83: Chapter 080: Lotus Heart Returns to Lotus Ancestor 83: Chapter 080: Lotus Heart Returns to Lotus Ancestor In this void, this once massive lotus leaf that eclipsed the sun, is now merely a part of a small pond in an immensely vast world.

In this infinitely vast world, it seemed that a single hand could cover this entire pond.

At that moment, such a hand appeared.

It was a pale, soft hand that Zhou Yan felt was the most beautiful hand he had ever seen.

But this hand, gently touching a lotus flower, caused the flower to rapidly grow, transforming into an extremely dark lotus pod, which then swiftly withered, its seeds falling away in an instant.

Yet, what Zhou Yan previously saw as a lotus flower the size of a hundred feet, in this delicate jade hand, was no bigger than a fingertip.

As the lotus fell, that jade hand continued to light touch it several more times, and soon, many more lotus flowers withered as rapidly as the first one.

“Spiritual Lotus has no roots,

How could it intertwine with a soul?

Lotus Heart returns to Lotus Ancestor,

Born from the Cold Pond of the Sword Pond.”

Unexpectedly, a melodious voice, as if coming from a distant place, reached Zhou Yan’s ears, causing his soul to shudder, making him feel as though he was moving alone through the furious waves of a raging sea, overwhelmed by the sensation of possibly being submerged at any moment.

However, following this voice, involuntarily, Zhou Yan felt his soul fly far out, and by the pond, he finally saw a woman in a white gossamer dress, touching the lotus seeds with her bare hands, causing them to burst forth with endless vitality again before falling back into the pond.

Then, with a gaze that seemed to penetrate the void, she looked toward where Zhou Yan’s soul was.

Zhou Yan’s soul felt as if it had grown eyes, suddenly locking gazes with that great woman’s eyes—then, Zhou Yan realized that he was familiar with this woman.

This woman was the same blind stone sculpture woman he saw during the talent assessment; her appearance was exactly the same.

She had no eyes, but those hollow sockets still held a transcendently spirited gaze.

Even as a blind woman, Zhou Yan found her to be stunningly beautiful, a breathtaking beauty that was genuinely suffocating!

Incomparable, indescribable.

She looked at Zhou Yan, as if seeing through all of time and space, she reached out to touch him, but he was beyond reach.

Yet the faint sadness surrounding her was ineffable.

Zhou Yan’s soul suddenly felt a wave of inexplicable grief, as if someone immensely important to him had vanished in an instant, and he impulsively propelled his soul towards the woman.

But that woman disintegrated bit by bit.

Then, a voice as vast as thunder, echoed through heaven and earth:

“Presumptuous!

A mere ant dares to peep into the Spiritual Lotus Secret Realm?!

Die!”

“Die die die die die——”

An endless, majestic voice, like rolling thunder, shattered the infinite void, penetrating into Zhou Yan’s soul.

Zhou Yan felt as if he was struck by lightning, at the moment when the woman shattered, he too was struck by a white sword light that came swiftly from the edge of heaven and earth, instantly annihilating him.

“Puff——”

Blood sprayed into a mist, mingling in the surrounding void.

Zhou Yan’s face turned deathly pale, and his soul was shattered to ninety percent!

Had it not been for the slight connection between the Giant Sword Soul and his own soul, he would have died at that moment.

“Young Master, Young Master, what’s wrong?”

Feng Lingqing felt something was amiss with Zhou Yan in that instant.

In the next moment, Zhou Yan’s body began to crack all over, his Spirit Armor shattered, turning into dust.

This made his robust body completely exposed, but before he could feel shocked or embarrassed, Feng Lingqing horrifyingly discovered that Zhou Yan’s well-defined body was fracturing in several places, spurting out copious amounts of blood like a fountain.

She didn’t hesitate with other concerns, immediately channeled Sword Heart Energy to wrap around Zhou Yan to heal him and asked with concern.

But just as her energy made contact with Zhou Yan’s body, an extremely terrifying power abruptly struck.

“Puff——”

Before she could react, she felt a white light streaking from the ends of the sky and earth, within which seemed to be a struggling woman imprisoned in pain.

Then, this beam of white light directly struck her soul, with the Silver Snow Sword’s Sword Spirit Xiao Xue instantly flying up to resist.

“Puff——”

At that moment, the blade of the Silver Snow Sword suddenly exploded.

“No——”

Zhou Yan’s eyes were nearly splitting apart as he watched the scene of Xiao Xue shattering to pieces, a terrifying soul aura suddenly surged forward!

“Get out!”

He roared furiously, crazily drawing upon a massive amount of soul energy to rush into Feng Lingqing’s body.

Clad in Spirit Armor, Feng Lingqing was suddenly blasted open by a brilliant white light, revealing her beautiful body.

Those pale peaks, that beautifully perfect figure…

But at that moment, Zhou Yan’s heart was focused only on Feng Lingqing’s soul and Xiao Xue’s Sword Spirit.

If both were to collapse, he would be helpless to reverse it!

A massive soul energy, in the form of life energy, poured into Feng Lingqing’s body, but both Feng Lingqing’s body and Xiao Xue’s Sword Spirit body began to shatter.

The white sword light faded and disappeared.

In the depths of the void, it seemed as if a figure in white was gradually fading into nothingness.

From beginning to end, Zhou Yan didn’t know who had struck that blow, who had attacked him, or who was seeking his life.

But when his dispersed soul power returned ineffectively, the endless beautiful lotuses in the world had already withered.

Only the lotus leaf under his feet was still lush and dripping with vitality, and atop it, blood beads formed from condensed blood, like dewdrops, rolled and trembled from time to time, forming small ripples.

Feng Lingqing had fallen onto the lotus leaf, her snow-white delicate body covered in a layer of blood water, her eyes wide as if refusing to close in death, already without sparkle.

But her face still retained an immense concern and care for Zhou Yan, as if that moment had been suddenly frozen and seared into existence.

The Silver Snow Sword’s Sword Body had also shattered, broken into pieces here, reduced to scrap metal.

Zhou Yan’s body was shaking continuously, unable to calm down for a long time.

He himself was also very weak, yet he still stood, unaware of why all of this was happening.

Even who was targeting him, or targeting the life here, he did not know.

He suddenly felt an endless sorrow.

Power, insane power, absolutely unparalleled power!

His heart was endlessly yearning for it.

He clenched his fists, trembling as he walked next to Feng Lingqing, quaking as he used his own soul, trying to sense whether there was any vitality left in her, but as soul power emerged, Zhou Yan suddenly felt that in this withered world, endless vitality was gradually making its presence felt, the endless dark pool seemed to start a new cycle of life due to the withering of numerous green lotus leaves and bright lotuses.

In such endless vitality, Zhou Yan sensed, because of this aura, Feng Lingqing and the Silver Snow Sword, both still had a flicker of life force pulsing.

It seemed his soul energy had after all preserved a slender thread of their souls.

It seemed that the Heaven and Earth-severing sword strike, after not completely annihilating Zhou Yan, had also spared the souls enveloped by him, meaning Feng Lingqing and Sword Spirit Xiao Xue had not truly perished.

Had they really been annihilated by such sword light, they would likely have turned to ash, rather than still having ‘bodies’ like now.

Gradually calming down, Zhou Yan finally gained a glimmer of hope, and only then did he realize, without knowing it, Feng Lingqing and Xiao Xue had already become very important in his heart.

Especially Xiao Xue, who had always followed him, many times actively taking deadly blows for him, and now sacrificing herself selflessly to shield Feng Lingqing from fatal calamity.

Zhou Yan sensed the life force, sensed the faint presence of both, and almost without thinking, allowed his own soul energy to slowly transfer over to allow them to recover a bit.

But the invariably effective soul energy was this time extremely weak in effect, not as powerful as Zhou Yan had hoped.

Zhou Yan stared blankly, then after carefully thinking, he suddenly understood; the soul ability now almost entirely his own, could not be considered external pure energy anymore, thus it could not be directly received by others, only when his own soul was whole, and then the energy from the Giant Sword Soul refined and transferred to others, would it be effective.

Given this, the recovery time for his own injuries now also stretched to several days, could Feng Lingqing and Xiao Xue endure during this period?

Zhou Yan frowned, looking at this Heaven and Earth, sensing the massively accumulating life energy here, with each breath he took, his injuries naturally recovered a lot.

For a moment, he pondered deeply.

“Then let’s set up an array!”

Zhou Yan thought deeply for a long time, now, only by painstakingly meditating on the Sword Array, accumulating the vitality energy here, providing ample breaths of life energy for both, and then using the energy of Inner Strength to first allow Feng Lingqing’s body autonomous energy operation, could they gradually recover.

Then with such time, he himself could gradually recover from the severe soul injury, only then could he help Feng Lingqing heal after his own recovery.

…

After calming his mind, Zhou Yan began to set the array using the Spirit Crystal inside his extreme jade cold light ring.

Regarding the Sword Array, what Zhou Yan knew all stemmed from the Grandmaster’s memory, but because the Heaven and Earth Laws were different, what was viable in }}