Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect
Chapter 349 - 224 Wen Wan_2

Chapter 349: Chapter 224 Wen Wan_2

Over the years, he had found more than once that someone had abandoned a baby girl here, it had happened many times already.

Li Qian looked at the sleeping baby girl he picked up, who was quite pretty and cute, wondering how someone could have the heart to abandon her.

Over the years, he had taken all the infants he found back to the Divine Sword Sect and given them to the Charitable Hall to be raised.

Since these infants were born in the Longevity Realm, they generally had good root bone qualifications.

Suddenly, his Spiritual Sense stirred, sensing that this baby girl seemed to have a defect—both her hands had only four fingers.

No wonder she had been abandoned.

But just then, a series of hurried footsteps approached in haste, followed by a somewhat weak looking woman arriving outside the Daoist Temple.

She seemed somewhat anxious, searching for something.

"Ling’er..."

Then, a man ran after her, trying to take the woman back.

"I have to find Ling’er..."

The woman said with resolve.

"She’s deformed, we can’t keep her..."

The man said.

"She’s our daughter, how can you be so heartless?"

The woman pushed the man away.

"I don’t want to be the laughing stock."

The man said in a muffled voice.

"For your own vanity, you would give up on your own daughter... Wang Qun, if you don’t want to raise her, I will."

The woman said angrily.

"She’s gone already, maybe taken away by wild beasts. Stop making a fuss, let’s go back."

The man said.

But the woman, as if she hadn’t heard, shook off the man’s hand and began searching inside and outside the Daoist Temple.

The man, after looking on, could only helplessly go down the mountain.

Li Qian watched this unfold, then looked at the baby girl in his arms, and immediately walked out and approached the woman.

The woman, seeing the unexpected figure and the swaddled infant in his arms, which looked very familiar, hurried over and took the baby from Li Qian.

"Ling’er, it’s Ling’er... My Ling’er, mommy will take good care of you..."

The woman was very excited.

When she went to thank Li Qian, she found that he had vanished without a trace.

So, she could only hastily carry her daughter down the mountain.

Inside the dilapidated Great Hall, Li Qian shook his head, then sat down on the Bell Platform and began to cultivate the Eight Prisons Yama Refining God Skill.

...

Hundreds of miles away from Yiling Town, in the midst of a desolate gobi wilderness.

A soul-stirring fight was underway.

Strands of True Qi interwove, sword and blade energies crisscrossed, and two figures moved with inconceivable speed.

But suddenly, accompanied by a thunderous boom, the two figures parted.

Thump!

One person’s chest was torn open, a gaping hole spewing blood as he stared at his opponent, "You... you won’t escape."

"Ah, I’ve already chosen not to vie anymore, why persist in making me face death?"

The other was a woman in plain clothes, with a few cuts on her body, seeping blood. She was also not in a particularly good condition.

She slowly sheathed her long sword, then turned and took to the sky, flying off into the distance.

And the other person fell to the ground, dead.

Half an hour later, the woman in plain clothes arrived in Yiling Town.

Incredibly, she headed straight to the knoll behind the town and came to the dilapidated Daoist Temple.

When she entered the Daoist Temple, she could no longer hold back a mouthful of fresh blood that came spewing out, then she sat down against the wall, swallowed an elixir, closed her eyes, and seemed to be healing her injuries.

Li Qian opened his eyes on the Bell Platform and looked at the woman in plain clothes with a look of surprise on his face.

Because this woman was none other than Yang Lian’s mother, Wen Wan.

Only this Wen Wan seemed not to be in a great state.

What surprised Li Qian was that Wen Wan’s cultivation had actually reached the Supreme Saint Level.

No wonder the first time he met Wen Wan, Li Qian didn’t notice her cultivation and thought she was just a regular person.

Now it seems he was simply unable to discern her cultivation level at that time.

After all, at that time, he was only at the Great Saint Level, not even a top-tier Great Saint. If Wen Wan was already a Supreme Saint at that time, naturally, he had no way to spy on a Supreme Saint’s cultivation aura.

However, he was somewhat puzzled. Wen Wan was a Supreme Saint, why would she get together with Yang Fan?

That didn’t seem logical.

Yang Fan was only a Heavenly Person.

And they were worlds apart.

After a long while, Wen Wan suddenly opened her eyes and took out a small wooden figure from her bosom, her fingers caressing it as if lost in nostalgia.

Suddenly, she seemed to sense something, looking towards the Bell Platform, where unbeknownst to her, a figure sat cross-legged.

She stood up abruptly, her expression alert, and the sword in her hand seemed ready to be unsheathed at any moment.

"Such fierce Sword Intent."

Li Qian immediately felt the terrifying Sword Intent emitted by the woman in plain clothes, Wen Wan. It seemed as if it could threaten his Primordial Spirit.

Although it was just an illusion, it showed that Wen Wan was indeed very powerful.

But suddenly, Wen Wan recognized Li Qian. She was startled at first, her face showing disbelief, "Senior... what are you doing here?"

Here, Li Qian showed his true face.

"It seems that I have not recognized you incorrectly; you really are that Wen Wan," Li Qian spoke with a smile.

"Did the senior enter the Longevity Secret Realm?"

The plain-clothed woman, Wen Wan, seemed to have thought of something, her face showing a touch of shock.

It had only been fifty years since her last visit to the Divine Sword Sect. At that time, she could sense that Li Qian’s Cultivation Realm was only at the Great Saint Level...

To cross into the Supreme Saint and enter the Longevity Secret Realm within fifty years?

Li Qian only smiled in response, not answering her question. Instead, he asked, "You are in the Longevity Realm, and Yang Fan is in the Human World; how did you two meet?"

He had an even bigger doubt: the timeline of their meeting and the birth of the child seemed to mismatch.

After all, the flow of time in the Longevity Realm is the same as in the original world.

"Senior, we did not meet in the Longevity Realm or the Human World, but in the Dream Realm," Wen Wan shook her head and explained.

"Dream Realm?"

Li Qian’s face showed astonishment.

"It’s normal for the senior not to know about the Dream Realm. Only a very few people can sense the existence of the Dream Realm and enter it. Even among those who enter, if their Cultivation Realm is not sufficient, upon leaving, they will dismiss it as just a dream. However, in reality, the Dream Realm truly exists, where time flows slowly. Therefore, practicing there can save a lot of time; sometimes, a year in the dream might just be a day in the outside world," the plain-clothed woman, Wen Wan, elaborated.

Li Qian was greatly shocked; there was actually such an incredible place as the Dream Realm. No wonder he realized that Yang Fan’s cultivation speed had greatly increased over the years.

It must be related to practicing in the Dream Realm.

"Since you and Yang Fan can meet in the Dream Realm, why did you come here and even got injured?"

Li Qian asked.

"Senior, my Primordial Spirit is damaged, and I can no longer enter the Dream Realm. Besides, I was chased here and sought refuge to recuperate before heading to Tianyuan City," Wen Wan said, shaking her head.

"Who is chasing you to kill you?"

Li Qian asked.

After a moment of silence, Wen Wan said, "Senior, I was originally a princess of the Eternal Dynasty’s Spiritual King Mansion. I failed in the competition for the position of Spirit King."

Li Qian immediately understood.

Competition for the royal succession is bound to be fierce and cruel.

The failure and subsequent chase were quite normal.

No wonder Wen Wan had sent Yang Lian to the Divine Sword Sect; she was probably trying to compete for the kingship.

"Wen Wan, if you want to be with Yang Fan, I can send you to the Divine Sword Sect," Li Qian offered after some thought.

Because of the Chen Bell Domain, he was not only able to travel freely between both worlds but could also bring other living beings, naturally including people.

He could not stand idly by and watch Wen Wan being pursued to her death.

"Senior, can you transport me to the Human World?"

Wen Wan was very surprised.

Normally, even the Longevity Secret Realm could not facilitate travel between the two worlds.

Only through very specific Transmission Arrays or certain spatial nodes.

Moreover, the cost of traveling was very high.

"Of course," Li Qian nodded his head.

"Senior, never mind, if I go to the Human World... I’m afraid I would bring trouble to Yang Fan," Wen Wan shook her head.

As long as she was alive for one day... the pursuit from the Spiritual King Mansion would not stop.

After all, she was the most legitimate successor to the position of Spirit King.

If she didn’t die, that person would be restless.

Even if she entered the Human World... that person might send someone to descend to the Human World, thus bringing great disaster to Yang Fan and even the Divine Sword Sect.

The reason that person had not sent powerful beings from the Longevity Secret Realm to pursue her was only due to some reservations and not yet having truly assumed the kingship to command the Longevity Secret Realm.

But once the kingship was assumed, everything would be entirely different.

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