Truth Exposed, Empresses Beg for Forgiveness-Chapter 137 - 134: Cursed to Separation from Love, Reunion with Hatred, Unfulfilled Longing, Suffering Unwanted Fates! Cursed to Betrayal and Loneliness for Life!
Within the Celestial Emperor Palace, at this moment, there is complete dead silence!
Only the mournful sound of Jian Lingxin echoes throughout the Celestial Emperor Palace!
At this point, all the cultivators within the Celestial Emperor Palace clearly understand everything.
No wonder Jian Ling’er resembles the Sword Spirit Empress exactly...
No wonder the Sword Spirit Empress possesses the same Liuli Jianxin as the Young Celestial Emperor...
No wonder the Spirit Heart Sword was born with the engraving of the three characters Spirit Heart Sword...
It turns out Jian Ling’er will be the future Sword Spirit Empress!
It turns out once Jian Ling’er acquired the Sword Heart, she became Jian Lingxin!
The Liuli Jianxin of the Sword Spirit Empress was granted by the Young Celestial Emperor, and the engraving on the Spirit Heart Sword was carved by the Young Celestial Emperor.
Even the Sword Manual practiced by the Sword Spirit Race was personally compiled by the Young Celestial Emperor!
A cultivator subconsciously opened their mouth but felt they couldn’t utter a single word at this moment.
In their hearts, a feeling of overwhelming heaviness, and even a sense of sorrow.
Even Hehuan Ancestor felt a poignant longing in his heart.
"Back when Jian Ling’er suffered countless cold stares and bullying from the Sword Spirit Race, she would later become the Empress protecting the entire Sword Spirit Race...
How... ironic this all is!"
He dared not say this aloud, only pondering it in his heart.
However, cultivators sharing his sentiment are certainly not few in number.
Indeed, this is all so ironic!
Everyone plainly witnessed Jian Ling’er’s experiences throughout the Eastern Sword Domain.
Especially at the moment the Young Celestial Emperor grasped the Spirit Heart Sword, the memories concerning Jian Ling’er revealed this all as incredibly vivid.
Jian Ling’er endured all sorts of unfair treatment and bullying within the Sword Spirit Race.
She found solace only upon reaching Frost City. Although Frost City was bitterly cold, encountering the Young Celestial Emperor offered her the one warmth she felt.
It can be said, the Young Celestial Emperor was not only kind to her but was the only one who truly cared for her.
He was also... the person she loved most!
But now, Jian Ling’er, once oppressed by the Sword Spirit Race, now Jian Lingxin, has become the Empress of the Sword Spirit Race.
She shelters the Sword Spirit Race that once held such malice against her.
Yet, she is the one who personally suppressed the one she loved most—and perhaps loved her most as well—within the Reincarnation Mirror!
All this is downright extreme irony!
Even though all cultivators understand that people of the Sword Spirit Race now are no longer the Eastern Sword Domain people who bullied Jian Ling’er.
They might not even be their descendants.
Yet contemplating all of this remains exceedingly ironic, exceedingly... absurd!
Jian Wuming at this moment seems to have understood something, opening his mouth with difficulty.
"So, this is the true reason why the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land no longer restricts the Sword Spirit Race in later generations...
In fact, the prohibition of the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land was never lifted; it just ceased restricting the Sword Spirit Race..."
Hearing this, the cultivators of the Sword Spirit Race now understand Jian Wuming’s meaning.
Indeed, they were once puzzled how the prohibition of the Sword Tomb was lifted.
Clearly, in ancient times, the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land could block a Quasi-Emperor like Jian Wentian for such a long period.
If Jian Guichen, the Great Emperor, had not entered the Sword Tomb early to cultivate, he would be similarly obstructed if he tried to enter again from outside.
Indeed, it was such a strong prohibition; even Purple Cloud Tribulation Thunder could not completely extinguish it.
Even temporarily extinguishing it, it would regenerate soon.
How could it have been lifted?
Now they finally understand, the prohibition of the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land has never truly been lifted!
Since the Spirit Heart Sword, as the Emperor’s Sword of the Sword Tomb, to some extent, represents the will of the Sword Tomb.
The Young Celestial Emperor was clearly the initial owner of the Spirit Heart Sword before the Sword Spirit Empress.
As the initial owner of the Spirit Heart Sword, it inherently represents the will of the Sword Tomb’s prohibition to a certain degree.
The Sword Dao Cultivation Technique, the Sword Manual of the Sword Spirit Race, were compiled when the Celestial Emperor was still the master of the Spirit Heart Sword, before losing cultivation entirely.
Now, the entire Sword Spirit Race practices the Sword Manual left by the Celestial Emperor, sharing the same source with the Celestial Emperor’s Sword Dao intent, naturally allowing the prohibition of the Sword Tomb to sense it all.
Naturally, it will no longer restrict them, allowing them free access to the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land!
Each Sword Spirit Race cultivator’s feelings have become incredibly complex.
Unexpectedly, even all of this comes from the Celestial Emperor!
Jian Lingxin understands, Jian Wuming understands, the Sword Spirit Race’s sword cultivators understand.
Even the cultivators within the Celestial Emperor Palace now understand.
Yet, Wang Teng still hasn’t grasped the situation; his expression can only be described as utterly confused!
Wang Teng nearly feels maddened inside.
"What the hell, Jian Wuming can you speak clearly, stop playing riddles!"
Wang Teng’s mind is practically screaming.
With his intelligence, understanding this is genuinely difficult.
However, he’s currently preoccupied, not really interested in whether the prohibition of the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land still exists.
The Sword Spirit Empress’s attitude is all he cares about now!
At this moment, Jian Lingxin’s tears are already pouring like rain, and her once-red lips are full of paleness.
In the depths of her memory, beside her ears, it seems as though the words Young Luo Xuan spoke to her still echo.
’But, one day, Ling’er you will indeed remember me, right?’
Jian Lingxin looked at the image of the young Luo Xuan in the Reincarnation Mirror, tears streaming down like rain.
"Wood, I... I finally remember, but why must it be at a time like this?
This day... has come too late!!"
She was watching the young Luo Xuan in the image, while the young Luo Xuan was also gazing at the Spirit Heart Sword in the Sword Casting Pool.
A faint smile on his lips.
Jian Lingxin stumbled forward with some difficulty.
As soon as she neared the Reincarnation Mirror, she felt an unprecedented painful agony!
This was the pain of primordial essence blood backlash!
This was the pain of sword heart separation!
The young Luo Xuan, after the Purple Cloud Tribulation Thunder, had continuously broken through, his previous injuries already healed.
Yet the backlash of the primordial essence blood was irreparable!
When he had his cultivation, he could still endure it with the powerful cultivation of an Immortal Emperor, with which he could destroy a Great Emperor.
Without this cultivation, how was he to withstand the backlash of the primordial essence blood!
Not to mention, there was still the pain of sword heart separation!
But how could the physical pain he felt now measure even a tenth of the pain in her heart!
Wang Teng, seeing the Sword Spirit Empress so emotionally distraught, felt a growing sense of fear in his heart.
Pray that an incident like the Lixing Empress trying to rescue the Celestial Emperor does not happen again!
Just as Wang Teng was about to say something.
The image in the Reincarnation Mirror suddenly changed dramatically!
After the young Luo Xuan lost all of his sword dao cultivation, a black soul rose from the forbidden land.
"Great Emperor’s residual soul!"
Among the cultivators in the Celestial Emperor Palace, even those of the Great Emperor level were stunned.
This was unmistakably a Great Emperor’s residual soul!
And its source was clearly—Jian Guichen!
They could tell that Jian Guichen’s physical body was long gone, and this residual soul wasn’t formed when Jian Guichen was extinguished.
It must have been a remnant will he left earlier to aid in his secluded cultivation within the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land.
Even Jian Guichen himself probably didn’t expect this remnant soul to ever become useful.
However... this remnant soul clearly lacked any combat ability, and with its physical form gone, it would soon completely dissipate.
Even if the young Celestial Emperor had lost his cultivation, this remnant soul could not kill the young Celestial Emperor.
What did it intend to do by appearing now?
Jian Guichen’s maddened voice echoed within the Sword Tomb Forbidden Land.
"This Emperor hates, hates!!!"
This Emperor, with the remaining Emperor’s soul, curses you to witness all the birth, old age, illness, and death in the world, to endure all the partings and separations!
Curses you to love separation, to resent encounters, to desire what cannot be obtained, to face what is unwanted!
Curses you to be betrayed by all, cursed by the world, cursed to a life of loneliness, cursed to be misunderstood by all, cursed to bear an eternal infamy!
Hahahahaha! In the future, you will surely be ruined!
Little one, I will wait for you in that world, to see with what demeanor you come to that world, hahahaha!!"
Jian Guichen’s remnant soul completely dissipated, yet a wisp of black energy suddenly rushed toward the young Luo Xuan.
It invaded his body, entangling with his life soul!
In the Celestial Emperor Palace, all cultivators were momentarily speechless.
"Great Emperor’s curse!"
They hadn’t expected Jian Guichen’s remnant soul to unleash a Great Emperor’s curse upon the young Celestial Emperor!
If the young Celestial Emperor’s cultivation were still intact, Jian Guichen’s Great Emperor’s curse would have no effect on him at all.
After all, not even he was a match for the young Celestial Emperor, let alone a curse.
Yet now it was different; without his cultivation, the young Celestial Emperor might indeed struggle to resist this curse!
The notion of a curse was elusive and intangible.
Some believed in it, others did not.
Like the Emperor’s Blood Oath, it could indeed affect all of Jian Guichen’s descendants, even if they were merely a branch family with his bloodline.
But as for a curse, even a Great Emperor’s curse, it was never confirmed to have any tangible effect.
After all, the path of cultivation is one of defying the heavens, where facing hardships and even death are common, so how could they all be attributed to a curse.
Yet this was after all a Great Emperor’s curse, and it was against the young Celestial Emperor who at this moment had no cultivation, a mere mortal...
Considering the fate of the Celestial Emperor in the days to come, all cultivators were more than alarmed.
"Could it be that Jian Guichen’s curse has indeed taken effect?"
"Could it be that during Jian Guichen’s conversation with the Celestial Emperor before his death, he had already vaguely guessed that the Celestial Emperor intended to give his sword heart to Jian Ling’er, thus prompting the Emperor’s Blood Oath!"
"He wasn’t asking his descendants to go to their deaths, he genuinely believed his descendants had a chance to kill the Celestial Emperor, considering that at that time the Celestial Emperor had already lost all his sword dao cultivation!"
"Wait, Jian Guichen cursed the Celestial Emperor to be misunderstood by all, to bear an eternal infamy... could we indeed have misunderstood the Celestial Emperor?!"
Connecting the Celestial Emperor’s current situation with the content of this curse, the cultivators felt a chill down their spines!
For indeed the Celestial Emperor was betrayed by all, abandoned by the world, living a life of solitude!
The first half of the curse had already taken effect, could the latter half not also have taken effect?
If the latter half of the curse also holds true...?
Jian Guichen cursed the Celestial Emperor to be misunderstood by all, to bear an eternal infamy!
Does that mean they have truly and completely misunderstood the Celestial Emperor?!
