1698 Descent
The Empress's death haunted the Dragon Emperor. The words she last spoke, the unknown message left him wondering what it was that she wanted to tell him as she died.
Did she want to tell him that she loved him? Did she want to curse him? What was it that she said? He didn't know, and it haunted him.
His wife, the one who had been together with him for more than half of his life, had died without a last word. And she had died saving him.
He cried in the secret chamber in his palace, where he spent his days, claiming that he needed time to heal his body.
The healing had happened long ago. Now, he just stayed there because the silence made him hopeful that his wife's final words would come through.
The Azure Dragon's son, the little white cat, had most likely survived. Even if it hadn't, he needed to find the corpse at least. He would have to soon give command for some of his people to go look for them.
'The White Tiger…' the words still taunted him. Even after all this time, how was that one single prophecy coming after him time and time again? Had he not had enough of it by now?
He remembered what the White Cat had told him the last time he had seen her. She was the daughter of the Lion Leader of the Beast Paradise. Which meant her mother had the White Tiger's bloodline.
He had to do something about that.
That very night, the Azure Dragon left for the Beast Paradise and met up with the leader of the Lion Colony, Shi Guyong. His wife was indeed a White Cat.
After a few questions about where she had come from, the Dragon Emperor found out that she had been married off here 5 thousand years ago, and she was the daughter of the White Tiger who had died back then.
Shock filled him for a while, overtaken by rage and anger. There had been someone with White Tiger's bloodline living right here and he hadn't known about it.
Without waiting, he attacked the two.
The Dragon Emperor had no reason to fight the leader, but since the leader wanted to protect his wife, he was forced to kill him first and then go kill the White Cat.
The fight was a difficult one, but thankfully the Dragon Emperor had the foresight to set up a formation to hide the auras. Once he killed the two beasts, he made his way to the other beasts to gather them.
Once they were gathered, he threatened them and gave simple instructions.
The Beast Paradise was to close off for a thousand years and no human was to go in and out of the place in any way. Only those with the authority of the Dragon Emperor could be allowed to enter, and even then they had to be placed in scrutiny.
The reason why the beasts closed off their land was never made public and instead a rumor was spread that it was because the players had killed too many of the beasts, prompting them to take desperate measures.
Once the Dragon Emperor returned to his palace, he felt less like he needed to dwell on his wife's death and that it was time to give her a proper funeral.
However, before he could prepare for the funeral, he had been notified of a rather bad news.
Yan Yating and many of the soldiers he had taken to the Azure Dragon's realm recently had defected from the army and had gone into hiding. The news of it was spreading through the legion quite quickly.
The Dragon Emperor forced the rumors dead and then went to search for those runaway soldiers. He spent weeks searching for them but did not find them.
The Dragon Emperor didn't bother that most of them were gone, but Yan Yating was the war leader. Without him, the army would lose one of its 3 heads, perhaps the most important one.
Unfortunately, the Dragon Emperor had to return home empty-
handed and made preparations for his wife's funeral.
His two sons were back in the palace when the funeral procedures were done. The both of them believed that their mother had died while trying to ascend to the Immortal realm. What would they say if they knew the truth?
The Dragon Emperor felt alone after the funeral procedures were completed. As if there was nothing more to live any longer. He felt as though what kept him tied to this world was now gone.
The only thing he felt he had left now was to prepare to leave for the Immortal realm himself.
But before that, he needed to be as strong as he could. He could think of one thing.
The Azure Dragon's half-charred corpse was still inside the secret realm that was now blocked off by both humans and beasts. The dragon's body would still hold the Soul Space, which the Dragon Emperor could cut through to gain the treasures he held.
Any little thing could be a big help to the Dragon Emperor.
And for that, he needed the Ivory sword.
He called over his son to have a little talk, to tell him that he needed his sword, but Long Huan seemed to have seen something in him. His second son had recognized that he had changed.
Instead of returning with the sword, he had run off.
The Dragon Emperor hastily sent some of the legionnaires to go after him and bring him back. He didn't even care if his son was back at all. The prophecy always said one of them would leave him anyway. He only wanted the sword back.
But the news came back instead that there was a woman with him who had defeated everyone.
The Dragon Emperor was surprised by the news. Instead of letting the legionnaires send reinforcement, he went along himself.
The woman he saw there was too young to even be called a woman. She was still just a girl, and yet somehow was so very powerful. Her cultivation base had already reached the peak of the Saint realm, although the Dragon Emperor could sense some instability in her aura.
She protected his son, so he fought her to get through to him, but he couldn't get through her at all. For some reason, on just Qi alone, the Dragon Emperor lost.
This young girl had Qi that surpassed him.
The Dragon Emperor feared for his life as he knew if he continued this any longer, he would die. The young girl was way too strong and he could not beat her at all.
He had to fight along with 3 other people to keep her occupied in the first place.
So, in a last act of desperation, he took out the poison the Azure Dragon had given him and splashed it on her when he found the chance.
The poison immediately killed two of his men, but somehow it didn't kill the young girl. She was hurt, but not killed.
He moved to kill her with one last strike, but before he could do so, someone else stopped him.
The Dragon Emperor couldn't believe it at all when he saw the old man that stopped him.
Even his cook was going against him now.
