Chapter 784: Chapter 007 Born with the Emperor Qi Sword Body
The magical appearance of the photograph, and its equally magical disappearance.
Ordinary people wouldn’t notice the process from the ergence to the destruction of an object within such a short span of ti.
But Zhou Yan was not an ordinary person; he could observe a mont with an eternal gaze, clearly seeing the essence of all things in the world.
"Is this a signal deliberately left for , or an unintentional trace?" Zhou Yan pondered, but could not co up with an answer.
In the photograph, the mark on the foreheads of his birth parents, like that of slaves, was glaringly obvious under the Observing Qi Skill and the Eye of Destruction.
Even after the photograph was destroyed, this scene was eternally preserved in his mory, unable to be erased.
However, when Zhou Yan recalled the photograph, he found, unexpectedly, that the images of his father, mother, and brother were very clear and easy to rember. In contrast, his own image was not so distinct.
The photograph appeared in his mind, yet his own existence was missing, as if he had never been there.
It was like an illusion of crossed space-ti, but this illusion was deeply unsettling.
Through the mories of this photograph, he realized that it was a brand new clue. Soone had left this photograph here long ago, seemingly pointing to a new and mysterious direction.
Until now, when he returned and saw the photograph, triggering the hidden chanism, the Array Patterns on the photograph activated their self-destruct program. The photograph was annihilated.
All traces were thus erased.
"Who, who exactly? Why do the foreheads of my parents in this life bear the mark of enslavent? And why does my brother’s forehead have a bloody mark? What do they stand for? Why can’t I see my own past on the photograph, or even my forehead? I clearly exist in the photograph, and yet why is it as though I do not exist, even the Eye of Destruction cannot see through?"
A series of doubts filled Zhou Yan with even greater uncertainty about this world.
Returning from the Ancient Ice Glacier, he had not encountered his brother who should have returned earlier. Instead, he learned of his relatives’ deaths, a cruel irony that shook him to the core and left him unable to find peace.
"Zhou Yan, don’t be sad. We mortals inevitably face many helplessnesses in life; it’s unavoidable. You were once dazed and foolish, and they worried over you constantly. But now, you have recovered and even beco an Immortal among n. They would surely be elated and proud. That would be their greatest comfort," Liu Haoting consoled Zhou Yan.
Regardless of Zhou Yan’s identity, his current deanor was that of a person, an ordinary person, soone who had lost his parents and was engulfed in sorrow.
"I know, but I just want to reminisce about them here for a bit. When you interacted with my mother, did you notice anything strange?"
Zhou Yan nodded slightly and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
In this world, the Rune energy from Tai Chu transford into oxygen that could not be refined, sustaining the vitality of humans. At the sa ti, it contained solid Runes, which also couldn’t be refined.
Even for Zhou Yan, this felt sowhat strenuous, so from ti to ti, he would exhale so turbid air.
"As for strangeness... there is actually one thing that was very peculiar. Professor Zhou was a professor of archaeology, right? One ti, an ancient relic appeared at ’Kunlun Immortal Pool,’ where people saw the Anomaly of ’Dragon Qi Ascending.’ Experts explained it was due to the convection of airflow."
"Inside that relic, it was said to contain many ancient artifacts, but those who went in for investigation found nothing."
"After leaving that place, many died; their bodies turned black as if poisoned."
"The experts said it was due to radioactive substances, so the site was sealed off."
"Professor Zhou and Master Xi had their accidents after that..."
"Kunlun? It’s Kunlun again."
With this information, Zhou Yan felt a stir in his heart.
’Dragon Qi Ascending’, manifesting as dragon-shaped forms in the Void, that was the Dragon Control Technique, the Xingyi Dragon Form of the Sword Dao of Emperor Qi Dragon Transformation. It was akin to the Emperor Qi Dragon Transformation Technique in the Emperor Blood.
Such a scene indicated that soone with Emperor Blood had been there.
Then, was soone else currently possessing Emperor Blood during this ti? Could that person be his brother Lee Ran?
Or could there be other Earth people with such Emperor Blood in them?
Zhou Yan felt that this ordinary world was gradually surpassing his imagination.
Cultivators walked through the world of ordinary people, erasing all clues and traces of their existence, leaving no mark behind, like passersby indifferent to the life and death of mortals.
It was as if all those who practiced Cultivation were covertly following the sa mysterious rules.
Even Zhou Yan himself felt an instinctive urge to act accordingly.
And yet, he could find no reason for it, as his will would not care about causing a sensation in front of ordinary people.
"That place, it’s said to be quite sinister and dangerous, you..."
Liu Haoting initially intended to persuade Zhou Yan not to go, but then she suddenly recalled that Zhou Yan had flown through the sky and perford astonishing feats, not as an ordinary person, but as soone who claid to be a ’Heavenly God’.
With that realization, Liu Haoting held back her words of caution, and after a brief hesitation, said, "Then please be very careful."
"I will."
Zhou Yan nodded lightly and then extended his soul power in one fell swoop, transforming it into the boundless strength of the Soul Sea, which enveloped nearly half the population of the small town.
Zhou Yan activated the Killing Spirit Divine Dao not to target these ordinary humans, but rather to derive True Void and observe their thoughts so that they would recall the past concerning the Lee Family and the Zhou Family.
Whatever they were thinking would be fully displayed in Zhou Yan’s heart. Searching through the collective mories of the town, he took advantage of his soul’s powerful sensing power.
Finally, within the mories of an elderly person, Zhou Yan found what he had rembered about Lee Yi’s childhood.
This old man was born with Yin Yang Eyes that allowed him to see people’s souls, but as he grew older, this ability based on the "Eye of Destruction" gradually waned.
However, he rembered because he had seen Lee Ran’s soul fly out of that child’s body.
The mory was so vivid that Zhou Yan felt as if he were back at the scene, witnessing it all over again.
But after Lee Ran was hit by a car, his soul was taken away by a red-clothed woman who arrived unexpectedly and was captured into a mutton-fat jade bottle, as if it had been harvested.
Afterward, that jade bottle poured out a drop of milky white liquid.
The liquid fell and transford into Lee Ran’s soul, entering Lee Yi’s body.
After that, all the subsequent events unfolded.
This scene was extrely mystical, and it was precisely for this reason that the elderly man rembered it clearly for his entire life, yet he never spoke of it to anyone.
He knew Lin Yuxi and treated her well. He also had a brother-in-arms relationship with the grandfathers of both Lee Ran and Jiang Ningxin.
But this secret, he never ntioned to Lin Yuxi.
In mory, this old man also visited the graves of Lin Yuxi and the other two, but he never spoke, just standing silently each ti.
...
After observing their secrets and understanding so of the past mories that were unknown to him, Zhou Yan appropriately adjusted the bodies of those mortals who had helped him, eliminating so minor hidden illnesses.
For the old man, Zhou Yan used soul power to restore so of his vitality, making issues like bone hyperplasia, cervical spine problems, and chronic leg pain disappear, granting him a healthy body. Yet he stripped away certain mories, making him forget the scenes he should not have witnessed.
After completing these tasks, Zhou Yan compiled all the information he had gathered, and after inference and analysis, he arrived at a sequence of astonishing conclusions.
But he did not dwell on these results, because they would inevitably be presented on the path of Ancestor Worship.
"Three years ago, an itinerant doctor appeared here, staring at the ancestral ho for a long ti. An old woman greeted him, but he suddenly left, quite mysteriously."
"Five years ago, a fortune-teller warned about a disaster striking this place and advised Professor Zhou and Lin Yuxi to leave, but they refused. This fortune-teller, too, was quite strange."
"One year ago, a red-clothed woman arrived here in the early morning hours, frightened so passersby, and then quickly left, driving a modern Lamborghini."
"Ten days ago, an elderly man suddenly appeared at the doorstep, sitting from evening to the next morning. His arrival and disappearance were both very bizarre."
...
The mories and thoughts that Zhou Yan sensed revealed many peculiar things, all indicating the mysterious nature of the ancestral ho.
Yet he reined in all these thoughts and quietly left the place with Liu Haoting.
Traversing the Void, in the next mont, Zhou Yan appeared with Liu Haoting at her ho.
Her ho was on the fifth floor of a very ordinary apartnt complex, not a high building, but the walls of the building were already showing mottled cracks.
The building seed not to have been constructed long ago and was well-decorated, yet it was riddled with damp and deathly energy.
This ant that soone here would soon die.
However, amidst the damp and deathly energy, Zhou Yan saw the breath of a Xuanyuan Sword Fragnt, but this ti it was not as concentrated as before, just a faint whisper, though thicker than the aura of the Xuanyuan Sword Fragnt on Liu Haoting’s body.
"Is that your ho?"
"Yes, that’s right."
"That dark and chubby fellow on the balcony, is he your brother?"
"If there’s no one else around, then, yes, he is."
"His talent is really good, suited for cultivation."
Zhou Yan suddenly said.
In Zhou Yan’s eyes, this was not a person but a sword. A piece of the Xuanyuan Sword had actually beco a person, soone most suited for the cultivation of Sword Dao, a natural-born Emperor Qi Sword Body!
This person was none other than Liu Haoting’s brother!
So the aura of the Xuanyuan Sword Fragnt on her wasn’t from coming into contact with a fragnt or having one in the house, but because her brother was a life ford by the transformation of a fragnt!
Zhou Yan saw through the True Void, hence his words were sowhat abrupt.
Liu Haoting was taken aback, at first unable to grasp the aning behind Zhou Yan’s words.
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