Chapter 883 - 869: Return

Su Muyao’s eyes were filled with excitement. Seeing her like this, Xuan Yan found it amusing and also tenderly indulgent.

Oh well, let her do as she wishes.

However, Xuan Yan was blushing intensely, as no one had ever treated him this way.

His skin even turned a faint shade of pink.

Unprecedented waves of emotion overwhelmed him like the ocean.

Finally, he whispered hoarsely in Su Muyao’s ear, "Sister."

Su Muyao’s eyes brightened, her eyebrows arched, finding this appellation peculiar.

But in the end, Xuan Yan took charge instead.

The room was filled with their passionate breaths, inseparable and entwined.

...

In that moment of comfort and calm, Xuan Yan felt as if his body had entered a state of ethereal tranquility.

The backlash of beast power suddenly vanished, and there was no more pain from the beast power’s backlash in his body.

This feeling was too comfortable, and the Spirit Sea was no longer turbulent.

This is how it feels after forming a Contract.

Xuan Yan suddenly felt that all his previous insistence meant nothing, realizing he wasted so much time.

Had he known earlier, he would have done whatever it took to form a Contract with his wife in Black Rock City.

In the past, Xuan Yan used to constantly endure the pain of headaches, but now the headaches were gone.

Then, with a "boom," it was as if some seal in his mind had been unlocked.

It overwhelmed him like an ocean wave.

These were the memories that Xuan Yan should have had.

Memories belonging to Xuan Che and all the memories after merging with Shen Ci’an to become Shen Jinsuo.

Including his final act to protect the Holy Mountain and the Blood Clan, where he chose to sacrifice the clan’s Holy Tree to unleash the strongest Inheritance Power.

After that, he lost self-awareness.

When he awoke again, he was sent here by the Holy Tree as a Companion Tree.

It turned out that a strand of his soul had long remained in Xuan Yan’s body, and after his sacrificial death, his soul fully returned.

However, due to some issue, his memories were sealed, and he suffered from the backlash of beast power.

Now, his wife’s actions made him truly return.

It turns out he was Xuan Che.

After returning, Xuan Che tightly embraced Su Muyao, looking at her sweet sleeping face, unable to resist kissing her gently.

Alongside the return of his memories came even more overwhelming emotions.

"My wife, I’m sorry..."

Sorry for forgetting her at the beginning, causing her so much hardship.

The overflowing love nearly drowned him completely.

Strictly speaking, it was the Holy Tree that saved him.

If it hadn’t been for the Holy Tree accompanying him as a Companion Tree, he might not have survived this way.

After regaining his memories, Xuan Che felt an intense longing in his heart; even holding Su Muyao, he still thought of her, wishing he could intertwine with her every moment for a sense of security.

Xuan Che still had many doubts in his heart, wanting to question the Companion Tree.

And his Female Mother, there was always a feeling she knew something.

But holding onto his wife, Xuan Che didn’t want to let go now.

Even the most urgent matters had to wait for his wife to wake up.

Having found satisfaction, Xuan Che wasn’t sleepy, just holding Su Muyao, without blinking an eye.

Occasionally bowing his head to kiss her brow, eyes, and hair, filled with affectionate adoration.

...

Su Muyao, after a good sleep, found herself drifting into a very ethereal world, as if entering a mental realm.

And then she saw a tree.

This reminded her of the Holy Tree she had once seen in the Secret Realm.

This tree was crimson all over; the leaves were red, bewitching and brilliant.

Su Muyao had never seen a tree so beautiful.

"You have arrived..."

A distant and ethereal voice echoed.

Su Muyao asked, "Are you the Holy Tree, the Blood Clan’s Holy Tree?"

The ethereal voice continued, "Strictly speaking, I am not the Blood Clan’s Holy Tree, though they call me that. In fact, I come from a very long time ago."

"So long ago that I barely remember, only recalling that a long, long time ago, I came to the Fusang Continent with the Blood Race Holy Mountain."

"However, when I arrived at this place, I had exhausted almost all my strength, becoming withered and dormant."

"It was only when the Holy Mountain was in danger that the blood of a Pure-blooded Beastman reactivated me, unleashing the last of my powerful forces to protect the Holy Mountain."

"But at the same time, a passage within me opened, bringing Xuan Che’s remaining soul here."

"He lost parts of his memories, but after you formed a Contract, the bindings of this world on him were lifted, restoring all his memories, and he is Xuan Che once again."

Hearing these words, Su Muyao felt even more puzzled, "Wasn’t the Holy Mountain originally a part of the Fusang Continent?"

This tree spoke, "No, the Fusang Continent did not originally have a Holy Mountain."

"I used almost all my strength to bring them here, but why I did this, I am not very sure."

"I only know that when the Blood Emperor was a child, teaching him to inherit memory with the last bit of strength, making him a true Blood Emperor, endowed with great power to guard the Holy Mountain, which must not be lost."

"This is what I subconsciously knew, an obsession."

Su Muyao felt these things were just as Shen Ci’an had said before.

Moreover, the Holy Tree indeed saved Xuan Che, and Su Muyao was very grateful for it.

Otherwise, if the sacrifice had been real and Xuan Che disappeared, Su Muyao would always have this knot in her heart.

Seeing Xuan Che alive here, she was truly delighted.

"Thank you."

"I am wondering if you’re from the Blood Spirit Clan?"

In the Secret Realm, Teng Lixuan had mentioned the Blood Spirit Clan.

At that time, Teng Lixuan had remarked on Shen Ci’an’s techniques and appearance, saying Blood Spirit Clan.

It seemed related to the origins of the Blood Clan.

He said the Blood Spirit Clan is an ancient Plant System race.

In the Taixu Secret Realm, she had once entered the Holy Tree’s Spirit Sea to converse with it.

It had said the Blood Clan is special, unlike any other beastman, not to be understood conventionally.

At this moment, the tree seemed to be pondering something, and after a while, its voice carried a hint of reminiscence, "Blood Spirit Clan, this term sounds so familiar, yet I can’t recall."

"Regardless of the origin, since I spent all my strength bringing the Holy Mountain here, it suggests that perhaps the homeland of the Blood Spirit Clan faced a danger."

"Possibly something even a Pure-blood Blood Emperor couldn’t resolve."

"Therefore, for safety’s sake, there is no need to chase after those elusive things. Living well is most important."

"Pure-blooded Beastmen are indeed cold and unemotional, lacking much sentiment, but you are different; you provided our Blood Emperor with emotions that only Mortal Beasts possess."

"Only you could achieve that."

"I protected him waiting for you, and now I’m leaving."

Su Muyao’s heart shivered, "Where are you going, and what is this place about? Are my Beast Husbands going to become Beast Gods here?"

"How can we leave this place?"

She still had many questions and couldn’t let the Holy Tree disappear just like that.

The Holy Tree paused a moment before saying, "My strength is exhausted, and I need to disperse. Even when dispersed, I will return to the Holy Mountain as soil."

"You are an Immortal Phoenix Beastman, with rich Immortal Energy and Qi Fortune of the Beast World, closely tied to the fate of the Beast World."

"You are also a female truly protected by the Power of Heavenly Dao."

"Thus, your decisions and actions will impact the entire Beast World and beastmen."

"This is a world formed from the collapse of a Divine Domain, a stand-alone space unaffected by the external Beast World, yet simultaneously a real world."

"The opportunity for your Beast Husbands to Become God lies within you, and it should be that only when the Divine Domain Fragments reunite, a part of the Beast God returns, and the power of the Beast God coalesces that it will send you away from here."