Badass Celestial Emperor Returns!

(99) The Past

All onlookers gasped for air when Zi Yan Yue fell. Zi Yingjun suddenly held her hand and pulled her upwards. He quickly steadied himself by standing with Zi Yan Yue in his arms. Zi Yan Yue was still in a state of shock. She thought she will really fall down. Her tears didn't stop falling as she cried like a child. Zi Yingjun rubbed her back. His face was grim, obviously portraying how he feels. He betrayed himself! What exactly did he just do?! He could have let her fall and take the Xing Stone without anyone knowing! Yet, yet, he saved her?!

Zi Yingjun opened his other palm where the broken necklace lies. The Xing Stone gleamed and he froze in daze.

The sky was dark, thunders and lightnings completely portrayed a powerful existence's wrath. Zi Clan was shed in a bloodbath. A girl in her seventeenth age was lying down the ashes. She wore a ragged purple robe and her pale skin is full of bruise. Zi Xian coughed after waking. Just on time, a man in black robes appeared in front of her. He is holding an infant that was strangely silent even if chaos is around them.

"Where's the necklace?" Ye Huai coldly asked. The infant glanced at the almost lifeless Zi Xian. It have a pair of beautiful purple eyes full of innocence and indifference. The infant suddenly squirmed. Ye Huai furrowed his brows and held the boy. Its chubby small hands reached out to Zi Xian's direction before smiling sweetly.

"Do you have to go this far...?" Zi Xian coughed out blood. She have her head lowered but her hands were clenched tightly. Blood drew out because of her nails digging in her palm. "Do you have to do this?! You promised me, Ye Huai! You told me you will not kill us if I give birth to your damned child!"

Ye Huai's eyes flashed a sharp light. He knelt down to be on the same stance as her. "Damned? Is that how you see Zi Yingjun?" a cruel smirk appeared on his face. Ye Huai completely mirrored how Zi Yingjun looks, except for his frosty grey eyes. "I believe the Xing Stone had shown you his future. Even if you curse him to death, he's still your son. The only person who can revive you."

"Ye Huai! You're a demon! Kill him at once! Kill him!" Zi Xian stood up and raised a dagger to the infant. Ye Huai wouldn't let her. He just shot a look and her wrist broke. Zi Xian fell down, writhing in agony. She completely regretted it. Regretting that she made a deal with a monster. Zi Xian bit her lip. She weakly looked at the innocent infant, smiling while enjoying his father's warmth. An image flashed in her head. It was full of chaos, death, bloodshed. All because she gave birth to a devil.

"The Xing Stone, give it or do I have to kill you again?" Ye Huai demanded. Zi Xian threw a necklace near a flame.

"Ye Huai... I could have accepted him if he is a normal child." she met the infant's purple eyes. It wasn't full of cruelty but ignorance. But in the future, she knew it will be filled with evil.

"Ma... Mama." it spoke slowly but clearly. Zi Xian's irises shrunk. She covered her mouth and cried. Zi Yingjun is her son, no matter what she does, she will never change that.

"As agreed. I will revive everyone again. However, you should die. I cant risk letting you watch over him." he can tell that if he leaves Zi Yingjun in Zi Xian's hands, there is a chance Zi Yingjun will not become a demonic cultivator that he is expecting.

Zi Xian closed her eyes and awaited for her death. She used the Xing Stone and her fate was sealed. Her ancestors had warned her before. If she accessed it, her lover will kill her. Ye Huai is the only man she loved. And before the last drop of her feelings disappeared, Ye Huai personally stabbed her heart. The place changed. Da Long Mountain that has been burnt to ashes became lively again.

Each clan residing in the mountain was also revived. Except for Zi Clan, there are elders that died. Zi Ming Yun opened his eyes to see himself severely injured and so was the other elders. He recalled his sister was fighting Ye Huai. However, upon raising his head, Zi Xian is already dead ahead them. Ye Huai stood there in silence. He made the infant wear a necklace with the Xing Stone.

Ye Huai sauntered to Zi Ming Yun's direction. He healed Zi Ming Yun's injuries with a wave of his hand.

"Zi Xian is dead and I do not wish to bring Zi Yingjun with me. Take care of him." Ye Huai indifferently said. Zi Ming Yun did not move and thought of fighting Ye Huai when a hand stopped him.

"Understood." it was Zi Mingde who answered Ye Huai. He took Zi Yingjun and stared at the infant. "He doesn't resemble her."

Ye Huai said nothing. He turned his back and a dragon descended the darkened sky. Ye Huai passed through Zi Xian's corpse but he paused. After pondering, he went back and took her body.

"At least, you should see how he burns the world." Ye Huai muttered and stepped on the dragon's head with Zi Xian's lifeless body in his arms. "You only have to wait."

Zi Ming Yun's face darkened. He gazed at Zi Yingjun as Zi Mingde held him in daze. Suddenly, Zi Ming Yun took the necklace.

"Where's your wife?" Zi Ming Yun asked forcefully.

"Cousin, what are you planning?" Zi Mingde frowned.

"Either the child in Zi Yanfan is a girl or boy, he or she will have the rights to inherit all of Zi Xian's possessions. That child you are holding is a menace! He doesn't deserve to live properly like a young master!"

"Cousin, Ye Huai entrusted your nephew to you. You cant abandon him or Ye Huai will return and repeat what he did. Xian'er also loves her son, you cant maltreat him." Zi Mingde persuaded without knowing that their memories were changed by Ye Huai after reviving them. Thus, they thought Zi Xian loves Zi Yingjun, that Ye Huai didn't kill them before, nor the destruction of Da Long Mountain.