novelaction Chapter 198 Re-entering Su Jun's Sword Domain
Chapter 198 Re-entering Su Jun's Sword Domain
Mingcheng and the others saw the large baskets, but did not rush to the hideout of the human slaves below the cliff.
The woman in black looked at Cao Yike to the side, her whole demeanor like a long sword sheathed, its sharpness concealed.
Her voice was clear and solemn, like a hammer striking an anvil in early winter, a little muffled: "Go find Wuchang and have him bring his men over. Don't alert the people at Xiaoqing County government office."
Cao Yike nodded and disappeared into the night like a graceful swallow.
Judging from Ming Cheng's expression, Xue Tong knew he wasn't planning on going down to cause trouble for those slave traders right now.
The young girl tapped Xue Lan: "The masters I've met are all cautious. It must have been hard for you to stay down there for so long."
Xue Lan didn't care at all. She was currently trying to shamelessly enter the sword spirit domain of Su Jun Sword, her soul separated from her body.
The Su Jun Sword is a divine artifact, weathered by a thousand years of wind and frost. Lü Su had already concluded that Xue Lan was a madman possessed by demons. Xue Lan tried to knock on the sword several times with the power of karma at his fingertips, but she did not let him in.
Seeing that his shamelessness was useless, Xue Lan began to talk to the motionless Su Junjian.
"Sister, Xue Lan just saw a divine artifact that has become a spirit outside. It can roam freely in the mortal world. Aren't you interested, Sister?"
In that brief moment of divine sense probing, Xue Lan already knew Dan Dao's identity.
As a weapon refiner, Xue Lan always had a more acute intuition than ordinary people when it came to divine weapons and powerful artifacts.
The moment she saw the single-edged sword, she knew that it was neither an ordinary person nor a cultivator; it was a divine weapon in human form.
After Xue Lan finished speaking, Su Junjian still did not move.
Xue Lan rubbed his head, feeling a bit of a headache. The boy turned to look at him, his bright black eyes full of confusion.
Xue Lan rubbed her temples. She continued to communicate with Su Junjian using her divine sense:
"My sister was not originally a sword spirit. She was forcibly bound to the sword. In that sword spirit domain, there was only a pool of water, half a reed on the water, and a mirror-like moon, the moonlight of which remained unchanged year after year."
"Sister, have you been inside for so long that you've forgotten you were once a living person...?"
Before she could finish speaking, Xue Lan's soul was violently pulled by a tremendous force following the causal connection she had just released.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a boundless reed marshland.
Lu Su, dressed in plain clothes, stood in front of her with an unhappy expression. Her beautiful face was like a landscape painting by a master. Although she was dressed in the clothes of an ordinary fisherwoman, Xue Lan couldn't take her eyes off her.
She spoke softly, and a gentle breeze stirred the reeds behind Xue Lan.
The rustling sound filled my ears and reached the horizon, then, along with the woman's clear, cold voice, it was like a pot of clear wine that had been brewed for a thousand years.
One cup was enough to make Xue Lan fall into a deep sleep.
But all of this was just Xue Lan's imagination.
Putting aside the fact that Lü Su's words weren't exactly gentle and kind, even if she could truly sleep eternally within this sword-infused world, oblivious to worldly affairs for a thousand years, she herself couldn't do it.
"You're the one who insisted on coming in, so now that you're in, you're not coming out."
After saying this, Lü Su tossed the basket in her hand to Xue Lan.
Xue Lan raised her hand and deftly caught the flying object, taking out a water chestnut from it.
The girl, with the basket hanging from her wrist, still didn't open the water chestnuts herself.
The two returned to Lü Su's house one after the other. The furnishings inside were exactly the same as when Xue Lan last came in.
Xue Lan held the water chestnut she had bitten in her hand, stood at the doorway looking at the furnishings inside, and found it utterly boring.
Lu Su turned to look at her: "You don't want to come in anymore? You were so shameless before, insisting on coming in. Who are you trying to impress with this act now?"
The girl leaned against the doorframe, her eyelids drooping lazily: "Does my sister know about the River of Time?"
Lu Su was taken aback by Xue Lan's question. She naturally knew about the River of Time, but she didn't know why Xue Lan would suddenly ask this question.
Xue Lan smiled gently: "I have been adrift in the river of time for a thousand years."
The term "river of time" is just an external expression; it's not actually a river, at least not in Xue Lan's view.
Memories, history, time, love, hate, and grudges from both the Yuan and Ming realms flow within it, engulfing Xue Lan entirely.
A practitioner who sought the Dao for many years without success and died with regret.
A woman who died with resentment after her entire family was murdered by her enemies on her wedding night.
A loyal minister, unyielding and determined to die despite the oppression of the imperial court...
All the love and hate in the world flowed past Xue Lan under the sweep of time.
You say it remains unchanged, but the love and hate, the loyal ministers and corrupt officials, the actresses and young ladies all portray different roles, with different voices and smiles.
You say things are changing, but all living beings in the world are just like that, from birth to death. In Xue Lan's eyes, who transcends the boundaries of time and space, it's like a clumsy script, something you can guess pretty much accurately with a little effort.
Seeing Lü Su's unchanging house made her feel somewhat sad.
Lu Su clearly did not believe Xue Lan's words and was about to refute them when she saw a huge white wolf phantom appear behind Xue Lan's soul, like a snow-white mountain.
"Demon Soul...you're not Xue Lan?"
Before Xue Lan could speak, Lü Su heard another voice:
"She is Xue Lan!"
The woman looked in the direction of the sound and saw another "Xue Lan" standing in the courtyard.
Before the inner demon could finish his sentence, he sensed a gentle breeze coming from the reeds behind him. Though it was a gentle breeze, it contained boundless sword intent.
Knowing he couldn't overcome the inner demon, and realizing that fighting Lu Su within her current domain would be tantamount to suicide, the inner demon transformed into a stream of light and flew back into Xue Lan's body in the next instant.
Lu Su looked at Xue Lan in front of her with extreme vigilance. But the girl remained calm and composed.
She slowly bowed to Lü Su: "Let me introduce myself again, I am Xue Lan..."
"It's not the Xue Lan who descended from the Yuanming realm, but Xue Lan, the chieftain of the Northern Wilderness Clan, who should have died a thousand years ago..."
In Lü Su's mind, it seemed as if someone was plucking the strings of a zither, producing a "zhengzheng" sound.
She didn't believe what Xue Lan said, but the man's current demeanor clearly told her that Xue Lan was not lying.
No wonder a teenage girl has the ability to enter her own field.
The woman looked at Xue Lan and sneered, "The Wolf Clan's leader isn't in the Northern Region, so he's come down to the mortal realm to join in the fun?"
Xue Lan's smile was tinged with helplessness: "The one in the Ice Flower Pool is no longer the real me. The me now is nothing more than a remnant soul filled with resentment!"
"Sister, are you really not going to go check out that magical artifact outside?"
Lu Su said calmly, "As you said before, I was forcibly sealed inside this Su Jun Sword, and I will never be able to leave or enter it for all eternity."
Xue Lan looked at Lü Su: "There is a way."
Lü Su looked at Xue Lan: "What?"
"My fate is intertwined with yours, and I can use the power of the River of Time to find a way to take you out, on the condition that..."
"My sister promised to help me three times unconditionally!"
Lu Su was clearly very tempted by this bargaining chip, but still cautiously asked, "What if you become a demon?"
"If I collude with the demons and become a demon to kill, Xue Lan will be imprisoned in the river of time for all eternity, and all the pain in the world will be inflicted upon me. All my deeds will be fruitless and without end!"
After speaking, Lü Su saw Xue Lan lower her head and spit out a mouthful of blood, looking extremely weak.
The woman slowly spoke: "I promise you!"
Xue Lan lowered her head, leaning against the door frame, and smiled when no one was looking.
She always gambles on the demons' greed and schemes against the mortals' kindness.
Lü Su was, in the end, just an ordinary person.