Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 362: Unexpected Beginnings
The Yuanji Sword and the Xiaohua Sword held immense significance for Yuanhua Mountain.
These two peak swords were both high-grade spiritual artifacts used by True Person Minghua of Yuanhua Mountain back when he was in the Martial Spring Realm.
Back then, when True Person Minghua participated in the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry and ascended to the summit with an unstoppable momentum, he also wielded these two swords.
Later, after True Person Minghua ascended to immortality, he gifted these two swords that had accompanied him in his youth to two exceptionally talented young disciples of Yuanhua Mountain at the time.
Since then, it became a tradition of Yuanhua Mountain for the two youngest disciples of the generation to hold the Yuanji Sword and the Xiaohua Sword respectively.
This continued until after the Heavenly Summit Mountain Cataclysm. When Wei Mian, who served as Yuanhua’s Sword Master, was made a scapegoat by the Supreme Imperial Law Court and died unjustly, Feng Wei, Elder Feng from the Supreme Surveillance Court, descended upon Yuanhua Mountain to temporarily assume the position of Sword Master Elder.
As a Supreme Elder who originated from Yuanhua Mountain, Feng Wei naturally knew of Wei Mian’s wrongful accusation. As for Li Haowen, his heart held even deeper feelings of guilt and pity.
For this reason, he did not reclaim the Yuanji Sword from Li Haowen’s hands, and also gifted Lin Xinyang’s Xiaohua Sword to Li Haowen.
Seventeen years had passed in the blink of an eye.
Now, the importance of these two swords to Li Haowen was self-evident.
Therefore, the request Chen Yan proposed was indeed extremely excessive.
“…Junior Brother Chen, why do you need to carry the Yuanji Sword and Xiaohua Sword to Shengyuan Mountain?”
Li Haowen did not directly answer Chen Yan’s request head-on. Instead, he turned to inquire about the reason.
“There is a treasure I want within Shengyuan Mountain. To obtain that treasure, the Yuanji Sword and Xiaohua Sword are necessities.”
Chen Yan replied.
“Could it be that the treasure Junior Brother Chen desires is related to my Yuanhua Mountain?”
Li Haowen asked again.
“Yes.”
Chen Yan answered very directly and straightforwardly.
“…Could it be that what Junior Brother Chen seeks is related to Ancestor Xie?”
Li Haowen paused briefly before continuing to ask.
Ancestor Xie, referring to Xie Shouzhuo, was the true name of Yuanhua Mountain’s True Person Minghua.
“Yes.”
Chen Yan still answered with decisive clarity.
“……”
Li Haowen fell silent.
This was the first time he had heard that there was a treasure related to Ancestor Xie within Shengyuan Mountain.
“If Senior Brother Li is unwilling to temporarily lend the Yuanji Sword and Xiaohua Sword to me, then you should still come with me for this trip.”
As Chen Yan spoke, he deliberately, yet seemingly casually, brushed off the dust from his daoist robes. The token hanging at his waist, engraved with “Kongshan Pivot Court,” swayed a few times with his movement.
This attire was given to me by Patriarch Kong.
Li Haowen recalled the words Chen Yan had spoken to him not long after they met today.
Only now did he finally realize that Chen Yan’s earlier suggestion for him to go to Shengyuan Mountain was not a request from Chen Yan.
It was an order.
He could not disobey or defy the other party.
“…I understand.”
Li Haowen said in a deep voice:
“But Junior Brother Chen, could you allow me to completely eradicate the Ding Bandits’ forces before setting out? This is the best opportunity Kongshan Sect has had in nearly two years to wipe out the Ding Bandits. I truly do not wish to miss it!”
“How long will it take?”
Chen Yan asked.
“Half a month.”
Li Haowen’s answer was resolute and unwavering.
“Fine.”
Chen Yan nodded, agreeing to Li Haowen’s request.
Half a month was a wait Chen Yan could afford.
Although True Person Jingchen had already returned to the world, it would still pose a certain degree of difficulty for her and True Person Lingxuan to collect all the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments in a short time.
Whether it was True Person Xuzhou from Lingxiao Temple, Realman Sun-Eroding from Mirage Palace, or Realman Shuangyu from Wind Ravine Valley, after such a long time had passed, they would naturally have figured out what Heavenly Summit Mountain intended to do by gathering the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments.
If they wanted to pick the softest target first, they would certainly come to seize the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments on his person first.
However, the probability was not high.
Back on Fusheng Island, Gu Jing had once asked him for the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments.
But Mr. You had stopped him.
Gu Jing said nothing. As a condition, he took away Youyou, who had been following beside Chen Yan.
…Youyou probably was no longer Youyou anymore.
Thinking of that little girl who had followed him for several cycles of reincarnation, amounting to several decades in total, Chen Yan felt a wave of emotion in his heart.
He had always been very clear that Si Youyou’s ascension to immortality was only a matter of time in this era where the Great Dao had fully revived.
It could not be stopped.
Chen Yan only hoped that during the time Si Youyou could still be herself, she could be as happy and joyful as possible.
He didn’t know how well he had done, but in the end, Chen Yan truly had been powerless.
Returning to the main topic.
If Qiu Siruo and Gu Jing came to ask for the Heavenly Summit Mirror fragments again, Mr. You would probably step forward once more.
However, whether the two ascended immortals from Heavenly Summit Mountain would give Mr. You face was an uncertain matter.
And based on the information Kong Yang had indirectly revealed to him through his words, although he hadn’t stated it explicitly, if those two ascended immortals from Heavenly Summit Mountain came to trouble him, at the very least within the sphere of Kongshan Sect’s influence, he would also step forward.
Now, shifting focus back to the immediate trivial matters.
Li Haowen’s encirclement and suppression of Ding Qiu also seemed to be truly nearing its end.
Ding Qiu was at the end of his rope.
Regarding Ding Qiu the person, Chen Yan’s feelings were quite complex.
In the earliest few cycles, Ding Qiu had once killed Chen Yan and Cheng Ziying after they fled Kongshan Sect.
And in the cycles after Kongshan Sect’s destruction, Ding Qiu had treated Chen Yan with absolute sincerity and wholeheartedly assisted him.
If one had to put it into words, after experiencing so many instances of save-scumming, Chen Yan already knew how to face the sense of fragmentation brought by the cycles of reincarnation.
That was to live in the present.
The nearly twenty-year-long enmity between Kongshan Sect and Ding Qiu would be settled within these next half month.
…
Mirage Palace.
An old man dressed in dark cyan daoist robes sat upright deep within a majestic, ancient, and vast palace as grand as a giant city.
On both sides of the spacious hall, twenty-four Supreme Elders clad in Mirage Palace daoist robes stood solemnly in attendance.
Any one of these twenty-four great powers from the upper three realms, if singled out, was a major figure who could make the Western Region of the Chenping Continent tremble.
Such a formidable lineup was naturally due to the arrival of esteemed guests.
Sitting within the palace, Realman Sun-Eroding lowered his gaze towards the two figures standing between the two rows of Mirage Palace Supreme Elders:
“Now that True Person Jingchen has returned to the Ascension Realm, it should be our Mirage Palace paying a congratulatory visit to Heavenly Summit Mountain. Unexpectedly, today, True Person Gu and True Person Qiu have come to our Mirage Palace first.”
Standing in the center of the palace, Gu Jing and Qiu Siruo, dressed in moon-white daoist robes, merely gave a slight nod in the direction of Realman Sun-Eroding, saying nothing.
For a moment, the atmosphere within the hall grew as heavy and profound as an abyss.
