Chapter 353: Am I a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign? |
The Fruit Position was not in the Kunlun Grotto-Heaven?
Chixi True Lord froze in place, unable to believe it no matter how she thought about it. It would have been one thing if a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign had been slain—but even the Fruit Position had been forcibly taken away to the Xuanhuang Realm.
“Then didn’t Master and Martial Uncle try to stop that person?” she could not help but ask.
This matter was of immense consequence. Several Soul Transformation Divine Sovereigns should have joined forces to block him.
The death of a single Soul Transformation was already a heaven-shaking event.
But if even the Fruit Position had been stripped away, then it was truly an act of destroying the Heavenly Dao!
“What do you think?” Lingxiao True Lord, her First Senior Brother, asked in return.
Chixi True Lord could not help but swallow slightly.
She believed they would certainly have intervened.
The Fruit Position had been seized, and on Kunlun Grotto-Heaven’s side, the Heavenly Dao had directly collapsed!
“How could the Xuanhuang Realm possibly have such a powerful existence?” Chixi True Lord still found it hard to believe.
Ninth Realm cultivators of the Xuanhuang Realm were not inferior to those at the Nascent Soul Stage.
But before a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign, they had no power to fight back at all.
From the perspective of cultivation systems, the Xuanhuang Realm simply could not produce such Ninth Realm experts.
Moreover, as outsiders entering the realm, they would also be suppressed by the Heavenly Dao of Kunlun Grotto-Heaven.
Lingxiao True Lord looked at her and said:
“Little Junior Sister, then why do you think Master and the others have delayed opening the inter-realm passage to invade the Xuanhuang Realm?”
“Do you think it is necessary to wait until the moment Kunlun Grotto-Heaven collapses, when we are driven into a dead end, before launching the invasion?”
“It doesn’t seem necessary, does it? Logically, we should have begun much earlier, shouldn’t we?”
Chixi True Lord opened her mouth, yet in the end did not dare to speak.
It was obvious—Master and the others were afraid!
They feared that person!
Merely because of his existence, they dared not invade the Xuanhuang Realm.
But Chixi True Lord quickly thought of another point.
“But the cultivation system of the Xuanhuang Realm… cultivators there cannot achieve immortality.”
Lingxiao True Lord listened and nodded slightly. “That is indeed the case.”
Then, he spoke words that deeply shocked her.
“To be precise, that person stepped into Kunlun at the very end of his life, when his lifespan was nearly exhausted.”
“After completing everything, he returned and should have passed away.”
“What!?” Chixi True Lord’s eyes widened. “Then…”
She once again stopped mid-sentence.
Then what exactly were Master and Martial Uncle afraid of?
Could it be that the Xuanhuang Realm still had such terrifying existences?
Lingxiao True Lord glanced at her and continued:
“Little Junior Sister, do you think that a being of that level, even if his lifespan had run out, would not leave behind contingencies?”
“Master and Martial Uncle have essentially been playing a game of Go across a thousand years with him.”
“These recent expeditions into the Origin Spirit Realm have, in truth, been the final probing.”
“On our side, we already have enough Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin. It is sufficient to open the inter-realm passage and allow all of us to descend upon the Xuanhuang Realm.”
“Now we only wish to see whether that person still has any final arrangements left.”
Hearing this, Chixi True Lord felt her breathing stagnate.
She had never witnessed that person’s brilliance, nor had she seen what truly happened when he stepped into Kunlun.
But one thing had to be understood!
The so-called “playing Go across space” was merely a pleasant way of putting it.
Master and Martial Uncle… were playing against a dead man!
Everything on their side—their plans and arrangements—could be changed at any time.
But what about his contingencies?
They had been laid down a thousand years ago!
The nature of the two was entirely different!
Moreover, the man was already dead, yet they still did not dare to invade.
Merely the possibility that he had left something behind was enough to deter them.
“Just how powerful… was this person?” Chixi True Lord could not comprehend.
Only after reaching the Nascent Soul Stage had she personally witnessed the might of a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign.
To her, that was beyond her previous understanding—beyond the limits of what she imagined a cultivator could be!
If even a Divine Sovereign was like that… then what about the one who could slay a Divine Sovereign?
She could not imagine it.
But soon, she thought of another matter.
Chixi True Lord could not help but raise her head and look at the night sky.
“If the Fruit Position is in the Xuanhuang Realm, then why has such a phenomenon appeared? Has someone already absorbed the Fruit Position?”
“From the current view, that is highly likely,” Lingxiao True Lord replied.
“That makes no sense. The cultivation systems of the two sides conflict with each other—there is no way to merge them,” Chixi True Lord frowned slightly.
“But don’t forget, the Xuanhuang Realm already has many wandering Nascent Souls.”
“Among them… there is even that existence!” Lingxiao True Lord said.
Chixi True Lord fell silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
In that case, it must be that some Daoist friend had obtained a tremendous fortune.
After stepping into the Soul Transformation Stage, they would be as different from people like them as clouds from mud.
Once the inter-realm passage opened, the Fruit Position would return to its rightful place.
At that time, the Heavenly Dao of Kunlun Grotto-Heaven would also be restored.
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Second Layer of the Origin Spirit Realm.
Chu Huaixu did not know that when he closed his eyes, he had caused even Kunlun Grotto-Heaven to fall into night.
At this moment, he was only doing one thing.
——Ruthlessly beating Wen Shiyu.
Throughout the entire process, he did not even use the power of the Black Jade Lotus Platform again.
Because he had just noticed that the glow of the Black Jade Lotus Platform had dimmed considerably.
The blooming lotus had begun to close its petals inward, showing signs of partial withering.
Although its power seemed to slowly recover over time,
who knew how long that process would take?
For such a high-level power, he had to conserve it carefully.
At this moment, as night fell upon this Small World, Chu Huaixu’s overall combat strength had nearly tripled.
Relying solely on his own strength, he could already brutally overwhelm Wen Shiyu—there was no need to extravagantly squander the power of the Black Jade Lotus Platform.
At this moment, Wen Shiyu unleashed all her methods.
The dazzling and flashy divine abilities of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator surged forth, overwhelming like a tide.
Chu Huaixu directly endured them with his physical body, charging forward with his fists swinging.
No fancy techniques—just pure brute force.
Wen Shiyu retreated while fighting, but Chu Huaixu closed the distance across the ice.
Soon, after shattering an ice pillar with a punch, his fist continued forward and struck her body.
She was immediately sent flying again.
Chu Huaixu then exerted force with both legs and leapt into the air.
The ice beneath his feet split apart instantly under the tremendous force.
He soared high, his movements extremely brutal.
He directly spread his hand and grabbed her face tightly.
It had to be said—women with delicate features like hers had small faces.
His large hand grasped it effortlessly.
Then, as he descended, he grabbed her head and slammed it viciously into the ice!
The thick ice surface was blasted open into a massive hole, and cracks spread outward.
Wen Shiyu’s head split open, blood flowing, her mind spinning as darkness filled her vision.
Her head was pressed into the broken hole, submerged in the black seawater.
Cold—and suffocating!
Seawater rushed into her mouth and nose.
Only after several seconds did Chu Huaixu lift her back up.
Her soaked hair clung messily to her face, her once alluring and fierce temperament completely gone.
Her vision doubled.
Before she could react, his voice rang in her ears like demonic sound.
“I ask, you answer,” Chu Huaixu said.
When he spoke, he used the power of the Black Jade Lotus Platform.
The moment his words fell, Wen Shiyu seemed to be forcibly controlled.
What Nascent Soul True Lord’s re-cultivation, what powerful Nascent Soul—before the Fruit Position of Soul Transformation, it was utterly insignificant.
Like one possessed, she replied blankly, “You ask, I answer.”
Only then did Chu Huaixu release his grip, letting the drenched female cultivator fall onto the ice.
At this moment, she had no trace of a celestial maiden left—like a drowned dog.
She lay on the ice, looking up at him.
“Answer me. Why do you say I am a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign?” he asked.
Wen Shiyu replied blankly, “Because this is a power that only a Soul Transformation Divine Sovereign can possess.”
“What you displayed just now also matches the characteristics of the Night Sovereign.”
“The Fruit Position of the Night Sovereign was indeed forcibly taken from Kunlun Grotto-Heaven and lost in the Xuanhuang Realm.”
Hearing this, Chu Huaixu frowned and asked further.
The answers he obtained were almost identical to what Lingxiao True Lord had told Chixi True Lord.
Wen Shiyu, being Lingxiao True Lord’s Third Junior Sister, had personally witnessed the events from a thousand years ago.
After listening, Chu Huaixu felt deeply shaken.
So… I have become the Night Sovereign?
But there were still inconsistencies.
“If the Night Sovereign was slain a thousand years ago, then the timeline doesn’t match!”
“My Fruit Position was a gift from Fifth Martial Ancestor.”
“It was forcibly stuffed into my body by Zhong Ming that day.”
“Of course, he probably didn’t expect that because I possess the system, I would forcibly fuse with it.”
“However, from the current situation, this Fruit Position was most likely brought out by Zhong Ming from the fifth layer of the Origin Spirit Realm.”
“Or… am I overthinking it? Perhaps it has nothing to do with the Origin Spirit Realm, and he obtained it elsewhere?”
Everything still seemed shrouded in fog.
Perhaps only after Zhong Ming was fully healed could the truth be known.
“No wonder Ming Xuanji, that old thing, didn’t want me to cure Zhong Ming. So he carries so many secrets… perhaps my existence as a variable has disrupted everything again…”
“Then… could Ming Xuanji know something?” Chu Huaixu thought.
He felt it was possible.
With that thought, he looked at Wen Shiyu and asked more details, also probing indirectly about the terrifying nature of Soul Transformation Divine Sovereigns.
After exhausting all questions about the Black Jade Lotus Platform, he finally said:
“Tell me—was the one who slew the Night Sovereign a Daoist wearing Daoist robes?”