# 1289
Chapter 1290: Method of Separation
"I... have only seen a fragment."
Skadi said seriously, "Brother, you're different from others. Both your past and future are missing a piece... not that it's hidden by mist, but truly missing a piece. So even if I saw your future, it might not necessarily come true."
Missing a piece?
Lin Qiye had originally thought that Urd's words about "one piece of your past being hidden" was simply due to the existence of the Asylum of the Gods. Now, it seemed there was another reason?
Was there something else special about him that could cause both his past and future to be missing a piece, something that even the three Norns couldn't see?
Lin Qiye thought about it for a long time but couldn't find an answer, so he temporarily set the question aside and continued, "It's okay, you can tell me about the fragment you saw."
"Brother... are you sure you want to hear it?"
"Can't I hear it?"
"You can, it's just..." Skadi seemed to recall something, her lips pressing slightly together, "It's just... not very good..."
"Why not very good?"
"I saw you crying."
"Crying?"
"Mhm. Crying in a very large, very beautiful palace. The palace had lots of red decorations and lots of seats, but none of the seats had anyone sitting in them... You stood at the palace gate, looking at the sky, crying so sadly, as if you'd cried yourself blind..."
After hearing Skadi's description, Lin Qiye fell into deep confusion.
He was crying in a red palace, crying himself blind?
This...
Lin Qiye had rarely cried in all his life. The most he'd ever cried recently was when Zhao Kongcheng died in his arms... What would happen in the future to make him cry so heartbreakingly? To cry himself blind?
Was what she described really himself?
Lin Qiye followed behind Skadi, feeling heavy in his heart.
Soon after, Lin Qiye saw the Holy Spring that Skadi had mentioned. Rather than a spring, it was more like a stream of pristine white water that gushed up from underground.
The spring water rushed vigorously downward along the long channel, converging with a rushing river on the other side of the mountain, flowing through all of Asgard.
Lin Qiye recognized that rushing river—it was the sacred river in the eyes of the Norse Gods, and the sole source of water for the gods' daily life.
At the edge of the exquisite, white spring water, Bragi lay quietly on a large rock. The two goddesses of "Past" and "Present" stood on either side, gazing at him with grave expressions.
The spring water crashed against the stones along the bank, countless fragments of water droplets splashing up and falling around Bragi. The eyelashes with drops of mist clinging to them trembled slightly as his eyes slowly opened...
Bragi's hollow gaze fixed on the dim sky between the gaps in the leaves above, his body motionless like a corpse.
It wasn't known how long passed before a hoarse, faint murmur finally escaped his throat:
"Idun..."
Seeing Bragi awaken, Lin Qiye quickly walked to his side. "Bragi, you're awake?"
Bragi's scattered pupils gradually focused. His face contorted with pain and struggle as he slowly sat up from the rock, speaking in a daze:
"Lin Qiye... Idun... she... she really is dead... I saw her with my own eyes, she cut out her heart and placed it inside my body... Her blood flowed across the floor, nourishing golden flower buds throughout the entire room..."
"Bragi! She's not dead!" Lin Qiye said earnestly. "Did you forget the letters she wrote to you? If she were truly dead, who wrote those letters? There's no way a second Idun could exist who knew so much of your shared past. She may have lost her body, but her soul has been with you all along.
The distance between you and her is only half a heart chamber."
A glimmer of light finally returned to Bragi's eyes. He lowered his head, touching his right chest in bewilderment.
"She's... always been by my side?"
"She's always been by your side!" Lin Qiye affirmed.
"Then when can I see her again?"
Lin Qiye's mouth, which had opened, suddenly hung suspended in mid-air.
Idun and Bragi shared one body with two souls. They were indeed close at hand, but this also meant that unless Idun's soul could be separated and resurrected, the two of them would never meet again... And accomplishing this was virtually impossible.
"We can help you."
Just then, Verdandi, who had been silently standing beside them, suddenly spoke up. "We have a way to separate Idun's soul from yours, allowing you to reunite."
Upon hearing this, both Lin Qiye and Bragi turned to look at her simultaneously.
"Really?!" The light of hope finally appeared in Bragi's desolate eyes. He scrambled off the rock without regard for himself, rushing to Verdandi's side, grasping her like a last lifeline.
"You can really bring my wife back to life?!"
Looking at Bragi's extremely agitated expression, Verdandi was silent for a moment before nodding. "Yes, it's possible.
Theoretically, as long as we find a temporary vessel for Idun's soul, then use Urd's and my own laws to separate her from your physical body and store her within it, then use Asgard's origin to reshape a divine body for her and guide her soul inside, she might be reborn."
Hearing this, a look of joy also appeared in Lin Qiye's eyes.
He hadn't expected that this problem that had troubled him and Merlin for so long would find its solution with the three Norns.
If they could resurrect Idun and reunite her with Bragi, that would truly be the best outcome!
"Please! I beg you!" The flames of hope in Bragi's eyes burned brighter than ever. "Three goddesses, if you help me resurrect my wife, I'll promise you anything..."
"Idun was already my friend. Without you asking, we would do everything in our power to help her." Verdandi spoke.
She turned and stepped down from the large rock. After contemplating for a moment, she still said, "However, this carries considerable risk. Even we don't have absolute certainty... You should prepare yourself mentally.
Follow me."
Verdandi and Urd led the overjoyed Bragi into a spacious cave. With a wave of Verdandi's hand, a divine radiance barrier appeared at the cave's entrance, completely cutting off the outside world.
Lin Qiye and Si Xiaonan, who had been about to follow inside, were blocked outside.
"The soul extraction process is extremely dangerous. Please wait outside for a while."
Verdandi stood within the dim cave entrance, speaking slowly to those outside.
Upon seeing this, Lin Qiye raised an eyebrow but didn't insist. Instead, he nodded and retreated outside the cave.
Time passed by the second...
Outside the silent cave, Lin Qiye, Si Xiaonan, and Skadi waited in silence.
He stood up from the large rock, pacing anxiously near the cave entrance, his gaze frequently flickering toward the interior. Still, there was no sound from within.
If the two goddesses failed, would it affect the Idun inside his body?
That probably wouldn't happen...
Lin Qiye desperately wanted to enter the cave to see how things were progressing, but with Verdandi's barrier in place, even his spiritual power couldn't penetrate it. He could only anxiously wait outside.
After much deliberation, Lin Qiye finally released the disguise magic on his body. A golden domain spread out beneath his feet.
"Qiye, what are you doing..." Si Xiaonan, upon seeing this familiar golden light, asked in confusion.
"It's 'Miracle'." Lin Qiye took a deep breath. "Although I can't help directly, I can at least create a 'Miracle' nearby. If an irretrievably terrible situation truly arises, perhaps the 'Miracle' can be of help..."
This was the only thing Lin Qiye could do under the current circumstances.
Beside the large rock, Skadi, who was holding Mumu, saw this scene. She opened her mouth as if to say something, then silently lowered her head...
"What's wrong? Skadi?"
Lin Qiye noticed Skadi's unusual behavior and asked curiously.
Skadi glanced at the cave. After a moment of hesitation, she finally stammered:
"Actually... Brother doesn't need to be so nervous. This soul separation... it simply cannot succeed..."
Upon hearing these words, Lin Qiye's heart skipped a beat!
"What do you mean?" He walked quickly to Skadi's side, asking nervously.
Skadi spoke quietly: "No matter how hard the two sisters try, they cannot separate Sister Idun's soul...
Because in that body, from the very beginning to the end...
there has only ever been Bragi's soul..."