Han Zhuojun laughed heartily: "The victor is king, the loser is an outlaw. So what if those things are true? The Han family stands at the top of this world now. Now that I'm back, the Han family will only go further. As for you, you'll forget about it..."
Those unbearable past events will eventually be forgotten, because history is written by the victors.
Meng Wanwan said impatiently, "Enough with the nonsense, let's get him!"
After saying that, she threw out the red fan, which transformed into seven long swords with their tips facing each other. They spun rapidly and instantly formed a large array that enveloped the Blazing Lake.
Shangguan Liuyue said, "His true form is not here. You only need to save Chu You."
After saying that, he got up to leave.
Meng Wanwan quickly called out to him, "Where are you going?"
Shangguan Liuyue smiled and said, "I know where he is, don't worry."
After saying that, he left the Lake of Blazing Flames.
Meng Wanwan could only focus on saving Chu You.
Chu You was already unconscious. As soon as Meng Wanwan's formation came into contact with the ball of light, she felt its repulsion.
She tried to mobilize all the spiritual energy in her body, but to no avail.
Just then, Han Zhuojun, seemingly with a mischievous glint in his eye, suddenly lowered the ball of light, startling everyone.
Helian Tengyun said, "I'll do it."
Having said that, he leaped up. At the same time, Meng Wanwan's formation appeared beneath his feet. Helian Tengyun waved his hand, and the overwhelming power directly carved a huge chasm in the lava. The scorching power, like a raging storm, crashed onto the ball of light, and instantly, the ball of light dimmed considerably.
Everyone was overjoyed.
However, the next moment, everyone was stunned.
Inside the ball of light, Chu You's originally calm face began to contort, and blood slowly trickled from the corner of his mouth.
As the ball of light faded, more and more blood flowed from his mouth.
His tightly closed eyes slowly opened, filled with pain.
"Second Senior Brother!"
"Chu You!"
Meng Wanwan gritted her teeth and glared at Han Zhuojun, who was laughing maniacally across from her: "You old bastard!"
Helian Tengyun had no choice but to return to the shore and said in a deep voice, "That ball of light seems to be a restriction, and it is connected to Chu You's primordial spirit. If we forcibly break it, Chu You's soul will probably be damaged."
Helian Xiao said angrily, "Too cunning! We can't save them, and we can't not save them either."
"Save them," a soft, cute voice suddenly spoke.
Niannian stood on Meng Wanwan's shoulder, looked at the ball of light, and said something.
"She's awake."
Meng Wanwan didn't react: "What?"
Niannian looked at her, tilted her head, and nuzzled her with her soft, adorable fox face: "Master..."
Meng Wanwan hurriedly reached out to hug it, but it was too late.
Niannian, however, faced the ball of light and leaped towards it.
At the same time, thunder roared from Han Zhuojun's side, and a majestic female voice rang out.
"Han Zhuojun, you still dare to come to my Hundred Flowers Forest."
The lightning bolt seemed to strike the Lake of Blazing Flames through the light and shadow. As the thoughts swirled around the ball of light and transformed into a cloud of mist, the lightning descended from the sky.
The purple lightning struck the ball of light, instantly shattering it into pieces and causing it to dissipate.
A blue bead flew out of Chu You's mouth, meeting the rolling thunder.
Someone shouted, "That's tribulation lightning! He's about to undergo tribulation! This is the Core Formation tribulation lightning!"
Meng Wanwan stared blankly at the person in the lightning tribulation, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
Chu You has been rescued.
What about her thoughts?
A gentle hand grasped her shoulder, and when she turned around, she saw Meng Xiuyi looking at her.
"Wanwan, protect your second senior brother."
Meng Wanwan nodded slowly, and her Hundred Treasures Seal was formed again, firmly protecting Chu You inside. The tribulation lightning struck the formation directly.
"Pfft—" Meng Wanwan spat out a mouthful of blood, and the white mark between her eyebrows instantly disappeared.
"Baby!" Helian Xiao shouted, rushing anxiously to her side.
Without Niannian, Meng Wanwan's physical endurance decreased significantly.
“Niannian—” Helian Xiao looked in Chu You’s direction.
But there was no trace of Niannian anywhere.
Meng Wanwan closed her eyes, and suddenly, a golden light shot out from the white mist and pierced directly into her brow.
Meng Wanwan suddenly opened her eyes, her spiritual power surged, and her strength increased rapidly.
Thunder roared, and the sky darkened.
The moment Chu You's tribulation to form his core ended, the golden light between Meng Wanwan's brows shot out again, striking the pillar in the sky directly. In an instant, the earth shook and mountains trembled.
Chu You opened his eyes with a dazed look on his face.
"Get out of here! This place is going to collapse!" someone shouted.
Meng Xiuyi leaped up, caught Chu You, and brought him back.
Meng Wanwan was also picked up by Helian Tengyun, and everyone rushed out.
Meng Wanwan watched the golden light, still swirling around the Heavenly Pillar, gradually recede into the distance. She closed her eyes and listened to the voice in her mind.
"The divine status has been restored, the seal has been opened, memories have been recovered, and the Heavenly Dao has been cleansed."
At this time, Chongyang Mountain was shrouded in night.
When people ran out, they saw the majestic Chongyang Mountain shrouded in a pink mist. A bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, shattering the mist into pieces like glass, which then dissipated into the air.
In the boundless darkness, Chongyang Mountain stood tall. A golden light swirled up, carrying wisps of white mist that flew towards the sky, the mist like wisps of smoke, slowly descending into the heavens.
As the mist returned to the heavens and earth, the hazy memories in her mind gradually became clear.
“The divine status has returned to its rightful place…” Meng Wanwan looked at the golden light.
There are no companion spirits or systems here. It's just that hundreds of years ago, someone used their own divine essence to merge with the memories from before the war between gods and demons, and then sent them into reincarnation.
And who will be accompanied by its reincarnation?
It must be that person you call a friend.
Meng Wanwan watched as the golden light, after sending all the mist into the sky, flew rapidly southward.
"Half-step God-Emperor... So, she's more than just a half-step God-Emperor."
Hundreds of years ago, a woman named Baihua Zhenzhen used her complete divine essence to create Nian Nian, merging it with a wisp of her best friend's divine essence and casting it into the torrent of time.
She didn't know when her friend's soul would be reunited, or where he would be successfully reincarnated. She could only wait, endlessly wait.
She learned that the Heavenly Way was being obscured, the truth was being buried, and people's memories were being gradually erased. So she consulted with another close friend and used all her divine power, along with Shangguan Liuyue's memories, to create a scroll that would permanently seal that true history within it.
They wait for the day when someone will return with their thoughts, open the scroll, and put the name "Zhuting" back into the world.
Let people remember the woman who was wronged by the whole world.
And the cruelest truths lie on this Chongyang Mountain.
Meng Xiuyi was the first to notice that something was wrong with Meng Wanwan's expression, and quickly asked her, "Wawa, are you alright?"
Meng Wanwan took a deep breath, her voice full of grievance.
"Father, Niannian is gone."
The little fox that had been with her for nearly ten years was gone just like that.
However, the little fox's fate was already decided the moment it appeared.
Meng Xiuyi held her and whispered, "Do you know where she went?"
Meng Wanwan nodded.
Meng Xiuyi patted her head: "Then, let's settle things here and go find her, okay?"
Meng Wanwan nodded.
"Father, let's go up the mountain," Meng Wanwan said.
"good."
The two seals that had trapped Chongyang Mountain have been completely lifted, and a path to the mountain has appeared.
When Chu You was telling Yun Zhao why he was at Blazing Lake, they realized that Chu You was Bai Yuan's "gift" to them.
Helian Tengyun said, "That's true. If it weren't for the combination of the Azure Wood Bead and the Blazing Flame Lake, which forcibly raised your strength to the Golden Core stage, this seal would definitely still not be able to be broken today."
He sneered, "Han Zhuojun probably knows this too, but he didn't expect that he couldn't kill Chu You, so he could only place a restriction on him."
Even more unexpectedly, that restriction was broken by a god.
Godhood, that's a divine being...
Everyone looked south as they climbed the mountain.
The southern sky was bathed in red, as if waiting for some light to appear, and someone took flight.
In the south, Han Zhuojun looked at the two people who had reappeared in front of her, and her smile only grew wider.
He touched his head and chuckled.
"My memories have all returned. It seems that the child has been rescued. Baihua Zhenzhen, Shangguan Liuyue, how have you been? Six hundred years have passed, and this time, it's the three of us facing each other again."
A woman dressed in white stood atop a plum tree, quietly looking at the girl before her, and said calmly, "Han Zhuojun, have you really stooped to refining the spiritual roots of your blood relatives? You really are regressing more and more."
Han Zhuojun's smile froze: "Baihua Zhenzhen, after all these years, your mouth is still so annoying."
Shangguan Liuyue strode over, fanning herself with her fan: "You're not as good as her. She's just annoying with her mouth, but you're annoying as a whole."
Han Zhuojun waved his hand, his murderous aura palpable.
Shangguan Liuyue deftly raised her hand and blocked her way: "Do you think you're still the same Han Zhuojun?"
Han Zhuojun didn't care. He touched his hair and laughed, "That's true, but I can surpass my former self."
He looked north and smiled happily: "They must have already gone up Chongyang Mountain."
Baihua Zhenzhen frowned: "What do you mean?"
The long whip bound Han Zhuojun tightly.
Han Zhuojun laughed and said, "Guess why I'm here?"
Shangguan Liuyue was startled: "A diversionary tactic!"
Having said that, he vanished from the spot in an instant.
Baihua Zhenzhen grabbed the person directly, and with her bare hands, she actually cleaved open a door, threw the person inside, and then disappeared from the spot.
north.
Meng Wanwan and the others slowly walked up to Chongyang Hall on Chongyang Mountain. The entire mountain was quiet; there wasn't even a sound of wind.
Lan Qiao clutched his chest, his pace slowing further and further. Cong Ying supported him, asking, "What's wrong?"
Lanqiao shook his head.
Just then, Meng Wanwan turned around, looked at Lanqiao, and said, "Brother Lanqiao, are you tired?"
Lanqiao shook his head.
Meng Wanwan said, "If you're tired, take a rest. Come find me again when you're ready, okay?"
Those who heard her speak were puzzled, yet they felt there was nothing wrong with what she said.
Meng Wanwan reached out and took Lan Qiao's hand.
Lanqiao's hands were icy cold, with wisps of black energy slowly swirling around them.
Lanqiao looked at his hands, somewhat puzzled.
Meng Wanwan smiled and said, "Let's go, I'll hold your hand."
Lanqiao nodded: "Okay."
The closer one gets to Chongyang Hall at the summit, the clearer the chilling aura becomes.
Now, everyone realizes that this so-called place for receiving divine pronouncements is probably already deserted.
However, when they pushed open the gates of Chongyang Palace, their worldviews were shattered.
Chongyang Hall was very large; at a glance, the distance from the mountain gate to the main hall was about two miles. However, this large square was densely packed with people.
They all sat cross-legged, palms up, looking up at the sky, as if questioning the will of Heaven.
These people looked so lifelike, as if they had just entered a meditative state, but everyone present knew that they were all dead.
There was not a sound.
"Look at their clothes!"
Only then, by the moonlight, could people see the clothes they were wearing.
"Are they from the Han family?"
"Isn't this a member of the Zhao family?"
"This should be from Chongyang Palace, right?"
"This is... a member of the Bai family!"
"There are still some people from other sects here, and they all seem to be quite old!"
"Could these people be those powerful figures who disappeared six hundred years ago?"
"How could this be? Didn't they die in the war between gods and demons? How could they be here?"
"Haven't you heard? There was no war between gods and demons. There was only the four great families and four great sects besieging the Snow Region six hundred years ago and annihilating it. The demon god Baili Qing died in that war. There was no war between gods and demons."
"But why is there no record of it?"
"Yes, but who spread these rumors?"
"If Baili Qing is the Demon God, then what about Zhu Ting?"
“Zhu Ting?” Meng Wanwan closed her eyes, her mind receiving all of Zhu Ting’s memories.
It shouldn't be called memory, but rather her deduction.
Once, Zhu Haishan deduced Zhu Ting's fate for her sake. After learning of her fate, he created the Xun family, but unfortunately, he was unable to change its name.
After Zhu Ting was pierced through the heart by Baili Qing's sword in the snowy region, he was buried deep in the snow. However, after he died completely, Baili Qing cast him into the Scroll of All Heavens. From then on, Zhu Ting completely merged with the Scroll of All Heavens.
She didn't die; she even deduced her own fate and gave the deduced fate to Baihua Zhenzhen.
Therefore, the wisp of divine thought that merged with the mind was actually Zhu Ting's deduction.
Meng Wanwan walked to the square and gently touched a person sitting cross-legged on the ground. In an instant, the person vanished into thin air.
Her voice was indifferent: "What happens when a person knows their fate? Back then, after Zhu Ting and Baili Qing were betrayed by Song Lingxiao, they embarked on a journey of escape once again. However, from then on, their escape was full of obstacles. This was because a sect called Tan Menggong appeared in the martial arts world, and they could accurately calculate the escape route of the two. Finally, a few years later, they captured Baili Qing and Zhu Ting."
Those present, upon hearing her words, immediately realized that this might be a follow-up to what happened in Fengling Town, and they immediately strained their ears to listen.
Meng Wanwan called another person, and then the smoke dissipated.
"Zhu Ting's strength was too low, so she handed the Scroll of All Heavens to Baili Qing. She thought that no matter what, Baili Qing was a member of the Baili family, and his father wouldn't be so heartless. Unfortunately, she was wrong. Baili Qing's spiritual root and cultivation were destroyed by his father, making him a cripple. He was forced to hand over the Scroll of All Heavens, and even threatened with Zhu Ting's life. Baili Qing knew the importance of the Scroll of All Heavens, so he would rather die than tell anyone, until Baili Qing's father said that Zhu Ting couldn't withstand the torture and died."
"Hiss... Is he dead?"
"Given the current situation, why not hand it over? If you had handed it over back then, things probably wouldn't be like this now."
"What nonsense are you spouting? Do you know that revealing heavenly secrets will bring punishment upon the entire continent? If even the people of the Heavenly Race are punished like this, what about ordinary people?"
"That's right. This is not something ordinary people should receive. If they can get a word of advice, they should be lucky. Why would they want to get the Scroll of All Heavens?"
"Hey, you guys didn't say that before."
Meng Wanwan ignored them. She wanted to tell them everything so that their years of persistence wouldn't have been in vain.
"Bai Liqing's Dao heart collapsed, and he instantly fell into demonic possession. He was originally exceptionally talented and favored by the heavens. After falling into demonic possession, he cultivated into a great demon in just a few years. He came to the Snow Region and settled down with the Scroll of All Heavens. Although he fell into demonic possession, he did not lose his mind."
Unfortunately, greed never let him go.
"Zhu Ting was imprisoned. Her eyes were gouged out, her legs were broken, her cultivation was destroyed, and her spiritual root was damaged. Only her ears could hear. Those people told her that Baili Qing was imprisoned and his strength was destroyed. They said that as long as she went to the Snow Region and killed the Demon Lord, they would release Baili Qing. She believed them, and a cripple, she went to the Snow Region alone."
Congying didn't know what was appropriate, and tears welled up in her eyes. Looking at the tears in her hand, she said softly, "So Aya's name is Zhuting. So this is how she came to the snowy region."
Meng Wanwan looked at Lan Qiao, who was staring at her in a daze, and said with a smile, "It's a pity they don't know that when the two of them met again, they recognized each other. They even knew why the other had come, but they both chose to remain silent. Even when the snowy region was besieged, the two of them were still protecting each other in their own way."
"What a pity, how could the two of them possibly handle so many people? So, with perfect coordination, they stood together and used Baili Qing's sword to pierce through both of their bodies. Zhu Ting thought, since that's the case, let the Heavenly Scroll disappear completely. Unfortunately, she didn't expect that even with his last breath, Baili Qing would still force the Heavenly Scroll into her body."
Meng Wanwan looked at them and asked, "Do you know why Zhu Ting doesn't want to merge with the Scroll of the Heavens?"
People looked at him, but no one answered.
Meng Wanwan: "It took Zhu Ting seven days to integrate the Heavenly Scrolls. During those seven days, the entire Snow Region was covered by deep snow, and all the land was sealed by solid ice. On the seventh day, she walked out of the Snow Region."
People held their breath and stared intently at Meng Wanwan.
Meng Wanwan smiled sweetly: "Her eyes can see again, and her strength has reached an unprecedented level. She went to the Han family and slaughtered the entire family."
No one expected this outcome, and everyone gasped in surprise.
"Then she went to the Baili family and wiped them out. Then she went to the Mirage Tower, the Zhao family, and various sects..."
Meng Wanwan looked up at the sky: "Blessed by Heaven, a divine decree was issued, not for Chongyang Palace, but for the Zhutian Clan. However, the Zhutian Clan was wiped out by the filthy greed of the world. Heaven was angry, people resented, and Heaven sent down calamity to destroy greed... and Zhuting is a knife of Heaven."
"The people you see now... are just those who barely escaped death in that massacre. It's a pity that they thought they had escaped, but they never expected that Han Zhuojun would trick them into coming here and use their lives, their family's fortune, and the sacrifice of all living beings in the entire north as the price to create this vast array!"
“He used this formation to extract the memories of the world, and then tricked Zhu Ting into coming here, using her soul as a sacrifice to deceive the heavens.”
He thought that the Nine Realms Continent would remain peaceful from then on.
"However, he did not expect that even Zhu Ting, who had become a killer of the Heavenly Dao, would take care of the two plants she had planted. They grew, became living beings, married, and had children. Han Zhuojun did not expect that when he used the Xun family to destroy them, they would merge a wisp of Zhu Ting's divine sense into their own child's body, and enter the cycle of reincarnation with their child."
"He never expected that Zhu Ting would have friends who would give up ascending to godhood for her sake, preserving her deductions, just to resonate with that wisp of divine thought, so that that piece of history could once again descend to earth! He never expected that the Helian family, who had shared hardships with her and Baili Qing, would protect the clarity of this world with the spirit of Baihua Forest, allowing her to return safely."
After saying all this, Meng Wanwan smiled.
"You see, there is still justice in this world, isn't there?"
After saying that, she suddenly raised her fan, and in an instant, nine giant pillars emerged from all directions of the square, causing the earth to shake and the array patterns to begin to combine.
Meng Wanwan laughed loudly: "See? Six hundred years ago, he already thought of this. He even wanted to use this formation a second time. What a pity..."
Her eyes sharpened, and in an instant, immense power erupted from her body. Seven longswords flew into the air, transforming into a gigantic sword, just like the one they had seen in the poisonous fog forest, descending from the sky!
Rumble—
The giant sword, like a giant axe, cleaved the entire Chongyang Palace in two, and the nine pillars vanished instantly.
This is what Shangguan Liuyue and Baihua Zhenzhen, who rushed over, saw.
The girl in the blue dress leaped into the air, standing atop the greatsword, looking down at the panicked crowd, and said calmly, "This time, nobody will be cheating!"
She will protect the signals of Heaven!
Baihua Zhenzhen tore open the space again, pulled Han Zhuojun out, and asked him, "Is this what you're talking about?"
Han Zhuojun stared blankly at the girl standing on the giant sword, his face gradually turning ashen.
Baihua Zhenzhen laughed: "It seems so. Well, since the goal wasn't achieved, then... go die."
With that, she tossed him into the air, where he turned to dust in his terrified gaze.
Han Zhuojun has completely vanished.
Seeing this scene, Meng Wanwan felt complicated.
From the moment she came into this world, she knew that her obsession held the secret to unlocking everything. But now that she had reached this point, her heart was heavy with unease.
She looked at the blue bridge and slowly flew down.
The moment Han Zhuojun vanished, the force binding Lan Qiao suddenly disappeared. He looked at his hand, which was gradually turning into black mist, and then looked at Meng Wanwan, who was walking towards him, with a puzzled expression.
Tears welled up in Meng Wanwan's eyes. She walked up to him, smiled, and said, "Brother Lanqiao, has your wish been fulfilled?"
Lanqiao nodded, then asked doubtfully, "I think so."
But why do I still feel so reluctant to part with it?
Meng Wanwan took his hand and said, "Brother Lanqiao, your obsession has bound you for six hundred years. Now that everything has settled, please leave in peace, okay?"
Yun Zhao was shocked: "Baby, what are you saying? How could Lanqiao possibly be..."
Where's the ghost?
Meng Xiuyi sighed, "He's not a ghost; he's a fusion of soul and obsession. Perhaps Baili Qing's obsession after his death was to see the Han family destroyed and Zhuting safe. Now, his wish has been fulfilled..."
Chu You burst into tears: "How could this be!"
Meng Wanwan hugged him: "Brother Lanqiao, I'm so happy."
Lanqiao gently stroked her back and nodded blankly, "I'm... happy too."
The breeze finally reached Chongyang Palace, lingering in the dilapidated mountains, gradually dispersing the black aura on Lanqiao until it disappeared completely.
Meng Wanwan laughed through her tears: "We will meet again."
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