Remould the Glory of Sword Art

"Since living is so difficult, why choose to die?"

The campfire illuminated the darkness.

It also lit up the face of the little girl in red, Jiang Huang, who looked at the black-clothed youth squatting in front of her with a puzzled and bewildered expression, finding this Xie Xuanyi utterly unfamiliar.

"You're not killing me?"

Jiang Huang couldn't understand.

Years ago, when she and Xie Xuanyi had fought, this fellow had been extremely murderous, and every move was lethal.

But now.

Xie Xuanyi had changed.

She couldn't quite pinpoint what had changed…

The Flying Sword still emitted a chilling Sword Intent.

But the overwhelming murderous aura from back then had seemingly dissipated a lot.

"Why would I kill you?"

Xie Xuanyi stood up, said indifferently, "If I wanted to kill you, you would have died back at Jinli Mountain, why wait until today?"

"..."

Jiang Huang fell silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "But I want to kill you."

"I saw that."

Xie Xuanyi looked up.

Phoenix Fire had scorched the cave, but that was all it had done.

He calmly stated, "…saw you fail."

"???"

Jiang Huang was greatly annoyed.

More infuriating than Xie Xuanyi not killing her was the fact that Xie Xuanyi didn't take her seriously at all.

"Xie Xuanyi! One day I will kill you!"

Jiang Huang angrily got up, but due to her legs being weak and flimsy… the action ended in failure.

She could only slap the wooden wheelchair forcefully.

However… a person forcefully slapping a wheelchair while saying these words wasn't very intimidating.

Slap! Slap!

The crisp slapping sound echoed throughout the cave.

Facing Jiang Huang's declaration, Xie Xuanyi remained very calm.

If it had been in the past.

He would have struck her with a sword long ago—

But this year was not those years, and he was no longer the Xie Xuanyi of the past.

"Wait until you can stand up, then talk."

Xie Xuanyi lit the campfire and sat down comfortably, letting out a long sigh of satisfaction. At that moment, his clothes were soaked with sweat…

Reconstructing the Sword Qi Cave Heaven proved to be much more difficult than he had imagined.

Especially the battle with the Heart Demon, which had exhausted ninety percent of his mental strength.

The sound of Sword Sound swirled around the cave, Chen Ke slowly approached Xie Xuanyi's knees, like a tame kitten, rubbing Xie Xuanyi's palm with its sword body.

Jiang Huang wheeled herself to the front of the campfire.

She stared at Xie Xuanyi, looking him over repeatedly.

"What exactly have you gone through these past years?"

Jiang Huang noticed something very strange.

Ten years had passed.

Xie Xuanyi… seemed to have gotten younger.

For cultivators, changes in appearance are not sufficient criteria for judging age.

Reaching the Yin God Realm allows one to keep one's facial features from "changing".

Of course, many Great Practitioners don't do this… but some old antiquities from certain sects do travel in the guise of a child.

Jiang Huang could tell, Xie Xuanyi wore a special Magic Artifact that altered his appearance.

But a person's divine soul cannot be changed.

After Chen Ke performed the ceremony, the dense Sword Qi almost filled the entire stone cave—

As for Xie Xuanyi's aura, if one carefully felt it, it appeared like a sprout just breaking through the soil, exuding a robust vitality throughout.

Ten years had passed.

Not only had Xie Xuanyi not aged, he had become even younger!

"What if I said I slept for ten years, would you believe me?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled and said, "These ten years... I haven't experienced anything."

Jiang Huang fell silent, Xie Xuanyi didn't seem to be lying.

"On the contrary, what have you experienced these ten years?"

From the moment Xie Xuanyi had saved Jiang Huang.

He had known.

There would come such a day.

The "old soul" inside Jiang Huang would awaken.

"I..."

The little girl in red hesitated, her words seeming to carry the weight of a thousand jun, falling into the Heart Lake and splashing countless ripples.

For a moment.

Her entire person stiffened in the wheelchair.

What once shone brightly, like the eyes of fire, suddenly became lost.

"These ten years... what have I experienced?"

Jiang Huang muttered to herself.

She was repeating Xie Xuanyi's question, and also questioning herself.

A painful groan emitted from the wheelchair, the little girl in red fell forward pale-faced, collapsing before the campfire.

A gust of wind blew over, stirring up a spray of sparks.

Xie Xuanyi frowned as he watched the scene.

Jiang Huang looked pained, her hands covering her forehead, her veins bulging, severe pain emanated from the Sea of Divinity within her, as if a knife was stirring—

"Ugh... ah..."

Sitting on the other side of the campfire, Xie Xuanyi silently watched the little girl in red roll about.

Indeed.

Just as he had initially anticipated.

Jiang Huang's divine soul had been gravely injured...

If he wasn't mistaken, it must have been after the Northern Hunt, when the powerhouses of the Imperial City performed a divine soul sealing on Jiang Huang, locking this yet unformed great demon's consciousness within the Sea of Divinity, incarcerating it in the form of a demon body, forever imprisoned within the Imperial City's cage.

Phoenix Blood Descendants are encountered but not sought after.

The Dachu Royal Family, valuing bloodline inheritance, regards its members as comparable to dragons and phoenixes.

If one could truly manage such a Phoenix Blood great demon and tame it as a mount, it would certainly be an extremely prestigious affair.

Luckily, Jiang Huang had escaped from the Imperial City, coming to Jinli Mountain to heal her injuries...

However, the divine soul seal had not been lifted.

Her Sea of Divinity, over the long years, had undergone a "transformation," to avoid the limitations of the seal, the main divine soul degenerated.

Thus, there was the naive, toddling "little fellow" who followed closely behind Xie Xuanyi.

If it had not been for the change at Jinli Mountain, she would have completed this entire transformation during her deep slumber.

Ultimately, the main divine soul would return to its rightful place.

Unfortunately, man proposes but heaven disposes; if not for the volcanic eruption, Jinli Mountain would still be quite a nice recuperation spot.

But after the mountain collapse, if it hadn't been for Xie Xuanyi's intervention...

Jiang Huang's divine soul transformation would have been directly interrupted by external forces.

Ten years of tranquil cultivation, destroyed in an instant.

The newly differentiated aware divine soul could also completely fall into decline.

After a brief moment, the stone cave returned to silence.

Xie Xuanyi saw it clearly, Jiang Huang's brow flashed an unusual crimson light, clearly, the main divine soul was trying to take possession of the body, but unfortunately, the pain brought about by the seal was too intense, and the main divine soul could not bear it, thus once again choosing to "hide."

"Hey, hey..."

The little girl in red slowly opened her eyes as she lay on the ground.

The gloom that had filled those flame eyes had completely dissipated.

In its place was a clear foolishness.

"Why am I here?"

Jiang Huang looked bewildered, her memories still lingering before she fell into a deep sleep.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xie Xuanyi's face.

She blinked, somewhat confused.

"You sleep terribly, not only sleepwalking but also talking in your sleep,"

Xie Xuanyi picked up the little one by the collar of her clothes and said calmly, "Next time you sleep, I'll change the formation for you."

Jiang Huang pouted woefully.

She always took Xie Xuanyi's words as truth.

However, upon seeing the charred charcoal above the cave, the little one couldn't help but speak up.

"Xie Zhen,"

"I just had a dream."

Xie Xuanyi paused in his steps, looking at Jiang Huang.

The little one had a hesitant glimmer in her eyes as she said softly, "In my dream, there was a sister who kept talking to me…"

Was it the main Divine Soul?

Xie Xuanyi lowered his gaze and asked softly, "What did she say?"

"She said… you're not a good person,"

Jiang Huang's voice grew even softer, "and told me to be careful and not to trust you easily."

"Anything else?"

"That's all… Just these."

Upon hearing this, Xie Xuanyi sighed quietly within himself.

He picked Jiang Huang up and placed her back in the original Purity Array, then pushed a wooden wheelchair over.

"She's not wrong, I'm indeed not a good person,"

Xie Xuanyi squatted in front of the little one and said seriously, "However… right now in the entire Dachu, I'm the only one who can save you."

Jiang Huang was puzzled and bewildered.

"Have a good sleep,"

Xie Xuanyi extended a finger and gently touched Jiang Huang's forehead, saying softly, "When you see her again, remember to pass on the words we just spoke."

Buzz!

A thread of Divine Soul Power gently swept out, seeping into the depths of Jiang Huang's divine sea.

The little one closed her eyes.

A strand of vermilion brilliance emerged from her forehead—

The great red luminescence almost lit up the entire cave.

Xie Xuanyi stared intently at the crimson brilliance, muttering to himself, "Indeed… it's the 'Nine Death Forbidden' from the Imperial City."

He had been with Jiang Huang for many days, checking her Divine Soul more than once.

He never noticed anything unusual.

But this time, when the main Divine Soul broke the ban, the signs began to appear.

Nine Death Forbidden, a Divine Soul Forbidden Technique of the Dachu Royal Family.

Once marked with this technique, the Divine Soul is essentially caged.

Nine deaths, as the name implies.

Even if the affected person died nine times, they still couldn't escape the Divine Soul Mark…

For Jiang Huang to think of splitting her Divine Soul and cultivating a transformation, she must already be considered a genius.

But thinking this little cleverness could undo the Forbidden Technique is nothing short of a fool's dream.

The main Divine Soul was firmly locked…

Once the Divine Soul is unified.

"Nine Death Forbidden" will take effect again!

To undo the Forbidden Technique, one must either find the original Caster to release the seal or use an extremely powerful external force to break through the confinement.

For the former, Xie Xuanyi held no hope.

For the latter, it was worth a try.

The Sword Washing Pool on Lotus Peak could cleanse the soul and might break through the "Nine Death Forbidden" captivity.

However…

When Xie Xuanyi came to South Border, there was another matter he had to attend to.

After placing Jiang Huang down.

Xie Xuanyi laid out several more array patterns.

A fingertip containing Divine Soul Power was enough to let the little one sleep soundly for over ten hours…

Even if the main Divine Soul were to wake up midway, there was nothing to worry about.

From that conversation just now, Xie Xuanyi knew… the main Divine Soul was not foolish.

Now with Jiang Huang's soul damaged and Phoenix Fire gone.

Leaving him, let alone recovering, even surviving in South Border would be extremely difficult.

If she wanted to live, her only option was to follow him.

Xie Xuanyi stepped outside of the grotto. The storm was still fierce, and the thunder was subsiding... tonight, only half had passed.

And the Sword Qi Cave Heaven, had already been completely remade.

Naturally, heading all the way from Lichao City to South Border was to settle accounts with Yin Mountain.

And settling accounts was not just a matter of killing.

After killing Jin Yuan and remaking the Cave Heaven Realm… Xie Xuanyi had only one thing left to do.

And it was the most important thing.

In those days, led by the White Ghost, countless cultivators chased him for three thousand miles, from south to north, and finally, they cornered him.

This matter… thinking about it carefully, there was one extremely unreasonable aspect.

Back then, during his thousand-mile flee, his whereabouts were always kept secret, and he even used a "cause and effect" Treasure to evade the heavens.

Even the fate divinations of the scholars' library couldn't spy on the truth.

But somehow, the Yin Mountain White Ghost knew.

Especially that time in Qing State.

After a thousand miles of battle, an exhausted Xie Xuanyi, with the help of the Jiang Family, successfully settled down, evading the imperial city's search.

If only there had been a bit more time for recovery.

He certainly could have healed his injuries, caught a breath, and perhaps even had a chance to "break through."

But just as he settled down, Yin Mountain White Ghost brought a group of hunters and swarmed in.

The information leaked too quickly.

So much so that… in the end, he had nowhere to run and could only head to the North Sea.

For Xie Xuanyi, the most important thing about this journey was not finding Yin Mountain for revenge, nor was it killing the disciples of the White Ghost.

He wanted to know.

How the White Ghost found out his whereabouts back then.

Near the mountain owned by Daoist Jin Yuan, there was a truly ruthless person, the third disciple of the White Ghost, "Daoist Chi Hun." If not mistaken, Chi Hun was the evil cultivator who had chased him alongside the White Ghost those years ago… Now ten years later, several of White Ghost's disciples had already ascended to the Yin God Realm.

But this Daoist Chi Hun, was still lingering in the Cave Heaven Realm.

After so many years staying in the Cave Heaven Realm, he must have cultivated to the tenth and final level of Cave Heaven, achieving perfection.

He was only one opportunity away from reaching the Yin God Realm.

Xie Xuanyi's true target, was never Jin Yuan.

But to duel with "Chi Hun."

He needed to solidify the Sword Qi Cave Heaven.

"Splash."

Xie Xuanyi stood on the summit of Little Desolate Mountain, he flicked the rainwater off his hat, and wore it back on his head, gazing towards the crimson sky not far away.

At the end of his sight, mountains overlapped, and miasma spread, with a tall mountain visible in the distance, where a giant black flag stood.

Countless mountains, lying beneath.

The black flag fluttered, emitting a rustling wind sound.

There, was precisely the gate of Daoist Chi Hun.