Immortal Chi Yuan's Awakening

The faintly visible crescent moon corresponds to the dazzling dusk. The ship cuts through the ripples of the rising and falling tide, creating a series of small, almost silent waves, and finally hovers in a certain area of the sea, guided by the Udu-dust in Jiang Rongyue's palm.

Looking down at the shimmering water, she slowly enveloped her entire body with the Heaven and Earth Qi, following the déjà vu from her memory. Taking a deep breath, she leaped into the water without hesitation.

Before her toes truly touched the water's surface, the girl drew the Xuanyuan Sword. Its unparalleled speed and power, along with the condensed Heaven and Earth Qi, compressed the surrounding environment, thus slashing out an invisible and colorless wave of Qi that cut a narrow and long path, forcibly creating a vacuum field for a short time, which then spread into the depths of the sea.

The entire ship swayed heavily for a while, accompanied by the aftershocks and the force of the sword strike. The sailors clung to the gunwale and looked down, only to see tiny ripples and waves constantly converging amidst the clamor of shattered arcs of light. The figure of the person had already vanished, seemingly a mermaid from ancient legends, who had returned to his homeland.

Following the vacuum track that had been carved out, Jiang Rongyue arrived at the depths of the sea in one go. Feathers fluttered in the depths of her eyes, and the power of her consciousness created countless illusions, illuminating the path that should have been pitch black and boundless.

Based on the feel of that previous sword strike, I can roughly grasp the precise distance between the outer ring of the weather circle and the sea surface.

That is a profound realm that ordinary humans could never reach with their lung capacity alone, without technological equipment.

Although her physical abilities and physical qualities are on a completely different level from ordinary people due to the amplification and optimization brought about by the awakening of the Stigmata, and she can even be described as a special being who has undergone evolution during her womb, she still possesses the ecological mechanisms and organ constraints common to this race. She cannot reach such a deep area by relying solely on pure endurance.

Therefore, it is necessary to use the amplification of the Heaven and Earth Qi to cut open a direct path.

But the path created by squeezing out the Seawater only lasted for a few breaths before the girl's body was completely submerged by the heavy Seawater. She could judge the depth of the sea by the pressure exerted on her body by the Heaven and Earth Qi that completely covered her.

Jiang Rongyue knew that she was not far from that meteorological circle; she could almost hear the deep breathing transmitted through the Seawater.

It was a series of faint sounds, like the howling of a strong wind or the ringing of a morning bell.

This was not the breathing of that peerless demon, but merely a physical phenomenon caused by the outer weather circle.

The crimson feathers in front of the girl grew brighter and brighter. She silently swam forward, and her outstretched fingertips finally touched the area that was separated from the sea and very close to the weather circle.

The immortal's murmur resounded from within his consciousness:

"Rongyue, follow the flow of Heaven and Earth Qi within the memories of this Udu-dust, and this aura will automatically open an entrance in the next instant."

Jiang Rongyue calmed her mind and received the information transmitted by Udu-dust. She slowly and accurately replicated this complex cyclical pattern, which was like a code, in the outside world. Finally, the lacquer-like colors shone brightly between the iron pen and silver hook that appeared out of thin air.

Thus, under the reverse analysis of the Honkai Energy with the same structure, the weather circle created by the Immortal Chi Yuan thousands of years ago showed a fleeting gap, and the surrounding Seawater was instantly sucked into nothingness by the miniature storm blowing in the opposite direction.

Like a fish swimming with the current, she stepped into the inner sphere of the weather system...

With a flick of his hand, Su Qing'an retrieved the valuables from the table into his Soul Hall.

This is the evolution and change that occurs in the Soul Hall after the soul ascends to a constant state of Manas consciousness.

The boy embarked on the path of spiritual ascension, so the Soul Hall, as the core of the Sea of consciousness, will naturally become different from before after this process.

This place is no longer essentially an illusion woven from pure soul matter and subconsciousness. It also contains a unique spacetime axis that is not real matter but surpasses it. Therefore, storing external things to a certain extent is naturally not a problem.

Once the Manas consciousness is no longer damaged, he will be able to actively manipulate the spacetime axis within it, infinitely stretching a single thought in the real world within an instant, and using this influence to interfere with the entire world with the power of one person, just as he did with Fuxi.

However, due to the mutual pull between Planetary-class nature, the spacetime axis's abilities cannot be used at all, and can only be used for performing magic tricks.

Su Qing'an objectively commented on that person's suggestion:

Something's wrong with you.

Looking at the empty table, Li Shishi said indignantly:

"I feel perfectly right."

"What's wrong with me! Doesn't Su Su think that the accommodations in the Capital City are much better than here? There are pretty young girls playing the piano nearby Tiāntiān, which would make you feel better. What's wrong with visiting brothels?"

The boy hesitated for a moment. His fading common sense told him something was amiss, but he couldn't refute the other person's explanation, so he could only say earnestly:

"I've read some people's memories, and they all say that visiting brothels is bad."

Li Shishi pinched his cheek unhappily and said matter-of-factly:

Can we be like those people?

"We're not going to a brothel or order girls upstairs for inappropriate activities. We're just here to listen to music and enjoy the atmosphere. It's a healthy and energetic way to experience the local customs and culture."

Why do you say something's not right?

Su Qing'an thought for a moment, then remained silent.

He obediently took out the gold-threaded wooden box, handed it to the beaming little girl, and then said in a serious tone:

"We can't stay out too late; we need to have dinner with Rongyue."

Hua said she was a child who was used to being alone but subconsciously craved warmth.

"Senior Sister Shishi is older than Rongyue, right? She will protect you when danger comes, and you can also maintain her goodwill in ordinary times."

In short, we should get along well.

Li Shishi lowered her eyes and said with a smile:

"Su Su is so sensible."

"I know all that you're saying, which is why I wanted to take advantage of Rongyue's absence to buy her some gifts and surprise her."

"The girls in the brothels know very well where to buy the best local accessories for girls. We can wander around for a while and pick out a few items."

The boy nodded and said:

"Um."

So when Jiang Rongyue stepped outside the seal, the two of them left the inn together and headed towards the most bustling area of the town.

The target: the largest brothel in Qinglong Town.

Wen Chun Pavilion, the teahouse next door.

The immortal sat alone in a high building, sipping fragrant tea, seemingly gazing at the distant scenery through the wooden window.

Beside the girl was Cang Xiaoxuan, who was dozing off in a floating scroll. Although this Armed Puppet had plenty of power, enough to last for several thousand years, it still retained this habit it had developed in the past, as if it wanted to prolong the time it would be separated from the immortal, and did not want her to fall into such a lonely situation again.

Fu Hua's pupils occasionally flickered with crimson light as she peered at the scene she had obtained from her disciple and Li Shishi, her lips slightly parted.

Although we can't meet, just being together at this distance is far better than the endings I remember.

While she hoped that the person would regain all their memories and rekindle everything about her, she also felt that it was best not to remember some things.

How many reincarnations did he actually experience?

Assume that the end and the beginning of each cycle are both the result of death.

The accumulated pain and sorrow must far outweigh the so-called happiness and warmth.

Sometimes, people feel pain simply because they have an excellent memory.

As someone who suffers from hyperthymesia and has lived through thousands of years, Fu Hua undoubtedly has a lot to say about this topic.

Sometimes she couldn't help but ask herself, was extracting her memories, turning them into Heart Seal, and burying them at the foot of the mountain really just because she feared they would be worn away in the process of exploring the Manas consciousness?

Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't.

However, some other things inevitably get mixed in with it.

Perhaps she herself believes that forgetting some things will make her happier.

Even if this means a sense of incompleteness and emptiness within oneself, so it is still true.

Human life is full of joys and sorrows, but life has its limits, and eventually everyone will pass away peacefully and find peace.

But those who live forever must remain in this mortal world, witnessing its ebb and flow, yet they cannot find liberation.

Agreements and responsibilities are the reasons that have kept us moving forward, but they are also constraints and shackles.

The girl could understand that pain and sorrow were endless and persistent, and that despair was something she could never forget.

And precisely because of this, now that she has successfully merged the memories of the two timelines, she no longer wishes for that person to remember everything.

Even if Su Qing'an remembers nothing, he will still be the same person she knows.

Even if we are forgotten forever, it doesn't matter. Encounters and experiences can always be accumulated again with the passage of time, and emotions can be rekindled in the meantime.

Even if that person forgets you forever and sheds all feelings for you, it doesn't mean the relationship is over.

This time it's her turn.

--Let's change it to the Immortal Chi Yuan liking Su Qing'an.

So it's okay if you can't remember.

She had plenty of time, long enough to cover up that seemingly vast emptiness.

The immortal parted his lips slightly and smiled faintly:

"Are you here to buy a gift for Rongyue?"

"Then we'll have to find another place."

Su Qing'an's Manas consciousness was confined within his body; under such circumstances, he could only perceive and sense things within his field of vision.

Even when his appetite instincts aren't stimulated to their peak activity, he can't ignore the distance and lock onto the target.

Therefore, not being able to meet does not mean being separated by a great distance.

However, the most famous brothel in Qinglong Town is the Wen Chun Pavilion right next door. To avoid any risks, it would be best to leave.

The girl lowered her eyes and looked at the girl beside her who habitually went into hibernation when there was nothing to do.

Her petite figure was exceptionally clear under the hazy light, and the slightly revealing modified Hanfu exposed large areas of her snow-white bionic skin, which had a smooth and warm feel like jade.

For Fu Hua, the Tome of Cangxuan was no longer just a simple object or a gift from a friend.

Perhaps, she's more like a younger sister.

"Xiao Xuan."

Tome of Cangxuan's curled eyelashes trembled at the soft call, and her drooping eyelids opened. She rubbed her eyes, yawned, and asked:

"Chi Yuan, what's wrong?"

Fu Hua replied:

"Su Qing'an and Shishi are coming towards us, let's find another place."

"Don't you love lively places? I just heard there's a street nearby that specializes in food stalls. Let's go check it out."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuan instantly sobered up considerably, a happy smile appearing on his face. He said:

"Yay! I knew Chi Yuan wouldn't let me be so bored that I'd just sleep all the time."

She floated in mid-air and flew directly out of the window, laughing as she said:

"Then let's hurry up and go."

Looking at the other person's radiant smile, the girl whispered:

"Good."

Perhaps, this unexpected encounter will prevent us from ever parting again.

Time moves slowly, and life is peaceful.

She will find a way to replenish the energy through normal means before it runs out again.

The corresponding technology lies within that Nine Nether.

From the very beginning, the immortal did not intend for his apprentice to continue working as a porter.

A few short days are a test, but several long months are just a waste of time.

So, once Jiang Rongyue had adapted to the new Qi technique and lost its meaning of tempering, she planned to have Su Qing'an directly enter the seal and devour Chi You completely in one go.

And then they retrieved the legacy of their friend—the quantum computer that currently exists as a soul steel sphere.

Fu Hua still remembers that back then, Cang Xuan created many spheres containing a large amount of knowledge from Previous Civilization and scattered them all over the world.

She noted the location on a scroll and entrusted it to herself, hoping to unearth it at the right time so that it could be disseminated and utilized.

Assuming a normal timeline, the Immortal Chi Yuan would have delayed retrieving those Soul Steel Spheres for a long time because he had no reason to spread advanced knowledge earlier.

After all, it was because the speed at which civilization spread was too fast that Chi You, Judgment-class Honkai Beast that should not have appeared in that era, was born, which indirectly led to the sacrifice of his friend.

Having had such an experience, Fu Hua never again attempted to force the development of civilization, and even tended to go to extremes, unwilling to interfere with the development of Shenzhou in the slightest.

After that, just when the technology should have been released to teach people how to resist the Honkai, the scroll was lost over the long years. The immortals who had been betrayed lost most of their power and memories in their death, leaving Shenzhou to develop naturally without any gifts from previous Previous Civilization, and even causing it to lose the guardian deity that Shenzhou for thousands of years.

--The Immortal Chi Yuan.

This series of Karma connections led to Otto, who subsequently seized control of Schicksal, incorporating the world's tectonic plates into his organization, and even Shenzhou in a delicate predicament where it was powerless to resist.

Even the legacy of Cang Xuan was incorporated into the foundation of Schicksal.

However, a dramatic shift in fate has now occurred. Since Su Qing'an's recovery requires a large number of demon corpses, the Nine Nether Netherworld, which has been sealed for thousands of years, and even Chi You himself, have become the best resources.

On the other hand, the reasons for not eliminating Chi You in the past no longer apply.

The original reason was that it was unnecessary; as time went by, no matter how tenacious its vitality was, it would slowly weaken and die.

Well, this point is completely overturned because in one of the timelines, Su Qing'an dies at the hands of Chi You thousands of years later.

The immortals nowadays don't really mind; in fact, they'd love to kill it a second time.

The second reason is that I am unable to be in two places at once.

Chi You was too enormous. When it was sealed, it was surrounded by a large amount of rock that had been swallowed up. In addition, the Honkai Energy that had accumulated inside it for thousands of years meant that forcibly killing it would turn the entire Qinglong Town and even the surrounding hundreds of miles into a hellish inferno.

The intense Honkai Energy environment and the potential for tsunamis are an inescapable nightmare for vulnerable humans.

But now, this reason has crumbled due to Su Qing'an's presence.

The boy possessed the ability to directly devour the Heaven and Earth Qi into nothingness. Chi You's formidable size became meaningless under the devouring of concepts. The possibility of that part of the rock layer and the fluctuations causing a tsunami was extremely low.

Furthermore, with her personally acting as a safety net to prevent any unforeseen circumstances, aside from the mental health issues that Rongyue mentioned regarding Su Qing'an herself, there is virtually no possibility of anything going wrong.

In fact, according to his own account, this is much better than it was originally.

Fu Hua trusts Su Qing'an.

Therefore, all things considered, she had absolutely no reason to refuse to kill Chi You.

As she is destined to reclaim some of her friend's inheritance, the girl also contemplates what the future holds by drawing upon her memories from those different timelines.

If nothing unexpected happens, I shouldn't end up like I did before.

This alone will inevitably lead to many changes in the future.

Although she didn't know whether it was good or bad, if this was the price God paid for bestowing a miracle upon her, then she would not only accept it willingly, but also have no regrets.

There are some things in this world that, once lost, can never be regained.

Fu Hua had experienced the intense feeling of losing that person, and she even knew that this wasn't all; she might have lost that person more than once or twice.

But now, not only have memories that shouldn't exist returned, but the person who should have died has also come to his side.

This gift is far too generous, yet even given the choice, one cannot refuse it.

Now that he has sorted through his memories, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, the immortal begins to ponder why he lost her in the first place.

The first time was because I was weak.

At that time, she was naive and ignorant, and couldn't even be sure what fate awaited that person.

The second time was different, but the essence was still the same: insufficient strength.

If I were not bound by my agreement with Otto, and had the ability to Shenzhou on my own, and also had a sufficient intelligence network to know in advance where he was going, I would certainly not have met such an end.

So...

Even if it's just a thought for now, the Taixu Sect that the Immortal Chi Yuan wants to build will no longer carry out the concept of slaying demons and eliminating evil in the old way.

What kind of impact this decision will have remains to be seen.