I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon novel Chapter 1425

Chapter 1425: Chapter 553: Chen Mo Manifests Divinity, Slaying the Dragon to Ascend!

Zhu Jiuyou came back to her senses, the look she cast at Chen Mo filled with complicated emotion.

She naturally didn’t believe any crap about a "crooked swing" or the like; it was obvious Chen Mo was deliberately letting her go.

"You’d better think this through. Back when I ruled over Jiu Zhou, the Human Race did not have an easy time of it. Now is the perfect chance to completely get rid of me. If you go soft for a moment and let a dragon back into the sea, the future trouble will be endless!"

Chen Mo frowned at her words.

Why did it feel like this fellow was practically hoping to die by his hand?

In truth he wasn’t being soft‑hearted; this was a decision made after weighing pros and cons.

After breaking through to the "Ascension" realm, he’d gained a clearer understanding of Dragon Clan inheritance. Within the True Dragon bloodline, there were not only Cultivation Methods, Divine Skills, and fragmented memories, but also remnants of Cause and Effect.

In other words, so long as even a single strand of Zhu Jiuyou’s bloodline remained in this world, her existence could never be completely erased.

Leaving aside whether, at this very moment, Chen Mo even possessed the ability to kill her; even if he did succeed, at some point in the future she might still follow the river of time and descend upon the world once more.

This was the terror of "No End."

Rather than that, it would be better to maintain the current situation.

Zhu Jiuyou was under the suppression of the Heavenly Dao and could only hide away in some isolated plane to recuperate.

It would take at least several hundred years for her to possibly recover her Primordial Qi; by then Chen Mo would long since have proven the Dao and transcended. At the very least, holding her in check would no longer be any difficulty.

On one side was an unpredictable variable; on the other, a stable, controllable constant. No matter how you looked at it, the former carried far greater risk.

But this sort of thing was something Chen Mo naturally couldn’t say out loud. After thinking briefly, he found himself a dignified excuse. "Zhu Wujiang is now my ally and even guided me back to Jiu Zhou, and you’re her mother. I can’t exactly kill the donkey after it’s done hauling the millstone, can I?"

"Just like that?" Zhu Jiuyou blinked as she asked.

"Or what?" Staring at the cataclysm bearing down from the horizon, Chen Mo’s brows knit tightly as he urged, "We’re out of time. Are you leaving or not?"

"Young people are just too impetuous."

Zhu Jiuyou smiled and stretched out her talons.

Lightning burst from her claw‑tips, shooting into the Heavenly Observation Mirror.

Buzz—

Under the corrosion of the lightning, the bronze Ancient Mirror quaked violently, the black lacquer seal flaking off inch by inch and revealing a bright silver mirror surface upon which light flowed, reflecting all phenomena under the heavens.

"This Heavenly Observation Mirror is condensed from the essence of time and space. It’s both the hub that links the Ten Thousand Realms, and a Heavenly Eye that observes the future."

"Back then I gifted this item to Sikong Che, thinking that if conflict ever broke out between our two races, it could at least leave him a way out. I didn’t expect it would end up becoming the cage that imprisoned me instead..."

"His disposition is vicious yet cowardly and greedy; he feared I’d tampered with the Heavenly Observation Mirror, so he sealed it with a Secret Technique and didn’t dare use it lightly."

"A pity for such a treasure."

Had she really just grown tired of living?!

"Wujian is still only at the ’Fahrenheit Star’ realm and can’t bear my spiritual root, so I might as well give it all to you. Anyway, after you two join together, she’ll be able to benefit from it as well."

Zhu Jiuyou’s voice echoed in his ears, carrying a hint of ease and release. "Chen Mo, thank you. Wujian was right—you really are different from the others..."

"In this lifetime I’m truly too tired; I don’t want to go on dragging things out, so let’s end it here."

"Perhaps, in some far‑off future, you and I will have a chance to meet again."

At the same time, a familiar voice sounded in Zhu Wujiang’s mind: "I have to admit, your eye for people is much better than mine. Before, when I kept despising your impure bloodline, it was more because of my loathing for Sikong Che than any hostility toward you..."

"To be fair, you’re actually very outstanding. I dumped the Demon Clan’s mess into your hands, and for you to have accomplished this much has far exceeded my expectations."

"Chen Mo is a very special man. Even I can’t see through him. Since you’ve chosen this path, then stick to it. I hope you can get what you wish for..."

"Goodbye, my daughter."

With her final words, Zhu Jiuyou’s body erupted in roaring black flames.

Her incomplete body, Divine Soul and all, burned to ash and scattered. That peerless overlord of the Ancient era, who once suppressed all the heavens, fell just like that, without a ripple.

When the flames finally died out, there in the ashes lay a snow‑white, crystalline dragon egg. It looked as translucent as jade, its surface covered in complex patterns.

Then it turned into a phantom and slowly faded away.