After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

Chapter 493 She will never lose again

When the stone arrived, Jiang Liqian's head was still immersed in the shimmering spiritual water.

Her body was tattered and torn, and the last trace of divine punishment still lingered in the air, its overwhelming power terrifying.

But the girl under the wrath of heaven looked completely bewildered, as if she had suddenly lost all sense of purpose in living.

Stone approached and looked down at her.

"Congratulations on advancing to the Nascent Soul stage."

The girl was silent.

Stone continued, "The dead cannot be brought back to life. There is no point in you continuing to torture yourself here, Li Qian. Even if a cultivator has a long life, every minute and every second of his life is precious."

The girl's eyes finally moved, and she suddenly looked up to meet his gaze.

His chapped lips opened and closed: "Heaven wants to punish me, Heaven wants to save me, do you know why?"

Stone's eyes darkened.

"I do not know."

The girl gave a bitter laugh: "Is it that I don't know this time, or that I 'can't say'?"

“I don’t know, Jiang Liqian.” Shi Tou took a deep breath, suppressing the anger surging in his heart. “Even gods are not omniscient and omnipotent.”

The girl gave a mocking smile: "Is that so?"

She paused for a moment, then turned her head toward the statue.

"I heard about a miracle."

Stone's angry expression froze for a moment.

"I asked her how to revive Lianlian and Beiyao, and she said that the cause and effect were already set and could not be changed."

"I asked her why I was resurrected, and she said it was the will of Heaven and the will of man. Someone followed the way of Heaven and gave me a second life. I asked who it was, and she said it was someone I had no connection with."

"I asked her again about the strange things that happened to me, and why I had such chaotic and fragmented memories. She said it was because of past lives. But I remember my past life, I remember it so clearly... Does that mean I've been reborn more than once?"

Stone suddenly fell silent, then opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he couldn't utter a single word.

Jiang Liqian stared intently at his expression and movements, then revealed a "as expected" look, looking at him with a half-smile.

"You know, you know I was reborn, you even know secrets about 'me' that I don't know... So, what is your purpose in coming to me?"

Shi Tou pursed his lips, and after a long while, he said, "I want to help you, and also help myself."

Jiang Liqian stared at him, waiting for him to continue.

Shi Tou looked away and sighed, "Li Qian, Heaven favors us, giving us extraordinary talents. But when our growth escapes its control, it will turn against us and try every means to eliminate us. Our fates are the same."

"When you break free from the shackles of fate, so will I."

"That's my purpose."

Jiang Liqian's mockery grew wider and wider until she finally burst out laughing.

She climbed out of the Snow Jade Spirit Water, shook the extremely precious spiritual water off her hair, pointed at the goddess statue with a missing arm, and said without the slightest reverence, "I begged the goddess to save me, but she said she was powerless. I begged her to kill me, and she slammed me into this pool, letting me drink my fill of water. Then the heavenly lightning began to fall. I thought she was going to finish me off with the heavenly lightning, but guess what? When the last bolt of heavenly punishment struck, I couldn't hold on any longer and was about to die, but she actually took the calamity for me, losing an arm in the process."

“But I won’t be grateful to her, because she’s not a real god.” Jiang Liqian patted her clothes, bent down and groped in the snow, finally picking up a spirit pearl that emitted a lustrous blue light from a pile of ice shards. “After six years of crossing the North, the moment I saw this so-called god, I realized that there are no gods in this world, only myself, and only I can change my own destiny and get what I want.”

She had begged Immortal Venerable Qingzhi, she had begged Xuan Ling and the others, she had begged Shen Qingqing, and she had begged her parents and brothers. Now she had even begged the gods, but what she asked for would never come to her.

In that case, she won't lose it again.

She will hold onto what she cherishes tightly and never let go!

Shi Tou stared blankly, his gaze involuntarily fixed on the spirit pearl in her palm, which was still dripping blood, and his breath hitched slightly.

Seeing his expression, Jiang Liqian looked down at the spirit pearl in her hand and nonchalantly wiped it clean little by little with her sleeve.

"Don't be afraid, it's just demon blood."

"You say I'm torturing myself... Haha, I think I'm just practicing asceticism."

How many demonic beasts and how many ill-intentioned cultivators did she kill in the snowfield?

One hundred? One thousand? Ten thousand?

Hmm... I don't remember.

There's no need to remember it.

The effect was also very obvious. Her cultivation level increased greatly, and with the help of the Snow Jade Spirit Water, she directly broke through to the Nascent Soul stage.

"You came all this way to see me, you didn't come here just to listen to this useless nonsense, did you?"

The stone suddenly fell silent.

Jiang Li narrowed her eyes, opened her right hand, and a phantom sword materialized, its tip coldly lifting his chin: "Your Tianji Pavilion has this one bad habit. If you don't want to talk, why bother coming all this way? If you want to talk, why look so troubled? It seems I need to find an opportunity to help your Tianji Pavilion correct this bad habit!"

It's disgusting!

Stone took a deep breath, stared into her eyes, and said, "If you go back to Zhenfeng now, you might... perhaps still be able to... see the person who is very important to you one last time."

It felt like she'd been hit on the head with a heavy hammer, the metallic clang echoing in her ears. Jiang Liqian's eyes widened, then she recoiled, her face pale, and questioned him incredulously, "You're lying to me, aren't you? If it were true, why didn't you say so sooner? Why are you wasting my time here?"

She paused, as if she instantly understood something, shut her mouth, turned around and threw out a leaf boat, then took out two wood spirit crystals and stuffed them in.

Stone couldn't bear it in the end. Despite violating all the rules and restrictions of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, he shouted to her, "Go to the east, look at the sun, find Gu Chengxue, and ask him to accompany you back to the Heavenly Qian Sect. Perhaps you can really make it in time to see him one last time!"

As the boat flew away, Stone's body swayed violently, then lost his balance, stumbled forward two steps, felt a sharp pain in his chest, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

A communication talisman slipped from his sleeve and flew to his eyes, from which came the furious voice of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master.

"What are you doing?! As the chief disciple of the pavilion, you know all the taboos by heart, yet you still make such a basic mistake? Your soul lamp almost went out!"

Shi Tou wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his voice hoarse, sounding helpless and confused: "But Master, she really can't hold on much longer..."

A deep silence followed behind the talisman. Finally, the Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion sighed, "Disciple, disciples of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion must see through the joys and sorrows of the world, enter into it, and then transcend it. Do not be confused."

"...This disciple understands."