Chapter 210 She didn't feel that she had any...

Zi Ling watched the lightning explode above the morning mist, still looking puzzled. She had never seen lightning like this before and wondered who had set up this barrier.

Chaowu's hair ornament was shattered, and her hair was blown about by the wind whipped up by the lightning. Her hands were still tightly gripping the hilt of the sword. She held the hilt with both hands, gritted her teeth, and pulled the Wujiu sword upward with all her might.

The lightning overhead seemed to be getting closer and closer to her, and the sound echoed right next to her ears.

[Morning mist!]

Asagiri couldn't see Xiang Bei's words. She closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and gripped the sword hilt. "I won't admit defeat. I absolutely won't admit defeat."

"Aaaaaah, the Sword of No Blame!" Zi Ling screamed, clutching her head.

The Wujiu Sword emitted a burst of light, piercing directly through Chaowu's body and heading straight towards the heavenly lightning above.

The spirit of the word raised its hand to shield its eyes, only to find when it lowered its hand that the heavenly lightning above had dissipated at some point.

No, it was the barrier of heavenly lightning that was shattered by the light emitted from the Sword of No Blame.

Chaowu suddenly let go and fell down. Ziling went over and discovered that the Wujiu Sword had actually come loose.

This was unprecedented. For tens of thousands of years, countless immortals had come to pull out the sword, but none of them had ever managed to loosen the Wujiu Sword.

Zi Ling looked at Chao Wu lying on the ground and couldn't help but scrutinize her.

"As expected, Asagiri Fairy is no ordinary person."

The commotion was too great, and sensing that something was coming this way, Zi Ling quickly led Chao Wu back to the Heavenly Book Pavilion.

Asagiri was still a little dazed when she woke up, and it took her a while to remember what had just happened.

All she remembered was the Wujiu Sword emitting a loud clang, as if urging her to draw it. The clang was accompanied by thunder and lightning, and also emitted a blinding light. Asagiri felt as if her body was being pulled apart by the sword and the lightning, and then she knew nothing more.

She sat cross-legged inside the Heavenly Book Pavilion, staring blankly at her own hands.

In that instant, she saw many scenes, many deities. She couldn't make out the faces of many of them, but among them, she saw the deity Liujing.

In that scene, the goddess Ryukyou was dressed in very gorgeous clothes and was very tall, so Asagiri could only look up at her.

"Morning Mist Fairy." The spirit of the word floated cross-legged in mid-air.

"What's wrong?"

Zi Ling stroked her chin, hesitated for a long time before speaking, "Who exactly are you?"

Not to mention Chaowu, even Xiang Bei was stunned, not understanding why Ziling asked such a question.

What do you mean by that?

"I just feel that being able to ascend without cultivation is not something an ordinary person can do. Also, there's a very strange aura about you that I find very familiar."

Asagiri looked down at herself, still not understanding what Ziling meant.

She didn't feel that she was any different.

Zi Ling shook her head, "Never mind, maybe I made a mistake."

Asagiri didn't look at Ziling anymore; she herself couldn't understand what the images she saw meant.

Even now, she can't quite remember what she just saw. Asagi stopped dwelling on it and continued to go to the Heavenly Book Pavilion every day to listen to Master Nine Immortals' lectures, then cultivate according to what she had learned.

Before we knew it, a long time had passed.

Xiang Bei looked at Chao Wu's appearance with great satisfaction.

Whether in cultivation or in writing storybooks, Asagiri made considerable progress. She used those storybooks to buy and consume many elixirs, only to find that they did not help her cultivation at all, a complete waste of spirit stones.

After that, she stopped buying them, but she still wrote quite a few storybooks. As time passed, everyone stopped caring about how Xuanwu Divine Lord died and started following the serialized storybooks written by Chaowu. After she killed off a very popular supporting character, her fellow immortals offered a reward of spirit stones, vowing to find her and bring that supporting character back to life.

Asagiri kept her pen name tightly under wraps, afraid to reveal her true identity.

Of course, no one else knew that Xiang Bei, who had been following the story closely, took advantage of the situation to beat up Chao Wu, as she also really liked that supporting character.

She could urge her to update, but Asagiri now has her own set of rules for everything she does, and is not affected by Xiang Bei at all, which makes her happy at times, but also makes her feel melancholy.

The child has become sensible and has her own ideas, which also means she is not easily fooled.

Time in the realm of gods is but a fleeting moment.

Asagiri sensed another tribulation upon herself.

However, this calamity did not occur in the realm of gods.

Asagiri followed the instructions and went to the mortal realm to face her tribulation.

After landing in the mortal realm, Asagiri changed into ordinary clothes and looked at the surrounding scenery, feeling somewhat confused.

She was in a desolate wilderness, and she didn't understand why she had been led to this place.

There seems to be a dilapidated temple ahead. Let's go check it out.

Following Xiang Bei's directions, Chao Wu walked towards the dilapidated temple.

Do you remember this place?

Asagiri stood in front of the dilapidated temple, frowning as she pondered. "I seem to have some recollection of it," she said, pointing to a spot. "Before I ascended to Penglai, I lived nearby."

She just didn't expect that the temple would fall into disrepair after so many years.

Even the nearby villages are gone.

After ascending to heaven, it is equivalent to severing all worldly ties. If it weren't for the tribulation that Chaowu had to undergo, she wouldn't have been able to descend to the mortal realm.

The temple gates had collapsed, and as Chaowu walked in, the memories in her mind gradually returned.

“When I was little, my mother would bring me here to worship the Bodhisattva on the first and fifteenth of each lunar month.”

Asagiri doesn't like worshipping Buddha. When she goes to temples, she feels very uncomfortable and will cry and make a fuss.

Later, the abbot of the temple told her mother that she was born different from ordinary children and that there was no need to force her to do anything; she had her own destiny.

Her mother then stopped letting her enter the main hall, and instead made her wait outside, instructing her not to run around, and to go into the temple to worship the Bodhisattva herself.

Looking at the ginkgo tree in front of her, with golden ginkgo leaves scattered all over the ground, Chao Wu reached out and touched the trunk, as if she had returned to her childhood, sitting under the ginkgo tree waiting for her mother to come out.

Asagiri still didn't quite understand why she had been sent here.

She looked around the temple but didn't find anything special. Her former home was right there in front of her, and Asagiri went back to look at it, following her memory.

She ascended to heaven in broad daylight. Many people in the village witnessed her ascension. When they turned around, the villagers knelt on the ground, shouting for divine protection.

Asagiri never imagined that one day she would revisit this place.

The village is gone, not to mention the people who lived there.

Asagiri looked around and found her former home, which had collapsed and was covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves.

She stood there, a feeling she couldn't quite put into words.

Asagiri suddenly turned around and looked in one direction. "Who's there? Come out!"

The other person laughed out loud, the laughter echoing through the mountains and forests, giving people a chilling feeling.

Asagiri frowned and struck out with her palm towards the direction of the laughter, "Demon! Get out here now!"

The opponent actually blocked Asagiri's palm strike, and a wisp of mist drifted over, obscuring Asagiri's vision.

A voice that sounded like both a man and a woman came over, and a human figure slowly appeared in front of Chaowu. Although he was dressed in women's clothes, he was clearly a man in appearance.

He also has a face that bears a striking resemblance to Xuanwu Divine Lord.

"You are a celestial being from heaven. This humble demon, Mi Luo, greets you."

Asagiri didn't speak, but she actually sensed a familiar aura from the other person, as if they were one with her.

This monster was truly strange; it resembled the Goddess Xuanwu, yet it carried her aura.

For some reason, Asagiri felt a chill run down her spine, but she didn't let her guard down even when facing this strange monster.

"what you up to?"

The sudden appearance of such a monster at the place where she was destined for disaster naturally made her wary.

Chen Luo took two steps forward, getting closer to Chao Wu. Just as Chao Wu retreated, Chen Luo suddenly grabbed Chao Wu's arm.

"Fairy, I have something to tell you."

"open!"

Chen Luo suddenly laughed, and just as Chao Wu was about to break free, countless black threads suddenly flew out from Chen Luo's body and bound Chao Wu's hands and feet.

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that those black strands were actually hair.

Do you need any help?

Asagiri gently shook her head at the sky. After all, she was a deity, and naturally she had to deal with this little monster herself.

Chen Luo walked over, stroked Chao Wu's cheek and said, "Fairy, I dream of you every day. I am so happy to see you here."

"Dreaming of me? How could you dream of me?" Asagiri was confused by the monster's words, not knowing what kind of sorcery he was using.

Chen Luo grabbed Chao Wu's hand, which was tangled in her hair, and pressed it against his chest. "My heart is filled with fairies. It's a shame that some stinky Taoist priest has been chasing me lately. But somehow, I ended up here and met fairies."

When Chaowu placed her hand on Chenluo's chest, she clearly saw that what was inside his chest was not a beating heart, but a bead, a bead containing a soul.

Humans have three souls and seven spirits, and even immortals are no exception.

The soul within Chen Luo's body belongs to her.

Asagiri knew that her soul was incomplete, but she never expected to see her lost soul under such circumstances.

Why is my soul inside your body?

"If you want to know, fairy, why don't you hand over your soul to me and see for yourself? Then you'll understand what's going on."

Chen Luo smiled and reached out to grab Chao Wu. "Fairy, give me your soul, and I will kill that stinky Taoist priest."

"Don't even think about it!" Chaowu's hands and feet were entangled in hair, but she wasn't completely unable to move. She took the dagger Xiang Bei had given her and cut off Chen Luo's outstretched arm.

With a scream from Chenluo, the hair wrapped around Chaowu's wrist suddenly tightened, digging into her flesh, and blood flowed down the hair, dripping onto the ground.

"You have to give it to me whether you want to or not. I advise you to cooperate obediently, or you'll suffer less." Chen Luo's eyes turned fierce in an instant, and endless demonic energy spread from his body.

Asagiri tried to cut the hair with her dagger, but found that the hair was very strong and she couldn't cut it no matter what she did.

"Don't waste your energy. This is a strand of hair from a god in the divine realm. It's not so easy to cut."

"What kind of monster are you?"

This person exudes a demonic aura and looks so much like the Xuanwu God. He even has strands of the God's hair on his body. Could these strands of hair be the Xuanwu God's hair?

Did the god's hair fall to the mortal realm and turn him into a monster?

This is not unusual. Chao Wu has read many books in the Heavenly Book Pavilion and has also seen many records of things that gods accidentally fell to earth and transformed into human form.

What she couldn't understand was why Xuanwu God's hair had transformed into a demon, and why her soul was attached to his body.

Chen Luo manipulated her hair again, this time aiming directly at Chao Wu's chest, clearly eager to take her soul.

Asagami closed her eyes, the image of Xuanwu God Lord kept appearing in her mind.

The way Xuanwu smiled at her, the way he gave her things, and she even saw Xuanwu the God-King reach out his hand to her, calling out gently, "Shuyue, come here."

When she opened her eyes again, she froze the strand of hair that was about to pierce her body. With a forceful lift of her arm, she used her blood to cut off the hair wrapped around her body.

"How could this be? You are in love with that god, so how were you able to break free from my restraints?"

Asagiri wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Using Xuanwu Divine Lord's hair to restrain her did have some effect.

Unfortunately, she had only ever liked the portrait of Xuanwu God, and had never met Xuanwu God in person. It's likely that the God didn't even know her name, so how could he have shown her such a gentle expression?

Even if she had actually seen the Divine Lord, so what? In the end, that was all in the past. What does it have to do with the present? Even if the Divine Lord Xuanwu himself came, what impact could it have on her?

Moreover, since Xuanwu Divine Lord didn't call her by her name, it had even less impact on her.

"Impossible, those memories are clearly your soul..."

Chen Luo looked down at his chest, where a dagger was stuck. Chao Wu reached out towards his chest, and her Soul Pearl flew out of Chen Luo's chest and into her hand.

Without his soul, Chen Luo's expression suddenly changed.

His expression turned ferocious as he looked at Asagiri. "Lock me up! Give me back the Soul Pearl!"

His body was entangled in hair. Chao Wu condensed a ball of spiritual energy in his palm and was about to strike when an arrow flew over and struck Chen Luo between the eyebrows. He quickly turned to ashes.

Sensing someone approaching, Asagiri immediately concealed herself.

"Lord Xuanwu?" Looking at the two people running over, the one leading them was none other than Lord Xuanwu himself.

No, he should be the reincarnation of the Xuanwu God Lord now.

Asagiri writes stories, and he also keeps up with the latest happenings. It is said that in this life, the Xuanwu God Lord has been reincarnated as a cultivator, and now everyone is speculating whether he will ascend to the God Realm as a cultivator.

They even made a bet behind her back. Chaowu bet that she couldn't ascend, but she asked Immortal Lord Chenyi to bet that she could ascend. Either way, she wouldn't lose out.

The present-day Xuanwu God-King, dressed in white, held a sword in one hand, looked at the remaining strands of hair on the ground, and bent down to examine them.

"Senior brother, is that hair demon dead?" the woman who followed asked.

Upon seeing the woman's appearance, Asagiri felt that she looked somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her before.

The two appear to be fellow disciples.

From their conversation, we learned that Chen Luo was the hair demon they had been chasing, and because he looked like that senior brother, he was suspected of impersonating him.

Most importantly, Chen Luo's hair could hurt anyone, but it couldn't hurt his senior brother, the reincarnation of Xuanwu Divine Lord.

They chased after him all the way, but they never expected that Chen Luo would die like this.

"Senior brother, could he have faked his death? We absolutely cannot let him continue to do evil with a face that looks so much like yours."

Xuanwu Divine Lord simply stared fixedly at the spot where Chen Luo had disappeared. Gone. What he was looking for was gone.

Asagiri lost interest in watching and prepared to leave. Just as she took a step, she heard a shout and a sword flew over, grazing her cheek.

Even the junior sister scolded, "Senior brother, that Chen Luo is very cunning. He must have faked his death. We can't let him get away."

When the woman spoke, she was looking in the direction of the fog.

Asagiri and the woman exchanged a glance, and she immediately realized that the woman could see her.

Strangely, Asagiri didn't sense anything from the woman. Even the reincarnation of Xuanwu God couldn't see her, so how could she see him?

Asagiri didn't stay; she turned and left immediately.

The woman actually thrust her sword directly at Asagiri. Asagiri countered with a palm strike, knocking her to the ground without killing her, and then quickly left the area.

She hadn't gone far when Asagiri sensed her tribulation lightning approaching. She simply found a place to receive the lightning first.

When she heard thunder rumbling overhead, Asagiri would still tremble involuntarily. This time, she was able to use her magic to create a protective barrier around herself.

This time, the power of the heavenly lightning was greater than the last time.

Asagiri held on until the third bolt of lightning, but in the end she couldn't hold on any longer. She was struck by the residual force of the lightning, and pain swept over her whole body, but she gritted her teeth and didn't utter a sound.

The Soul Pearl in her arms was also shattered, emitting a faint blue light, and then quickly entered Asagiri's body.

Once her soul was repaired, the pain from being struck by lightning vanished instantly, and Chaowu watched as her soul emitted a silver light.

She successfully survived the ordeal, and even her soul was restored to its original state.

It turns out that the guidance from the unseen world was to help her find her lost soul.

The two fellow students from earlier have caught up with us.

Asagiri didn't want to clash with the senior and junior siblings. She had descended to the mortal realm to undergo tribulation, and she hadn't expected to encounter the reincarnation of the Xuanwu God. She also didn't want to interfere with the God's karma. If the God failed to complete his tribulation in this life, it would be troublesome if it were attributed to her.

Before they arrived, Asagiri had already returned to the realm of the gods.

The fairy in charge was waiting for her in the temple. When she saw that she had returned safely, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Asagiri told the head fairy that she had seen the reincarnation of the God Lord. Upon hearing that she had not interfered with the God Lord's tribulation, the head fairy felt that she had done the right thing.

"And there are monsters formed from the God's hair?"

“Yes, my soul is still inside that monster’s body. I find it very strange. I clearly have never seen Lord Xuanwu before. How could his hair be with my soul?”

"This... is perhaps just a coincidence," the fairy in charge said.

Asagiri felt that things were not so simple. She did not tell the fairy in charge that the woman who followed the reincarnation of Xuanwu God was able to see through her illusion.