Proud Sword Soaring Clouds

Chapter 411: Chapter 294: Reincarnation Legacy

The three of them were facing a huge divine statue. It was enshrined there, cast from gold, and stood over three meters tall! It towered over them like a deity, exuding an immense, oppressive aura.

"This... this divine statue looks a lot like those statues we saw crushed under the boulders!" Shangguan Yutong said, her brow furrowed slightly. The main reason no one had paid much attention to those Golden Statues was that they all seemed to be carvings of ordinary humans. They depicted men and women, with no exaggerated poses or attire, and very few held any weapons.

The reason one would subconsciously identify the statue before them as a divine one, however, was because this huge Golden Statue constantly radiated an intimidating aura! It inspired an urge to worship from the very depths of one’s soul!

Ling Xiao frowned slightly and walked closer. In front of the divine statue was a table, and on it lay a scroll and an ancient-looking longsword. Besides those, there was nothing else.

Ling Xiao walked up and reached out to pick up the scroll from the table. Song Mingyue and Shangguan Yutong watched nervously, scanning their surroundings, afraid that some other terrifying trap might be triggered.

"Haha, now that we’re here, any traps would be meaningless!" Ling Xiao explained with a laugh. "No powerful expert would want to make a mess of their own domain." As he spoke, he unrolled the scroll in his hand.

On it was a painting. It depicted a woman with a beautiful face and a tall figure, dressed in a long white-gauze gown, looking like a celestial fairy. But Ling Xiao and the two women who had gathered around were utterly dumbfounded.

Because the woman in the painting was Shangguan Yutong! ...Or rather, the woman in the painting looked exactly like Shangguan Yutong!

Taking another look at the scroll, Ling Xiao recognized the material. It was the special paper used exclusively for Magic Scrolls back in the Ancient Era! The technique to produce this kind of paper had been lost for over ten thousand years!

In other words, even though the woman in the painting looked exactly like Shangguan Yutong, it absolutely could not be her!

"Sister Shangguan, wh-what’s going on? Could it be... that these ruins were left behind by an ancestor of your family?" Song Mingyue asked in surprise. But when she turned her head, she saw Shangguan Yutong’s gaze was dazed and her eyes were red-rimmed. She was biting her lower lip forcefully, her body trembling slightly as if she were desperately trying to control her emotions.

"Sister, what’s wrong?" Song Mingyue asked softly. Seeing Shangguan Yutong looking so sad, on top of the bizarre painting, made the whole situation feel rather surreal.

Shangguan Yutong reached out, taking the painting from Ling Xiao’s hands. Her slender, delicate fingers trembled slightly as she murmured to herself, "So it’s true... It’s really true!"

"Huh?" Ling Xiao was startled to see that after the scroll was in Shangguan Yutong’s hands, six large, flamboyant words had appeared in the blank space of the upper-left corner!

Form born of heart, legacy by rebirth!

"What... what does this mean?" Ling Xiao asked, frowning. Even though he had practiced Cultivation in his past life and was no stranger to reincarnation, this was the first time on the Canglan Continent he had ever seen the word "reincarnation" in writing! Moreover, Ling Xiao had no idea what these six words were supposed to mean.

This made Ling Xiao uncomfortable. He had always liked to keep matters in his own hands. Take, for example, things that others saw as incredibly dangerous, like entering the Vendia Great Snow Mountain, one of the continent’s ten great forbidden lands. Ling Xiao was very clear on his own abilities; he could avoid the vast majority of Magical Beasts. In contrast, to the Ling Xiao of that time, humans were actually far more dangerous. That was why he dared to enter the Great Snow Mountain, dared to venture into the Penzes Swamp, and dared to set foot on the road to the Polar Ice Sea.

It wasn’t that there was no danger at all, but at the very least, Ling Xiao basically knew what to expect.

But here, for the first time, Ling Xiao felt like someone else was controlling the pace!

Shangguan Yutong suddenly spoke, her voice distant, "Ling Xiao, do you know why I left my family when I was young and have never returned?"

Ling Xiao shook his head. Shangguan Yutong’s background had always been a mystery. All Ling Xiao knew was that she came from a prominent family, her sect was the Baihua Sect, she had studied at the Imperial Academy and then stayed on to teach. In front of others, she was elegant and cold, but with him, she was passionate and fiery. However, Shangguan Yutong seldom mentioned matters concerning her family.

"My family is an ancient house! It isn’t a large family, but we have a few Sword Emperor Level experts. Like other prominent families and sects, we also have some Secret Techniques for increasing one’s strength." As Shangguan Yutong spoke, a hint of pride appeared on her face.

Song Mingyue was slightly startled. ’No wonder I always sensed the air of a kindred spirit about Shangguan Yutong,’ she thought. ’So she also comes from a great house. A few Sword Emperor Level experts... that can’t possibly be a small family! Shangguan Yutong is just being modest!’

"However, my family has a legend that is also a curse! One that began in the Ancient Era!" At this point, Shangguan Yutong glanced at the divine statue, a complex look in her eyes. "It is said that an ancestor of the Shangguan Clan was once extremely powerful and cultivated a particular Cultivation Technique. This technique can be passed down, skipping generations! It can even... be inherited across tens of thousands of years! It’s like an awakening. Every thousand years, the chosen one will naturally awaken. Then, their strength will have a massive breakthrough in a short period of time! It’s even possible to break through to the Sword Emperor Realm within a dozen years or so!"

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