Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 704: Legend of Ancient Sword 20

After returning to the Fang Mansion, Fang Ruqin went out to check the accounts. She walked quite far and would take some time to return home, but everyone in the Fang Mansion had long been accustomed to this. Besides, Fang Lansheng was back, so they continued to entertain Jiang Xinxin and her party with attentiveness and hospitality.

After one night, someone came to report that Ouyang Shaogong had returned. Baili Tusu was about to go out to look for Ouyang Shaogong, but Jiang Xinxin persuaded him: "Shaogong must have rested after returning home. Why don't we hand over the visiting card first and wait for the reply to say when Shaogong is free, then it won't be too late to visit."

Fang Lansheng was used to such rules and could only agree to it. Baili Tu Su felt that Jiang Xinxin's words made sense and did not insist on going out. However, Fang Lansheng pulled him out to inquire about the news of the flower thief. Xiang Ling naturally could not sit still when she heard that, and pulled Fang Lansheng out as well.

Jiang Xinxin didn't stop her, but threw a jade pendant to Xiangling that could cover up her evil spirit. "This thing can cover up your aura, and some people will want to kill you. We all know that you don't have any evil intentions, but others may not think so."

Xiang Ling happily accepted Jiang Xinxin's jade pendant. Her good mood was not affected at all. After everyone left, Feng Qingxue asked Jiang Xinxin, "Xinxin, I feel more and more that you seem to know a lot of things that we don't know. Are you really just an ordinary cultivator?"

Jiang Xinxin raised her hand to set up a barrier in the small pavilion and said with a smile: "How could I be an ordinary cultivator? If I were really ordinary, how could my lover be hurt?"

Feng Qingxue immediately understood why Jiang Xinxin had said that her lover's soul was injured and why she entered Tianyong City to find the treasure that could replenish and nourish the soul.

"So you hinted at it a long time ago!"

Seeing that Feng Qingxue didn't mind her concealment at all, and listening to Han Xiuning's story about the disaster in Wumeng Spirit Valley, Jiang Xinxin told her everything she knew: "I was entrusted by the Goddess Nuwa to protect Baili Tu Su and help him avoid the disaster of his soul being torn apart in the future."

Feng Qingxue didn't doubt it at all, instead she became even more excited: "So, you are the turning point that the Queen mentioned?!"

Jiang Xinxin nodded and admitted: "Yes, I should be the turning point of everything."

Feng Qingxue was so excited that she didn't know what to say. She just thought of the danger that Baili Tu Su, whom Jiang Xinxin had just mentioned, might have in the future. She hurriedly asked, "Do you have a way to help Tu Su avoid that disaster?"

Jiang Xinxin couldn't help but sigh when she heard this, "I've thought about it, and the key to breaking this situation lies in this soul-replenishing treasure."

Feng Qingxue asked: "What do you mean by that?"

Jiang Xinxin knew that Feng Qingxue, as a spirit girl of Youdu, would definitely become a great witch in the future and should know many secrets. However, there were some things that they in Youdu didn't know much about, so she first talked about the origin of the Burning Silence Sword and the whereabouts of the other half of the immortal spirit: "You should know that the Burning Silence Sword was forged by the ancestors of the Longyuan tribe who used the Blood Smear Formation to absorb half of the immortal spirit of an ancient immortal, and it also cost a lot of sacrifices."

“Although only half of them are immortals, they are not something that mortals can spy on at will. Therefore, when the Burning Silence Sword was first born, it showed signs of great danger. The entire Longyuan tribe even paid the price of genocide for this. Later, Goddess Nuwa personally sealed it, and only then did peace return to the world for a while.”

Feng Qingxue nodded. She knew all these inside stories, and also knew that Wumeng Linggu was the person chosen by Nuwa to guard the Fenji Sword.

Jiang Xinxin continued, "And that ancient immortal was Prince Changqin, the son of the Fire God Zhurong. The true form of Prince Changqin was actually a Fenglaiqin, which was made by the Fire God Zhurong himself. Later, when he saw that the Fenglaiqin had a spiritual consciousness, the Fire God Zhurong personally asked Nuwa to give the Fenglaiqin a spirit. It was at that time that Prince Changqin took shape, broke away from the identity of a qin spirit, and was adopted as the son of the Fire God Zhurong."

"What happened later became various legends. You should have heard of them. Although some of them are contrary to the facts, they are generally similar. Crown Prince Changqin assisted Chiyou in the Battle of Muye. After the defeat, he naturally lost his power. Later, during the Fourth War of the God Realm, Crown Prince Changqin died."

Feng Qingxue had heard some legends about the ancient true god, Prince Changqin. Just as Jiang Xinxin said, their Youdu lineage served Nuwa, so they naturally knew something about Prince Changqin, the god who was endowed with spirits by Nuwa.

Jiang Xinxin continued, "Logically speaking, a deity born from the beginning like Nuwa wouldn't die easily. Once they die, they can only retain some of their divine power and obsession. However, Prince Changqin is not a deity born from the beginning, so after he died, he only lost his divine body, but his immortal spirit was completely preserved. With time, he can even rebuild his physical body."

Feng Qingxue had already realized that something was wrong. "But half of the immortal spirit of Prince Changqin was taken by the ancestors of the Longyuan tribe in the human world and used to forge the evil sword Fenji, which harmed many lives..."

Jiang Xinxin nodded: "Yes, there is someone behind the scenes, the purpose is not to let the prince Changqin be resurrected. The reason why the other party attacked so cruelly is to make the prince Changqin's soul fly away!"

Feng Qingxue connected all the things together, "So, the one who deceived Tu Su and asked him the secret of Wumeng Spirit Valley and sneaked into Wumeng Spirit Valley must be the other half of Prince Changqin's immortal spirit. He wanted to burn the sword spirit of the Silence Sword just to get back his own things!"

Jiang Xinxin sighed softly, "Yes, the other party has done a lot of evil things over the years, and is already full of sins. He has almost used up all his merits, so he failed in Wumeng Spirit Valley."

After all, Jiang Xinxin felt a little sorry for Ouyang Shaogong or Prince Changqin. It was not his fault that he was ambushed. His only mistake was that in order to avoid death, he used the soul-crossing technique. Later, he implicated the entire Wumeng Spiritual Valley and committed a lot of murders.

But Jiang Xinxin felt that there was nothing wrong with him taking back his things.

But the biggest problem now is that his action of taking back his immortal spirit conflicts with Jiang Xinxin's mission to save Baili Tu Su. More importantly, there is probably no other treasure that can replenish the soul, and she herself is unwilling to give up her own things to save a sinful person, so it seems a bit difficult.

Feng Qingxue also understood that it was not easy to let the other half of the immortal spirit give up something that originally belonged to him, and they might even have to fight to the death together. The reason why Baili Tu Su was able to survive was all thanks to the support of the sword spirit of the Fenji Sword. Without the support of the sword spirit and the treasure to replenish his soul, it would be easy for him to die.

So Jiang Xinxin was right when she said that the treasure that replenishes the soul is the key.

The soul-replenishing technique mentioned by High Priest Han Xiuning before is really a life-for-life technique. It is not difficult for the soul to be born on its own. The reason why Baili Tu Su came back to life is because the sword spirit of the Fen Ji Sword replenished his lost soul. Even so, it also exhausted the last ray of life of High Priest Han Xiuning.

Feng Qingxue was so worried that she bit her fingers unconsciously. "There are many treasures in Youdu, but there are no treasures or artifacts that can be used to repair the soul..."

Nourishing the soul and replenishing the soul are not the same concepts. Although the two are similar to a certain extent, nourishing the soul simply means letting the soul rest or strengthening the power of the soul while the soul is intact.

As the name suggests, soul-replenishing means that when there is a defect in the soul, something is used to replenish the missing part of the soul.

Therefore, treasures that nourish the soul are not rare. There are quite a few in Youdu, but treasures that replenish the soul are scarce even in the prehistoric times, let alone this middle thousand world that was brought into being.

Moreover, even if such a spiritual creature was born by chance, it would probably have fallen into the hands of Emperor Fuxi long ago.

Jiang Xinxin took Feng Qingxue's hand and comforted her, "After all, we haven't come to that stage yet. We can first look for treasures that can nourish the soul. In this way, even if it comes to the last resort and Tu Su eliminates the Fen Ji Sword Spirit, we can at least give his soul something to rely on, so that it won't be destroyed immediately."

This is also a solution. Feng Qingxue finally relaxed her frown after hearing this. "We in Youdu do have this soul-nourishing treasure. When the matter of the flower thief is over, I will invite everyone to visit Youdu together!"

Neither of them mentioned the other half of the fairy. Jiang Xinxin already knew the answer, while Feng Qingxue felt that it was natural for the other party to want his things back.