#956 - No regrets

"Shishu, I want to see Qianshan."

He Qingyun's body trembled slightly. After so many years of separation, she never dared to hope that she could see her husband again.

In those years in the Netherworld, no matter what kind of torment she endured, no matter how difficult it was, she always silently endured it.

She had a belief in her heart, that was that her soul could not die in the Netherworld, could not be reduced to ashes.

She knew that her brother, He Jianyuan, had deliberately locked a wisp of her remnant soul in her dead body back then.

If the main soul perished in the Netherworld, then the remnant soul left in the remains might also perish with it.

For so many years, she didn't know if her remains still existed, but she knew that if the remains were still there, then the wisp of remnant soul inside might be the only hope in Qianshan's heart.

She couldn't let him shatter even his last hope.

Now, she had finally returned to the human world, and she would soon be able to see her husband whom she had been dreaming of.

She was both nervous and afraid to see what he looked like now.

Because she heard Wuxie say that her husband was seriously injured, his limbs were broken off…

"Qingyun…" Jiu Ye's lips trembled, and he sighed and said, "You need to be mentally prepared. Qianshan's current appearance may be cruel to you. But don't worry, as long as he is still alive, there is always hope. Wuxie will find a way to help Qianshan recover."

Tears gathered in He Qingyun's eyes again, and she nodded gently.

Jiu Ye looked at Little Fanyin beside Jun Wuxie and said, "Fanyin, accompany your Shiniang."

Little Fanyin's eyes were slightly red. She came to He Qingyun, hugged her arm, and said, "Shiniang, Fanyin will accompany you to see Shizun."

"Good child."

He Qingyun wiped away her tears and patted Little Fanyin's hand. The two gradually walked away.

"Life is full of ups and downs, but fortunately, heaven favors lovers." Jun Wuxie sighed as he watched Shiniang's disappearing back, then looked at Su Xiaoxiao, who was holding his arm, and said, "Xiaoxiao, can your current strength awaken the vitality of Shiniang's body and help Uncle Bird regenerate his limbs?"

She nodded lightly and said, "It wouldn't have been possible originally, but Wuxie Gege is now extraordinary and sanctified. If supplemented with your saint's essence blood, there will be no problem."

"That's good, essence blood is not a problem!"

Jun Wuxie felt relieved. Uncle Bird and Shiniang could finally return to their original state.

In that case, his greatest concern in the Lower Realm would have a perfect ending, and he could go to the Upper Realm universe with peace of mind.

"Shizun, have you broken through to the Saint Realm?"

His nine direct disciples, one by one, looked at him with eager eyes, full of admiration, and with shocked and excited expressions.

"Wuxie, is what Xiaoxiao said true? Have you really become a Saint?"

Jiu Ye was also shocked, but after the initial shock, he was replaced by excitement, and his beard trembled because of it.

"Yes, I broke through to the Saint Realm in the Netherworld…"

Jun Wuxie briefly explained the situation at that time, which made Uncle Bird and his direct disciples nervous and excited, and proud of him.

"Jiu Ye, do you still remember the appearance of the previous generations of disciples of our sect?"

"I remember, how could I not remember." The smile on Jiu Ye's face gradually disappeared, replaced by heaviness and sorrow, and said, "Each of them is like a relative to this old man. Even though time has passed, their appearance is still extremely clear in my mind…"

"Then Jiu Ye, can you share the memories of their appearances in your mind with me?"

"Okay."

Although Jiu Ye was curious as to why Jun Wuxie wanted him to share these memories, he did not hesitate. He immediately stepped forward, and the light of his soul bloomed between his eyebrows, transmitting those memory information into his sea of consciousness.

"Wuxie, can you tell me, what are you going to do with these memory information?"

Jiu Ye couldn't help but be curious.

"This time I went to the Netherworld, I almost emptied all the souls from the human world in the Netherworld. I don't know if the souls of those Shixiong and Shijie are among them. After all, I have never seen them and don't know what they look like."

"What does 'emptied' mean? Where are those souls now?"

Jiu Ye was a little excited.

"They are all currently in my Cave Heaven."

"Then you quickly take a look, see if your Shixiong and Shijie are among them, quickly!"

Jiu Ye was very distraught, just like when he saw He Qingyun before.

"Jiu Ye, don't worry."

Jun Wuxie comforted him, after all, he was not sure if the souls of Shixiong and Shijie were among them.

So many years have passed, the Shixiong and Shijie of the past generations were not very high in realm when they died in battle, and their souls were relatively weak.

It is difficult to say whether they can all survive to this day in the Netherworld.

Of course, he hoped they were all still there.

At that time, when he decided to empty the souls of the Eighteen Levels of Hell, there was such a reason in it.

After receiving Jiu Ye's memory, many faces appeared in Jun Wuxie's mind.

Generation after generation of Shixiong and Shijie, the number of each generation was not large, at most a dozen people, and sometimes only a few people.

Over so many generations, there were also hundreds of people.

These hundreds of Shixiong and Shijie all died on the Life and Death Stage of the Great River Sword Sect. Each person's fate was extremely tragic. After death, they were pickled, skinned, and their heads were made into lanterns.

His divine sense searched in the Cave Heaven, where there were countless souls.

After all, he had almost emptied the Eighteen Levels of Hell. Over a long period of time, the souls that were received into the Netherworld, except for those who perished in the Netherworld, were all here.

His divine sense swept across one face after another, and gradually, he finally saw faces similar to those in the memory screen that Jiu Ye had shared with him.

Jun Wuxie moved those souls suspected to be Shixiong and Shijie of past generations to a separate area and continued searching.

This was a huge project. There were too many souls. Even if his divine sense searched extremely quickly, it would still take a long time to accurately find hundreds of people in the vast "sea of people."

Everyone was very nervous and uneasy, and Jiu Ye was even more so. They were all waiting quietly in the small courtyard, full of anticipation.

His direct disciples understood the past of the sect, knew the tragic experiences of the sect in the past, were very angry and sad about the deaths of the Shibo and Shishu of the past generations, and also felt extremely sad.

It was like this until the next day, and there was a look of fatigue on Jun Wuxie's face.

He finally found all the souls that were suspected to be Shixiong and Shijie. To his relief, not a single one was missing.

However, some of them looked a little dull, even distracted, and most of them were very weak, and some of their soul bodies still had old and new wounds.

"Jiu Ye, do you see if they are the Shixiong and Shijie of past generations?"

Jun Wuxie opened his eyes, waved his hand, and hundreds of rays of light flashed. Those souls were released by him from the Cave Heaven.

Those souls were a little dazed. They looked at the surrounding environment, and their tired and dim eyes were full of doubt, and then they gradually had light.

"This is…"

They saw familiar traces in their memory, and felt that it seemed to be their former sect.

But it was different. How could the sect at that time be so imposing?

When their eyes fell on Jiu Ye, everyone's body trembled fiercely.

"Sh… Shishuzu…"

"It's me…" Jiu Ye was in tears, looking at these faces, he seemed to have returned to those eras of the past, those years of cultivating them, and the scenes of watching them die tragically on the Life and Death Stage with his own eyes.

"We… we have returned to the human world!"

"We have returned to the sect!"

"Disciple pays respects to Shishuzu!"

They all knelt down, choked with sobs.

"Get up, get up quickly!"

Jiu Ye stepped forward to help them up.

After they got up, they looked at the people around them. Except for a small number of people they knew, the rest were unfamiliar faces.

The disciples of the various generations did not enter the sect in the same era, they had never met each other, and there was no intersection.

"You are all Shixiong and Shidi, Shijie and Shimei! They are all disciples of our sect from various generations. If you didn't know each other before, you still are now. You can be considered to know each other!"

"Shixiong Shijie, Shidi Shimei…"

They looked at each other, murmured, and then hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Jun Wuxie and others watched silently from the side, feeling sad.

Without experiencing their era, they could not understand their feelings.

In those years, the sect was suppressed and harmed by the Great River Sword Sect, it was too difficult, and each of their fates was very tragic.

Now that they knew each other's identities, they also knew that they had the same experience, and the distance between their hearts was immediately shortened, without the slightest distance.

"Shixiong Shijie, those bloody pasts will never happen again from now on, it's all over." Jun Wuxie pointed to the sect and said, "Shixiong Shijie, please see, this is our current sect—the Zhuxian Sword Sect!"

"Zhuxian Sword Sect…"

They looked at the majestic bronze palace of the sect, so magnificent and majestic, as well as the palaces and pavilions built between the peaks, all of which were showing the sect's current glory and prosperity.

Seeing the sect's current prosperous appearance, and thinking about the sect's miserable situation in the past, tears fell down for a while, and the feeling of sadness was indescribable.

"Are you our Shidi?"

They looked at Jun Wuxie, all very shocked and felt incredible.

This was the strong man who brought them back to the human world from hell, and he was actually their Shidi!

Jiu Ye wiped away his tears and said, "Yes, he is your Shidi, and also the contemporary Sect Master of the sect. When our sect was at its most declining, Qianshan brought him into the sect, and since then changed the fate of the sect. If it weren't for him, there would be no supreme glory and status of the sect now!"

“We know that Junior Brother is very strong, otherwise he wouldn't have brought us back from hell to the human world.”

“Grand Master Uncle, you said that our Zhuxian Sword Sect now has a position of supreme glory. Can we now be on equal footing with the Dominator forces?”

They all felt incredible and were extremely excited at the same time.

Back then, the sect was just a small, marginalized force, and even recruiting disciples was difficult.

At that time, when people talked about Zongwang Academy, they would either shake their heads and sigh, or sneer, or even mock and ridicule.

“Hahaha!” Grandpa Wine stroked his beard and laughed up to the sky, saying with great confidence and pride: “What is the Supreme Dominator? Your junior brother is already the strongest in the world, pushing across the starry sky without an opponent. Not to mention the Dominator forces, even the Supreme Dominator is vulnerable in front of your junior brother!”

“Ah?”

“This… is it true?”

“Grand Master Uncle, you're not bragging, are you?”

“Junior Brother, is it really like this?”

They all looked at Grandpa Wine and Jun Wuxie in shock.

“Eldest Uncle, Uncles, of course it's true. You don't know how powerful Master is. During the Flood of Doomsday, Master entered the Dark Continent alone, killing tens of thousands of dark powerhouses, killing the Dark Emperor, and protecting the endless living beings of our world. Master is now like a supreme god in our Lower Realm, respected by all races!”

Jun Nian'er said very proudly, but after she finished speaking, her eyes turned red.

She thought of Master's lonely figure fighting alone at that time. No one could stand shoulder to shoulder with him to fight the enemy. Only Master alone fought until his life was exhausted, but he still stood strong, using his immortal obsession to kill the enemy, and finally perished together with the dark army.

The year the Little World Tree carried Master's body back, they washed their faces with tears every day, and were tormented in pain and torment every day.

“Eldest Brother and Sisters, you can practice in the sect with peace of mind from now on.” Jun Wuxie said with a smile: “Although you don't have physical bodies, it doesn't matter. Now is an excellent era for cultivation, especially in our Zhuxian Dynasty and our Zhuxian Sword Sect! Even if you are spiritual bodies, you can still cultivate flesh and blood in the future!”

“Okay!”

They were so excited that they didn't know what to say.

The sect was so miserable back then, but now that they have returned, they have already reached the pinnacle and stood at the highest point in the world!

“Eldest Brother and Sisters, your souls are very weak, so it's best to practice as soon as possible.” Jun Wuxie said with a smile: “You don't need to worry about anything in the sect. When you cultivate your physical bodies, you will still need to help manage the affairs of the sect. When your souls improve a few more realms, Grandpa Wine will give you some rare treasures for specialized soul cultivation. But now, the effect of those treasures is too strong, and your souls cannot bear it yet, so you still need to spend some time laying a good foundation.”

“Junior Brother is right, we should go to practice and try to cultivate our physical bodies as soon as possible!”

“Then Grand Master Uncle, Junior Brother, we will go to practice now. I wonder if the sect has a special place for practice?”

Grandpa Wine said with a smile: “The sect has a bronze secret room, but you don't have to. Do you see those pavilions? The ones near the back mountain are all empty. You can live there in the future and practice in your residences. No one will disturb you, and your safety will be absolutely guaranteed.”

“Okay, then we will go to choose a residence and prepare for practice.”

“By the way, Grand Master Uncle, has Master's Wife also returned? When we were in hell, we saw the women beside Junior Brother, and some of them seemed to be Master's Wife. It's just that Master's Wife's face was covered with dirt at that time, and we didn't know Junior Brother's identity, so we didn't dare to think about it. Now that I think about it, that should be Master's Wife, right?”

“Yes, your Master's Wife has returned. Our sect has experienced many tragic past events, but fortunately, there is finally a perfect ending now…”

Grandpa Wine was very emotional. He had never dared to imagine such a result in his dreams. All the regrets have been made up for.

“Grand Master Uncle, we want to pay our respects to Master's Wife.”

“Alright, hurry up and go to practice. Are you afraid that you won't have a chance to pay your respects to your Master's Wife in the future? Your Master's Wife is not free to pay attention to you now. Can't you let her spend some time quietly with your Master? I say, you disciples, don't you understand things?”

Grandpa Wine was in a good mood now, and scolded them with a smile.

“Ha, haha, that's true…”

They scratched their heads and laughed awkwardly, and then went to the pavilions and courtyards near the back mountain.

When their voices disappeared, the smile on Grandpa Wine's face gradually faded, and he looked at Jun Wuxie deeply and said: "Wuxie, when are you planning to leave?"

Jun Wuxie was stunned. Seeing Su Xiaoxiao beside him looking at him with reluctance, as well as his nine disciples, he couldn't help but feel a little heavy.

He used to think about going to the Upper Realm, but when the day of departure really approached, the feeling was completely different.

Although he was still persistent, enthusiastic, and looking forward to going to the Upper Realm, he also had a deep sense of reluctance at the same time.

This Lower Realm, after all, had people or things that he was attached to.

He had lived here for more than twenty years, grew up here, and left his life's footprints here. There were many, many stories, many unforgettable moments, and many joys and sorrows.

“It should be in these days. After helping Uncle Bird and Master's Wife restore their physical bodies, and after I arrange the affairs of the dynasty, I should leave. I can't stay in the Lower Realm for long, some things are very urgent. It's been more than a year, we don't know how they are doing in the Upper Realm. The Little World Tree is weak and dying, and Aunt Jing's origin is broken for my sake. They all need to go to the Upper Realm to find sacred treasures that can help them heal as soon as possible, otherwise, if the time is too long, the injuries will worsen, and the consequences will be disastrous…”

Jun Wuxie's words made Su Xiaoxiao, Grandpa Wine, and the nine direct disciples all fall silent.

Yes, he had too many things to do and responsibilities to shoulder. Even if they were reluctant, they couldn't keep him in the Lower Realm, not even for a while.

“Alright, you don't have to be like this, making it seem like I'm saying goodbye to you forever.” Jun Wuxie said with a smile, “In the future, the cultivation environment in this Lower Realm will undergo huge changes, mainly the rules of heaven and earth. By then, you will also be able to break through to the Saint Realm. If there is a chance in the future, you can come to the Upper Realm, or I can come back to the Lower Realm to see you. It's not like we won't see each other again.”

“Master, can I go to the Upper Realm with you?”

Jun Nian'er looked at him with a hopeful face.

“I also want to go to the Upper Realm with Master.”

Jun Leng'er said.

“And us!”

Jun Ling'er and Jun Wan'er said in unison.

“We also want to follow Master. When we get to the Upper Realm, we will never cause trouble for Master. We will listen to your instructions in everything, Master!”

Jun Ye, Jun Bai, Jun Lin, Jun Yuan, and Jun Nai also looked at him with fiery eyes.

“Nonsense!”

Jun Wuxie naturally wouldn't agree, and said: “Your current realm is very dangerous in the Upper Realm. Moreover, I have no foundation in the Upper Realm and cannot take care of you at all. Don't mention this matter again. Stay in the Lower Realm and practice hard. In the future, I will come back to check your cultivation results. If you dare to slack off, I will spank you!”

“Ah, Master, you won't take us to the Upper Realm and you still want to spank us, that's too cruel!”

Jun Nian'er stuck out her tongue.

Jun Ye and the others' eyes dimmed, and they didn't mention going to the Upper Realm again, only saying: “Master, don't worry, we are your disciples, and we will never embarrass you at any time!”