“In the Apricot Forest barrier,” Meng Qi suddenly said, “Senior Lin Yan gave me a collection of medical notes.”
“Huh?” Li Che was taken aback, not understanding why she suddenly brought this up.
“The medical notes record some of her experiences,” Meng Qi continued, smiling at Li Che, “Senior Lin Yan did not come from a prominent sect.
“Right.” Li Che’s interest was piqued. He knew about this. Perhaps no medical cultivators in Three Thousand World hadn’t heard the story of Lin Yan, the last legendary medical cultivator of ancient times. In the era where powerful cultivators were as numerous as pebbles on the road, Lin Yan hailed from an obscure, virtually unknown small sect—it wasn’t even close to the prestige of the current Canglang Academy. Lin Yan’s sect only rose to prominence following the emergence of her fame, eventually becoming a top-tier medical sect.
Meng Qi suddenly opened her hand, revealing a small bamboo slip in her palm. “The medical notes are stored in my spiritual sea. I can only access three volumes so far.” She handed the bamboo slip to Li Che. “This contains the content of those three volumes.”
Li Che was shocked and didn’t reach out to take it. “This was passed to you by Senior Lin Yan. I shouldn’t read it.”
“Why not?” Meng Qi asked.
“Well…” Li Che scratched his head. Wasn’t it obvious? “Sect’s legacies can’t be casually taught to outsiders,” he muttered.
“I don’t have a sect,” Meng Qi said, “and Senior Lin Yan’s sect was destroyed ten thousand years ago.” She then asked again, “Who is considered an outsider?”
“…Even so, it doesn’t seem right,” Li Che said, struggling to find the words. “Senior Lin Yan’s medical notes are essentially her inheritance. How can you just give it to others?”
“She never said I couldn’t share it,” Meng Qi replied. “Before I entered Ten Absolutes Mountain, I was worried I might never come out again, and that her legacy would be lost forever.”
“W-what?” Li Che looked at Meng Qi.
“So I made another copy of this bamboo slip and left it in the Heaven and Earth Bookhall in Beyond The Heaven,” she continued.
“…” Li Che was stunned.
“Sovereign Qingyan suggested that since the Heaven and Earth Bookhall is kinda hard for the average cultivators to access, plus the place itself has too many books, I should make more copies and place them in the auction house. If I don’t make it out of Ten Absolutes Mountain, Beyond The Heaven will auction them off in the next sale after the mountain closes, ensuring the continuity of Senior Lin Yan’s legacy.”
Li Che was completely taken aback.
“What’s wrong?” Meng Qi tilted her head slightly, looking at him. “Do you think Sovereign Qingyan and I are wrong?”
“N-No.” Li Che scratched his head, “But… won’t Senior Lin Yan be upset about this?”
“What kind of person is Senior Lin Yan?” Meng Qi asked back.
Li Che was stunned.
“She is a great healer who, to heal cultivators and ordinary people alike, sacrificed her own cultivation. As a result, her cultivation fell from the Great Ascension stage, with no hope of ever restoring it again.” Meng Qi smiled. “Do you think she would disapprove of my action?”
Li Che fell silent.
Meng Qi placed the bamboo slip in his hand, “Unfortunately, I can’t extract the jade slip from my spiritual sea. Otherwise, we can gather several seniors and elders to look at it together, and might already have comprehended all its contents.”
“…” Li Che gripped the bamboo slip tightly, still somewhat confused. He felt that Meng Qi seemed different from before, but he couldn’t pinpoint exactly what had changed.
“Haven’t you always been curious about what really occurred in the Starfallen Sea?” Meng Qi abruptly changed the subject.
“Yeah…” Li Che responded instinctively, but quickly caught his blunder and hurriedly added, “If you don’t want to talk about it, you don’t have to.” Back in the Starfallen Sea’s Luoxin Forest, they had all fainted, and no one knew what ‘Lin Yan’ had said or done to Meng Qi. When they regained consciousness again, they were already outside the forest.
“That was indeed another fragment of Senior Lin Yan’s soul in the Luoxin Forest,” Meng Qi said.
“Ah!” Li Che exclaimed in surprise. “So, the Lin Yan in the Apricot Forest was…”
“Both were her,” Meng Qi said. “Many legacies from ancient times have been lost. To put it simply, Senior Lin Yan had two unfulfilled wishes. One was that her life’s knowledge had not been passed on, so she left a fragment of her soul in the Apricot Forest to find a successor.”
Li Che nodded thoughtfully.
“The other unfulfilled wish was related to her Dao companion,” Meng Qi continued.
“Her… Dao companion?” Li Che responded cautiously. Lin Yan was the last medical cultivator who reached the legendary realm of Profound and was predicted to eventually step into the pinnacle Heaven Realm. Although Li Che wasn’t one to gossip, he had heard many legends about her.
“Yes,” Meng Qi nodded.
“My master mentioned that Senior Lin Yan had a Dao companion, and they were very close. That person was also a talented and powerful individual, but unfortunately, he also perished.”
At the end of the golden ancient period, the world split into the Three Thousand Worlds, the Demon Realm, and the Devil Realm. During the catastrophic event that split the world apart, many powerful individuals lost their lives, leading to the loss of countless legacies and the general decline of cultivators. Even sects that managed to survive to this day—for instance, Xingluo Pavilion, Jingyuetian, Duankong Sect, and the Feng Alliance—retained only a fraction of ancient legacies.
The catastrophe dealt heavy damage to the three races. Fortunately, powerful barriers were put in place when the three realms were formed, ensuring that they remained separate. Occasional cracks happened from time to time, but only those with relatively low cultivation could slip through these cracks.
—If not for the barrier, the Three Thousand Worlds might have been devoured by the Devil Realm long ago.
“Yes,” Meng Qi nodded. “In order to save those injured by devil cultivators, Senior Lin Yan sacrificed her cultivation, falling from the Great Ascension to the Void Comprehending stage. During that time, her Dao companion was heavily injured while protecting her from being besieged by several devil lords.”
Li Che was stunned. It was a widely known fact that Senior Lin Yan’s Dao companion had passed before her, but how it happened was unclear.
Meng Qi continued, “If Senior Lin Yan hadn’t depleted her cultivation to save a city full of strangers, she could have saved her Dao companion despite his severe injuries. But at that time…” she spoke softly, “her cultivation had already fallen to the Void Comprehending stage. Facing her dying Dao companion, she knew how to save him, and yet… there was nothing she could do.”
Li Che gasped quietly. As a healer, he understood too well the feeling of helplessness when faced with a loved one’s injuries. The pain of witnessing your loved one’s death while knowing there was a way to save them…
“If it were me, I would probably be haunted by it forever.” After a long silence, Li Che softly murmured.
“So Senior Lin Yan’s other unfulfilled wish was to revive her Dao companion,” Meng Qi said.
“So that’s why…” Li Che murmured, “That’s why she was in the Starfallen Sea.”
“Do you know why there were so many Luoxin trees in the forest, and why Senior Lin Yan extracted aura from cultivators who entered the forest?”
Li Che shook his head.
“Apparently, devil cultivators have a method to bring the dead back to life by combining Luoxin leaves and a special array.”
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