Chapter 509: 509: Meeting Xuehua
After Shen Jueyang had forced Yue Xuexia to take a nap, he went out of the guest room where he met the Grand Elder of the Snow Clan. His name is Xie Houyan.
Shen Jueyang was shocked with what he heard, "Split Souls. Unable to reach beyond Huashen Realm. Are you telling the truth? No! How can her soul be split?"
"I am not lying, your majesty. You have seen her reaction to the Soul Token!? Even though she tried to hide it and even though her pain resistance is undeniably too powerful, she still groans in pain. That means there is a problem in her soul."
"If your majesty is worried you can check her soul, however, your majesty will be defenseless. From how I see it, her highness’ soul is the purest kind and it has the attributes of yin and yang. Moreover, it might be a primordial one," said the Grand Elder, Xia Houyan.
He added, "If the Soul Hall saw through her soul, they would definitely take her away and revere her as their Goddess. She had the ability to become the Goddess of Shura, even though she is already the Goddess of the Moon."
As expected, the face of the Immortal Sun Emperor turned serious when the Shura God was mentioned. This is after all an evil god who rules blood and massacre. A god that was revered by the demonic cultivators and beings. They are well-known for their strength to control blood and how they control their madness as power. But most of these beings had gone insane and were killed by their loved ones.
Shen Jueyang mumbles, "Why does it have to be Shura of all things? She is the Goddess of the Moon known for tranquility. How can she also be compatible with Shura?"
"Your Majesty, if there isn’t something else, I would like to leave," said the Grand Elder, Xie Houyan.
The Immortal Sun Emperor said, "Stay. Without the protection of your Soul Token those at the Soul Hall must have found your location. Even if you leave the Snow Clan now, they wouldn’t be spared."
Xie Houyan grits his teeth as if he already knew that. However, he still believes that the Soul Hall will not be interested in the descendants of a mere Ice Phoenix.
As if reading his thoughts, Shen Jueyang said, "They will definitely not ignore the descendants of an Ice Phoenix. With the fall of most mythical beings in the Immortal World, this clan’s bloodline can be considered a good resource, especially your son and that princess of Hidden Tan Clan."
"You should be ready to move your whole clan,"
When Shen Jueyang said these words, he was no longer looking at the Grand Elder but behind him where the Supreme Elder had suddenly appeared.
The Supreme elder lowered her head in the presence of the Immortal Sun Emperor and said, "I will gather the elders and speak to them about this situation. Though this old lady doesn’t know what Soul Hall means?"
"About it, your husband will know more than I do. He used to be a member of that place after all. As for the treatment of the injured ones, it will only resume after Xue’er has woken up. You can only wait," said Shen Jueyang before re-entering the guest room to watch over Yue Xuexia.
After he had gone inside, the Supreme Elder had approached her husband and said, "Don’t worry. Even if only I and Ren’er leave with you, I am ready to accompany you until the end."
"It’s my fault. I am a mere prisoner of the Soul Hall that was exiled to this star. Who would have thought that the so-called Exiled Star is not a Prison Star as what we know but a paradise with living beings in it. If I am not in a prison our son wouldn’t have suffered so much in this place and would have grown up in the Immortal World instead."
"But if I had not fallen here, I wouldn’t have met you or have Ren’er. I don’t hate the tranquility of this star, but because of me you and your clan have been placed in danger. All I want is to save our son."
"It’s alright. We can talk about what should be done with the rest of the clan. When I brought you home with me that time and told you that I will become your family, it wasn’t a lie. We will stand by your side until the end," the Supreme Elder of the Snow Clan said.
A few elders who had come with the supreme elder had overheard the conversation between the Supreme Elder and their Grand Elder. No one had expected that their Grand Elder is someone from the Immortal World nor did they know that the star they are in is known as the Exiled or Prison Star. What an ominous name!
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Back inside the guest room...
Shen Jueyang took a seat beside the bed where Yue Xuexia was resting. She stared at her sleeping figure with a serious look. He had never heard anything about the Moo Empress’ soul being split. Neither did the Immortal Moon Palace tell him anything.
"Is this the real reason why the Moon Palace didn’t want to accept my proposal before?" Shen Jueyang mumbles.
Sigh~
"Actually, I had no right to complain. I had never treated your former self well enough and ignored your feelings. Is that why you are not willing to give me a chance to love you? Even so I am not willing to give up. Your missing heart. Whatever seal the heavens had placed on you. I will definitely remove it!"
"Even if this lifetime was spent, in my next life and the life after that, I will definitely find you again and love you the same way. This is my vow to myself."
The Immortal Sun Emperor decided to check on the situation of Yue Xuexia’s soul and plans to enter her soul domain. Even though he knows the danger of it, he is willing to bear it all for her.
He stood up, lowered his head as he touched her forehead with his closed eyes as he tried to enter her soul domain. Shen Jueyang chose to enter her soul domain only to be welcomed by a garden of flowers and a pavilion with Two Moons in the night sky. In the pavilion, he saw Yue Xuexia standing watching the evening sky which now had surges of thunder, lightning and dark clouds in it.
Shen Jueyang was excited by such a scene and immediately approached her. After reaching the pavilion what was welcome wasn’t the tranquil silver eyes of Yue Xuexia but instead a pair of cold eyes almost as if she wanted him dead.
"Xue’er!" He calls.
The Yue Xuexia in front of him walks towards him with those pair of cold eyes. Suddenly, he felt something stabbed through him, feeling cold and all. He didn’t expect Yue Xuexia to harm him for no reason.
He still didn’t believe that his Xue’er hates him this much, "Xue’er?"
"You are intimately calling her Xue’er when you didn’t even want to utter this Empress’s name, much less look at me straight to my eyes like this. Your Majesty, I have always wondered why you never look at me. Maybe because you hate me after all."
Yue Xuexia before Shen Jueyang started crying as the knife made of ice she had used to stab him had disappeared. That was nothing but a real illusion that even the Immortal Sun Emperor didn’t notice it was fake. It was only after observing the Yue Xuexia before him that Shen Jueyang recognized who this woman was.
She might have the same face as Yue Xuexia but she isn’t the Xue’er that he met in the Exiled Star but the Moon Goddess whom he had married and was called as the Moon Empress of his Immortal Sun Empire.
He finally called the name he had almost never uttered before, "Yue Xuehua?"
"Haha~ you call her Xue’er but when it comes to me it’s Yue Xuehua. As expected, you treat Xia’er differently. But... You are unlucky. Xia’er had sealed her heart. If you want her to accept your love you must break the seal. Well~ it depends whether you can move her heart or not."
"I will say this honestly. In her eyes, you are not even better than your clone body, taiyang. At least she treats that boy as her younger brother but you as just a mere acquaintance, not even a friend. For Xia’er, it is weird to be friends with those who loved her. After all, she had no intention of entertaining such an emotion she couldn’t understand~" Yue Xuehua said.
Shen Jueyang was getting annoyed but didn’t retort at the woman in front of him. After all, this is the person he owes his life to. Meanwhile, seeing that the Immortal Sun Emperor is not reacting to her taunts, Yue Xuehua stopped doing so. With a wave of her hand, a table with Chinese chess appeared.
Yue Xuehua gestures for him to sit on the stone chair as she takes the opposite seat.
"Take a seat. Every time you win against me I shall answer your question."
Upon hearing this Shen Jueyang finally took his seat. With Chinese chess in between the two of them, they’ve started playing it. However, for Shen Jueyang, he now believes that Yue Xuexia’s soul is indeed split. If not, Yue Xuehua a part of her past will not appear in her soul domain.