Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 116: Interwoven Memories
In a secret room in the Qianzhou City Lord's Mansion, Chen Xuan and Gu Jinxue sat opposite each other.

"The City Lord has killed a powerful Yuanying cultivator from the Soul Devouring Sect. I'm afraid the Soul Devouring Sect won't let this go. I wonder what the City Lord's plans are?"

Chen Xuan looked at Gu Jinxue with a smile and spoke slowly.

Gu Jinxue glanced at Chen Xuan and did not respond to his question. Instead, she said coldly:

"You haven't left yet, do you want me to kill you here too?"

He was extremely disgusted with Chen Xuan's identity as a demon cultivator, especially when he heard from Chen Xuan that his father died at the hands of a demon cultivator.

Although Chen Xuan helped her resolve the crisis in Qianzhou City this time, he deliberately delayed the matter, causing tens of thousands of people to lose their lives.

Seeing the coldness on her pretty face, Chen Xuan smiled bitterly and said:

"I came here today only to verify a matter. I promise not to appear before the City Lord. Ten days from now, as soon as the ferry to Jiayuan City arrives, I will leave immediately."

Hearing this, the coldness on Gu Jinxue's face gradually dissipated, and she looked at Chen Xuan and said:

"What's the matter? Tell me."

"I would like to ask the Ancient City Lord about the tenth level of each realm."

As Chen Xuan finished speaking, Gu Jinxue's face showed shock:

"You also know..."

She spoke immediately, but she stopped mid-sentence. Then, pretending to be calm, she looked around and said slowly:
"What...what tenth floor? I've never heard of it."

Seeing this, Chen Xuan immediately understood, nodded, stood up, bowed to him, and said:

"City Lord Gu, there's no need to worry. I just want to confirm whether there is a tenth level in the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages, besides Qi training?"

Gu Jinxue bit her lower lip tightly, seeming very hesitant. After a while, she nodded slightly.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan thanked him and turned to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

At this moment, Gu Jinxue called out to Chen Xuan again.

Chen Xuan stopped, turned around and looked at Gu Jinxue with a puzzled look.

Gu Jinxue gritted her teeth, stretched out her green jade finger and pointed at her brow. Two drops of bright red blood flew out from her brow. At the same time, her breath instantly became weak.

Then she took out two jade bottles and put the two drops of essence and blood into them respectively. The two jade bottles immediately flew in front of Chen Xuan and hovered in the air.

As if seeing the doubt in Chen Xuan's eyes, Gu Jinxue explained:

“Father once said that, except for the Wuliang Immortal Body and the Yaochi Immortal Spirit Body, other cultivators cannot sense the existence of the tenth level.

But there is a method, which is that as long as you obtain the essence and blood of the Wuliang Immortal Body or the Yaochi Immortal Body, you can comprehend the location of the tenth level from it.

You are not of the Infinite Immortal Body, but since you know about the tenth level, it means that you must have obtained the essence and blood of the Infinite Immortal Body during the Qi training period.

These two drops of blood essence can help you comprehend the bottleneck of the tenth level of the foundation-building and golden elixir stages. This is your reward for resolving the crisis for Qianzhou City."

Chen Xuan was startled, looked at Gu Jinxue and said:

"I'm a demon cultivator. You're so confident in handing over your blood and essence to me. Aren't you afraid that I might plant a curse on you through it?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Jinxue's expression changed, but at this time Chen Xuan was quick and immediately grabbed the two jade bottles and put them into the Ten Thousand Demons Pool.

Gu Jinxue looked at Chen Xuan with a complicated expression, but saw Chen Xuan sacrifice a colorful nine-story pagoda, and a thin shadow was released from it.

"Ling'er!"

After seeing the illusory figure, Gu Jinxue immediately exclaimed.

Chen Xuan said calmly:
"As a reward, I will keep this woman's soul for you. Souls cannot survive after leaving the Soul-Suppressing Tower. You should find a suitable body for her as soon as possible. I will take the Soul-Suppressing Tower away before I leave in ten days."

After saying that, Chen Xuan left the secret room without looking back. His last words came from outside the door:
"I would like to advise the City Lord not to be kind to others carelessly, and even more so, not to trust others carelessly. In this world, it is difficult for such people to survive."

In the secret room, after hearing these words, Gu Jinxue's eyes flashed and she showed a thoughtful expression.

Walking out of the City Lord's Mansion, Chen Xuan walked through the streets. After the blood sacrifice, the former prosperity was no longer seen. There were few pedestrians on the streets. From time to time, bursts of sobbing sounds came from the courtyards of the mortals on both sides. The whole city was shrouded in a sad atmosphere.

The blood sacrifice formation was not activated for long, but it targeted those with abundant Qi and blood, so the first ones to be affected by it were cultivators and young mortals.

The breadwinners of many families lost their lives in this disaster.

At the end of the street not far away, Chen Xuan saw a simple courtyard with dilapidated houses and weeds growing on the walls.

At this moment, there were two obvious pools of blood in the yard, and it was obvious that two people died in this disaster.

Chen Xuan extended his spiritual sense and sensed the situation inside the house.

A boy of six or seven years old was crying bitterly in front of a bed. On the bed lay an old man with white hair and beard and dried up blood.

The old man's face was filled with tears as he looked at the two pools of blood in the yard, but there was no emotion in his old eyes.

Chen Xuan could feel some fluctuations of spiritual energy from the old man. It was obvious that the old man had been a cultivator, but because his life span was coming to an end and his blood and energy were lost, he survived this disaster.

But he was already seriously ill, and even with his cultivation, he would not have many years to live.

Seeing the old man and the young, Chen Xuan couldn't help but think of himself and his kind-hearted grandfather.

Chen Xuan once again turned his gaze to the two pools of blood in the yard, thinking of his parents whom he had not seen for many years.

"If I had taken action earlier, perhaps this couple could have been spared..."

A moment later, Chen Xuan's figure slowly floated into the air, and an invisible energy wave spread out in all directions with him as the center.

Wherever the energy passed, the cries of pain all around ceased abruptly. This was a common spell, capable of erasing a portion of a mortal's memories. Under Chen Xuan's powerful divine control, all memories of the calamity and those who died in it were erased.

After a moment, Chen Xuan slowly landed back on the street. He looked up at the courtyard again, and his expression suddenly froze.

The old man on the bed cast a strange look at him. After a moment, he turned to look at his grandson beside him and said slowly:

"Xuan'er, do you want to hear the story of the immortal?"

"boom!"

Chen Xuan immediately felt as if something exploded in his mind, and he looked towards the courtyard in disbelief.

Exactly the same furnishings: a brazier in the house, a worn-out bed, a stove that was a little burnt by smoke, a table with three broken legs, and... a strange black box under the table.

"How is this possible? How is this possible? It's fake, it's all fake!"

Chen Xuan closed his eyes and ignored what was happening in front of him.

"What’s wrong with you!"

A pleasant voice sounded behind him.

Chen Xuan suddenly opened his eyes, his eye sockets were red and his eyeballs were bloodshot.

He looked forward again, but saw that the courtyard had mysteriously disappeared, leaving only a large piece of protruding ground and two pools of blood on the ground.

Chen Xuan turned around and saw Gu Jinxue, dressed in white, walking towards him slowly, as light and holy as a fairy walking out of a painting.

When she saw Chen Xuan's current appearance, her heart tightened and her face was full of worry.

That was due to the kindness in her heart, as if she would do the same no matter who was in front of her.

Chen Xuan didn't notice all this. He closed his eyes slightly, and his spiritual sense probed into his sea of ​​consciousness, carefully searching for something in it.

After a long time, he returned empty-handed again. His memory, starting from the age of six or seven, everything before that seemed to have been erased.

Chen Xuan was unwilling to give up. He still closed his eyes and sensed carefully, allowing his consciousness to sink infinitely in the sea of ​​​​knowledge. The feeling of suffocation completely overwhelmed him.

At this moment, he sensed a breath, another breath belonging to him.

Chen Xuan suddenly opened his eyes and looked down at the bottom of his sea of ​​consciousness. There was a huge eye with no emotion in its gray pupils.

The huge eyes seemed to transcend the past and the future, transcend the boundaries of time and space, staring closely at Chen Xuan who was immersed in the sea of ​​consciousness.

In front of that huge eyeball, Chen Xuan's figure was as small as a mustard seed in the universe.

Suddenly, a strange energy fluctuation came from that eye, and Chen Xuan lost consciousness instantly.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Xuan opened his eyes again, and what came into view was a light blue ice silk gauze curtain with delicate snowflakes embroidered on it.

There was a hint of fragrance in the room that came into Chen Xuan's nostrils as he breathed, making him feel refreshed.

Chen Xuanhuo sat up and looked around. This was obviously a woman's boudoir. There were not many furnishings in the room, and the overall style was simple and plain.

At this time, a graceful figure pushed open the door and walked in. It was a strange woman, but Chen Xuan could still sense a familiar breath.

After a moment, he said doubtfully:

"You are... Ling'er?"

Hearing this, the woman chuckled and nodded. Seeing Chen Xuan wake up, her face showed excitement.

"Young Master, wake up!"

Chen Xuan nodded and asked:
"here it is?"

"This is the young lady's boudoir, and you are the first man besides the master to enter the young lady's boudoir.

You were in a coma for six days, and the young lady came to see you every day..."

Seeing Chen Xuan wake up, Ling'er seemed very excited and talked a lot, which made Chen Xuan feel dizzy.

However, he also heard that this was Gu Jinxue's room. He had suddenly fainted on the street that day and was then brought here by Gu Jinxue.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan suddenly recalled the scene before he fell into a coma, and the eyeball deep in his sea of ​​consciousness, which was so similar to his own.

"If the old man and the young boy at the end of the street are me and Grandpa, then why am I here?!"

Chen Xuan's mind is now full of questions. He urgently wants to know the answers, but the more he thinks about it, the more unreasonable his speculations become.

The energy of sealed memories sensed in the sea of ​​consciousness is indeed mysterious energy!

So Chen Xuan turned to look at Ling'er and asked:
"Where is Gu Jinxue?"

He thought that he could ask Gu Jinxue about the situation of that family. She had lived in this city for decades and was the lord of the city, so she must know something.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Chen, please wait a moment. I will go and ask the young lady to come over."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan waved his hand and said:

"No, just tell me where she is and I'll go find her myself."

At this moment, a voice came from outside the door:

"No need, I'm coming."

(End of this chapter)