amaotonovel Chapter 119 The Origin of the Spirit of Extinction
Chapter 119 The Origin of the Spirit of Extinction
If she remembered correctly, this seemed to be... a castle from a fairy tale?
The architectural style of Lingxu Palace has a combination of Chinese and Western elements.
Qi Yan looked at the castle before him, and a strange light flashed in his eyes as if he had remembered something, but Yun Zhao did not see it.
The Spirit of Extinction poked its head out and chirped twice. Seeing that Yun Zhao didn't understand what it meant, it started gesturing and shouting, busying itself for quite a while.
Qi Yan heard the voice of the Spirit of Extinction, which said, "The Demon-Transforming Grass is inside."
He just didn't know why Yun Zhao couldn't hear the voice of the Spirit of Extinction.
Just as Qi Yan was thinking about this, he heard the Spirit of Extinction say to him, "What are you standing there for? Translate for me. If I wasn't afraid that my sister would find out about me... cough cough, if I could only communicate with you, I wouldn't have gone to all this trouble. You're a grown man, all you do is stand there like an idiot..."
Seemingly having let something slip, the Spirit of Extinction tried to change the subject. It berated Qi Yan, and finally instructed, "Find a way to convey my message to my sister, but don't tell her that I can talk to you."
Qi Yan was not fooled. He pretended not to have heard the part that the Spirit of Extinction had let slip and said to Yun Zhao with a normal expression, "Zhao Zhao, it seems to want us to go in. Maybe there is something inside that attracts it... Hmm, it keeps pointing at me. Maybe it is what I need."
Qi Yan didn't explicitly say it was a demon-transforming herb, but assumed he understood what the Spirit of Extinction was trying to convey.
Seeing the Spirit of Extinction nodding vigorously, Yun Zhao exclaimed in admiration, "Ah Yan, you can even understand such an abstract expression, amazing!"
“Since it’s something you need,” Yun Zhao thought for a moment, then his eyes lit up, “Demon Transformation Grass?!”
“Possibly,” Qi Yan said with a delighted smile. “Let’s go in quickly.”
"By the way, Zhao Zhao, give me the Spirit of Extinction. I want to ask it where it is exactly. Otherwise, this place is so big, we don't know how long it will take to find it."
Yun Zhao had no suspicions and placed the Spirit of Extinction in Qi Yan's hands.
Qi Yan, holding the Spirit of Extinction, secretly gave Han Mujiao a look and mouthed something. For the first time, Han Mujiao and Qi Yan were so in sync. Han Mujiao immediately pointed to a flower he had never seen before to attract Yun Zhao's attention.
Seeing that Yun Zhao had gone some distance, Qi Yan looked at the Spirit of Extinction, which, for some reason, wanted to escape.
"Are you Xiaotong?"
It sounded like a question, but Qi Yan actually said it as a statement. The Spirit of Extinction stared at him with its big eyes, seemingly not understanding what he meant.
Qi Yan could tell it was feigning ignorance. He muttered, "Could it be that I've mistaken it for someone else? Should I tell Zhao Zhao and let her recognize it? She knows the child better than I do..."
He made a move to call out to Yun Zhao, but the Spirit of Extinction quickly said, "Shut up! You're not allowed to tell my sister!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, Qi Yan's lips curled up slightly, and the Spirit of Extinction regretted it, realizing that it had been tricked by Qi Yan.
Since things had come to this, there was nothing it could do. It asked helplessly, "What do you want to know?"
“I don’t want to know anything,” Qi Yan said calmly. “I just want to know what you’re going to do, why you became the Spirit of Extinction, and who you really are.”
The Spirit of Extinction rolled its eyes in annoyance, saying it didn't want to know anything, but why did it ask so many questions?
Just as she was about to start explaining to Qi Yan from the beginning, Yun Zhao noticed that Qi Yan wasn't following her and quickly called him over.
Qi Yan quickly replied, "You say what you want to say."
As he spoke, he quickened his pace to catch up with Yun Zhao, talking to her while listening to the Spirit of Extinction answer his questions.
It turns out that the little boy was the spirit that vanished without a trace.
The Spirit of Extinction is not, as people speculate, a product of the Qi of Extinction; their relationship is the opposite.
First, there was the existence of the Spirit of Extinction. Wherever the Spirit of Extinction went, it would generate the aura of extinction.
The Spirit of Extinction was born from slaughter. Where there are people, there is a martial world; where there is a martial world, there is swords and shadows. These killings accumulated slowly and gave birth to the Spirit of Extinction.
According to the Spirit of Extinction, it only remembers that after its birth, it emitted an aura of extinction everywhere, causing humans and demons to seek refuge in the secret realm. It doesn't remember anything else, including how it disappeared.
But it clearly remembers why it reappeared decades ago.
In Qi Yan's sea of consciousness, the voice of the Spirit of Extinction gritted its teeth, "I had no intention of causing harm to the world. A thousand years ago, I fell into a deep sleep for some reason, and I planned to stay asleep forever."
"But decades ago, someone used the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people to awaken me. I didn't want to wake up, but I had no choice but to."
Unable to control its nature, it did not want to leave the place where it slept, but its body was out of control, and it could only watch helplessly as the cultivation world was once again filled with lamentations.
Fortunately, someone stepped forward and used their own flesh and blood to seal away the spirit of extinction.
To be precise, the surface-level aura of annihilation was sealed, and the spirit of annihilation has inexplicably become what it is now.
"That person was my sister's grandfather, the former sect leader of the Qingyun Sect. He used his divine soul to set up the formation, and my sister's parents acted as the core of the formation, sealing the aura of extinction."
At this point, the Spirit of Extinction glanced anxiously at Yun Zhao's back and said dejectedly, "The old sect master did not die, but he sacrificed his son and daughter-in-law to save the world. Because of his guilt and because he could not leave the sealed land for too long, he pretended that he had passed away."
"I've become like this. The old sect leader said that I'm not inherently bad, but I'm just controlled by my nature. He didn't try to kill me... Of course, it's also possible that he couldn't beat me."
"At that time, my soul was unstable and I was about to dissipate into the world at any moment. The old sect master used his last strength to help me enter reincarnation."
The old sect leader was worried about his granddaughter Yun Zhao, and even with his disciples Han Yue and Lu Mingdao, he was still uneasy.
The spirit of extinction can stabilize its soul by being reborn as a human in the cycle of reincarnation. It can then abandon its human body and return to its original body in the future.
It was reincarnated with memories, so the old sect leader asked the spirit of extinction to go to the Qingyun Sect to take care of Yun Zhao.
The spirit of extinction was successfully reborn in the womb of the wife of the Tong family head in Demon-Slaying City. It had no feelings for its relatives. Later, in an accident, it and the Tong family wife were assassinated.
After its death, it found a puppet, refined it, and transformed it into "Little Child".
Qi Yan was somewhat surprised; the "little boy" was actually a puppet!
No wonder the child doesn't like going out or talking to people; it turns out he's afraid of being recognized as a puppet.
“A few days ago, when I was in Demon-Slaying City, I suddenly received a message from the old sect leader. He said that there was a problem with my body and asked me to go there immediately to fuse with it.”
The Spirit of Extinction sounded somewhat bewildered, “But when I got there, the seal that contained the Qi of Extinction was gone, and the old sect master wasn’t there either.”
It was a desolate place, with nothing left.