Marry the Demon Sect Girl with No Bride Price-Chapter 341 - 146: Winds Rising in the Zhenyang Sect
Crack crack!
The spacious Divine Statue Hall trembled as stones kept falling.
A huge hole had formed in the brow of the gigantic Divine Lady statue, revealing a circular spatial array within.
Xia Qinglian, being an array master, instantly discerned that this spatial array was of extraordinarily high grade, capable of teleporting over several thousand miles.
However, she couldn’t tell where the array led to.
This array seemed to have existed for too long, and its stability was somewhat problematic. If one were to enter and be teleported elsewhere, there was no telling if they could return.
The presence of a high-grade spatial array hidden within the Divine Lady statue of Sheng Tanglian was already astonishing.
But what truly shocked Xia Qinglian was the shadow that flew out from the brow of Sheng Tanglian’s statue.
This shadow appeared human yet was somewhat thin and blurry, most likely a residual soul left by a Great Power Cultivator after death.
The residual soul shrieked sharply and chaotically rammed around, nearly collapsing the entire Divine Statue Hall, and the piercing sound made Xia Qinglian’s ears ache.
Clearly, the residual cultivation far exceeded that of Xia Qinglian at the moment.
It showed how powerful this residual soul had been in life.
Yet why it was trapped in the brow of the Divine Lady statue was unknown.
After the frantic wailing and haphazard ramming, the residual soul finally halted, and Xia Qinglian, upon focusing her gaze, couldn’t help but cry out in surprise:
"Are... are you Zhenyang?!"
This residual soul floated about, its body indistinct, but the facial features were remarkably clear—it was exactly Zhenyang from the Colorful Bone Light Curtain five hundred years ago!
Upon hearing Xia Qinglian’s voice, the residual soul in the air lowered its head to look at her, a smile appearing on that pale face:
"You have finally arrived, I have waited for you for so long, come, let me see!"
With that, the residual soul suddenly vanished, appearing before Xia Qinglian the next instant, its ghastly white hand reaching for her.
A wave of bloody and putrid stench hit, startling Xia Qinglian as she hurriedly retreated to avoid the grasp.
The residual soul paused, blankly staring at Xia Qinglian:
"You don’t recognize me? Tanglian, she doesn’t recognize me, why doesn’t she recognize me?!"
The residual soul seemed somewhat unclear-minded, its scholarly face turning vicious, clutching its head as it screamed once more:
"Aaaaah!!!"
"Tanglian, I want to find our child... the child... aahh!"
"The array, I spent three hundred years drawing the array!!"
The residual soul yelled for a long time, then suddenly flew to the brow of the Divine Lady statue, entering through the hole, rushing toward the spatial array.
Xia Qinglian simply shook her head slowly, seemingly sighing.
The residual soul dashed into the spatial array but appeared to dive into water, only causing ripples, unable to enter at all.
"A soul cannot enter a spatial array."
Xia Qinglian slowly retreated, drawing several guardian arrays around herself.
This residual soul was undoubtedly Zhenyang, but if so, it raised even more questions.
Zhenyang ascended five hundred years ago; both his body and soul should be in the Immortal Realm. Why would there be a residual soul left here? 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
Previously, when everyone entered the relic, they didn’t notice anything unusual in the brow of the Divine Lady statue.
It seems the residual soul didn’t want to be discovered, so it isolated its aura along with the array.
If that was the case, why did it emerge now?
And why did it seem deranged?
Xia Qinglian suddenly trembled, contemplating a possibility.
Previously, when everyone entered the relic, she used the body of Niantang, and now she had returned to her appearance as Xia Qinglian.
Could it be that the residual soul of Zhenyang saw her appearance and mistook her for someone they knew, which is why it emerged?
Who did it mistake me for?
It can’t be Sheng Tanglian because the one resembling Sheng Tanglian is Mo Xiaolan, not herself.
When Mo Xiaolan was before the Divine Lady statue, the residual soul did not emerge, so why did it break through the isolation and appear at the sight of herself?
"Hahaha!"
While Xia Qinglian was pondering, the residual soul, upon seeing it couldn’t enter the array, suddenly burst into laughter:
"I spent three hundred years completing this array, and by its completion, I was utterly exhausted, unable to see my daughter one last time!"
"But Heaven has not treated me poorly... hahaha, it’s divine will, divine will!"
The residual soul laughed manically, suddenly floating to the ground, lifting its hands to mimic rowing, and began to sing a ballad:
"In March by the bridge enjoying the lotus, only hoping the gentleman would cherish me, the small boat drifts homeward, with spring wind and willows tying a beautiful marriage."
This song seems familiar. Xia Qinglian recalled, it was during the colorful bone light curtain that Sheng Tanglian and Zhenyangzi met for the first time in the water town, both sharing a boat.
Sheng Tanglian was paddling while singing a ballad.
At that time, Sheng Tanglian was youthful and radiant, passionate and straightforward, and when she sang, her feelings were endless, as she had fallen in love with Zhenyangzi at first sight.
Unexpectedly, after five hundred years, she could still hear this ballad.
Xia Qinglian sighed inwardly but retreated silently, becoming more vigilant.
This residual soul still possessed Nascent Soul cultivation, and with its insanity, it seemed quite dangerous.
"Good fortune, good fortune... all my good fortune was destroyed, destroyed! Ah ah ah!!"
Indeed, after finishing the ballad, the gentleness in the residual soul’s eyes disappeared, replaced by a vicious look on the face, it crazily crashed around the Divine Statue Hall, causing the entire relic to tremble, seemingly about to collapse.
Xia Qinglian had to shout, "Stop now! Zhenyangzi, why are you here? Is the daughter you speak of the child Sheng Tanglian gave birth to before she died? What exactly happened back then?"
The residual soul suddenly halted, its fierce eyes glaring at Xia Qinglian:
"You don’t know me, you don’t know me! I’ve waited for three hundred years with my broken body, and another two hundred as a soul, yet you do not recognize me!"
"Ah ah ah!!"
"Hahaha, Tanglian, look, the lotus blooms, let us go admire it, hahaha!"
The residual soul became completely insane, crashing everywhere, several times even towards Xia Qinglian. The guardian array could hardly hold.
Xia Qinglian barely managed to block a few blows, spitting blood, already injured.
Seeing the residual soul getting increasingly mad, the relic became a deathtrap, Xia Qinglian suddenly glanced at the spatial array at the Divine Lady statue’s forehead.
It was the only way out!
Xia Qinglian dodged another charge from the residual soul and soared up, rushing towards the array at Sheng Tanglian’s forehead.
"Don’t go! I’ve waited for you for five hundred years! Stay with me, stay with me!!"
A sharp howl followed, and powerful pressure descended in an instant. Xia Qinglian clenched her teeth, fully mobilizing her spiritual power, and finally dashed into the array just before the residual soul caught up!
Everything spun wildly, day and night reversed, as if traversing countless mountains, stars, and the flow of time.
After an unknown amount of time, Xia Qinglian sensed a sudden brightness, her body feeling light, emerging from the spatial channel.
Clear breeze and bright moon surrounded, the night tranquil.
Suspended in mid-air, Xia Qinglian looked down, below she saw a steep cliff, her own feet just at the edge of it.
Suddenly, a thought occurred to Xia Qinglian, she raised her head to look at the peak above, and in her sight, she could faintly see three characters carved on a massive stone at the peak—
Danxia Peak.
Xia Qinglian was stunned.
The destination of the array’s teleportation was actually Danxia Peak of Zhenyang Mountain!
"Senior sister, what should we do, Ruo Mei has no pulse anymore!"
"Don’t panic, throw her down the cliff, if someone asks, say she couldn’t endure the hardships of cultivation and ran away!"
"Senior sister, can this really work?"
"Fear not, she is just a newcomer to the Outer Sect, every year there are many who can’t handle the hardships and leave the Zhenyang Sect, no one will suspect!"
"Yes, senior sister..."
Voices suddenly came from below, Xia Qinglian, hiding in a large tree, looked down.
Below were four women, one dressed in the Purple Sun Brocade Robe symbolizing an Inner Sect disciple, the other three were in the white dresses of Outer Sect disciples.
Among these Outer Sect disciples, one woman was already lifeless, being carried to the cliff edge by the other two.
Following the Inner Sect disciple’s instructions, the two women exchanged glances, hesitated a moment, and finally threw the corpse off the cliff.
Afterwards, the three looked around and quickly left.
Xia Qinglian leapt down from the tree, walked to the cliff edge, and looked down, a cold smile appeared at her lips.
She saw the female corpse hooked on a protruding branch, not fallen.
Xia Qinglian descended the cliff, stood on the branch, and looked at the corpse.
The features were delicate, only about eighteen or nineteen years old.
Her face covered in blood, Xia Qinglian wondered why she was killed by her own sect members and thrown away in the dead of night.
After a moment of silence, spiritual power surged around Xia Qinglian, her features transformed, height slowly shortened.
In no time, she had transformed into the likeness of this deceased girl named "Ruo Mei."
Ruo Mei raised her head, her cold eyes flickered with a trace of tenderness:
"Zhenyang Sect truly is a place where bones are devoured. Husband, if heaven doesn’t want us to part, then I... shall wait for you here."
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End of Volume Two
