NOVEL WEB Chapter 75: Reed Marsh
The sound of the tide drowned the reed marshes.
Jiang Huang left the back of the Vermilion Bird and came to the side of Chen Jingxuan and Tang Fengshu. Tang Fengshu carefully took the young girl's hand. Jiang Huang neither cried nor made a fuss, standing quietly among the reeds, watching the two "brothers" not far away.
"This young girl has the Pure Phoenix Bloodline flowing through her."
Deep within Heart Lake, Xuan Ming spoke softly: "Who is she to you?"
He had been watching this battle in the Holy Realm.
The potential of the little junior brother is even stronger than I imagined... Master was right, in a few years, the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm will welcome a destined person. At first, Xuan Ming was not sure, but now he is quite convinced that this "destined person" is Xie Xuanyi.
A thousand years ago.
He and his junior brothers and sisters practiced the "Primordial Swallowing Divine Power." Even though they obtained the Golden Scroll containing the cultivation techniques, it was extremely difficult to practice, completely incomparable to the little junior brother.
This "Primordial Swallowing Divine Power"...seems to be tailor-made for him.
Earlier when he fought Chong Kan, between life and death, he forcibly activated the "Swallowing Yuan" divine skill, and Xie Xuanyi only took a few dozen breaths.
Although the effect of that "Swallowing Yuan" technique was very weak.
But this was already considered a miracle.
"She..."
Xie Xuanyi looked complexly at the distant little red-clothed girl.
He transmitted his voice: "She used to be my enemy. But now... she should be considered a sister."
"Enemy? Sister?"
Upon hearing this answer, Xuan Ming was somewhat surprised.
"She should have been in the Demon Country."
Xie Xuanyi lowered his eyes: "Twenty years ago, I injured her and brought her back to Great Chu... Now that she has become like this, it is also because of me."
Xuan Ming had lived for over a thousand years.
Just by hearing this, he could roughly understand what had happened between the two.
"Has she lost her Divine Soul memory now?" Xuan Ming sighed softly.
"There is still a Divine Soul hidden within her shell."
Xie Xuanyi's voice was complex: "Once enough time passes... the two Divine Souls will likely fuse..."
By then...
Will Jiang Huang see him as a brother? Or as an enemy?
He didn't know.
"Just send her away."
Xuan Ming gently comforted: "What the future holds... no one knows."
Xie Xuanyi responded with a hum.
He stood by the North Sea, the scholar in blue robes waved his sleeves to summon thousands of golden lines, weaving them into a simple little boat, and the three boarded together, drifting away with the waves.
"That Xie."
The Vermilion Bird Demon folded its iron wings, standing shoulder to shoulder with Xie Xuanyi.
Ci Jing watched Jiang Huang leave and spoke coldly: "I have heard about you and little Huang."
"...?"
Xie Xuanyi slightly tilted his head.
"Her leg bones were broken; she was imprisoned in the Imperial City, forced to eat 'Nine Death Forbidden', becoming like this all because of you."
Ci Jing said expressionlessly: "Logically speaking... I should give you a good lesson."
The tone shifted.
"But..."
Ci Jing sighed: "If not for you, she would not have escaped the Imperial City, not have come to the Sword Palace, nor met me."
Though the world is vast.
The large bird demons with Phoenix Blood are extremely rare?
To gather together requires great fate.
In fact, when Ci Jing was teaching Jiang Huang cultivation before, he sensed the second Divine Soul within Jiang Huang...to be precise, that was Jiang Huang's Main God Soul, and that Divine Soul was full of anger, resentment, and ferocity. To be honest, Ci Jing preferred the current little Huang, who called him "big brother," more than the second God Soul.
Chong Kan practiced "One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones," separating two threads of souls.
One focused on kindness, the other on slaughter.
Jiang Huang's situation was somewhat similar.
No matter who it was, they would probably prefer the doll-like first God Soul, the little girl with ram-horns braids.
Silence descended over the reed marsh.
One man and one demon watched the Golden Boat drift away until it was out of sight.
"If I die, you can hand this corpse over to her."
Ci Jing said with a carefree laugh: "I've wandered for half my life, apart from Lian Venerate, I have no other relatives... until I met this little girl, I considered her my own little sister. Demon cultivators need to improve their bloodline to advance. Since I've reached the Yang God Realm, if I leave my Vermilion Bird remains to her, it should be enough for her to advance to Great Venerable."
Jiang Huang's realm was already remarkable, it was just the sleeping second Divine Soul, compounded by severe injuries, that caused her fall to the bottom.
If she obtained the Vermilion Bird's fortune...
She might truly soar to the heavens!
"Seeing her alive isn't better?" Xie Xuanyi said.
"Do you think everyone has fortunes like you?"
Ci Jing sneered, sighing: "A Yin God Realm countering Yang God Eighth Layer Heaven... such a thing, no one would believe if spoken of."
"..."
Xie Xuanyi was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "I will give you a drop of the Undying Spring."
He knew.
The entire battle above the Cloud Sea, Ci Jing had watched.
The secret of him having the Undying Spring was naturally seen by him.
This great demon had a rebellious personality and acted strangely, but in terms of character and morality, he far surpassed ninety percent of the cultivators in the Da Chu Dynasty.
"How did Zhao Chunyang teach such a fool as you?"
Ci Jing immediately reprimanded, "I deliberately avoided mentioning this... and you dare bring it up? Do you think your life is too long?"
Of course, he knew that the Undying Spring was on Xie Xuanyi.
But he didn't mention it—
Some things, without being weighed, aren't worth much.
Once weighed, even a thousand pounds can't hold!
Ci Jing could tell, Chen Jingxuan and Tang Fengshu were Xie Xuanyi's "close friends," but the news of the Undying Spring should absolutely not spread around... Years ago, the Taoist sects were manipulated by Mo Zhen Venerable, the great real people killed each other, and those were as close as brothers, in front of the temptation of immortality, how many could resist?
"Aren't you afraid that I deliberately leave you in the reed marsh? To conveniently kill you and take the Undying Spring?"