A single lantern illuminated the room with its gentle glow.
"Are you ready?"
On the bed lay a girl of stunning proportions.
She was naked.
A gentle red hue covered her skin; her chest heaved up and down with each breath she took.
Her eyes were glazed, slightly watery, as she looked at the man with a loving gaze.
"Um." A gentle affirmation left her parted cherry lips, giving the man permission to take her maidenhood.
The man smiled.
He softly caressed her stomach and aligned his little brother's to her wet parting entrance.
It gently and smoothly slid into her entrance, the walls parting themselves in welcome to his little brother.
Only the tip had entered when suddenly a crimson-haired girl popped out of thin air, startling both the man and the woman.
Both looked at her in a stunned state.
"Jasmine, what the fuck?! You couldn't voyeur since you've left the pearls, so you decided to physically peek? Damn. I knew you were a pervert but still!"
Jasmine's face instantly turned red. She gritted her teeth before she threw herself on Yun Che, once again stunning him.
"Shut up! This princess has had enough! This princess had to go through all that torture for all those years. This princess finally got her body; she is claiming her reward before leaving!"
"You…" Yun Che's eyes widened at Jasmine's bold action as the cloth hiding her body vanished. "What happened to my tsundere master?! What's the meaning of this—"
His eyes widened once again at the bold action of the crimson-haired girl as he felt his lips locked by her.
She forcefully grabbed his head, making sure he was not able to run away.
"B-brother Yun she—unmgg~!"
Ling'er couldn't complete her sentence as she felt Yun Che's little brother invade her lower lips, causing an electric shock to rise within her body.
'Fuck it! Threesome it is!'
If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
1
'Why is it so noisy outside…'
Lying between Jasmine and Ling'er, Yun Che frowned.
[Clairvoyance]
His senses spread out and instantly covered the whole of Grandwake Clan.
'This…' He raised a brow, and his eyes narrowed slightly. 'What luck. I was going to go after him for the second half of the pearl, but I guess I do not anymore.'
Leaving the bed, a set of robes appeared over his body. In the next instant, he vanished.
He appeared above the Grandwake Clan and stared down at the number of people surrounding it.
There were hundreds of thousands of people surrounding the Grandwake Clan, and they were definitely not here for any good reason.
Especially when Yun Che could feel that the strength of the strongest people below was at least 9th Level of the Sovereign Profound Realm.
'They should be the major sects of this continent. They really saved me the trouble of looking for them personally.'
He already ruled the Sky Profound Continent and the Illusory Demon Realm. The only continent left was the Azure Cloud Continent.
He had planned on taking it over, but now that every major or most major powers have gathered their forces here, it seems that it shouldn't be a problem any longer.
"Hengshan, don't be stupid and hand over Yun Gu. If you do so, we will forget today's matter completely."
"Never!" Hengshan shouted back from within the clan grounds. He angrily looked at the person who spoke and shouted, "Zuo Hanshuo, do you know no shame? You are one of the leaders of the Azure Continent, and yet you show such shameless bandit behavior. If your ancestors saw this, they would strangle you to death."
Zuo Hanshuo's expression soured.
"Very well. I guess you've chosen death."
He did not exchange words with him. He was a billion times stronger than Hengshan. In a world where strength played the most pivotal role, he didn't care about Hengshan's opinion at all.
"Kill them all." He simply ordered his army.
Hengshan's expression instantly crumbled. Bold or not, he was still afraid of Zuo Hanshuo.
But everyone's eyes widened in horror at the next scene.
The army moved and attacked.
But instead of attacking the Grandwake Clan, they started to attack each other!
Blood spilled like there was no tomorrow, and the sky was instantly filled with redness as bodies started to fall on the ground one after another.
Zuo Hanshuo, Duan Heisha, and Mu Yingchan, their expressions turned terrified.
"What the fuck are you people doing?!" They shouted in unison.
This was the blood and sweat of their clans. They had gathered almost all their forces here because of the importance of today's matter.
So seeing them killing each other was the same as witnessing their sects crippling themselves.
No sect master would be able to bear it.
Soon, silence reigned supreme over the place, a scene of hell portrayed on the ground.
The whole mountain range was now showered with crimson blood, bodies littered everywhere.
Petrified, everyone could only stare at the massacre with wide horrified eyes.
And what was even scarier was that no one understood what had just happened. They had simply started to kill themselves out of nowhere until no one was left alive!
"Clap, Clap, Clap!" The sound of clapping felt ear-piercing in the silence.
Everyone turned their gazes towards the clapping youth with the Golden Crow robes.
He whistled.
"Now I see why Aizen felt unbearable. Illusions are really scary."
"Yun Che!" Hengshan's expression instantly brightened. It was as if he saw his savior.
But then remembering the people that were attacking him, it turned grave instead.
"No, you should run! You cannot beat these people!"
In his eyes, like the eyes of a normal civilian or cultivator from the Sky Profound Continent, Sacred Grounds were invincible.
He didn't have any hope that Yun Che would survive against them.
"Aye, father-in-law, at least have some faith in me. You make me sad."
"Are you the one who did this to my people?" Unlike Hengshan, Zuo Hanshuo and the other sect masters glared toward Yun Che with red eyes.
Yun Che smirked.
His reptile golden gaze stared down at them as if staring at clowns.
"And what if I did?"
"Good." Zuo Hanshuo nodded and, in the next instant, he vanished.
He appeared behind Yun Che and punched. The force behind his punch was strong enough to bend the space around it.
Boom
A gigantic explosion occurred, shaking everything within thousands of miles.
The punch was strong enough to easily level a whole empire into dust. Yet once the dust settled, everyone's gaze widened. Instead of finding a gory mess, they found Yun Che standing straight with not even a single scratch on his body, Zuo Hanshuo's fist tightly held within his hand.
"You didn't answer." Yun Che's lips curled up into a cruel smile. "What if I did?"
Zuo Hanshuo's eyes widened.
As a 9th Level Sovereign Profound Realm expert, his mind gave him hundreds of possible answers as to why he couldn't hurt Yun Che, but one stood out among all; he messed up.
Without a second thought, he decided to run away.
But…
"Don't leave so soon now. Since you are here, you might as well hear my proposal."
He couldn't move even an inch with his hand still grabbed by Yun Che.
Finding no alternative, his other hand moved and he served his severed hand.
A surprised expression appeared on Yun Che's face.
"You sure are desperate. Did you see a ghost or something?"
Zuo Hanshuo wanted to scream that seeing a ghost would have been a billion times better than seeing him, but time did not permit his reply.
Hence, once the hand was served, he turned into a shooting star and vanished.
But not even a second had passed before he found himself standing in front of Yun Che again, his severed hand still intact and within the grip of Yun Che, a terrified expression on his face.
"You cannot run from me." Yun Che stared at the petrified expression of Zuo Hanshuo with a gleeful stare. "It is useless. So be a good boy and listen to me; I don't have the patience to stay here for a whole day."
Fear was a marvelous thing.
It allowed people to do things that they would never do normally.
Like how Zuo Hanshuo once again cut his hand off and ran away, just to find himself back at square one.
At this point, a primal fear had been born into his heart as feelings of utter hopelessness like never before filled it.
He looked at Yun Che, and tears started to fall from his eyes.
"P-please, f-forgive… I d-didn't know about you, senior."
"Of course." Yun Che smiled like a saint and replied. "Accept my Soul Imprint, and I'll let everyone here live. I am so generous that I'll even bring the dead people back to life."
'Having a sect with no one but a sect master was useless after all.'
"Soul Imprint?!" Zuo Hanshuo's face turned ugly.
For an apex cultivator like them, receiving a Soul Imprint was the biggest humiliation ever.
They would rather die than become someone else's slave. Sadly, Zuo Hanshuo did not hold such pride in himself. He valued his life more than anything else.
"I accept!"
"Good boy." Yun Che gently patted his cheeks, like someone petting a dog, and turned around.
He looked at Duan Heisha and Mu Yingchan, both of them suddenly felt like their hearts were gripped by a devil.
"And what about you two?"
Both of them looked at each other, a look of determination flashing within their eyes.
Unlike Zuo Hanshuo, they had not witnessed Yun Che's strength.
They were not afraid of him.
They were, after all, peak cultivators themselves.
When had they met someone arrogant enough to make them his slave?
They would rather…
After certain loops…
"We accept."
Illusions were such a fun art, and Yun Che found himself loving it more and more.
He finally understood where the pride and arrogance of Aizen came from.
With powerful enough illusions, a man could feel omnipotent!
The same feeling Yun Che just experienced toying with their lives without even lifting a finger.
He didn't even use force, and everyone was subdued easily.
It was a marvelous thing to witness.
"That's more like it." Yun Che snapped his fingers. In the next instant, the world cracked and was destroyed. As if made of fragile glass, cracks appeared everywhere before small particles started to fall off.
Amazed, the sect masters couldn't utter a word as they found themselves standing at their initial positions with their armies alive behind them.
The only difference being that they could feel Yun Che's Soul Imprint inside them.
They couldn't help but find the air stuck within their lungs.
To think all of it was an illusion! From start to finish, they hadn't moved even a single step.
And everything that had happened was nothing but a massive illusion.
This made them look at Yun Che with terrified gazes.
They didn't understand how Yun Che had pulled it off, nor did they want to understand. They just wanted to leave this place and be as far away from those reptile golden eyes as possible.
2
Yun Che appeared in front of Yun Gu and raised his hand.
"Can I have it?"
"I don't understand." Despite what had just transpired, Yun Gu didn't look fearful as he stared into Yun Che's eyes.
"Sky Poison Pearl. It's mine."
"I cannot." Yun Gu shook his head. "I am glad that you've saved our lives, but I cannot give the Sky Poison Pearl to you. Especially when your hands are stained with blood."
"That's nice and all…" Yun Che smiled. "But I don't remember asking for your opinion, sir."
Yun Gu frowned.
But Yun Che continued.
"Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't have taken it if it didn't belong to me, but it does. You will know it once you bring it out."
Yun Gu remained silent for a second before he brought out the other half of the Sky Poison Pearl.
The moment it appeared, it started to shine. The same happened with the green tattoo behind Yun Che's hand.
Suddenly, another pearl appeared above Yun Che's hand.
"This is…" Yun Gu looked surprised. "So it did belong to you."
Sky Poison Pearl had never shown such a reaction to anyone before.
The fact that it did only meant that it really had some connection with Yun Che.
The next moment, both pearls came close to each other before they merged to become one pearl which then went back inside the green tattoo above Yun Che's hand.
The second-to-last thing on his checklist before leaving this star was completed.
Yun Che looked back at Yun Gu, and after a second of silence, he said.
"Even though I placed my Soul Imprint on them, there is no guarantee that other people won't come after you." He turned his gaze toward Hengshan and added. "Are you willing to move to another continent? I can assure you that no one will hurt you there."
"Another continent?" Hengshan and Yun Gu looked surprised.
This was the first time they had heard about another continent.
"Yeah. Don't worry, I kind of own it, so no one should bother you."
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