After Three Lifetimes of Tragedy, I Finally Got a Happy Ending with His Majesty - Chapter 3

Millions of years of chaotic memories flooded his mind. If not for the reshaping of his Primordial Spirit after passing the three tribulations, Yan Qinyu would have surely been overwhelmed and driven insane by these memories. Even so, the sheer volume of information caused Yan Qinyu a moment of brief confusion.

“Who am I?”

Am I Yan Qinyu, the Emperor of the Divine Clan in the Linxu Realm? Or am I Duan Yan, the War General of the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty? Or perhaps, am I An Qing, the top assassin of the Blade Night organization?

Of the three lifetimes of memories, those of the Linxu Realm were the most vast ten thousand years of predestined fate.

As the dust settled, Yan Qinyu straightened out his memories. He sighed. The world is ever-changing; seas turn into mulberry fields. Thousands of years had passed, and he had actually been reborn through his tribulations. Faced with an inevitable death, someone had risked everything to save him.

The three tribulations were now over. Not only had his three souls reconverged to grant him rebirth, but his cultivation had also broken through. If he were to return to the Linxu Realm now, no one would be his match. This time, none of those bastards would be able to escape!

Yan Qinyu’s gaze turned icy, but as he thought of something, his expression softened. Revenge could be put aside for the moment. He now had to find someone—the person who had accompanied him through three lifetimes and helped him pass the tribulations.

Ten thousand years ago, when he was schemed against in the Linxu Realm, it was the Demon Emperor Yuan Ruoshen who had risked his life to take him away. To allow him to be reborn, Yuan Ruoshen had shielded the heavenly secrets and brought his fragmented soul to the lower realm to undergo tribulations.

In his first tribulation, he was Duan Yan (Duan Fuyu), the founding War General of the Great Yan Dynasty, and Yuan Ruoshen was the Emperor, Lu Xuan (Lu Zichen). Unfortunately, he had died a bit too early in that lifetime. After the Great Yan was unified, Lu Xuan created a glorious golden age for the dynasty, and after passing the throne to his nephew Lu Yuan, he committed suicide to follow him in death.

To think His Majesty was such a fool for love!

After Yuan Ruoshen’s Primordial Spirit awakened, he had set up layers of formations in the Imperial Mausoleum to protect Yan Qinyu’s Primordial Spirit. For over nine hundred years, he had used his own divine power to nourish Yan Qinyu. After the Great Yan Dynasty fell, Yuan Ruoshen awoke again, condensing the dynasty’s national destiny from the past nine hundred years to nourish Yan Qinyu’s spirit and reconstruct his body.

By the time Yan Qinyu’s Primordial Spirit was fully restored, over a thousand years had passed in this realm, but the tribulation of the human soul was imminent and could not be missed. Yuan Ruoshen had once again accompanied Yan Qinyu to undergo the tribulation together.

Speaking of which, the tribulation of the human soul was truly miserable. Yan Qinyu was reincarnated as the eldest son of the Yan family, one of the four great clans in the capital. However, he was kidnapped by a rival family before he was even three years old and eventually sold to an organization called “Blade Night.” This organization was an incredibly vast existence on the international stage, committing all sorts of illegal activities across various countries that even governments couldn’t handle.

Yan Qinyu ended up in this organization, taking the codename “An Qing,” where he was abused and tortured daily, hovering on the edge of life and death. He endured in silence until one day, he single-handedly destroyed a branch of the organization. He had intended to fake his death to completely break free, but the tribulation of the human soul began he had to experience suffering, betrayal, loss, unfulfilled desires, and finally, die at a specific time.

Sui Jing had used himself to fulfill this final tribulation, betraying him and personally killing him. Sui Jing and Yuan Ruoshen were the same person, yet different. Sui Jing was Yuan Ruoshen’s second Primordial Spirit one body with two souls, one a demonic soul and the other a divine soul. In modern terms, it would be called a split personality. Yuan Ruoshen was the good divine soul, while Sui Jing was the evil demonic soul. Yuan Ruoshen was the main god, so Sui Jing spent most of his time in slumber.

But both of them loved Yan Qinyu equally. This was Sui Jing’s first awakening in ten thousand years, and the first change he faced was his lover’s tragic death. He could only descend to the lower realm to undergo the tribulation and condense his Primordial Spirit. For Sui Jing to personally kill Yan Qinyu—how cruel was that for him? Yet, he had had no choice.

After Yan Qinyu died as An Qing, his Primordial Spirit remained “awake” until he was eventually brought into the Yan Mountain Imperial Mausoleum to return to his true form. That was why he had seen Sui Jing plunge the dagger into his own chest and burn the dungeon building with the Sun True Fire at the very end.

Sui Jing… In this lifetime, Sui Jing and Yuan Ruoshen had separated their layouts, so Yuan Ruoshen had reincarnated, and Sui Jing must have fallen back into slumber after returning to his true form. The cost of Yuan Ruoshen saving Yan Qinyu was too high; weren’t these two lifetimes also his own tribulations?

Now, Yuan Ruoshen was still in a mortal body, his Primordial Spirit unawakened. Yan Qinyu needed to find him and wake him up early. He just didn’t know who Yuan Ruoshen had reincarnated as in this lifetime.

Sigh…

Yan Qinyu stood up and stepped out of the bronze coffin, looking at Gu Yun, who was sitting on the ground in a daze. Yan Qinyu paused, detecting a familiar aura from Gu Yun. He calculated it and discovered the connection. It was the same soul, but not the same person. Gu Yun’s soul was Gu Xuanfeng, his junior brother from his first tribulation who had grown up with him.

The Gu clan had guarded the Imperial Mausoleum for over two thousand years, doing all they could for the Great Yan. In this lifetime, the gates to the Underworld were closed, the cycle of reincarnation was broken, and the souls of the human world naturally returned to heaven and earth, condensing from fragments into new souls for reincarnation. Thus, Gu Yun was not Gu Xuanfeng, but a new soul condensed from Gu Xuanfeng’s soul essence.

Yan Qinyu walked over and helped Gu Yun up. Gu Yun was still reeling in shock, and seeing Yan Qinyu reach out to help, his face turned pale with fright. “Don’t, don’t, don’t!”

Yan Qinyu found it amusing and said, “Don’t be afraid; I won’t do anything to you.”

Gu Yun was still stunned, blankly asking, “Are… are you Duan Yan?”

Yan Qinyu nodded with a smile. It was no wonder Gu Yun was so surprised. In the five thousand years of Summer’s history, the Great Yan accounted for one-fifth. As the strongest and most prosperous dynasty in history, there were countless famous figures. But the top spot belonged to the Great Yan’s founder, Emperor Yan Wu the one who ended the chaos, unified the seven nations, and created the golden age of Great Yan a truly legendary emperor through the ages. And the one who played a crucial role was the War General Duan Yan, who had conquered the world for the Great Yan and never lost a battle.

He was one of the most famous generals in history. A key figure in every history textbook who wouldn’t know him? Seeing the person in the flesh, Gu Yun felt that when he died and faced his ancestors, he could brag about this it was too shocking!

Seeing the “I can die in peace now” look on Gu Yun’s face, Yan Qinyu was left speechless. If he knew that he himself was one of the founding generals of the Great Yan, Gu Xuanfeng, in his past life, he would probably be so amused he’d faint. A real-life case of “I became my own ancestor.”

Yan Qinyu asked, “I have just awakened and do not know much about the outside world. Could you explain it to me?”

Gu Yun felt flattered. The young man before him had a deceptive appearance—aloof yet not overbearing, quite gentle instead. Though he looked not much older than twenty, he was actually a “man of antiquity” from over two thousand years ago. Because of his admiration for Duan Yan, Gu Yun felt an inexplicable chill; he felt an immense sense of oppression from Yan Qinyu and spoke with great caution.

“Don’t be so reserved; I won’t eat you,” Yan Qinyu laughed helplessly.

“Ah… ha… ha… I’m just a little nervous…” Gu Yun laughed dryly.

After conversing with Yan Qinyu for a few moments, Gu Yun discovered that the War General had an excellent temperament—gentle as jade, a humble gentleman, without any murderous intent, but rather a scholarly air. Gradually, Gu Yun became less nervous and began to tell Yan Qinyu about the events of the past two thousand years.

Yan Qinyu indeed knew little of the outside world. To be precise, what he cared about was the relationship between this realm and the Linxu Realm, as well as his own karma with this world. This realm was formed from a fragment of the origin of the Linxu Realm and shared a similar structure. While the Linxu Realm had six realms, this realm had three the Divine, Human, and Underworld realms, which did not interfere with one another.

Over three thousand years ago, spiritual energy had been extremely abundant, but after a great catastrophe, the gates to the Underworld were closed, and spiritual energy was severed. The last gods of the world died, leaving only the human realm. Thousands of years later, the Underworld was gone, but since souls could not undergo direct reincarnation, it was easy for vengeful spirits to be born from resentment.

These vengeful spirits had only appeared in the last hundred years, coinciding with the resurgence of spiritual energy. Perceived by the laws of heaven and earth, a new entity was born, known as: the Ling’an (Spiritual Dossier). The Ling’an would seek its own master to dissipate the resentment of the vengeful spirits, record them, and transform them into new souls for reincarnation.