Ye Ju returned to the bamboo house to find Chao Yangzi sitting on the roof. Was he waiting for me? Ye Ju yawned, "Still not asleep? I'm going to sleep!" Ye Ju was truly tired and fell asleep the moment she hit the bed.
Xiao Bai also shrunk to a smaller form and darted in to lie beside Ye Ju. It had been a long time since sleeping with Big Sister, it felt so comfortable!
Chao Yangzi took a sip of wine and also jumped off the roof and entered the room.
Xiao Bai, however, had a dreamless night. But Ye Ju was shuttling through bizarre dreams.
She dreamt of two scenes. In one, she was hit by a drunk driver and fell into a moat. People rushed to save her as she fell. But the water was deep, and by the time she was pulled out, she had stopped breathing. She also remembered the scene of that man rushing over, and then the image blurred…
In the other scene, when she was hit by the car and fell into the moat, she was swallowed by a vortex. Then Yu Shou appeared and superimposed her with a naked woman. Yu Shou emitted a strong green light. When the light disappeared, the naked woman was wearing the same clothes as her, and even her hairstyle had changed! When the vortex reappeared, Yu Shou once again used his spiritual power to lift her into the vortex, and finally arrived at the island. Waking up on the island, she knew nothing, and Yu Shou had already turned into a dull gray wooden stick… So she had really died, saved by Yu Shou, and Yu Shou had guided her reincarnation, consuming spiritual power through the journey…
"Big Sister, wake up, what's wrong?"
Ye Ju opened her eyes and found that it was already bright daylight. Xiao Bai was looking at her worriedly from the bedside.
"Xiao Bai, what's wrong?" Ye Ju didn't understand what had happened.
"Big Sister, you were crying, your face was covered in sweat. Did you have a dream?" Xiao Bai handed Ye Ju a silk handkerchief to wipe her sweat.
Crying? She only felt a heavy heart in her dream, and seeing Yu Shou turned into a firewood stick for her made her inexplicably want to cry.
Summoning Yu Shou, Ye Ju caressed the golden-red rod body, filled with emotion. Her arrival here was because of you; without you, she would already be dead. All along, she thought she had traveled through time and space directly. But now she was sure that this body was not hers, what about her appearance? Ye Ju suddenly wanted to see what she looked like now.
"Xiao Bai, hurry and get me a mirror!" Ye Ju had never properly looked in a mirror since she crossed over. Because the mirrors in the cultivation world were bronze mirrors, and their appearance was blurry… She hadn't looked when she first arrived on the island, being busy with survival and cultivation. When she bought clothes, she could only vaguely see her figure, and she had never examined her face closely.
Xiao Bai, though finding her sister a bit strange, still obediently fetched it.
When the mirror was brought, a familiar yet unfamiliar face appeared before her eyes. Familiar because it was still her, but unfamiliar because her facial features seemed to have changed, becoming more three-dimensional. Her single eyelids had transformed into narrow, elongated phoenix eyes, still with double eyelids. Her dark eyes held a vibrant spirit… Her nose had become more prominent, and her fair skin was like that of a newborn infant, as if the description of skin like congealed fat applied to this complexion… Ye Ju had to admit that this face was incredibly beautiful!
Is this still me?
"It's Big Sister. Big Sister, you are you. I've known you for a long time," Xiao Bai suddenly said.
Huh…
"Xiao Bai, you've known me for a long time, how do you know?" Ye Ju smiled, thinking Xiao Bai was speaking childishly.
"Big Sister, I'm about to transform into a seven-tailed fox. My inheritance told me. I've followed Big Sister for a long time, and you've always been my Big Sister. I'm so happy… Big Sister is always herself. Unfortunately, I've only seen glimpses of the past." Xiao Bai regretted not having more memories.
Ye Ju…
She was also puzzled. Whose memories were those of Xuan Shi Hua Xun that she saw in her dream? Were they the memories of this body?
The morning sun was already high. Stepping out of the room, the flowers in the garden faced the morning dew, delicate and glistening. Ye Ju walked barefoot on the garden path, the stone-paved path a little prickly underfoot, the acupoints on her soles tingling with a subtle comfort! The path extended all the way to the spirit fields, winding and fragrant with the scent of flowers!
Ye Ju hadn't yet recovered from the scenes in her dream. Her past life? Her current life? Perhaps by now, returning to modern times, millennia would have passed. She considered herself reborn now. A new life, a new journey!
Ye Ju suddenly felt her blood surging, her chest filled with heroic spirit. How fortunate to be resurrected from death and master a skill. Thinking of the naked woman in her dream, drifting on the waves, without even a covering, surely she had suffered great injustice! Ye Ju vowed that if she ever found out the reason, she would avenge her!
Ye Ju felt something and stood still with her eyes closed. From between her brows, Yu Shou slowly floated out of Ye Ju's sea of consciousness. The third leaf bud on the green sprout imprint between Ye Ju's brows had somehow appeared. It now clearly showed itself on her forehead. Yu Shou slowly transformed into a long sword in the green light…
Ye Ju opened her eyes, took the long sword with her right hand, and leaped into the air. A set of unknown sword techniques appeared in her mind. It was the latter half of the Qingtian Sword Technique.
The sword technique was fierce yet gentle. She raised her leg for a counter-thrust, lightly tapped the sword tip, hung upside down in mid-air, slashed diagonally upon landing, stepped into the wind, each step like a lotus, stepping on the Big Dipper, each step carrying immense weight. The moment her foot hit the ground, a surge of energy exploded, instantly obliterating the surrounding flowers and plants into ashes. The countless petals danced in the air, a scene of falling blossoms like a fairy dancing with a sword, a beautiful artistic conception… In a blink, they turned to ashes.
Ye Ju retracted her sword to her chest, closed her eyes, and concentrated her mind. She saw new life emerging from destruction, the trembling green sprout after the fire, stubbornly pushing aside the boulder above it, like an ant trying to shake a tree, like Jingwei filling the sea, growing upwards with tenacity. It was a powerful vitality, and all things began to sprout. Ye Ju moved; her sword was that green sprout, she was full of power, she was full of surging life force. At this moment, the sword was her, and she was the sword; she branched out, she bloomed, she bore fruit…
The green elemental energy representing the five elements danced with the sword tip. Wherever the sword energy reached, there, life grew, bloomed, and then bore fruit…
When Ye Ju opened her eyes, the destroyed flowers, plants, and trees around her had regained their vitality.
This scene shocked Xiao Bai, A You, Xiao Wanyou, and Chao Yangzi from afar, their eyes widening in astonishment. Their expressions varied, but their gazes were all fanatically fixed on Ye Ju.
"Big Sister, so amazing, a sword technique that brings the dead back to life! I really want to learn it…" Xiao Bai was captivated by the exquisite swordplay.
"When Fairy Mistress danced, it was like a goddess descending from the heavens, so beautiful." A You's heart was pounding with excitement.
"Fairy Big Sister is truly a celestial being! Her sword techniques are beautiful, yet every strike carries killing intent! So powerful!" Xiao Wanyou's desire to become stronger was ignited. In the future, Fairy Wanyou would kill without a trace, yet with exceptional beauty…
Chao Yangzi could barely maintain his ecstatic expression. This sword technique that revived the dead was something only a goddess could possess. The prophecy did not describe the goddess's descent in detail, only mentioning one sentence: the goddess brought the power of life and the hope of light, arriving on lotus petals…