NOVPUBIn the first half of Lu Xuejing’s life, her memories were almost solely of her master, Lu Xia.
The rest was endless knowledge of array techniques.
Therefore, when Li Fan incarnated as Lu Xuejing’s master, the collision of his divine soul with Lu Xuejing’s did not provoke much resistance.
Instead, it was from Lu Xuejing that Li Fan felt an emotion brimming with trepidation.
Countless scenes flickered within Lu Xuejing’s divine soul, true and false, false and true.
The faces of Lu Xia and Li Fan changed rapidly, speeding up over time.
Eventually, only Li Fan’s face remained, firmly engraved deep within Lu Xuejing’s divine soul.
With the silver radiance of the Reality Seducing Fruit completely dissolving,
Lu Xuejing’s body also slowly returned to calm after a bout of violent convulsions.
Li Fan withdrew his divine soul power, as the large-scale, prolonged transfer of divine soul power was too exhausting.
Even with the [Technique of Endless Duality]’s characteristic of endlessly regenerating divine soul, it was somewhat overwhelming for a while.
Fortunately, the task had been accomplished.
In the midst of the recent fusion of divine souls, Li Fan glimpsed many secrets within Lu Xuejing’s memory.
For instance, Lu Xuejing’s master, Lu Xia, had actually never been fully satisfied with her.
Even until his death, he held no hope that Lu Xuejing would inherit his ultimate array techniques.
The decision to take Lu Xuejing as a disciple, including passing on to her the position of chief in the Array Strategy Hall,
Had involved some special factors.
Although Lu Xia never clarified explicitly until his death, Lu Xuejing herself guessed that she might be his daughter.
However, she never had the courage to verify this guess.
And with Lu Xia’s bones reduced to ashes, whether this conjecture was true became unverifiable.
There were many more secrets about Lu Xuejing.
For example, as she had lived under the high pressure and strict discipline of her master since childhood, her psyche had always been under tremendous pressure.
In the process of trying to alleviate this pressure, she had discovered a quite effective method.
And the reason she often sought out Xuan Suchang was precisely because of this reason.
...
Upon thinking of this, Li Fan’s expression shifted slightly with a peculiar change, "So it turns out that Lu Xuejing’s masochistic constitution is actually inherited from her mother."
"It truly is..."
Li Fan shook his head slightly.
Speaking of Lu Xuejing’s daughter, Lu XiChan, her story also related to Xuan Suchang.
In one session of trying to relieve pressure, Lu Xuejing discovered that Xuan Suchang, at some point, had become pregnant.
While shocked, Lu Xuejing naturally could not accept this.
Under coercion, Xuan Suchang had no choice but to explain the truth.
"The Spirit Creation Technique taught by the Tianxuan Mirror?"
Li Fan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he glanced at Xuan Suchang to the side.
Lu Xuejing, too, using the [Art of the Vital Spirit], conceived and gave birth to a daughter.
"It seems the human splits of the Heavenly Mysterious Mirror are indeed related to the holder, Cang," Li Fan reflected with his eyes closed, slowly digesting the mass of information he had acquired all at once.
At the same time, he was recovering his drained divine soul.
When he had recovered sufficiently, Li Fan duplicated the process and invaded Xuan Suchang’s divine soul.
Xuan Suchang, being the direct descendant of the holder Cang, possessed both a stronger divine soul power and more formidable forbidden protections than Lu Xuejing.
But unfortunately, it was only a change in quantity, not in quality.
Li Fan’s persistent, gradual efforts, mixed with Lu Xuejing’s divine soul essence and aided by the Reality Seducing Fruit,
The defense line was breached in an instant, and it only became easier for cognition to be twisted.
Therefore, Li Fan, in addition to being Lu Qixian’s master, also acquired another identity.
Another Incarnate of the Tianxuan Mirror.
Early on, when the Celestial Dharma Bearer was reestablishing the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals, the Tianxuan Mirror had prudently created a human split for itself.
Unfortunately, the Celestial Dharma Bearer was wary of the Tianxuan Mirror and discovered this incarnation.
He suppressed the incarnation.
Since then, the Tianxuan Mirror lost contact with its split.
Having no other option, the Tianxuan Mirror had to commence a new plan for creating a split.
Eventually, it reached an agreement with the holder of the mirror, Cang.
What they did not know, however, was that Lu Xia, the former chief of the Array Strategy Hall of the Immortal Alliance and Lu Qixian’s master, had just happened to discover the seal placed by the Celestial Dharma Bearer.
By a stroke of luck, she rescued the suppressed split.
Having been suppressed for too long, the Tianxuan Mirror Avatar was in grave danger, so Lu Xia took the initiative to use her own life to save it.
Although it survived, having been suppressed for too long and after a change in physical form, the split had already lost the powers of the Tianxuan Mirror.
It was indistinguishable from a real human.
Thinking of continuing to live as the human Lu Xia from then on, it had not expected that even though it was at the Immortal Alliance Headquarters and still had inextricable ties to the Tianxuan Mirror, some had still noticed its special attributes.
For the sake of survival, it had to fake its death and flee.
It originally thought it could live carefree from then on, but unexpectedly, a new Tianxuan Mirror Avatar was born due to an unforeseen error.
Even more fatal was the fact that immortal treasures have spirits; there can only be one of them in the world.
There would not be a second Tianxuan Mirror in the world, and naturally, there would not be two human splits of the Heavenly Mysterious Mirror at the same time.
Although it was born out of various coincidences and mistakes, the error was being corrected.
It sensed that it was becoming weaker and weaker.
Before long, it would completely dissipate between Heaven and Earth.
The only way to survive was to find and kill the second Tianxuan Mirror Avatar!
...
This was the enormous lie concocted by Li Fan, pulling both the female cultivators of the Combine Way and the Tianxuan Mirror Avatar into its net.
Admittedly, on closer inspection, there were many loopholes.
But as long as the information about the Tianxuan Mirror human split was extracted from the mouth of Xuan Suchang, even if the truth was exposed afterward, it would not matter.
"It’s just a pity that all information about the Tianxuan Mirror seems to be encrypted," he said.
"The Divine Soul Power is unable to browse it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have bothered to concoct such a lie."
Li Fan mused to himself.
Not long after the cognitive restructuring ended, Xuan Suchang and Lu Qixian slowly came to.
The two saw Li Fan, and their reactions were different.
Lu Qixian’s body shook and subconsciously lowered her head, whispering softly, "Master..."
Meanwhile, Xuan Suchang looked complex and remained silent.
It was because, when the former Chief Array Master and human split of the Tianxuan Mirror had come to them, he had just interrupted something happening between her and Lu Qixian.
Although Li Fan hadn’t said anything at the time, both women were overwhelmed with shame.
...
In the dead silence, it was Li Fan who spoke first, "I have already given you a chance."
"I am still the second split, whom will you choose to help?" he asked, a glint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes. "If it weren’t for XiChan’s sake, I would have searched your souls by now. Did you think those little tricks in your Divine Souls could stop me?"
Lu Qixian didn’t dare to retort and hardly dared to breathe.
Realizing the gravity of her situation, Xuan Suchang’s expression changed, and eventually, she made her decision.
