NFBE Chapter 126 Towards the Mortal World, There Will Be Times When We Meet Again (Volume 1 Epilogue)
Chapter 126 Towards the Mortal World, There Will Be Times When We Meet Again (Volume 1 Epilogue)
Xue Lan never knew her head could make such a loud noise; when Yin Shishi tapped it, it sounded like a jar filled with water.
The healer was dressed in an elegant light blue robe, appearing gentle and serene, but her gaze was frighteningly cold, and no one around dared to speak to Xue Lan.
Xue Lan didn't dare to speak, secretly relieved that Yan Chengxue hadn't told Yin Shishi about losing an arm.
But she forgot that she had a rebellious younger sister.
Holding the Soul-Guiding Sword, Xue Tong ran excitedly to Xue Lan's side and tugged at her sleeve: "Has your torn arm healed?"
A chill ran down Xue Lan's spine, followed by Yin Shishi's icy voice: "I told you we should break all your arms and legs."
Xue Tong watched as Yin Shishi dragged Xue Lan into the house by her ear, her eyes filled with hatred.
The Soul-Guiding Sword, which had been dormant in his arms for some time, suddenly trembled. The Soul-Guiding Sword, long dormant, flew out, trying to follow Xue Lan. However, Xue Tong pulled it back.
"Sister Tong, I need to see the Emperor."
Xue Tong's face was cold: "Your lord has committed a crime; it's not convenient for him to go in now."
Yin Hun nodded, looking as if he had suddenly realized something.
The little girl looked at Xue Tong and asked, "Sister, how long have I been asleep?"
Xue Tong raised her hand and made a "three" gesture.
[That's taken quite a while.]
"Sister, please wait here for the Emperor. I have something to do."
The soul-guiding spirit emerged from Xue Tong's embrace and flew towards the main battlefield of Luoxia Mountain.
Xue Tong was a little worried, so she quickly followed and grabbed the little hand of the Soul Guide in mid-air: "The Lord said that children shouldn't run around!"
Yin Hun wasn't buying it. The little girl puffed out her cheeks and said, "This is what the Lord said to my sister. It has nothing to do with Yin Hun. Besides, the Lord will definitely be happy with what Yin Hun does."
Xue Tong wanted to stop them, after all, a great battle had just ended on the battlefield, and there was no guarantee that there wouldn't be any demons who had escaped...
Xue Tong imagined a demon suddenly appearing on the battlefield and devouring the Soul-Guarding Spirit in one bite.
Xue Tong: No!
But just as she was about to stop the soul-summoning procession again, she heard Xue Lan's voice: "Let her go!"
The girl's voice was weak, almost as if she were breathing.
Xue Tong wondered if Xue Lan, who hadn't died on the battlefield, had been killed by Yin Shishi.
Inside the room in Luoxia City, Yin Shishi looked at the slightly lost girl in front of her and patted her chest again.
Xue Lan coughed up another mouthful of blood.
Yin Shishi stepped forward and grabbed her wrist: "This bruising has been there for a while, and your spirit has also been damaged. What happened?"
What did I do? Xue Lan bit her knuckles anxiously.
He claimed to have traversed a spacetime rift, taken the head of the top-tier demon beast Silver Moon Wolf, and incidentally outwitted a powerful demon in the Nascent Soul stage.
Is it even safe to say that? I'd get beaten to death if I said it.
The girl looked up at Yin Shishi, her gray eyes filled with confusion: "I don't know either."
Yin Shishi felt her faint pulse and said nothing more.
The soul was guided to the battlefield of Luoxia Mountain. A little girl in a pink dress flew into the air, her voice like a celestial chant:
"The soul is back."
Xue Tong knew about the matter of summoning the soul before. If a commoner dies in a foreign land, his relatives must go to the crossroads to call back his soul. When a person's vital energy dissipates, the underworld will also collect the person's earth soul and human soul.
Earthly souls enter the cycle of reincarnation, human souls dissipate in the world, and celestial souls return to heaven and earth.
Xue Tong looked at the battlefield of Luoxia Mountain in front of him and saw wisps of dreamlike white mist appearing on the battlefield, among which were figures dressed in tattered clothes.
They are the lingering spirits of soldiers who died in battle at Luoxia Mountain, each one broken and exhausted.
As if brought back to life, the souls rose from the corpses and turned to look at the towering Sunset City.
That unbroken Luoxia City, the place they risked their lives to protect.
When Yin Shishi helped Xue Lanfei up the city wall, this was the scene she saw.
The girl let go of Yin Shishi's hand and staggered to the edge of the city wall, trying to find that familiar figure among them.
With her divine sense spreading out, she found Qi Shan, who had a scar on his face, among the horde of souls.
The general seemed to recognize Xue Lan, the immortal who had tried to save him at the last moment.
He bowed to Xue Lan, then began to disappear.
The merits and demerits of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the battlefield of Luoxia Mountain will be recorded separately in the underworld. There is no need for interrogation; their souls will return to the underworld, while those left here are the human souls waiting to disappear.
The souls of everyone in the audience began to gradually disappear, like a gentle dream fading away.
Yin Shishi looked at Xue Lan, who was clutching her chest, in great pain.
It was a sight she had never seen before.
When the soul dissipates, all the memories of this life—the love between parents and children, the ideals of family and country, love, hate, anger, and infatuation—vanish like smoke.
Long Siyin helped Ji Jinjin out from behind. Ji Jinjin's face was pale, but her eyes were bright and piercing.
Long Siyin looked at Xue Lan: "She said she wanted to come and see."
Ji Jinjin didn't speak. She jumped down from the city wall and stood in front of the horde of souls.
Sheng Yujun looked at General Ji, whose posture was always as straight as a pine tree, and bowed slightly to the spirits in front of him.
"May we part here and find peace in the next life."
Smiles appeared on the faces of those spirits as they departed, muttering unintelligible words. Amidst the billowing smoke of the battlefield, they vanished into pure white mist, as if riding on light clouds, never to be seen again.
Tens of thousands of vanished heroic souls disappeared on the winds of the high heavens, leaving behind a scene of clear skies and calm after the rain when the white mist dissipated.
The lone general turned around on the battlefield, his phoenix eyes looking at Xue Lan on the city wall.
Ji Jinjin never dared to look Xue Lan in the eye. In her eyes, her senior sister's seemingly gentle eyes were like a bottomless well, and anyone who tried to explore them would be quietly drowned inside.
But now she dares to.
The Xuanhuang Sect's transport ship had already arrived in Luoxia City. Xue Lan felt Ji Jinjin's scorching gaze and knew that she intended to stay here forever.
As Xue Lan had expected.
Xue Lan nodded slowly, tacitly approving of Ji Jinjin's actions.
Xue Lan said to Yin Shishi, who was standing to the side, "Shishi, I'm planning to go and take a trip to the human world."
Yin Shishi's expression changed, and she was about to retort when Xue Lan interrupted her.
The girl's eyes curved into crescent moons: "Even if you forbid me from going, I'll still run away."
Yin Shishi sighed and placed a small porcelain bottle in her hand: "Keep it safe!"
Xu Qizhou, who had been listening nearby, looked at Xue Lan upon hearing this and said, "Go, I will take care of things within the sect. Come back safely."
The next morning, before the exhausted group had even woken up, a little girl's scream echoed from the kitchen:
[Xue Lan, stop! This is a strange fire!]
The girl was dressed in white, and after the sleeves were rolled up, a section of her fair arm was exposed. She easily crushed a wisp of strange fire at her fingertips.
Xue Lan smiled sheepishly: "Sorry, I forgot!"
Xue Tong jumped up and grabbed her hair: "How many times have I told you! Don't play with strange fire in the kitchen! Go make some side dishes."
Xue Lan had no choice but to pick up a potato and start slicing it. Then, she accidentally cut her hand. Her finger struck the knife with a metallic clang.
The two of them worked for half an hour before the porridge in the big pot was finally cooked. Xue Lan fumbled to put the mixed side dishes aside and then covered them with a magic shield.
The girl waved to Xue Tong: "Let's go!"
Xue Lan picked up the bundle that had been packed earlier and grabbed Xue Lan's hand.
Xue Lan led Xue Tong slowly out of Luoxia City, and heard the little girl's voice:
【Xue Lan, are you really not going to miss me?】
Xue Lan's voice tinged with laughter: "Of course I'd be reluctant, otherwise why would I have run away secretly?"
Not long after they left the city, they saw a person standing by the roadside. It was Yan Chengxue, who was holding a small tray with a white jade wine pot and a small wine cup on it.
Xue Lan and the other person walked up to her: "Where are the things?"
The boy handed Xue Lan a roll of Xuan paper, which was covered with dense writing.
Xue Lan weighed the object in her hand and then laughed in exasperation: "Yan Chengxue, do you think I'm a machine? You might as well let me rebuild the War Puppet Mansion for you!"
Yan Chengxue smiled and poured Xue Lan a glass of wine, handing it to the young woman: "Master Xue, you are very generous. Please drink this farewell drink."
Xue Lan stuffed the thick roll of Xuan paper into his sleeve and finished the wine in his cup.
"Xue Lan..."
Seeing that Xue Lan was about to leave, Yan Chengxue called her back:
"What's wrong?" Xue Lan asked.
The boy's clear voice reached Xue Lan's ears: "Fellow Daoist, we will meet again someday!"
A faint smile appeared on Xue Lan's lips. She turned and walked towards the verdant mountains ahead, heading towards the bustling world.
"Gentlemen, I, Xue, am departing for the mortal world. We shall meet again someday!"
The girl's voice carried far, and the people who had been hiding behind Yan Chengxue came out one by one.
"Alright, let's go back! She seems to be doing very well now." Yin Shishi looked at the crowd behind her.
Zhu He raised his hand: "Senior Sister Yin, let's have breakfast in Fuyang City before going back."
Yin Shishi asked, puzzled, "Didn't she do it before she left?"
Zhu He said with a bitter face, "I took a bite when I left, and the shredded potatoes were sweet!"
A burst of laughter erupted from the crowd.
Xue Lan, who was walking in the distance, suddenly sneezed.
"They must be so reluctant to part with me! They must be..."