Chapter 712: Chapter 140: The Inheritance Returns
"I’ll have to think about it—" Mu Qingyan pondered.
"There’s no time left. He’s cultivating the Demon Heart Sword Body and the Sword Tiger is entering demonhood. If he takes another step forward and no one stops him, everyone will die. Have you forgotten the tragedy that the fall of the Netherworld Palace brought?"
"If I could, I would never do such a despicable thing, but I can only rely on you to suppress his continued descent into demonic madness."
"If you don’t believe me, let’s use the Void Realm to suppress him. This way, it won’t harm him, but will make him experience something like ’Huangliang’s Dream,’ how about that?"
Jiang Tianling was somewhat anxious and said several sentences in a row, as if the situation had reached an extremely urgent point.
"The Void Realm and real scenes—this is generally easy for someone clear-headed to distinguish. You are especially skilled at the Time-Space Soul Lock and can clearly differentiate between the True Illusion Scene. This will certainly not deceive you, but he, with his Evil Soul in demonhood, will definitely not be able to distinguish reality from illusions."
"You can vent all your displeasure towards him in the Void Realm. You can be a bit cruel to him, make him reflect."
Jiang Tianling kept persuading, hitting Mu Qingyan’s thoughts exactly.
Mu Qingyan was moved.
Thinking that she had even had the memories of her own husband erased, thinking of those unbearable past events, she suddenly wavered.
"Alas, take another look at this Sword Illusion Realm segment. You know that your soft heart is an indulgence to him, a harm to him!"
Jiang Tianling knew he was close to success and immediately produced a fake segment of the Sword Illusion Realm—produced personally by Jiang He, transcending the rules of the Sword Illusion Realm.
In this Sword Illusion Realm, the self-righteousness of Lei Yan King, his cold treatment of Mu Qingyan, and his abuse of her weren’t extensive, but they were extremely infuriating.
There was nothing discordant about the scene. Lei Yan King even flaunted other women in front of her, treating her like worn-out slippers...
Various acts of owing her, disregarding her, suppressing her, and harming her, as well as her friends and relatives, were all displayed.
This was like the last straw that broke the camel’s back.
Mu Qingyan agreed.
She stepped into what she thought was the Void Realm but was actually the True Void Heavenly Prohibition—a reality.
...
"Yanyan, remember that your father is a real demon, and everyone around him is his accomplice."
"These people are the chief culprits who caused our Netherworld Plane to fall into the Hell Plane."
"I have listed all their information for you, these people even include everyone in the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City they built."
"You must always remember these people’s faces. You need to grow strong so that you can avenge your mother."
"One day, your mother will have a fight to the death with your father, making all his plans fail, letting him fully taste the bitter fruit of owing me."
In the ’Void Realm,’ Mu Qingyan was instilling extremely negative thoughts into her child. She believed that Lei Yan King, who cherished the child the most, would surely regret once he knew how much the child hated him. As long as she returned to reality, where nothing had actually happened, Lei Yan King would surely cherish her...
Following the agreement with Jiang Tianling, Mu Qingyan began this targeted provocation of Lei Yan King, hoping he would stop at the last moment.
But she did not know that this was not the Void Realm, but reality.
Time also continued to pass in this process.
During this time, Yanyan, seeking justice for his mother, had already taken action several times.
Yanyan, possessing the Earth Spirit Sky Sword Venerate Realm and also fearsome potential, combined the Cultivation Techniques of the Netherworld Bridge with several Ultimate constitutions into a bizarre ability, traversing the Void, embodying the Night Ghost, reaping the lives of Lei Yan King’s few remaining brothers and friends one by one.
Bloody and cruel scenes played out now and then.
Each time, Mu Qingyan, knowing the truth, although heartbroken, would always feel an inexplicable tremor in her soul, then think that this was the Void Realm, not real, it didn’t matter.
As long as it wasn’t really happening, no matter how much evil she did, it wouldn’t matter. For him to return sincerely and live on well, she felt any sacrifice was worth it.
After endless conflicts, Mu Qingyan felt her soul exhausted, wishing only for a stable home free of too many troubles, that was all.
She had this simple wish and dream, and Jiang Tianling’s Jiang family had promised—once things settled down, everything would turn out beautifully.
...
Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City.
Endless Blood Pool.
Here, there was only endless blood and endless chains.
On the chains, a suppression held a man, covered in blood hair but immensely tall.
Around the man, only one woman stood, dressed in purple filmy clothes, her expression cold and even somewhat numb, her once spiritual eyes controlled and lacking their former charm.
"I was once defeated by your hand. I once loved you wholeheartedly, but in return, my dignity was trampled, mocked, and discarded like worn-out slippers."
"Later, discovering my usefulness, to bear the perfect next generation for you, you treated me like a tool for reproduction."
"You had your pride, but I have my dignity."
"Everything went as you wished, the child was perfect, and you had no regrets."
"But when you discarded me like worn-out slippers, I had already resolved to seek revenge. When you debased me again, I had already logged this hatred."
"You might know that hatred born from love is the most intense and the most fearsome."
"To achieve my goal, I have sacrificed everything!"
"The child is yours, but mine too. But seeing this child, I feel no happiness or joy of a mother, only wishing that the child’s life is worse than death!"
"The child is perfect, but I will curse her to never be perfect for all eternity, letting you forever repent for the mistakes you have made!"
"Your recent six months have been very favorable because I used every method to bring you to this most prideful realm in life! I paid a great price, finally making you dominate the universe, unparalleled in power, and standing at the peak in every aspect including the Heavenly Dao, Artifact Dao, and Alchemy Dao! But this was all my deliberate doing, for you to know that at this peak, the ground beneath you is drenched with the blood of those you care about most.
Their blood has paved your path.
Their severed heads have sanctified your peak.
Their flesh has filled your hunger.
Their cultivation has bolstered your life force.
...
All of these, I think, you must now understand."
Hearing these words, Lei Yan King suddenly raised his head, his gaze filled with sorrow as he looked at Mu Qingyan, his eyes brimming with despair.
"You think that by showing such painful expressions, I will lessen my hatred for you? Young Master Tianling told me everything! I hate, hate myself for being powerless, for once cherishing you so deeply!"
"But now, I have mastered the Killing Spirit Divine Dao from Yanyan, and I want to torment you, to ensure you forever remember the taste of trampling upon others. When you trample on others, inevitably one day, you too will experience the same cruelty and torment!
Of course, the Killing Spirit Divine Dao is still not enough to torment you! I want you to be painfully aware, to let you know that someone like you deserves to live in endless agony and torment, better off dead than alive!"
As Mu Qingyan spoke, her eyes suddenly became moist, but she managed to restrain her emotions, her voice gentle, "Husband, this is the Soul Devouring Heart Refinement Wine that I asked the Jiang family to help concoct. It is extremely toxic and can amplify your pain by ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred times! You enjoy drinking, so drink this final beverage of your life well—it might be the last joy and also the last pain you will ever experience!"
"Ah, to still have wine to drink. I thought, in this life, I would only be drinking the Fiery Flame Sword Heart Wine. I indeed regret it now, so... Qingyan, can you feed me this cup of wine?"
Lei Yan King said with a bitter smile.
His smile was full of melancholy and weathered from age, as though to this step, everything was still within his control.
"Actually, I knew that the change between Heavenly Heart and Demon Heart is just a matter of thought. If not so, how could I truly grant you peaceful days? I did so much just to await this day, so I never truly suppressed your memories. I knew the Jiang family must have a contingency plan, I also knew..."
Lei Yan King suddenly laughed, saying many things.
However, these words were not finished because the enemies who thought they had won had already appeared.
"Mu Qingyan, you are really an obedient bitch, everything went even better than we expected," said the young man arrogantly.
He had not really listened to what Lei Yan King had said before. If he had, he would never have felt so sure of his victory.
"Aren’t you saying that it’s all a ’True Illusion Realm’? Isn’t it all false? This should make him realize..."
Mu Qingyan was stunned, immediately turning pale.
"It is the True Illusion Realm, but the True Void changed at the very beginning. If not so, how could I extract his perfect soul again? How could I take your Ten Thousand World Life Soul? Haha, this time, it’s even more mystical than that perfect soul back then! Truly wonderful!"
But just as he was gloating, a terrifying Fist Intent appeared from the Void.
As the Fist Intent arrived, Lei Yan King, who was bound, suddenly broke free and unleashed boundless killing intent.
"My brother and I have been waiting for this day! Kill!"
"Kill!"
A shout that shook the heavens and all planes, causing Heaven and Earth to tremble and the universe to crack.
Blood flowed like rivers, staining all heavens and myriads of worlds.
Lei Yan King rose with invincible divine power, fighting a great battle with Jiang He Ancestor from the Jiang family alongside Lee Ran, culminating in Jiang He’s death, while both Lei Yan King and Divine Fist Li were left nearly destroyed.
The Jiang family retreated to the Ancient Land, vanishing without a trace, unfindable as the plans of power in various planes were redrawn.
That day, blood annihilated the heavens and myriads of worlds, devastating all ancient cities, and the Sacrificial Heaven Ancient City collapsed.
Lei Yan King left the Heavenly Dao Fragments that freed Yanyan from his bonds, turning into endless Sacrificial Heaven remnants, scattered across various planes.
But even in death, he still derived his final will, leaving behind Three Souls to protect Yanyan should anything happen in the future while truly suppressing all of Mu Qingyan’s memories and inserting them into her next life, allowing Mu Qingyan to truly live out a perfect next life.
At the same time, he restored the Netherworld Palace’s domination over the Hell Plane, supporting many powerful Netherworld Envoys and ensuring the growth of the Netherworld Palace.
Ultimately, his life force exhausted, he finally perished.
Permanently settled, Lei Yan King thus became a legend...
...
With the end of the Memory Inheritance, the Time-Space Reincarnation Tower activated, Zhou Yan felt enlightened like his soul being pierced through, making his entire being transparent.
Lei Yan King had left nothing but memories, not even combat experiences.
But with all these memories, everything was sufficient, because these memories contain the ultimate Fighting Technique(animation_website) and the secrets of the Xingyi True Forms—ancient inheritances.
It also let him, Zhou Yan, know that in this life, he had always been his own person, no longer controlled by others.
He set his own stage, paving his own path.
It wasn’t that the Jiang family was slow to react; it was because they hadn’t even caught their breath yet!
Zhou Yan felt serene in his heart, possessing immense confidence.
Within the Time-Space Soul-locking Tower was a floating space, the gate already open, leading to the Netherworld Life and Death Illusion Realm.
Stepping into it, he could find this life’s Mu Qingyan.
(The memory part is just this much, a general understanding is fine. What follows is Zhou Yan and Mu Qingyan’s emotional journey in this life, and their epic landing on Earth...)