After My Rebirth, I Ended Up Happily Ever After with the Saintess - Chapter 139

The execution of the masked man was like dropping a piece of cold ice into a boiling oil cauldron, instantly causing a chain reaction on the battlefield.

Elder Qing Xu, who was entangled with Yun Ying and the remaining Heavenly Palace disciples, sensed the complete disappearance of the masked man’s aura. His face instantly turned pale as paper, and his mind was in chaos. “How is this possible?! Elder Ghost Face, he…”

Yun Ying, who was fighting him, was severely wounded, her right shoulder bone shattered, and her life force was weak. However, her combat experience was profound, and she immediately seized this fleeting opportunity!

“Qing Xu! Your doomsday is here!” Yun Ying shouted fiercely. Ignoring her own injuries, she channeled all the remaining spiritual power in her body, along with the last bit of strength gained by burning her life essence, into the long sword in her hand. The sword erupted with an unprecedented clear brilliance, transforming into a world-shattering sword light that pierced the long rainbow!

“Nine Heavens Cloud-Breaking Sword · Final Form!”

This strike was fast, accurate, and ruthless! It condensed all of Yun Ying’s will and power, and it was filled with towering hatred for the traitor and a resolute determination to protect the sect!

Elder Qing Xu lost his composure due to the masked man’s death, and his reaction was half a beat too slow. It was too late to defend with full power. The hastily erected demonic energy shield was easily torn apart by the sword light, like paper.

“No—!”

The sword light penetrated his body! Elder Qing Xu’s figure froze in place. He looked down at the huge void in his chest, which was being continuously eroded and expanded by the pure sword energy. His eyes were filled with unwillingness, fear, and despair of death. He opened his mouth, seeming to want to say something, but in the end, nothing came out. His body disintegrated inch by inch in the scorching sword energy, turning into flying ash, his soul utterly extinguished!

The two leaders’ successive deaths caused the remaining demonic cultivators and traitors to instantly lose their command, and their morale completely collapsed.

“Elder Ghost Face is dead!”

“Elder Qing Xu is dead too!”

“Run!”

Frightened shouts rose everywhere. The remaining enemies no longer had any will to fight and scattered in all directions, wishing their parents had given them more legs.

The loyal Heavenly Palace disciples, on the other hand, erupted in cheers of surviving the catastrophe. Although everyone was injured and exhausted to the point of death, they still held on, led by the few deacons who could still move, and began to mop up the remaining enemies and treat the wounded.

After unleashing that killing strike, Yun Ying could no longer hold on, and her body fell softly, caught by a quick-eyed disciple. She watched Ye Li’s staggering figure heading towards the Xuan Nü Palace and called out weakly, “Ye Li… Yixuan… I’m counting on you…”

Ye Li turned back, looked at Yun Ying, and nodded heavily. No need for more words, everything was understood.

She turned around and walked step by step towards the tightly closed gate of the Xuan Nü Palace, which was flowing with hazy brilliant light and bizarre demonic patterns. The white jade steps beneath her feet were soaked in blood, becoming slick and sticky. Every step she took pulled at the wounds all over her body, bringing agonizing pain. Her spiritual power was almost exhausted, and her soul was also experiencing bursts of tearing pain due to the excessive use of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror and the execution of the “Deterrence of Reincarnation.”

But the light in her eyes became increasingly firm. The closer she got to the palace gate, the more clearly, she could feel the faintness of the aura behind the door, like a candle in the wind, which could be extinguished at any moment. The cold fluctuation of the “Soul-Eroding Demonic Seal,” although sluggish due to the masked man’s death, still tightly wrapped around Qin Yixuan’s origin like a venomous snake.

Finally, she reached the palace gate. As she reached out to touch the cold and magnificent door, a powerful restriction immediately sent a repulsive force. This restriction contained the sacred power of the Nine Heavens Xuan Nü; normally, only Palace Mistress Yao Guang or the Xuan Nü who had completed the inheritance could safely open it.

“Yixuan… can you hear me? Hold on… wait for me…” Ye Li gently pressed her forehead against the door, ignoring the burning pain from the restriction, and fully released her divine consciousness, trying to penetrate the restriction and establish contact with Qin Yixuan inside the door. At the same time, she slowly infused the faint spiritual power she had left, mixed with a trace of the aura of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror, into the restriction, attempting to find its weak point or cause a resonance with the internal inheritance core.

Inside the Palace: The Inheritance Core

Inside the palace gate, at the core of the inheritance.

This place should have been sacred and peaceful, full of endless vitality and profound Dao rhythm. A huge lotus platform floated in the void, beneath it were hazy seven-colored brilliant lights, and ancient heavenly maiden ascension totems were engraved on the surrounding walls. But at this moment, everything was covered with a layer of shadow.

Qin Yixuan sat cross-legged in the center of the lotus platform, her body still enveloped by the dense divine light of the Xuan Nü’s origin. However, within the sacred light, countless fine black demonic patterns writhed and wrapped around her like living things, continuously devouring and polluting the divine light. Her face was pale, almost transparent. Her originally rosy lips had lost all color, and fine cold sweat constantly slid down her forehead, soaking her clothes. Her body was trembling uncontrollably, as if enduring the extreme pain of being cut by a thousand knives.

The Soul-Eroding Demonic Seal was not only frantically draining her life essence and Xuan Nü divine power, but also continuously impacting and polluting her spiritual soul sea of consciousness. The process of inheritance was forcibly interrupted. The vast energy that should have helped her fuse memories and elevate her realm had lost its guide and was raging through her meridians and sea of consciousness, bringing tearing pain, while also making her feel incredibly weak and cold due to the loss of her origin.

Her consciousness was gradually sinking into the boundless, dark abyss. Fragments of past memories flashed before her eyes like a revolving lantern: her master’s teachings, the smiles of her fellow disciples, the hardships of cultivation, the sights she saw during her travels… Finally, it stopped on a face that was cold and stunningly beautiful, yet only showed tenderness toward her.

“A-Li…” she called out silently in her heart, full of reluctance and longing.

Just as her consciousness was about to be completely swallowed by the darkness, a voice, familiar down to the depths of her soul, carried with it extreme urgency and determination. Like the first ray of dawn piercing the eternal night, it penetrated the heavy palace gate restriction and rang directly in her heart!

“Yixuan! Hold on! I’m coming!”

It was Ye Li! She really came!

An indescribable power, accompanied by this call, surged from the nearly exhausted depths of Qin Yixuan’s heart! Her originally scattered soul seemed to receive the most effective nourishment, re-coalescing into a weak but stubborn force.

‘A-Li… is outside… She is trying… I cannot give up!’

This thought became the last pillar supporting her. She desperately concentrated her remaining will, trying to mobilize the little Xuan Nü origin left in her body, which was suppressed by the demonic seal. Like a drowning person grabbing the last straw, she vigorously charged the palace gate restriction, responding to the call from outside the door.

Boom!

Under Ye Li’s desperate external spiritual power impact, the infiltration of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror’s aura, and Qin Yixuan’s internal all-out origin response, the incredibly solid sacred restriction of the Xuan Nü Palace was finally shaken! The brilliant light and demonic patterns flowing on the palace gate violently clashed and vibrated, letting out a dull, tremendous sound!

A tiny crack first appeared in the center of the door, and then spread like a spider web! Finally, accompanied by a sigh that seemed to come from ancient times, the heavy palace gate slowly opened inward, revealing a narrow gap only wide enough for one person to pass through!

In an instant, a more concentrated and purer sacred aura, mixed with the unsettling, cold demonic energy of the Soul-Eroding Demonic Seal, surged out of the gap like a flood!

Ye Li did not hesitate for a moment. The moment the gap opened wide enough, her figure flashed, and she squeezed in like a swimming fish!

The sight inside the palace instantly sank her heart to the bottom, causing pain like a knife twisting.

On the lotus platform, the figure she cherished as her life was breathing its last. The originally radiant Xuan Nü divine robe looked somewhat dim. Her world-shattering beautiful face was filled with pain and weakness. A black demonic seal between her eyebrows flashed like an ugly scar, constantly devouring her life force.

“Yixuan!” Ye Li’s voice carried a tremor she hadn’t noticed. She instantly arrived next to the platform and carefully supported Qin Yixuan’s body, which was about to collapse.

Feeling the familiar embrace and aura, Qin Yixuan opened her eyes with great difficulty and extreme slowness. Those eyes, which were once clear as autumn water but were now dim and lifeless, burst with a faint light the moment she saw Ye Li, but that light was quickly replaced by deeper worry.

“A-Li quickly go” She used all her strength to speak intermittently, her voice so weak it was almost inaudible, “This demonic seal… is strange… it will… corrupt you… go quickly…”

“Don’t talk nonsense!” Ye Li tightly held her hand, which was frighteningly cold. Her voice was sharp and decisive, “Since I came, I will never leave alone!”

She immediately released her divine consciousness to carefully examine Qin Yixuan’s condition inside her body. This examination plunged her heart further into an ice cellar. The maliciousness and stubbornness of the Soul-Eroding Demonic Seal far exceeded her imagination! It was not simply attached to the surface; it was like countless tiny roots, deeply embedded in Qin Yixuan’s meridians, Dantian, and sea of consciousness, almost completely intertwined and fused with her Xuan Nü origin and soul! Forcing it to peel off with external force would only result in one outcome: the collapse of her origin and the utter destruction of her soul!

What to do? The Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror! Yes, the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror!

Ye Li immediately fully activated the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror fragment in her sea of consciousness. The gentle and life-filled white mirror light enveloped Qin Yixuan, trying to purify the demonic seal.

Under the mirror light’s illumination, the demonic seal was indeed clearly suppressed. The speed at which it devoured her origin slowed down somewhat, and the painful expression on Qin Yixuan’s face slightly eased. However, the demonic seal seemed to possess life; under the pressure of the mirror light, it only temporarily shrank, but its core polluting power still stubbornly occupied the depths of Qin Yixuan’s origin and could not be eradicated! The power of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror fragment seemed to be lacking!

“No… the fragment is incomplete… the power is insufficient to completely purify it…” Cold sweat beaded on Ye Li’s forehead. An unprecedented sense of powerlessness and panic welled up in her heart. She could clearly feel that the life essence of the beauty in her arms was irreversibly draining away, little by little, like sand diminishing in an hourglass. Time was truly running out!

Could it be… could it be that she had to watch her perish in her arms? Having been reborn and gone through all the hardships to get here, would she ultimately still be unable to change the outcome?

No! Absolutely not! My fate is determined by me, not by heaven! Even if it means defying fate and scattering my soul, I must save her!

An extremely crazy and dangerously perilous thought suddenly arose in Ye Li’s desperate heart—to use her own soul as a bridge to guide the power of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror, directly into the depths of Qin Yixuan’s sea of consciousness and origin, and engage in the most direct confrontation with the Soul-Eroding Demonic Seal from the core! Either completely devour and transform it; or perish with it!

This method was tantamount to completely binding the fate of their two souls together. The slightest mistake would result in both of them being corrupted and devoured by the demonic seal, their souls utterly destroyed!

But, this was the only, and the last, chance!

Ye Li lowered her head, gazing at Qin Yixuan’s eyes, which were filled with worry and pleading. She suddenly smiled. That smile shed all its coldness, leaving only endless tenderness and resolve, as if the ice and snow had melted, and spring flowers were blooming.

“Yixuan, trust me.” Her voice was very soft, but it carried an unshakeable, indestructible firmness, “Whether in life or death, we are together.”

Qin Yixuan looked at her smile and understood the unquestionable determination in her eyes. Tears instantly broke the dam, sliding down her pale cheeks. She wanted to shake her head, wanted to push her away, but she couldn’t muster even a trace of strength, only allowing the tears to blur her vision.

Ye Li no longer hesitated. She gently helped Qin Yixuan sit upright, and she herself sat cross-legged opposite her. She stretched out her hands, tightly interlocking her fingers with Qin Yixuan’s, as if to connect their life forces. Then, she slowly leaned forward, gently placing her forehead against the spot where Qin Yixuan’s ominous demonic seal emanated.

In the next moment, Ye Li closed her eyes. Her divine consciousness, without reservation, carrying all the protective light and purifying power of the Wheel of Reincarnation Mirror, like the bravest warrior, resolutely broke through the boundaries of her physical body and charged into that sacred sea of consciousness, which was being eroded by endless demonic energy and was on the brink of collapse!