# Chapter 489: Unknown World
"Before you leave, can you tell me the name of your race?" Mo Li asked, looking directly at her, though she already had a rough answer in mind.
The remnant soul was silent for a moment, then let out a faint sigh: "It doesn't hurt to tell you. Perhaps you have heard this name before, or perhaps it has long been forgotten. The race I belong to is called the 'Sword Spirit Divine Clan.'"
"Just as I thought!" Mo Li's brow twitched slightly.
"But the little mistress is not a member of my clan," the remnant soul said.
"Oh?" Surprise flickered in Mo Li's eyes. "Since she is not of the Sword Spirit Clan, why do you call her 'little mistress'? And she can clearly transform into a sword! According to records, the only ancient race capable of transforming into swords is the 'Sword Spirit Divine Clan.'"
"Back then, this was a secret within my Sword Spirit Divine Clan. Only four people in the entire clan knew this secret, including myself. All other clan members believed she was the king's daughter. In truth, the little mistress was found by my king by chance, and he publicly claimed her as his daughter. As for why my king did this, and where the little mistress came from—with my king's fall, no one knows. However, the little mistress's ability to transform into a sword is similar to our clan's, though the sword she transforms into is fundamentally very different from our clan's swords. At the same time, the swords our clan transforms into have always been light and agile swords, while the little mistress's transformed sword is an extremely difficult-to-wield heavy sword."
"My king never spoke of the little mistress's origins to anyone, but he always doted on her and valued her to the utmost. Back then, both my king and the little mistress were poisoned by demonic poison. My king would rather perish himself than use the Eternal Pivot to protect the little mistress. The fact that my king valued her so much naturally had his reasons. Over the years, I have guarded the little mistress's side, searching far and wide for the Heavenly Poison Pearl... and finally today, I have seen the outcome. What fate awaits the little mistress in the future, I can no longer see or protect. In any case, please treat her well."
"Besides the Sword Spirit Divine Clan, which other clan can transform their body into a sword..." Mo Li pondered silently.
"Our Sword Spirit Clan belongs to the heavenly spirits, born with the power of heaven and earth, but we also need to cultivate. The stronger our profound force, the stronger the sword we transform into. But the little mistress doesn't need to cultivate; instead, she feeds on swords. Every time she eats a sword, she absorbs its sword force and sword spirit, and her power increases by one part. The stronger the sword she eats, the greater the increase in her power. Back then, my king searched the world for famous swords as food for the little mistress, allowing her to grow considerably. But under the demonic poison, her sword power was almost completely devoured. If you want her to continue growing, find her various sufficiently powerful swords. The stronger the sword, the more the little mistress likes to eat."
"...So there are people who enhance their power by eating swords!" Mo Li took a deep look at Hong'er. Even after combing through all the memories she had fused, she had never come across such a record or rumor.
"I have answered your question. Now can you answer me—which Star God does your power come from?" the remnant soul asked Mo Li.
"Heavenly Slaughter Star!" Mo Li answered expressionlessly.
"Among the Twelve Star Gods, Heavenly Chief is the king, Heavenly Wolf is the strongest, and Heavenly Slaughter is the most evil, feared by all beings. You have inherited her power, but your nature does not seem to be overly influenced. Good," the remnant soul said slowly.
"Is that so?" Mo Li gave a cold laugh. "Hmph, presumptuous. Although I have inherited the power of the Heavenly Slaughter Star God for less than ten years, the number of people I have killed is far more than a hundred times the number you have killed in your entire life!"
"The number of killings has nothing to do with sin," the remnant soul said faintly. "You are a soul body, and I am also a soul body. Whether one is good or evil, I have my own judgment... I have one more question. You care so much about this human, to the point of using the Soul Destiny Star Shift, which can only be activated once in a lifetime, for him. Yet when he was trapped in this Primordial Mystic Ark, why were you unwilling to help him leave? He was caught in a spatial storm for eighteen months, with almost no chance of survival. Even if he ultimately lived, he endured pain that surpasses a hundred lifetimes of accumulated suffering. Why did you still turn a deaf ear?"
"It seems you're not very smart either." Mo Li's lips curled slightly into a cold smile. "In the first two years after I met him, I used my power several times to save him from certain death. At that time, the demonic poison on me was extremely severe, and the power I could use was far weaker than now. Moreover, every time I recklessly used power, it would cause the demonic poison, which I had barely suppressed, to awaken again."
"I didn't want him to rely on my power, and he himself didn't want to either. But as long as my power and I exist, even if he rejects it, this dependence is destined to never disappear. When facing desperate situations, there will always be the subconscious thought in his mind that 'with Mo Li here, I absolutely cannot die,' preventing him from exhausting all his will in dire straits. So, three years ago, I created the illusion of sealing my power, making it impossible for him to rely on my power any longer. For instance, in this Primordial Mystic Ark, if I hadn't done this, he would have relied on my power to kill Ye Xinghan, who was chasing him... When the spatial storm struck, he would have thought of relying on my power to leave the Primordial Mystic Ark. When the space storm hit, his first thought would also be to use my power to block it... Even if he wanted to use his own power, he wouldn't have pushed himself with all his strength and will like before, breaking through his limits time and again in the process."
"During these years of maintaining the illusion of sealed power, without relying on my power, his growth has become extremely fast. He has endured countless life-threatening dangers with his own will and power, and not once did I secretly help him. On the contrary, I even deliberately intensified the spatial storm of the Primordial Mystic Ark. The final result has been far better than I expected. The demonic poison on me has also been half removed during these years of calm, and the remaining half has been stably suppressed."
Mo Li spoke very calmly. If Yun Che heard these words, he would surely be stunned.
And during the years when Mo Li created the illusion of sealing her power, Yun Che's growth was indeed much faster than before. Precisely because there was no longer that subconscious reliance on Mo Li's power, he was able to burn his boats under the Sword Discussion Platform, undergo layer after layer of transformation in facing the Fen Tian Gate and the Phoenix God Sect, and achieve life-and-death breakthroughs time and again in the Primordial Mystic Ark...
It was no exaggeration to say that if Mo Li hadn't "sealed her power," Yun Che would be far from reaching his current height. As Mo Li said, as long as her power existed, that sense of dependence would eternally remain. Subconscious things can never be overcome by will.
"I hope he can become stronger as soon as possible, because only when he is strong enough can I be reborn. But on the path of the strong, I can only be his guide. Every step on the road must be taken by himself! The stumbling blocks on the road need to be crushed by himself, and the cliffs encountered along the way need to be crossed by himself. Otherwise, he will never become a true strong one." Mo Li closed her eyes and spoke slowly. Her appearance was still that of a thirteen-year-old girl, but her words and demeanor were clearly that of a teacher.
"However, when he faces an absolute death situation and is about to truly die in that instant, I will naturally still make a move." Mo Li added lightly.
"I see," the remnant soul nodded gently, a faint tone of admiration in its slow voice: "With a guide like you, his future is destined to be extraordinary. The little mistress being by your side sets my mind at ease..."
"Although the little mistress is not of my clan, she carries the king's hope and the last miracle of my clan. I dare not ask for more, only hope that you can treat her well. Perhaps, if she doesn't grow up, living carefree in this low-level plane every day would also be a good ending... Although the result is very different from what I expected, you have saved the little mistress after all. I am just a wisp of remnant soul, unable to do anything for you. This Mystic Ark... let it be my repayment to you... It's a pity... its power is also about to be exhausted..."
The figure and voice of the remnant soul slowly dissipated within the Heavenly Poison Pearl, never to appear again.
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Yun Che had been tossing about in the spatial vortex for a long time before finally seeing the exit. With a flash of white light before his eyes, he was violently thrown out of the spatial vortex... What he hadn't expected was that the exit of the spatial vortex was unusually close to the ground. Before he could react, he plunged headfirst into the ground.
With a dull thud, Yun Che's entire upper body was buried in the not-too-hard soil.
Yun Che quickly flipped over, leaped up from the ground, and rapidly spat out the dirt in his mouth while shaking off the soil from his body and hair. He cautiously looked around, and only after confirming that no one was watching did he finally relax. However, his face was still slightly green... He, the overlord of the Cang Feng Empire, the imperial consort, a figure that shook the Tian Xuan Continent, had arrived in a new world by planting his head in the dirt...
How utterly ridiculous!
Yun Che calmed down and began to observe his surroundings. This was a semi-plain, semi-jungle area, overgrown with weeds and dotted with low bushes. As far as his eyes and perception could reach, there were no living creatures. The climate was mild and comfortable, and the smell of the air was almost exactly the same as that of the Tian Xuan Continent.
"Mo Li, is there any difference in the elemental laws here compared to the Tian Xuan Continent?" Yun Che asked cautiously.
Mo Li's reply came quickly: "Unless the plane level differs, elemental laws are generally the same. This place is definitely not the Tian Xuan Continent, but its plane level should be similar. Explore slowly on your own. What you need to do now is not think about how to return to the Tian Xuan Continent, but how to establish a foothold in this world and grow quickly! The only way to return to the Tian Xuan Continent is to become strong enough!"
Yun Che didn't ask any more questions. After frowning and observing his surroundings for a while, he cautiously stepped forward. He didn't know what kind of world he was in now, what kind of beings existed in this world... and among these beings, whether there were humans...
After walking a few miles, Yun Che suddenly sensed the presence of living beings. His brow twitched, and he slowed his steps. Drawing closer, he silently parted a clump of tall grass.
Through the grass, in a not-too-large dark swamp, he saw two spotted pythons, each as thick as a bowl and over two zhang long.
Neither of these were ordinary pythons. They radiated the aura of the Earth Xuan realm. The two spotted pythons floated in the swamp, facing each other, with a deep hostility spreading through the slightly putrid air.
Two Earth Xuan beasts wouldn't arouse much interest in Yun Che. He was about to leave when, to his shock, he saw the two Earth Xuan pythons open their mouths and speak... in human language!
"What are you looking at!"
"What's it to you if I look!"
"Try looking again!"
"I'll try if I want to!"
Then the two pythons started fighting...
Yun Che was dumbfounded... High-level profound beasts had sufficient intelligence and could indeed produce human speech. But that should at least be at the late Heavenly Xuan stage, and they had to be high-level profound beasts that had lived for a very long time. The Snow Phoenix Beast that Yun Che once owned, despite being a Heavenly Xuan beast, absolutely could not speak human language.
Yet these two pythons, with only early Earth Xuan realm power, could speak human language, and fluently at that!! If Yun Che hadn't seen it with his own eyes and only heard the voices, he would have completely thought it was two humans talking to each other.