Chapter 692: Chapter 122 Brother Lee Ran [2]
The Soul Sea Void, where everything thrived.
This was a chaotic space, narrow and confined, with only a Clear Spring quietly flowing.
When Zhou Yan unlocked the Seal, he plunged into a space blanketed by darkness. However, the darkness lasted only a moment before dissipating, replaced by bright dawn, which filled this Heaven and Earth with vibrant vitality and flourishing energy.
Zhou Yan saw the contours of this world and suddenly realized that this place was his Soul Sea—the Purple Flame Soul Sea.
The Soul Sea was a place only possessed by those in the Divine Realm, yet he was merely in the Sword Void Nine Transformation Realm and already owned a Soul Sea. Although his Soul Sea was to a true Divine-level Expert’s Soul Sea what dust is to the vast universe.
Still, a Soul Sea was a Soul Sea, inferior when compared upward, yet excessive when compared downward.
Zhou Yan stood above his own Soul Sea, his gaze fixed on this expanse of the Soul Sea Land.
Above the Soul Sea floated a Crystal Coffin, which had originally been in the Purple Flame Void but now appeared within the Soul Sea.
In addition to the Crystal Coffin, there were also Holy Artifacts that had been brought from the Yuan Ci Secret Realm and top-level Soul Artifacts that Zhou Yan had refined himself; all were transferred here.
However, at this moment, even the Crystal Coffin and the sleeping Gu Xi inside couldn’t capture Zhou Yan’s attention, because he saw a person, someone he had expected to meet but still felt a mixture of emotions upon seeing.
Master? Brother?
Zhou Yan’s lips moved as he stared at the apparition that bore an uncanny resemblance to his initial appearance, finding himself momentarily unable to speak.
"I am very relieved that you have finally reached this juncture, and your Combat Power is better than I had anticipated," said the apparition above the Soul Sea Void in a tone filled with satisfaction.
"Master... Brother."
Zhou Yan finally spoke, his voice hoarse and weak, even in his Soul state.
"I am truly relieved to see you’ve grown so much."
This apparition seemed like a programmed sequence, speaking autonomously, seemingly indifferent to Zhou Yan’s reactions.
But the more it was so, the more Zhou Yan felt a sense of desolation.
"Firstly, Brother is sorry. When my Martial Arts Cultivation reached its peak, I traveled throughout the Shen Zhou land, seeking ancient inheritances, searching for the legends of the Pre-Qin Qi Refiners, and ultimately found a sword, the Emperor’s Sword—the Xuanyuan Sword."
Lee Ran’s appearance, although only an apparition, was nearly identical to Zhou Yan’s.
At this moment, he no longer kept any secrets, revealing bit by bit everything.
Including his own growth and eventual breakthrough, he narrated everything.
"After the Xuanyuan Sword, I encountered a serendipity, learned the philosophy of the ’Qi Eater God,’ and simultaneously obtained a top-level Divine Pill left by a Pre-Qin Qi Refiner. In order to perfectly consume the Divine Pill, I carried out a Reincarnation Cultivation as described in ancient texts."
"But because of highly concentrated Bloodline and some mistakes, there were flaws when living out the next life, hence reincarnating into one of a set of twins.
I didn’t mind it and immediately started Cultivating. Cultivating before birth was Innate Ability. After a series of Innate Cultivation, I grew up but directly crushed the soul of that twin brother."
"Earth is a land of Dharma Decline, starving of energy, and I had already used up the life resources of the family that raised me, turning their other child into someone with congenital intellectual disability. However, this intellectually disabled brother still lived his life, always considerate, always helping me, his elder brother.
To restore my brother, I ascended to the True God Plane after shattering the Void. Afterwards, I intended for my brother to live out a perfect next life in my way, so he could avoid mediocrity and embark on the path of Cultivation like me.
At that time, amidst hardships, I saved a severely injured Cultivator who was very close to me, calling each other brothers. Knowing my situation and my brother’s congenital incompleteness, he devised a perfect plan, suggesting a perfect Reincarnation.
That Cultivator was Jiang Tianxin. My brother’s reincarnation into the Jiang family was also orchestrated and managed by him and me.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to see through his hidden motives, and though my brother lived out his next life with a perfect soul, the Supreme Soul was instantly extracted, turning him into an abandoned child."
At the same time, the woman used to give birth to my brother, "Li Su Nü," was immediately suppressed.
My brother wasn’t even qualified to take the Jiang family surname, so he had to stick with his original surname or that of his mother, "Li." At the same time, I also faced suppression, and almost all my power was eradicated. However, by good fortune, I survived, sought out traces of my brother’s existence, and found that he had been banished to the Plane Prison, the Nine Origin Universe, and was adopted by the Li Family clan.
Because he lacked the Supreme Soul, throughout my brother’s growth, he remained foolish and clueless, earning him the nickname, ’Lee Sha’...
"Later, after I went into deep sleep, my brother, for reasons unknown, became the fearsome Lei Yan King, but seemed to have lost himself. However, I knew a bit about him having a daughter named ’Yanyan.’
As far as I know, Jiang Tianling, the brother of Jiang Tianxin of the Jiang family, hunted Yanyan because Lei Yan King sought revenge, suppressed Jiang Tianling, and eradicated his cultivation. Somehow, Jiang Tianling rose again with even stronger powers.
At that time, Mu Qingyan, the Wan Jie Divine Woman, was an extremely arrogant woman with an excellent bloodline, self-proclaimed as the number one person of the Netherworld Plane. It was exactly at that time when she, at her peak, was defeated by Lei Yan King. According to the rules of the bet, she had to transform into a maid, using her most precious holy body and pure bloodline to bear Lei Yan King’s offspring.
A divine woman reduced to a reproductive tool for Lei Yan King, her dignity trampled, naturally felt resentment, especially since rumors had it that Lei Yan King felt no affection for her, instead frequently torturing her.
Mu Qingyan gave birth to Yanyan, but out of indignation betrayed Lei Yan King, revealing his secrets and leading Jiang Tianling to him.
Jiang Tianling, unable to defeat Lei Yan King, instead threatened Mu Qingyan and Yanyan, forcing Lei Yan King to kill himself. Shocked, Mu Qingyan acted, suppressed Jiang Tianling, and Lei Yan King eradicated Jiang Tianling’s cultivation. He also erased Mu Qingyan’s painful memories and those of Netherworld Palace Master, averting a major disaster.
Their life seemed stable again, but at some point, Mu Qingyan unwittingly encountered Jiang Tianling, who noticed her amnesia as unusual, provoking Mu Qingyan. Her repressed memories surged back, but she did not recall the kindness from Lei Yan King, only the inhumane abuse and torture from the True Illusion Realm, and thus instilled the Heartless Dao in her daughter Yanyan.
Yanyan, deceived into entering the True God Plane, suppressed and cast all related to Lei Yan King into a Breeding Ground, completing a great feat. Then, Jiang Tianxin intervened to extract half of Yanyan’s nearly perfect soul. Lei Yan King appeared, activated his Mutated Blood, slaughtered widely, and cast Yanyan into the void of the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower to save her, but was instead trapped. It turned out to be a trap set by Mu Qingyan and Jiang Tianxin, just to extract Lei Yan King’s Perfect Supreme Soul.
At that time, Lei Yan King, unwilling to perish, activated his Demon Heart, elevating his realm limitlessly but becoming abnormal. I happened to have Divine Travels at that time, sensed something wrong, forcibly intervened, and fought with Lei Yan King to take his fundamental soul, but unfortunately, this soul shattered into seven threads.
When I was about to succeed, Yanyan intervened. I could have resisted, but had I done so, Yanyan would have died from the backlash. Thus, I was not killed by any enemy, but by my brother’s daughter..."
"What happened afterward, I do not know."
"But I know, my brother, Lei Yan King suffered greatly, hence I died with my eyes open. As long as the Spiritual Wisdom survives, it is equivalent to being alive. If I do not die, my will and obsession will not perish.
Thus, I strived by every possible means, even going so far as to offer my physical body to Jiang Lei Yuan who also did not wish to be inferior to others, becoming part of the Sword Burial Ancestor Star, even colluding to suppress Lee Jidao and others, scheming and harming many..."
"These actions were all for the sake of the endless next life."
"Now, as you have truly found yourself and have a complete soul, returning to our real Ancestor Star, you will attain an immortal legendary achievement. On our Ancestor Star, you shall undergo tribulations, summon giants such as Pangu and Nuwa for their Heavenly Tribulation and Transforming, and cultivate invincible divine might."
"Go to Earth, pursue the routes of the Pre-Qin Qi Refiners, embrace the Tao, the Supreme Dao, you will surely become even stronger and invincible.
I, Lee Ran, merely lived out one life on Earth, merely achieving ’Refining Void and Merging Dao,’ which is only equivalent to the strength of a Sword God First Transition One Star, yet is sufficient to crush experts above the Fifth Transition Sword God in the True God Plane. This combat power is truly earth-shattering and awe-inspiring! If you return with such cultivated strength, and then come back, you will manifest truly invincible divine might.
The Divine Realm Ninth Transition, but each transition corresponds to the Starry Sky Star Position, delineating nine stars, from First to Second Transition is akin to crossing nine major stages of combat power.
A genius of the Divine Realm, surpassing a single nine is already considered superior; Double Nine is a young Supreme.
Thus, now you should understand that returning to undergo tribulations and refining your soul is the real transformation."
"The door to the Purgatory Ancestor Star has already opened; you leave behind your physical body, and with your soul pass through the Starry Sky Gate of the Purgatory Ancestor Star, head to the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower of the Netherworld Life and Death Illusion Realm, and find the last memories of Lei Yan King. The Divine Seat will descend, taking you to the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Tomb.
That tomb is a channel, a channel to Earth.
The corpse inside the tomb is a body refined from the Essence Blood of your first life; only by taking this body can you return."
"And the current physical body must be destroyed, but this kind of destruction is anticipated by your enemies, so you can set them up, feign ’Fake Death’ to escape and temporarily evade this Heavenly Restriction."
Lee Ran explained in detail.
Many mysteries were resolved for Zhou Yan. However, similar to what his elder brother Lee Ran knew, there were limits, and many things related to Lei Yan King were disconnected.
These can only be known by restoring the memories of Lei Yan King.
"Brother, I understand. So, brother, what is my real name?"
Zhou Yan suddenly realized he didn’t know and looked up, asking Lee Ran.