Chapter 259: True Memories, Reshaping the Spirit Root

As Jiang Xun's thoughts stirred, the soul-suppressing array began to emit light.

The light enveloped Jiang Xun, and then...

A Spacetime, Lingxiao Mountain, Lingerie-Sect, the small hut at the foot of the mountain...

An old man with white hair, dressed in the Nine Heavens Reversal Robe, stood beside the hut, holding the soul-suppressing array and the Liu Hong Sword.

After opening his eyes and looking around, the old man shouted, "Darling Yuyan?"

"Huh, you've turned into an old man again."

Si Yuyan's voice came almost simultaneously.

"Phew, I'm relieved you're here."

Jiang Xun breathed a sigh of relief; his voice, as he spoke, was indeed much more aged.

After sensing for a moment, he confirmed his strength had indeed returned to the Nascent Soul Early Stage.

He then tried to open the system.

This time, the system appeared directly in front of Jiang Xun.

Jiang Xun chose to view his character panel:

【Name: Jiang Xun】

【Age: 1008 years old】

【Remaining Lifespan: 611 years】

【Constitution: Natural Charm Bone】

【Spirit Root: Mixed Spiritual Root】

At this moment, Jiang Xun had only recently consumed a Supreme Great Restoration Pill, so his lifespan had been restored, but it was far from as long as the Jiang Xun of the Spirit Transformation Stage in B Spacetime.

Jiang Xun then opened the System Space; inside, Si Yuyan's corpse was still there. According to the theory of spacetime repair, this body was the body of the A Spacetime Si Yuyan, meaning that in A Spacetime, Si Yuyan had indeed died.

Furthermore, in the projection Tang Ying had shown him in B Spacetime, it was Tang Ying who had taken the initiative to go to the Void Sect, whereas now, the Jun Tianling of two thousand years ago in A Spacetime was preparing to go to the Baihua Sect with him voluntarily—it was completely the opposite.

Jiang Xun's memories had indeed undergone changes.

He had previously firmly believed that his Master had attained the Void Refining Great Perfection through the Grandmaster's transmission of power before entering seclusion, but now Jiang Xun clearly knew that Ruo Lan had attained the Void Refining Great Perfection through dual cultivation harvesting.

And it was also this Ruo Lan who had said to him back then: "If you're still alive when I come out, I'll have some fun with you."

No wonder Ruo Lan had seemed strange when she came out of seclusion in B Spacetime; despite having said such things, she appeared embarrassed to do that with him, and the interference of the memory that his Master had received the Grandmaster's transmission had caused Jiang Xun to fail to notice the anomaly.

He also recalled that in A Spacetime, Ming Ning had deeply inherited Ruo Lan's legacy, harvesting madly every day, and it was absolutely real, for Jiang Xun had seen it with his own eyes; the young Jiang Xun, who had just arrived on the mountain and was wholeheartedly in love with Ming Ning, had felt his little heart shatter.

Jiang Xun also remembered Gu Qing secretly dual cultivating with others behind his back; afterwards, Jiang Xun had dealt with all those disciples, and Gu Qing, terrified by Jiang Xun, had later been as obedient as a dog.

Jiang Xun had only had a hunch that Tu Qing was dual cultivating with others, but he had no substantive evidence, so it had always been left unsettled.

After his cultivation was struck by lightning down to Foundation Establishment, everyone in the Lingerie-Sect treated him as a cripple, and Gu Qing and Tu Qing had changed too, not even glancing at Jiang Xun.

This small hut at the foot of the mountain had been built by Jiang Xun himself, with the main goal of stubbornly refusing to leave the Lingerie-Sect.

It wasn't until Jiang Xun obtained the system that Gu Qing and the others began to flatter him in order to obtain Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure from him, allowing Jiang Xun to get the Nine Heavens Reversal Robe and such.

Compared to the actual experiences of the Jiang Xun of A Spacetime, Jiang Xun still preferred the Lingerie-Sect in B Spacetime, where everyone's memories had been modified and reshaped.

And he had indeed had a relationship with Yin Ningyu; that part of his feelings for Yin Ningyu hadn't changed much, but the memory of being surrounded by Tianwu Sect disciples was gone, replaced by other Demonic Sects whose strength was insufficient and who had been subdued by the combined forces of the Baihua Sect and the Lingerie-Sect.

This was also the reason why Jiang Xun and Yin Ningyu would develop feelings.

The Lingerie-Sect had no intention of merging with the Baihua Sect at this moment, and they were completely indifferent to having fallen out of the Ten Great Sects; to them, indulgence was enough.

Not only were the enchantresses of the Lingerie-Sect of this style, but Jiang Xun himself was even less of a good person, burning, killing, looting, bullying men and women, stealing people's wives, and committing all kinds of evil.

This was also why the Yin Ningyu of B Spacetime felt that Jiang Xun had changed a lot; after all, the original Jiang Xun of A Spacetime was far less ruthless.

"It seems Tang Ying was telling the truth; we really went to another spacetime and stayed for a long time," Si Yuyan said, looking at the surroundings.

"Jiabuli? Sikong Yuhuan?" Jiang Xun nodded and tried calling out, but there was no response.

It seemed only Si Yuyan, as the Artifact Spirit of the Liu Hong Sword, could follow Jiang Xun across spacetime.

"The most urgent task is to improve my strength, at least return this body to a youthful state, and then change my Spirit Root."

"Strange, why is there no Tianwu Sect in my memory?"

Thinking of changing his Spirit Root, Jiang Xun naturally thought of Shenmu Ling, and thus thought of the Tianwu Sect, but there was no memory of the Tianwu Sect in this body of his.

Jiang Xun thought carefully and discovered that his memories of the Void Sect Secret Realm had also changed.

The Tianwu Sect disciples Tu Wan, A Bao, and A Hong from his B Spacetime memories had become Wushang Pavilion disciples, and no Demonic Sect had appeared in the battle at the Void Sect Secret Realm.

If this was the case, it proved that the words Jiang Xun had said to Tu Qingtian when he went to Jun Tianling's side last time had been taken to heart; Tu Qingtian had not established the Wushang Pavilion while establishing the Tianwu Sect, but had only built the righteous Wushang Pavilion.

Then now, Tu Qingtian, Tu Nan, and Tu Mo should be inside the Wushang Pavilion, and if nothing went wrong, Shenmu Ling should be there too.

Then the problem arose: the current Jiang Xun had not yet come into contact with Tu Qingtian and the others, meaning he only knew Tu Wan and could not persuade Tu Qingtian to let Shenmu Ling change his Spirit Root at all.

Then he could only...

Jiang Xun took several bottles of essence blood out of the System Space.

They were the Ancestor Essence Blood and Cloud Saint Essence Blood he hadn't used before, as well as the Thunder God Essence Blood.

The Fire God and Ice Spirit Essence Blood were no longer there, which showed that things taken from the system in B Spacetime were indeed taken out.

"Are you planning to swallow them again? You were lucky that the Fire God Essence Blood and Ice Spirit Essence Blood were compatible before, but among the remaining essence bloods, there are none that restrain each other," Si Yuyan said upon seeing this.

"It's fine, I have so many Soul Returning Pills, I'll just keep popping them."

As Jiang Xun spoke, he swallowed the Thunder God Essence Blood directly, because he really couldn't figure out what the Cloud Saint and Ancestor ones were.

Once bitten, twice shy, Jiang Xun sat cross-legged on the ground and began to absorb the essence blood.

The Thunder God Essence Blood began to riot upon contact with Jiang Xun's blood; in an instant, lightning began to erupt from Jiang Xun's body, his blood vessels burst instantly, and his skin turned into the appearance of charred charcoal in a flash.

Jiang Xun hurriedly ate a Soul Returning Pill, his body began to recover, but the next moment it burst again, and Jiang Xun ate another.

Almost one Soul Returning Pill every five seconds, and Jiang Xun's soul was simultaneously enduring the ravages of the Thunder God.

Jiang Xun, while eating Soul Returning Pills, was absorbing the essence blood with all his might while howling in pain; as long as he absorbed all this essence blood, this power would be Jiang Xun's.

"Keep it up!" Si Yuyan cheered Jiang Xun on within his soul, while simultaneously controlling the Liu Hong Sword to continuously provide Spirit Power to Jiang Xun.

After half an hour of torment and the consumption of 720 Soul Returning Pills, Jiang Xun finally absorbed all of the Thunder God Essence Blood completely, and his body recovered as it was before.

Stretching out his palm, black lightning immediately appeared in it, looking incomparably tyrannical.

"It feels like it's very powerful," Jiang Xun said with a smile as he looked at the Black Thunder in his palm.

PS: In A Spacetime, no female characters known to the protagonist will appear other than Jun Tianling, Si Yuyan, Tang Ying, and the three siblings of the Tu family.