Chapter 680 - 680 After the modification 40 Fetal Light_2
680: After the modification: Chapter 40 Fetal Light_2 680: After the modification: Chapter 40 Fetal Light_2 “Daoist Qian Yuan originally had no interest in me…”
Chu Man recalled the mission and suddenly realized something was amiss.
Daoist Qian Yuan had nearly a hundred concubines in his harem furnace.
After infiltrating the Hehuan Sect for nearly a hundred days, Chu Man thought the mission was about to fail.
Unexpectedly, Qian Yuan suddenly took the bait, and the subsequent seduction, deception, desperate fighting, and killing all happened seamlessly.
Thinking carefully.
How could there be such coincidences?
“The night you acted, I took away his ‘Sparrow Yin’.”
Lu Yuzhen spoke softly while waving a sleeve, and a bright red pill the size of a baby’s fist flew out from the furnace fire.
Sparrow Yin, one of the seven souls, governs lust.
“No wonder…”
Chu Man smiled bitterly, feeling somewhat lost.
She originally thought the mission was solely due to her and Dao Jiu’s efforts, not realizing that Lord Lu had played a crucial role behind the scenes.
“The life soul and life destiny contained in here are extraordinary.”
Lu Yuzhen laughed, “Daoist Qian Yuan held a special status within the Hehuan Sect.
After years of repressing desires and cultivating the ‘Soul Tethering Technique’, his Sparrow Yin life soul was extremely powerful…
That’s why I took it.”
Chu Man understood.
The ‘life’ pulsating within this Refining Furnace was one of the world’s rarest treasures and also Lord Lu’s most valued possession.
“What a pity.”
Lu Yuzhen toyed with Qian Yuan’s Sparrow Yin, speaking words of regret, yet his eyes and tone revealed no such sentiment, “When a person dies, it’s like a lamp extinguished; the soul scatters with the wind.
Daoist Qian Yuan’s ‘Sparrow Yin’ won’t last long…”
The bright red pill quickly withered after leaving the Refining Furnace.
Lu Yuzhen nonchalantly crushed it.
The red powder swirled in the air, rather than dissipating, it floated towards the ceiling of the cave, forming a candle flame.
Chu Man looked up.
Were the candlelights in the cave all transformed from life souls and life destinies?
She curiously asked, “What about my ‘life soul’?”
“Your ‘Fetal Light’ is naturally different as well.”
“Longevity’s Fetal Light is pure white.”
“Early death’s Fetal Light is pitch black.”
Lu Yuzhen smiled, lifting his sleeve to reveal a golden pill that fell into his palm.
He unhesitatingly returned the Fetal Light to Chu Man.
Chu Man carefully cupped her hands, this time hearing the resonance of her inner world more clearly as the ‘Fetal Light’ and Divine Soul trembled together.
She had a premonition that if she swallowed this golden pill, her Divine Soul would reach true perfection.
Lu Yuzhen stepped back a bit, giving her space, and then watched with interest as the girl kneeling on the ground shook continuously.
Chu Man was experiencing fierce inner turmoil.
Facing the temptation of her Divine Soul’s perfect unification…
a normal person could not resist even for a moment!
Yet she persisted an extraordinarily long time, eventually suppressing the desire.
Seeing this, Lu Yuzhen’s eyes revealed a faint admiration.
“Your Fetal Light is neither black nor white, but gold.”
“This is the color of ‘born anew after seeking death’.”
Lu Yuzhen reached out, stroking her hair like a cherished pet, gently saying, “How many in this world can cultivate such a ‘Fetal Light’?
Over the years, I’ve blessed many with the Undying Spring, but none are like you.
Perhaps only reincarnators from the Taoist and Fan Yin Temple can possess a golden ‘Fetal Light’ life soul.”
Chu Man vaguely realized why she held a special status in the Paperman Sect…
No matter how packed the Refining Furnace was with countless life souls and life destinies, the event at Hehuan Sect demonstrated that it wasn’t easy for Lord Lu to acquire a soul, otherwise Daoist Qian Yuan wouldn’t have to wait until daylight to barely succeed.
And reincarnators from the Taoist and Fan Yin Temple…
were at least Yang God Realm Mountain Peak cultivators!
How could such individuals’ Fetal Light be obtained?
Even with Lord Lu’s Tongtian means, it was difficult!
Resisting the urge to swallow it, Chu Man took a deep breath, lowered her head, and raised her life soul back up submissively.
“Don’t you want to consume it?”
Lu Yuzhen didn’t take it, but asked in a low voice.
“I do…”
Chu Man’s voice trembled, forcing a smile: “But I desire more to serve by Lord’s side.”
“…”
Lu Yuzhen looked at her, expressionless, deep in thought.
The cave fell into a brief silence.
This kind of silence was the most terrifying.
The furnace crackled, jumping like waves.
Scalding, hot, cold, deathly silent.
After a moment, Lu Yuzhen slowly extended his hand, first taking back the golden Fetal Light, then resting his hand on her head.
He stroked her hair.
Lord Lu squatted down again, meeting her eye level, gently said: “Don’t be nervous.
I saved you from the Beihai Tomb; I won’t kill easily…
Cultivating a strand of ‘born anew after seeking death’ life soul is hard, I can’t bear to let you die like this.
Even if you had swallowed the ‘Fetal Light’ just now, I wouldn’t blame you.”
Chu Man looked into his eyes.
Although Lu Yuzhen’s eyes glowed with clear and gentle light…
Still, she faintly felt…
that wasn’t true.
If she had swallowed the Fetal Light, everything would’ve been different.
In that moment of dead silence, she felt the oppressive arrival of a tidal wave and was glad for having made the right choice.
“Want to see inside the Refining Furnace?”
The storm didn’t strike; the cave remained as warm as spring.
Lord’s voice swept into her Heart Lake like a spring breeze, soothing her.
Not long ago, the silly girl had tried to reach into the furnace to take out her ‘life’.
“Can I?”
Chu Man asked nervously.
“Of course.”
Lord smiled, embracing her, and together they held the ‘Fetal Light’.
Countless paper scraps emerged from their hands, burning furiously in the furnace, but the flame didn’t spread along the paper; instead, the paper turned to ash, forming a chasm-like barrier.
Chu Man focused her Divine Thought at her fingertips.
This time, she saw the Tao Furnace, where Dao Jiu’s soul curled in slumber.
The Tao Furnace seemed to be cleaved by something.
A straight fissure split the furnace in two halves.
The slash mark looked familiar.
Elsewhere, this artifact might be shattered beyond repair, but in the Paperman Sect, on the Pure White Mountain, miracles could happen.
According to Lord, in some time, Dao Jiu would be thrown into the Longevity Pool to start a new life.
“Huh?”
Diverting her gaze from the Tao Furnace, Chu Man noticed an order to the ‘life’ in the Refining Furnace.
The life souls and life destinies inside varied in size and distance from the furnace fire.
The Refining Furnace flames could nurture and temper souls.
However, too weak a soul couldn’t endure burning, and too close would annihilate it…
The outermost space, left vacant, was likely Daoist Qian Yuan’s Sparrow Yin position.
Her own Fetal Light was relatively more inside.
Deeper still, several indistinct life souls floated…
But these weren’t what surprised Chu Man.
On an unintended glance, she saw an extremely golden, pure life soul.
Without careful inspection, it might be mistaken for furnace fire…
Placed at the core, it outshone the flames.
“See it?”
Lu Yuzhen’s gaze met Chu Man’s, smiling as he spoke, “What do you think?”
“…”
Chu Man was speechless with shock.
That golden life soul was also a Fetal Light, a ‘born anew in death’ Fetal Light—
Compared to it, hers seemed dull, insignificant.
“Beautiful, right…”
Lu Yuzhen admired the radiant Fetal Light, then gradually stopped smiling.
He said slowly, “This is my most precious treasure, no exception.”