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Chapter 31 31. Soul Flag
[January 8th, sunny]

After a long retreat of half a month, I finally broke through to the Nascent Soul stage. Before I left, my senior brother said he would set up a formation to help me survive the thunder tribulation. However, as soon as I left the cave, the Nascent Soul stage thunder tribulation struck me, leaving me burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.

Little Sword Master's notes were a bit crooked, but the descriptions were clear and concise.

I was so angry I wanted to go to his cave to question him, but I couldn't find him. My master said he hadn't expected my talent to be so extraordinary, reaching the Nascent Soul stage in just half a month. He thought I would be in seclusion for three to five years, so he sent my senior brother down the mountain to eliminate the demon first.

[January 8th, sunny]

[My senior brother hasn’t come back yet. I miss the tomato and egg noodles he made for me.

Master always said that it was wrong for cultivators to eat dirty food, but my senior brother would secretly make it for me. He said that I was still young and needed to eat enough to grow. He was older than me, so he had to take care of me.

This is the first time I’ve heard someone say this… I reached the Golden Core stage at the age of seven and was hailed as a rare genius. My master told me to care about the people of the world and protect all those whose abilities were below mine.

My senior brother is still stuck in the Golden Core stage at the age of eighteen. Logically, I should be the one taking care of him, but he said... he wants to take care of me?]

[October 8, cloudy]

[Senior Brother hasn't come back yet... Today I learned the Eighteen Heavenly Thunder Styles. My sword moves are like thunder pouring down my head, and my sword moves like thunder surging forward. I want to go to the cave and show it to Senior Brother! He'll definitely praise me!]
...Suddenly I remembered that he went down the mountain to kill demons and hasn't come back yet... So annoying. 】

August 27, rainy

"Three days! Counting the four days I've been in seclusion, Brother has been down the mountain exorcising demons for seven days! Is there really a demon that can't be killed in seven days? Can't he just cut it down with one sword?"

Brother, why haven't you come back yet?! It's raining and thundering, I want to eat tomato and egg noodles! ! !]

[January 8th, sunny]

[The weather is fine now. I had tomato and egg noodles today. It was made for me by my senior brother from Yaofeng next door. It didn’t taste familiar.

I feel a little sad, and I miss my senior brother again - I can't help it, I want to go and ask, what kind of monster has trapped my senior brother for so long?

[January 8th, sunny]

[The Mission Hall said it was just a peach blossom demon, with a shallow cultivation level, not even at the level of the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top, and it just kept causing trouble in the village... It should have been over in three days, but my senior brother hasn't returned in nine days, and he's even lost contact... I want to go protect Cai Cai's senior brother.]

[October 8, cloudy]

[Today, I was practicing swordplay in the waterfall. I suddenly saw a white figure and thought it was my senior brother.

Because I was young, he always thought it was dangerous for me to practice swordplay in the waterfall, so every time he came, he would sit in meditation and watch.

Brother, you are so stupid... I am already a Nascent Soul expert!
——It’s a pity that the white figure is not him.

On the tenth day of my trip down the mountain to exorcise demons, my senior brother still hadn't returned. The Mission Hall said he might have encountered something that delayed his progress. This kind of thing happens all the time, so they told me not to worry. Sigh.

[January 8th, sunny]

It's been eleven days. I'm really worried that my senior brother is in trouble. I want to go find him, but Master said the secret realm is about to open and asked me to prepare for the secret realm trial first. This is very important for my cultivation. Oh, I hope my senior brother can come to pick me up when I leave the secret realm.

……

The next few pages all described the secret realm. Jiang Jianxin flipped through them quickly, his eyes stopping on the diary entry for the first day after leaving the secret realm.

[June 9, rain]

[I left the secret realm, but my senior brother didn't come to pick me up. The people in the mission hall told me that he was dead and there was not even a corpse.

I don't believe it, how could he die... How could he die... Two months ago, he promised to build a formation for my Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation!

No, I must find out the reason! 】【October 1, rain】

[Master said that the death of senior brother was an unexpected accident. The peach blossom demon that he was originally asked to kill was fabricated by the evil cultivator.

They wanted to practice the Soul Banner, but after slaughtering a village, they still didn't have enough souls, so they cast an illusion array to make the village reappear, and disguised themselves as peach blossom demons to cause trouble, attracting monks from various sects to come and continue to irrigate the Soul Banner with spiritual energy and blood.

It was the master who first discovered the abnormality and arrived in time to destroy the Soul-Giving Formation and seal the unformed soul flag.

The Soul Banner has been sealed...but what about my senior brother...my senior brother will never come back.】

The diary here became the memoirs of the senior brother. For a long time afterwards, Xiao Jianzun recalled the past between her and her senior brother. She wrote very long, sometimes so long that it could not fit on a page, so she could only squeeze it in at the end, writing three or four lines of ant-like characters.

Sometimes I would add pictures, let the portrait of my senior brother take up half a page of the diary, and then draw some daily life casually.

Jiang Jianxin flipped through the pages quickly and came to an article published many days later, which was the content she was most concerned about.

[June 11, rain]

[I finally finished all the work I was doing and got Master's permission to go down the mountain to see the place where my senior brother died.

……

It was a huge peach tree that I had never seen before, covered with dense pink peach blossoms.

The black flag was quietly inserted into the crown of the peach tree. It was the soul flag nourished by the Soul-Giving Formation.

It was raining again, and the rain soaked my Tangguang sword. I had a blank expression on my face, but Tangguang seemed to be crying.

It's so strange, I feel like I had a dream that smelled like tomatoes and eggs.

The sword-doing genius in the dream lost her senior brother, and no one treated her as a child anymore.

Funny... Really funny...]

There is a picture at the bottom of this diary, which takes up half a page.

Unlike other pictures that are outlined with lines, it is unknown how this painting was drawn, and there are also interweaving of colors and light and dark.

The light from the corridor clearly illuminated the picture. It was an exceptionally large peach tree with a thick trunk and dense flowers.

A huge black flag was inserted in the pink tree canopy. Many ferocious faces could be vaguely seen on the black flag. The ominous feeling could be felt even through the paper.

There is a line of small words written by Jian Zun under this painting:
[The thing that killed my senior brother is a soul flag crafted by an evil cultivator. He sacrificed the souls of living people to cultivate an extremely evil weapon. When it is completed, it will become a weapon that can massacre a city. Its evil power is invincible even to millions of divine soldiers.]

Jiang Jianxin stared at these words, and his mind suddenly became clear.

She understood why she recognized the black thing on the peach tree as the Black Flag at first glance.

It turned out that she had experienced the death of her senior brother when she was a child, and she was still brooding over the thing that killed her senior brother.

Therefore, even after more than ten years, when Jiang Jianxin saw the unusual peach tree for the first time, he, who had lost his childhood memories, recognized it instantly.

The person is gone, leaving only empty memories.

Jiang Jianxin stared at Peppa Pig's diary in silence.

She was thinking about a very serious question, which was - what if the diary and the peach tree Cai Nianyun showed were the same thing...

Why do things from the world of cultivation where Little Sword Master lives appear in her real world?
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