Chapter 198 Spiritual Vein "...He's not doing well right now."...
Ascending to the divine realm...
Upon hearing this word, Jiang Yuhuo was slightly lost in thought.
She had certainly seen the countless thunderclaps of the past few days, but at that time she was fully engaged in the attack on Shannan County City and had no time to take a closer look.
It turns out he was the one who started it.
Is it finally time to leave?
But over all these years, no immortal has ever successfully ascended to heaven...
Jiang Yuhuo looked up at the night sky. Was there really a divine realm there?
Jiang Yuhuo wanted to hear more, but it seemed that because they were not in Tianque, the two Tianque disciples did not know much. After a moment of distraction, they changed the subject.
After the two disciples left, Jiang Yuhu lingered in the tree for a long time. The eastern sky was dark and gloomy; even the Tianque Mountain, which seemed to connect heaven and earth, was not visible from there.
They are too far apart.
She had things she wanted to accomplish, and he had his own mission.
Jiang Yuhuo sat on a tree, the cold wind blowing her clothes, and she felt a slight emptiness in her heart.
"Jiang Xianjun!" Someone found her, a young voice excited and happy, "So you were hiding here!"
A young man spun up a tree and sat down beside her, his body carrying a faint scent of wine.
Ji Qiu'an took out a pot of wine from behind him and handed it to Jiang Yuhuo. His face was flushed with a faint blush, but his eyes were clear and bright.
"The lady of the house the Immortal Lord asked us to protect sent over a lot of wine, saying it was a token of gratitude. Those guys are like rats to oil when they see wine; I barely managed to keep one jar for myself."
His eyes held anticipation as he cautiously probed, "...They all say it's a rare and excellent wine, Immortal Lord...would you like to have a drink with me? There's nothing much going on tomorrow anyway..."
"How is that lady of the house?" Jiang Yuhuo looked at the wine in Ji Qiu'an's hand. There was a stamp on the pot with the name of the restaurant. She didn't take it, but asked suddenly.
"She seems to be doing well. She said her family escaped unscathed, and the restaurant wasn't destroyed in the war..." Ji Qiu'an replied, then, seeing Jiang Yuhu staring blankly at the wine pot, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "That lady... is she an old friend of the Immortal Lord?"
"Why not go out and see her?"
Jiang Yuhu smiled faintly and shook her head, saying, "I won't go. It's enough to know that she's doing well."
When they met again by chance, it was Jinzhi who took them in and protected them from the pursuit of the Dayong soldiers. However, what she brought to Jinzhi was poison. Even though Li Mengbai was ruthless, it was Jinzhi who personally brought Li Mengbai to Jinzhi's side.
Even a small, unintentional action by an immortal could bring unnecessary disaster to mortals; it's best not to disturb her life for now.
Ji Qiu'an smiled, her eyes shining. "Immortal Lord, you can rest assured, I will definitely protect them."
He poured a glass of wine and handed it to Jiang Yuhuo, and the air was immediately filled with the mellow aroma of the wine.
Jiang Yuhuo recalled how her senior brother and master loved to drink on Zhenyang Peak, enjoying their drinks immensely and never getting drunk. She assumed she would be like them. Once, she secretly drank a few sips when her senior brother wasn't looking, and ended up drunk for three days and three nights. When she woke up, her senior brother stayed by her bedside, pleading with her, "Good junior sister, please tell Master that I didn't force you to drink."
She readily admitted it, but her master still punished her senior brother, scolding him for being such a grown man and not being able to control such a small wine pot.
What are they doing now?
Jiang Yuhuo took the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp. The spicy and mellow taste made her head spin slightly immediately. Those vague feelings of loss and the fading memories of old friends seemed to have been temporarily cast aside from her mind, leaving only an empty and indifferent mind.
She didn't know how much she drank. By the end, she was almost unconscious, but in her hazy state, she felt that the cool person was back beside her. She leaned against him, feeling very sad, so sad that it brought out the reluctance buried deep in her heart.
She asked vaguely, "Are you leaving again... Xiao Hai..."
The man froze, his movements slightly resistant, as if he wanted to push her away.
Her sense of loss deepened. Even though she was completely drunk, the current situation was somehow branded into her heart, as if stamped with a seal. "Go...go...I can't stay with you..."
They are destined to die, and they don't know when they will reach their end, unlike the merfolk who live for hundreds or thousands of years.
When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Yuhuo thought she must still be drunk, otherwise how could she see her senior brother next to her again?
She was about to close her eyes when she heard a clear voice, "Awake? Do you have a headache?"
Upon hearing that long-lost, clear voice, even carrying a familiar, teasing laugh, Jiang Yuhuo turned her head in a daze, looking at that incredibly kind face, and murmured, "Senior Brother..."
Wen Yizhan touched her forehead, a smile appearing on his lips. "I didn't expect that with Senior Brother gone, Junior Sister would become such a drunkard. This time, the old man can't blame me."
The dull pain in her forehead immediately subsided after being soothed by Wen Yizhan's spiritual power. Knowing that he was talking about the past, Jiang Yuhu smiled, her eyes still tinged with drunkenness, "Master is not an unreasonable person; he actually knows everything in his heart."
"Yes, he was just using this as an excuse to teach me a lesson. He never really blames you." After her headache subsided, Wen Yizhan immediately removed her hand without lingering for a moment.
He withdrew so quickly that Jiang Yuhuo was momentarily stunned.
"I won't say much more." Wen Yizhan looked at her, his gaze suddenly becoming serious. "Junior sister, I've come to see you for two reasons, and to give you something."
Jiang Yuhuo sat up and watched as he took out an ice box completely enveloped in spiritual energy from his storage bag.
The chilling spiritual energy made Jiang Yuhuo immediately realize whose it was.
The ice box is transparent, so you can see what's inside without opening it. At first glance, it looks like a red rope, but upon closer inspection, you can see that it is made up of countless crimson threads coming together to form a thin rope-like thing, which is coiled inside the box, and the rope moves from time to time, as if it has a life of its own.
That was a spiritual vein.
Her spiritual veins were stripped away by Jia Qianyang.
Jiang Yuhuo took it in a daze.
The box felt cold to the touch, but to protect the spiritual veins inside from decaying and freezing, the cold was not biting, but rather a gentle, just-right coolness that enveloped them.
Did he give it to you?
This was practically a no-brainer; besides Jia Yue, no one else knew where Jia Qianyang had hidden his body and would retrieve the spiritual vein for her. But Jiang Yuhuo still asked. She even wanted to ask why he hadn't come himself. But then she remembered what the Tianque disciple had said—that he was undergoing tribulation to become a Nascent Soul cultivator and certainly wouldn't have time for her, nor would he need to.
He has done more than enough.
"Yes, he asked me to pass this on to you, and told you to renew it as soon as possible." Wen Yizhan looked at the person in front of her who seemed lost in thought, and felt a slight bitterness in her heart.
Continuing from the previous body...? Perhaps the original body's spiritual veins can allow her current body to withstand the backlash of the fire element, but how long can this body last?
“If you ever wish to switch back, Junior Sister, Master and I will come to support you.” Wen Yizhan paused slightly. “I told Master about your body being restored, and he was very happy.”
Jiang Yuhuo's heart tightened, but he looked down at the ice box in his hand and couldn't answer a word for a long time.
Jia Yue had told her that he and Wen Yizhan had retrieved the body together, and her senior brother naturally knew this. It was only natural for him to tell their master, but now…
"Hmm... let's wait a bit longer, I'm not ready yet," Jiang Yuhuo heard her own voice reply.
“Alright.” Recalling the scene in the Demon Cave where the merman held her body and wept blood and tears, Wen Yizhan still felt a pang of sadness, thinking that she was just having trouble facing the past. “If Junior Sister is ready, you must tell Master and me. Don’t try to be brave on your own.”
"Um."
Jiang Yuhuo was in a state of confusion and nodded in response, completely unaware that Wen Yizhan was so certain that if he and Zhang Zhenyang hadn't been there, she would have been all alone during the body swap, and so sure that the person who should have been by her side wouldn't have appeared.
Wen Yizhan bid her farewell and prepared to return to Kunlun. Because of Jiang Yuhuo's earth-shattering sword strike, Zhenyang Peak was now teeming with people from top to bottom. Jiang Yuhuo ignored these people, but it kept Zhang Zhenyang extremely busy, with many wanting to become his disciples and seek his guidance.
As he got up to leave, he turned back and met a slightly expectant look in the eyes of the fishing lights on the river. He knew that this expectation was not for him.
He stopped in his tracks. "Junior sister, is there anything else you want to ask me?"
Jiang Yuhuo froze slightly, about to speak, but Wen Yizhan spoke faster than her.
"You want to ask about that merman, right?"
Jiang Yuhuo was surprised, "How did you know, Senior Brother?"
Wen Yizhan smiled bitterly, "Because last night, a drunk person mistook me for someone else."
Jiang Yuhuo was even more astonished. She was really too drunk, otherwise how could she not recognize her senior brother?
"I'm sorry, senior brother, I..."
"No need to apologize, it's not my fault, Junior Sister." Wen Yizhan smiled and pointed to the ice box in her hand. "This thing is protected by his spiritual power and has his aura. It's normal for Junior Sister to mistake him for someone else."
"only……"
Wen Yizhan recalled the way that person looked when they came to find him.
"Give this to her." The merman, dressed in blood-stained white robes and looking disheveled, took out the intact ice box from his robes. "This is the last thing I want you to do. Give it to her personally. This is hers. Let her... keep it in her body as soon as possible."
Wen Yizhan recognized it as a spiritual vein.
He had promised to do three things for this man. The first thing he asked was to retrieve the Heart-Protecting Scale from the sea monster, the second thing was to take him to his junior sister's body, and the third thing was to return his junior sister's spiritual veins to him.
Two of the three promises were related to his junior sister, and each one was simpler than the previous ones.
After giving him his instructions, the merman was exhausted and leaned against the wall, barely managing to stay upright, while pursuers were closing in behind him. He silently urged Wen Yizhan on, but his pale face broke into a slight smile after seeing Wen Yizhan put away the ice box, regaining his usual calm and composed demeanor.
Before the Heavenly Clan members who came to capture him arrived, he struggled to his feet, his body extremely weak, and left with the words, "Give her the thing, but don't let her know anything."
Wen Yizhan didn't know what he had done or how he had obtained the spiritual vein, but she was finally certain that this merman was deeply in love with his junior sister.
"Just what?" Jiang Yuhuo felt inexplicably uneasy.
After a moment of silence, Wen Yizhan finally spoke, "...He is not doing well right now."
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