Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now! Chapter 1230 - 366: Zhou Qingning’s Secret

The armor on this corpse looks quite exquisite, and several positions are inlaid with materials clearly set with an Array, especially at the heart protector position, which is clearly a specially crafted Magical Artifact copper mirror, but it has been split in two!

The slashing mark not only shattered the heart mirror but also directly cut through the armor, splitting open the chest of this fallen warrior of the Human Race!

Beneath the wound on his chest, amidst the exposed flesh, bleached white ribs were visible!

Besides that, on the person’s left shoulder, there was also a fist-sized wound, with irregular flesh, looking as if it wasn’t made by a sharp weapon but rather as though it was bitten open.

This wound was at the shoulder near the neck, and fresh blood was still gushing out from the wound.

Right beside this person, a crushed helmet was at his feet, and a broken sword was plunged into the ground...

(This is not an ordinary warrior, judging from the excellence of the armor, the style of the helmet and long sword, most likely a General!) — This was Chen Yan’s immediate judgment.

The surrounding corpses were almost like this one, with tragic deaths, few even had intact bodies!

This was clearly the aftermath of an exceptionally fierce battle!

A city wall that had been attacked!

In the first-person perspective, Chen Yan saw "himself," actually Zhou Qingning himself, kneeling on the city wall, seemingly also clad in armor, with pain coursing through his body, clearly also heavily injured.

At this time, he saw "himself" struggling to raise his hand toward the armored human General in front of him, reaching out as if trying to touch him.

At that moment, Chen Yan heard Zhou Qingning’s painful and sorrowful roar.

"Father!!!!!!"

Soon after, a burst of beast-like howls and roars came from outside the wall battlements.

The final image was of three or four figures climbing over the row of wall battlements ahead on the city wall.

Those figures, from a distance, their contours were indistinct, but it was certain that each figure was cloaked in a layer of red glow!

At the battlement behind the human General’s corpse, a red-glow creature also climbed up.

Being the closest, Chen Yan indeed saw the figure clearly.

Under the red glow, the creature clearly had a human-like silhouette, but its face was indistinct, and its limbs were long, looking as if it had an even larger body.

Having climbed up the wall battlement, the red-glow creature casually pushed, toppling the deceased human General’s corpse aside, then suddenly opened its jaw wide toward "himself," Zhou Qingning.

Its mouth was full of fangs, its voice ferocious and brutal!

Zhou Qingning herself suddenly roared furiously, and her weakened, heavily injured body suddenly sprang up from the ground, flying toward the red-glow creature that was scaling the wall!

In the moment she pounced, her entire body erupted with a surge of Primordial Qi, launching herself decisively, while grabbing the broken sword that belonged to the human General on the ground.

Zhou Qingning threw herself onto the red-glow creature, and the broken sword in her hand erupted with a surge of Primordial Qi shockwave, which she thrust fiercely into the mouth of the red-glow creature!

Then, unstoppable, Zhou Qingning, along with the red-glow creature, rolled backward, tumbling toward outside the wall!

But at the last moment, just as Zhou Qingning’s body was tumbling down, her body suddenly jolted!

Chen Yan felt as though "his" leg had been grabbed by something and violently pulled back!

At that moment, with half of "his" body hanging outside the wall, he could clearly see the scene on the expansive land outside!

Just one glance made Chen Yan’s scalp tingle in numbness!!

On the ground, innumerable red-glow creatures swarmed across the land as far as the eye could see, almost with no end in sight, like a red tidal wave surging toward the city wall!

The vision ended right there!

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After retracting his Primordial Spirit, Chen Yan’s body swayed slightly.

His God-Hosting Chapter cultivation wasn’t deep enough; such acts of entering human consciousness with his Primordial Spirit were somewhat challenging for his current level of Cultivation and Taoism Practice.

Even though Zhou Qingning had obediently followed Chen Yan’s instructions, relinquishing her mental resistance and defenses, Zhou Qingning, being a cultivator, possessed Divine Sense and awareness far stronger than ordinary people; even in a defenseless state, it was still exceedingly taxing for Chen Yan.

At this moment, he even felt bouts of dizziness.

Instinctively, he staggered backward, then suddenly stepped a foot back, only then managing to support his body.

Chen Yan caught his breath, and his vision gradually cleared from the blackouts.

He remained silent, stepped back a little more, and slowly sat down onto the cushion.

Currently, he felt that his spiritual power was greatly exhausted, his Divine Sense nearly depleted. His heart pounded wildly, breath hitched, and he even felt a series of stabbing pains deep inside his mind.

Raising his eyelids, Chen Yan looked at Zhou Qingning, still kneeling on the ground before him.

Zhou Qingning had not yet awakened, remaining in that state of total mental and Divine Sense disengagement, an almost meditative or self-comatose state.

Thoughts stirring in his mind, Chen Yan didn’t immediately rouse Zhou Qingning; instead, he remained seated on the cushion, with a storm raging in his heart!

Repeatedly recalling the images he had seen, the surprise in his heart surged even more.

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The last image, that city wall, those fallen bodies, that tragic battlefield, and...those with red glow all over their bodies, spreading across the ground, densely packed, endless, the red tide...

Those were... Evil!!

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Zhou Qingning had once been a warrior or War General!

She wasn’t a fragile woman, nor just an ordinary cultivator.

She had once been a War General! Someone who fought bloodily on the battlefield in the Domain Realm, battling Evil at the town tower!

Moreover, that deceased human General’s corpse prompted her to shout "Father" — her father was a General, and not a low-ranking one at that.

That memory was of a tragic battle, her father dying in battle, along with many comrades; Zhou Qingning herself fought to the brink, nearly perishing alongside a red-glow creature.

Yet, at the last moment, she was saved, pulled back before falling off the wall.

Many of Zhou Qingning’s memories were fragmented, but this particular image was imprinted in her memory — witnessing a father’s death in battle, something anyone would remember vividly and unforgettably.

Now, as Chen Yan looked at Zhou Qingning again, his gaze grew even more complicated.

This Zhou Qingning, her background, must be anything but simple!

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She once was a War General fighting against Evil at the frontier towns! Although the specific location is unknown.

In the Domain Realm, fighting against Evil took place at those "Three Platforms, Eight Passes, and Sixteen Towns"!

But Chen Yan himself had only visited the Snow Cliff Pass. From the images, that wall and the terrain were not of Snow Cliff Pass, so that’s ruled out.

For the others, Chen Yan hadn’t visited and couldn’t judge.

However, in the Domain Realm, someone who could fight against Evil on the front line and become a General was certainly no ordinary person, with a lineage far from what an ordinary Loose Cultivator could achieve; certainly not a simple character!

Inferring from that, Zhou Qingning’s background must be extraordinary.

Additionally, she came to this world, at a mountain suburb of Port City, hounded by mysterious Domain Realm cultivators, and possessed treasures like the "Black Stone."

This ghost woman harbors many secrets, I’m afraid.

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[I need to take a day off tomorrow, just letting everyone know~]

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