Chapter 112: Resurrection

Just looking at the gradually cooling corpses on the ground, Lingyao's heart was in turmoil.

After leaving the Holy Land, she still couldn't give a clear answer about where she should go next.

Swoosh!

Just then, that brilliant luminescence finally resonated with the innate lotus.

Bai Lianxue's perfect physical body slowly opened its previously closed eyes, but there was no light whatsoever in those captivating eyes.

As the crystalline light passed through her pupils and finally merged into this perfect form, the heaven-defying resurrection technique was declared complete.

Xu Yang's face was slightly pale.

Even someone as powerful as he was, the mental energy consumed when performing such a heaven-defying technique was unimaginable to others.

The seal didn't disappear immediately. After completing the technique, Xu Yang laid the girl's body flat in front of him, allowing her to sleep peacefully as her bodily functions gradually recovered.

But Xu Yang himself wasn't sure when she would truly wake up.

After all, Bai Lianxue's soul had slumbered for ten thousand years within the Deep Sea Blue Heart; how could it perfectly recover so easily?

But Xu Yang's conviction never wavered. Even if the girl woke up remembering nothing, Xu Yang would still accompany her across mountains and rivers to search for those lost memory fragments.

In the blink of an eye, five days and five nights had passed.

Under Xu Yang's personal guidance, Lingyao had completely mastered the Cloud-Gazing Sword Intent.

Currently, Lingyao's swordsmanship had truly surpassed that of the top experts in the Heavenly Sword Holy Land. In terms of sword art mastery alone, even the Ten Elders might not possess Lingyao's skill; the only difference was her cultivation realm.

Xu Yang, on the other hand, had nothing else to do. He stayed motionless within the sealed barrier day and night, waiting for Bai Lianxue to wake up.

Lingyao finally couldn't help but ask, “Tell me, if she sleeps here for ten or eight years, will you stay here all that time?” She received a firm, unwavering affirmative answer from him.

“There's never been anything I, Xu Yang, wanted to do that hasn't succeeded,” he declared. “If I say I can revive her, then I certainly can!”

Lingyao sighed helplessly and seemed intent on leaving first.

“Then you stay here with her,” Lingyao said. “I don't plan to waste any more time with you. After all, she's no one to me…”

Xu Yang chuckled, looking up to give Lingyao a meaningful glance. “If you truly believe that, your sword should have been pointed at me five days ago, not your fellow disciples! When you infused your blood into the lotus, it was destined that you, Lianxue, and I would be inextricably linked! If you leave now, where will you go? Back to the Holy Land to beg for forgiveness?”

Xu Yang's words completely disrupted Lingyao's previously firm plan. Just as she had mustered the courage to return to the Holy Land to report, a bucket of cold water was poured over her head.

“What should I do then?” Lingyao exclaimed. “Am I to wait here endlessly with you? If the Holy Land found me once, they'll surely find me a second time. I have no way to escape!”

Xu Yang seemed to have suddenly thought of something and handed Lingyao an artifact resembling a compass.

“It can help you solve your predicament,” he said.

Lingyao tried to infuse a wisp of her essence into the compass and was immediately stunned speechless!

“This… this is an artifact that can conceal one's aura and essence?” Lingyao gasped. “It's incredible! You actually possess such a treasure!”

Xu Yang chuckled, “I've lived for a hundred thousand years. What kind of spectacle on the continent haven't I seen?”

Once he started talking, Xu Yang shared some of his past experiences with the girl, Lingyao.

Especially when the topic turned to cultivation, Lingyao was almost completely dumbfounded.

She had never dreamed that such a unique cultivator as Xu Yang existed in this world. Yet, it was precisely this uniqueness that formed the foundation of Xu Yang's almost peerless cultivation, allowing him to manipulate spiritual energy of any attribute from anywhere in the world. It was inconceivable and astonishing to imagine!

Afterward, the two of them brought up the topic of the Three Thousand Dao States.

“Uh, no, don't…”

Suddenly, Lingyao felt an intense pain emanating from her head. Immediately afterward, the same sensation manifested on Bai Lianxue, who was still within the seal!

It seemed as though countless spiritual energies were converging.

“Lianxue!!”

Pain appeared on the face of this perfect form, which also brought a hint of pleasant surprise to Xu Yang! Because, theoretically speaking, any sign of human physiological feedback meant the resurrection technique had basically succeeded.

Resurrection!

“Master, don't leave me, Master…”

All at once!

Bai Lianxue's beautiful eyes snapped open, her body jolted forward, sitting upright. Her gaze slowly swept the surroundings before finally settling on Xu Yang.

“Master!”

“Lianxue, you're finally awake!!”

Xu Yang hadn't smiled so joyfully in a long time. He pulled Bai Lianxue into his embrace, and the girl, too, shed tears of emotion.

“Ten thousand years…” Bai Lianxue murmured. “A long, long ten thousand years. I thought I would never see you again in this lifetime, Master!”

Xu Yang gently stroked Bai Lianxue's hair. “I told you I would bring you back to life, and you didn't disappoint me.”

Lingyao, observing from the side, felt like she was watching a public display of affection. She appeared calm, showing no emotional ripples, but the moment her eyes met Bai Lianxue's, both of them almost simultaneously experienced the same peculiar sensation!

Indeed, it was a feeling of closeness that was both strange and familiar!

“Master, is this little sister the one who helped me live again?”

Before Xu Yang could introduce them, Lingyao extended her hand. “Hello, elder sister, my name is Lingyao. Congratulations on your successful resurrection!”

Their hands gently clasped, a familiar warmth passing between them. But at the moment their skin touched, the secret of the Three Thousand Dao States, hidden deep within their minds, stirred once more.

Lingyao simply experienced a headache, while Bai Lianxue's mind clearly began to churn with a series of complex and fragmented memories!

“Master… I remembered some fragments,” Bai Lianxue said, her expression serious. “They're about the great secret of the Three Thousand Dao States!”

Xu Yang hadn't expected the girl to bring this up so eagerly. He then asked, “What exactly is this astonishing secret of the Three Thousand Dao States?!”

Bai Lianxue's face grew solemn as she replied, “It's nine stars from beyond the heavens that sealed their world-destroying powers within the dragon veins!”

The theory of the continent's dragon veins had been passed down for tens of thousands of years.

When Xu Yang once traveled through mountains and rivers, he tried to uncover the secret of the dragon veins, but found no results. Ultimately, he gave up.

There were numerous versions of the dragon vein legends across the continent, but to this day, no one had ever truly seen the dragon veins' true form. Many had begun to suspect the entire concept was mere fabrication.