Rebuilding the Immortal Cultivator Clan

Chapter 551 - 557: Origins

This method indeed greatly weakened the power of the Thunder Dragon, relieving Jiang Fengwuʼs pressure, but it also inflicted severe injuries on herself!

You must know, to refine a magic artifact requires leaving behind a sliver of divine sense, for that is the only way to control the magic artifact.

When Jiang Fengwu detonated the magic artifact, her divine sense had no time to retract!

The divine sense is an extension of the spiritual soul!

Therefore, under the influence of the self-destructing multiple magic artifacts, Jiang Fengwuʼs spiritual soul suffered a significant impact.

Xuanwu seized the opportunity, its turtle and snake heads fiercely ripping off a large chunk of flesh from the Thunder Dragon, continuously attacking the wound.

Roar!

The Thunder Dragon roared angrily, but it grew increasingly weak until it finally shattered into specks of thunder light, turning into a splendid fireworks display.

”We held on!”

In the distance, the watching clanspeople cheered one after another when they saw the Thunder Dragon gradually dissipating, as though Jiang Fengwu had successfully transcended the Thunder Tribulation.

But Li Zhiruiʼs face was gloomy as water.

Jiang Fengwuʼs previous actions were akin to drinking poison to quench thirst!

She had resisted the onslaught of the thunder, but with her spiritual soul damaged, could she still maintain her Dao heart through the final Heart Demon Tribulation?

At this moment, Jiang Fengwu had already fallen into the Heart Demon Illusion Realm.

”Fengʼer, get up quickly. Today is the day for testing the Spiritual Roots, and we cannot delay,” a voice as gentle as water called the sleeping Jiang Fengwu awake.

Jiang Fengwu abruptly sat up in bed, her young face full of fear, with tears in her eyes.

”Fengʼer, did you have a nightmare again? Thereʼs nothing to worry about, those are all just nightmares, they wonʼt really happen,” the woman said with pity, embracing her and gently patting her back.

It took a while before Jiang Fengwu calmed down.

”Mother, Iʼm fine now. Letʼs go quickly,” she said.

Soon, the mother and daughter arrived at the place for testing the Spiritual Roots.

Since there werenʼt many people being tested, it was quickly their turn.

”Fengʼer, when you enter the formation, donʼt think about anything else. Just wait quietly,” her mother advised.

Before long, a blue and a green Spirit Light soared into the sky.

”Dual spiritual roots, and they are heterogeneous dual spiritual roots!”

The Elder in charge of testing the Spiritual Roots laughed manically, ”Hahaha, my Jiang family has finally birthed a genius!”

This event startled all the high-ranking members of the Jiang family, who issued an order of silence and focused on cultivating Jiang Fengwu.

Time flew swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

Jiang Fengwuʼs aptitude was superb. Even without consuming many Spirit Pills, she had cultivated to the sixth layer of Qi Cultivation, just a step away from the late stage.

During these ten years, Jiang Fengwu still occasionally experienced nightmares, but she had long since become accustomed to them and didnʼt take them to heart.

But the nightmare really did come!

On a very ordinary day, as Jiang Fengwu was cultivating in her room, hoping for an early breakthrough to the later stage of Qi Cultivation,

a series of urgent knocks jolted her out of her meditative state.

Opening the door with impatience, Jiang Fengwu said, ”What happened? Why knock so urgently? What if I succumbed to cultivation deviation?”

”Fengʼer, we have to hurry!” The woman pulled her anxiously toward the center of the familial territory.

Before she could react, Jiang Fengwu found herself following family members of her generation, led by the elders, to a dense forest outside their land.

”It really happened! This event actually happened!”

Jiang Fengwu, as if suffering immense pain, collapsed to the ground, her face twisted grotesquely as she screamed in agony, ”No! This is wrong!”

”Iʼm currently breaking through to Nascent Soul, those images were all experiences from my childhood!”

Crackling—

The moment Jiang Fengwu understood, the entire Illusionary Realm shattered like broken mirror pieces, completely dissipating.

”Did it succeed?!”

Li Zhirui, who had already given up hope, looked at the change before him, completely stunned. How could it happen so suddenly?

He saw the rolling dark clouds instantly turn into dense and pure Spiritual Energy, forming a massive pillar of clouds that descended from the sky and entered Jiang Fengwuʼs body.

Under the nourishment of this Mana, the Golden Core within Jiang Fengwuʼs body gradually took on the appearance of a Nascent Soul in its infancy.

”It succeeded!”

”It succeeded!”

”The familyʼs second Nascent Soul True Lord has been born!”

The clan members cheered exuberantly, exceptionally excited.

”That was really lucky!” After absorbing the Spiritual Energy, Jiang Fengwu said bitterly.

In the Illusionary Realm, her consciousness had been obscured by a Heart Demon; she was like a real five-year-old girl.

This was probably because Jiang Fengwuʼs Spiritual Soul had been damaged, giving the Heart Demon, adept at creating illusions and manipulating the five senses, the opportunity to obscure her consciousness, making her more likely to succumb to the Illusionary Realm and unable to extricate herself.

The nightmares Jiang Fengwu experienced were actually the resistance of her own consciousness.

If it werenʼt for the shock of her clansmen dying to the last, she might never have awakened from the Illusionary Realm.

Jiang Fengwu originally came from a minor Foundation Establishment family clan; she had parents who loved her dearly, and she was highly valued in her family because of her dual spiritual roots.

However, this news was known to the mortal enemies of the Jiang family.

To prevent her from growing up, the enemies allied with several other clans and launched a fierce attack on the Jiang family.

Initially, Jiang Fengwu didnʼt know the outcome of the great war, only that the elders protecting her all died on the road. Without the protection of her elders, she, only at the Qi Cultivation middle stage, became a Loose Cultivator.

After experiencing countless dangers, Jiang Fengwu climbed up from the very bottom, and during the Foundation Establishment Realm, became the famous captain of the Demon Hunting Squad. Then, she closed herself off for Core Formation and fortuitously broke through.

The first thing she did after her breakthrough wasnʼt to seek Li Zhirui on Wanxian Island, but to take revenge for her clan members who had been dead for over a hundred years!

That day, Jiang Fengwu killed over a thousand cultivators from the enemy clan, the An family, and other powers!

If you count the mortals implicated, that number was at least five thousand.

Because these were all minor clans, their territories werenʼt large, so there would be many mortals living near the mountain gates of the clan lands, to make better use of the land.

But regardless of whether Jiang Fengwu intended it or not, those mortals died because of her.

Cultivators must not massacre mortals wantonly, otherwise they would incur Karmic Force!

This is an iron law of the heavens!

Demon Cultivators scoff at this because they simply donʼt fear the Karmic Force from killing mortals, and they have special methods.

”The past affairs, today they are truly concluded.” Jiang Fengwu murmured softly, her words indiscernible to others.

Heavenly Tribulation, apart from being a test for cultivators, is also a purification.

If one succeeds, all past Karmic Force is erased. If one fails, oneʼs soul returns to the Netherworld.

In other words, the Karmic Force Jiang Fengwu had accumulated before was now cleansed.

”Are you okay?” Li Zhirui flew over to Jiang Fengwu and asked with concern.

”Iʼm fine, the Tribulation Spirit Qi incidentally healed many of my internal injuries,” Jiang Fengwu replied with a smile, shaking her head. ”I know you have many questions in your heart. Wait until I solidify my realm, then I will explain everything to you.”

”Alright, I will wait for you, and I believe in you.”