Heart Protection (Back from the Brink)

CHAPTER 62

Qing Qiu's king didn't have any reaction towards Tian Yao's reply. There was just a brief silence before the king spoke: "Your aura is overflowing, yet you struggled to retain inner breath within. Have you not regained your body?"

"I'm still missing my dragon tendons and heart," calmly replied Tian Yao.  Since the king already knew what happened to him, Tian Yao had no reason to hide it. It saved him from explaining from the very beginning, and he also didn't want to dance around the subject.

"Before I found my dragon horns, it already was absorbing spiritual energy. However without my dragon tendons to pair with it, I can't gather the energy to cultivate. Thus, I can't contain my aura. It leaks out. The day before yesterday, we passed over Qing Qiu's border. By chance, I discovered my dragon tendons are sealed in San Chong Mountain. To be honest, before that, I wanted to ask you the whereabouts of my tendons."

The king slightly muttered to himself when he heard Tian Yao's words: "San Chong Mountain is located at Qing Qiu's borders. There's countless amounts of seals of all sizes. It's very likely your dragon tendons are sealed there." His eyes took on a distant look. "San Chong Mountain's largest spell is the Sky-Splitting Heavenly Jian spell."

Yan Hui was stunned when she heard that name. As a cultivator of Chen Xing Mountain, she couldn't be more familiar with those words, Sky-Splitting Heavenly Jian spell.

50 years ago, after the battle between Zhenren Qing Guang and Qing Qiu's king, the land was split into two. Zhenren Qing Guan took his heavenly jian and sealed it in San Chong Mountain. He called it the Sky-Splitting spell; it was to cower the demon races. From then on, San Chong Mountain became the boundary that split the two nations.

After the war came 50 years of peace until now. Since the war, Zhenren Qing Guang had been meditating at Chen Xing Mountain. He hadn't grasped a jian since.

And the heavenly jian that was left at the border became a symbol of military might in the minds of practically all xian cultivators. It represented the xian cultivators' victory and boosted the moral of so many cultivators. It represented people sticking fast to righteousness to drive out evil.

Back when Yan Hui first heard the story in a classroom at Chen Xing Mountain, she was still very young, but she still felt her blood getting fired up. She couldn't help but rejoice over the xian cultivators' victory.

Although later when the xian sects became increasingly polarized, Yan Hui had already early on discovered the demons weren't evil as always she had always been taught. However, she had never changed how she felt about the heavenly jian.

"20 years ago, Qing Guang came again to the border. His movements were very secretive. No one knew he went there," said Qing Qiu's king. "And now I think it may have to do with the seal."

That's right, when Su Ying betrayed Tian Yao, she invited Zhenren Qing Guang along.

Su Ying was cautious. With her strength alone, it wasn't completely certain she would be able to handle Tian Yao. That's why she asked Zhenren Qing Guan for assistance.

50 years after Zhenren Qing Guang secluded himself in Chen Xing Mountain to focus on teaching the disciples, the xian cultivators in the jianghu had practically forgotten that matter. It wasn't until when those disciples got older and were able to travel independently that the news was spread. Now Qing Guang had practically delegated all power to Ling Xiao.

Zhrenren Qing Guan slowly faded away from managing the xian sects 20 years ago. But if Su Ying approached him for help to attack a demon dragon protecting demons in a vallet at the edge of Central Plains, then he probably didn't have a reason to refuse.