Chapter 62
The morning mist in Tanxin Valley lingered like a veil, lingering between the pristine white petals of the Epiphyllum davidiana. Dewdrops, half-fallen, reflected the shifting light of the sky. Within this stillness, after an unknown amount of time, a gentle aura quietly emanated from the depths of the flower's stamens, spreading slowly like ripples.
Lin Yibai slowly opened his eyes.
The confusion she felt upon waking quickly dissipated like a thin mist, replaced by an irrepressible sense of delight. She could clearly feel the spiritual energy surging through her body like a spring river, the aura of late-stage Qi integration spreading out in layers, shaking the dewdrops from the petals. The purest power of the Yunshan Earth Vein flowed through her meridians, and even the Nascent Soul in her sea of consciousness was as clear as glass, nurtured by the Dream Tan for a century.
She raised her hand and gently stroked the petals of the Dream-blossom Tree.
The moment her fingertips touched the petals, she felt a wonderful resonance with the entire Yunshan Mountain - the trembling of every leaf in the mountains, the trajectory of every breeze, were all clearly discernible in her perception.
After years of seclusion, she finally woke up and found that it was just as Wu Shenggen said. She had become the master of this huge Yunshan Mountain!
"Huh." Thinking of this, she couldn't help but let out a deep breath -
Lin Wuya and Bo Dengzong, the shadows that had always hung over her head, finally dissipated completely at this moment. From then on, as long as she was in this Yunshan Mountain, no one could threaten her safety.
A relieved smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she suddenly came back to her senses: Where is Yan?
Could it be that he is still in the Fish Dragon Realm and has not finished refining the Jade Rain?
I don't know how long she will be in seclusion this time... If Yan Bu is still in seclusion, I wonder if the formation left by Wu Shenggen is still useful? No, she has to go and see how he is doing.
This thought made her heart tighten, and before she even had time to think about why she was so concerned, she flipped over and jumped down from the petals.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, her forehead suddenly jumped, and an inexplicable palpitation suddenly came over her. She subconsciously looked towards the sky -
"not good!"
After taking in the view at the horizon, Lin Yibai's expression suddenly changed. Without giving it any further thought, she dashed out of the valley like an arrow. Her white skirt rustled in the morning breeze as she dashed out of the valley, sending petals fluttering like snow behind her.
"Hey! Wait a minute!"
Wu Shenggen's voice came from behind, and a dark golden vine quickly jumped down from the stem of the Epiphyllum and chased in the direction of Lin Yibai.
"You have just refined the mountain spirit, and your cultivation is not yet stable. Where are you going in such a hurry?" It shouted anxiously while chasing, but Lin Yibai's figure ran farther and farther, and soon disappeared in the clouds at the valley entrance.
Wu Shenggen helplessly stopped where he was, the tip of the vine tapping the ground impatiently. It had naturally sensed the sinister aura emanating from the Bo Deng Sect's sky, knowing that the place must be incredibly dangerous. However, it also understood that at this moment, no one could stop Lin Yibai.
Thinking of this, it couldn't help but shook its head and sighed: "In vain, I thought that boy was just wishful thinking. Now that you have woken up... Alas! The calamity of life has just passed, and the sin of love has come again. Girl, don't put your life on the line!"
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High in the sky, Yan Bujian was being strangled by the gray figure. Golden blood trickled down through the figure's fingers, dripping into the clouds and causing tiny ripples. He could clearly feel the immortal energy within him becoming increasingly chaotic due to the erosion of the cold and gloomy force, and even his fingertips could not move at all.
"A hundred years! I've been waiting for this day for a full hundred years!" Lin Wuya laughed maniacally. After he finished speaking, a sinister glint flashed in his eyes, and his voice was filled with suppressed hatred. "No... It should be far more than a hundred years!"
He slowly raised his head, the corners of his mouth curled up in a creepy madness.
"Yan Bujian, do you really think I'm dead?" Lin Wuya's nails dug deep into Yan Bujian's flesh, his tone filled with pride. "So what if you've cultivated to the highest level? You don't know that long before my life ended, I seized this boy's body, used his deadly fire to protect his soul, and lurked underground in the Bodeng Sect for a hundred years—just to wait for the moment when you've rebuilt your immortal path and your immortal power is at its most unstable!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge gray flame suddenly erupted from his body. The flame wrapped around them like a living thing, instantly enveloping the two of them!
Yan Bujian only felt an intense burning pain in his soul, as if countless tiny fireflies were gnawing at his sea of consciousness, but strangely, his physical body was not damaged at all - this flame only had an effect on the soul!
"This is... the Flame of Annihilation." Yan Bujian immediately recognized the origin of this fire. His voice was weak and hoarse, and his eyes were full of shock. "This fire clearly belonged to the Demon Lord a hundred years ago. He clearly perished with the Immortal Lord in the Fish Dragon Realm back then. How did he fall into the hands of the owner of this body?"
As he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered the scene in the Fish Dragon Realm—
When the young man mysteriously entered the Fish-Dragon Realm, the female cultivator begged for mercy from him before she died, clearly calling him "Demon Lord" in her words!
Then a terrifying thought arose in his mind: "When he wanted to attack Lin Yibai, it was obvious that he wanted to change his body. In other words, he had already been possessed by the Demon Lord... And now - you have possessed the Demon Lord again?!"
Even though it was just a remnant of the Demon Lord's soul, its power was a thousand times less than it actually was, Lin Wuya was just a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, how could he possibly possess the body of a dignified Demon Lord?!
"As expected of the only person to achieve immortality in the past four hundred years, he is truly intelligent."
Lin Wuya laughed triumphantly, "Only by using the Supreme Yin Mysterious Body as a vessel can one refine the Supreme Soul Gu...So what if he's the Demon Lord? From the day he drank my 'Myriad Insect Attraction', he was destined to be nothing more than a pawn of mine!"
Ten thousand insects attracted?
Yan Bujian's body stiffened suddenly when he heard this. The name exploded in his mind like thunder, reminding him of the bowl of medicine Lin Yibai had personally fed him a hundred years ago in the Bodeng Sect.
At that time, he thought it was just an ordinary poison, but now he thought that there was such a conspiracy hidden in that bowl of medicine!
However, judging by Lin Yibai's performance at that time and later, even she probably didn't know that Lin Wuya had already tampered with the Ten Thousand Insects Attractor!
This guy is so scheming!
Lin Wuya's mouth curled up into a ferocious arc. He leaned close to Yan Bujian's ear and spoke in a voice as sharp as a venomous snake's tongue: "Yes, it was the Ten Thousand Insects Attractant that my good daughter personally fed you. The original insect poison was just a torture device used by the Bo Deng Sect to torture herbalists, but after I added the two insect kings I retrieved from the peak of Youshan Mountain, it became a soul poison that can obey my command and devour the soul... Lord Immortal, don't worry, with the dignified Demon Lord as your precedent, your life will not be in vain. It won't be long before your mind disappears, and your body will be mine to help me ascend to the immortal path!"
When Yan Bujian heard this, he felt as if he had fallen into a cold cave, and his eyes were full of disbelief when he looked at him.
"How...did you do that?"
He couldn't understand how Lin Wuya could set up such a meticulous plan a hundred years ago.
At that time, he was just a Jindan cultivator, his sword bones had not been exposed, but he could endure torture a little more than ordinary medicine men. It was certainly not worth it for Lin Wuya to use the soul Gu, which there were only two in the world, and it was not worth it for him to spend a hundred years lurking here!
With his level of cultivation at that time, how could he have predicted this?
All of this was as if... he had experienced it personally!
Upon hearing this, Lin Wuya's smile suddenly vanished, replaced by a strong murderous intent. His eyes darkened as he looked at Yan Bujian, a subtle hint of fear hidden within them. He slowly raised his head and looked at Yan Bujian as if he were looking at a sworn enemy. His voice was low and sinister, "Of course, that's because..."
"stop!"
At this moment, a clear and angry shout suddenly came from below, interrupting Lin Wuya's words.
Lin Yibai rushed out from the depths of Yunshan like a white lightning, and swung out a spiritual power, striking Lin Wuya fiercely.
Although she didn't recognize the gray figure before her, she could sense the sinister aura emanating from him, and even saw the agony Yan Bujian was in as he was being restrained. But just as the attack was about to land on Lin Wuya, he suddenly burst into laughter. "Just in time! I was worried that no one would witness my century-long plan. Yibai, today I'll let you witness with your own eyes how your father ascends to heaven in broad daylight!"
"Father?"
Lin Yibai was stunned when he heard this, and the energy in his hand was released, and the spiritual power suddenly dissipated.
She looked at the gray figure in front of her in disbelief.
Although that face was filled with murderous aura, the outlines between the eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the Xiao Mi in her memory, and it was clear that she had nothing to do with Lin Wuya!
She staggered back a step, her heart full of disbelief - how could Lin Wuya appear here and look like this?
Lin Wuya nodded slowly towards her, a distorted trace of kindness flashing in his eyes: "My dear daughter, just stand by and watch as I avenge my father and make all his hard work and cultivation come to nothing, so that he can become an immortal!"
"Revenge?" Lin Yibai was even more stunned. If we were to talk about the suffering in this life, it was clearly Lin Wuya who had tortured Yan Bujian more severely. If this person was really Lin Wuya, why did he have such a strong hatred for Yan Bujian at this moment?
She was in a trance and asked out loud.
However, as soon as she finished speaking, a flash of lightning suddenly exploded in her mind!
She looked at him, shocked by her own bizarre guess. Great fear appeared in her eyes, and her lips trembled as she said, "Could it be..."
Lin Wuya seemed to see through her thoughts. He nodded and said bitterly, "Before, he was still immature and could not do anything to me - but Yibai... you know, in the last life, both you and I, father and daughter, died at the hands of this man!"
"boom--"
As soon as these words came out, they exploded like thunder! Above the sky, everything was instantly silent.
Lin Yibai stood there in shock, his face as pale as paper, his eyes filled with shock and disbelief. Yan Bujian, whose throat was being strangled, saw his pupils shrink, and for the first time, he was completely panicked. A previous life? Lin Wuya had actually lived a second life?
What did he mean by that? Did he kill Lin Yibai in his previous life?
"No..." He looked at the girl in front of him, fear in his eyes for the first time, "Don't believe him, don't believe him!"
Lin Wuya watched the two men's shocked expressions, a surge of vengeance welling up in his heart. He slowly revealed the secret of his rebirth: "In your previous life, you emerged from Yunshan and, on your first stop, crushed the Bodeng Sect. With a single blow of your sword, no one in the sect escaped. You beheaded me, leaving me dead with hatred. I had almost reached the Naihe Bridge when a mysterious force abducted me. The next time I opened my eyes, I was transported back a hundred years to the day you were abducted and brought back to the Bodeng Sect!"
"Although I still haven't figured out why I was able to start over again, it doesn't matter... Since God has given me the chance to start over again, I will not fail again. This time, only you will die!"
As he finished speaking, the fear in his eyes finally turned into complete madness. He raised his hand to touch his cheek, and black lines emerged from under his skin like living things. Lin Yibai's heart trembled at the sight of this - this was exactly the strange lines that appeared on Xiao Mi's face when he attacked her in the Fish Dragon Realm!
What was even more shocking was that the same lines appeared on Yan Bujian's face!
The next moment, he lowered his head, trembling, his face clearly filled with pain, but he didn't say a word, just staring at her: "Don't believe him, don't believe him..."
Lin Yibai's eyes suddenly turned red at this moment.
She worked up a throat and was about to say something to him, but the next moment, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and let out a painful roar - the soul Gu in his body suddenly erupted under Lin Wuya's control, and countless tiny black insect shadows swam in his meridians and rushed madly towards his sea of consciousness!
His body began to convulse violently, and then, right between his eyebrows, a cluster of golden flames gradually emerged.
That was the origin of his soul, and also the Dao fire condensed after he was promoted to the immortal path. At this moment, it was forced by Lin Wuya with the soul poison and forcibly separated from his sea of consciousness!
A greedy light flashed in Lin Wuya's eyes, and his breathing became rapid: as long as he swallowed this Dao fire, he would be able to completely control Yan Bujian's body, and thus become the only immortal in the Three Thousand Continents in four hundred years!
His grand plan for two lifetimes is now just one step away from success!
"Die!"
Lin Wuya suddenly opened his mouth and was about to bite the golden Dao Fire——
But at this moment, a water-blue sword light flashed and slashed towards him fiercely! Lin Wuya was caught off guard and had to retreat hastily with his head tilted halfway.
When he looked up again and glanced sideways, he saw that the girl had suddenly stood in front of Yan Bujian, with the Shuyue Sword in her hand across her chest and a resolute look on her face.
"Don't come over here."
Lin Yibai's voice was trembling slightly, but extremely firm.
Although the fact that "Lin Wuya was reborn" made her fall into a brief fright, after she came to her senses, she stood in front of Yan Bujian without thinking.
She knew that she was no match for Lin Wuya, but she couldn't just watch Yan Bujian's soul being taken away.
Ultimately, the plot of this book changed because of her. Lin Wuya's rebirth must be related to her in some way. Now... she will never allow anyone to hurt Yan Bujian!
"You idiot..."
Lin Wuya tilted his head and slowly wiped the blood from his left cheek, his eyes piercing at her like ice.
"What do you want to do?"
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