Remembering these words, Wen Xuan felt sweat dripping all over. At that time, he couldn’t comprehend what those words meant. Seeing the scene in front of him now, he naturally felt, without a doubt, that those words were indicating to this place. In a flash, Wen Xuan actually felt like he didn’t know what to do.
Chu Lian very rarely used that kind of tone to tell him things. Since Chu Lian said something like that, it must be a matter of life and death.
Wen Xuan stared at the little hole that he created on the ice just now and felt utterly regretful, terrified that this ice block was really broken by him.
Luckily, a moment later, the hole began to fix itself slowly. At the same time, the figure of that young man also faded slightly. It was an almost indiscernible amount, but it expressed that this divine memory was currently consuming its energy in order to protect this place.
Wen Xuan let out a breath of relief and quickly commanded the surging spiritual energy to by-pass this area and attack other places. As for this block of ice, he felt like it was best to not touch it temporarily.
Before he left, Wen Xuan turned to look one more time. The figure of that young man remained floating there, watching him with a smile.
It was a rather incorporeal smile, but strangely, it made him feel at ease.
In the end, Wen Xuan’s entire body was engulfed by his bountiful spiritual energy, breaking open a total of 48 channels, several times more than the previous experience. This was still only the first step of the yuan gathering stage. Very quickly, Wen Xuan’s consciousness pulled away from viewing his body and traveled to an indescribable void.
This was a space for ‘Dao.’
Only during a breakthrough can cultivators borrow the strength of their gathering spiritual energy to connect with the heaven and earth and touch ‘Dao.’ In that instance, many confusing concepts inside the heart all became clear. Their divine understanding would reach an unprecedented level. Only through this process can cultivators gain a deeper understanding of themselves and properly take a step forward in advancement.
The last time Wen Xuan entered yuan gathering, what he was missing was this step. Therefore, when Wen Xuan destroyed his cultivation and fell back into foundation building, he actually only counted as half yuan gathering. Even if his cultivation and strength can be considered yuan gathering, his mental state remained in foundation building.
Now this hole has finally been filled.
Wen Xuan opened his eyes in the void and saw the hazy lights hovering around his body. As his thoughts moved, these floating lights moved about. This was the reflection of his internal Dao.
What kind of image did you want to form with these floating lights? What kind of Daoist path will you walk on after today?
Wen Xuan took his time to ask himself, and then took his time to consider the answer. As the answer gradually became clear, the excess hazy lights dissipated. The rest of the scattered lights slowly converged into three distinct points. Wen Xuan extended his hand and touched them, his heart filled with an uncontrollable delight.
Destroying and then reconstructing. Breaking through to yuan gathering a second time, he finally received magic skills that belonged solely to himself. A total of three different skills. This was an illustrious amount for fellow cultivators, just like back then when he broke through from qi refining into foundation building.
After a road full of frustration and dashed hopes, he finally obtained the true strength that a yuan gathering cultivator should have.
With a clear sound, the spiritual energy surrounding Wen Xuan gathered and separated, rolling into waves of energy and making Wen Xuan’s sleeves flap. Wen Xuan opened his eyes with a smile and then looked at the meridians on his body again.
The cold air was already swept clean. After 50 years, unprecedentedly, the ice and snow began melting here. The heavenly demonic beast’s horn still emitted waves of coldness in his hand. However, with the circulation of Wen Xuan’s cultivation, that coldness was absorbed into his body in an endless stream, unable to escape from the center of his palm.
Task completed, Wen Xuan’s face unconsciously beamed with delight. He only needed to take this item back now.
Thinking this, Wen Xuan looked towards the cave exit. What he saw, however, made him shiver all over.
Somewhere along the way, a person appeared at the cave exit. A woman.
Why would this kind of place have a woman? This question just flashed across Wen Xuan’s head when that woman started floating into the cave.
That’s right. Floating.
Wen Xuan reflexively took a step back. He remembered. This was probably that female ghost of legends. He finally encountered her.
Although this female ghost’s cultivation wasn’t high, supposedly, Wen Xuan still increased his vigilance.
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Actually, she’s been staring long before Wen Xuan noticed her, for some unknown period of time.
“Umm…Miss?” Wen Xuan felt his scalp turn numb from being stared like that, he couldn’t help but ask: “Why do you remain here?”
Although he knew the other shouldn’t be able to injure him, this was the first time he encountered such a situation. Wen Xuan couldn’t help but feel a bit scared. Ghosts were extremely rare after all. Unless they had an extremely huge regret or injustice, they normally wouldn’t remain in the world.
The female ghost didn’t answer and continued to stare directly at him unblinkingly.
Wen Xuan planned to continue attempting to communicate when that female ghost suddenly roused.
She opened her mouth and let out a loud howl. It was impossible to hear clearly what she said. This howl didn’t even finish when she abruptly charged at Wen Xuan.
Wen Xuan instantly took a huge step back.
That female ghost charged frontally at him, but abruptly stopped a foot away from him, as if she crashed into a wall.
That was Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy protecting him.
As a righteous cultivator from a mystical Sect, Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy can naturally detain this kind of underworld ghost. Wen Xuan saw threads of greenish black smoke rising out of the female ghost’s body. Her face also revealed a pained expression, clearly indicating that she received quite an injury.
“Miss.” Wen Xuan’s expression fell: “What do you want to do?”
The female ghost turned a deaf ear. She didn’t even care about the pain caused by his spiritual energy. Mouth wide open and wailing loudly, she scratched nonstop at the barrier created by Wen Xuan’s spiritual energy with her hands, desperately wanting to move a little closer.
“It’s useless.” Wen Xuan told her: “Your cultivation is too low. There’s no way you can break through my spiritual energy.”
It was unknown if this female ghost understood what he said. She abruptly took a step back.
Wen Xuan unconsciously let out a breath of relief.
However, he didn’t even finish that action when the female ghost suddenly charged over again and slammed into the barrier again. This was equivalent to attempting suicide. She let out a huge wail.
Wen Xuan couldn’t watch with a cold eye any longer. For some unknown reason, seeing this scene made his heart tighten.
“Miss, why so stubborn?” His voice carried an almost imperceptible tremble: “What regret do you have? Tell me, maybe I can help you. Don’t come closer anymore. Why must you make this kind of useless effort?”
But the female ghost didn’t know how to give up at all and continued to slam into this unbreakable barrier without rest. The dark energy on her body continued to be damaged, letting out sizzling sounds as if she was being burned. In face of this kind of agony, she only cried and wailed, not even stopping for a moment.
Wen Xuan’s scalp felt numb. Just what was she trying to do? Absorb his yang energy? Would ghosts harm themselves to this extent in order to absorb yang energy? Wen Xuan didn’t understand ghosts so he didn’t know the answer.
He wanted to hear more clearly what was the sound coming out of the other’s mouth. But no matter how he tried to distinguish it, it was all some unrecognizable syllables. Yet this sound wasn’t completely indistinguishable. It sounded like something a certain type of person would let out……
Wen Xuan’s expression changed slightly. He asked with uncertainty: “Were you…… mute when you were alive?”
The female ghost made two noises, still completely indiscernible, but extremely similar to a mute. Because of the countless suicidal battering, her form has faded away a lot from before, as if a flame in the wind, capable of being blown away any second. Meanwhile on her face, two rows of tears finally dropped.
Seeing these tears, for some reason, Wen Xuan felt like his heart was hit by a heavy hammer, extremely painful.
Watching this female ghost moving back slightly, and come charging over again, Wen Xuan did something that he couldn’t even explain why.
He withdrew all of the spiritual energy protecting him, completely, leaving nothing behind.
When the female ghost came charging over, still crying and wailing, she directly landed on top of him.
The instance he made contact with the yin energy, Wen Xuan still felt a bit dazed. He thought that he really had gone insane. Even if he was yuan gathering, to allow a ghost to tackle him without any protection… if the other had any ill intentions, she can really make him suffer the consequences. It’s even possible for him to die completely, and have his soul scattered.
However, nothing happened.
Wen Xuan felt a tear landing on his shoulder, cold.
After that, the yin energy that enveloped him, as well as that drop of tear on his shoulder, felt like they evaporated or something, and abruptly disappeared without a trace.
Wen Xuan searched around dumbfounded but couldn’t find that female ghost anywhere. He practically thought that the entire scene just now was just his imagination.
But what happened just now couldn’t have been his imagination.
Of course, the female ghost could have left or hidden herself. However, if that’s the case, then what was the meaning behind the female ghost’s stubbornness before?
Wen Xuan couldn’t figure it out at all. He can only shake his head and momentarily throw this matter to the back of his head. Placing that heavenly demonic beast’s horn in his sleeve, he exited the cave and headed down the mountain path.
The journey down the mountain went much more smoothly. Because the heavenly demonic beast’s horn was no longer in its original spot, the magic array was destroyed. The cold air in the mountain pretty much completely dissipated, only leaving behind the coldness from the ice and snow. Using only 1/5th of the time to head down, Wen Xuan saw the stone that was marked previously.
What surprised him was that next to the stone stood two figures.
Since the three people separated, at least a day and night has passed. Nevertheless, Jian Yi noticed immediately when Wen Xuan appeared. His entire person instantly charged over and jumped into Wen Xuan’s arms.
Wen Xuan caught him firmly and rubbed his hair: “How come you didn’t head down the mountain and wait there?”
Jian Yi didn’t say anything, only buried his head into Wen Xuan’s shoulder. Because he was blown by the cold wind for too long, his cheeks were completely reddened. Both of his hands were also purple.
“Cultivator Wen, you’re finally out.” That Cultivator Sun also came over to greet him: “I tried to persuade Cultivator Jian to head down the mountain but he wasn’t willing no matter what.”
If Jian Yi wasn’t so determined to remain here, this person definitely wouldn’t have waited until now.
When he got a little closer, he finally perceived Wen Xuan’s yuan gathering presence and froze. After a while, he cupped his hands, expression changing subtly. With a hint of rejoice and a hint of envy, he said: “Congratulations on advancing to yuan gathering, Cultivator Wen.”
Wen Xuan nodded his head with a smile. He originally wanted to return the courtesy, but Jian Yi was still leaning on him, refusing to let go.
Wen Xuan sighed but didn’t push him away. Instead, he found those hands that had turned purple in the cold and covered them with his palms: “Sorry. I made you worry.”
“I didn’t worry that much.” Jian Yi finally was willing to make a noise. His voice was just extremely quiet: “I knew nothing would happen to you. It was just a long wait.”
Wen Xuan smiled and then went to cover Jian Yi’s face with his hands: “Right. Sorry, I let you wait for too long.”
To the side, the completely ignored Cultivator Sun couldn’t help but cough and interrupt their dog blinding actions. He asked: “Cultivator Wen, what’s the situation with this mountain currently? The wind and snow seemed to have weakened quite a bit. Is…”
Talking business, Wen Xuan and Jian Yi finally separated.
Wen Xuan finally said with a smile: “Fortunately I was able to complete the mission.”
“What?” Cultivator Sun was first stunned. Very quickly he recovered and was instantly delighted: “Are you for real?”
Wen Xuan pulled out the heavenly beast’s horn from inside his sleeve and displayed it in front of his eyes.
Excited, Cultivator Sun went to touch it with his hand. In the end, he was almost injured by the cold air. This cold air was currently confined in Wen Xuan’s palm. However, if touched, it’s still extremely damaging.
“I used a cultivation technique…… ” Wen Xuan planned to briefly explain how to control this heavenly demonic beast’s horn, but the method involved his cultivation method, so he really didn’t know how to say it clearly.
Good thing this Cultivator Sun didn’t care and shook his head, saying: “Since it’s like that, you just hold onto it, Cultivator Wen. When we see xianzi, please hand it to her yourself.”
Wen Xuan naturally nodded his head in agreement.
As the three people chatted, they continued to walk down the mountain.
Wen Xuan briefly explained everything that happened in the mountain. This Cultivator Sun was now extremely friendly towards Wen Xuan, his flattering attitude was very on point. Hearing that the array was placed by Ye ShengGe, his face was full of lament. Then hearing the matter with the female ghost, he was also full of wonder and pondered seriously on it with Wen Xuan.
Jian Yi stuck to Wen Xuan’s side, exceptionally quiet. For the first time, he didn’t interrupt at all.
“What kind of situation would cause a ghost to disappear?” Cultivator Sun suddenly said: “Did she obtain enlightenment?”
Wen Xuan stepped on a pile of snow at this time. Hearing those words, he almost fell in.
“Just a random guess.” Cultivator Sun laughed dryly.
Wen Xuan couldn’t help but think down this path. The more he thought about it, the more he felt sweat gather on his forehead.
That’s right. Ghosts remained in the land of the living often because they had unfulfilled desires and their obsession was too deep. As long as their obsession was fulfilled, the ghost would naturally vanish. But if that’s the case, Wen Xuan recalled the scene just now and felt goosebumps all over. That female ghost’s desire shouldn’t be wanting to jump him, right?
No. it wasn’t just jumping at him.
At that last moment, the female ghost embraced him in her arms.
Wen Xuan felt his limbs turn cold.
“That female ghost,” he pretended to ask carelessly: “How long has she been here?”
Cultivator Sun shook his head: “I don’t know the exact time. However, the people in the town said that ever since that mountain became a snow mountain, she’s been there. Probably around 50 years or so.”
Wen Xuan took in a deep breath, the cold feeling spreading from his limbs to his chest.
He didn’t know exactly how old he was and he also didn’t know when was his birthday. He only knew that when he was picked up by Chu Lian and brought back to Water Cloud Sect, coincidentally, it was around 50 years ago.
“Oh right.” Cultivator Sun said: “Before when you were stuck in the mountain, I was afraid something bad had happened. So I sent a letter to xianzi. She was very concerned and said in the return letter that she has pushed off other businesses and will be rushing over in the next few days. I have to let her know that she doesn’t need to come anymore.”
“Murong-xianzi is coming here?” Wen Xuan asked.
“That’s what she said, but since you’re safe and sound. It’s better to have her wait for our return.”
“No,” Wen Xuan said: “If she can come, that would be better.”
Cultivator Sun froze, not expecting him to say that.
“I want to wait for her here.” Wen Xuan silently squeezed his fist in his sleeve: “I want to remain in this town for a few more days…… there’s something I need to inquire about.”
his mother? 🥲
I thought the same thing.
I am 90% sure too …..
yea could be…
Thank You for the chapter ♡♡+.ﾟ(￫ε￩*)ﾟ+.ﾟ
Nossa já fiquei triste, não tinha imaginado q poderia realmente ter a fantasma feminina ela ainda pode ser a mãe do Wen
ahhh… my theory must be wrong then 😭 lemme know who this mamacita is thooor 😩☝️ she must be fine
It was a fun theory tho 😂
Agreed. Even still hes connected to ysg somehow. Cl is clearly jealous of that
I think that ye shenge (don’t remember his name, hope I got it right tho) might be his father
I had the same doubts…and maybe Chu Lin(?) likes ShenGe and so…uk. the strong dislike. or maybe ShenGe died while protecting WX?
My theory is that the female spirit is wen xuan mother
The 50yr mark being discussed in chapter 50 is such a delicious coincidence 😌