svetikya Chapter 1160 - 615: Putting on a Show (6)
Chapter 1160 - 615: Putting on a Show (6)
How had she never realized before that being able to move and speak felt this amazing! The maid who had been attending her these past few days was called Ruo Ping, a little lotus demon. She was very perceptive; seeing that Ning Xiaoxian couldn’t hide the joy on her face, she also said happily, "Congratulations, Lord Ning, in at most another two days you’ll be fully recovered!"
Ning Xiaoxian was of course delighted, and at the same time finally let out a breath of relief. These days lying on the bed, her mind had been teeming with thoughts; what she feared most was: if she could never recover for the rest of her life, what then! As far as she herself was concerned, she absolutely did not want to become a burden to Changtian. She wouldn’t blame a man for having a change of heart by then—this state of living worse than Death, even she felt repulsed looking at herself.
Now that she had truly and solidly cast off this concern, it was a great blessing.
After being clear-headed for a few days, she had also figured out what was going on with her body. It turned out that after the Battle of Bai Yujing, Changtian had placed her body at the Endless Sea Floor to let it recover on its own. And back then she had burned her Divine Soul to drive her body, so what Changtian managed to extract from her was only a single incomplete wisp of soul fire, and he had no choice but to place that wisp of Divine Soul into the Soul Nourishing Wood to nourish it. During these three years, he had sought out quite a few Residual Souls of cultivators and demons to experiment with the Soul Healing Technique.
The difficulty of this secret skill was truly immense; even with his ability, he repeatedly failed in the early stages. Moreover, a Divine Soul naturally grew extremely slowly; for someone whose soul had been damaged to that extent, after repair it would take at least more than half a year to fully regenerate. Changtian experimented for more than a year before barely getting the hang of it, then practiced for another year before he dared say that the success rate had greatly increased.
It was only until a little over half a year ago that he dared claim that once he made a move there would be no mishaps, and only then did he take out her Divine Soul for repair. Those two people from the Yangming Sect sneaked into the Endless Sea Eye trying to launch a surprise attack on her exactly ten days after Changtian had planted her Divine Soul back into her body. Therefore, by Changtian’s conservative estimate, Ning Xiaoxian would need at least another half a year before waking up; by then her soul would have fully adapted to her body and she would feel no discomfort upon waking.
Previously in Desert City, they had encountered the perfumer Chen Ding from the Sky Blue State’s Slave Camp; his soul had been extracted by Yin Jiu You’s avatar and forcibly stuffed into a handsome leather bag. Only, this kind of Soul Planting Technique inflicted tremendous damage on both soul and body. The effects wouldn’t show in the short term, but after three to five years, as Soul Power declined, his lifespan would sharply shorten as well, so there was no way Changtian would treat her so casually.
Who knew that Human plans could never keep up with Heaven’s; those two sneaking into the Endless Sea Eye, although they didn’t hurt her, ended up prematurely waking her from her slumber.
Her Divine Soul had been outside her body for nearly three years, and after being repaired, once it was put back into her body it actually triggered a rejection reaction—namely, the body not being under the control of the Divine Soul. That was why after she woke up, even opening her eyes felt difficult. Because breathing, heartbeat, gastrointestinal movements, blood flow and so on were activities the Human body could perform unconsciously. Other than that, she didn’t even have the ability to turn her head.
And as her body began to adapt to the presence of the Divine Soul, her control over her body would grow stronger and stronger, until she returned to the state she’d been in before the Battle of Bai Yujing. So her most urgent task now was to move her hands and feet appropriately—that is, to do some "Rehabilitation" exercises.
However, the more she understood, the more doubts weighed on her heart. Changtian might have vast Divine Skills, but after spending so long with him, she had never heard that he knew any Soul Healing Secret Technique, yet he just happened to be able to save her. And those souls he used to experiment with his Divine Soul Technique—where had they come from? She didn’t want to think too deeply about it; after all, how could there be so many souls in this world that were born crippled and incomplete?
Furthermore, even though she wasn’t some universally beloved, flower-charming fresh little cutie, she had always kept to herself and avoided contention. What deep hatred did those two from the Yangming Sect have with her, that they were willing to risk their lives to charge into a Forbidden Land in order to take hers? She knew all too well how selfish Cultivators were by nature; for these two to make such a massive sacrifice, there had to be some hidden reason behind it.
What’s more, Changtian most likely knew about this hidden reason, otherwise he wouldn’t have had his True Body coiled around the Endless Sea Eye to guard her. It was obvious he didn’t trust only the power of this Forbidden Land and wanted to add another layer of protection.
Third, she had faintly sensed that the world beyond the Bashe Forest seemed to have become even more chaotic. Whether from the conversations between Changtian and his subordinates, or from the few words that Yan Lingxue let slip, everything pointed to one thing: the Hidden Stream was deeply mired in the Battle!