Chapter 924: Despondent (1/2)
“What about the others?” Hope rose in Lu Yun’s heart when he looked at the alliance of prodigals. If Changxi had become the third princess of the Unsullied Sea, Jing Dichen, and Deaf Prince Xiangliu Hongzhen was the reincarnated fragment of Goumang’s soul… then what about the others?? Were Bai Qi, Beicang Qiong, Lin Yan, and Feng Ruyu also reincarnated demon gods of the great wilderness?
Of those in front of him, the Deaf Prince was the only one who still looked the same. Lu Yun tested the rest by gently waving each strand of soul force in front of them.
Two more disengaged from his fingers and melded into Beicang Qiong and Feng Ruyu’s bodies. Those strands belonged to Zhurong and Gonggong.
Though they hadn’t been connate demon gods, they were peak chaos realm experts of the great wilderness. They, too, had perished in the cataclysm that struck the human dao. But since Lu Yun had obtained a strand of their soul force before his departure, they would be able to regain their strength after they absorbed the tendril back into them—despite having gone through the wheel of reincarnation.
“What about Lin Yin and Bai Qi?” Lu Yun looked hopefully at the two of them. They couldn’t be ordinary individuals if the treasures of human dao had chosen them. Surely they’d once been awe-inspiring connate great gods as well.
“One of them must be Rushou!” Inspiration struck him. Rushou had died to Dijiang, right in front of Lu Yun’s eyes. He hadn’t been able to call upon his death arts then and could only watch Dijiang pass away.
Lu Yun scanned the Deaf Prince, Beicang Qiong, and Feng Ruyu. If the three of them were the reincarnated first generation rulers of the four great nations, then Jin nation ruler Rushou must be among them. Lu Yun didn’t believe that Rushou would just scatter away on the wind like this.
“But who’s the other person?” He sank into deep thought.
Not that many strands of soul force had come back with him because their owners had mostly been connate demon gods—chaos realm entities born of nature. He would’ve elicited backlash from the great dao of that era if he’d left with too many souvenirs.
There was nothing he could’ve done about it. If not for that restriction, he would’ve journeyed through the great wilderness and collected some from all of the connate great gods to plant into the sea of Hell Flowers.
“Jing Dichen is the reincarnated Changxi, which means that out of Bai Qi and Lin Yan, one of them has something to do with the moon or sun,” Lu Yun muttered to himself.
The little fox jumped on top of his head and peered intently at the Deaf Prince and the others, then looked at Jing Huaci.
“I know who she is!” she suddenly shrieked. “Queen Mother of the West! She’s the reincarnated Queen Mother!
“I always thought she seemed very familiar, like the Queen Mother…. But I’d always thought the Queen Mother was still alive somewhere in this realm…” A despondent tone crept into her voice.
The Queen Mother of the West was the mistress of Kunlun Mountain, once home to the celestial court. Since the little fox had been the court’s celestial master, she shared an uncommon bond with the Queen Mother. The little fox would’ve recognized the goddess even in reincarnated form.
It was just, in the little fox’s heart, the Queen Mother couldn’t possibly die. She had to be alive somewhere in the world. But when she and Lu Yun traveled to Kunlun Mountain and learned from Kaiming the reason behind the goddess’ death, that was when she’d accepted her hunch that Jing Huaci was the Queen Mother.
The river of time in this realm had formed after the little fox and others traveled to the future. Its core essence was the core essence of the Queen Mother of the West, which was also why the treasure of human dao had chosen Jing Huaci.
As for the treasure of time, Goumang, Rushou, Gonggong, and Zhurong represented metal, wood, water, and fire. Changxi and another demon god that Lu Yun was unfamiliar with represented yin and yang. The combination of all of these elements formed the power of space.
Earth was absent from this line up, and rightly so. If all five elements were present, then the treasure would produce a real world instead of the power of space.