Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 255 Reencounter with Jiang Qingxue

The majestic Kunlun Mountains coil like a giant dragon, with each peak resembling a sharp sword piercing the sky. Year-round snow blankets the rugged ridges, gleaming with a cold, silvery light in the sunlight, like fragments of jade casually scattered by a deity.

A biting wind howled at the summit, whipping up tiny ice crystals that traced countless transparent trails in the air. Clouds surged beneath the cliffs on the mountainside, sometimes like raging waves, sometimes like a veil of mist, making the entire mountain appear like a fairy island floating in the clouds.

Qin Xiaochuan stood on a boulder, as if he were in the very center of the world, and a sense of grandeur arose within him, as if the entire world was contained within his chest.

He closed his eyes, and his mental world expanded rapidly. After several days of training, his mental world had expanded to a radius of six or seven hundred meters. If he focused his mind on only one direction, he could even sense things a kilometer away.

Suddenly, Qin Xiaochuan opened his eyes, looked up, and saw a gray Kunlun golden eagle circling in the air under the azure sky.

An invisible energy shot out from Qin Xiaochuan's eyes and invaded the golden eagle's mind in an instant.

Scenes of light and shadow flashed before Qin Xiaochuan's eyes, and soon he saw a familiar sight.

At that place where one side was a cliff, a group of people surrounded Kaiming and Qin Xiaochuan and others, casting spells. Then, seven bluebirds suddenly appeared from the horizon and took away Qin Xiaochuan and the other three. As the bluebirds flew away, Kaiming's body suddenly swelled up. Because everyone's attention was drawn to Qin Xiaochuan and the others, Kaiming took the opportunity to break free from the golden light barrier and flew towards the western mountain peak.

"Found it." Qin Xiaochuan withdrew his gaze and turned to Han Kexin, who was standing to the side.

Han Kexin looked intently at Qin Xiaochuan and said, "Let's clarify the battle plan first. After we find Kaiming, Zhou Bin and I will fight it first. Don't make a move yet. Wait until we've weakened it enough, then you can seize the opportunity to launch a mental attack on it. Understand?"

"Okay, I understand." Qin Xiaochuan nodded emphatically.

"Let's go then!" Han Kexin spread her silver wings, grabbed his clothes at the back of his waist, and flew into the air, with Xiao Ying and Zhou Bin following closely behind.

The four searched for the memories of the birds in the sky while constantly looking for Kaiming's whereabouts, but after wandering around for a long time, they still couldn't find any trace of him.

"That's strange. In my memory illusion, the last time I saw Kaiming was in this area, so why can't I find him?" Qin Xiaochuan muttered to himself as he withdrew his mental space.

"Is it because you mixed up the timeline, and the hallucinations you saw actually happened a few days ago?" Han Kexin frowned.

"Impossible. I searched the birds' memories by time period. I just checked the memories from an hour ago. There's no way I'm wrong," Qin Xiaochuan said confidently.

"Then try searching your memory from the last hour and see if you can find Kaiming."

Qin Xiaochuan nodded. "That's all we can do now." So his mental space opened again, and then he suddenly noticed that a figure had broken into his mental space at the edge.

"Go that way." Qin Xiaochuan pointed in the direction where the figure appeared, and the four of them quickly flew over there.

When they landed in front of that person, all four of them were stunned.

"Aunt Jiang?" Qin Xiaochuan looked at the person in front of him in disbelief. Wasn't that Guo Shiyi's mother, Jiang Qingxue?

Hearing the voice, Jiang Qingxue looked up at Qin Xiaochuan and the other three, her face showing excitement: "Oh, it's Xiaochuan! It's so great to meet you all."

Qin Xiaochuan and Han Kexin exchanged a glance, both looking suspicious. Qin Xiaochuan asked immediately, "Aunt Jiang, you've regained your memory? Why are you here alone? Where's Shiyi? Wasn't she with you?"

"Shiyi, she..." Jiang Qingxue's face showed a pained expression. She seemed to be trying hard to think, but her memory was still not very clear.

"How is Shiyi?" Qin Xiaochuan asked anxiously. This was really too strange. Logically speaking, Guo Shiyi would never leave her mother's side, but now Jiang Qingxue appeared alone on this vast snow mountain, making it hard not to think the worst.

"I don't know where Shiyi went? How did I get here?" Jiang Qingxue continued to think hard, but her headache made her unsteady on her feet. Just as Qin Xiaochuan subconsciously reached out to support her, an invisible energy suddenly spread out, and that familiar mental space reappeared.

"Huh? What's this?" Qin Xiaochuan subconsciously pushed Jiang Qingxue away, a sense of crisis suddenly welling up in his heart.

"I didn't expect you to also possess a mental space. Interesting." Jiang Qingxue's voice suddenly became a little strange.

"You're not Aunt Jiang, who are you?" Qin Xiaochuan shouted. He suddenly remembered that he had never seen any memory of Jiang Qingxue on the way here. This Jiang Qingxue seemed to have appeared out of thin air.

"I am Jiang Qingxue, Xiaochuan, don't you recognize me?" Jiang Qingxue's voice suddenly returned to normal.

"If you are Aunt Jiang, then what is under the bronze tree?" Qin Xiaochuan felt increasingly uneasy and was unsure whether the person in front of him was genuine or not.

"That's fake, I'm the real one, can't you tell the difference?" 'Jiang Qingxue' said gently to him.

Qin Xiaochuan really couldn't tell the difference. At least from the outward appearance, it seemed more real, but he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

"Have you forgotten? We met last time when Shiyi had her birthday. Didn't you give her a necklace as a birthday present?" Jiang Qingxue said gently as she slowly approached Qin Xiaochuan.

Her words further prove that she is indeed the real person. If the story about the Bronze Tree is fake, wouldn't Guo Shiyi be in great danger?

"Xiao Chuan, do you like my Shi Yi?" Jiang Qingxue's expression remained gentle, but her gaze held a hint of scrutiny.

"Ah, I..." Qin Xiaochuan stammered, his eyes darting around, unsure whether he should admit it or not.

"I think you're a good child," Jiang Qingxue continued, slowly raising her hand. "How about..."

"I'll send you to your death!" With a loud roar, a huge sonic shockwave rushed towards Qin Xiaochuan, freezing him in place. At this moment, Jiang Qingxue's hand suddenly transformed into a sharp tiger claw, and a dark blue lightning bolt on the claw seemed capable of tearing through space, quickly slashing towards Qin Xiaochuan's head.

With a loud "bang!", Qin Xiaochuan was sent flying seven or eight meters away.

The gentle Jiang Qingxue had completely changed her appearance. She had shed her human form and transformed into a nine-headed human with a winged tiger body, which was exactly the Kaiming that Qin Xiaochuan and the others had been searching for.