Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 321 Memory Fragments
"Student Song Xian, student Song Xian, how are you? Can you hear me?" A man's deep voice sounded vaguely.

"Doctor Zhu, his heart has stopped beating."

"Perform CPR immediately."

"Yes."

"Get the stun gun."

"The shock absorber is ready."

"Boom."

Song Xian felt his heart beat violently, followed by another beating.

"Doctor Zhu, his heart has resumed beating."

"Transfuse blood immediately."

"Song Xian, Song Xian, can you hear me? Don't give up."

The space in front of him gradually distorted, and a blurry picture emerged in his mind. A man in a white coat was holding an electric shock device and performing heart resuscitation on him.

"What is this?" Song Xian was shocked. He suddenly remembered that he had a car accident when he was leaving the campus.

"His life has been saved for now, but he's not regaining consciousness. Let's just leave it like this for now! Observe for a while and let me know if anything happens."

"Song Xian, Song Xian, how are you? Can you hear me? We have notified your family and they are on the way. You must not give up. The doctor said that now it depends on your will to survive." A middle-aged man said in front of the bed. He was his university teacher.

I can hear it, I can hear it.

Song Xian wanted to respond, but no sound came out.

"Doctor, how is he doing?"

"It depends on him. The situation is not optimistic right now. He may even die of brain death."

.........

"Son, son, what's wrong with you?" The middle-aged woman ran into the ward, threw herself on him, and burst into tears.

"The patient's family should not be agitated. The patient is currently unconscious. His brain waves are abnormally active. What is needed now is comfort. It would be best if the patient's family can stay by his side and keep talking to him. This will help him wake up."

"Son, son." The middle-aged woman kept calling out with tears streaming down her face.

……

"Son, I bought you your favorite canned squid today. You said before that you would eat a whole box of canned squid when you go home for the holidays. I have bought it for you. Son, please wake up."

.........

"Son, they said it's impossible for you to wake up. They want me to make the decision whether to give up or not. How can I give up on you? I know you are listening to me. Son, please wake up!"

.........

"Son, I don't know what to do now. They say you are brain dead. I beg you, please wake up!"

……

"Son, I know you're listening. I know you're in pain. I'm in pain too."

……

"Son, I read a book today. It said that death is not the end, but another beginning. I hope you can live happily in another world."

.........

“Didi-dee-dee-dee-dee.”

"The family expresses their condolences. The patient has died."

.........

Song Xian suddenly woke up and looked up. The distorted space had been restored, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

But he had completely remembered his past events. He remembered the illusion he experienced when he was transformed into a mortal, and all his memories, including the Qianji Sect.

He knew that he was pulled into the memory of another person, and that person wanted to assimilate him and turn himself into him.

If it weren't for what happened in the other world, he would probably have continued to sink into despair forever.

And now he understood all of this. It was a very strange feeling. Although he was still using Dong Xuanchen's body, his soul had left it and was outside of this body. He had changed from an eyewitness to a bystander.

He knew clearly that he was not Dong Xuanchen, but Song Xian.

The experiences of the past two or three hundred years did not belong to him, but to Dong Xuanchen.

From then on, he entered Dong Xuanchen's life from the perspective of an observer. Strangely, after he understood this, Dong Xuanchen's pace of life began to accelerate, just like a fast-forwarded movie, and in the end it was just a cursory glance.

Two hundred and forty-two years after joining the Qianji Sect, Song Xian saw Dong Xuanchen break through the Jindan realm.

……

Two hundred and sixty-third years after joining the Qianji Sect, Song Xian saw that Dong Xuanchen became the head of the Qianji Sect.

.........

In the 319th year, Dong Xuanchen obtained a treasure in a ruin.

……

In the 375th year, Dong Xuanchen created the reincarnation technique, and based on it, he refined a third-grade, top-quality puppet.

.........

In the 392nd year, Dong Xuanchen further perfected the reincarnation technique and began to experiment on cultivators, naming it the Reincarnation Technique.

.........

"In the 512th year, Dong Xuanchen broke through to the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming the first cultivator in the history of the Thousand Machines Sect to do so."

.........

"In the fifth hundred and forty-third year, Dong Xuanchen obtained a treasure map."

.........

"In the 571st year, Dong Xuanchen's reincarnation skills reached perfection, and he began to collect the various materials to complete his reincarnation."

.........

"In the 613th year, Dong Xuanchen discovered a fragmented space and secretly built a teleportation array to study the reincarnation technique within the fragmented space."

.........

"In the 780th year, Dong Xuanchen broke through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul."

……… "In the 984th year, Dong Xuanchen traveled to a mysterious location and was severely injured. He fled back to the Thousand Machines Sect and entered this fragmented space. He used the Samsara Reincarnation Technique to transfer his soul into a puppet he had created, hoping to live forever in this way."

"Although he successfully performed the reincarnation and transferred his soul into the refined puppet, something went wrong in the process. Dong Xuanchen was trapped in the puppet and couldn't move."

After quickly viewing Dong Xuanchen's life, the whole world collapsed and Song Xian was suddenly returned to the completely dark bottomless abyss.

"You brat, you actually..." At this moment, an angry roar came from his mind, followed by a huge ball of light coming from above, which quickly dispelled all the darkness.

In the dazzling light, he vaguely saw the outline of a figure turning into star-like light and dissipating.

...............

After the dazzling light disappeared, what came into view was the blue sky.

"Fellow Daoist Song, you're awake." A man's voice came from the side. He turned his head in the direction of the voice and saw Apu looking at him.

Where is this? He was about to ask, when suddenly, a huge amount of memory fragments came flooding into his mind like a flash flood.

"Ah!" He felt as if his head was about to explode, the pain was splitting, and he couldn't help but cry out in pain.

In that dream, all of Dong Xuanchen's memories flooded into his mind.

"What's wrong with you?" Seeing that he looked in pain, Apu frowned slightly and looked a little alert.

"No...it's okay." Song Xian took a few deep breaths and looked around. There was an endless dense jungle under their feet, and he was surrounded by the Ap's escape light.

"Aren't we in that palace? Where is this?"

"Don't you remember? You suddenly fainted in the palace and passed out. Fellow Daoist Song, what exactly happened? Why did you suddenly lose consciousness at that time?"

"Really? I fainted?" Song Xian came back to his senses at this time. His thoughts raced in his mind. Combined with Dong Xuanchen's memory, he quickly figured out the whole story.

Dong Xuanchen was originally the head of Qianji Sect and he created the reincarnation technique. During one of his outings he suffered a serious injury, his physical body collapsed and his Nascent Soul escaped back to Qianji Sect.

He originally wanted to use the reincarnation technique to store his soul in a puppet and achieve eternal life for his body, but something went wrong during the process. It might be that there was a flaw in the technique itself.

In short, although he successfully transferred his Nascent Soul into the puppet, he was trapped in that body.

At this time, the enemies of Qianji Sect learned that he was seriously injured, so they attacked Qianji Sect, resulting in the destruction of Qianji Sect and no one rescued him.

Originally, no one inside the Qianji Sect knew the location of this teleportation array. Only the two disciples he trusted knew it. It was estimated that when the enemy attacked the Qianji Sect, all those who knew about it were killed, so he was trapped there until Song Xian and others discovered this place and entered.

Dong Xuanchen originally wanted to leave by taking over his body, but he woke up at the last moment, causing his attempt to fail.

Originally, with Dong Xuanchen's spiritual power in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, it was easy for him to take over the body of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment, but Song Xian had experienced a similar process of possession before.

Before, he always thought that the world was an illusion created by transcendence, but now it seems that this may not be the case.

It is possible that he died during his transformation into a mortal world, and his soul from that world traveled here and occupied this body, which is equivalent to being possessed by another.

A body that has already been possessed by another body naturally cannot be possessed by another body again, so Dong Xuanchen failed.

Of course, this is just his unilateral guess. It is also possible that things are not that complicated. Dong Xuanchen's soul may have stayed in the puppet for too long, causing his soul to be too weak and thus failed to take over the body.

In short, no matter what, he was lucky enough to escape this disaster.

"Don't you remember what happened then? We checked your body and didn't find anything unusual. Didn't you feel anything at all?" Apu looked at him curiously.

"Yes, I remember. I was about to check the internal structure of the puppet, but the blood-red runes on it were transferred to me. I don't know what happened next." Song Xian would not tell the truth about the possession, so he just made up an excuse.

"Is there such a thing?" Apu frowned: "How do you feel now?"

"I'm fine. By the way, how long have I been unconscious?"

"You've been unconscious for two days and one night. You suddenly collapsed in the main hall, so we immediately took you out. We then searched other parts of the palace before leaving the ruins."

Only two days? Song Xian was surprised. It seemed like hundreds of years had passed in that illusion, but he didn't expect that in reality, it was only two days.

"This is your share." Apu took out a bag and handed it to him.

Song Xian took it and looked at it. There were only more than twenty fifth-level spirit stones inside.

"Thank you." He didn't ask what they got in the ruins. Apu handed this to him, which meant that the other three had reached a consensus on the distribution. If he asked what others got, it would be boring.

It was good enough that the three of them didn't take his storage bag while he was unconscious and left him there alone.

Being able to take him away from the ruins and leave some property behind can be said to be a very kind thing to do. After all, he and the other two had no intersection. There are many people in the cultivation world who take advantage of others' misfortunes, and it is not uncommon for them to backstab their companions for the sake of profit.

If he is still dissatisfied with the wealth he has been allocated, then he is just being greedy.

"We're even now. You saved me once before, and now we owe each other nothing." Apu said expressionlessly.

Song Xian nodded without saying much. Men shouldn't talk too much. At this moment, in his heart, he had already accepted Apu as a friend.

.........

At night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Under the desolate stone hill, a ray of light fell, revealing the figure of Song Xian. He had just parted ways with Apu and immediately found a desolate and deserted place to sit quietly, because he noticed that there were some extra things in the Niwan Palace.

It was a giant crystal clear tree with hundreds of crystal fragments hanging on it. In each fragment, one could vaguely see the flickering outline of Dong Chenxuan's figure. The images on the fragments kept changing, recording every bit of Dong Chenxuan's past in fleeting glimpses.

From the crown to the roots, all of Dong Xuanchen's memories from his boyhood to his last moments are preserved on this crystal clear tree of memory.

It was inconvenient for Song Xian to investigate in front of Apu, so he waited until they parted ways and came to this remote place alone.

This giant tree is undoubtedly the product left by Dong Xuanchen's soul. He originally wanted to take over Song Xian's body, but after failing, his soul dissipated. Perhaps it was because of his practice of reincarnation, or perhaps it was due to other factors. The memories in his soul did not completely dissipate, but turned into a fragmented giant tree and remained in his sea of ​​consciousness.

When his spiritual consciousness poured into the fragments, scenes of Dong Xuanchen's memories were played out.

From the top of the giant tree to the roots, it is Dong Xuanchen's life from childhood to old age.

All the memories of a great cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul are now left in his sea of ​​consciousness. To him, these things are truly priceless treasures.

Song Xian's spiritual consciousness continued to enter the fragments, and he took a cursory look at the contents of the fragments. He couldn't digest these things in a short period of time, so he could only take a general look and figure out the important nodes to facilitate future investigation. Most of the time in the memory fragments was boring practice, and this part was worthless.

What is truly valuable is the part of his memory about practicing martial arts and researching and refining puppets.

Every time Song Xian entered a memory fragment, Dong Xuanchen's memory contents would appear before him one by one. Although he could not change the order of the contents in the memory, the speed of the flow was controlled by his will.

He can go fast or slow as he pleases.

At the fastest, all the memories in the fragments can be displayed in a few breaths. At the slowest, the flow rate is the same as that in the real world.

Song Xian started from the fragments at the top of the tree canopy, and his spiritual consciousness invaded them one after another, observing Dong Xuanchen's memories. But when he came to the middle of the tree of memory, he found that he could not enter the memory fragments hanging in the middle and lower parts.

It's not just a few fragments that can't enter, but all the middle and lower memory fragments can't enter.

After a little thought, he figured out the problem. The memory fragments he could access were all memories of Dong Xuanchen when his cultivation was at a lower level.

The memory fragments of the higher levels of cultivation kept him out. Although he didn't understand the reason, he guessed it might be related to his spiritual power. His spiritual power was not enough to break through the restrictions of those high-level memory fragments, so he couldn't enter.

He can now only see the memory fragments of Dong Xuanchen before the third level of foundation building. The remaining fragments can only be entered after a higher level of cultivation.

(End of this chapter)