Chapter 399

Chapter 399: Huan’er!

Translator: CKtalon Editor: CKtalon

Deep underground in the nest, there was a peach forest inside a Grotto-heaven .

Qin Yun cast his sword arts, causing Sword Qi to surge everywhere, and making countless peach blossoms flutter into the sky .

After practicing for two full hours, Qin Yun came to a stop and put away his Misty Rain Sword . He then took out the Butterfly Portrait from his Cosmic Bag and carefully observed it .

“I thought that by seeing the Butterfly Portrait, along with the numerous insights and experience I have gained, I should be able to create the sixth and seventh move of the Dreamlike Sword one after the other . ” Qin Yun looked at the Butterfly Portrait for a moment before gently shaking his head . “The sixth move of the Dreamlike Sword, First Lightning Encounter, was quite easily created but the seventh move… I’m falling just a little short due to my lack of experience . “

The sixth move, First Lightning Encounter, was a natural result of having sufficient amounts of experience .

The dark lands in the Butterfly Portrait made Qin Yun feel stifled when he looked at them, to the point of vomiting blood .

However, the ‘dark lands’ and the ‘flying butterfly’ seemed to represent Yin and Yang respectively . They gave him many new insights, and as such he had a strong desire to create a more powerful move, which would become the Dreamlike Sword’s seventh move .

But clearly…

He was still lacking in experience . What he had was insufficient to reach the goal of the standards he demanded .

“One must learn how to walk before they run . Once more experience is accrued, the seventh move will come naturally . ” Qin Yun did not demand any more of himself for the time being . He knew very well that he was already not far from creating the seventh move .

After putting away the Butterfly Portrait, Qin Yun flew towards the compound deep in the middle of the peach forest as a whooshing stream of light .

In the compound, the female warrior was sitting beside the white-robed corpse, silently guarding him .

“This female Guardian General sure has deep feelings for her master,” thought Qin Yun .

“You’re back again . ” She looked up at Qin Yun .

“Yes . “

Qin Yun nodded . “I’m here to bid farewell . “

“The circulation of the Heavenly Dao results in karma . Remember your promise to my master,” said the female warrior .

“Don’t worry . I, Qin Yun, will naturally keep my promise,” said Qin Yun . “But as I am now, I’m no match for that Hawk Fiend King . “

Even the Heavenly Courts needed to send powerful Heaven armies and generals to deal with a powerful fiendish demon of that level .

The female warrior looked at Qin Yun without saying a word . Then, all she did was look at her master silently .

Qin Yun cupped his hands gently before turning to leave .

Phew!

With a flash of his figure, he streaked across the sky and landed at the end of the granite path . It was the entrance of the Grotto-heaven .

“Open . ” He easily opened the Grotto-heaven’s entrance . He saw the wall of the underground passageway before he took a step and exited .

The Grotto-heaven’s doorway sealed up once again .

The Grotto-heaven once more only held the female warrior and the Skyimmortal corpse .

“Boom! Boom! Boom!” The entire Grotto-heaven was quaking .

“Master, you said that once a visitor accepts your karma and treasures, their departure would trigger the destruction of the Grotto-heaven . ” The female warrior lifted her mask gently as she looked passionately at the white-robed corpse . “You also ordered me to allow you to be vanquished by the spatial storms along with the peach forest . “

The Grotto-heaven was collapsing while the space around it was filling with spatial storms .

The five-kilometer span of peach trees began to collapse as well .

The compound in the middle was the last to go .

“You handed me my Life Talisman to give me freedom . ” The female warrior flipped her hand and produced a crystalline figurine made of jade . It was in the shape of a woman . “But I died the day you did . “

The female general gently hugged the white-robed corpse . “I remember that when I acquainted myself with you, you were alone, without friends or family, or even a place to call home . All you sought was revenge . “

“I followed you and we traveled the cosmos in search of opportunities . “

“I wished so much to avenge you but I’m only a Guardian General, a refined item . It’s impossible for me to increase my strength . “

Whoosh!

The compound began to collapse as well . The spatial storms swept over it, hurling both the female warrior and the white-robed corpse into the air .

“Your dying wish was for me to see the world and smile more . “

“However, I don’t want to see the world or others . All I wish is to spend time with you . “

The female warrior gently crushed the Life Charm in her hand, causing fine cracks to appear instantly across her armor .

Guardian Generals remained immortal only as long as their Life Charms were intact .

The destruction of a Life Charm also meant the true death of a Guardian General .

“Whoosh . “

The white-robed corpse dissipated under the grinding winds as the female warrior’s body was reduced to smithereens . Two streams of tears rolled down her cheeks .

“So I’m only able to cry when my Life Charm shatters . ” The female warrior sighed lightly . She hugged her master and vanished amid the tempestuous storms .

…

“Greetings Master . “

“From this day forth, you will follow me . I call nowhere home and travel across the cosmos . I have been a lonely vagrant in the past, but now I have a partner . “

Back then, the somewhat ignorant female warrior obediently followed her master, rushing across the starry cosmos as they visited world after world in search of opportunities .

To her, her master was everything .

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In the underground nest’s passageway .

Qin Yun quickly emerged . He was still unaware of what had happened to the Grotto-heaven once he left .

Qin Yun did not find the Guardian General’s Life Charm alongside the most precious Butterfly Portrait and medial-grade Numinous treasure that the Skyimmortal had left behind . Therefore, he knew very well that the Skyimmortal did not plan on giving the female warrior to others .

“Perhaps he had feelings for her after spending so much time together,” thought Qin Yun .

Swoosh .

Qin Yun again traveled within the underground nest . Although he had been in constant pain all these years, fraught with worry over his wife and daughter, he felt a little excited at the moment .

It was not because he had reached the level of a Skyimmortal but because…

He had accrued the necessary amount of treasures!

He had enough to request Puqu Dragonlord’s services .

“After I leave, I should study the situation outside . I need to know if the fiendcelestials are still outside . If they aren’t, I can tell Lu Fan, Miss Yu, and the rest of the prisoners that they can leave . ” Qin Yun had quite a good impression of Lu Fan and Yu Yan . Perhaps it was because of his feelings for his wife, he usually acted favorable towards couples in true love .

Sou!

He constantly approached the surface while following the map provided by Yu Yan .

“Boom!” “Bam!”

Faint shockwaves reached him . He could still sense them despite them being a distance away .

“What’s happening outside? Has a battle broken out?” Qin Yun was puzzled . “I’m still fifty kilometers away from the surface but I can already sense the intense battles outside . “

Sou!

As he passed through forks in the caverns, he constantly proceeded based on the map .

When he came to the final passageway, about five kilometers from the surface, he paused . The terrifying shockwaves from the battle on the surface caused the cavernous passageways to quake .

“What exactly is happening?” Qin Yun was in no rush to leave . Instead, he opened the Eye of Lightning at his glabella .

He would only leave after ascertaining the situation . Charging out without any notion of what danger awaited him would be foolish .

Although the cavernous passageways were twisted, Qin Yun’s Eye of Lightning would be able to see the outside world clearly as long as light managed to enter .

“Hahaha, all your Magus Gate has is that handful of people . Yet, you want to vie for this? I think it’s best you scram now . Don’t throw your lives away here . ” An eight-armed fiendcelestial let out an angry bellow . In front of him stood an elder with a wooden stave . He stood on a mountaintop as nine long veins flew out from the surface of his body and attacked the the eight-armed fiendcelestial .

“Oh? My Magus Gate is unafraid even when against the eight great sects of your fiendcelestial lineage . Besides, there are more and more Daoists and Buddhists arriving every moment . You have to consider how many of you will leave today alive,” said the elder nonchalantly .

The magus lineage was waning .

Among the top thirty-two factions of the Effulgent Great World, there was only one sect that stemmed from the magus lineage, the Magus Gate .

In contrast, the fiendcelestial lineage took up eight spots! It showed how powerful the fiendcelestial lineage was .

Of course, the Daoist and Buddhist sects were the most impressive, taking up more than half the spots!

“You people from the fiendish sects are too greedy . It will only spell your doom . ” A blue-robed woman gently flapped the fan in her hand, sending countless astral winds surging forward .

“Does your Jade Tripod Sect think it has what it takes?” An ape-like fiendcelestial roared as he intercepted the incoming attacked .

Boom!

…

“So many Essence Souls are fighting?” Qin Yun was secretly alarmed . His Eye of Lightning carefully observed the area . It was difficult to spy through the scattered light; therefore, he penetrated the layers of soil instead .

The rocks, sand, and mud no longer obstructed his view .

He observed one area after another .

Qin Yun was only watching the battle as an uninvolved observer but he was stunned by what he saw . On the periphery of the battleground, there were three Essence Souls in combat formation . Two of them were a thin man and a woman in azure-colored clothes who Qin Yun did not know . But the final person… was an aloof-looking youth in white . Qin Yun stared at him in a daze .

He was shocked and confounded!

The infant that garbled as he hugged his thighs…

That quiet boy that began practicing swordplay at the age of six…

A flood of memories inundated Qin Yun’s mind and, without knowing it, he could not stop the tears from streaming down his face .

“Huan’er!” Qin Yun murmured, his voice trembling slightly .