Longevity Candle

Chapter 151 Reincarnation and Oblivion

The eight skeletons all looked over.

Although there were no eyeballs in those empty eye sockets, Jiang Xiyue could still feel their gazes fixed on her.

She was overwhelmed with thoughts: should she expose the other party, or make up a pretext and see what this skeleton wanted to do?
Just as she was about to make a decision, the old woman arrived: "Distinguished guests, please try our specialties from the River of Oblivion."

She brought over a wooden basin containing a pile of flesh and blood, including fair and delicate arms.

Jiang Xiyue felt nauseous, and a chill ran through her.

She could clearly sense that the fair arm was her own.

The remaining skeletons froze for a moment, for they too saw their own flesh and blood in the basin.

Only the skeleton impersonating Jiang Xiyue actually picked up a piece of meat, threw it into its mouth, and started chewing it.

The eight people watched him swallow the flesh and blood, not knowing where it went after he ate it, as the flesh and blood disappeared.

It was still just a skeleton, completely exposed to the elements, with no cover whatsoever.

"Enjoy your meal slowly, there's also delicious Forget-River Soup."

The old woman watched as she ate the bones, a sinister smile spreading across her face, before turning and leaving.

"Who are you?" After the old woman left, Jiang Xiyue looked at the skeleton: "I am Jiang Xiyue, why are you impersonating me?"

Seeing it take the lead in eating the meat, Jiang Xiyue decided she could no longer hold back and had to expose this guy.

Upon hearing this, the seven skeletons simultaneously turned their gazes to the skeleton that was eating meat.

Bai Gu turned his head and glanced at her: "Heh, you're Jiang Xiyue?"

“Of course I am Jiang Xiyue, from the Five Elements Daoist lineage, and I came here with Kong Lan,” Jiang Xiyue said.

Bai Gu sneered, his voice exactly the same as Jiang Xiyue's: "You want to replace me? Do you know that I cultivate in the Five Elements Dao lineage and deal with the Blood Lotus in the South China Sea with Kong Lan? Kong Lan will not believe you if you want to replace me."

Jiang Xiyue stared in horror at the skeleton; it actually knew about her?
"You're also from the Five Elements lineage?" Jiang Xiyue asked angrily.

"I am Jiang Xiyue, of course I belong to the Five Elements lineage." The white bone chuckled and asked, "And who are you?"

"I am Jiang Xiyue, and I cultivate with Kong Lan in the Five Elements Daoist lineage." Jiang Xiyue said, then suddenly added, "I know them all, do you know them too?"

The seven skeletons twitched slightly, and Kong Lan's gaze shifted suspiciously back and forth between two of them.

She couldn't tell right now who was telling the truth and who was lying.

"You mean Li Wuwei? He once stayed overnight in Qinghe City to cultivate?" Bai Gu asked.

"How did you know?" Jiang Xiyue asked in surprise.

Li Wuwei was also stunned. There really were two Jiang Xiyue?
“I am Jiang Xiyue, of course I know. You’re not well prepared to impersonate me,” Bai Gu sneered.

Jiang Xiyue couldn't help but raise her hand, but Bai Gu said, "I advise you to calm down. There is no magic here. My bones have been tempered for many years. You may not be my match."

"You seem to know this place very well?" Jiang Xiyue said in a low voice after calming down.

“I don’t know,” the skeleton said. “I’m just reminding you not to do anything foolish.”

"Alright, everyone calm down. The situation is unclear right now. Let's figure out what's going on here before we make any decisions," Li Wuwei said gently.

The others nodded slightly: "That's right, this place is an ancient ruin, not a safe haven."

"Why do you want to eat this flesh and blood?" Kong Lan suddenly asked.

The skeleton said, "I saw my own flesh and blood, and instinctively wanted to eat it to see if there was anything unusual."

"Is there anything unusual?" Li Changge asked.

"No." The skeleton shook its head, disappointed. "After eating it, I don't know where it ended up; it just disappeared."

Jiang Xiyue stared coldly at the skeleton, remaining silent.

The seven people stared at each other, unsure whether they should eat their own flesh and blood.

The old woman came again, bringing nine bowls of soup. The aroma was so enticing that they were drawn to it.

Even though all that remained were skeletons and a trace of consciousness, the aroma of the soup held an inexplicable attraction for them.

Without the slightest hesitation, the bone-eating creature picked up the bowl and drank it all.

The eight people remained still, observing the skeleton's reaction.

The next moment, a five-colored immortal light appeared, and the white bones quickly grew flesh and blood, transforming into a flesh and blood body, which was Jiang Xiyue.

"So, it takes flesh and blood and soup coming together to have a miraculous effect," Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, said.

Upon hearing this, the group quickly reached out to grab the meat.

"No, you fake, you're deliberately trying to lure us into eating meat and drinking soup," Jiang Xiyue said coldly.

Her words made all seven of them pause.

The skeleton sneered, "You fake, are you worried that we'll all recover? Now that my magic power has been fully restored, you're just a skeleton."

"Your magic power has been restored?" Kong Lan asked. "Then can you leave this place?"

"I don't know, I just regained my magic power," White Bone said.

Kong Lan hesitated for a moment, then put down the flesh and pushed the soup aside.

Seeing this, the others also put the flesh and blood back.

"You don't believe me? You believe this fake?" Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, said angrily.

Before Kong Lan could speak, Li Wuwei said calmly, "If you were really Jiang Xiyue, you wouldn't have eaten meat and drunk soup without discussing it with us."

"Do you think we're fools? You're eating the meat and drinking the soup too quickly; you're clearly trying to trick us," Li Changge said.

"May peace and tranquility spread throughout the world." Wuyou Dao Shijia said calmly, "Kong Lan understands Jiang Xiyue the best. They are like sisters. When making decisions, Kong Lan will be taken into consideration."

"We are not enemies. We are disciples of different sects and friends. Even if we have never met, we are still friends," Yang Liu of the Wandering Sect said softly.

Jiang Xiyue said coldly, "I'm very confused. Why are you impersonating me?"

“Because I am you.” Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, suddenly chuckled.

"You still haven't given up?" Jiang Xiyue said in a deep voice.

"I won't argue with you." Bai Gu Jiang Xiyue smiled faintly, then looked up at the old woman: "Grandma, could you please tell me about the Wangchuan Inn?"

The old woman's voice was sinister: "This place is the River of Oblivion, the only way to reincarnation. Anyone who drinks this soup and eats flesh and blood can go to reincarnation."

"Reincarnation?" Kong Lan asked. "What is reincarnation?"

“Through reincarnation, you will be reborn and return to the human world, but you will forget all your memories,” the old woman said.

"There is no reincarnation in this world. If one loses all memories, what does that mean?" Li Wuwei said calmly.

“Naturally, it is a new life,” the old woman said. “Reincarnation is what gives people a next life, but you have already died in the sea of ​​blood.”

We're all dead?

The eight people were stunned; even their skeletons froze.

They looked at their own skeletons, and then thought of the sea of ​​blood they had seen before, where all their flesh and blood had been gone, and their internal organs had dissolved, leaving only a skeleton and a single thought.

They're not even as good as wandering ghosts, so aren't they dead?
"What about the other fellow disciples?" Su Qing's voice trembled.

The old woman said coldly, "They have already eaten the meat, drunk the soup, and gone to reincarnation."

"We...we're just going to die like this?" Kong Lan murmured, unable to accept it.

They were all geniuses of their respective schools of thought, disciples on whom great hopes were placed, and all of them died in the ancient ruins.

This is a huge blow to all the major schools of thought.

“No, the Dao Ancestors won’t let us die like this. We still have a mission,” Li Wuwei’s voice rang out.

Li Changge asked, "If you don't eat flesh and blood, and don't drink soup, can you return to the human world?" "If you can cross over and return, of course you can, but there are no souls who can cross the cycle of reincarnation without eating meat and drinking soup," the old woman sneered.

"Where is reincarnation?" Yunfeng asked.

"Leave the inn and head west. You'll see a stone bridge. Cross the bridge, and you'll see the cycle of reincarnation," the old woman said.

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, immediately left the inn and headed west.

Li Wuwei and the others quickly stood up. Jiang Xiyue walked to the door and suddenly asked, "Old man, who are you?"

"I've long forgotten," the old woman sighed softly, murmuring, "It seems someone called me... Wangchuan Yunmeng."

The skeletons all trembled. Jiang Xiyue looked at the old woman in disbelief: "Jiang Yunmeng?"

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Yunmeng, was also from a time when there was a Yunmeng.

And here, there is actually a Wangchuan Yunmeng?
"Wangchuan Yunmeng is not Jiang Yunmeng." The old woman waved her hand, and meat and soup floated beside them: "If you understand, eat the meat and drink the soup, and you can return to the human world."

Everyone had countless questions in their minds, but for now they could only suppress them.

They left the Wangchuan Inn, and the old woman once again squatted in front of the inn, like a stone sculpture.

After leaving the city and exiting the west gate, there was indeed a stone bridge ahead.

Blood, flesh, and soup still floated around them.

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned woman, was already standing on the stone bridge, quietly watching them.

Beneath the stone bridge flows a slowly moving sea of ​​blood, within which countless dark shadows, grotesque and twisted, lurk.

The eight people climbed onto the stone bridge. In front of them was a wide stone ground with six stone pillars standing on it.

Is that where reincarnation is?

Li Wuwei asked a question and quickly walked over.

The eight people descended the stone bridge, and the white skeleton moved slowly.

Jiang Xiyue, the white-boned girl, had already reached the middle of the six stone pillars. She possessed magical powers and had also consumed flesh and soup, thus arriving ahead of others.

Goodbye, everyone.

Jiang Xiyue smiled slightly and placed her hand on the central stone pillar.

Buzz

A brilliant beam of celestial light burst forth, and a huge vortex appeared above the stone pillar, with golden celestial light shining through it.

From afar, they saw what appeared to be a magnificent palace within the celestial light.

"Go away!"

Jiang Xiyue shouted urgently, trying to speed up, but her own speed was too slow.

Enveloped in golden celestial light, Jiang Xiyue, the white bone, slowly rose and entered the majestic celestial palace.

The vortex quickly disappeared, and the stone pillar returned to normal, just like an ordinary stone pillar.

"Damn it, how can a fake like her go to the human world?" Jiang Xiyue was furious, but there was nothing she could do.

The seven men felt heavy-hearted and hurried toward the six stone pillars.

An hour later, Yang Liu said in a low voice, "No, it's only a distance of six or seven hundred meters. We could have crawled there even if we wanted to."

Li Wuwei looked back and said, "I've been calculating the time. We've walked over 500 meters in half an hour, and we only have a little over 100 meters left... It seems like we're standing still?"

"How could this be?" Yun Feng's voice was grave. "Leave two people to keep watch, the rest of you go forward and see if we're stuck in the same place."

“Okay.” Yang Liu agreed: “You and I will stay, the rest of you can leave.”

Li Wuwei and the others exchanged glances and continued on their way.

Half an hour later, they stopped and looked back.

Yang Liu and Yun Feng stood behind, their figures blurred and indistinct.

"Can you see us?" Li Wuwei asked.

“We can see you, but you seem to be very far away from us. However, we are clearly on the same road, and we are only a hundred meters away from reincarnation,” Yang Liu said.

"Does it really mean that I have to eat meat and drink soup to leave and return to the human world?" Su Qing asked.

“No, there’s something wrong with the space here,” Jiang Xiyue and Kong Lan said at the same time.

"Spatial magic?" Li Wuwei said, "We have no magic power, how can we break it?"

“Then start cultivating again. Although the Path of Rebirth has transformed into the system of celestial officials, our methods still cover all of them. Refining Qi into Spirit is precisely the method for cultivating the soul.”

The sound of willow branches grew louder as it approached.

"How did you get here so quickly?" Li Wuwei asked in surprise.

“I am also proficient in the Dao of Space. I had already begun to explore and cultivate it back when I was at the Wangchuan Inn, and I have recovered a trace of my magical power,” Yang Liu said.

"You rascal, you didn't even bother to let me know," Li Changge said.

“The appearance of two Jiang Xiyues indicates that this place is unusual, and I dare not make a fuss about it,” Yang Liu said.

"Then let's cultivate together."

The eight people exchanged glances and then sat down cross-legged.

They instinctively didn't want to choose the option of eating meat and drinking soup, because Jiang Xiyue, who had left, was clearly not acting normally.

Jiang Xiyue sat down cross-legged, activated her magic, and began to gather her magical power.

In the dimly lit space, I entered a meditative state, unaware of the passage of time.

After an unknown amount of time, magical power swirled around the bones, and flesh and blood gradually grew from their bones.

A peaceful and carefree force enveloped them, bringing them tranquility.

His magical power gradually increased, and more and more flesh and blood grew, gradually restoring his human form.

Jiang Xiyue opened her eyes, looked at everyone, and asked with a look of confusion, "Who are you? Where am I?"

Upon hearing this, all seven of them opened their eyes and looked at him in surprise and doubt: "Jiang Xiyue, what's wrong with you?"

"Xi Yue? Are you calling me?" Jiang Xi Yue looked at them suspiciously. "And who are you?"

"Did you eat meat or drink soup?" Kong Lan asked urgently, her face pale.

But as they looked, the flesh and soup were still floating there, undiminished.

"What do you remember?" Yang Liu asked, frowning.

Jiang Xiyue looked bewildered: "I don't remember anything, I don't remember anything at all."

"I am Kong Lan, don't you recognize me?" Kong Lan's face turned pale, and she gripped her hand tightly: "Do you still remember the Five Elements lineage, your father and mother?"

"Father and Mother? Who are they?" Jiang Xiyue was equally bewildered.

The crowd's expressions turned grave, and they all stepped forward to investigate, but they could not find the cause.

Yang Liu pondered, "Could it be that Jiang Xiyue stole her memories?"

"Why would she have Jiang Xiyue's memories? Even if it were spying, it's impossible to steal them and make her forget them," Li Wuwei frowned.

"Wait, Jiang Xiyue has already forgotten her memories. Is it possible for her to reincarnate?" Li Changge suddenly asked.

The seven people looked at Jiang Xiyue: "Why don't you give it a try?"

"Reincarnation?" Jiang Xiyue asked, puzzled. "Why would I go there?"

“To regain your memories, go there and place your hand on it; perhaps you can return to the mortal realm,” Li Wuwei said. “If you encounter someone like yourself, capture her. If you meet other Qi cultivators, inform them that we are trapped here…”

(End of this chapter)