221 Third Senior Sister (1/2)
”The Lightning Sword Sect... It should be right up ahead.”
After he arrived by the galaxy teleporter, the young man clad in white from head to toe stayed afloat in their air. He stared out in the distance as he muttered under his breath, his gaze fixed on the buildings nestled in the midst of the tips of blades.
The galaxy teleporter was behind the young man. On it, the coordinates were clearly marked out:
Hengliu galaxy.
The Tielao planet.
The Lightning Sword Sect.
The young man clad in white was Zhou Donghuang, who had just left the Tianxuan planet of the Luohe galaxy, and traveled all the way to the Tielao planet in the Hengliu galaxy.
”This time… Third Senior Sister should still be in the Autumn Valley of the Lightning Sword Sect.”
Zhou Donghuang came to this place because there was someone he knew here. More accurately, someone he knew from his previous life: his third senior sister.
He did not care for many people in his previous life, but this person was one of the people he held close to his heart.
He was not the reason for her demise, but he did owe her a great debt of gratitude since she had saved his life on multiple occasions, and it was because of this that the man was heartbroken when she had passed.
His heartbreak had translated into a self-hatred. Why was he not strong enough to prevent her death? Why could he do nothing but watch as she died in front of him?
Although he avenged her eventually, there was no way to bring her back to life.
But he had the power to alter history now that he had reincarnated into a life that existed a millennium before his previous one, and there was no way he would let the person he cherished like his own mother and sister slip through his fingers again.
”In my last life, the Lightning Sword Sect was tragically wiped out, but she was lucky to have escaped with her life. After they left the Hengliu galaxy, she joined the same sect and served the same master I did.
”I'd even go as far as to say that the only reason I was able to join that sect was because of her… Otherwise, there was no way the master would have even taken a second look at me.”
His Third Senior Sister went by the name, ”He Mengxi” and was an entire decade older than he was.
In his previous life, she had already been an ultimate Primordial Soul adept by the time he met her, and her powers were simply astonishing.
An adept at the Primordial Soul stage who had not even been 200 hundred years old was considered gifted, even when compared to the vast universe.
It was important to note that plenty of people improved by leaps and bounds in a short time when they were still in the early phases of their training, but they would also hit a bottleneck and cease to improve.
However, that person had been stuck at the Primordial Soul stage all the way until the last second of the thousand-year limit before eventually dying in his sleep.
It was worth noting that he had already crossed into the Primordial Soul stage before he turned 300.
He had not been able to cross into the Divine Transformation stage in the 700 years that followed and had ended up dying when his lifespan expired.
The average Primordial Soul adept lived to a thousand years.
Of course, if the adept trained using the Technique of Everlasting Youth, they could extend their lifespan to 1,500 years.
”Your Highness, why have you come to the Lightning Sword Sect?”
Zhou Donghuang was stopped by someone the moment he came close enough to the perimeter of the buildings that were nestled in the midst of blade tips.
He was stopped by two young men who looked to be about 30 years old. The golden inner Yuan that swirled around them made it clear that the both of them were Golden Essence adepts.
One of the men had a lanky build, and strapped to his back was a sheathed long sword.
The other man had a large, unsheathed blade strapped horizontally to his back. Well, a good craftsman never blamed his tools.
The two men were the two people from the Autumn Valley of the Lightning Sword Sect who were on patrol duty. They had managed to stop Zhou Donghuang in time when they found him getting closer to the sect.
”Gentlemen, I'm looking for He Mengxi from your sect,” Zhou Donghuang said.
”You're looking for Junior Sister He?”
At Zhou Donghuang's words, the two men on patrol squinted a little, and the cold expression they had on their faces a while ago melted into something more friendly.
He Mengxi was none other than the daughter of the Autumn Valley Head of the Lightning Sword Sect, the cherished daughter of the sect.
”Who are you, boy? Why are you looking for Junior Sister He?”
There was a hint of a smile on the lanky disciple's face as he asked very politely. The man's condescension had nothing to do with the fact that Zhou Donghuang was only a Silver Essence adept.
The silver inner Yuan surrounding Zhou Donghuang's body at this very moment was a clear indicator of that.
”She's my senior.”
Zhou Donghuang chuckled blandly.
”Your senior?!”
Zhou Donghuang's response shocked the two disciples. Was this man saying that he was a disciple that the Autumn Valley Head had accepted outside of the sect?
He seemed to be about 20 years or so, slightly older than 20 at most, but he was already a Silver Essence adept.
It could be possible.
”Junior Brother, I'll bring you to Autumn Valley right now.”
The lanky disciple brought Zhou Donghuang into the sect after he exchanged greetings with someone else.
On the way there, Zhou Donghuang scanned the mountains that had stood tall, resembling sharp blades that were piercing through the clouds with their tips. It was rather obvious that these blade tips were carved to look the way they did now; every single one of them looked like a sword.
It must have taken quite a bit of effort to carve the dozens of these mountains into such sharp blades, even if the one doing the carving were Diving Transformation adept.
”Junior Brother, you're the disciple our Autumn Valley Head accepted outside of the sect, right? Why are you only here now?” the lanky disciple questioned curiously.
”There were some issues I had to deal with.”