Chapter 74
Cangyun Sect Side Story 2
A woman sleeps on a bamboo couch in a lakeside cottage.
She slowly opened her eyes and woke up.
With a creak, the door was pushed open.
A woman came in from outside the hut carrying a bowl of scalding hot, dark-colored herbal medicine.
"Oh, you're awake?"
The tone was lazy and nonchalant, perfectly conveying an indifferent attitude.
"Who are you?" Xu Yi looked at the unfamiliar face. The face always felt familiar to her, so she couldn't help but become wary.
"Where is this place?"
The woman handed the medicine to her.
Xu Yi gently sniffed the aroma of the herbal soup, which contained several scents of spiritual plants that she found very familiar.
This is a bowl of miraculous medicine, and its medicinal properties are extraordinary, and its quality is not low.
"Don't you remember who I am?" The woman hooked her collar with one hand and brought her in front of her.
Xu Yi was forced to meet her gaze. She saw her own reflection in the woman's eyes: a tense, taut expression, a hidden panic, like a pitiful child who had been bullied.
Xu Yi turned her face away uncomfortably.
"My surname is Gu, do you remember me?"
Is your surname Gu?
Xu Yi's eyes widened suddenly, staring at her in disbelief, "Miss Gu!"
"You remember now? Congratulations, you didn't hurt your brain." Miss Gu brought the medicine to her lips. "Drink it. You were seriously injured, but fortunately, you were protected by Heaven and your foundation wasn't damaged. On the contrary, you turned misfortune into blessing and cleansed your spiritual veins."
After drinking the medicinal soup, and hearing her say that she had cleansed her marrow and expanded her spiritual meridians, Xu Yi couldn't help but try to mobilize her spiritual power.
"ah--"
The pain from her shattered meridians overwhelmed her, and she lost consciousness, screaming as she collapsed again.
"careful!"
Miss Gu tried to help her, but not in time.
Looking at the person in her arms, who was in pain, her brows furrowed and sweating profusely, she sighed softly and slowly channeled her spiritual energy into her to help alleviate some of the pain.
As time goes by, a century is nothing more than a few disjointed memories for them.
The conflict between the immortals and demons is escalating, and Miss Gu is receiving more and more SOS messages.
Xu Yi's injuries had not yet healed, and Miss Gu was keeping her company at this lakeside cottage.
Until the Loose Cultivator Alliance sent a secret letter.
"Miss Gu, are you leaving?" Xu Yi forced herself to walk out of the small house.
The woman had already summoned her spirit beast mount.
"We have to leave. The demons are becoming increasingly rampant and audacious."
Xu Yi was seriously injured and wanted to go with her, but he could not move an inch.
"Miss Gu, take care."
"Take care." The woman had already mounted her horse, her brows furrowed before relaxing and smiling. "When I return, there's something I need to tell you, and I hope you'll agree."
Xu Yi leaned against the door frame, her eyes slightly red, and said softly, "Miss Gu, if you say so now, I will agree."
The woman ultimately said nothing, and rode away on that mythical beast that blotted out the sky.
A major event recently occurred at the Cangyun Sect: Senior Sister Xu Yi, who had been missing for nearly a hundred years, has been found.
However, his meridians were all broken and he lost all his spiritual power. To save his beloved disciple, his master, the sect leader of Cangyun Sect, went to the Demon Palace to steal spiritual medicine and never returned.
Soon, a major event occurred in the cultivation world.
The leader of the Loose Cultivator Alliance, Gu Jingjun, the head of the Gu family, has fallen. The Gu family is in turmoil, and the Loose Cultivator Alliance is attacked by the Demon Clan. More than half of the four major sects of the Loose Cultivator Alliance have been lost, and only the Zhao and Yan families remain among the ten major families.
Before everyone could even catch their breath, another outrageous incident occurred.
The demons invaded Gu Family Fortress, and three thousand Gu family disciples were brutally murdered by the demon generals overnight.
Xu Yi, the senior disciple of Cangyun Sect who had been paralyzed for over a hundred years, suddenly recovered.
Not only can it fly and run, but it can also wield a sword and venture into the Demon Realm alone.
The great war between immortals and demons, which broke out again three hundred years ago, was ended by a sword cultivator.
Xu Yi achieved godhood in one battle; with the emergence of the Demonic Sword, all evil spirits were annihilated.
Second Senior Sister Xu Liang became increasingly worried. Her once jet-black and shiny hair turned split and yellow at the ends, and her hairline receded several fingers' width.
There are three reasons. First, the master disappeared in the Demon Realm, leaving the Cangyun Sect leaderless and without a leader.
Secondly, the eldest disciple, Xu Yi, has gone mad, becoming bloodthirsty and constantly hunting demons. Any discovery of demonic energy triggers trouble. A cultivator attempting to overcome his inner demon was halfway through when the eldest disciple severed his demonic nature, causing him to drop two major cultivation levels and nearly perish.
Thirdly, there's the reorganization of the Loose Cultivator Alliance and the struggle for the position of alliance leader. Their third senior sister from the Cangyun Sect wanted to get involved, which angered the Loose Cultivator Alliance, and she's been hunted down for nearly two years.
Fortunately, these difficult times only lasted for a short ten years.
Ten years later, on the day when the peach blossoms were just beginning to bloom, the venerable master returned, bringing with him a soul lamp and a body covered in wounds.
"This is the soul lamp of the Gu family head. She perished in the Demon Realm, and her soul was tainted by the turbid energy of immortals and demons."
"Can he be resurrected?"
"able."
"What should we do?"
"Using the Dao of Heaven as a guide, the spiritual energy of 30,000 years of heaven and earth as medicine, and a sincere heart as a supplement, we can exchange a sliver of hope for the Gu family head's life."
"Isn't the price too high? Where can we find the Heavenly Dao? Even if we do find it, how can we use 30,000 years of spiritual power to heal a turbid soul? And where does true sincerity come from?"
Xu Liang's question remained unanswered.
The soul lamp of the Gu family patriarch has always been enshrined in the Ancestral Shrine of the Cangyun Sect, which is the place where the Cangyun Sect worships its ancestors and is also the place with the purest and most abundant spiritual energy in the world.
Another thousand years passed, and Xu Liang was summoned by his master.
“It’s been a thousand years, we can’t wait any longer. Liang’er, tomorrow send the Gu family head’s soul to the Reincarnation Pool in the Underworld.”
"Master, is it impossible to revive Patriarch Gu?"
"Yes, but your senior sister can't wait."
A thousand years have passed, and Xu Yi's madness almost turned him into a demon.
Three years later, the Gu family, who were skilled in medicine, had a daughter.
Xu Liang secretly brought Xu Yi, who was bound.
"Senior sister, the person you're looking for is right here. Take a close look at her soul; does it seem familiar?"
The man, who had been insane for nearly a thousand years, was stunned for a moment before calming down and sheathing his blood-stained sword.
"Yes, Miss Gu."
The hoarse, low voice, carrying nearly a thousand years of despair, faintly uttered a wail.
Xu Liang felt a slight tingling in her nose and smiled, "Yes. It is the birth of the Gu family head." Fearing that her senior sister would not be able to accept it, she explained, "The soul lamp is unable to cleanse the demonic filth on the Gu family head's soul, so it is naturally difficult to repair the Gu family head's soul."
"Therefore, my master ordered me to send the soul of the Gu family head into the Reincarnation Pool. In order to resurrect the Gu family head in the future, the Underworld Emperor suggested that I send only one soul and one spirit each time."
When a soul and a spirit are reborn, the result is either a mutilated physical body or a mutilated consciousness.
Xu Yi was naturally aware of these things.
She stared at Xu Liang in astonishment, then looked at the newborn baby girl, who was neither crying nor fussing, as quiet as a kitten about to die.
A surge of pain, as if a piece of my heart had been ripped out, rushed over me.
"Only after a hundred reincarnations can one be reborn." Xu Liang told the truth, but fearing that his senior sister might go mad from the pain of waiting for the Gu family head to reincarnate, he quickly said something to prevent Xu Yi from going crazy.
Xu Liang said, "Master said that to save Patriarch Gu, we need to use the Heavenly Dao as a guide, 30,000 years of spiritual power as medicine, and a sincere heart to heal him."
"Master has already arranged the medicine and the necessary ingredients. But that true heart is hard to find."
"It is good to have one sincere heart in one lifetime, but it is difficult for the Gu family head to encounter sincere hearts in every lifetime."
Xu Yi concealed herself and picked up the soft, small child from beside the sleeping Madam Gu.
“I can stay with her.” She moved gently, afraid that the slightest noise would wake the sleeping child.
She could see the physical body, and even more so, she could glimpse the sleeping soul within it. Since she had only taken one soul and one spirit, they were almost transparent beings, not lively, and quietly residing in the small body. With each breath, demonic energy and immortal energy flowed within the soul.
Xu Liang breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that his senior sister had agreed.
Thinking about it carefully, it's unlikely that my senior sister would refuse; rather, she was just too nervous.
"Senior sister, Master has already planned it out. Once the Gu family head's soul has stabilized a bit after ten more reincarnations, we can begin the treatment to bring him back to life."
"Hmm." Xu Yi's gaze fell on the baby girl. She didn't know if she had heard what Xu Liang said clearly.
Xu Liang sighed softly, "Senior Sister, in these ten lifetimes, I hope you can stay by the Gu family head's side and treat him with sincerity."
"Um."
"I'll return after ten lifetimes. Take care, Senior Sister."
Tenth generation.
Initially, it consumed the spiritual power within Miss Gu's soul, leading to her reincarnation into a family of spiritual cultivators. After her spiritual power was exhausted, she was reincarnated into the mortal realm, forcing Xu Yi to suppress his cultivation level before proceeding.
Then the cleansing of demonic energy began. Miss Gu was reincarnated into the demon race, but she was a demonic beast, whose true form was a crane.
The last life.
In the mortal realm, there is the Gu family's shop, and Gu Xiaojun, the only daughter of the Gu family.
After a century of companionship, Gu Xiaojun passed away peacefully in her sleep.
Xu Yi returns to the Tianyan Continent.