Volume 1: Peaceful Childhood Chapter 1: Rebirth of the Soul

  Drowsily waking up, the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the enchanting starry sky. The dark blue sky, the silver stars, so close, so clear, as if I could pluck a bright star with just one stretch of my hand. The stars moved along their mysterious orbits, occasionally several shooting stars flashed by, and a silver light band hung at the edge of the sky, making this dreamlike scene so beautiful that it could draw in one's soul, forgetting all troubles, all pain.

  It wasn't until much later that Yun Qinglan finally came back to her senses. Was I dead? Where's Xuan?

  My hand touched the position of my heart, without feeling wet or painful. There was no wound either. I lowered my head and found that my body had become transparent, and I could see the ground behind me from my chest.

  So this is what it's like after you die? Is this really the legendary underworld? I looked around at where I was.

  Here is a whole block of white jade platform, suspended in mid-air in space, with about 100 square meters of regular circular surface carved with mysterious lines. In the center of the platform, there is a light column, and three things are suspended in the light column: a golden ball is high above, a snow-white long skirt and a snow-white long ribbon are just one meter above the ground.

  It seems she was wrong. This absolutely won't be the underworld. But then, where is this place?

  "Hello!" Absent-mindedly, she suddenly found two golden fonts appearing under the golden ball.

  "Ah, hello! Who are you? Why am I here?" She replied as if she had met a normal person. This eerie scene didn't scare her. Since everyone was already dead, what else was there to fear?

  "I am the spirit of restraint," paused for a moment, and then appeared a few more words, "It was I who brought you in."

  Kai Ling? In her heart, she silently recited these two words, Yun Qingran didn't respond, quietly staring at the golden orb.

  "At that time your life was already extinct, I could only bring you in... My name is Xing, his name is Chen."

  He? Yun lightly and sharply grasped a word.

  "Who is he?"

  "He is also a Jie Ling, we are twin Jie Lings in the chaos, when we feel bored in the chaos, we separate and go to different realms for training, agreeing to meet once every million years, for ten thousand years each time."

  Later, we came to realize that in order to live together with humans outside, we had to refine our bodies for our souls. So, during the 10,000 years of gathering, we searched for a master. To acknowledge a master, two people who truly loved each other had to pour their heart's blood together.

  "Are you saying it has to be two people's blood? And the other person..." Yun Qingran, who had always been calm, suddenly became agitated. Could it be... he was so stupid!

  "It was him, the one who was with you. He stabbed a dagger into his heart and then pulled it out." Xing's voice didn't have a single ripple.

  "Is anything wrong with him?"

  "It's alright, Chen acknowledged him as the master. He also became a spiritual body just like you."

  Yun let out a sigh of relief. He's fine, that's all that matters! Since Xing and Chen can reunite, she believes she and he can meet again too. However, she started to feel curious about the pair of rings.

  "So long and none of you have recognized your master?"

  "There were. Millions of years ago, there was also a man and a woman who unintentionally succeeded in cultivating their bodies with heart and blood, but they were saved by me and Chen. I thought they could help us refine our bodies, but unfortunately, the two of them misunderstood each other due to someone else's design and ended up dying together." The tone is one of regret and sighing.

  "You mean to say that we should focus on cultivating our physical bodies, just like the people who have been nurturing us with their heart and soul? Is it really just about cultivating our physical bodies?" Indeed, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.

  "Right, but that's a long time from now, and you're still far from it at present."

  Yun furrowed her brow, everything here was beyond her understanding. Although she didn't like things that were out of control, she had no choice. This was just a platform in the void, with no way out, but she wouldn't give up. Xuan was also like him, she had to go find him.

  "What should I do?"

  "I've been cultivating the congenital method, the 'Condensing Spirit Method' and the 'Dragon Phoenix Method'. The Condensing Spirit Method condenses the soul, while the Dragon Phoenix Method absorbs spiritual energy. And the Dragon Phoenix Method is further divided into the Dragon Method and the Phoenix Method, which women cultivate. When you two can cultivate to the highest level, then you can help us refine our bodies."

  "Alright, let's start!" In order to see Xuan sooner, she decided to begin her cultivation immediately.

  The star didn't say anything else, perhaps sensing her emotions, or perhaps for its own sake, a golden light shot out from the light ball and hit her brow.

  She was just a spiritual body, and according to the star's words, she could only practice the Mind Concentration Technique for the time being. As she thought about the content of the Mind Concentration Technique, the first layer of text appeared in her mind. Following the heart method, she began to cultivate, and felt that her body was getting warmer and warmer. She didn't see that when she was cultivating, the starlight scattered from the stars in the sky all gathered towards her, and her nearly transparent soul became solid at a speed visible to the naked eye, until it became just like an ordinary person.

  Here is the translation:

  There was no day or night, no light or darkness, only a vast expanse of starlight. The cloud floated gently without stopping, except when it broke through the first layer and woke up for a moment to look at its own changes, it didn't stop again. Just now, she had just broken through the third layer, and felt a sudden surge of attraction, before she even opened her eyes, she arrived at a warm waterside.

  Here, the warmth enveloped her, and she felt as if she was submerged in water, yet strangely, she didn't feel suffocated. However hard she tried, she couldn't open her eyes. From a distance came the rhythmic thudding sound, which involuntarily made her feel at ease.

  She dispersed the power of her soul and Yun Qing suddenly felt stunned. She, she had run into someone's belly and turned into a fetus about three months old. Was this considered rebirth?

  "Stars, what's going on?" Yun Qing thought silently, wondering if the stars could hear her speak.

  Before you have a physical body, cultivating the Jing Shen Jue to the third layer is the limit. If you continue, your soul will collapse. I'll send you back to the three-month-old fetus's body. At this time, the fetus has taken shape, and the meridians have fully appeared. The most difficult thing is that starting now, cultivating the Feng Jue can allow you to absorb the Xian Tian Ling Qi to the greatest extent. Xian Tian Ling Qi only exists in a pregnant mother's body, it's extremely precious. In the past, there were even cases of demonic heads slaughtering pregnant women to absorb the Xian Tian Zhen Qi in the Xiū Zhēn Jiè. Now, I'll pass on the Feng Jue to you. Use your soul power to guide the spiritual energy out from the seal, circulate it within the mother's body, transform it into Xian Tian Ling Qi, and then absorb it. At the same time, this can also improve the mother's physical constitution. The seal is attached to your left hand's ring finger. Before you're born, I'll be in a state of deep sleep. When you're born and enter the world, I'll awaken... Xīng's voice grew weaker and weaker, and finally, a golden light flashed on her left hand before disappearing into her brow.

  "Stars, stars..." Yun Qingran shouted hastily, although she had a purpose, it was undeniable that she also saved her, allowing her to be reborn.

  There was no response, perhaps it was because sending her to reincarnate consumed too much energy and she fell into a deep sleep. Since she can wake up after she is born, then I'll thank her at that time. She had never said that to her before.