Chapter 540 - I Can’t Find Her… (2/2)
The white-robed lady in front of him was none other than the sect master of the Heaven Separation Sect – Si Wuxie…
Her other identity was the seven physical souls of Mu Weiliang…
Because she was a part of Mu Weiliang, Ning Fan could not bear to kill her in the end. He clearly knew that she was his enemy but he still let her go alive…
Ning Fan was always sure that he never owed or treated any of his women shabbily. However, when he thought about it today, the person whom he treated the most unfairly was Si Wuxie.
When he was trying to rescue Ning Gu in the past, he annihilated the entire Heaven Separation Sect and captured Si Wuxie. Then, he wiped off her memories and turned her into a spiritual puppet.
When he thought about it carefully today, he realized that even though Si Wuxie was at fault, it was the elders of the Heaven Separation Sect who plotted against him and Ning Gu and it was not Si Wuxie herself.
Wasn’t there just an innocent reason for why Si Wuxie came to the Lower Realm in her clone…? All she wanted to do was to find back the three spiritual souls of Mu Weiliang. Why would she still go to such great lengths to plot against two mortal young men…?
The grudges and debt of kindness in the past might be difficult to tell but Ning Fan still felt that he owed Si Wuxie to a certain extent.
She was Weiliang’s seven physical souls. No matter what, how could he hurt her…?
“You indeed have figured out my identity…” After hearing Ning Fan call her ‘Weiliang’, Si Wuxie’s body felt a jolt. Her eyes flickered with a hint of sadness.
She was Mu Weiliang’s seven physical souls. Because her seven physical souls were yet to disperse, she still preserved some memories of her previous life. She still remembered her three spiritual souls. She still remembered that butterfly…
In the past, she went against the heavenly laws of the Kunlun Jade Pool in the Western Heaven and secretly descended to the Lower Realm in her clone just because she felt the existence of her three physical souls in the Rain World and she wanted to find them back.
Unfortunately, before her clone attained the Nascent Soul Realm and started to find her three spiritual souls, Ning Fan eliminated her Heaven Separation Sect and captured her, making her his human cauldron and spiritual puppet.
Her memories went blank. She became Si Si. She started to be dependent on Ning Fan. She started to like him.
However, when her memories came back to her, she was in extreme agony after remembering how Ning Fan humiliated her and turned her into a puppet.
During the battle of the devil armies and Yue Country, she had already recovered her memories. She wished that she could give Ning Fan a stab on his back and cause him to die in Yue Country.
In the end, however, she still could not convince herself to do that cruel act and eventually helped Ning Fan resist the invasion of the Heavenly Dao Sect…
She took Ning Fan’s Nascent Formation Pill and left in sadness.
She still remembered that final words she said to Ning Fan on the day she left.
“From today on, we owe each other nothing…”
Owing each other nothing… How wishful that idea was. When she returned to Yue Country, she discovered that Ning Fan had already found the three spiritual souls of Mu Weiliang. Then, she faintly understood something…
How could it possible for the two of them not to owe each other anything? Both of them were already entangled with each other in their previous lives. He was that butterfly, that butterfly who sacrificed itself to destroy one of the immortal emperor’s eyes just to protect her…
While she had been looking for her three spiritual souls, she was also searching for that butterfly she met in her previous life. However, who would know that the butterfly whom she was always thinking of was that young man who hurt her in the past…
Only asking to bid a long farewell but who could guess the two of them owe each other.
Ning Fan let out a sigh and raised his hand. He wanted to touch Si Wuxie’s cheek but when he saw her avoid him like the plague, he put down his hand eventually.
“Do you still hate me?”
“Of course! If I turn you into a spiritual puppet, wipe off your memories and trample your dignity but I am also in love with you, would you hate me…?” Si Wuxie gnashed her silver teeth. The deeper the love one had for the other, the more intense the hatred.
She hated Ning Fan but she could not bear to turn into his enemy no matter what… Because in the end, be it the previous life or the current life, she still loved him.
She suddenly grabbed Ning Fan’s hand and sank her silver tenth into his arm, biting it violently.
Ning Fan did not dare to activate the defense of his physical body. He only let her bit to her heart’s content as he was worried by his ancient devil body would harm her.
Si Wuxie bit his arm until fresh blood was flowing down from his arm in streams. Ning Fan did not say a word nor stop her. He just silently let Si Wuxie vent out her emotions.
Only after a long while did Si Wuxie calmer down a little. Then, she said with a teasing tone.
“I didn’t expect that the young man who only has the Harmonious Spirit Realm in the past would actually reach this level after forty years of training and become a Void Inquiry Stage expert, gaining the title ‘Marquis White Robe’ that shook the Rain World. Such innate talent in cultivation realm is truly shocking. Perhaps the greatest four sects of the Upper Realm will also come to recruit you and aid you in your ascension.”
“However, let me give you an advice. You better not ascend to the Western Heaven Immortal World. You’re an ancient devil, an evil creature that many Buddha sects in the Western Heaven are fond of killing. If you ascend to the Western Heaven, I’ll certainly tell others that you are an ancient devil due to the resentment between us. If that happens, you will be pursued and hunted down by countless True Immortal Realm Buddha cultivators and die without a burial place!”
Si Wuxie’s tone sounded like she was threatening Ning Fan. However, Ning Fan heard the concern she had for him from those words.
Did Si Wuxie just warn him not to ascend to the Western Heaven…?
This woman actually still cared about him in the bottom of her heart, didn’t she…?
Ning Fan was also aware of the endless feud between the Buddha sects of the Western Heaven and the ancient devils. Even if he has the opportunity to ascend to the Upper Realm, he also certainly would not choose the Western Heaven.
“Thank you…”
“What are you thanking for? Let me get this straight. I don’t have slightest concern regarding your life and death.” Si Wuxie turned to one side and said, stubbornly denying her kind intention.
“Did you just want to tell me this by waiting for him at the South Sea today? Speaking of which, how did you find me…?” Ning Fan asked.
“The entire Yue Country knew that the great Marquis White Robe headed to the South Gazing Sea to face his tribulation. So was it very difficult for me to know your whereabouts? As for the reason why I looked for you this time, it’s actually because I have something that I want to discuss with you… First of all, I’m very thankful to you for finding the three spiritual souls…” When Si Wuxie said ‘thankful’, she obviously looked somewhat reluctant and embarrassed.
“I have not only found the three spiritual souls but also the seven physical souls…” Ning Fan deliberately stared at Si Wuxie and said with a faint smile.
“The seven physical souls will never belong to you!” Si Wuxie frowned and glared at him with a cold expression. Then, she continued, “No matter what grudges or debt of gratitude between us in our previous life or the current one, it’s already all over now… The two of us no longer owe each other anything…”
“Is that so…?” Ning Fan let out a sigh. Apparently, letting Si Wuxie to accept him again was not something that could be done within one day.
“The reason why I looked for you is to tell you that I sensed that Mu Weiliang’s corpse will wake up in another twenty plus years. Before that happens, you must ‘return’ her three spiritual souls and seven physical souls to her… You must let her souls return to their original place…” Si Wuxie lowered her face, trying to hide her expression that was filled with reluctance.
She was the seven physical souls while Zhi He and the others were the three spiritual souls.
If Ning Fan returns the souls to their original body, she and the other women would vanish from this world forever…
If the souls are not returned to their original body, Mu Weiliang would only be a soulless shell even if she is revived…
Si Wuxie was unwilling to die. No one in the world would want to die. However, letting Mu Weiliang’s souls to return to their original body was her obligation as her seven physical souls.
“So you sensed that Weiliang is about to wake up, huh… I suppose the reason why you came to find me is to discuss the matters about how to return Weiliang’s souls to their original place. Unfortunately, I don’t have the idea of returning her souls to her body.”
“What?! You aren’t planning to let her souls return to her body?! Do you have any idea how long her souls have been dispersed?! Do you have any idea how eager she wanted to open her eyes and have a look at that goddamn butterfly?! She misses you so much but you refuse to return her souls to her!” Si Wuxie’s ice cold face was filled with rage.
“It’s not because I refuse to do so. I just can’t bear to do sol… To me, be it Zhi He, Mu Xiaoliang or Mu Xiaohuan, all of them are Weiliang. And you, Si Wuxie, are also Weiliang… All of you are her. If she regains her souls, all of your existences will disappear… I guess this also isn’t what Weiliang wants in the end.”
“Twenty years later, her artificial souls will be created using the power of the Seven Treasures Buddhist Relics. Then, she will be revived. She might not be able to become a true living person without her true souls. However, I will find a way one day to truly revive her without hurting you, Zhi He, Xiaoliang and Xiaohuan!”
“I’ve promised her that I will provide her a life with no conflicts. This world will certainly grant her a peaceful life!”
After hearing Ning Fan’s words, Si Wuxie’s anger dissipated and complicated emotions began taking over her heart.
It turned out that Ning Fan did not just care for Mu Weiliang but also them who were a part of her souls…
All of a sudden, she recalled the scene when Ning Fan gave to her the Nascent Formation Pill and let her go… Her ice cold heart was gradually melted with warmth.
“Very well! You are the butterfly that she is waiting for. Since you said you aren’t going to return her souls to her, then so be it. After all, I am not willing to have my existence erased. However, remember what you’ve said. You must help her condense her true soul one day. Otherwise, I will never let you go!”
“Since you’ve already found all her three spiritual souls, it’s meaningless for my clone to continue lingering in the Lower Realm. I’ll return to the Western Heaven Immortal World now. In another fifty years, the sealed gate of the Ancient Heavenly Court will be opened again. When that time comes, I’ll send a Void Fragmentation Realm true soul to look for you.”
Si Wuxie’s words made Ning Fan slightly stunned. “Why will you look for me fifty years later?”
“There is an Undying Tree in the Ancient Heavenly Court that can help a cultivator whose souls are completely scattered to condense their souls again… Fifty years later, I’ll bring you to look for that Undying Tree to recongeal the souls for Mu Weiliang…”
After Si Wuxie had finished speaking, she made a series of hand seals and performed a magic technique called Body Shattering Art. it could make the user’s clone to disperse while carrying its memories back to their original body.
She wanted to return to the Western Heaven…
“So we’ll meet again fifty years later, right, Si Si?” Ning Fan said with his lips curved upwards. At the next instant, he took a step forward and pulled Si Wuxie who was performing the hand seals into his embrace, tightly hugging her.
“Let go of me! Don’t touch me! You shameless man!” Si Wuxie’s face was still as cold as ice. She was unwilling to let Ning Fan hug her but was reluctant to break free from him at the same time. All she did was just cursing him in a low tone.
“I’ll never let go. And, don’t you ever think you can run away from me. I’m your tribulation and you can’t avoid me in this life…”
Under Ning Fan’s faint smile, Si Wuxie’s body gradually grew fainter and broke down into strands of starlight which flew into the Four Heavens.
At the edge of the holy pond in Kunlun Jade Pool of the Western Heaven, a white-robed lady who covered her face with a light veil was sitting on a bluestone peacefully.