Jieye"s eyes. This man is an infamous Evil G.o.d that most old G.o.ds feared with their whole beings. Xia Jieye reached out his free hand and touch the old man"s forehead. He checked through his memories of the past and saw the past figure of his wife"s soul fragment within the memory.
The cruel torture his wife"s soul had suffered is almost inhumane but Hei Anjing never once cried out in pain and couldn"t fight back as the chains on him were something that could restrain souls. These b.a.s.t.a.r.ds even use h.e.l.l flames to burn their wife"s souls, thankfully the h.e.l.l flames from the Ye Gui race are not of good quality, just an imitation. The real h.e.l.l flames are in his possession after all. That was something Ye Xiajie was born with.
As if a broken doll Hei Anjing let the people of the Ye Gui race torture his soul by any means. They used all tools or props that could touch the soul directly and hurt him more every single day. The others tried to beg them to stop but they were powerless in this situation. Among the torturers, the one who enjoyed hurting his wife"s soul is someone extremely familiar. It was none other than that second wife of Ye Mo whom they had captured.
"Those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds~"
Xia Jieye"s eye turned fierce and crazy at the scene he had witnessed. Though he knew that the tolerance of pain the Mo Bloodline have is extremely high, it doesn"t mean that his wife"s souk fragment doesn"t feel pain. It just0 that he was so proud and fearless that he would never let his torturers hear a sound of agony from him and so he remained silent in absolute despair.
If not for the little girl, An Juehua who saved him before he completely broke, Xia Jieye would not be surprised to see his materialized soul fragment remaining. Xia Jieye almost went insane in anger. The whole world showed as if it was about to explode. The cracks on the land widen and spread all over the abandoned star. Gui Xiajun knows that his elder brother finally lost it when the darkness surrounding the whole world trembles as if portraying his anger.
The world was suffering from Xia Jieye"s overbearing rage and the world collapsed under the pressure of his aura. There was panic and screams in his surroundings but as if he couldn"t see him, Xia Jieye turned a blind eye to them. Only Gui Xiajun tried his best to gather everyone when he saw his brother go insane.
AAAAAHHHH~
NO! SAVE ME!
BE CAREFUL! AVOID THE WALLS.
"s.h.i.t! Big brother, calm down! d.a.m.n! He couldn"t hear me anymore!!" said Gui Xiajun as he ordered the rest, "Go above ground and gather. I will make a Teleportation Array!!"
An Juehua hugged Xia Jieye"s thigh. She is too small to even reach his uncle"s waist and had no other choice but to hug his leg instead.
"Uncle Ye. Stop. Stop!! Wuwuwu~ don"t go crazy! Uncle Ye... Boohoo~" said An Juehua in tears.
Seeing An Juehua crying, the other children also started crying. The shaking of their surroundings made them panic and seeing their elders shouting in fear and running around like headless flies made them fearful. They"ve never expected that the hero who had saved them just now suddenly becomes scary as right now.
Xia Jieye"s eyes were bloodshot in rage, the scene he had witnessed was too heartbreaking as the person tortured in that situation happened to be the man whom he loves the most. He wanted to get crazy. The crazier the better. This world that harmed his wife doesn"t need to exist; it is better if it disappeared for eternity.
But at the last moment when the world was about to be destroyed within his grasp, Hei Anjing"s figure materialized from the snowflake Xia Jieye is holding, his soul state is too transparent that it was hard to see his figure. But Xia Jieye knew this is his wife.
"Little Jing"er?" calls Xia Jieye whose mad state slowly calmed down at the face of his beloved.
Hei Anjing smiled at him and kissed his lips.
His last words are, "Calm down my love. I"m okay. Let me sleep within you for a bit."
Then the figure of his Hei Anjing once again faded and it only lasted for a few seconds. But that split moment was enough to bring back Xia Jieye"s reason. All others had seen was a small white orb floating before Xia Jieye as it entered his body and disappeared into it.
"Baby!?" calls Xia Jieye wanting to hug but the figure completely faded before his eyes rendering him endless sadness and guilt.