Chapter 86: Millennia-Old History Part 2

Feng Yuqin said, “Leaf Lord, please let me finish speaking with Yaya.” Then she turned to Wang Ya and said, “Yaya, remember the Refining the Heart I taught you?”

Wang Ya nodded.

Feng Yuqin said, “Whether you live as a human or a demon is decided by your heart. Calling you a Millennium Great Demon—yes and no. Your previous self died a thousand years ago. What the Feng Family enshrined for a millennium was your soul spirit. Though you cultivated for many years with a powerful Soul Consciousness, something went wrong at birth, damaging your Soul Consciousness. After Body Seizure and rebirth, you’re not much different from an ordinary person.”

Wang Ya asked, “Did I seize the body of Wang Chengzhi’s daughter, meaning I killed his daughter?”

Feng Yuqin gave Wang Ya an odd look and said, “Who told you that you were born through Body Seizure?”

Wang Ya asked, “Wasn’t I?”

Feng Yuqin said, “You were born on the fifteenth of the seventh lunar month. That child was fated weakly and failed to endure the Yin Wind Cleansing, unable to come into the world.”

Wang Ya asked, “So does that mean I Borrow Corpse Return Soul?”

Feng Yuqin asked in genuine exasperation, “Do you think you look like it? That child failed the Yin Wind Cleansing and couldn’t enter the world. You took her place after her failure and came into this world. Look at the life line on your palm—isn’t it broken and then continued?”

Wang Ya felt slightly better knowing she hadn’t taken an innocent child’s life, though not much relieved. She asked, “Is my reincarnation connected to the Feng Family’s extermination?”

Feng Yuqin said, “The Feng Family no longer had the power to protect you, and the night you were born was a heaven-sent opportunity.”

Wang Ya didn’t understand and asked, “Why didn’t I reincarnate through the wheel of rebirth?”

Upon hearing this, the Leaf Demon clenched her fists tightly and turned to glare fixedly at Wang Ya.

Feng Yuqin sighed heavily and asked, “Yaya, do you really not understand?”

Wang Ya fell silent, her eyes showing a hint of confusion. She had endured hardships to become human in this world, but after becoming human, she forgot her original purpose for reincarnating as one. She turned to the Leaf Demon and asked, “Did I reincarnate as a human for Ye Zi’s sake?”

The Leaf Demon stared at Wang Ya through gritted teeth, spitting out word by word, “I really want to slap you!”

Feng Yuqin sighed with a heavy heart and shook her head worriedly. She said, “Yaya, from now on, the Feng Family’s Inheritance is entrusted to you. Whether to continue it or let it end is up to you.” She paused and continued, “In your previous life, you were a Yellow Springs Other Shore Flower Demon rooted by the Yellow Springs. Later, you detached from your roots and leaves to enter the human world, forming a bond with the Feng Family. As a demon, you were intolerable to the world and died at the hands of Xuanmen Cultivators. You had aided the Feng Family greatly, so the Feng Family Ancestor sacrificed his own unborn child to allow your rebirth into the world. That was the chaotic era at the end of the Tang Dynasty when warlords rose together…” She paused again and said, “After rebirth, to establish yourself in the human world, you formed pacts with nine powerful Vassal Lords using the underground Yin Vein Dragon Acupoints. They protected your foothold in the human world and acted on your behalf; in return, you ensured their burial in Yin Vein Dragon Acupoints after death. The Nine Great Palaces recorded in the Yin Spirit Scroll were the tombs of those nine Vassal Lords with whom you made pacts. With your aid, the Feng Family controlled the Bardo Realm at the intersection of Yin and Yang, conducting business between the two realms, and also helped build the royal tombs for the nine Vassal Lords. All Nine Royal Tombs were designed and constructed under the Feng Family’s lead. Building the Vassal Lords’ tombs was a massive project that exhausted resources and lives. Coupled with the Feng Family’s rise, the Righteous Path sensed you pulling strings from behind the scenes, so the sects allied once more to slay the demon. Later, someone betrayed you…”

Seeing Feng Yuqin’s solemn expression as she halted, Wang Ya said, “Someone betrayed me, and I was wiped out by the united Righteous Path?”

Feng Yuqin shook her head and said, “You were captured alive. It was the Vassal King who mobilized troops, joining forces with the Feng Family to rescue you. Since you had been reborn through a Feng Family child, merging your Demonic Power into a human body, they captured you and brutally flayed your skin, dismembered your bones to separate it out, extracting your Souls from your demon body… When you were rescued, you were already in pieces. Even an immortal like the Great Luo couldn’t save you. Before departing the world, you peeled the skin from your own back to create the Yin Spirit Scroll and sealed your remnant body that still had a bit of Life Force inside it. The remaining fragments were buried separately in the Nine Royal Tombs.”

Wang Ya hadn’t expected her previous life to have ended so miserably. From Feng Yuqin’s incomplete words, she could imagine the tortures inflicted by those so-called Righteous Path experts. If this life’s self fell into their hands, the outcome would likely be no better! Her previous life’s Yellow Springs Other Shore Flower Demon had been reborn through an unborn child; wasn’t this life the same? She steadied herself and asked, “What about the betrayer?”

“They were exterminated to the ninth clan and built into the ‘Bridge of Life and Death’ outside the Illusory City Labyrinth. Leaf Lord said you came from the Illusory City Labyrinth, so you’ve probably seen it.”

Wang Ya drew in a sharp breath, feeling a chill throughout her body.

Feng Yuqin said, “After your death back then, to protect the burial sites of the Nine Royal Tombs from leaking, almost everyone connected to them was silenced. Many Xuan Men were bloodbathed, and not a few had their lineages severed.”