CHAPTER 959: CHAPTER 96: RETRIEVED (PART 2)

Therefore.

Xie Xuanyi’s divine thought landed on his master, without the slightest obstacle.

He clearly felt that although his master was full of energy at the moment, his divine thought, Tao Realm, and flesh body were all at their "peak," his vitality was decaying at an extremely fast pace...

This strong presence.

Seemed more like a "last flash of brilliance before dying."

"I’ve always been fine."

Zhao Chunyang gently said, "No need to worry. The ’problems’ you see are not ’problems’, it’s just that I’m getting old."

Xie Xuanyi was momentarily stunned by these words.

"Everyone will grow old. Everyone will die."

Zhao Chunyang suddenly asked, "Do you still remember that cicada?"

Cicada...

Xie Xuanyi suddenly recalled the scenes in Li Kingdom.

In the Peach Blossom Spring, under the influence of Fa Cheng’s divine skills, Xie Xuanyi stepped into a long river, and in that river, he saw the figure of the Zen Master.

The Zen Master handed him a "cicada."

A Golden Cicada!

"In the River of Destiny, all living beings are cicadas. They are born in the morning and die by night, life passing in the blink of an eye."

Zhao Chunyang chuckled softly and said, "As long as it’s a cicada, it will die."

This sentence was somewhat obscure.

But Xie Xuanyi vaguely understood something.

"Heh... hehe..."

At this moment, a hoarse and cold laughter came from the Immortal Tree.

The Great Demon, whose chest was pierced by the Flying Sword, could no longer maintain the demon body and returned to human form.

The tall woman hung her head low, her waterfall-like hair draped down, her clothes were tattered, revealing snow-like and jade-like plump skin. It was originally an extremely enchanting and beautiful scene, but under the reflection of the Flying Sword, it appeared bloody and glaring.

The position of her chest was torn open by Chen Ke, revealing a golden, scorching heart.

Blood continuously flowed from the crack of the Flying Sword, solidifying along the sheep-fat-like skin.

"What a touching picture of deep master-disciple affection..."

Yuan Huang, although extremely weak at this moment, had not forgotten to mock, "Truly touching, makes one want to cry..."

She had certainly heard the conversation between the master and disciple pair.

What cicada... or Zen...

She didn’t understand.

Nor did she care.

The reason she spoke sarcastically was because Yuan Huang could not stand such a scene.

She was clearly still alive, this battle clearly hadn’t ended, yet Zhao Chunyang had ignored her, treating her as air.

She knew she had lost.

But she could not bear such humiliation.

"I seem to have forgotten about you."

With these words.

Xie Xuanyi turned around, coldly spoke, sarcastically saying, "There’s still a living thing here..."

Though he said this, Xie Xuanyi did not approach but stood within the Sword Origin River, under the layers of protection of his master’s Dao Source, maintaining a safe distance from the Holy Empress.

As for the [Chen Ke] nailed into the Immortal Tree, Xie Xuanyi did not hurry to retrieve it.

Although at this moment, the Holy Empress was so weak she only had one breath left... but after all, she was a "Heavenly Person."

Xie Xuanyi would not give Yuan Huang the slightest chance.

Xie Xuanyi did not refer to Yuan Huang as a "living person," but as a "living thing."

In his view, the actions of the Holy Empress were unworthy of being called human... Of course, she wasn’t human to begin with.

"Heh..."

The tall woman didn’t take Xie Xuanyi’s mockery to heart, only softly laughed, "Sharp-tongued, living a second life, why are you different from before? I remember when you stood under this tree, you didn’t have so much to say."

"..."

Hearing this, Xie Xuanyi’s pupils slightly contracted.

A slight pain came from his Soul Sea.

He looked at the Immortal Tree before him, its tall and dense branches and leaves swaying and stretching like flowing fire; whoever saw this scene would remember it for life.

But Xie Xuanyi had no memory of it.

Regarding everything in the Moon Hidden Realm, he couldn’t remember anything at all.

"What happened back then?"

Xie Xuanyi stared intently at the Holy Empress, rasping out word by word.

The world widely spread.

He assassinated Emperor Chu in the Moon Hidden Cave Heaven.

Afterward, the Imperial City was in chaos, Da Chu crumbled... Xie Xuanyi lost his memories, fleeing to the North Sea.

For so many years.

The events of the Moon Hidden Realm became a thorn in Xie Xuanyi’s heart.

No matter how he recalled, he couldn’t remember that "dark" past from ten years ago, even after drinking "Drunken Immortal Brew" in Li Kingdom, he only regained fragments of memories of escaping the Imperial City.

No one knew what really happened in the Moon Hidden Realm ten years ago.

Except for the Holy Empress.

"You..."

The Holy Empress raised an eyebrow, looking at the young man in front of her, teasingly said, "Do you really not remember?"

Xie Xuanyi stretched out his palm, covering his forehead.

Just then.

A warmth came again to his shoulder.

"This was something I snatched from the ’Paper Taoist’ earlier."

Zhao Chunyang patted Xie Xuanyi’s shoulder gently, saying softly, "This is... your thing."

The elderly man in the Lotus Robe opened his palm.

In his palm lay a mass of golden light as bright as a pill.

"This is..."

Xie Xuanyi was startled, "Fetal Light?"

Lu Yuzhen’s Paperman Technique requires the collection of Life Souls.

In the Pure White Mountain cave mansion of the Paperman Sect, within the [Refining Furnace], countless incomplete Life Souls are displayed.

Among them was his own "Fetal Light"!

Lu Yuzhen regarded him as a "precious treasure," always carrying this Fetal Light with him wherever he went... Xie Xuanyi had thought he would never see this "Life Soul" again, only to find that his master had snatched it back!

"Where is Lu Yuzhen?"

Only then did Xie Xuanyi realize that Lu Yuzhen, who was vying for the Sword Qi Dragon Vein, had also entered this Great Phoenix Cave Heaven.

But at this moment, as his divine thought swept through the entire forbidden area.

He didn’t sense a single breath.

Lu Yuzhen was not here.

This world... didn’t even have a scrap of paper.

What is going on?

"Lu Yuzhen..."

Zhao Chunyang’s eyes became complicated. He was silent for a moment, then sent the Fetal Light into Xie Xuanyi’s palm, and at the same time, transferred the scenes of the previous battle into Xie Xuanyi’s Heart Lake through divine thought.

Thus, Xie Xuanyi saw the complete scene of the previous battle.

He saw the Paper Taoist, who was locked by the Sword Origin River, suddenly disappear into thin air.

What could this mean... a sudden death in the void? Or a narrow escape from death?

"He should have escaped."

Zhao Chunyang sighed lightly, "I saw his figure in the River of Destiny."

"Daoist Brush... Paperman Technique..."

Xie Xuanyi took the Fetal Light, murmuring in confusion, "How could he be the ’Daoist Brush’?"

He saw it clearly.

When his master punched with the Sword Origin River’s forceful attack, Lu Yuzhen revealed his true form, using the Supreme Taoist Treasure "Daoist Brush" to forcibly withstand two punches.

In the South Border, Xie Xuanyi had suspected that this Lord Lu’s true form was the Daoist Brush.

But his cultivation did not match.

"When I was in contact with him, I sensed a turbid aura."

Zhao Chunyang lowered his voice, "He is a bit different from ordinary Transformed Treasures... If the ’Daoist Brush’ is his true body, it doesn’t seem surprising. But I faintly feel that even if I were to shatter the ’Daoist Brush’ with full force, he would not fall because of it."

"You mean to say, Lu Yuzhen’s true form is more than just the ’Daoist Brush’?"

Xie Xuanyi was stunned for a moment, his eyes brightening.

"I don’t know."

Zhao Chunyang shook his head, "His method of disappearing into thin air doesn’t seem deliberate. It’s more like a gamble... He’s betting that when I throw the last punch, he would leave this world."

"Time Dao... Path of Void..."

Xie Xuanyi suddenly thought of his senior brother Xuan Ming’s speculation.

During the Great Yue Kingdom’s sacrificial ceremony.

Qing Li was once detained in this space-time by Emperor Qi using an unbelievable "sacrificial technique."

Now, Lu Yuzhen’s disappearance is quite unreasonably explained.

But if one has witnessed the heavenly wars of the Great Yue Kingdom, everything seems to have a trace.

In Qing Li’s "space-time" back then, her disappearance... and Lu Yuzhen’s disappearance were actually identical.

Ten years ago.

Lu Yuzhen appeared out of nowhere in the Da Chu Dynasty.

In fact, this wasn’t his first "arrival" here.

He had entered the Bai Ze Secret Tomb five hundred years ago, attempting to refine the Dao Stele of the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm.

Perhaps...

In the vast River of Destiny, Lu Yuzhen appeared and disappeared many times. To him, his "space-time" was always intermittent.

Thinking of this.

Xie Xuanyi gazed at the "Fetal Light" in his palm that belonged to him.

He knew.

The memory about ten years ago’s "Moon Concealment" might be buried in this Fetal Light.

Xie Xuanyi no longer hesitated and swallowed this piece of golden light.