Free Web NovelChapter 1674: Chapter 170: Origin of the Soul Sea
With the realm of Lee Sha’s Sword Soul Third Layer Heaven guiding the Flying Sword, it took nearly two months to arrive at the outskirts of the Cold Ice Sword Sect.
Now, the Cold Ice Sword Sect has already expanded its domain, gradually approaching Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain.
However, because Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain is a land of death, the Cold Ice Sword Sect does not mind others entering its realm.
Lee Sha arrived before Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain but was stopped by a guardian.
She was a guardian with a fiery figure, alluring and voluptuous.
"Young man, what’s troubling you to enter Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain? Entering this place is certain death."
The guardian seemed to be the protector guarding this place.
"Senior, dying is ultimately better than living without dignity, and I may not necessarily die."
Lee Sha’s tone was steadfast.
Looking at the guardian before him, he felt a deep sense of familiarity, as if he had seen this middle-aged woman somewhere before.
Not only familiar, it seemed their relationship was quite mysterious.
This feeling suddenly flowed through Lee Sha’s mind, causing him to be momentarily bewildered.
This moment suddenly awakened the soul of Zhou Yan within Lee Sha’s brow.
Zhou Yan awoke from his state of Enlightenment, then through Lee Sha’s eyes, saw the guardian and froze for a moment before recognizing who the beautiful woman was.
This beautiful woman was once the little girl he saved, Zhao Xuexun.
Now Zhao Xuexun’s power has already stepped into the Void Realm, with rather impressive combat power.
However, Zhao Xuexun has clearly forgotten Zhou Yan, otherwise, she would recognize Lee Sha’s appearance at a glance.
"Senior, do we know each other?"
Zhou Yan’s soul influenced Lee Sha, causing him to suddenly utter a rather baffling sentence.
"Hmm? Indeed, I feel a sense of familiarity with you, but in my memory, there’s nothing resembling a cultivator like you, so we shouldn’t know each other. Honestly, it’s because you seem familiar that I stopped you from entering Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain, otherwise, why would I stop others?"
The guardian Zhao Xuexun hesitated for a moment, then sincerely explained.
As she spoke, Zhou Yan paid attention to Zhao Xuexun’s soul fluctuations.
Zhao Xuexun was not lying.
Even with Zhou Yan’s current abilities, a surge of soul power could quietly penetrate Zhao Xuexun’s soul and perceive all information of her memory.
In Zhao Xuexun’s memory, there was no existence of any information related to Zhou Yan, all had disappeared.
After entering the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sword Tomb, Zhao Xuexun fell into an illusionary array, then inexplicably woke up with the array broken, and Zhao Xuexun never encountered the supposed chase by the Blood Nether Saint Son.
Everything related is nonexistent.
This is the true rule of the timeline where history was annihilated from existence.
And true history is often such a case.
Zhou Yan was not surprised to learn of this situation.
The so-called annihilation of memory is true disappearance, truly erased traces of existence.
This scenario also aligns with Zhou Yan’s initial derivation results.
The rules of destiny, though called rules, are not merely simple rules, but represent the sovereign of existence and the balance of space-time.
Whenever an anomaly in space-time occurs, the rules will perform self-repair, like a person recovering automatically from injury, destiny’s rules are the same.
Its recovery manifests as a sense of ’déjà vu’.
Déjà vu, this phenomenon was the source of Zhou Yan’s initial confusion, and now he has found the answer, it is the ultimate answer but the cost of this answer is indeed immensely great.
Experiencing cycle after cycle of fate and reincarnation, to uncover the vast conspiracy of the Emperor Soul Clan, it contains unspeakable bitterness and hardship.
Now, detecting this point from Zhao Xuexun’s memory, despite knowing the answer, Zhou Yan remains extremely melancholic and wistful.
This disappearance of memory is not a simple disappearance, nor is it simply shielding or losing memory, much less simply being erased; it is as if the memory does not exist.
The past experiences simply do not exist.
In Zhao Xuexun’s memory, everything is complete, yet contains no memory related to Zhou Yan!
This is the Heavenly Dao’s repair, fully able to strip away memories that shouldn’t exist.
"I see... Senior, my mind is set on entering Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain; your kind intentions are acknowledged by this junior."
Lee Sha bowed and spoke with a sigh.
Through their exchange, Zhao Xuexun’s perception of Lee Sha also improved significantly, as both knew they had felt a sense of déjà vu.
Thus, hearing his words, Zhao Xuexun seemed inexplicably sure she could not sway Lee Sha’s decision, so she sighed softly, saying, "In that case, be very careful then. I hope we have the chance to meet again."
"Yes, Senior, until we meet again."
Lee Sha slightly clasped his fists, saluted, and then stepped into Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain from beside Zhao Xuexun.
Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain did not have a guardian array, but instead possessed halos resembling pale purple thunder, forming a plane that pierced through Heaven and Earth. The plane towered into the clouds, as if dividing the Heaven and Earth before one’s eyes into two halves.
Within the pale purple halos, the internal scene was unclear. Time and again, bizarre and fantastical light shadows flowed, making it extremely peculiar.
This piece of pale purple halo wasn’t wide, only covering a range of several thousand meters and forming a square shape.
The plane’s height was extremely high, whereas its thickness constantly changed, sometimes thin, sometimes thick.
No matter whether one entered from the front side or the back side, they entered inside the Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain. However, its backside faced the Cold Ice Sword Sect, thus guarded by the Cold Ice Sword Sect’s array, making it difficult to enter easily.
After all, the disciples of the Cold Ice Sword Sect also needed protection; otherwise, entering easily would mean entering with no return, surely leading to death.
After Lee Sha observed carefully for a while, a sense of crisis arose in his heart, resembling a suffocating pressure of death. Yet, he didn’t feel fear or panic but, instead, expressed calmly before stepping into the pale purple light curtain.
"Buzz——"
The void trembled, the halo rippled, and immediately a destructive aura akin to the collapse of the Void Sky Road appeared.
As this aura rippled opened, it immediately entered Lee Sha’s body.
Zhou Yan contemplated, temporarily not dissipating this destructive aura.
Because when this aura entered Lee Sha’s body, Zhou Yan already knew that this must be key to attracting the Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain’s heavenly tribulation.
Sure enough, the moment this aura merged into the bloodline, the void became much clearer. It was just that the snow-white Heaven and Earth transformed into a dark purple Heaven and Earth.
Within this piece of Heaven and Earth, as this dark purple aura contacted Lee Sha’s body, it was immediately attracted by the destructive aura, and the Heavenly Dao rules erupted, bringing forth the descent of the Void Thunder Tribulation.
This kind of thunder tribulation wasn’t the simple kind but contained a trace of unique immortal power.
For the current Lee Sha, such thunder tribulation, in an instant, could turn him into tribulation ash, annihilating him.
However, Zhou Yan’s soul condensed into a shadow, seated at Lee Sha’s brow, and gazed upward at the Heavenly Vault.
At that moment, Zhou Yan seemed to see those strands of immortal power deep within the Thunder Flame, saw those strands of Immortal King’s will mark.
It goes without saying how formidable the thunderbolts reinforced with the Immortal King’s mark were.
Indeed, even just a trace of its intent isn’t something ordinary cultivators could withstand.
Little wonder, the Thunder Flame Breaking Path Mountain’s thunder tribulation is called the Land of Death.
Zhou Yan pondered, yet he did not protect Lee Sha, because he could, at the critical moment of Lee Sha’s death, preserve Lee Sha’s body and soul from annihilation.
He waited for another guardian to appear.
Sure enough, when the Void Thunder Tribulation suddenly descended, a pitch-black Soul Stone unexpectedly fell, enveloping Lee Sha and simultaneously bearing the thunder tribulation’s attack.
The Soul Stone was covered with extremely complex engravings, appearing very ancient and mottled, even showing dense traces of time.
At this time, a giant eye appeared in the void, quietly watching Lee Sha, showing a sign of concern.
"Junior Lee Sha, thank you for your saving grace, Senior."
Lee Sha finished speaking, intending to bow but was stopped by an inexplicable force.
"You need not thank me, all of this was instructed by ’him’, and he even spoke of your purpose here."
The giant eye’s voice was ancient yet calm.
"Him? Who is he?"
Lee Sha inquired in surprise.
"Who he is, doesn’t matter. What matters is that here, I’ll impart the cultivation method to you and a part of the soul origin he left behind. Once you refine it, achieving the Thunder Flame Sword Body will be very easy."
"However, a consequence of ease is also unknown unstable factors."
"Are you willing to endure this?"
The giant eye replied indifferently.
"I—I’m willing to accept! As long as I can become stronger, losing something temporarily doesn’t matter, because once I become strong, everything will return."
Lee Sha said resolutely.
"Hmm, not bad, it seems you see very clearly. In this world, only strength is the most important, because many promises require strength to fulfill, and much happiness also requires strength to strive for and protect."
The giant eye seemed slightly emotional, but its eyes contained obvious appreciation.
Then, between Heaven and Earth, a vast Soul Sea appeared, covering the void, as if the folding change of a world, suddenly engulfed that other purple thunder world.
Soon, the world’s ’background’ was replaced just like this.
This change, even for Lee Sha, was quite shocking.
But his disposition was calm and his emotions were serene.
"Here is the Thunder Flame Soul Sea, you can call me ’Jiang Lei Yuan’, and this purple soul origin, you only need to slap it into your brow, shading the unknown unstable factors originally in your brow, and everything will be perfected."
Jiang Lei Yuan didn’t manifest a giant eye but presented an aged shadow before Lee Sha, and spoke simultaneously.
