Chapter 753: Reincarnation Forbidden Art
"..." Mo Li shot Yun Che a look as if he were an idiot. "Of course not! Rather... Fen Juechen, like you, has lived two lifetimes!"
"Wha...at!?" Yun Che's heart jolted in shock.
"However, he is different from you." Mo Li quickly continued, "You have two lifetimes in the Tian Xuan Continent and the Cang Yun Continent..." She paused slightly, then corrected herself: "It should be said that you have three lifetimes, because you triggered the cross-reincarnation power of the Lunhui Jing, and twice. When the Lunhui Jing activates its cross-reincarnation power, it simultaneously modifies—in a sense 'corrects'—cause and effect. This ability defies the Heavenly Dao, yet does not disrupt the laws of causality. Moreover, due to the profound level of the Lunhui Jing, not even the Heavenly Dao can inflict heavenly punishment."
"As for Fen Juechen... When I first sensed the abnormality in his power and soul, I had my suspicions, but they were merely suspicions, and I quickly dismissed them myself. Because at that time, I thought his power was a demonic transformation born from extreme negative emotions—ordinary demonic profound energy. It was only after reading his memories just now that I discovered that fleeting guess was actually true... A reincarnation forbidden art had been applied on him!"
"Reincarnation forbidden art? What is that?" Yun Che asked in doubt. These four words were also something he had heard for the first time.
"Since it is a forbidden art, it is naturally something that heaven and earth cannot tolerate, something destined to bring heavenly punishment... especially since it interferes with reincarnation." Mo Li sneered, and a fleeting cold smile carried a hint of pity for Fen Juechen. "However, the reincarnation forbidden art on Fen Juechen is much more advanced than those I know of. Although it spans a thousand years, his soul's integrity is above seventy percent. That is because it is a forbidden technique from the ancient demon race... more precisely, it comes from the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture'!"
The more Yun Che listened, the more confused he became... If it were simply said that Fen Juechen had inherited some ancient demon's legacy, he would have understood it far more easily.
"Even with over seventy percent integrity, it is not a complete soul. Therefore, Fen Juechen's temperament is vastly different from ordinary people. He is exceptionally withdrawn, sensitive, extreme, radical, and more prone to anger and losing control." Seeing Yun Che's utterly tangled expression, Mo Li raised an eyebrow, knowing that the level of things she was describing far exceeded Yun Che's cognition. She had to explain it as simply as possible: "Forget it. I'll just tell you directly. Fen Juechen's previous name was 'Ye Huang,' and his first birth father was 'Ye Mufeng,' and his first birth mother was 'Ye Jianxi'!"
"Ye... Huang? 'Ye'? Isn't that the exclusive surname of the Sun Moon Divine Palace? Could it be..."
"No!" Mo Li interrupted Yun Che's words and said indifferently, "That is only now. A thousand years ago, there was another power with the surname Ye... and it was a family force fundamentally different from the Sun Moon Divine Palace!"
"Wait!" At that moment, Yun Che suddenly thought of something, because deep in his soul, he felt a strange familiarity with the names 'Ye Mufeng' and 'Ye Jianxi.' He quickly calmed his mind, following the direction of the soul's tremor, and searched through the memories of the Bing Yun ancestors inherited through the 'Ice Cloud Immortal Soul'...
After a moment, the names 'Ye Mufeng' and 'Ye Jianxi' clearly appeared in his mind. He couldn't help but murmur: "Eternal Night... Royal Clan!?"
Regarding the Eternal Night Royal Clan that perished a thousand years ago, perhaps aside from the Four Sacred Grounds, the most detailed and profound records were held by the Bing Yun Fairy Palace. In the ancestral memories contained in the Ice Cloud Immortal Soul, the last Eternal Night King before the clan's destruction was named Ye Mufeng!
And the last Eternal Night Queen... who also had a life-saving grace toward Bing Yun Fairy Palace's Mu Bingyun—was named Ye Jianxi!
"Correct!" Mo Li said in a low voice. "Ye Mufeng was the last king of the Eternal Night Royal Clan, which was destroyed by the combined forces of the Four Sacred Grounds a thousand years ago. Ye Jianxi was the Eternal Night Queen at that time. And Ye Huang was the only son of Ye Mufeng and Ye Jianxi, the last Eternal Night Prince of the clan... The core profound art of the Eternal Night Royal Clan, the 'Eternal Night Illusion God Record,' is actually the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture' of the ancient Eternal Night Demon Race! Even the name 'Eternal Night Royal Clan' is clearly derived from 'Eternal Night Demon Race'!"
"Something like... this could actually happen?" Yun Che's mind was stunned for a long time. If this weren't Mo Li's own account, based on his two lifetimes of knowledge, he would never have connected Fen Juechen—clearly the son of the Fen Tian Gate's Gate Master—with the Eternal Night Royal Clan that was annihilated a thousand years ago. Nor would he have ever imagined that Fen Juechen, only in his twenties now, was actually the Eternal Night Prince from a thousand years ago!
"What exactly is this reincarnation forbidden art? Is Fen Juechen's current soul the soul of Ye Huang from a thousand years ago? Since you learned this from Fen Juechen's memories, does that mean Fen Juechen has regained his memories from that time? And what about the clan's profound art of the Eternal Night Royal Clan?" Yun Che's mind was filled with countless questions, each one an enormous mystery he could never figure out on his own.
Mo Li did not directly answer any of his questions but said on her own: "A thousand years ago, the Eternal Night Royal Clan was besieged and slaughtered by the Four Sacred Grounds. The Eternal Night Prince Ye Huang was brutally killed. To save her dead son, the Eternal Night Queen Ye Jianxi violated the strict teachings of her ancestors and used a forbidden technique from the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture,' forcibly imprisoning Ye Huang's soul that was about to dissipate, along with all his vital blood. Using two-tenths of Ye Mufeng's soul as a guide, she activated a reincarnation forbidden art that defied the Heavenly Dao, allowing Ye Huang's soul and blood to remain undispersed for a long time, and under special circumstances, to undergo reincarnation through a borrowed body."
"Clearly, at that time, the Eternal Night King and Queen had foreseen the destruction of the Eternal Night Royal Clan, so they used this method to preserve a lineage... Otherwise, they would not have violated the clan's teachings and used a forbidden art that would bring heavenly punishment."
Yun Che: "..."
Mo Li knew that the level of soul-related matters was beyond Yun Che's current understanding. She said more bluntly: "Simply put, Ye Huang from a thousand years ago was dead—both body and soul. Then Ye Mufeng split off two-tenths of his own soul, and Ye Jianxi used a demon clan forbidden art, employing Ye Mufeng's two-tenths soul to forcibly revive Ye Huang's dead soul. Then she applied the reincarnation forbidden art I mentioned. Under this art, Ye Huang's revived soul and blood would not dissipate in a short time. And if it encountered an infant who died within three hours of birth, it could retain part of the soul and bloodline to be reborn through that body."
"In other words, the real 'Fen Juechen' actually died at birth. The current Fen Juechen's body is the third son of Fen Duanhun, his bloodline is a mix of the Fen Tian Gate and the Eternal Night Royal Clan, but his soul is the soul of Ye Huang, which has wandered for a thousand years?" Yun Che said blankly.
This... Is this even more complicated than my two cross-reincarnations!?
The vast world really has all kinds of monsters and demons!
"Correct. However, the soul is not solely Ye Huang's soul, but a combination of Ye Huang's and Ye Mufeng's souls, with Ye Huang's as the primary. And under the protection of the reincarnation forbidden art, even after a thousand years of wandering, this soul has only dissipated less than thirty percent." Mo Li explained.
Although Yun Che had no knowledge of the process or the forbidden art and could not understand it, he finally understood the result. After pondering for a moment, he slowly said, "Then, the sudden change in Fen Juechen—was it because, after his 'body reincarnation,' the bloodline and soul that had been dormant for over twenty years awakened?"
"The bloodline has always existed; there is no such thing as awakening. Not even the reincarnation forbidden art of the Eternal Night Demon Race can allow a reborn body to retain its former power. As for the soul, given the degree of Ye Huang's soul's incompleteness, without other accidents, his memory would not awaken until after he turned thirty. But something even more interesting happened." Mo Li narrowed her eyes slightly. "Four years ago, after you destroyed the Fen Tian Gate and left, Fen Yijue, who still had a shred of life left, handed a pitch-black key to Fen Juechen, whom you had spared."
"Pitch-black key? What is that?" Yun Che was extremely puzzled.
"When Fen Yijue gave the key to Fen Juechen, he told him it was a forbidden object left by their ancestors, hiding a terrible forbidden secret that could only be used when the Fen Tian Gate faced total annihilation. But it seems that even he himself did not know what that secret was. Following the profound energy imprint carved on the key, Fen Juechen went to a place in the Heisha Kingdom where the sun and moon had not shone for ten thousand years—an extreme evil land—and used that key to open a... soul-sealing coffin that had sealed a thousand-year-old soul!"
"And inside that soul-sealing coffin, what was sealed... was precisely the remnant soul of Ye Mufeng!"
"Huh?" Yun Che was stunned again... This! The most absurd joke he had ever heard in his life couldn't be this ridiculous!
Yun Che's memory returned to his first day as a formal disciple of the Bing Yun Fairy Palace. As he recalled, he said slowly, "Back then, when Supreme Palace Master Feng Qianhui told me about the Eternal Night Royal Clan from a thousand years ago, she mentioned the final fate of the Eternal Night King. She said that because his wife and son were killed and his entire clan was wiped out, the Eternal Night King, in extreme resentment and grief, suddenly demonized and became the first person in Tian Xuan's recorded history to truly 'demonize.' After demonization, the Eternal Night King was abnormally powerful, but he could not withstand the encirclement of the Four Sacred Grounds. In the end, he was killed by the combined efforts of the four Sacred Ground masters. And even though his body was completely destroyed, his soul lingered for a long time... seemingly due to a qualitative change in his soul caused by the demonization of his profound energy."
"Thus, the Four Sacred Grounds could only seal the Eternal Night King's soul in a soul-sealing coffin... Feng Qianhui also said that after a thousand years, the Eternal Night King's soul should have long since dissipated."
"Is the one Fen Juechen found... that soul-sealing coffin!?"
[For those who forgot, please refer back to Chapter 381]
"Without the soul-sealing coffin, the soul of Eternal Night King Ye Mufeng would indeed have completely dissipated long ago. Ironically, while the soul-sealing coffin sealed Ye Mufeng's demon soul, it also protected it! Even more ironic is that the place where the soul-sealing coffin was hidden is the most yin-laden location in the Heisha Kingdom—the country with the heaviest yin energy in the Tian Xuan Continent. The atmosphere there not only fails to accelerate the dissipation of Ye Mufeng's demon soul, but instead significantly curbs its dissipation. Thus, Ye Mufeng's remnant soul still retained nearly forty percent of its integrity even after a full thousand years."
"..." Yun Che's brow furrowed slightly, lost in thought.
Fen Juechen was reborn through a borrowed body at the Fen Tian Gate... The key to the soul-sealing coffin was not in the hands of any of the Sacred Grounds, but coincidentally in the hands of the Fen Tian Gate... If this were mere coincidence, it was too bizarre...
The soul-sealing coffin both sealed and "protected"... The most yin land in the most yin country... causing the Eternal Night King's demon soul, which should have dissipated, to persist for a thousand years...
In the end, it was Fen Juechen who took the key to the soul-sealing coffin and opened it...
All of this "harmonized" as if it had been arranged!
But what destroyed the Fen Tian Gate was himself, and it was also because of his young aunt that he spared only Fen Juechen's life. That was the reason the key to the soul-sealing coffin fell into Fen Juechen's hands... So it shouldn't have been "arranged."
Could it be that in this world, there really exist coincidences to such an extent...
Could it be that even heaven took pity on the tragedy of the Eternal Night Royal Clan?
As he pondered, he thought of another matter and asked with a frown, "The 'Eternal Night Illusion God Record' is the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture,' an ancient demonic art that should have long ceased to exist in this world... That being the case, then, the 'demonization' of the Eternal Night King Ye Mufeng a thousand years ago was not the 'demonization' that the world believed, but rather..."
"Correct!" Mo Li nodded and said in a definitive tone, "He released the 'demon blood' that had always been sealed within his body!"
Yun Che: "..."
"Once the seal of the demon bloodline was unlocked, both Ye Mufeng's own profound energy and the power of the 'Eternal Night Illusion Demon Scripture' surged dramatically, surpassing any of the Sacred Ground masters at that time. However, this unsealing of the demon blood could probably only be done by the kingly lineage of the Eternal Night Royal Clan. Otherwise, how could the clan have been so easily wiped out? In addition, judging from the state of Ye Mufeng's soul, once the seal of the demon blood is undone, it permanently and greatly affects one's temperament and will, and the demon blood cannot be resealed... However, this is only speculation. This part of the memory happens to be incomplete."
Fen Juechen's soul had merged with Ye Mufeng's demon soul, and naturally also merged with his memories. Thus, when Mo Li read Fen Juechen's memories, she effectively read the memories of both Fen Juechen and Ye Mufeng. However, Ye Mufeng's demon soul had withered over a thousand years, so the memories left behind were scattered and extremely incomplete.
[Is the matter of Fen Juechen a bit complicated? Especially for the young translators among the translation groups, this is your moment of trial, hahahahahahahahaha...]
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