Di Jun mistakenly believed the divine artifact was meant to exterminate the entire Heavenly Race.
Yin Changli let him continue with this misunderstanding, so he wouldn’t dare easily kill Yin Changli.
And Yin Changli had been hiding and waiting.
Waiting for Bai Xingxian to grow up.
Waiting to see if the Heavenly Warrior’s divine arrow would return.
“For such a major matter, why does it sound so casual?” Xiang Haikui said blankly.
It seemed not much different from tossing dice or flipping coins.
She leaned forward, lying on the table, stretching her head closer to him, and asked with confusion, “Can artifact spirits reincarnate?”
According to Xiang Haikui’s understanding, artifact spirits couldn’t reincarnate. If the “artifact” were destroyed, the spirit would also dissipate.
Yin Changli corrected her, “It’s not the artifact spirit, but the divine artifact itself reincarnating.”
Xiang Haikui was even more confused. “Divine artifacts can reincarnate?”
She knew plants and trees could reincarnate because they possessed life force.
Yin Changli shook his head. “Other divine weapons might not—they would typically be destroyed immediately upon entering the path of reincarnation. But the Heavenly Warrior divine stone used to forge the divine arrow was condensed from the blood, flesh, and essence of many Heavenly Warriors. It possesses life force…”
Seeing Xiang Haikui’s bewildered face, Yin Changli pondered briefly, then explained in another way. “Let me put it this way: if the Heavenly Warriors hadn’t excavated the King of Stones to make weapons, and continued dissolving themselves to nourish it, it would very likely have developed bones and meridians, becoming a new Heavenly Warrior… Do you understand?”
Oh, it sounded somewhat like reproductive fission, Xiang Haikui pondered to herself.
Yin Changli tried to explain as simply as possible. “Of course, the divine stone used to forge the divine arrow was far from meeting the standard of transforming into human form. After entering the path of reincarnation, it might still have been destroyed.”
That would mean the Heavenly Dao didn’t permit it, not even giving it a chance. All the hard work he and Shu Luoye had done would have been for nothing.
Fortunately, although the Heavenly Warrior’s divine arrow initially showed signs of being destroyed, it ultimately succeeded in reincarnating in the form of a soul.
“There’s another thing…” Xiang Haikui opened her mouth, originally having a question to ask, but suddenly realized that her late-night candlelit discussion with Yin Changli wasn’t about idle story listening.
Tonight’s theme was about her father.
So…
Xiang Haikui was stunned.
Slowly, several clues in her mind gradually became clear.
She sat up straight, her spine becoming increasingly erect, her eyes looking directly into Yin Changli’s eyes. “Has the divine arrow returned?”
The arrow’s great divine power was its ability to penetrate world barriers and establish spatial tunnels.
Her father could see scenes from other worlds, and after his death, his soul had crossed over to this world.
Yin Changli pressed his thumb lightly against his lips, lowering his head slightly, seeming to fall into deep thought, remaining silent for a long time.
“No way…” Seeing this, Xiang Haikui felt increasingly certain her guess was correct, and her speech began to falter. “Is…is it my father?”
Her father wasn’t human?
No, he was an arrow-person?
No, no, Xiang Haikui was dizzy, completely unable to understand what was going on.
Not that she looked down on her father, but Heavenly Warrior King of Stones, divine arrow breaking the void—these all sounded incredibly impressive, yet she couldn’t see any of this in her father at all!
“I had suspected him earlier.” Yin Changli finally spoke. “When he found me, asking me to bring you from your homeland, after hearing his experiences, I suspected he might be the divine arrow reincarnated.”
That’s why he had used the Destiny Brush to peer into his fate, seeing that father and daughter would die.
“But when I sensed his soul power, it was utterly ordinary, without any special abilities. After bringing you here, I also sensed you, and you were equally an ordinary person, so I dismissed my suspicions about your father.”
After all, from the smelting of the divine stone, Yin Changli had participated in the entire process of forging the divine arrow. Under heaven, he understood the divine arrow best.
Xiang Haikui stroked her chest. “I was saying, my father…”
Unexpectedly, Yin Changli changed direction. “But from what you told me at Ice Spring about your father’s abnormalities before crossing over, and the fact that you can see those two people in the Mirage Realm, my thoughts have been shaken.”
Xiang Haikui’s heart rose again.
Yin Changli looked at her steadily. “Your father can only see, but you cannot only see, but also hear and even touch. Your ability exceeds your father’s. I suspect…”
“Suspect what?” Xiang Haikui held her breath.
“After daybreak, I need to confirm with your father again.” Yin Changli didn’t continue.
If Xiang Heng truly was the reincarnation of the Heavenly Warrior divine arrow, then his innate divine power might have been extracted by someone.
Initially, Xiang Heng couldn’t see the other world because, after reincarnation, his power was sealed within a “box” inside him.
After his wife’s death, he began to experience “hallucinations,” with his eyes able to observe the other world—the “box” had been opened.
However, the power within the box couldn’t possibly be just that little bit, only able to see but not hear, even less than Xiang Haikui’s ability.
According to Yin Changli’s speculation, the “box” must have been forcibly pried open by someone.
That person not only pried open the “box” but also, without anyone knowing, took Xiang Heng’s sealed innate divine power.
No matter what, some power would remain on the walls of the “box.”
It was precisely this bit of power that allowed Xiang Heng to continue seeing “visions” for several years.
Subsequently, the soul crossing exhausted all of Xiang Heng’s remaining power.
After coming to this world, he had completely become an ordinary person.
Therefore, the most crucial figure in this was Xiang Haikui’s mother, a woman named Shen Yun.
The time of her sudden death coincided with the time when the “box” within Xiang Heng was opened and his divine power was stolen.
Based on all the information currently available, Yin Changli made several conjectures.
First, a cultivator discovered the latent power within Xiang Heng and wanted to seize it, but didn’t know how.
So they killed his wife, causing him to suffer a blow and fall into grief.
Making it easier to steal from him.
But one thing didn’t make sense: when Xiang Heng’s wife died, she was with Xiang Haikui. Why did the thief only kill the mother and leave the daughter?
If they wanted Xiang Heng to mentally collapse, wouldn’t it be better to kill both mother and daughter?
Second, the thief was Xiang Haikui’s mother.
She had targeted Xiang Heng since he was in the orphanage, lurking for many years, finally prying open the “box,” stealing Xiang Heng’s divine power, then faking her death and escaping.
Because Xiang Haikui was an ordinary person.
Xiang Heng’s power was stolen after he had Xiang Haikui as a daughter, turning him into an ordinary person.
Xiang Haikui should have inherited some Heavenly Warrior power.
However, while she had the Heavenly Warrior traits of being combative and thick-skinned, she didn’t have a bit of the Heavenly Warriors’ formidable bloodline. From flesh to soul, she was an ordinary human, without even a single spirit root—otherwise, she wouldn’t have cultivated the demonic sword Tian Kuang.
This suggested her mother might be from a special race, one that, when combined with Heavenly Warriors, could only produce ordinary humans.
To be able to nullify the Heavenly Warrior bloodline, her mother was not to be underestimated and could be an innate evil spirit.
However, judging from how she quietly disappeared without harming the innocent, and even held Xiang Haikui to sleep on the night she left, perhaps she had some unavoidable difficulties.