Chapter 178 Blessings "Hmm, where are we going?"
Why leave?
"You didn't know?" Yu Ren looked Jiang Yu Huo up and down with suspicion. "Weren't you from Cloud City?"
Jiang Yuhu shook her head slightly; she had never heard of this place before.
"No wonder." Yu Ren's lips twitched, and he smiled.
She looked up at the sky, as if thinking of something beautiful, her golden eyes sparkling.
"At that time, Li Yi and I had been together in Yanling City for many years. He was one of the top cultivators in the world and had tried many ways to prolong his life. One day, he happily told me that he had extended his life to four hundred years old. I was also very happy. I received news from my clansmen that they were about to ascend to the Ninth Heaven. The Feather Clan would all move from the forests of Yunzhou to Yunzhong City in the Ninth Heaven."
"We are descendants of the Feather God. When the connection between heaven and earth was severed, the Feather God returned to the divine realm, leaving us on earth. Returning to the heavens has been the common wish of all Feather Clan members for thousands of years. Although Cloud City is not the divine realm, the four pillars of heaven have collapsed, and the Nine Heavens is the closest place to the divine realm. Once there, the Feather Clan will possess even greater power and a longer lifespan."
“Of course I will go with my people.” The winged man looked at the pale green phosphorescent fire at his feet, his eyes gradually dimming. “But while he said he was happy for me, he secretly prepared the Blood Binding Heart Seal for me.”
Jiang Yuhuo asked, "If you go to the Nine Heavens, are you never going back?"
Otherwise, why would Li Yi insist on keeping her here? Such a large formation would consume most of a cultivator's cultivation.
"Not so. The Feathered People can ascend, and naturally they can descend as well." Her eyes held an air of arrogance. "It's just that for those living on Earth, the Nine Heavens are unattainable; even the most powerful cultivators cannot reach them." The Feathered Person's tone shifted, her golden eyes suddenly fixed on Jiang Yuhuo. "And you, my kin. Even though you possess the blood of the Feathered People, without your original wings, you will never be able to reach Cloud City. You've never even been there..."
Looking into those stern eyes, Jiang Yuhuo couldn't help but hold her breath. It seemed as if the eyes were blaming her for not taking good care of her body, just like an elder.
She had no choice in what happened back then, and her body was already in pieces. Just as Yu Ren said, she didn't have the ability to protect her body at that time.
Jiang Yuhuo lowered her eyes slightly, unwilling to defend herself. As for Cloud City, she would probably never be able to go there in this lifetime. She forced a smile and said lightly, "It's not a place I should have gone to anyway... If I hadn't met you, senior, I would never have known that there was a city above the clouds."
Jia Yue took in her gloomy expression.
He knew her disappointment; after losing her people from Liyue Village, she really longed to have a group of people connected to her by blood.
He couldn't help but ask, "What if we could return to that winged human's body? Would that be possible...?"
"Of course!" Yu Ran answered decisively. She began to look closely at the handsome merman who had been guarding her people, a hint of amazement flashing in her eyes.
“As long as she transforms back into a Winged Human, even without sufficient power, the guidance left behind by the Winged Humans will lead her across the Nine Heavens.” Her eyes narrowed slightly, tinged with provocation. “But you, perhaps, will never see her again.”
The merman's expression changed as expected. The winged man scoffed as if he had seen through it all; love always brings control.
Jiang Yuhuo's hand was suddenly grasped. She turned her head to look at Jia Yue, only to see him shake his head slightly. "Senior is right. I am indeed afraid, but what I fear even more is that she doesn't have me in her heart. I believe that as long as she has me in her heart, she will come to see me no matter where she is."
"I hope that's really what you think." Yu Ren chuckled. "It's too early to talk about these things now."
She continued solemnly to Jiang Yuhuo, "You saved me, and I originally intended to pass on my power to you. After returning to the Nine Heavens, this power is superfluous to me. But you no longer have the body of a Feathered Human, and now you can't even withstand the spiritual fire power in your bloodline, so what can you use to bear my power?"
Jiang Yuhu stared blankly into those stern eyes that revealed worry, unsure of what to say for a moment, "Senior..."
"If one day you have the means to accept this, please call me, and I will give you everything I promised. But now, I must leave..."
The winged man flapped his wings, and a powerful vortex blew open the tomb chamber, which was already on the verge of collapse. The rubble was swept up by the vortex and hurled to the side, without affecting anyone in the tomb.
Amidst the commotion, she heard Yu Ren's voice, "Since you insist on protecting those two members of the Li family, I will spare their lives."
Suddenly, sunlight streamed through the cracked hole. Having been in the dim light for too long, Jiang Yuhuo squinted; it was already daylight.
The pure white winged figure was bathed in a pale gold hue in the morning light, making it seem as if it were radiating light, so beautiful that it was almost unbearable to look directly at.
Looking at her face, which resembled his former self, Jiang Yuhuo thought of another person.
The face became clearer and clearer; the winged person gently landed in front of her. "However, I still want to thank you."
The winged man cupped Jiang Yuhuo's face in his hands, saying, "My kinsman, this blessing is for you."
The moment the kiss landed on her brow, a voice entered Jiang Yuhuo's mind—it was Yu Ren speaking. But she didn't understand the meaning of those words; it was a language Jiang Yuhuo couldn't comprehend.
"May you be reborn from the flames." The voice explained this to her again in her mind.
It was still an incomprehensible sentence, but before Jiang Yuhuo could ask, the winged man had already spread his wings and taken flight, soaring into the sky beyond the mountains and rocks.
"Wait a minute!" Jiang Yuhuo's heart tightened, and her mouth moved faster than her brain. Should she really ask that question that had been buried in her heart?
The winged man turned around, his gaze slightly narrowed as he waited.
Jiang Yuhuo took a deep breath. "Do you know a winged person named Si?"
Jiang Yuhuo looked up at the sky, her dark eyes filled with an expectation she herself was unaware of. She saw the winged man in the morning light shake his head, and in that instant, Jiang Yuhuo couldn't say whether she felt more disappointed or relieved.
I'm both afraid that she's gone and afraid that she's still alive and well.
After so many years of separation, did she, like the winged person before her, only treat mortals as a temporary stop, to be forgotten once the journey was over?
But why leave Jiang Liuyun with a lingering hope? He is a mortal with no spiritual power, and even if he knows she will never come back, he cannot trap her like Li Yi did.
The voice of the winged people came from above.
"Don't be discouraged. I've been away from the Feather Clan for hundreds of years, and there are many Feather People I don't even know." She smiled gently at Jiang Yuhuo, who was now a tiny little thing below her. "Perhaps one day, you can come to Cloud City to find her yourself."
The winged man is gone.
The sunlight shone into every corner of the tomb, dispelling the darkness.
Such an environment was extremely dangerous for a soul, so Wen Yizhan had no choice but to wrap Wen Ruoxin's soul in a black robe and take her away from there as quickly as possible. He only had time to say goodbye to Jiang Yuhuo before hurrying off to Wen Ruoxin's original tomb.
Looking at the chaotic tomb and the body lying on the ground, Jiang Yuhuo frowned. Finally, she picked up the unconscious Li Mengbai and handed him over to Gu Yujingzhe and his group, who had been waiting outside the ancestral tomb. They were all trusted subordinates of Li Mengbai and would take him back to the Li family.
"Young Madam, aren't you going back with the Young Master?" Jingzhe asked tentatively, glancing at the person standing next to Jiang Yuhuo.
I'm not going back.
Hearing this answer, Jingzhe's heart sank heavily. He knew very well what would happen if the young master woke up and couldn't see the young mistress. Just as he was about to ask her to stay, he saw the woman stop and turn around, saying, "Jingzhe, don't call me young mistress anymore." She glanced at the unconscious man, "I will break the contract with him, and from now on, we will have no relationship."
These words struck Jingzhe like a thunderbolt, leaving him frozen in place. The words he had prepared to say to persuade him to stay vanished, leaving him speechless for a long moment before finally managing to stammer, "This...this, it can't be..."
Realizing that disaster was imminent, Jingzhe anxiously tried to wake Li Mengbai, but he was under some kind of spell and could not be woken up no matter what she did, while the two figures had already gone far away.
Jiang Yuhuo returned to the ancestral mausoleum, to Wen Ruoxin's tomb. The tomb door was closed, so she waited outside.
It was a very inconspicuous little hill, but in a good location, in a corner far from the Li family cemetery. Only one tomb was carved out of the hill, with exquisitely crafted bracket sets and flying beams imitating those of a dwelling in front of the tomb entrance. It was difficult to tell at first glance whether this was Li Shichuan's neglect or a carefully arranged arrangement.
Thinking of this family, Jiang Yuhuo's feelings were complicated. The "madness" that people talked about originated from the curse of the Feathered People, which made them commit all kinds of evil deeds while also seeming to be somewhat powerless. However, the consequences of these evil deeds were borne by more innocent people, such as Wen Ruoxin, her senior brother, and even everyone in Liyue Village, and even herself.
"Is that winged woman named Si your mother?"
The mermaid's voice instantly pulled Jiang Yuhuo out of her thoughts.
Recalling the entire array of statues beneath the Spirit-Suppressing Array, Jiang Yuhuo's expression darkened. After a slight hesitation, he finally nodded, "Right... Speaking of which, it was that senior in the Spirit-Suppressing Array who told me this name."
"Grandmaster?"
“Yes.” Jiang Yuhuo nodded. “He… seems to miss her a lot.”
I wonder if he was also a stopover for Yu Ren Si in the human world.
Jia Yue smiled. "He traveled in the mountains for a long time, and perhaps that's when we met."
“My dad looks a lot like him.”
Jia Yue had seen Jiang Liuyun before, and now that she thought about it, he did indeed look remarkably like Situ Xin. But this resemblance was certainly not something to be amused by Jiang Yuhuo, especially considering that Jiang Liuyun was only mortal at the time, and that he met Yu Ren Si after Situ Xin.
"Perhaps it's just a coincidence that they look alike."
Jiang Yuhu gave a wry smile, "Yes, it just so happens that I ran into her every time."
Thinking of this, her eyes grew even dimmer.
Could his father be another Wen Ruoxin? A substitute for Situ Xin? So that after being disliked, he can be easily abandoned, and perhaps... she has already started a family with someone else and had other children...
"Don't overthink it. It's not easy for a winged person to conceive. Since she decided to give birth to you, she must not be a heartless person." Jia Yue patted her shoulder and comforted her softly.
When Wen Yizhan opened the tomb door, this was the scene that greeted her.
The white-clad, blue-haired merman put his arm around the shoulder of the person next to him, showing deep affection, while the black-clad female cultivator stood quietly to the side, showing no resistance to the merman's touch.
The two looked like a very close couple. Did the junior sister eventually forgive him?
Recalling the two hands clasped together in the tomb, and the fact that no one around him refuted the merman's words... something welled up in her heart again, but Wen Yizhan immediately suppressed it.
I can't think about it anymore; he's already promised.
"Senior brother!"
Hearing the sound of the tomb door opening, Jiang Yuhuo immediately turned around and looked over, only to see Wen Yizhan standing alone at the tomb door. "Where is Auntie?"
Wen Yizhan smiled at her and waved a ceramic jar in her hand.
"Her body and soul are both placed here. In accordance with her wishes, we will take her back to her hometown for burial."
Jiang Yuhuo blurted out, "Where is her hometown?"
"It's not a bustling city, just a small place." Wen Yizhan smiled silently, saying nothing more.
Jiang Yuhuo frowned, somewhat puzzled. "Senior brother, don't you want me to go with you?"
Wen Yizhan lowered his head slightly and pursed his lips. "Junior sister has things to do, and senior brother... also has his own things to do."
Jiang Yu said urgently, "But you are still injured. I can treat you on the way."
"No need." He glanced at the merman beside Jiang Yuhuo. "Thanks to Master Zongzi's merman pearl, I'm much better now."
Fearing that Jiang Yuhuo wouldn't believe him, he even held up his hand and spun around in front of her to convince her that he had fully recovered.
"Junior sister, please don't worry about letting me go. I'll be fine. In the years before you came to Kunlun, I traveled alone in the mountains and I was just fine, wasn't I?"
Jiang Yuhuo smiled and finally nodded.
Wen Yizhan summoned her spirit sword, which hovered in mid-air. Just as she was about to ascend, she seemed to suddenly remember something and turned back. "Oh right, this is for you."
A diamond-shaped token was placed in Jiang Yuhuo's hand. Wen Yizhan scratched his head, clicked his tongue, and said with a hint of distress, "If that kid still refuses to break the contract with you, you can use this to blackmail him. If he doesn't break the contract, he won't get this thing."
Seeing Jiang Yuhuo's eyes widen slightly as she stared blankly at the shape of her palm, Wen Yizhan couldn't help but pat her head. "Don't worry, he's been plotting for this for so many years, he'll agree."
Wen Yizhan also left.
Jiang Yuhuo clutched the Li family's patriarch's token, silently gazing at the horizon until the figure riding the sword disappeared completely from sight.
She sighed and said goodbye to those around her, "Jia Yue, I'm leaving too."
The merman smiled slightly at her, "Hmm, where are we going?"
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