novelraw Chapter 45 – Sixty years later
Chapter 45 – Sixty years later
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[You are under a soul attack...]
[Your eyelids grow heavier.]
[Before losing consciousness.]
[You store the Profound Grade Spirit Artifact in your ring.]
[Then, with your last ounce of strength, you throw the ring off the cliff.]
[In a deep sleep...]
[Injured...]
[...When you wake up, a sharp pain pierces your eyes, and your vision is shrouded in darkness.]
[...You realize you've gone blind, but fortunately, you've survived. Because of your Supreme Silver Bones and strong physique, the Youth with Glasses, being an ordinary person without a weapon, couldn't kill you, only damage your eyes.]
[Throwing the Ten Directions Ring off the cliff before you fainted saved your life.]
[Yet, you feel no joy.]
[The spiritual energy here is abundant, and judging by the origin of that Old Monster from the stone tablet, it might not be long before they have the power to take your life.]
[Realizing this, you struggle to your feet and, relying on your keen hearing, make your way to the edge of the cliff.]
[Feeling the fierce wind.]
[A suspicion arises in your heart.]
[The Youth with Glasses, without any weapons, actually had another way to kill you, which was to throw you off the cliff. Even with Supreme Silver Bones, falling into such an abyss would surely shatter you to pieces, yet he didn't do so...]
[You take a deep breath.]
[Leap into the air.]
[The expected fall doesn't happen; you land on solid ground, letting out a long sigh of relief.]
[A thick layer of fallen leaves.]
[Crunching underfoot.]
[...You rely on your sharp senses to walk a distance.]
[A sharp voice rings in your ears: "Who are you, and why are you in the forbidden area of the Hehuan Sect?"]
[Hearing the words Hehuan Sect, you are extremely surprised. You know that the Hehuan Sect is one of the Five Great Sects of Great Wei, with its mountain gate in Yangzhou, tens of thousands of miles from the Liangzhou Borderlands. In the past, during the Alpha Battalion Tournament, they even came to the Song family to recruit disciples, though you and Song Fan joined the Spirit Sword Sect.]
[To prevent misunderstandings, you immediately state that you are from Liangzhou, a Song family disciple from the Divine General's Manor, who accidentally stumbled into this place, and ask for their understanding.]
[The Hehuan Sect female disciple is momentarily stunned, then questions you, stating that the Song family was destroyed sixty years ago, and the entire Liangzhou is now under the control of demons. How could an ordinary person without cultivation like you break through the demon blockade and travel thousands of miles alone to this Ling Mountain of Xuzhou?]
Chen Shi's heart trembles.
The Song family was destroyed sixty years ago!
Calculating carefully, it was the year of the demon uprising when he entered the Spirit Clan Paradise.
And Ling Mountain of Xuzhou, isn't that the territory of the Spirit Sword Sect?
How did it become the forbidden area of the Hehuan Sect?
With doubts in mind.
He continued to read.
[...The Hehuan Sect female disciple discovers you are blind.]
[...She looks at your still handsome face, despite nearing middle age, and suspects you might be a Yang Slave who escaped from a senior sister's cave, as Ling Mountain is heavily guarded, not a place you could infiltrate.]
[She questions your identity again.]
[Shocked by the information revealed in her words, you know it's useless to say more, so you remove the Cultivation-Concealing Artifact, revealing your Supreme Silver Bones strength, and explain that you are a surviving Song family disciple, who accidentally entered their forbidden area by crushing a teleportation Jade Talisman.]
[Your powerful Vital Qi and Blood cause the Hehuan Sect female disciple to tremble.]
[What she says next fills her with joy.]
[Then, she knocks you out with a hand chop.]
[You fall into unconsciousness.]
[...When you wake up, you find that you have been violated while unconscious.]
[And your ankle is shackled.]
[Recalling the Hehuan Sect's habit of keeping Yang Slaves, you instantly realize your situation, and in anger, you slap the Enchantress on the buttocks, declaring yourself a Supreme Silver Bone Prodigy, a direct descendant of the Song family, and if she dares imprison you, the elders of your clan will surely report to Emperor Wei to seek justice for you.]
[In your view, the Song family, with its thousand-year heritage, is vast and flourishing. Even if the old home in Liangzhou was destroyed, there are still collateral branches to inherit titles and establish new manors.]
[Even if the Song family has fallen, they are not to be bullied in Great Wei.]
[The Song family has guarded Liangzhou for a thousand years, with great merit, and if they perished resisting demons sixty years ago, they are models of loyalty and valor. As long as Emperor Wei is not a harsh and unkind ruler, he would protect the Song family out of both emotion and reason.]
[The Enchantress laughs softly after being slapped, saying that Great Wei can barely protect itself, and even if you are a Song family orphan, what can Emperor Wei do to her, a Core Disciple of the Hehuan Sect? Now, Emperor Wei's decrees only hold sway in Si Prefecture, not in this Xuzhou region.]
[You are greatly shocked by this.]
[You never expected Great Wei to decline so much in just sixty years.]
[You immediately apologize to the Enchantress, explaining that you acted impulsively, and she is pleased with your attitude, promising that if you follow her well, you won't be mistreated in the future.]
[In the days that follow, you are imprisoned in a room by this Spirit River Stage Enchantress named Wang Chuman...]
[During this time, the Enchantress wants you to switch to cultivating the Hehuan Sect's Lunar Sutra to assist her in Dual Cultivation, but due to the special nature of the Five Gates of Heaven, she has to abandon the idea, which secretly relieves you. The path of Dual Cultivation requires balance; if one side is too dominant, the other becomes a tool for harvesting energy. Even with Supreme Silver Bones, it wouldn't be long before you were drained dry.]
[...You inquire about the situation of the Spirit Sword Sect, and the Enchantress tells you that the Spirit Sword Sect was annexed and removed by their Hehuan Sect 53 years ago.]
[You are utterly shocked.]
[You quickly ask how many Heaven-Human powerhouses the Hehuan Sect has.]
[The Enchantress says the fall of the Spirit Sword Sect has nothing to do with how many Heaven-Human powerhouses the Hehuan Sect has. It was mainly because, for some unknown reason, many Heaven-Human Ancestors of the Spirit Sword Sect mysteriously disappeared, severely weakening their strength, and soon after, they were dismembered by various forces. The Hehuan Sect took over this Ling Mountain, and the Heavenly Sect occupied the Sword Tomb...]
[Next, you ask about Song Fan's situation.]
[The Enchantress says she hasn't heard of him.]
[This surprises you greatly, as logically, after sixty years, someone like Song Fan, a Child of Fortune, should have made a name for himself, not remain unknown.]
[Then, you ask about Lin Manqing and Song Qingwei.]
[This time, the Enchantress has some impression, saying she has heard of Song Qingwei, a Golden Bone Prodigy and Sword Dao Genius from over fifty years ago, but during the dismemberment of the Spirit Sword Sect, she seemed to have fallen in a battle before she could break through to Heaven and Human...]
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