Chapter 690: Chapter 120 Gaining Inheritance
Three Souls, as Zhou Yan had said, naturally receded and entered Yanyan’s body.
Yanyan and the Purple Flame Void suddenly transformed into a purple light, and before they even had time to say goodbye, they disappeared.
Before her disappearance, several Holy Lights directly enveloped five shadowy figures and flew outside the Void—those were the previously vanished Wan Jian Tian, Xiong Ba, Jiu Que, Zhou Lingyao, and Lee Xinyu, five Peak Saints, who seemed to have already recovered but now could no longer interfere with matters here.
After these people were sent out, the Purple Flame Void also ceased to exist completely.
However, Lei Yan King was still there.
With a faint smile, he said, “Qingyan, now, you can stop feeling guilty and remorseful. You are in the next life, and so am I. Let’s properly continue the unfulfilled emotions. The us from the past life have passed. Our daughter is well-behaved and sensible, and our emotional entanglements are resolved. Isn’t that good?”
“Um…”
Mu Qingyan nodded with tears, her body trembling.
Lei Yan King smiled; his smile was truly handsome.
Even Zhou Yan himself was stirred in his soul.
Lei Yan King’s hand gently touched Mu Qingyan’s body, and in an instant, she regained her youth, while Lei Yan King instantly turned gray-haired and withered.
But his body remained as robust as ever.
“Zhou Yan, you cannot awaken my memories because I sealed myself. In fact, you have always been me, a reincarnation of the purest soul. Otherwise, how could you live out my next life? Therefore, you cannot recover the memories. Later, listen to Zhuge Wuwei and open the Starry Sky Gate on the Purgatory Ancestor Star, go to the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower, and find back those memories…
Although those memories are filled with suffering, it’s the emotions within suffering that truly become enduring and permeate the soul.”
As Lei Yan King spoke, his hand gently rested on Zhou Yan’s head; Zhou Yan felt all his injuries, the regressed Realm lost in the Purple Flame Void, and so on, all disappear.
Lei Yan King turned into a wisp of fractured light and burrowed into Zhou Yan’s brow.
At that moment, Zhou Yan felt that his soul had become whole.
At this moment, he also suddenly realized that coming to Heavenly Soul Mountain was to integrate the Three Souls—not for himself, but to ultimately make amends for splitting his own soul for his daughter Yanyan.
This is a father’s final concern for his daughter.
At the same time, Zhou Yan also suddenly experienced that a whole soul had just appeared. The Essence Blood Blood Pearl previously derived from Mu Qingyan, along with the lost Void Sword Body, and various other losses, all returned.
Inside his brow, where the Purple Flame Void once was, the embryo of a Soul Sea derived. Although this Soul Sea was still a small mountain spring, it was already immensely vast.
Zhou Yan felt as if a divine force had opened his soul: the Nine Orifice Exquisite Heart and the Eye of Destruction converged, unleashing the formidable presence of the Destruction Sword Body, while Emperor Qi, Thunderflame, and Void Sword Body also became apparent, moving towards unity and integration.
In the Void, Thunderflame, Emperor Sword, and Destruction, the Four Great Sword Forms, merged as if they were returning Yanyan’s Three Souls.
In that instant, Zhou Yan’s previously regressed capabilities fully recovered, his Combat Power even dramatically elevated from Twelve Layers to the terrifying extent of Fifteen Layers.
And the Nine Orifice Exquisite Heart at that moment captured the final inheritance of Lei Yan King’s wisp of thought.
“There are two kinds of choices for answers, one is blind confidence, and the other is steady progress. Attempting to reach heaven in a single bound only results in making the same mistakes. And you, that is, me, if you again choose the first answer, then the power of the Three Souls I left behind will first slay you, then favor Yanyan. Because you and I, having chosen the first answer, still harbor an uncleansed Evil Soul, even if all succeeds safely, you are inevitably doomed to repeat the same tragic path.”
“Strength needs to be elevated one step at a time, stabilizing the foundation. This life’s soul, considered perfect Immortal Evil Soul level, will surely attract many Great Powers, attempting to seize it regardless of consequences. Becoming a deity now would immediately encounter great peril, possibly even killing everyone around you because this life’s soul requires a higher level of power, different from the Tao of my past life’s soul. My achievements in the past life contained too many rapid ascensions, hence the emergence of the evil thought demon soul differentiation.”
“You should not repeat the same mistakes; this is my expectation for both you and myself. If the same, why should I bother living another life?”
“This is also one of the reasons I sealed my memories. You’ve chosen the second option, which comforts me. Your mentality is stronger and more steadfast than I thought, your love for Yanyan as profound as mine, then I have nothing more to worry about. I will activate everything I’ve left for you, advancing your combat power to that of the Youth Supreme—the Double Nine Battle Line.”
“The Double Nine Battle Line, above the Void Nine Battle Line, is known as ‘Combat Power Eighteen.’
But due to the unremoved imprint, temporarily it can only reach Fifteen.
Every Cultivator born in the True God Realm starts from the Void Realm, each must comprehend the Void Nine Battle Line, breaking Single Nine, that is, Combat Power Breaking Nine.
Now, owning the Four Great Sword Forms along with the hidden Sword Bodies—like Devour, Soul-controlling, Tao, and Demon Heart, of which you have the foundation.
But how to unlock them still depends on you.”
“My Three Souls were given to Yanyan, now just a derived wisp of will across time points; now bestowing everything to you, I’ll be extinguished.”
“I’ve long since passed away, you needn’t worry, for you are the continuation of my life.”
“You, too, are me.”
…
The inheritance information disappeared, and Zhou Yan, like Huangliang’s Dream, witnessed the birth and death at the ancient dark path at the end of time, seeing everything decay and disintegrate.
Lei Yan King had become a thing of the past, but the memories of Lei Yan King still remained in the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower.
He needed to go there, to retrieve Lei Yan King’s memories—which were also his own.
Zhou Yan also knew that Lei Yan King could slay the Evil Soul not because Lei Yan King was strong, but because Lei Yan King had long known that Yanyan would choose to perish with the Evil Soul, thus he had exerted all his effort to preserve the Three Souls in order to stop Yanyan from dying at that moment.
Once one’s cultivation reached a certain level, they could sense the arrival of a great calamity through space-time, just as one might predict the time of a storm based on changes in the weather. As long as one was powerful enough, deriving misfortunes and fortunes to avoid disasters was not difficult.
It was for that very reason that cultivators pursued even greater realms, aiming to thoroughly avoid birth and death, to live as long as heaven and earth, exist as long as time, immortal and indestructible.
Yanyan severely injured the Evil Soul, and while Yanyan’s own life hung by a thread, Lei Yan King, through the will powered by the preserved Three Souls, annihilated the Evil Soul and fulfilled Yanyan’s destiny, thus completing everything perfectly.
Reality, although harsh, this fatherly love was immensely great.
This strategy might have been set up long, long ago, allowing his daughter Yanyan to let go of her mental burdens and truly have a complete life, allowing his wife Mu Qingyan to no longer be engulfed in past pain and guilt, and also possibly to check if his next life was still tainted by the Evil Soul, and even… to sever all mental entanglements.
This was indeed a perfect ending.
Zhou Yan was very clear about these matters in his heart, and precisely because he understood, he felt exceptionally emotional and reflective.
But he finally felt at ease. At least, Yanyan no longer had to suffer or worry about the Jiang family’s pursuit.
Moreover, Yanyan might even turn the tables and hunt down the Jiang family’s people, thereby becoming a new mythic legend.
“According to Lei Yan King, which was my previous life, I still possess the mark of the Sword Burial Ancestor Star, so my combat power cannot be Double Nine. The mark must be eliminated in the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower, and the Life Soul of the Holy Daughter is a key item. To enter the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower, one must abandon the physical body… It seems that Zhuge Wuwei meant for me not to care too much about this world’s physical body. Perhaps he also calculated that I might face great danger when confronting the Evil Soul…”
“If these complexities indeed cannot reveal any information, then even those who know the reasons, such as the Holy Daughter and others, remain silent about Lei Yan King. Because if this plan fails at the last moment, then all efforts would be in vain. If something goes wrong, and the Evil Soul is born, this entire plane’s life, all becoming energy, would be entirely harvested. How tragic would the fate of friends and family be…”
“Alas… no matter what, it ultimately succeeded. Such courage, perhaps only Lei Yan King possessed.”
Zhou Yan sighed lightly, came back to his senses, and gazing at the dark environment around him, felt somewhat enlightened.
In this current swath of darkness, only Zhou Yan and Mu Qingyan were left.
Everything was like a dream in True Void.
Mu Qingyan gazed at Zhou Yan, her eyes continuously tearing up.
Yet Zhou Yan himself felt his spirit trembling, filled with complex emotions.
“Husband, Qingyan will take you back to Heavenly Mechanism Mountain, and afterwards, let’s meet at the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower. Qingyan will offer up the Life Soul of the Holy Daughter and help my husband eliminate the soul mark of the Ancestor Star.”
Mu Qingyan said softly, her voice extremely gentle.
She displayed all her beauty and tenderness, dedicating it all to Zhou Yan.
Having understood his own identity, knowing he was truly Lei Yan King, Zhou Yan also recognized Mu Qingyan’s every aspect.
Even though he hadn’t recovered his memory, Zhou Yan knew that Mu Qingyan was truly a good wife.
So was Zhou Yan, and so was Mu Qingyan, who even held the memories of her past life.
The two looked at each other in silence, their eyes meeting, spirits connecting, and minds in harmony.
The dark curtain passed, and the blood mist dissipated.
The world became clear, and others like Lysithea still stood stunned in place, not understanding what had happened.
People like Yilan looked somewhat amazed as they watched Heavenly Soul Mountain, which had suddenly disappeared, their gazes filled with shock and confusion.
“Goddess, you’re alright, that’s good! Lysithea knew the Goddess didn’t want Lysithea to venture in, but by doing so, isn’t the Goddess treating Lysithea like an outsider?”
Lysithea complained.
“Lysithea, it’s all in the past now, let’s go back to the Netherworld Palace,”
Mu Qingyan said softly with a gentle smile.
Lysithea was somewhat dazed, she found the Goddess seemed to have changed.
Looking at Zhou Yan again, she discovered that Zhou Yan, too, seemed… as if his soul had become exceptionally noble and majestic, as if he was a divine reincarnation.