After Xi Jingxuan regained consciousness, she remained unconscious for several days.

When she woke again, recalling the scene of stabbing Jun Changxiao with her sword, tears couldn’t help but flow.

“Palace Master!”

Changsun Fanghua, who had been keeping watch beside her, said joyfully: “You’re finally awake!”

“Is… is Sect Master Jun alright?”

“He’s fine, alive and kicking!”

“That’s… that’s good… that’s good…” Xi Jingxuan gazed at the ceiling. Unfamiliar memories surged into her sea of consciousness, causing her head to throb with pain.

These images were very chaotic. Only after gradually sorting through them could she understand.

If Jun Changxiao could peek into Xi Jingxuan’s sea of consciousness, he’d definitely be shocked, because the emerging memories were all things he had seen while positioned in illusion when inheriting the Xuanyuan Realm.

The difference was in perspective.

At that time, Jun Changxiao was more like an observer, standing in the universe.

The memories appearing in Xi Jingxuan’s sea of consciousness were completely those of someone who experienced it firsthand. In fact…

That’s right. The memories of the girl sent away by Gu Xuanyuan!

After she was sent from the Xuanyuan Realm, she drifted alone in the universe. Later she met Jian Guixu and followed him to the Guixu Realm until placing the Xuanyuan Divine Sword on the secret chamber wall.

“Master said that controlling the Xuanyuan Divine Sword requires extremely harsh conditions. Perhaps… it will never be inherited by anyone in the world.”

In the dark secret chamber, the girl knelt on the ground, biting her finger to trace blood-colored patterns.

One day.

Two days…

A full forty-nine days.

Every corner of the secret chamber, every stone slab was covered with blood-colored patterns.

The girl seemed to have used up every drop of blood. She collapsed powerlessly in the central area, her hand resting on a certain point as she weakly said: “I’m willing to exchange my essence blood and soul for someone in the next life who can inherit the Xuanyuan Divine Sword.”

“Whoosh—”

The blood-colored formation shone with light.

Gradually, the girl lying in the central area transformed into a thread of flowing light swirling around the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, drawing out another special attribute from within.

This was precisely the attribute existing within Xi Jingxuan’s body that had repeatedly caused her to darken!

Two types of flowing light energy—one gentle as water, one fierce as fire—from initial opposition to gradual fusion, then flew out of the secret chamber and merged into the cosmic starry sky.

Everything that occurred, the Guixu Sword Saint knew nothing about.

When he walked into the secret chamber, the blood-colored patterns on the ground had long since disappeared without a trace, as if nothing had happened.

In other words, the girl didn’t leave alone.

Rather, she ended her own life through a sacrificial method.

No wonder in the following years, Jian Guixu could never find her, always living in self-reproach.

As for those two attributes that fused together, after breaking through heaven and earth constraints to merge into the universe, they drifted in the endless void for countless years until one day being grasped by a black-robed man who said: “Twin spiritual souls are extremely rare. Wandering in the upper layer universe will only bring precarious existence. Better to go to the lower realm.”

“Whoosh—”

Under the shroud of divine power, the twin soul spirit merged into the lower layer universe.

As if arriving at the right place, yet also seemingly restricted by reincarnation rules, it finally fell into a certain plane, being reborn into an ordinary family.

“Wah!”

Crying sounds rang throughout the village.

“Born, born!” The midwife carried out a baby, smiling: “It’s a daughter!”

Reading the memories to this point, Xi Jingxuan’s eyes flashed with anger.

That ordinary middle-aged man naming the baby Xi Jingxuan meant he was her father.

“Child’s father, Jingxuan’s eyes are so strange.”

Several days after birth, the mother noticed something wrong.

The village gradually spread the word, viewing that baby girl as a demon.

The Xi family couple also spent every day sighing, until after the full moon, when little Xi Jingxuan suddenly went berserk, giving them the idea of abandoning their daughter.

In the memories, the infant Xi Jingxuan was abandoned in the wilderness for several days.

Until a kind old woman picked her up and brought her to Miaohua Palace, taking her in as a disciple.

Xi Jingxuan lived here. As she grew older, her abnormal eyes became more and more obvious, even being privately discussed and ostracized by fellow disciples.

Fortunately, there was Li’er.

She always protected her as a senior sister, preventing fellow disciples from bullying her.

This Li’er was the female disciple who had repeatedly blocked Jun Changxiao from approaching Xi Jingxuan.

Later, Xi Jingxuan slowly grew up and inherited the Palace Master position.

Writing to here, some readers may wonder—didn’t Palace Master Xi have eye disease? Why would there be so many memories after birth?

This matter is a long story. Simply put, the one who couldn’t see was the gentle-as-water soul. The one who could see was the fierce-as-fire soul.

The memories Xi Jingxuan received came partly from the sacrificed girl, but more from that soul.

To be precise, the scenes she couldn’t see were seen by the other soul.

“So this is my identity?” Xi Jingxuan thought silently, “In my past life I was also called Xi Jingxuan, my master was Gu Xuanyuan…”

“No. I have another identity.”

Xi Jingxuan struggled to raise her hand. The Xuanyuan Divine Sword appeared out of thin air: “This sword’s weapon spirit.”

That’s right.

The special attribute that fused with her past life soul and existed within her body was the Xuanyuan Divine Sword’s weapon spirit.

Simply put, the former Xi Jingxuan sacrificed herself precisely to fuse with the weapon spirit.

Jun Changxiao was overpowered enough, right?

But because he had no affinity, he couldn’t control the Xuanyuan Divine Sword.

Xi Jingxuan could use it with ease, precisely because the other soul within her body was transformed from the weapon spirit.

—

“Palace Master Xi!”

Before long, Jun Changxiao pushed open the door and walked in: “You’re finally awake.”

This concern stemmed from friendship. If someone insisted on interpreting it with another layer of meaning, that would truly be meaningless.

Of course, this related to the author’s writing style.

So regarding the issue of Palace Master Xi and Dog Leftovers, I’ll explain it clearly at an appropriate time.

“Sect Master Jun,” Xi Jingxuan said apologetically, “I’m sorry… at that time I…”

“Don’t mention what’s past,” Jun Changxiao interrupted, then pounded his chest and smiled: “My constitution is very robust. Nothing wrong at all.”

“Tss!”

Fresh blood sprayed from the bandage.

“…” Jun Changxiao hurriedly pressed it with his finger: “Congratulations to Palace Master Xi for inheriting the Xuanyuan Divine Sword and inheriting Senior Gu’s Tiangang Sword Intent.”

“I didn’t inherit it.”

“Being modest.”

“Sect Master Jun, in my past life I was half that girl, half the Xuanyuan Divine Sword’s weapon spirit.”

“Girl? Weapon spirit?”

Jun Changxiao was somewhat confused.

Xi Jingxuan got out of bed, placed the Xuanyuan Divine Sword on the table, then recounted the memories she had received.

“…”

After learning this, Jun Changxiao fell into silence.

He himself was a transmigrator. His brother Gu Zhaoxi had also reincarnated multiple times, so he wasn’t surprised by this sort of thing at all.

“Sect Master Jun,” Xi Jingxuan was silent for a moment, then said, “I sacrificed myself using the Phantom Spirit Technique, fusing with the Xuanyuan Divine Sword’s weapon spirit precisely to find its true inheritor today.”

Seeing this woman continuously staring at him, Jun Changxiao said bitterly: “It can’t be me, right?”

“Mm.”

Xi Jingxuan nodded.

“…”

Jun Changxiao fell silent.

“Swish!” Just then, Xi Jingxuan raised the Xuanyuan Divine Sword. Her other hand grasped Jun Changxiao’s wrist, speaking in a tone of oath: “Today, as the weapon spirit, I form a life-bound contract with Eternal Sect Master Jun Changxiao!”

“Whoosh whoosh!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Energy waves surged within the room, permeating Jun Changxiao’s entire body.

Xi Jingxuan looked at him, a gentle smile appearing on her face. Then she gradually became ethereal, scattering into starlight that merged into the Xuanyuan Divine Sword, beginning to forge the most sacred life-bound contract.

“It’s here!”

The system said, “The host’s life-bound weapon!”

“However…”

It couldn’t help but roar: “First there was Hua Meigui fusing with him to become Jun Meigui. Could it be that later there will be fusion with Xi Jingxuan to become Jun Jingxuan!”