Chapter 69

  The place where Empress Dowager Yin Yue resides is the most remote and darkest place in the entire Yin Yue Imperial Court - the Moon Flower Palace!

  The Moon Flower Temple is located in the Demon Forest of the Yin Yue Imperial Court. To reach the Moon Flower Temple, one must cross the entire Demon Forest to arrive; and the reason why the Demon Forest is called the Demon Forest is because there is a Food Demon Tree that has been growing for unknown years inside the Demon Forest!

  The Food Devil Tree, as its name suggests, relies solely on devouring demonic energy to survive. It is said that the predecessor of this Food Devil Tree was the Blood-Drinking Tree from the human world; because the Blood-Drinking Tree was transplanted into the demon world and mutated into a Food Devil Tree.

  The Bloodwood Tree is said to be a tree that has been extinct for many years and can only be heard of in legends. It not only grows in extremely yin places, but also has a similar existence to the carnivorous plant. It can absorb the fresh blood of passing creatures and feed on it. As a result, its branches are blood-red, and it is said that if any part of the Bloodwood Tree is injured, it will bleed fresh blood. Therefore, it also has another name called Blood Tree!

  The Bloodwood Tree was originally a thing of utmost yin and evil, but if it could be transformed through the use of talismans and refinement, then it would become an excellent tool for subduing evil. When encountering evil, it would calm; when encountering spirits, it would stir. It is said that the Bloodwood Sword made from the Bloodwood Tree specifically targets the spirit soul. There is a saying that under the Bloodwood Sword, there are no escaping souls.

  The Blood Tree is extremely difficult to cultivate because it grows by drinking blood. Generally, within a five-mile radius of where the Blood Tree grows, there are no living organisms; because once a living creature accidentally touches the Blood Tree, the Blood Tree will suck its fresh blood dry.

  Moreover, it cannot cut off the supply of fresh blood. Without the nourishment of fresh blood, the Bloodwood Tree will wither and die within three days. The Bloodwood Tree is a delicate and exquisite arbor that requires hundreds of years to mature in order to craft a single Bloodwood Sword.

  However, this Yin Moon Empire is a demon realm. The difference between the Yin Moon Empire and the human world lies in the fact that the Blood-Drinking Trees in the Demon Forest have mutated and are no longer the same as those in the human world.

  Especially this blood-drinking tree growing in the Devil's Forest, is said to have existed before the Yin Moon Dynasty; this Devil's Forest and the blood-drinking tree already existed, in other words, this blood-drinking tree has been around for hundreds of thousands of years; after mutation, the blood-drinking tree no longer absorbs fresh blood, but magic energy!

  Nie Xiaoqian muttered a complaint: "Seventh Brother, Wu Yuan teacher, Xiao Qian really doesn't understand; why does the Queen of Yin Yue want to live alone in the Moon Flower Palace? Especially since the Moon Flower Palace is inside the Devil's Forest."

  It's not just Nie Xiaoqian who doesn't understand, even Mo Jun Qiye is equally perplexed; why did his mother choose to live in the Moon Flower Palace? Jing Wuyuan may be a wise man of the Yin Yue Imperial Court, but this wise man is not an all-powerful being.

  Jing Wuyuan had once divined about this matter, but the divination was so obscure that even Jing Wuyuan himself couldn't understand it; let alone others.

  "Xiao Qian, perhaps she likes the quietness of this Moon Flower Hall after all?" Demon King Qi Ye said a reason that even he himself couldn't believe.

  Hehe...... Do you really like quietness? Maybe?

  However, Nian Xiaqing thought that for so many years, Yin Yue Tai Hou had been living alone in the Moon Flower Palace; there wasn't even a single servant by her side, and the words she wanted to retort with reached her lips but were swallowed back.

  "Hmm... maybe it's really as what Seventh Brother said, that the Empress Dowager Yin Yue likes quietness and that's why she lives alone in the Moonlight Palace?" Nie Xiaoqian thought to herself.

  Jing Wuyuan was more meticulous, and he had been quietly observing everything in the Demon Forest all along: "Holy Lord, I don't know if you've noticed? The demonic energy inside the Demon Forest seems to be getting weaker and weaker?"

  Jing's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, his face full of worry as he spoke to Mo Jun Qi Ye.

  The demonic energy is the foundation of the entire demon clan's survival, to put it bluntly; most of the demonic energy in the Yin Yue Imperial Court comes from the Demon Forest. If the demonic energy within the Demon Forest is indeed decreasing, then this is a pressing matter for the people of the Yin Yue Imperial Court.

  "Unrelated teacher, are you certain?" Mirror Unrelated's words caused the expression on Demon King Qiye's face to change, with a hint of solemnity in his eyes.

  Jing Wuyuan nodded towards Mojun for seven nights: "Holy Lord, rest assured that I have been carefully observing the entire way here; the demonic energy inside the entire Demonic Forest is not only much thinner than before, but also unknown to you, Holy Lord?"

  Jing Wuyuan reminded Mojun Qiye in a sentence: "It seems that all the demonic energy in this demon forest is flying in one direction." Jing Wuyuan's eyes flashed, and there seemed to be another meaning behind his words.

  "Unlikely teacher, you're saying..."

  Mo Jun Qi Ye looked in the direction that Jing Wuyuan had gazed at without any intention, and it was exactly where the Moon Empress lived - the Moonlight Palace!

  Jing Yuanyuan gently shook his head: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's just my subordinate thinking too much; some things are better left unsaid until we see the Empress Dowager."

  Mo Jun Qi Ye and Yin Yue Tai Hou's mother-son relationship was already tense, Mirror Wuyuan didn't want his speculative words to make Mo Jun Qi Ye and Yin Yue Tai Hou's already icy relationship even more complicated and indifferent.

  "Don't worry, Teacher Wu. This Holy Lord knows what to do." Demon Lord Qi Ye also wasn't someone who couldn't see reason clearly; he too knew that continuing to get entangled in this matter would be pointless and wouldn't accomplish anything. It was better to wait until the token was in hand first; then they could deal with the Fantasy Wave Pool incident afterwards.

  "Seventh Night Brother, Teacher Wu Yuan has arrived at the Moon Flower Hall." Nie Xiaoqian walked ahead, unaware of what had happened between Demon King Seventh Night and Mirror Wu Yuan.

  At this moment, a group of people finally passed through the Devil's Forest and arrived outside the Moon Flower Temple; Nie Xiaoqian couldn't help but let out a small cry of joy.

  Yin Yue Tai Hou was lucky to have survived the battle in Honghe Village that year, but she was severely injured by Chi Songzi's sword and although she didn't die, she might as well be dead.

  That year, Chi Songzi's one sword not only turned Yin Yue Tai Hou's cultivation into nothingness, but also severed all the meridians around her body; this sword caused Yin Yue Tai Hou to be paralyzed for over a decade.

  If the other party is an ordinary person, even if he has the ability to sever all the meridians of Yin Yue Tai Hou's body, it would not be difficult for Yin Yue Tai Hou to recover with her own abilities.

  Unfortunately, Akakaze was the number one master of Genpukyou in its heyday, and his sword contained the purest and most powerful aura of Genpukyou; this aura happened to be the natural nemesis of demonic energy, which is why the injuries inflicted on Kurenai Taikou were incurable.

  Yin Yue Tai Hou was originally a very intelligent woman, although she had suffered severe injuries; at the same time, she also experienced the pain of losing her husband and child, but because of hatred, she managed to hold on.

  That's right!

  Mo Jun Qi Ye is not the biological son of Empress Yin Yue, which can also explain why Empress Yin Yue has been indifferent to Mo Jun Qi Ye for so many years.

  At that time in the Red River Valley, Empress Yin Yue was indeed pregnant; however, Chi Songzi's sword not only made Empress Yin Yue a useless person for over a decade, but also caused her to miscarry the already formed fetus in her belly.

  Mo Jun Qi Ye was the infant that Empress Yin Yue brought back from the mortal realm, but aside from Empress Yin Yue herself, no one else in the entire Yin Yue Dynasty knew about this matter.

  That year, Empress Yin Yue found a way to stand up again with the help of Sword Walking on the Edge; this was also why she chose to live in the Moon Flower Palace.

  No one in the Yin Moon Empire knew that Empress Dowager Yin Moon was originally born into a demon tribe; it's just that when she came out to gain experience, she encountered the Demon King Liu Dao of that year, and the two people fell in love and made a lifelong promise.

  For Mo Jun's sake, Liu Dao Yin Yue Tai Hou willingly took the demon pill and converted her own demonic yuan power into demonic energy; chose to live in the Yin Yue Imperial Court from then on.

  Because of the Red River Village's battle, Yin Yue Empress became a useless person without her magic powers. However, this made her recall the demonic tribe's secret manual she had once cultivated; inside was a method for cultivating Xuan Yin's aura.

  This Yin Moon Imperial Court is after all different from the Demon Clan and the Yao Clan. This Yin Moon Empress is indeed a strange person; she actually thought of a way, using the Food Devil Tree to borrow a large amount of demonic energy with the help of the full moon night's Taiyin energy. Then convert all the demonic energy into Taiyin demonic energy, so that she can cultivate Xuan Yin energy.

  I didn't expect that I would actually succeed in deceiving the Empress Dowager of Yin Yue, but unfortunately, this success came at a great cost; the demonic energy was consumed excessively, especially after the Empress Dowager's Xuan Yin aura finally entered. The entire Demonic Forest's demonic energy has now only ten percent left.

  It was precisely because of this that Mirror Wuyuan didn't notice anything earlier, but the real reason he hadn't discovered yet was; he only suspected that there might be a problem with the seal in the Devil's Forest, which would cause the loss of demonic energy.

  Inside the Moon Flower Palace, Empress Yin absorbed the last wisp of Extreme Yin demonic energy. On a face that had never shown any expression, a smile finally emerged, one that hadn't been seen in over a decade.

  "Haha... Husband, child, you wait, just wait until the Empress's Xuan Yin energy reaches the fourth layer; the Empress will be able to stand up and leave this ghostly place. At that time, the Empress will personally kill Chi Songzi to comfort your spirits in heaven."

  Yin Yue Tai Hou has been able to survive for so long because her greatest wish is to avenge her husband, Mo Jun Liu Dao, and their child who died before birth.

  With a whoosh, a green branch flew in from outside the Moon Flower Palace and nimbly wrapped itself around Empress Yin Yue's wrist.

  "Is that so? You're saying three people have come to the Moon Flower Palace?" The Empress Yin Yue stroked the emerald green branch on her wrist, her expression filled with tenderness; it was as if she were caressing not a branch, but her beloved child. The scene looked strange no matter how one looked at it.

  "Oh! So it's Ben Taohou's son, and also Nie Xiaoqian that little fox and Jing Wuyuan?" The eyes of Yin Yue Taohou became even more gentle.

  Outside the Moon Flower Hall!

  Mo Jun Qi Ye, Jing Wu Yuan and Nie Xiao Qian stood in a neat and respectful manner, but before Mo Jun Qi Ye had even opened his mouth to request an audience, the voice of Yin Yue Tai Hou had already come from inside the Moon Flower Palace.

  "Is it seven nights until my son comes?"