Chapter 254: The Special Reaction Between the Soul Suppressing Sword and the Liu Hong Sword

"It is the Soul Suppressing Sword..."

"Then tell me, as an Artifact Spirit, why was Si Yuyan able to pick up the Liu Hong Sword? At that time, Jun Tianling had not yet gone to Tianling City to challenge the Holy Emperor, and she had no physical body. In the dream where you saw Jun Tianling's perspective, she also had the Liu Hong Sword at her waist; why wasn't it the Soul Suppressing Sword?"

"From the first time you entered Jun Tianling's body, and after you returned to your own body following the healing of her injuries from the battle with the Tianyu Holy Emperor, you entered a parallel world. After entering the parallel world, because the Jiang Xun of this spacetime was already dead, and you, another Jiang Xun, appeared, the spacetime began to correct itself. The first thing it corrected was your memory and the memories of those around you."

"If you had crossed spacetime normally, your memories would not have been modified or overwritten. But your crossing was abnormal; you crossed both spacetime and time simultaneously, and arrived in a world where your spacetime double was already dead, ultimately resulting in the current consequences."

"Wait a second, I still don't understand." Jiang Xun shook his head and couldn't help but stand up.

Beside him, Si Yuyan was also listening in a daze.

As for Jun Tianling's expression, she seemed to already know about this.

"The first and second times you dreamed of Si Yuyan, they were both from someone else's perspective. You didn't see your own face or whose body you were actually in. After leaving the dream, you compared the Liu Hong Sword and the Soul Suppressing Sword. They look very similar, don't they?"

Tang Ying said upon hearing this.

"They are very similar." Jiang Xun nodded.

"The Soul Suppressing Sword's ability is to traverse time, while the Liu Hong Sword's ability is to traverse spacetime. When you were comparing them, the powers of the Soul Suppressing Sword and the Liu Hong Sword made contact and became entangled. While this energy had not yet dissipated, you traversed 【Time】 and entered Jun Tianling's body. When you returned, you traversed 【Spacetime】 and entered a parallel spacetime."

"And since you never took out both the Liu Hong Sword and the Soul Suppressing Sword at the same time afterward, even though you went to Jun Tianling's time twice more, you never returned to your original spacetime."

Jiang Xun lowered his head in thought upon hearing this.

If it were truly as Tang Ying said, from when did it start...

It had already been a parallel spacetime since the day before he went to the Baihua Sect to scout for information, before the merger of the Baihua Sect.

If that were really the case, then he had never been in a relationship with Yin Ningyu? The one who had been in a relationship with her was the version of himself in this body, and he had merely inherited those memories, which then became jumbled with his own.

No, that's not the right way to think about it either.

Tang Ying said that the world remained basically the same, but things anchored to him had changed. He should have been in a relationship with Yin Ningyu, but if he hadn't come, perhaps the Lingerie-Sect would not have gone to merge with the Baihua Sect.

So, it should be thought of as spacetime shaping a memory of him having been in a relationship with Yin Ningyu for both himself and those related to him.

This is also the reason why the system could not be used during Jun Tianling's time.

The first time he was inside Jun Tianling, he was quickly hacked to death by a sword strike from Jun Tianling.

The second time he tried to use the system, it could not be summoned. Based on the fact that Jiang Xun can still use the system in the parallel spacetime now, the reason the system could not be used at that time was that he and that Jun Tianling were not in the same spacetime and time.

Neither of the conditions for summoning the system was met, so it could not be used.

If he were to return to his so-called own world, then when he went to Jun Tianling's timeline again, he should be able to use the system.

"There is another piece of evidence. The person you and Jun Tianling killed was my mother, the kind that was reduced to ashes. But you should have already seen my mother in this world; her body is unharmed, and I have frozen it in a cave on Xuwang Mountain."

Tang Ying continued.

This was indeed a question that had always puzzled Jiang Xun, because he had watched with his own eyes as Tang Qingming was reduced to ashes.

Speaking of this, he had instructed Tu Qingtian to live well and be a good person.

But the Tu Qingtian of this world had never heard such words, which was why the Tianwu Sect appeared...

The Tu Mo of that world was skin and bones, and the "double-door refrigerator" Tu Mo of this world was also one of the proofs.

It seems what Tang Ying said is true; he really is not a person of this world.

"This Si Yuyan is also not the Si Yuyan of this world. There is a reason why her eyes are one black and one blue."

"What reason?" Jiang Xun asked.

"I can't say. If I say it, it won't happen." Tang Ying shook her head: "The first time you crossed spacetime, you brought Si Yuyan with you. Later, when you went to the Jun Tianling you knew, only you yourself crossed spacetime, so you were unable to communicate with the Si Yuyan in your divine sense over there."

"Then why, after I came to this spacetime and saw Jun Tianling again, was it still my spacetime, and not the Jun Tianling of this spacetime? You also said that after that one time, I haven't crossed spacetime anymore, right?"

Jiang Xun asked, puzzled.

"Because when you first crossed time, the two Soul Suppressing Swords from different times had already locked onto each other through a Formation, and the Soul Suppressing Sword had already been fed to its limit. You have never fed the Liu Hong Sword. The Soul Suppressing Sword is stronger than the Liu Hong Sword; the first impression takes precedence, and it will take you back to two thousand years before your spacetime."

"And in this process, the Soul Suppressing Sword will extract power from the Liu Hong Sword. I think... if you continue to travel from this spacetime to two thousand years before that spacetime, at most four or five more times, the Liu Hong Sword will break completely."

Tang Ying thought for a moment and said.

"By then, this Si Yuyan, who is the Artifact Spirit of the Liu Hong Sword, will also die. Don't think about using a Soul Returning Pill; an Artifact Spirit is not a human, and the Soul Returning Pill is ineffective. The corpse you 'collected' is also the body of the Si Yuyan of this world. If you use it on her, the one who will be resurrected is the Si Yuyan of this world, not your Si Yuyan."

At most five times... and Si Yuyan will die.

"... Didn't you use Soul Returning Pills to trade with the Tianyu Dynasty? That being said, you have many Soul Returning Pills, so why not use them on Si Yuyan and Tang Qingming?" Jiang Xun looked at Tang Ying and asked.

"Isn't it because of you?" Tang Ying curled her lips and said.

"Me?" Jiang Xun was confused.

"The Jiang Xun of this world was originally just a mediocre Nascent Soul cultivator whose lifespan had already reached its end, and he was already dead. Women like Ruo Lan, Ming Ning, Yin Ningyu, Cang Xingling, and so on, had nothing to do with him in the first place."

"But you, kid, are different; you pounce on every one you see. Yuyan and my mother are both very important people to me, so before you left, I had no intention of resurrecting them."

Tang Ying looked at Jiang Xun and said with some helplessness.

"..." Jiang Xun was speechless upon hearing this; this completely described him as a pervert.

I certainly wouldn't dare to compliment Tang Qingming's appearance!

"They have been dead for a long time, right? Did you know early on that I would come?" Jiang Xun then asked again.

"My mother's body was only found recently. Yuyan was not a corpse; she was right by my side. It was after you came that spacetime corrected itself, turning Yuyan into a corpse and keeping her by your side. It was also at that time, when I was preparing to look for Yuyan, that the future you came and told me all of this."

Tang Ying shook her head.

In fact, her main purpose in letting Jiang Xun come to Ice Soul Valley was to get back the corpse of the Si Yuyan of this spacetime.

But she also knew in her heart that the current Jiang Xun would not hand over that body.