Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1229 - 366: Zhou Qingning’s Secret
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Chapter 366 [Zhou Qingning’s Secret]
Afterward, Zhou Qingning wrapped up her own corpse on the ground and also threw it into the water!
The corpse sank into the water at first, but after a while, it slowly floated up and drifted along with the direction of the water, gradually drifting away...
Zhou Qingning has transformed into a soul body.
The last thing she did was to take out a piece of Fire Copper ore from the storage jade pendant and carefully place it in a dense thicket.
Then, she tossed the storage jade pendant into her soul body, wrapped it in mana, and her body transformed into a blue smoke, blending into the thicket and into the piece of Fire Copper ore!
The scene vanished!
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After the scene disappeared, Chen Yan’s mind stagnated slightly, and countless thoughts instantly emerged in his heart.
That black crystal stone was originally with Elder Zhong in Port City, used to nurture that evil ghost which was slain by me!
After handling these affairs in Port City, I finally obtained that black crystal stone and deciphered the mysterious talisman on it, exploring the secret of entering the "Mirror World."
It turns out that initially, this black crystal stone was brought by Zhou Qingning!?
After Zhou Qingning was inexplicably pursued, gravely injured and on the brink of death, unable to unravel the secret of the black stone in despair and anger, she threw the black stone into the river.
Just later, somehow by chance, it fell into the hands of Elder Zhong.
In the memory scene, although Zhou Qingning’s original self indeed "died" at last, she didn’t truly die; instead, she abandoned her flesh, transforming into a soul spirit body, hiding in the Fire Copper ore.
As for later, it was probably picked up in the wild, treated as raw material, and then carved into an artisan lamp base.
However, what made Chen Yan most confused and curious was naturally those who pursued Zhou Qingning!
Those two cultivators clearly weren’t cultivators from this world!
The cultivators in this world have spell techniques already interrupted; knowing a bit of talisman art can already establish dominion somewhere, like Chu Keqing.
Compared to the cultivators of the Domain Realm, the cultivators of this world are weaklings, having cultivation but actually barely any battle strength.
Yet the pursuers in the memory scene wielded sharp blades and could control flying swords, which cultivators from this world absolutely couldn’t do!
It could only be from the Domain Realm.
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Upon this thought, Chen Yan’s primordial spirit trembled, and his heart surged tumultuously.
But soon, just as he planned to retract his primordial spirit, suddenly, he felt a slight wave of Zhou Qingning’s consciousness!
To Chen Yan’s surprise, this wave wasn’t Zhou Qingning’s current divine sense wave.
But at the end of this memory scene, the previous Zhou Qingning was recollecting a piece of memory, seemed to have remembered something, then...
Which means, the current scene is Zhou Qingning’s present recollection.
Yet, when diving into the recollection, the previous Zhou Qingning herself, before transforming into a soul body and entering the Fire Copper ore to rest, had a turbulent mind, subconsciously recalling a certain matter!
Just like a "dream within a dream."
Chen Yan’s heart stirred, promptly letting his primordial spirit reach over, carefully peering into that recollection of Zhou Qingning.
And this contact was extremely brief, but in an instant, what Chen Yan "saw" in the scene made him stunned!
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The "dream within a dream" memory scene was exceptionally tragic!
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Amidst the dim world, the distant sky seemed enveloped by an unnamed gray mist, daylight unseen.
This color carried a haunting sense of desolation and horror, suppressing one’s heart heavily upon sight.
Under the gray dome, the fierce wind reversed in mid-air, audible was always the wailing wind like ghosts crying gods howling.
The gale was not only vast but carried a piercing frigid cold unbearable to endure — a chill as if penetrating clothes, skin, flesh, boring into bones.
It wasn’t just cold, but a palpable feeling of omnipresent, unbearable pain!
In the memory, what Chen Yan saw was still from the "first person perspective," precisely Zhou Qingning’s own vision and sensations.
He clearly "felt" the omnipresent piercing cold and pain on his own body.
That pain felt like countless ants continuously gnawing at one’s body.
Afterward, he "saw" his own state: helplessly kneeled on the ground.
Strictly speaking, not the ground but upon a castle wall.
The castle wall was lofty and sublime, far from the ground.
Yet when looking around, the ground of the castle wall was littered with blood — so much blood!
Blood pooled in uneven areas on the ground, forming one blood pit after another!
There were many corpses around — bodies left behind after the battle!
Human warriors in armor, human cultivators in robes, and even various strange demons in leather armor!
These corpses lay strewn across the castle wall everywhere.
Their deaths were extremely brutal, severed limbs scattered fragmented.
Chen Yan saw, just three steps ahead, a human lay on the ground, body against the wall parapet, head lowered, blood flowed drop by drop down a strand of dangling hair.