Chapter 614: 614

Qin Yun continued bringing his granddaughter around on an experiential training trip . Simultaneously, he would record down any new insights he received, as a form of accumulation for the Seven Stars Sword Dao’s second volume .

And in Cang City .

Golden Immortal Meng Fu’s obsession kept affecting him .

“Brother Meng . Brother Meng . ” A young girl came to a pavilion tower, and ran up the stairs with great familiarity . The old servants in the building did not stop her despite seeing her do so .

Upstairs .

Meng Fu sat cross-legged as he read from the pile of books placed beside him .

“Brother Meng, you are still reading?” said the girl with a smile .

“That’s right, Yanyan . ” Meng Fu looked at the girl and could not help but suffuse a warm, gentle smile .

The girl’s temperament, looks, and bearing…

They were identical to his memories . She just had an immortal air to her .

“Ah Yan, I chanced upon this young lady named Ni Yan in Cang City . She was only fifteen then and I felt that she bore a strong resemblance to you . I never expected the resemblance to increase the older she became . Her bearing, the way she gets angry is just like you . Even her name is very similar . Although I’ve cultivated for tens of thousands of years, I can’t forget the twenty years when we were husband and wife .

“You married me and shared my burdens .

“When I was conscripted, you stayed alone at home to keep the family going while serving my old mother .

“I still remember the letters we wrote down to the words .

“In winter, the wounds from your cracking fingers .

“In bed, you curled up into my embrace due to the cold weather .

“When you were ill, I stayed by your side daily . I’ve remembered every detail all this while .

“We were a married couple, but I hate myself for being useless . I failed to give you true bliss . I was also drifting along in the mortal world . My mother passed away, and after you died from illness, I gave up all my mortal baggage and entered the mountains, preparing to die of old age alone . I never expected I would gain an immortal affinity and manage to cultivate to my present realm .

“I have always wished to find you again .

“To repay all that I owe you, but I did not have the chance . You had reincarnated several times and lost yourself to Samsara . Your memories were no longer around, and you were no longer you .

“I had long decided to bury you in my heart and not dwell on the matters of the past . However, when this Miss Ni Yan appeared before me, she really looked identical to when you were young; before you married me…” Meng Fu thought to himself . “I could not stop myself from thinking of you daily . When I see her, my thoughts of you only intensify .

“I thought of leaving Cang City and that perhaps it would be better not seeing her . But I couldn’t bear the thought, so I have been here all this while . “

They were a married couple for twenty years during his mortal days .

His feelings for his wife had become an obsession he found impossible to forget all this while .

No matter how powerful his cultivation became, he still was unable to forget .

“Brother Meng, I’ll be out participating in an experiential training with my other fellow disciples . ” The young girl was a little excited . “This is the first time I’ll be dealing with demons despite being so old . “

“Dealing with demons?” Meng Fu nodded gently .

“It’s a demon that eats humans . It’s likely at the second firmament Essence Soul realm . With a few of my fellow disciples working together, that demon will not escape,” Ni Yan said in excited anticipation .

“You have to be careful,” said Meng Fu with a smile .

“Hmm . “

Ni Yan nodded . “I came to inform you, Brother Meng . I have to return to prepare . “

Ni Yan had acquainted herself with this Brother Meng when she was fifteen . He had helped her several times and had even saved her life . She naturally shared a close tie with him .

Meng Fu watched as Ni Yan went down the building and left .

…

Just three days later .

“No!”

In the pavilion building, Meng Fu, who was still reading the array graphs in the books, had a drastic change in expression . He vanished from his spot with Major Void Transference .

Soon .

Thousands of kilometers away from Cang City .

A wolf demon that secretly cultivated in an evil Dharmic formulation released a calabash and sucked the souls of five cultivators nearby into it .

“Hahaha, I have collected five souls at the Essence Soul realm . With another three hundred, my Soul Calabash will be enough to finish refining the twelve Guardian Godfiends . ” The wolf demon was overjoyed . The Heavenly realm was extremely vast . He had secretly schemed against a few Essence Soul fellows but was not killing mortals . The sin cultivators derived from killing each other was trivial .

However, matters such as soul refinement were overly evil . It was denounced by many, so he had to be careful .

After all, even if cultivators died, they still hoped to redo things through reincarnation .

However, soul refinement basically severed one’s hopes of reincarnating . It was why it was so condemned .

“You’re courting death!”

With an angry bellow, the wolf demon felt a terrifying wave envelop him . The invisible aura left him unable to move as he widened his eyes in horror .

He saw someone appear in front of him out of thin air . The person stretched his hand out and grabbed the soul refinement calabash from the wolf demon’s hand .

“You actually dare to refine souls?” Meng Fu revealed an anxious look .

“Yanyan, Yanyan . ” Meng Fu instantly took control of the soul refinement calabash .

Hu! Hu! Hu!

The soul refinement calabash released fifteen specters which were still fighting one another . One of them was in the form of Ni Yan . She was biting the other souls with a ferocious look . When the other soul fragments entered her body, her soul turned chaotic . These specters’ wills were turning mixed and complicated .

“Yanyan, Yanyan . ” Meng Fu immediately used his Dharmic powers to protect Ni Yan’s chaotic soul . “I will save you . “

He attempted reforming Ni Yan’s soul; however, Ni Yan’s soul was already in shambles . Furthermore, she had fused with the other soul fragments . The advent of any fusion made it difficult for Meng Fu to reverse the process .

He was already considered lucky to find her in this state .

Such newly absorbed souls were usually unable to defeat the specters that had been nurtured in the soul refinement calabash for years . It was very common for them to be eaten up upon contact . But now, Ni Yan’s soul had actually managed to consume the other souls and was partially still in existence . That was quite a remarkable feat .

“Whoosh~”

The soul fragments contained some of her memories of her life .

The further the memories were from the present, the more blurred they became .

This was also why numerous reincarnations would wear down one’s memories .

“This is…”

Meng Fu was taken aback .

In one of the soul fragments in Ni Yan’s incomplete form, he saw a woman washing clothes by the river . When she looked up and saw her husband who had returned ten years after the war, she cried in agitation .

“Ah Yan . “

After lifetimes of frittering and having memories wiped through reincarnation, the few scenes which were left behind were the most impressionable ones . Clearly, the scene of waiting for her husband to return from the war for ten years had left the deepest imprint on her .

“She is Ah Yan’s reincarnation?” Meng Fu was completely stunned .

“T-This… Why didn’t I do a thorough investigation!? Like a fool, I believed that Ah Yan had reincarnated too many times and that I cannot awaken her original memories . I thought I shouldn’t disturb her any further . Even though I noticed how Yanyan looks like Ah Yan… and even suspected she was a reincarnation of Ah Yan, I still foolishly decided to let Yanyan live her own life .

“I did not even check if she’s Ah Yan’s reincarnation .

“I felt that I had to let go .

“But wasn’t my staying in Cang City a result of me being unable to let go? I’m just fooling myself!

“What do I do? What do I do? Ah Yan, how am I to save you?”

Meng Fu reeled in anxiety .

And deep in Ni Yan’s soul, the souls she had consumed were fusing with her in an unstoppable manner . She was slowly turning more belligerent .

“I can’t save her . I can’t save her . Even as a Golden Immortal, I can only watch this helplessly .

“I’ll never be able to save her .

“Back when I saw Ah Yan pass away, I was helpless . Today, I’m just as helpless . How useless I am . ” Meng Fu’s obsession over the past tens of thousands of years reached an intense maximum . Emotions of regret and guilt filled his heart .

Meng Fu turned to look at the wolf demon beside him . “How dare you cultivate in such evil arts?”

“I wanted to refine the twelve Guardian Godfiends . ” The wolf demon was burning with anxiety . “Senior, please spare me!”

“Twelve Guardian Godfiends? You want to refine Ah Yan into a Guardian Godfiend? You deserve death!” Meng Fu’s eyes were fill with a ferocity . A terrifying might swept through the wolf demon as he instantly disintegrated in horror and despair .

At the instant the wolf demon disintegrated, an invisible energy bore right into Meng Fu’s body .

Meng Fu was going through intense emotional upheavals, as though it provided the perfect breeding ground for this power which fused within him .

“Hahaha, I’ve succeeded . It is when he is feeling intense emotions that his Dao heart will reveal a flaw . It allowed my avatar of lust to easily fuse with him . In a few years, I’ll be able to full control him . ” King of Myriad Fiends, Boxun, rejoiced in Meng Fu’s mind . As for Meng Fu, he did not sense any problems at all as he wallowed in misery .

A perfected Great Dao existence could easily scheme against an ordinary Golden Immortal . If his goal was not to infiltrate the human’s Three Sovereigns’ Fire Cloud Palace, there was no need for him to go through such troubles .

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Qin Yuluo did not know that the Brother Meng she thought of keenly had suffered this calamity . She was still obediently practicing according to Qin Yun’s arrangements .

In the blink of an eye .

Qin Yun had taught his granddaughter for 530 years . This day, they were walking on a path amid the concluding sunset .

“Yuluo . ” Qin Yuluo looked to the side as he waved his hand, sending a residential building to land on the desolate plains by the side of a road . “Let’s stay here for today . “

“Yes, Grandfather . ” Qin Yuluo revealed a look of glee .

That night .

Qin Yun sat in his room with the book placed in front of him, ruminating over what he should write next . Much time had passed, but Qin Yun had not been able to finish the second volume of the Seven Stars Sword Dao . It was still very far from his objective .

Frogs croaked outside in a symphony as the cold night breeze blew into the room .

Qin Yun listened to the ribbits as he looked up and over . He saw a sky filled with stars . The scene made him recall the days when he lived in the village as a child .

He put down his brush and walked out the room .

Standing in the yard, he looked up at the star-filled sky . Be it the Great Chang world or the Heavenly realm, the star-filled sky looked the same, just like the eye-catching dipper that formed the seven stars of the Big Dipper .

“Seven stars…” Qin Yun looked at the Big Dipper as his state of mind was thrown back to the times when he looked up as a child back in the village .

It was no longer a state of mind that focused on cultivation .

Instead, it was a state of mind that resembled unsophisticated nature .

However, it gave Qin Yun a baffling inspiration .

“Boom!”

After teaching his granddaughter for more than five centuries, the insights he received on a daily basis had accumulated to an extreme . The inspiration that Qin Yun suddenly had naturally transformed into a full-bodied system .

A Great Dao surfaced in Qin Yun’s mind .

Qin Yun felt pleasantly surprised as a thought flashed past his mind . “While guiding Yuluo’s cultivation, I ended up figuring out the Seven Stars Great Dao!”

Yes, he had been stuck at a bottleneck in his attempt to figure out the Great Dao of Man . Yet, on this very night, he had naturally figured out a pinnacle Great Dao, the Seven Stars Great Dao .