Volume 6: Wangchuan Chapter 53: Don't Let Her Down
With a clang.
There is a small partition door under the main door, through which food is passed in from outside.
"Mom, please let me out, it's so dark here..." Qiu Shiyin's low pleading voice sounded.
The hand that was handing over the food suddenly stopped.
Qiu Shiyin seemed to see hope, and her pleading became more urgent.
After a long, long time, the hand that handed the food put the food down, and with a sigh, the small door was closed again.
She was once again the only one left in the small black cage, and her heavy breathing could be heard clearly.
Staying in such a dark place for so many years, she must be very... lonely.
Ji Chuan thought.
…
The picture changes rapidly.
Qiu Shiyin's little hand was held in the hand of a simple-looking man.
That's her daddy.
The colorful scene of the surrounding market dazzled Qiu Shiyin and filled her heart with joy.
Suddenly, strange colors appeared in front of Qiu Shiyin's eyes.
She felt a splitting headache and could only cover her head in pain and squat down.
Faintly, she heard many panicked shouts.
"There's a monster... run, there's a monster..."
Where did the monster come from?
She tried to grab her father's hand in panic , but her father suddenly shook her hand away.
She turned around to ask her father, only to find that he was looking at her with horror.
In the reflection of her father's eyes, Qiu Shiyin saw the shadow of a hazy monster.
His face was covered with scales, his head was jagged and uneven, and he looked extremely ferocious.
Is this... me?
…
In that dark cell, time seemed to be very long, and she seemed to have stayed there for a very long time.
Finally one day, the door that had not been opened for a long time was opened again.
Qiu Shiyin was overjoyed.
She thought her father and mother were finally going to let her go.
But when she looked outside with joy, what she saw was her mother crying with her hands covering her mouth, her father with a tired face, and an extremely ugly monster covered with scales.
“Shiyin, this is your brother…” mother said painfully.
Brother?
An inexplicable light flashed in Qiu Shiyin's eyes.
My younger brother, like him, was put on heavy chains and locked in this small cage.
…
A scene of blood and fire.
A group of people rushed in, wanting to kill Qiu Shiyin and her brother in the name of slaying demons.
In the moment of life and death crisis.
Qiu Ning erupted with unprecedented strength, directly breaking the shackles that had imprisoned him for a long time, as well as the secular constraints, and slaughtered all intruders.
After committing the crime of murder, Qiu Shiyin could only take Qiu Ning and leave.
…
The images changed faster and faster, almost flashing by.
There were days when Qiu Shiyin and Qiu Ning left home and depended on each other.
There is Qiu Shiyin's helplessness in sending Qiu Ning to the source.
There is her anger and pain as she sees one "toad" after another being abandoned.
She had the satisfaction and comfort of adopting a group of "toads".
The underworld even came to her and invited her to join the struggle in the underworld...
Qiu Shiyin's experience is colorful, but full of pain.
Gradually, Ji Chuan found that his own figure began to appear in these fleeting images.
——It was clear that he had only very little contact with Qiu Shiyin, but the image of him occupied a large part of Qiu Shiyin's memory.
Because in Qiu Shiyin's memory, Ji Chuan, who appeared like a comet, clearly has an extremely important position.
Finally, all the images are frozen.
It was frozen at the moment when he pierced Qiu Shiyin's heart with a sword.
The green waist was visible from behind this fragile girl, and the tip of the sword was stained with blood.
Qiu Shiyin, who was suffering from the pain in her heart, gave Ji Chuan an extremely gentle smile.
Sad and full of sorrow.
The emotion that Ji Chuan felt in the girl's heart at this moment was not any pain at all, but only a sense of relief.
Is this her life?
There was a brief moment of happiness, and then a long period of loneliness.
It was not until the end of my life that I felt a sense of relief.
She was just a child at first, a beautiful but fragile child.
Endless sadness surged in Ji Chuan's heart.
After that fatal sword strike, he had cut off all of Qiu Shiyin's sins.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Now, there is only love and pity in my heart.
Ji Chuan, feeling sad, suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of drowsiness sweeping over him.
He felt extremely sleepy, so he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
However, he knew clearly that when he woke up again, the girl named Qiu Shiyin would never smile at him again.
The darkness came like a tide, drowning Ji Chuan's last bit of consciousness.
And in his sea of consciousness, the spiritual light representing the sword intent of reincarnation suddenly flickered and began to grow stronger, undergoing an unprecedented transformation.
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"Senior Brother... Senior Brother..." The faint calling voice finally woke Ji Chuan up from the almost endless darkness.
Ji Chuan slowly opened his eyes and looked at Lu Qingshan, whose face was full of concern. After a long silence, he thanked him in a hoarse voice, "Thank you."
When Lu Qingshan saw Ji Chuan wake up, he felt relieved.
Under the guidance of the Lord of the Yellow Springs Prison, six days later, he finally found Ji Chuan, who had been motionless.
I finally understood why Ji Chuan had been standing still.
Ji Chuan was lying in a sea of red spider lilies, his eyes closed, his face full of pain and struggle.
This state is clearly one of being trapped in some kind of insanity.
Fortunately, he arrived not too late, and Ji Chuan had not yet completely fallen, so it was not difficult to awaken Ji Chuan's mind.
Ji Chuan came back to his senses and looked around, "Where is this?"
Lu Qingshan quickly told Ji Chuan the whole story.
"Let's leave this place quickly and return to the human world. Senior brother, your condition doesn't seem to be very good." Lu Qingshan looked at Ji Chuan's pale and bloodless face, knowing that the erosion of the Yellow Spring's death energy had a great impact on Ji Chuan, and spoke.
"Go back to the human world..." Ji Chuan murmured, subconsciously hugging Qiu Shiyin's lifeless body tightly in his arms.
"Junior brother, are you saying that you have a way to break through the boundary wall that leads from Huangquan to the sky and send us back to the human world?" Ji Chuan suddenly raised his eyes, his eyes full of hope, "Can you break through the boundary wall that leads to another world?"
Lu Qingshan was startled, then nodded slightly and said slowly: "It should be possible..."
After getting Lu Qingshan's affirmative answer, Ji Chuan suddenly fell into silence, with a look of struggle on his face.
Seeing Ji Chuan's behavior, Lu Qingshan understood that Ji Chuan had some unspeakable secret, so he did not urge him and waited silently.
After a long time, Ji Chuan seemed to have finally figured it out. He looked at Lu Qingshan and slowly said, "Junior brother, I may not... return to the human world."
"Not going back to the human world?!" Lu Qingshan knew what Ji Chuan was considering, but he didn't expect it to be such a decision.
"Yes," Ji Chuan nodded and said firmly, "I won't go back."
Lu Qingshan was silent for a moment, then asked, "Why? If you don't want to return to the human world, where are you going?"
Ji Chuan smiled and loosened his clenched fist towards Lu Qingshan.
In the palm of his hand, there lay a white flower of the other shore, glowing brightly.
"Higanbana, the flower that guides the soul, is the Lycoris radiata that guides her soul. Holding this flower, I can feel her place of reincarnation and find her." Ji Chuan said slowly.
The "she" referred to was naturally Qiu Shiyin.
"Reincarnation and rebirth, everything is subject to the laws of nature, this is a common sense thing.
However, the evil karma she created in this life is so serious that she will have to go through many hardships in the next nine lives before she can enter the normal cycle of reincarnation.
The evil karma she created is real, and I have nothing to say.
But the source of all this comes from her tragic life experience and experiences.
Since she had already died to wash away her own evil, why should she, who had already experienced one lifetime of suffering, have to endure nine more lifetimes of worldly suffering?
I cannot change the laws of the underworld, but I can use the red spider lily to find her reincarnation, be her protector, and help her avoid the calamity in the mortal world that she should have faced.
Huang Quan doesn't pity her, I'll come."
Ji Chuan said: "Her reincarnation place is not in the human world, but in another world adjacent to Huangquan, so... I may have to trouble my junior brother to do me this last favor. Help me break the boundary wall between Huangquan world and another world, and send me to another world to find Qiu Shiyin's reincarnation."
"Senior Brother, you know nothing about the situation in the other world that Qiu Shiyin was reincarnated into." Lu Qingshan reminded.
Just as the underworld can only accommodate souls, the operation of each independent world is different.
Who can guarantee that the world where Qiu Shiyin is reincarnated will be suitable for Ji Chuan to survive?
Ji Chuan said: "I know."
Since he knew this, this decision had been made after careful consideration and would not be easily changed.
After another long silence, Lu Qingshan tried to persuade Ji Chuan for the last time, "Once you go to another world, you will be separated from the human world by two walls. It is basically impossible for you to return to the human world in this lifetime. In other words, it will be very difficult for you to return to the Sword Sect and see your master again."
Ji Chuan closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he opened his eyes, threw something in his hand, and it turned into a stream of light and flew towards Lu Qingshan.
Lu Qingshan quickly caught the stream of light and took a closer look. It was the Suzaku sword symbol that represented Ji Chuan's identity.
He was shocked and understood what Ji Chuan meant.
Ji Chuan spoke slowly, "I can only trouble you, Junior Brother, to help me return this sword talisman to Master, and tell Master that Ji Chuan has failed Master's cultivation... and failed the Sword Sect."
How can one achieve both in this world?
Between Jian Zong and her, Ji Chuan can only choose one.
He grew up in the Sword Sect since he was young, so how could it be so easy for him to cut the Sword Sect off from his life?
But... the Sword Sect will still exist forever even without Ji Chuan.
But without him, Qiu Shiyin would have to go through all the hardships in the world.
After a moment, Lu Qingshan quietly put away the Suzaku Sword Talisman, clasped his fists towards Ji Chuan, and said with a smile: "Brother, I will help you... just as a way to repay you for feeding me the sword at Qingyaping."
"Thank you, Junior Brother," Ji Chuan said in a hoarse voice, "This should be the last time I call you Junior Brother."
…
In Lu Qingshan's sea of consciousness, a flash of spiritual light inexplicably appeared at this moment.
"This little bit of spiritual light is the closest to you, the boundary wall leading to another world."
The voice of the Lord of the Yellow Springs Prison rang in Lu Qingshan's mind at the right time. As the spirit of the Oblivion River, everything that happened in the Yellow Springs could not escape his eyes. "By the way, the other world adjacent to the Yellow Springs is called the Wilderness World. Although it is different from your Cangqiong, it is still the human world after all. Your brother will not be in trouble if he enters the Wilderness World, and you don't need to worry too much."
"Thank you, Your Excellency the Prison Master." Lu Qingshan said gratefully.
Following the map, Lu Qingshan and Ji Chuan soon arrived at the boundary wall leading to the wilderness.
This is an exposed gap, which is unstable, sometimes big, sometimes small, suddenly expanding, and suddenly shrinking. There seems to be a cold silence coming from it, as if a black hole is spinning, and there seems to be an inexplicable dust wind blowing.
There are so many strange phenomena.
But in it, there is a layer of stagnant and sticky invisible boundary wall.
It is as if a layer of extremely soft yet extremely tough membrane is binding this world.
This kind of boundary wall is unbreakable. Only when it breaks on its own over time and expands into a space fault crack, can the monks pass through it.
Because this is the power of laws and the limitations of heaven.
The boundary wall can only evolve naturally. If you want to interfere with it with external objects, you must have tremendous force.
Ji Chuan turned his gaze to Lu Qingshan.
He knew that Lu Qingshan was not a person who would speak nonsense.
Just looking at this huge boundary wall, he really couldn't think of how Lu Qingshan could break it.
"Fortunately, you are here, otherwise I can't think of any way to break this situation." Lu Qingshan also felt deeply moved and said to Qin Yitian in his heart.
"I am willing to break through all obstacles for you, sir." Qin Yitian said gracefully.
"Then it's up to you." Lu Qingshan murmured.
Why does he like Qin Yitian so much?
Because you can watch The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber at other times, and you can still watch The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber at this time.
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Lu Qingshan's heart moved.
The extremely gorgeous blazing red dragon bird has appeared in his hand.
Lu Qingshan stood with a sword in his hand, and then gently waved the Dragon Bird towards the boundary wall in front of him.
Break the law.
The sword was simply swung out, the trajectory was clearly visible, but there was no earth-shattering momentum.
However, the membrane of the boundary wall, which possessed an irresistible force, was instantly pierced by this sword, revealing the world inside.
The eyes are full of vicissitudes, deep and distant, with no bottom in sight.
That is the wilderness.
Ji Chuan was shocked by the power of the sword, but he was also extremely happy.
And a certain divine weapon in Lu Qingshan's Nascent Soul, which had been feeling aggrieved for a long time, was stunned and speechless after seeing this sword.
What Gu Yiyi originally resented was that she was a divine weapon from the Underworld, and even if she had lost the power of Wangchuan, she was still incomparable to any ordinary creature.
With such a status, why did she fall to the position of a mistress and could only watch Long Que being nurtured in the best sword acupoint of Lu Qingshan?
And he could only eat what was left by the dragon bird when Lu Qingshan was in the Nascent Soul stage.
Now, she has no temper.
There is indeed a reason why Longque can sit firmly on the throne of the queen.
It is definitely not as simple as the fact that Longque is the natal sword that has accompanied Lu Qingshan for the longest time.
…
Let’s not talk about the emotions in Gu Yiyi and Ji Chuan’s hearts .
Because the boundary membrane in front of him that was broken by the dragon bird was healing at an extremely fast speed.
According to the current trend, I am afraid that in a few moments, this boundary wall will be restored to its original state.
Lu Qingshan quickly moved his body to the side to make way for the space passage opened by the dragon bird.
Ji Chuan also knew that time was running out, so he said no more and simply said goodbye: "I'm leaving. I hope we can meet again in this life."
“Brother…”
When Ji Chuan was about to disappear in the space channel, Lu Qingshan suddenly called out to Ji Chuan.
"Um?"
"Since you have let down the Sword Sect... then don't let her down again."
