Chapter 57 The reason he returned to spiritual cultivation after thirty years in the mortal world.
"Your magic is really interesting. I can't even see it up close. Why don't you teach me?" The girl's bright eyes sparkled with laughter. She propped herself up, widened her eyes, and leaned closer, curiously examining his face.
As their noses touched, the girl's warm breath landed on their necks.
Yu Tianxing's heart, which had been calm for a century, suddenly skipped a beat, his breath hitched, and he looked away.
At that moment, the girl finished her observation, shifted her forward-leaning body back to a normal distance.
My heart feels inexplicably empty, a desolate and painful emptiness.
Until her warm body leaned against him again.
Ji Mingran shifted his position, squeezing in to sit with him under the tree, still as cheerful as ever: "Yu Tianxing, let me tell you, after I came to the Spirit Cultivation World, I went to the Dingsheng Sect, which is Boss Jiang's sect. Xiao Can is actually my senior brother, and I also met the girl who crossed the Transcendent Array with me..."
Ji Mingran talked non-stop for a long time, from the two of them separating and crossing the formation, to her joining the sect, to becoming a disciple of Luanfeng, to a year of seclusion, to making several friends, and then to participating in the spiritual cultivation competition.
Yu Tianxing listened quietly.
She was like a bird, chirping incessantly. But he didn't find it noisy; in fact, he found her light and cheerful voice rather pleasant to listen to.
I was unconsciously drawn into her story and became immersed in the cheers and shouts.
"Huh? Is the spell ready?" the girl exclaimed softly, interrupting her enthusiastic narration.
Yu Tianxing's brows furrowed in surprise. He looked up and saw white locust blossoms falling between her and him, reflected in her eyes. Her pupils were clear and bright, and she also reflected a person with cold features, but her eyes were filled with a tenderness that she herself did not realize.
He had unknowingly broken the spell.
His unusual reactions came one after another; what was wrong with him...?
His dark eyes, like a thin mist over a still pond at night, held a hint of confusion.
"Oh right, I saw the chick in the last illusion." Ji Mingran put his arms around his neck and took out the jet-black jade ring hidden under his clothes. "I promised you, here's the jade ring back."
The jade ring lying in the girl's palm was entirely black, yet lustrous and translucent.
The Spirit Ring.
The incomplete part of the primordial spirit is inside.
Sure enough, it was right here with her.
Yu Tianxing lowered his gaze and stared at the palm that offered him the Spirit Ring, without making a move.
His mortal soul's memories were complete and clear. He distinctly remembered that it was he who handed over the Spirit Ring, which contained part of his mortal soul, to her.
But he had never thought about it carefully before: why should he give it to her?
An ancient magical artifact, a part of one's own primordial spirit.
Why would he entrust something so important to her?
A question that should have been realized but had been ignored suddenly came to mind, but the answer was impossible to recall.
Before he could come up with a conclusion, Ji Mingran rested his chin on his hand, tilted his head, and looked at him with a beaming smile and expectant eyes: "It's your turn. Tell me your story."
His story? His story was unremarkable, at least not as dramatic as hers.
Yu Tianxing didn't want to talk about it.
Ji Mingran seemed to be able to read his expression, and the smile on his lips widened: "It's okay, I want to hear it."
"......"All right.
He put it simply: "It's just a matter of conquering the county town, eliminating dissidents, ascending the throne and governing, and then..." After that, he painstakingly raised Xiao Ji, and once Xiao Ji successfully mastered the Golden Roc Clan's extraordinary talent, he returned to Fengsheng Town to end his life.
The past experiences are crystal clear.
Yu Tianxing stopped speaking, his brow furrowing, and did not continue.
He discovered another problem. Everything the mortal soul does is for one purpose: to return to spiritual cultivation.
Even though the story was so dry and boring, Ji Mingran was still very interested. When he stopped, he even asked, "And then what?"
Yu Tianxing could only answer, "Then I came to Lingxiu with Xiaoji and went to the nameless place."
Ji Mingran sighed, "It wasn't easy."
She said it wasn't easy. Was it really that difficult?
Yu Tianxing slowly recalled what she had said and realized that it was indeed not easy.
A hundred years ago, he scattered his primordial spirit and sent it to the Three Thousand Worlds. He also set up a special spell to bind his primordial spirit to the Three Thousand Worlds, so that it could not escape until it fulfilled its destiny.
He even bound the last remaining golden roc egg to a wisp of primordial spirit and took it away from spiritual cultivation.
This is solely to completely sever the primordial soul's path back to spiritual cultivation.
The first wisp of primordial spirit to be driven away was waiting to perish. It had been passively living through countless lifetimes and should have been completely destroyed.
However, he became abnormal as he was about to perish in his last life. He plotted and exhausted all means to first defeat his powerful enemies, recapture the city, and ascend the throne as he wished. Then he purged dissidents, revitalized the court, and worked hard to govern the country. Only in this way could he finally fulfill his destiny in the mortal world and successfully break free from the shackles of the curse.
Then, he tried every means to wake up Jinpeng.
In their haste to achieve their goal, they deliberately shortened their lifespan by several decades. But they succeeded.
It was only when that wisp of primordial soul broke free from the curse and returned to spiritual cultivation that it brought back all the primordial souls from the three thousand worlds, thus enabling his awakening.
He devoted himself to this effort solely to returning to spirituality.
But why?
He wanted to die, but exhausted himself, and now he has to return to the spiritual practice he loathed.
The scenes of his primordial spirit flashed through his mind one after another. He examined them several times, and the memories were always continuous and clear.
That's why Yu Tianxing was so certain that he hadn't forgotten anything.
As overlooked details surfaced one by one, his conviction began to waver. Was the memory in his mind truly complete?
Moreover, it seems that what he lost was not just a part of his primordial spirit.
His gaze fell on the jade ring the girl offered.
The answer is here.
If his previous desire to retrieve the Spirit Ring was merely to mend his incomplete primordial soul, now he is more interested in finding the answer.
Yu Tianxing slowly raised his fingertips and touched the obsidian jade ring.
A sudden burst of light appeared, and a blue mist slowly emanated from the jade ring, drifting towards him.
Ji Mingran opened his eyes slightly and subconsciously tried to withdraw his hand, but seeing that Yu Tianxing's expression was normal and he did not resist, he steadied his movements, but his palm trembled as a result.
The hand that was touching Cheng Lingyu opened and gently fell, enveloping her palm.
A deep blue mist seeped out from between their intertwined fingers, gradually gathering and permeating in front of Yu Tianxing's heart.
Yu Tianxing lowered his eyes and looked at the two clasped hands.
Among countless memories, one scene, seemingly insignificant and shrouded in gray, fades away and magnifies in the mind.
In the scene, the night is deep, the candlelight flickers, and the girl's voice is clear and melodious: "At the beginning of next month, the Heavenly Gate of Qiwang Mountain will open, and I must go there."
She made it sound so easy.
The young man sitting opposite her exhausted all his energy to barely maintain his composure and calmly agreed to go to Minghua County of Qiwang Mountain together.
The boy then couldn't sleep all night.
She is an evil cultivator who has possessed another body. If she is struck by spiritual energy when she transcends the world, and the primordial soul attached to her body is shaken off and torn apart, what will happen?
If she encounters a powerful spiritual cultivator and is discovered to be an evil cultivator possessing another's body, and her soul is extracted, what should she do?
The more he thought about it, the more alarmed he became. The boy sat up and went to the window.
Since men and women are different, after living together for half a year, he built a small room in the courtyard with a window facing the wooden window of the small house.
The moonlight silently slid into the opposite window. Inside, all was quiet, and the person who had so casually uttered the words of facing death was fast asleep.
The boy gazed for a long time, as if deep in thought. After a moment, he drew the black blade from its sheath and, without blinking, plunged it into his chest.
His thin lips were tightly pressed together, and he was covered in cold sweat, but his wrist still turned without hesitation. A wisp of primordial spirit was extracted from his heart, light and intangible. As the sword fell, the primordial spirit separated from his heart.
His face was deathly pale, but his eyes remained fixed on the wooden window.
Enduring the excruciating pain of his severed primordial soul, he fumbled for the Spirit-Inheriting Ring and merged the severed primordial soul into it.
A smile finally appeared in his eyes, which had been filled with melancholy and coldness all night.
The boy sat quietly for a long time, waiting for his body to adjust to the intense pain. He then began to pack his belongings. Once everything was ready, he woke the girl, and the two left the hut.
Yu Tianxing remembered that this was the memory of the night the two of them left Fengsheng Town.
The atrium of the primordial soul houses all of the primordial soul's desires. When it is separated, the desires are stripped away, along with the memories of that moment.
The questions that had been lingering in my mind were answered one by one as my Yuan Soul was restored.
Why give her the Spirit Ring?
Because the Spirit Ring can help her stabilize her primordial soul during transmigration, and can also nourish her soul, expand her spiritual veins, and aid her cultivation.
Why give her a portion of your primordial spirit?
The purpose was that if one day she were to unfortunately be discovered by a powerful being, a portion of his primordial spirit could provide an excuse to extricate her from this predicament, and she would not be considered an evil cultivator, thus being able to live a peaceful life of spiritual cultivation.
Moreover, he could use this to stay by her side for a long time.
Only then can I feel at ease letting her leave me.
Only one question remains.
Why would he himself return to the spiritual practices he so utterly despises?
Yu Tianxing lifted his thick eyelashes. Under the locust tree, dappled sunlight fell on Ji Mingran's face. She was looking up, holding her breath, watching his reaction, unaware that she herself seemed to be glowing at that moment.
Yu Tianxing took in the whole scene and, just like before, firmly imprinted the memories related to her into his mind.
His eyes were gentle, and his tone was cautious: "Are you happy? In the spiritual world."
"I'm so happy!" Ji Mingran clenched the hand in his palm and said without hesitation, "Coming here was definitely worth it."
Her bright, sparkling eyes looked at him, then curved into smiles again. She added, "Of course, I'm just as happy to have met you."
"Really?" Yu Tianxing lowered his eyes, a faint smile appearing on his lips, and said softly, "Me too."
That's enough.
His return is enough.
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