Several seconds passed before someone answered hesitantly, “…I fought Demon Venerable Ming You before and didn’t kill him in the end. Should I go ask him if he has one?”
The Many who heard these words:
Just because you didn’t kill the man, does that really count as having the kind of friendship where you can borrow a divine soul artifact?
The speaker, feeling the weight of the crowd’s gaze, let out a dry cough.
‘If he doesn’t agree to lend it, can’t I just finish him off then?’
When threatened with their lives, those from the other race, regardless of their cultivation level, were actually quite reasonable.
While everyone was brainstorming, Su Wenjing suddenly noticed a rainbow-colored halo in his peripheral vision. It seemed to be flowing toward him from the distant unknown — or rather, toward Li Yunxian.
“What is this?” Min Juan and the others exclaimed in surprise, raising their hands in an attempt to block it.
Everyone present was currently at the Tribulation Stage, yet within the perception of their divine sense, they had failed to notice the existence of these halos at all.
Recognizing what it was, Su Wenjing said, “…Wait, this is merit golden light.”
He had been fortunate enough to see it once before with Li Yunxian.
Min Juan and the others were stunned.
“Karmic merit… golden light?” they murmured, their gazes immediately following the direction of the halos, looking out into the far distance.
They saw the source of this radiance.
There was more than one source.
They seemed to cross countless seas of stars from the extremely far distance, falling from the horizon.
It was merit golden light gathered from various planets.
Min Juan and the others stared blankly along the path of these halos, slowly looking toward Li Yunxian.
They saw that the brow Li Yunxian had furrowed when she fell was gradually smoothing out.
The sword intent that had been dissipating around her body also gradually became peaceful.
At this moment, Li Yunxian did not look like she was in any danger; instead, it seemed as if she had fallen into a deep dream.
“…She should be alright now, right?” The Many asked uncertainly, but no one could provide an answer for the time being.
Meanwhile, Li Yunxian felt as though she had fallen into layered dreams.
The merit golden light within her body seemed to sense that Zhu San’s divine soul was simply too massive, and this small amount was not enough to resolve it.
As if calling out to friends, the merit moved the Heavenly Dao of this world, summoning other companions.
Those that arrived first worked diligently, transporting Zhu San’s divine soul to be used as nourishment for Li Yunxian’s own divine soul.
Thus, Li Yunxian’s consciousness also seemed to enter the consciousness of these souls belonging to Zhu San.
She saw many scenes.
There were low-level members of the other race, no more than the Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment stages, either happily enjoying their food or joyfully looking over the spoils they had obtained from burning, killing, and looting.
There were also those with higher cultivation levels who enjoyed a superior lifestyle, wantonly humiliating and exploiting their subordinates.
Everyone’s appearance was different, and everyone’s behavior was different.
Most of these scenes only flashed through Li Yunxian’s perception, leaving a perception for several seconds or 1 minute before disappearing.
It was like… the final remnants left in this world by the members of the other races whom Zhu San had devoured.
Li Yunxian felt no sympathy for these other races, only glancing at the scenes that lasted a bit longer.
At this very moment, Li Yunxian finally realized exactly what Zhu San’s ultimate move was. Madness.
Li Yunxian:
No wonder she always felt that Zhu San was constantly flinging various spider silks at her, occasionally transforming into Su Wenjing’s appearance, and then silently trying to capture her.
If she were a Li Yunxian who only existed in the cultivation world, or a Li Yunxian whose divine soul had not yet been repaired, Zhu San’s innate divine ability would not have been so useless against her.
‘It turns out there’s someone in this world even unluckier than me!’
Li Yunxian’s heart was suddenly balanced!
Even though she was a Tribulation Stage expert who had lived for 10,000 years, and even though she could possess the memories of those souls when she devoured them… Li Yunxian recalled the various attack methods Zhu San had used against her.
In the end, the attack methods the opponent actually utilized were truly very simple and unadorned. Aside from her innate divine ability, they had almost no lethality.
‘Don’t you practice any actual combat at all?’ Li Yunxian sent out a silent complaint.
However, Li Yunxian then recalled Zhu San’s endless survival methods…
‘Is all her combat training just for this?’
Li Yunxian, who specialized in offense, fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, the shifting scenes before her eyes brightened.
“Wow! You’re very cute.” Li Yunxian heard a clear and beautiful woman’s voice. “Little spider, do you want to come home with me?”
Hearing the keywords, Li Yunxian projected her attention toward the scene before her.
It was a pet shop.
Li Yunxian scanned the various strange animals around her, and her gaze soon landed on the person who had appeared.
That woman’s face was exactly like the corpse that Zhu San had gazed upon with blood and tears within the torrent of time.
And at this moment, the woman was gazing joyfully at a beautiful human spider.
It was an ordinary beautiful human spider without a shred of spiritual power or cultivation.
“Boss, I want this one!” the woman said cheerfully.
Li Yunxian saw the other party pay the money very decisively and pick up the cage containing the beautiful human spider.
***
By now, several minutes had passed.
This might be Zhu San’s memory.
But this perspective looked more like…
Li Yunxian looked at the woman.
This person’s memory.
The images of this memory showed no signs of dissipating.
Soon, Li Yunxian learned the woman’s name.
Ruan Mo.
Unlike the previous hurried fragments, even though so much time had passed, the scene before Li Yunxian had not changed.
‘A name I haven’t heard before,’ Li Yunxian mused to herself.
At this time, Ruan Mo was 18 years old.
She was a girl from a fairly large family.
She was optimistic, cheerful, excellent in both character and appearance, and very intelligent. Her parents also doted on her.
There were almost no troubles in her life, except for a small hobby that might seem a bit strange to outsiders.
She didn’t particularly like the fluffy cats and dogs that most people loved; she liked exotic pets.
Lizards, snakes, and spiders were all small pets that Ruan Mo liked to keep.
The beautiful human spider was the third spider Ruan Mo had brought home, so Ruan Mo named it Zhu San.
She meticulously built a small nest for Zhu San.
The temperature was suitable, the humidity was suitable, and the soil was suitable. What she fed it was its favorite food, and she would even secretly put things in Zhu San’s nest…
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