Chapter 763 - 762: The Origins of Qu Yun

Elder Qing Tian naturally didn’t know that Li Jing had four Life Trees, let alone that he had raised a Spirit of Life and a Spirit of Origin in the process of transforming.

Seeing that Qu Yun didn’t touch the Life Tree Leaves tea, Elder Qing Tian simply assumed that someone standing next to Li Jing wasn’t interested in such things.

The Life Tree Leaves could be considered a Divine Object.

But it’s not top-notch.

The Life Tree itself is the true top-notch Divine Object.

The reason why Life Tree Leaves are rare is mainly that rarity brings value.

There’s no such thing as naturally existing Life Trees.

Acquiring the seed of Life Tree through the Spirit of Origin or a higher level Spirit of Life is the only way to get one.

How rare is the Spirit of Origin?

Even if you’re lucky enough to meet one and win its favor, it doesn’t mean you can get the seed of the Life Tree as you wish.

The Spirit of Origin is naturally capricious, but it’s not a wish-granting mechanism.

It gives benefits to those who catch its eye purely out of whim.

It’s not a matter of you saying what you want and getting it.

And in fact.

Given the playful nature of the Spirit of Origin.

If you actively bring up something, it often backfires.

Ha-ha.

It’s just playing!

Putting aside these trivial matters.

Elder Qing Tian felt at this moment that Li Jing, an immortal monarch, definitely had top-notch good things on his hands, and Qu Yun, who was so close to him, might be forbidden, and her gains were certainly not ordinary.

This woman.

What a good fortune.

Quietly scrutinizing Qu Yun for a while, Elder Qing Tian raised his cup to signal a toast.

"My Daoist friend Li has made great achievements by creating immortal monarchs, which is rare in a thousand years. I never thought that I would be able to witness the style of an immortal monarch again in my lifetime. Please allow me to toast you with tea instead of wine."

Upon hearing this, Li Jing raised his eyebrows.

Again?

So.

Had Elder Qing Tian seen an immortal monarch before?

Without giving it much thought, Li Jing raised his cup in signal and drank it all in one go.

Hmm.

This tea is far inferior to his own.

Thinking of his own four Life Trees which, nurtured by the Deathly Soil, were infinitely close to maturity and would soon transform into Immortal Medicine, Li Jing didn’t find this surprising.

Seeing that Elder Qing Tian had drained his tea, Li Jing spoke.

"My Daoist friend Qing Tian, let’s not talk too much about trivial matters. I have two purposes for visiting Xuanji Divine Palace this time."

As he spoke, he glanced at Qu Yun beside him.

"Firstly, Qu Yun seems to be a old member of the Xuanji Divine Palace and was accidentally lost to the Universe Great World as a baby."

"Was Immortal Qu a member of my Divine Palace?"

Elder Qing Tian was taken aback.

Qu Yun took out her jade pendant.

Seeing the jade, Elder Qing Tian’s face became slightly intense.

"The treasure of the Divine Palace, the Xuanji treasure jade."

Upon hearing these words, Qu Yun’s face changed slightly.

More than fifty years ago, she learned through her investigations that the Xuanji treasure jade came from Xuanji Mountain and was a rare Divine Object.

That it had something to do with the Xuanji Divine Palace was almost certain.

Its value didn’t need to be mentioned.

Which Divine Object isn’t valuable?

When Elder Qing Tian blurted out that the Xuanji treasure jade was an important treasure of their Divine Palace, it was much more precious than she had understood.

It looked like.

Her parents were almost certainly from the palace, and their status might not be low.

Just as she was speculating, Elder Qing Tian extended a hand.

Seeing this, Qu Yun subconsciously passed the jade pendant over.

Elder Qing Tian took the jade pendant and looked it over twice before speaking softly.

"The Xuanji treasure jade rarely leaves the palace and its production is one of the important capital for Xuanji Divine Palace to establish a foothold in the Divine Kingdom. The jade used in Artifact Refinement can give the artifact the ability to break all the false and evil things in the world, restrict most of the Void Creatures, and have a strong suppression of evil spirits."

As he spoke, he continued to explain.

"In addition, the unrefined Xuanji treasure jade is an important medium for achieving the rebirth law of Xuanji for our Xuanji Divine Palace. Even if only a remnant soul remains, it can be introduced into the Xuanji treasure jade with a secret method for nurturing, and the soul can be completed within a hundred years, and rebirth from the jade into the world."

Hearing Qing Tian describe it like this, Li Jing couldn’t help gasping for air.

Without a doubt, the Xuanji treasure jade is the best of the best.

In the Eternal Divine Kingdom, a Divine Object that can restrict most of void beings when refined into a tool has an extremely high value.

Moreover, through the secret method of the Xuanji Temple, it could even act as a medium for rebirth.

Rebirth...

Unbelievable!

There are many wonderful methods of rebirth in the world, but almost all of them are from the Evil Way.

Reliable methods do exist.

But they are extremely rare.

At least Li Jing had never known or come across any.

Upon hearing Qing Tian’s words, Qu Yun was just as astonished, but her brow furrowed slightly.

The Xuanji treasure jade was so precious, but the parents who left it in her swaddling clothes might not have done so simply so she could trace her origins one day.

The jade pendant in her hand indeed had not been refined, it had just been carved.

The jade was in her swaddling clothes, but there was no secret method that went with it.

The thing obviously wasn’t meant for her use...

While she was speculating, Elder Qing Tian turned his gaze to her.

"Fairy Qu is intelligent and may have thought of something. There is a remnant soul lodged in your jade pendant. It has fallen silent because it has been without the nurturing power produced by the ancestral secret method of our Xuanji Divine Palace for a long time. Next, I will awaken the remnant soul in the jade, and you need to be mentally prepared."

Qu Yun didn’t say anything, she just nodded silently.

There’s not much to prepare mentally.

She’s not some naive little girl.

As the former Yaochi Divine Emperor, what great waves hasn’t she experienced?

Here.

Elder Qing Tian put the jade pendant on the table, and with a flip of his hand, he formed several seals and tapped out with one finger.

As a profound power was infused, the jade faintly glowed.

Then, a beautiful woman who seemed to be asleep appeared over the jade in the form of a Phantom.

Seeing the woman, Qu Yun instinctively grabbed Li Jing’s arm, her small hand gripping tightly.

Li Jing saw this, turned his head to look at her, and patted her back of hand.

The remnant soul sleeping in the jade should be Qu Yun’s mother without a doubt.

The mother and daughter’s features could almost be said to be carved from the same mold.

That little face was heartbreakingly beautiful.

It seemed.

Qu Yun was not abandoned.

Her mother’s remnant soul was nurtured in the Xuanji treasure jade, obviously because someone wanted to save her life after she died.

That person was probably Qu Yun’s father.

Perhaps the couple had an accident and both died.

Most likely, the accident didn’t happen in the Universe Great World.

At that time, Qu Yun’s father was probably barely able to save himself, preserving his wife’s remnant soul and desperately sending his baby girl, who was still in swaddling clothes, to the Universe Great World was his limit.

Li Jing looked at Qing Tian, who was scrutinizing the remnant soul of the woman, and spoke.

"Elder Qing Tian, do you recognize this woman’s remnant soul?"

"No impression."

Qing Tian shook his head and replied.

"Those who can get their hands on the Xuanji treasure jade would undoubtedly hold a high status in my Divine Palace. This woman is likely not from my Divine Palace. The one who saved her remnant soul is. She will wake up soon, and we can ask her then."

Before he could finish speaking, the woman’s remnant soul trembled slightly, slowly opening her eyes.

Upon seeing Li Jing and the others, she first revealed a somewhat confused expression and then suddenly fixed her gaze unwaveringly onto Qu Yun.

Meeting her gaze, Qu Yun bit her lip lightly and sat upright in her seat.

The woman’s remnant soul stared at her for a long time, a comforting smile slowly spreading across her face.

"Yun’er, you’ve grown up."

"Mm."

Qu Yun nodded.

Coming to Xuanji Divine Palace, she imagined all kinds of ways she might encounter her parents, and also imagined not being able to find her birth parents.

But she never expected it would be in this form.

Qu Yun, who once planned to interrogate her parents for abandoning her, was more than overwhelmed when faced with her mother’s remnant soul.

Especially the comforting smile on the other person’s face, as if saying "everything was worth it," causing waves in her previously calm heart.

At this moment, she genuinely didn’t know what to say.

She even felt somewhat at a loss.

Just then.

The woman’s remnant soul’s gaze suddenly fell on Li Jing, and she looked at him with excited eyes.

"Yun’er, is this your husband?"

"..."

Qu Yun.

Her mother’s jump from one topic to another genuinely caught her off guard.

Her mother’s remnant soul had been silent for so many years and had just awakened, but her focus seemed off.

Speechless, Li Jing spoke.

"Auntie, please don’t misunderstand. Qu Yun and I are just good friends, not what you think."

"Good friends?"

Qu Yun’s mother glanced at Qu Yun’s hand holding Li Jing’s hand, a look of disbelief on her face.

Qu Yun also suddenly realized what her mother was implying.

Pulling her hand out from Li Jing’s arm, she coughed lightly.

"Mother, Li Jing and I are really not what you think. But he has been kind to me. I was able to come to Xuanji Divine Palace this time because he was with me."

"Is that so?"

Qu Yun’s mother blinked, retaking a look at Li Jing and there was a touch of ambiguous smile on her face.

Li Jing saw this and tugged at the corner of his mouth.

This aunt, she doesn’t seem to be ordinary, right?

When she "passed away."

Qu Yun was still a baby in swaddling clothes.

In the blink of an eye, her daughter was all grown up. Why was she interested in him?

Seeing that Qu Yun’s mother ignored him completely after regaining consciousness, Qing Tian coughed.

"Fairy, I have a few questions for you."

Upon hearing the voice, Qu Yun’s mother turned her head.

"Elder, you... you should be from Xuanji Divine Palace, right?"

"I am Qing Tian, the guardian of Xuanji Divine Palace."

Qing Tian nodded.

!!!

Qu Yun’s mother.

Obviously.

She knew about Qing Tian.

But she never expected that her daughter would meet such an important person during her visit to Xuanji Divine Palace. Not only did he personally awaken her remnant soul, he also politely called her a fairy.

Qu Yun’s mother was a wise woman.

She quickly concluded that it was due to Li Jing.

Taking a quick glance at a certain individual, she paid her respects to Qing Tian.

"Rootless Loose Cultivator Qu Rou pays her respects to Elder Qing Tian."

A Loose Cultivator?

A look of surprise flashed across Qing Tian’s face, but he waved his hand and said.

"You don’t need to be so formal. The remnant of your soul can be kept in Xuanji Treasure Jade. Is it related to one of the descendants of my Divine Palace?"

"Elder Qing Tian, you are astute. In my wanderings, I joined in marriage with Yu Yanwen, a disciple of your Divine Palace."

Qu Rou answered respectfully.

"Yu Yanwen!?"

Qing Tian’s expression changed slightly.

?

Li Jing.

Qu Yun also furrowed her brows.

The two of them were thoughtful people.

Able to cause Qing Tian’s change of expression, Yu Yanwen was probably not as simple as Qu Rou claimed him to be as a disciple of the Temple.

Qu Rou also wasn’t a simple person and she detected something abnormal.

"What about Yanwen?"

"He is the former Palace Master of my Xuanji Divine Palace."

Qing Tian said in a low voice.

"..."

Qu Rou.

Li Jing was dumbfounded on the spot.

The former Palace Master of Xuanji Divine Palace.

With this being said.

Qu Yun’s identity was not as simple as being the second generation of immortals.

Her lineage was simply earth-shattering!

While being in awe, Li Jing frowned with suspicion.

Someone who could become the palace master of the Divine Palace, in any case, wouldn’t be weak.

Keep in mind.

-Xuanji Divine Palace was one of the top nine superpower forces in the Eternal Divine Kingdom.

Such characters wouldn’t just die like that and they would definitely not be incapable of protecting their own wife and daughter.

While thinking about this, Qing Tian spoke up.

"Do you remember what happened before your death?"

Qu Rou was silent and answered a different question.

"Is Yanwen still alive?"

"His life lamp dimmed, confirmed death."

Qing Tian shook his head.

"So he really didn’t survive?"

Qu Rou sighed softly, then said in a low voice.

"Yanwen and I cultivated and lived together, and during our travels, Yun’er was born. Because the God Kingdom is not suitable for a newborn to grow up, my husband and I decided to take Yun’er to a more peaceful Great World to raise her until she had a certain level of cultivation before returning. We didn’t expect that as soon as we left the Eternal Divine Kingdom, we were ambushed by an unknown party. All aggressors were Golden Immortals or above. I’m only a Human Immortal. If Yanwen hadn’t protected me, I would have perished in the first attack."