The girl beside Ning Xue was slightly taller than her. Her golden robe was tightly wrapped around her body, which was so perfect that it was hard to believe. A golden mask covered her fairy-like face that could overshadow the heavens and earth. She was Ningxue and Oculum's mother, as well as the highest monarch of the entire Godly Mainland — the God Emperor.
The last God Emperor had already passed away ten thousand years ago — that was her father, who had died in a long war with the Demonic Mainland. Gods and demons were natural enemies. Gods were existences that punished demons, and for demons to live in peace, they had to eliminate the existence of gods. Although they didn't fight often, every time they did, it was always so tragic. There was no way for the grievances between the two races to be resolved — at least, if the current situation continued to develop, it would never happen.
"Tomorrow." The God Emperor gave Ningxue a short answer. She raised her wrist lightly and added a mysterious power to the golden light formation. She was a supreme God who had lived for ten thousand years, but her voice was as soft as a teenage girl's. However, the softness of her voice wasn't just any ordinary softness. It was so soft that one's body and heart would go limp.
"Tomorrow … Then … when can we go to the place we want to go?" She looked at the sleeping Oculum and murmured softly as if she was sleep-talking.
The God Emperor's gaze lingered on her beautiful eyes, but he avoided her gaze. He sighed inwardly and said, "I've already promised you that on the day we defeat the Demon Race, you can go wherever you want. It's your freedom."
"... Then, can I let him come here three years later?" Ningxue turned around and looked into his eyes as she asked softly. The Heavenly Well opened once every three years. If she could meet with him once every three years, how blissful would that be?
The God Emperor continued to look forward and didn't meet her gaze. "You shouldn't have fallen in love with a human in the first place. What I've promised you is already my bottom line, "she said with a sigh. Two pink petal-like soft lips were tightly pressed together.
"Bottom line …" Ning Xue shook her head and suddenly smiled sadly. She said the words that had been buried in her heart for a long time and made the God Emperor's heart tremble. "If we can never defeat the Demon Clan, we will never be able to meet him … Now that the Demon Clan has won continuously, my sister and I are your final trump card to defeat the Demon Clan. When the profound God wakes up and defeats the Demon Clan, we will never be able to see him … Never."
The God Emperor turned around and frowned, "Who told you about the Profound God!?"
Other than her, only the Three Sacred Generals Ye Ming, Qian Zhong, and Xue Ye knew about the existence of the profound God. It was impossible for anyone else to know. It was even more impossible for White Lotus and Black Lotus to know, and they couldn't know either.
Ning Xue shook her head and said painfully, "Empress, so you also know how to lie, and you've been lying to us for a long time … Not only do I know about the profound God, I also know the reason why Black Lotus and I exist … We are not your daughters, we were raised by you and will be sacrificed to the profound God when we mature!"
She was suffering from the God Emperor's deception, and she was suffering from the fact that she could never meet him again. The time limit for maturity was up. Right now, she could immediately become a sacrifice to awaken the profound God … She couldn't wait to see Ye Wuchen again … She couldn't wait …
The God Emperor was speechless.
"Empress, do you know why I took the initiative to go to the Tianchen Continent to destroy the invading Demon Clan? Because I knew the truth and only wanted to stay there. Even if I was cursed cruelly, I would never return. Even if that accident didn't happen, Black Lotus and I would still be there … Not only do I know, Black Lotus and I already know. "
The God Emperor raised his head slightly and didn't meet her gaze. He said softly, "Why do you want to know this?"
Her answer was equivalent to a tacit agreement. Originally, they already knew that a hundred years ago, they were the ones who took the initiative to escape … Yes, it was fake, everything was fake. They weren't her daughters, but life forms that she had nurtured with the Light, Life, Darkness, and Death Orbs. She wanted them to sacrifice themselves for the God Realm.
She was the God Emperor, but she was first and foremost a calm woman. She didn't have a heart like a poisonous snake. But as the God Emperor, she had too many helplessness, and many times, she had no other choice. From the initial pure purpose, to the relationship between her and them, which was becoming closer and closer to that of a true mother and daughter relationship, how could she bear to let them become sacrifices at this time? But since she had chosen to start, she had to face the final cruelty. If sacrificing two "daughters" could defeat the Demon Clan and bring long-term peace to the God Realm, she wouldn't hesitate. If she could use her life to replace them, she wouldn't hesitate either.
"White Lotus, I know this is very unfair to you. But I am the God Emperor. When Father entrusted the responsibility of the Godly Mainland to me, I no longer have the right to choose many things. " Since she already knew, the God Emperor didn't deny it. Her gentle voice was filled with sorrow and helplessness, but there was no obvious disappointment. After so many years, she had already gotten used to it.
Ningxue shook her head and said sadly, "There is no such thing as fairness. Mother, I was born because of you. Although you are not my birth mother, you are like my mother. You gave me life, so you have the right to take it back at any time … If my death can really bring peace to the Godly Mainland, then I am willing to give up everything. Mother, when I accidentally found out the truth, I wasn't afraid, nor did I hate you. My sister and I escaped because we couldn't accept this cruel lie. We just wanted to run as far away as possible … "
If this was a hundred years ago, she could calmly say all this. But the current her was too different from the her a hundred years ago. Back then, there were too few things that she was reluctant to part with. But now, she had something that she could never cut off … She spoke, but almost every word was accompanied by tears. She was so afraid of death now, because if she died, she would never see him again … and he would never see her again. If she died, she could return to nothingness without any worries, but he would definitely suffer for her … Thinking of the tears he shed for her, if she could, how she wished that she could live forever, until the day after he died.
But, did she have a choice …
The God Emperor tilted his head, not letting her see his deep helplessness. "Since you know, why do you have to say it? Isn't it better to pretend that you don't know anything …?"
Ningxue walked in front of the God Emperor, slowly lowered her body, and knelt in front of her. The God Emperor looked at her silently, not helping her up. From the moment Ningxue took the initiative to bring up the truth hidden in her heart, she knew that she definitely had something to say.
"The Profound God was created by the seventeenth God Emperor of ancient times after the Southern Emperor and the Northern Emperor died. He disregarded the rules of primal chaos and used a heaven-defying forbidden technique that he had comprehended to create two power puppets. One was white, and the other was black. When the two puppets appeared, the God Emperor also suffered a cruel punishment. After enduring several years of soul-piercing torture, his divine soul dissipated completely. And those two puppets became the greatest secret that only the God Emperor knew … At first, they were perfectly hidden, but they became stronger and stronger as they hid, until they became heaven-defying powerful … Because they were two puppets that were greedy for divine power. After the divine spirits of our Godly Mainland died, all their power would be absorbed by these two puppets. The white one absorbed positive power, and the black one absorbed negative power. Ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, a million years passed … Empress, only you know how powerful those two puppets have become after absorbing power for so many years. "
The God Emperor, "..."
"Puppets are, after all, just puppets. Even if they have heaven-defying power, they can't release it … In order to give them consciousness, the white puppets need the Radiant Light Orb and the Radiant Emerald Orb with the purest and strongest positive power, while the black puppets need the Dark Soul Orb and the Departed Soul Orb with the purest and strongest negative power. These four Sacred Primal Chaos Orbs were already in the God Emperor's hands when he created the black and white puppets, but the Radiant Light Orb, the Radiant Emerald Orb, the Dark Soul Orb, and the Departed Soul Orb were formed the latest, so they never had mature power and consciousness … When their power matured, who knows how many years it would take for them to develop their own consciousness … So, Empress, you used their power as a source and supplemented it with your own power to create bodies with consciousness … That's how my sister and I were born … "
Her body was formed from the Radiant Light Orb, which contained the purest and strongest light energy, and the Radiant Emerald Orb, which contained the strongest life energy, under the guidance of the God Emperor's power. Because of the existence of the powerful life energy, she was formed far earlier than Hei Teng, so she was the elder sister and Hei Teng the younger sister … A pair of sisters with different bloodlines but the same fate.
"Where did you learn all this from?" The God Emperor was finally moved. These were all secrets that only the God Emperors of each generation would know. In order to prevent the black and white puppets from being destroyed, no one would know about them while they were still very weak. Later on, when the black and white puppets' power grew to a terrifying level, and no barrier could stop their power from leaking out, the Three Sacred Generals Ye Ming, Qian Zhong, and Xue Ye finally sensed it. It was then that they knew that the God Realm had been hiding such a terrifying and catastrophic "weapon" all along. The existence of these two "weapons" became a taboo topic. They were sure that the enormous power was enough to destroy the entire God Realm, and if it was used against the Demonic Continent, not even a group of demons would be able to stop it.
However, the existence of this heaven defying power was also a double-edged sword. They had to wait for Hei Teng and Hei Teng's consciousness to mature. Otherwise, if the Profound God went berserk because of the instability of their consciousness, the God Continent would be the first to suffer.
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