Chapter 223 Waiting for the destined one...
In the eyes of others, it was Shuyue who killed Qingyue.
She and Chenyi had no time to grieve for Qingyue; they needed to find a way to protect Shuyue. The evil spirit's goal was to kill Qingyue and Shuyue to prevent the curse from fulfilling itself.
Unexpectedly, Xuanwu made a sudden move, causing a deviation in the situation. Fortunately, Shuyue was unharmed.
Asagiri leaned on Ryukyou's shoulder without speaking. "Did Aunt recognize me from the first time she saw me?"
"Actually, when I first saw you, I couldn't quite believe it. I didn't expect you to really come back."
Knowing that Chaowu was working at the Xuanwu Temple, Lord Liujing was shocked beyond words. At that time, he felt that this was truly an inescapable fate.
Fortunately, Asagiri was stronger and more hardworking than she had imagined, and she continued to cultivate.
Asagiri smiled awkwardly. She truly didn't deserve the praise, as she had only been able to cultivate diligently with the help of the immortal Xiang Bei.
If it weren't for Xiang Bei, she might still be the infatuated fairy in the Xuanwu Temple, gazing at the portrait of Xuanwu.
Especially after she recalled her past memories, she felt even more fortunate to have met Xiang Beisanxian.
Sensing Chaowu's thoughts, Xiang Bei instantly felt a chill run down her spine. She turned to look at the spirit behind her and suddenly realized that her and the system's presence here might not be a coincidence.
In the original story where she didn't appear, none of these things happened; the male and female protagonists had a happy ending and even became the Heavenly Emperor and Empress.
There are too many plot holes in the story that haven't been filled, but the ending is already set.
But what happens after the ending?
Just like in fairy tales, what happens after the princess and prince get married?
"You knew I would show up all along?" Xiang Bei asked Zi Linglu.
They say the way to destroy the evil spirits lies in Asagiri.
However, there were never any evil spirits in the original text. It was the Heavenly Emperor who took the initiative to abdicate and let Xuanwu become the Heavenly Emperor.
The evil spirits didn't appear until the very end. Given the current situation, will the evil spirits really let them go like this?
The spirit seemed to sense Xiang Bei's thoughts and gently shook her head, saying, "I only glimpsed a glimmer of hope in this catastrophe, but I don't know what that hope is. The spirit is just a vessel through which I entrusted my divine consciousness; I was awakened by her."
"Are you talking about Asagiri? Is she the one who woke you up?" Xiang Bei asked.
Zi Ling's gaze fell on the big screen. "I saw it all, I saw many things. But at that time, my days were numbered, so I could only pour all my divine power into the Wujiu Sword and wait for the appearance of the destined person."
Xiang Bei also looked at the big screen. Chao Wu seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky, but saw nothing.
"In fact, everyone initially met the requirements of the Sword of No Blame, but their experiences differed, and their thoughts also changed. The Sword of No Blame is very perceptive, and even gods cannot escape the seven emotions and six desires. If one's desires are too strong, the Sword of No Blame will reject them."
These words reminded Xiang Bei of Xuan Wu, who was repeatedly rejected by the Wu Jiu Sword, precisely because his desires were too strong.
"That child is the only one who can hear the sword's cry of the Wujiu Sword. She is the chosen one, but unfortunately, her abilities are still insufficient."
The so-called lack of ability simply refers to one's cultivation or mindset.
The fact that Asagiri was able to draw the Wujiu Sword before shows that the Wujiu Sword still acknowledges her. Now she is only one step away. As for what that step is, it depends on whether she can figure it out.
Xiang Bei rested her chin on her hand, looking at Zi Ling, then at the large screen, "So, what exactly happened in the timeline where I wasn't present?"
The spirit suddenly appeared in front of Xiang Bei. "You want to know?"
"kind of."
Zi Ling reached out and tapped the center of Xiang Bei's forehead. Suddenly, many images flashed through Xiang Bei's mind, and then those images gradually slowed down.
She saw it, saw what happened after the happy ending in the original story.
The former Heavenly Emperor Chenyi and Heavenly Empress Liujing left the God Realm and chose a place to live in seclusion.
The evil spirit still exists in that time and space; it is not separated from Chen Yi, but rather coexists with him.
As time went on, the evil spirit gradually suppressed Chen Yi's soul. In order to save him, Liu Jing was seriously injured by the evil spirit and his life hung by a thread.
Subsequently, the evil spirit returned to the divine realm in the guise of Chenyi, and when the immortals lowered their guard, it broke the Demon-Subduing Seal and released the ancient demon race.
The moment the demons unleashed their full force, the world lost its color, and all things crumbled. Not only were the immortals of the divine realm slaughtered by the demons, but the mortal realm was also plagued by endless natural disasters. Xuanwu, as the Heavenly Emperor, was unable to resist the demons and could only watch as Shuyue, having broken free of her seal, stood up for him.
Shuyue temporarily repelled the demons, but little did she know that the demons would turn the human world into a hell, and mortals would become food for the demons.
The evil spirits took the opportunity to stir up trouble, causing immense suffering to all beings in the Three Realms.
Having witnessed the Three Realms, Chenyi Divine Lord knew that the evil spirit originated from him and that his own sins were grave. He sacrificed his divine soul to elevate his strength to its peak, perishing together with the evil spirit.
However, the evil spirit was cunning and had a backup plan, retaining a wisp of its soul to possess the injured Xuanwu.
The evil spirit controlled Xuanwu's body and joined forces with the demons to slaughter the immortals and imprison Shuyue. Liujing, the Divine Lord, found Shuyue imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, but was unexpectedly killed by Xuanwu, who was possessed by the evil spirit.
Shuyue was also beaten half to death. Just as the evil spirit was about to deliver the fatal blow to Shuyue, Shuyue heard the sword's cry from the Wujiu Sword.
She struggled with all her might to break free from the evil spirits' grasp and drew the Wujiu Sword at the ends of the earth.
Upon seeing Shuyue draw the Wujiu Sword, Xuanwu, for reasons unknown, sacrificed his soul to the evil spirit, allowing the evil spirit to completely merge with him. His strength increased rapidly, and he fought Shuyue for seven days and seven nights before finally dying under the Wujiu Sword.
Without a moment's rest, Shuyue used the Wujiu Sword to kill all the demons, but finally collapsed from exhaustion.
She used her sword to keep herself from falling, her body and the sword, Wujiu, covered in blood. Some of the blood had dried and turned black, while some was still fresh.
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether it was her own blood or the enemy's blood.
To prevent the Wujiu sword from slipping from her hand, she tightly bound her hands to the sword with a handkerchief.
Wherever Shuyue went, there were only ruins and piles of corpses.
Everything she cherished, cared about, and protected was dead.
It was all finally over, but there was no one else in the world except her.
She stood in the right spot, the blood still on her face, staring blankly at everything, her eyes lifeless.
She picked up the Wujiu sword in her hand and ended her own life.
What ancient mountains and eternal heaven and earth collapsed in that instant?
Xiang Bei snapped back to reality, her heart pounding as she recalled the scene she had just witnessed.
It turns out that after the original ending, everyone died.
This is something that originated from the novel. Although the female protagonist won, she was all alone in the world, and nothing in this world mattered to her anymore.
So the female protagonist committed suicide, and the small world completely collapsed because of her death.
Xiang Bei wiped her forehead, and it took her a while to realize that she wouldn't be sweating in her current state. She turned to look at the big screen, where Chao Wu was leaning on Liu Jing Shen Jun's shoulder, her eyes closed as if she were asleep.
The phoenix flowers in the distance were in full bloom. A gust of wind blew by, and a phoenix flower drifted down and landed in Zhaowu's hair.
Liu Jing, the Divine Lord, glanced at him, a faint smile playing on his lips.
The contrast between this scene and what Xiang Bei had just seen was incredibly powerful.
Xiang Bei breathed a sigh of relief and exclaimed, "It's so good to be alive."
The system also saw those images. It leaned close to Xiang Bei and whispered, "Host, don't be too happy yet. The matter isn't resolved yet. If we don't eliminate that evil spirit, the final result will likely be the same as what we just saw."
"You saw it too?" Xiang Bei looked at the system in confusion. Just now, the word spirit seemed to have only touched her forehead.
The system sighed, "Host, have you forgotten that you are also a system now? This entire space is half yours and half mine. What you can see, I can naturally see as well."
At this point, the system also looked melancholy. "Who could have imagined things would turn out this way? No wonder I stopped writing after the happy ending; it turns out the results are all the same."
Xiang Bei closed her eyes and looked at Zi Ling with great dissatisfaction, saying, "How come that Xuan Wu is so useless? Isn't he a war god? He was seriously injured by the demons in just a few moves, and in the end, he had to rely on Shu Yue to hold things together."
Instead of properly recovering from his injuries, he caused trouble, which allowed the evil spirit to possess him. Oh, and when he saw Shuyue draw the Wujiu Sword, he even became jealous, which allowed the evil spirit to completely absorb his soul and take over his body.
Xiang Bei clicked her tongue twice, "Why did you bring such an incompetent and useless son into the world? You should have just brought out a daughter; she would be far superior to him, wouldn't she?"
"I did create a girl's body back then, but I don't know why it turned into a boy after the spiritual energy was nurtured," the spirit said.
"Huh? Could it be that Xuanwu isn't your child? He was switched?"
Zi Ling shook her head. "He does indeed carry the aura of both Yan Xiu and me. There's nothing we can do to change that."
Xiang Bei was still pondering who Yan Xiu was when it took her a long time to remember that Yan Xiu was the Father God who had died early.
Thinking this, Xiang Bei looked directly at Chao Wu and shouted.
Go immediately to the Sword of No Blame at the end of the world, and pull it out by any means necessary.
Seeing the words suddenly appear before her eyes, Asagiri didn't react for a moment. But when she saw what the words meant, she suddenly realized.
Now even Xiang Bei, the immortal, is asking her to pull out the Wujiu Sword.
Although she didn't understand, Asagiri did as she was told.
Liujing God-King didn't speak, but stayed by Chaowu's side the whole time.
Asagiri herself didn't know how many times she had come to the Sword of No Blame. When she gripped the Sword of No Blame with both hands, Asagiri felt something drill into her palms and penetrate her limbs and bones. It was as if something inside her body wanted to rush out.
She saw it; a seal extended from her soul.
This is the seal placed by the parents.
The Wujiu Sword emitted a clear sword cry, and Chaowu felt the seal within her body loosen for a fleeting moment.
Unfortunately, Asagiri still did not draw the Mujiu Sword.
"What method can be used to pull out the Wujiu Sword? Aren't your conditions a bit too demanding?"
The spirit simply said, "Each one is indispensable."
Its form disappeared again.
Why are you being so secretive?
Asagiri tried several times, and apart from sensing the seal the first time, she couldn't see the seal anymore, and even the Wujiu Sword stopped moving.
She felt like she was missing something, but what exactly was missing?
"Where is the problem? Where is the problem?" Asagiri reached out and tapped her head.
"Don't rush, the more you rush, the more mistakes you'll make. Think it over slowly," said Liujing Shenjun, reaching out to take Chaowu's hand.
Asagiri looked at Liujing Shenjun and sighed, "Aunt, is there any way for me to cultivate?"
Liu Jing, the Divine Lord, sat beside Chao Wu and looked at her, saying, "Cultivation is not something that can be achieved overnight. To draw the Wujiu Sword, one has never needed the status of a Divine Lord. Chao Wu, you need to think about what you would do with the Wujiu Sword if you drew it. Or, without the sword, what could you do?"
"What are you doing?" Asagiri looked up at the sky.
She has so many things she wants to do.
Before she became Shuyue, she seemed to have no worries and never concerned herself with cultivation. Everyone knew that her parents had sacrificed for the Three Realms, and no one ever criticized her.
When she was working as Chaowu, her mind was always in a daze. To put it bluntly, she only had the motivation to work when she saw Xuanwu's portrait. Later, Xiangbei, the immortal, appeared and gave her a goal, gradually helping her to get rid of that dazed feeling.
Having cultivated for so long, she has also regained her memories of her past life. What else should she do?
"Don't rush, think it over slowly. Some things can't be rushed," Liu Jing Divine Lord advised.
Asagiri looked at Ryukyou God-King beside her, "Aunt, thank you."
"Ouch!" Asagiri covered her forehead, looking at Ryukyou God in shock. "Aunt, why did you hit me?"
"Let me see you. You used to be so polite. Now you're always saying sorry and thank you, making it seem like you're a stranger to me," said Lord Liujing, withdrawing his hand.
Asagiri rubbed her forehead, never knowing that her aunt's hitting hurt so much. "Well, I've grown up now, I'm not a child anymore, I've learned to be grateful."
Lord Liujing smiled and shook his head, extending his hand to Asagiri, "It seems you've really grown up. Let's go, the grown-up Goddess Asagiri, let's go back."
Asagiri snorted twice, then took Ryukyou's hand and went back.
Once back in her room, Chaowu finally spoke, "Immortal Xiang Bei, do you have a way to break the seal on my body?"
She had just clearly seen the seal on her body, and she also sensed the spiritual energy that had disappeared from the seal before.
Xiang Bei didn't speak. She couldn't very well say that she would have to jump off the God-Slaying Platform to break the seal.
The main reason is that Zi Ling won't let her say it.
Judging from what just happened, Xiang Bei also suspects that, in addition to the God-Slaying Platform, the Blameless Sword might also be able to break the seal.
Not seeing the fluttering words, Chaowu sighed. If even Xiang Bei Sanxian couldn't help, she didn't know what else to do.
She has been searching for the events of that year, but her cultivation has not improved. Now, Chaowu dares not delay any longer.
When Asagiri saw Master Jiu in her dream, she couldn't help but ask a few more questions. Master Jiu simply sighed and said that when the time was right, the seal on her body would naturally be broken. Forcing it would only have the opposite effect.
Asagiri didn't know what the right opportunity was.
However, ever since she was promoted to goddess, her cultivation seems to have stagnated again, just like at the beginning, and the difficulty of cultivation has increased considerably.
Moreover, she noticed that her spiritual energy was disappearing silently, just like before. However, this time, Asagiri knew that her vanished spiritual energy had actually been absorbed by the seal.
Ultimately, that spiritual energy was still within her body.
She worried that if things continued like this, something might happen. It would be terrible if her cultivation level dropped back; the spell Aunt Liujing had drawn on her palm was almost gone.
Chaowu resumed her cultivation as before, but this time many things had changed. She couldn't find Immortal Lord Chenyi or Zilinglu at the Heavenly Book Pavilion. Moreover, for some reason, the more she cultivated, the more her spiritual energy disappeared.
She would occasionally run into Xuanwu, but because of the transformation talisman, Xuanwu would turn around and leave as soon as he saw her to avoid causing an unpleasant scene.
Chaowu wandered around the Heavenly Book Pavilion, visiting many places she hadn't been to before. She didn't know what she wanted to see, and wandered aimlessly through the pavilion.
When I saw a book I liked, I took it out to read. When I pulled out one of the books, a door suddenly appeared in front of me.
Asagiri hesitated for a moment, but still decided to go in and take a look. There was a barrier at the entrance, and she originally thought it would take her some effort to get in, but to her surprise, she went in directly.
The room didn't seem particularly special, and it was filled with books. Asagiri looked around but didn't find anything unusual. Just as she was about to leave, she accidentally bumped into a bookshelf, and a notebook fell down. It was the notebook of the former Heavenly Emperor Chongshi, her father.
Asagiri picked it up, glanced at it briefly, and immediately stopped. She took the note back and began to examine it carefully.
It is a collection of trivial daily events written by Chongshi Shenjun.
Most of them are about his wife and daughters, and some mention the ancient seal, but there are not many records.
The record is not very detailed, containing only some strange statements.
He also mentioned repairing the barrier, saying he had found a way, but he didn't specify what that way was.
Asagiri, however, looked again and again at the parts about his wife and daughters that Chongshi Shenjun had mentioned. The images of two people floated into her mind: her father and her mother.
I don't have many memories of my parents; I know most of what they are about me from my aunt, Liujing.
Hearing footsteps approaching, followed by a knock on the door, Asagiri assumed it was Lord Ryukyou and got up to open the door, only to find the Heavenly Emperor standing outside.
Wait, the Heavenly Emperor?
She looked closely at the Heavenly Emperor before her. Although he was smiling, it sent a chill down her spine.
Having seen Immortal Lord Chenyi in this form before, even if it was exactly the same, when actually standing in front of her, one could still sense the difference.
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