Chapter 695: Chapter 124 The First Strand of Memory Awakening_2
So, being as astute as Mu Qingyan, she immediately sealed off part of her memory while exhibiting no signs of abnormality, even feigning that her heart demons hadn’t been resolved.
Not only that, for Zhou Yan’s sake, Mu Qingyan, who normally disdained scheming against others, began to employ her own strategies.
"Father, I did it on purpose. Because I need to slay my heart demons and achieve a true perfect Soul Transformation. My heart demon is Zhou Yan, and for Zhou Yan to grow, he must seize the Life Soul.
Now I deliberately show abnormalities, pretending that my heart demon had been resolved, deceiving Ping’er to gain her trust, while also feigning closeness with Zhou Yan to make him reveal the Secret Technique of the Life Soul. Once I obtain the true method, I will immediately kill Zhou Yan, obliterate Ping’er, refine the Life Soul, destroy my heart demon, and in one fell swoop, reach the peak, assault the nine-star position, and fulfill the requirements of becoming a Second Transition Sword God."
Mu Qingyan’s pretty face was cold as ice, she said coldly.
"Uh? Good, good, good planning! You never scheme against others, with this, you can maximize the benefits. Also, with your unparalleled charm, you will definitely succeed perfectly!"
The Netherworld Palace Master was taken aback, then very excited.
He had always hoped Mu Qingyan would use her intelligence to gain advantages for herself, but she had always disdained to do so; this time, affected by changes in Heavenly Soul Mountain, she immediately resorted to unscrupulous means in pursuit of power, truly a great improvement, fitting the cruel survival rules of this plane!
The Netherworld Palace Master also let out a sigh of relief.
However, as he relaxed, a blood mist above his head quietly disappeared, drifting away and vanishing.
Mu Qingyan was extremely sensitive, having already noticed, but she suppressed all emotions, energy fluctuations, as if sensing nothing, as if completely unaware.
Even in her mind, she didn’t think about the scene she had sensed, as if genuinely oblivious.
After a long while, once the Netherworld Palace Master had left satisfied, Mu Qingyan, as if struck by Sudden Enlightenment, began to cultivate.
However, during cultivation, within her Soul Sea, she then formed a Divine Sense Body and murmured to herself, "Father, has it already been infiltrated? The Evil Soul will surely not return, so it must be the Jiang family, or perhaps the Jiang family trying to please the real higher-ups, and thus currying favor with the Blood Barbarian Clan of the Ancient Witch Demon lineage. If so, my husband Zhou Yan might be constantly monitored by the Blood Qi, just like the demon heart of an Evil Soul, omnipresent.
Then my husband is even more in danger. No, I must find a way to let Zhou Yan retrieve the Life Soul while I’m in a ’normal’ state, and at the same time... clear myself of any suspicion regarding my awakened memories.
What should I do then? Hmm, yes, like this... yes, this will work, although by doing this, my husband might even misunderstand me, but as long as he grows stronger, no matter how tragic my end, what does it matter? I can never repay the heavy love given by my husband, so even if I have to go through a mountain of knives or a sea of flames, I must do this!"
Mu Qingyan murmured to herself, and immediately set the plan in her Soul Sea to offer up the ’Life Soul.’
...
The Starry Sky Gate on Purgatory Ancestor Star is a gate.
It is a gate formed of an order combination, a thousand feet tall with thunderous shackles.
It is an extremely terrifying gate.
This gate could not possibly be penetrated by any life form, because when Zhou Yan saw it, he felt more terrified than when he saw the horrifying space inside the Purple Flame.
But Divine Seat, carrying Zhou Yan, easily passed through it.
The Void Law suddenly changed, and at that moment, Zhou Yan felt a Power of Destruction suddenly descending, as if it was about to crush everything about him.
It was a terrifying power.
If he had a physical body, Zhou Yan knew not only would his body perish, but his Soul would also be completely crushed and killed.
Fortunately, he was in a state of being a Void Spirit and wrapped by Divine Seat, making him immune to the impact of this power, only sensing its terror.
Divine Seat suddenly pierced through the Starry Sky Gate directly towards a huge Black Tower that spanned across Ten Thousand Realms.
That was the Time-Space Soul-locking Tower! Also known as the ’Reincarnation Tower’, it intersected the True God Plane and Hell Plane among nine other planes, indeed a truly mysterious place.
Here, boundless Laws proliferated, with various encounters and life-and-death opportunities, intertwining space-time disorder, and Reincarnation Trace, and even the formation of Laws, Chaos Tai Chu, and other strange transformations.
Yet, this place was not easy to enter.
The Divine Seat suddenly disappeared like a beam of aurora that fiercely thrust Zhou Yan into the Black Tower.
Zhou Yan, as if sucked in by a formidable force, suddenly rushed into the Black Tower.
But the world inside the Black Tower instantly changed, becoming somewhat familiar to Zhou Yan!
And at that moment, Zhou Yan was propelled by a force into the brow of a man clad in pure white, foolishly appearing simple.
At that moment, it was as though Zhou Yan faced the Heavenly Tribulation himself, as the Five Decays of Heaven and Man suddenly befell him, and he abruptly felt bound inside a narrow prison.
"What—what is going on?"
Zhou Yan felt a chill in his heart, thinking he had been tricked again.
But in the next moment, with a change in the Void, the silly man in white scholarly robe smiled foolishly. Looking forward through the somewhat hazy visibility, he saw a woman in a fluttering, celestial red dress and said, "Lianqing, I, I really like you."
He spoke and suddenly burst into laughter with ’yo-he,’ ’yo-he,’ drooling heavily.
"Lee Sha, you wastrel, brain-damaged, you also want to be with me? Don’t you see your pathetic state, can you compare to the Heavenly Spirit Xiao Tianlun? I’m not looking down on you, but if you’re capable, go to the Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain yourself, achieve the Ancient Thunderflame Sword Body, then come back to marry me!"
A woman with a curvy figure and a sacred aura coldly sneered.
"Yo-he, yo-he."
The young man in the white scholarly robe laughed, extremely happy.
...
"Is this... have I returned to three thousand years ago? No, I can’t control this fool’s body, can’t interfere, I can only watch..."
Zhou Yan felt heaviness in his heart and immediately analyzed.
The next moment, his Soul vibrated, the first memory of the Lei Yan King awakening.
"True Void Heavenly Prohibition."
"My own True Void Heavenly Prohibition, recalled the past life, thus creating an experience of life for me to watch. Now, as Zhou Yan, I can observe all of Lee Sha’s experiences entering the Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain, picking up my own real life memories, rewatching this life-changing experience."
"But I am powerless to intervene, only able to watch, watch as the tragedy starts again, watching all the changes unfold."
"In the True Void Heavenly Prohibition, I also can’t change anything. Here, I am but a Void Spirit, even if I intervene, I can’t touch those already destined experiences. I appear, reach out but can’t touch them, can’t interfere with them. My implementation of the Law would only affect the stability of True Void Heavenly Prohibition itself, and it won’t change anything, just like watching the Sword Illusion Realm..."
"I am a passerby, yet this is all my experience. But... I must personally watch, to once again go through such a memory empowerment and cleansing."
Zhou Yan murmured to himself.