Chapter 258

After that, Jun Tianling challenged the former Heavenly Feather Saint Emperor, severely wounding him while escaping with severe injuries herself.

Then, Si Yuyan appeared.

She was a disciple of the Void Sect, a reclusive sect living on the mountain where Jun Tianling fled; at the time, the Void Sect wanted to rival the ancient sects, so no one in the world knew of their existence.

Si Yuyan treated Jun Tianling and kept her in the Void Sect to recover.

Three months later, Jun Tianling's injuries were fully healed, and she decided to stay in the Void Sect to lie in wait and choose a suitable target.

One year and nine months later, Jun Tianling ambushed the Void Sect Master—who was the Lingshan Sword Saint, another of the three missing saints Zhongli Lingyu had mentioned to Jiang Xun—and seized both the sainthood and the position of Void Sect Master.

Si Yuyan had nurtured a tiger that would eventually devour her; she desperately tried to avenge her master, the Lingshan Sword Saint, but was no match for Jun Tianling.

Jun Tianling spared her life in return for saving her, turning her into the artifact spirit of the Soul Suppressor.

After becoming a saint, Jun Tianling began to cultivate diligently to increase her strength, while simultaneously expanding the Void Sect and recruiting disciples.

That same year, Tang Qingming went missing in the Tangming Dynasty, the dynasty fell into civil strife, and Tang Ying left to establish the Hundred Flowers Sect.

She had been searching for Tang Qingming's whereabouts ever since.

More than a hundred years later, the Void Sect's reputation soared and the name of the Saint Jun Tianling spread throughout the world; Tang Ying discovered that Jun Tianling had become a saint around the same time Tang Qingming went missing, so she went to the Void Sect to investigate.

At that time, in order to regain her physical body, Si Yuyan had been acting very obedient, so Jun Tianling gradually let her guard down, reshaped a body for her, and began a long period of seclusion to break through to the Great Perfection of the Mahayana stage.

Tang Ying, having arrived at the Void Sect, met Si Yuyan; upon learning Tang Ying's identity, Si Yuyan fabricated a lie, claiming that Jun Tianling had killed Tang Qingming to become a saint, and persuaded Tang Ying to join her in seeking revenge.

Because one was at the early stage of the Integration realm and the other at the late stage, they were no match for Jun Tianling, so they disguised themselves as a couple and devoted themselves to building up the Void Sect for Jun Tianling during her seclusion.

After Jun Tianling emerged from seclusion, they spent another thousand years waiting.

On one hand, they were waiting for one of them to reach the Great Perfection of the Integration realm to inherit the sainthood, and on the other, they were looking for Jun Tianling's weaknesses.

By the time Tang Ying reached the Great Perfection of the Integration realm and Si Yuyan reached the peak of the late stage, they noticed that Jun Tianling would temporarily seal her spiritual power while drinking, so they began to drink with her regularly.

At first, Jun Tianling remained cautious, but as time passed, she let her guard down and was killed by the combined efforts of Tang Ying and Si Yuyan, with Tang Ying inheriting the sainthood.

The thousand-year charade as a couple had caused genuine feelings to develop between Si Yuyan and Tang Ying, so after Jun Tianling died, Si Yuyan told Tang Ying the truth, revealing that Jun Tianling had not killed Tang Qingming.

Tang Ying was furious at being deceived for a thousand years, but she couldn't bring herself to harm Si Yuyan, so she chose to leave Void Mountain to inquire about Tang Qingming's whereabouts at the Moon-Gazing Pavilion.

However, as soon as she arrived in Tianling City, Tang Ying was targeted by the Heavenly Feather Dynasty due to the old grudge between Jun Tianling and the dynasty, as well as the news that had spread over the last millennium about Tang Ying and Jun Tianling building the Void Sect.

Unable to fight off so many opponents, Tang Ying was severely wounded, just as a worried Si Yuyan arrived in Tianling City and witnessed the scene.

Si Yuyan stepped forward to help Tang Ying, but the Heavenly Feather Dynasty attacked her as well; as she was not a saint, Si Yuyan was unable to withstand the attacks of the Heavenly Feather Saint Emperor.

On the verge of death, Tang Ying threw herself onto Si Yuyan's sword—the Soul Suppressor obtained from Jun Tianling—and the sainthood was transferred to Si Yuyan.

Although heartbroken, Si Yuyan knew she had to leave immediately.

She took a medicinal pill to trigger her heavenly tribulation and used the chaos to escape back to the Void Sect.

During this incident, Si Yuyan was mistaken for Jun Tianling, and the location of the Void Sect was exposed.

Si Yuyan used Tang Ying's magical artifact to freeze and seal her body, hoping to one day find a Soul-Returning Pill to resurrect her.

However, shortly after, the Heavenly Feather Dynasty joined forces with the ten major sects to attack the Void Sect; since most of the disciples were essentially Si Yuyan's juniors, she fought the ten sects to protect the sect and ultimately died in battle.

Her soul and sainthood were sealed within the Soul Suppressor.

Thus, the Jun Tianling, Si Yuyan, and Tang Ying of this world all perished.

The vision vanished before Jiang Xun's eyes, and he looked at Tang Ying: "It was at the most critical moment, and you won't let me see the rest?"

"You can't know what happens after that," Tang Ying nodded.

"..." Jiang Xun was speechless; all three were dead, but looking at the current situation, Tang Ying was alive, Si Yuyan was alive before he arrived, so Jun Tianling must be alive too.

And now, the Jun Tianling inside Ming Ning's body seemed to be at Tang Ying's mercy—could it be that she couldn't beat the current Tang Ying?

Then how did she resurrect and return to the Mahayana stage? And why was she in Ming Ning's body?

He also hadn't expected that in this timeline, Si Yuyan's avatar was a human who became an artifact spirit, rather than an artifact spirit who became a human.

Si Yuyan's body was also at the Mahayana stage; the three of them had killed three saints and one supreme being—surely someone would know about the fall of a supreme being? At least Zhongli Lingyu should know, right?

Right, she didn't dare speak of the events at Ice Soul Valley.

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Three days later, Tang Ying had not conceived, so she called Jiang Xun into her room again.

And then, another three days later.

They kept up a rhythm of one full night every three days.

During this time, Jiang Xun didn't go anywhere except to Tang Ying's room and Ming Ning's room.

On the tenth day, both Tang Ying and Ming Ning came to Jiang Xun's room.

"Just like this, we can cross through time?"

Jiang Xun took out the Liu Hong Sword and the Soul Suppressor, holding them parallel to each other.

"Yes," Tang Ying nodded, "You can't perceive it, but these two swords have indeed undergone spiritual entanglement; now you can return to your own timeline, to the moment you left."

Although Jiang Xun really didn't want to return to that old man's body, he couldn't go to any other time.

Because that old man's body had no one controlling it, and without the system, he would likely be dead in the future; Jiang Xun had no choice but to return there and then break through to the Spirit Transformation stage.

"What will happen to my body during this time?" Jiang Xun then asked.

"Logically speaking, if you return to this timeline again, you will still return to this point in time; for us, you will be back in three seconds," Tang Ying said.

【55】 (Already translated in 54)

"Alright, then you two wait for me to come back and dote on you," Jiang Xun nodded and said.

"Oh?" Tang Ying's eyes narrowed at his words.

"No, no, you dote on me," Jiang Xun quickly conceded.

"Get lost," Tang Ying said, then turned and walked out.

"Be careful. When I'm not around, be more meticulous, don't let unimportant things delay your main tasks, and rein in your temper," Ming Ning said, looking at Jiang Xun.

"I promise," Jiang Xun nodded with a smile.

"Go," Ming Ning nodded.

Following this, Jiang Xun gripped the Liu Hong Sword and the Soul Suppressing Sword and began to perform a spatial leap.