Infinite Transmigration Starting from Violet

"Wolf, do you think he will succeed?"

Jiulang watched Lu Ye's departing figure, his brows furrowed with worry.

"I don't know, but I sincerely hope he can do it."

"Yes, if I have the chance in the future, I definitely want to visit his country." Jiulang excitedly linked arms with Lang. "Will you come with me then?"

"...definitely."

"As expected of my ninja... My stomach is rumbling, let's go eat. That lady who came down from Senpou Temple must be hungry too. After we eat, you'll play chess with us!"

"……Yes."

……

Lu Ye walked out of the castle tower. Since there were no Sculptor's Idols inside the room, he could only teleport to the Sculptor's Idols outside.

But on the main road leading to the castle tower, Lu Ye saw two familiar figures.

One of them was carrying a small bottle of wine; he was thin and tall, and dressed in a thin white shirt.

The other one is Hanbei.

Although he didn't know how these two people, who had once been at odds with each other, had come together, Lu Ye was quite certain that they had most likely come to find him.

"Are we going to the Immortal Realm?" Yixin asked.

"Yes."

Isshin took a sip of sake: "The Imperial Household Army has been repelled, and they probably won't attack again easily. There's a victory celebration being held in Ashina Castle these days... If the heroes aren't here, those people will complain. Remember to come back alive."

"Thank you for your trouble, I will definitely not be absent."

"It's alright. It's just a pity that no one but you can go to the Immortal Realm. I just happened to run into you when I came here. This guy came here specifically to find you. He was slashed by me decades ago, and he's still alive and kicking. I really don't know what to say."

"It's been a few days, sir," said Hanbei, who was wearing only half a mask.

"I have obtained the Mortal Blade."

"Is that so? In that case, my wish to die with my lord can be fulfilled." Hanbei's tone was relaxed. "Although I was not of much help, could you please use the Mortal Blade to cut me down?"

“…I refuse,” Lu Ye said.

"Is that so? That's truly a pity." Hanbei didn't blame Lu Ye, "But if you change your mind..."

“I won’t kill you, old man, but I also have no intention of breaking the agreement,” Lu Ye said. “Next, I will sever the source of immortality. At that time, the worm in your body will naturally lose its immortality, and you will return to being a normal person.”

"Really?... Thank you."

Hanbei could only express his gratitude.

Because he knew he could no longer help Shanglu Ye in any way, whether in swordsmanship or in any other aspect.

In a short period of time, Lu Ye has surpassed him by a great deal.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Lu Ye embarked on his journey to the land of immortals.

Everything will end tomorrow.

As the girl's voice and appearance came to mind, Lu Ye gradually tightened his grip on the hilt of his knife.

The samurai of the Immortal Village will be difficult to deal with.

But no matter the cost, he was determined to save Violet.

Chapter 151 The Origin of Everything

Riding in a sedan chair inside a stone cave.

Carrying the fragrance of the source, Lu Ye entered the palanquin.

Sit cross-legged, close your eyes, and concentrate.

A moment later, the cave began to tremble slightly.

A huge straw rope descended from the sky, its thick end slightly open to allow enough space before it suddenly fell, instantly covering the sedan chair.

Then the pillar slowly pulled away, taking the sedan chair with it, just like someone reaching into a hole and grabbing something.

The mountains trembled, and countless rocks fell.

The person who carried the sedan chair was a scarecrow with simple limbs, but a body taller than a mountain, made of Shinto knotted rope called "pillar rope".

The so-called pillar-linking rope, like the torii gate, is a kind of barrier used to block certain things. Therefore, it has always been difficult for anyone to reach the Fountainhead Palace by other means; only those who have been recognized or whose bodies are imbued with the fragrance of Fountainhead are qualified to enter.

Standing nearly a hundred meters tall, the scarecrow traversed the mist-shrouded mountains, each step causing the earth to tremble. After traveling for a while, the scarecrow arrived at the edge of a cliff, from which it could vaguely see a magnificent building ahead.

Lu Ye climbed out of the sedan chair and was stunned by the sight before him.

The source water that submerges everything, the maple trees growing on the cliffs, the cherry blossoms that never fade, and the huge red and white buildings with their scattered, decaying beauty... it's as if God casually splashed the purest and most beautiful paint onto the mountaintop.

This is the fairyland – the Palace of Origin.

Built at the very top of Ashina, standing atop the mountain, it is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

However, it is not complete; most of the area has been submerged.

Long ago, the Sakura Dragon descended upon this place, but it did not treat the people here kindly. Instead, it stirred up vortex clouds, releasing floods and torrential rains that washed everything away.

To heal its wounds, it infused the water with its divine power, causing the people of Fountainhead Palace to begin to worship it. The nobles in the palace soon discovered that the water brought by the Sakura Dragon possessed the power to grant immortality, and they began to venerate it as a divine dragon and make offerings to it.

Meanwhile, an alien race—the Okami—heard of this magical power and managed to travel to the Fountainhead Palace by various means, riding in a divine palanquin. In exchange for protecting the nobles in the palace, they drank the Fountainhead Water and gained immortality.

However, the essence of immortality is to seize the life force of others and use it for one's own benefit. The people of Fountainhead Palace obtained "immortality," but their own lives were actually being drained by the Sakura Dragon.

As the long years passed and their bodies gradually aged, the nobles began to drink the Source Water even more excessively in order to achieve immortality.

But this was useless. The more they drank the source water, the more their life force would be taken away by the Sakura Dragon. So later, the unsuspecting nobles came up with a solution: to devour the essence of others to replenish their own life force.

Sakura Dragon also thought of this method, because the people in the Fountainhead Palace will one day run out of life force, and if they do not replenish their food, they will not be able to heal their injuries.

And so the Dragon's Crown Prince was born.

The Sakura Dragon bestows its divine power upon those in the Fountainhead Palace, and those chosen are tasked with spreading the Sakura Dragon's faith and immortality.

Sakura Dragon's plan quickly succeeded. Under the lure of immortality, the Ashina people began to worship the Fountainhead Water, and the bewitched people were continuously replenished and sent to the Immortal Realm.

The nobles of Fountainhead Palace thought they would live forever because of this.

But they were wrong.

Initially, the nobles did indeed obtain a large amount of essence, but the ordinary people who drank the source water quickly contracted dragon cough after the nobles absorbed their essence.

Originally, the Fountainhead Palace was an imperial palace, and its interior was very closed off. The mutation and dragon cough quickly spread throughout the entire Fountainhead Palace area.

The nobles living here were forced to consider relocating, and this became the spark that ignited the war...

The "Ancient War" has broken out.

In order to seize a new place to live, the nobles dispatched beautiful female warriors named Oka to launch an attack on Ashina.

Initially, they used the power of lightning to gain the upper hand against Uzumaki, but the Ashina people quickly discovered a way to deal with them and advanced rapidly, even breaking into the Fountainhead Palace.

This war of aggression did not result in victory; instead, it completely exposed the Fountainhead Palace to the world, making it an easy target for attack.

In order to protect themselves, the nobles had no choice but to close all the roads of the Fountainhead Palace and send out the Hidden Mist Nobles to seal off the forest outside Mibu Village.

Originally, the residents of Mibu Village were "food" that the nobles did not exclude in order to absorb their life essence. At first, the nobles raised the villagers like livestock, but even so, the villagers' reproduction rate could not keep up with the rate at which the nobles consumed them.

So they came up with another idea.

That would create an eternal, immortal being.

And this being is the "Fish King".

It possesses a lifespan that rivals time, allowing nobles to continuously absorb its essence and maintain their lifespan.

The essence of the Fish King was provided by the villagers of Mibu Village. Under the influence of Kirigakure Noble, the villagers abandoned the use of fire, killed the monks who originally lived there, and used their corpses to feed slugs at the water source next to the village, which served as food for the Fish King and the source of its essence.

Although it still couldn't fully satisfy their need to absorb vital energy, the nobles of Fountainhead Palace continued to survive for a long time thanks to this method.

If nothing unexpected happens, they can continue to survive for a long time.

But the unexpected was ultimately thwarted.

Although the Fountainhead Palace has been gradually forgotten, the Dragon's Blood continues to reincarnate.

This leads back to the appearance of the previous generation's Dragon Prince.

That is Joe, a resident of Fountainhead Palace.

And his dragon-born attendant—the beautiful female warrior, Ba.

With the mission of spreading the faith in the dragon, the two descended from the fairy village to Ashina.

Because they possessed the Dragon's Blood—a power directly bestowed upon them by the Sakura Dragon—neither of them underwent any physical changes and appeared the same as ordinary people.

Zhang is a child, while Ba is a beautiful female warrior.

However, when they arrived in Ashina, Ashina was in the midst of the war of usurpation. Joe and Tomoe were caught up in this war and brought the power of the Dragon's Blood out of the Immortal Realm, becoming the fuse for everything.

Tomoe's immortality greatly shocked Senpou Temple and also aroused the ambition of Owl, the owl of Ashina.

A series of chain reactions led to the monks of Senpou Temple's pursuit of immortality, and later, Owl's covetousness of the Hirata family.

Zhang and Ba's original mission was to spread the Dragon's Blood and make people believe in the dragon god. However, because that ancient war was too long ago and had too serious an impact, although people still worship the source water, they have forgotten why they worship it.

The war to steal the kingdom was won, but Zhang and Ba were unable to return to their immortal homeland.

Having spent so much time in Ashina, the master and servant had long lost their 'Fragrance of Fountainhead,' and the process of returning to the Immortal Realm was extremely complicated, so they had to temporarily abandon their plans to go back.

They spent a pleasant time in Ashina. Tomoe, because of her excellent skills, was appreciated by Isshin Ashina and became Genichiro's teacher. Jo planted a cherry blossom branch in the backyard of Ashina Castle. Under the cherry blossom tree, Jo played the flute, Tomoe danced gracefully, while Emma and Genichiro watched from the side.

However, being someone who has left his hometown, Jo sometimes feels homesick when he sees Cherry Blossoms, and sometimes he gazes at the Genji Whirlpool for a long time, unable to contain his emotions.

But he didn't know then that the ever-blooming cherry blossoms were the beginning of Ashina's decline.

When they left Fountainhead Palace, the nobles there gave Joe a cherry blossom branch as a keepsake.

However, the Cherry Blossom Branch is actually the left arm of the Cherry Blossom Dragon. After being inoculated in Ashina, the Cherry Blossom Dragon began to drain the life force of the Ashina region, triggered by Tomoe's death in the war. This caused widespread dragon cough, leading to the rapid decline of Ashina and the beginning of the Interior Ministry's covetous eyes.

In the end, Takeya, who was the heir of the dragon, also contracted dragon cough, because this dragon cough was directly caused by the power of the Sakura Dragon and was extremely powerful.

At this moment, Zhang finally realized the danger of the Dragon's Blood and the purpose of the Fountainhead Palace nobles.

Although he won't die, severing the dragon's blood, which distorts the way humans live, might be the only way to find relief.