Chapter 679 - 679 Updated 40 Fetal Light
679: Updated: Chapter 40 Fetal Light 679: Updated: Chapter 40 Fetal Light “Dao Jiu…
is dead?”
Chu Man squatted down, hugging her knees, quietly watching the flickering furnace flames.
The heat was too intense, the space distorted; she couldn’t see what was inside.
But she could faintly hear the crisp sound of an embryo bursting within the furnace.
The Tao Furnace was once her Lifebound Artifact.
After leaving Beihai Tomb, Dao Jiu had stayed with her.
The heartbeat of the Lifebound Artifact was linked to hers, and as she watched the swirling flames, Chu Man could hear the sound of her own heart breaking.
No wonder she felt so empty when she woke up from the Longevity Pool.
It always felt like she had lost something very important.
“Death…”
Lu Yuzhen smiled gently and, mimicking Chu Man’s posture, squatted before the furnace.
The flames billowed, their light reflecting in his eyes.
Unlike Chu Man.
The searing scene inside the Refining Furnace was vividly clear to him.
“It’s not death.”
Lu Yuzhen calmly gazed at the most intense part of the flames.
In this world, the vast majority of cultivators, except body refiners, would refine and bind a Lifebound Artifact.
Without a Lifebound Artifact, they couldn’t manifest a Lifebound Cave Heaven.
Now, the entire Pure White Mountain Secret Realm on the Southern Border Land was manifested using the Refining Furnace as the Lifebound Artifact.
This tumultuous furnace could incinerate most things in the world.
However, the Tao Furnace had not been incinerated.
“There are things in this world that don’t deserve to ‘die’.”
When Lu Yuzhen spoke these words, his voice carried a hint of sorrow: “It had no life to begin with… so how could it talk about death?”
Chu Man was stunned.
She touched the spot over her heart.
“Don’t worry, Dao Jiu isn’t dead.”
Lu Yuzhen patted the woman’s shoulder, and in a fleeting moment, he resumed his usual relaxed and indifferent demeanor: “Good people don’t live long, but calamities last for a thousand years.
You should know, everyone in Pure White Mountain hates him.
How could he die so easily?
Before long, he will wake from the Longevity Pool just like you…”
“Really?”
Chu Man continued to squat in front of the furnace, like a cat.
The Dao Master stood up, looking down at the leaping flames in the furnace, the scattered sparks landing on his white cloak, burning tiny specks of ash.
The entire grotto was very quiet.
The candle flames flickered, the wind rustled, mixed with the sound of a heartbeat.
“Thump.”
“Thump.”
“Thump.”
This time, Chu Man heard it clearly.
The heartbeat resonating in the grotto did not come from herself, but from the furnace.
To be precise, it came from the round, pulsating “objects” within the fire.
What were they?
Human hearts?
The woman, squatting like a cat, listened for the first time to a sound that resonated so deeply with her inner world.
She stared at the furnace fire, lost in thought.
Inside, densely laid hearts, perhaps one of them, belonged to her?
Chu Man instinctively reached out her hand toward the scorching furnace.
In the next moment.
With a soft sound, her outstretched hand was caught mid-air.
“Dao Master…”
Chu Man snapped back to reality.
What had she just been doing?
She had tried to take something from the Refining Furnace right in front of the Dao Master!
“Don’t do anything foolish, you’ll die.”
Lu Yuzhen looked down at her, his voice gentle, with no hint of reproach.
He paused, then spoke kindly but firmly: “To others, even the slightest touch of this furnace fire is a catastrophic disaster.
Dao Jiu could experience rebirth in the fire because it’s not human… you are different.
You have only one life.”
Chu Man hadn’t expected that stopping her was for this reason.
She hurriedly knelt down, filled with remorse: “I didn’t mean to, I just wanted to see… what’s pulsating in this furnace…”
“That’s normal.”
Lu Yuzhen said lightly: “Everyone yearns for completeness.
Whoever sees their lost ‘lifesoul,’ their first instinct is to reclaim it…
It’s understandable that you want your ‘life’ back, there’s no need to apologize to me.”
Chu Man was stunned once more.
Life?
The thing pulsating in the furnace… is life?
“Humans have three souls and seven spirits; each is a ‘life’.”
Lu Yuzhen spoke gently: “Back when I saved you in Beihai Tomb, as a price, I took your ‘Fetal Light’.”
Chu Man had studied Karma Life Skill in the Qingzhou Prefecture.
She knew that the ‘Fetal Light’ was one of the three souls.
But…
The Chu Family scholar had told her, this Karma Life Skill, read it and let it go, don’t take it seriously.
These things are just illusions.
“Inside here, it holds my ‘life’?”
Chu Man had never thought that such an elusive thing could actually have a physical form.
Lu Yuzhen nodded, smiling as he asked: “How do you feel?
Is it beautiful?”
This was Chu Man’s first time seeing ‘life.’
So the pulsating things in the furnace were not hearts, but lives.
She suddenly thought of the headless people on Chenglu Mountain, “Are the lives of those people on the mountain all in here?”
“Those people?”
Indifference flickered in Lu Yuzhen’s eyes as he shook his head: “Their lives are too cheap, they don’t deserve to enter the Refining Furnace… They only serve as fuel for the Pure White Mountain, to feed the fire.
What you see now is far nobler.
Do you remember the Qian Yuan Daoist you and Dao Jiu killed not long ago?”
Sneaking into the Hehuan Sect, taking refuge under Qian Yuan Daoist.
Using the body as bait.
To lure Qian Yuan Daoist outside, and finally kill him in the formation, cutting off his head.
This was Chu Man’s hardest task to date, far more perilous than negotiating with the Imperial City… After the Moss Ridge talks failed, the Three Great Sects became extremely cautious of the Paperman Sect, especially the Hehuan Sect.
Every cauldron used by Qian Yuan Daoist had been carefully selected.
Chu Man had spent enormous heart power to make Qian Yuan Daoist notice her.