Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

169: Chapter 169: The Weeping Soul of Taibai and the Sword Crossing the Boundless RealmSu Muxue’s Divine Thought was like a drop of water falling into a boiling pot of oil, instantly triggering an incredibly violent reaction.

Infinite negative emotions—despair, pain, madness, and tyranny—turned into a towering tidal wave, fiercely battering her mind. Countless shattered memory fragments belonging to fallen Taibai Disciples, mixed with the shrieks of contaminated Sword Intent, flooded into her Sea of Consciousness, attempting to completely drown and assimilate her self-awareness.

The ice crystal barrier formed by Taiyin Star Power swayed violently, making an overwhelmed creaking sound. Su Muxue’s face instantly turned as pale as paper, her body trembled uncontrollably, and blood leaked from the corners of her mouth once more. She felt like a small boat in a violent storm, liable to capsize at any moment.

But she held fast to the last trace of clarity in her spiritual platform. Relying on her tenacity as a mother and her obsession with sharing life and death with her Dao Companion, she stubbornly endured this first wave of the most violent impact. She did not forcibly resist these negative emotions; instead, she followed her original plan, striving to ”feel” and ”distinguish.”

Amidst the endless darkness and madness, she painstakingly searched for that one different ”frequency.”

She ”saw” the aspirations of young Disciples first entering the Sect, ”heard” the sword hums and laughter during sparring matches between fellow Disciples, and ”felt” the resolution and tragedy when the demon tide struck... Most of these memory fragments had been contaminated and distorted, filled with pain and resentment, but the deep-seated sense of belonging to the Sect, the sincerity toward the Dao of the sword, and the persistence in protection within them were like sparks buried in ashes, not yet fully extinguished.

Su Muxue’s Divine Thought transformed into the gentlest of tendrils, carefully avoiding the violent contamination and lightly brushing against these ”sparks.”

She transmitted understanding, transmitted mourning, and even more, transmitted a sense of respect and... hope from the outside world that had not been forgotten!

”Buzz...”

When her Divine Thought touched enough ”sparks,” the wailing of the entire spiritual realm seemed to undergo an extremely subtle change. It was no longer a pure shriek of pain; there seemed to be a hint of... a response?

In the center of the pool, the taibai sword soul, which was tightly entwined by filth, suddenly jolted violently! Deep within its Core, a tiny speck of pure white light, so weak it was almost negligible, flickered tenaciously once!

Now is the time!

Su Muxue felt a sudden flash of inspiration. She immediately used the remnant token at her brow as an amplifier to channel the will of ”unyielding” and ”protection” belonging to the Taibai Sword Sect that she had felt, mixed with the pure power of the two star keys, into a clear thought and fiercely injected it into that flickering white light!

”Wake up!”

”The things you protect still remain! The mountains and rivers await restoration! The demons are not yet eliminated! How can you sleep for so long?!”

This shout was like a stone thrown into a deep pool, instantly breaking a certain balance!

“Clang—!”

A clear, impassioned, yet infinitely sorrowful and angry sword hum suddenly erupted from the Core of the Sword Soul!

That weak white light suddenly blazed, like the first ray of dawn piercing the darkness before daybreak!

The filthy black threads entwined around the Sword Soul seemed to be burned, making a sizzling sound and writhing madly in an attempt to suppress this sudden resistance.

The entire spiritual realm was in a total boil! On one side was the suddenly erupting, pure and tragic unyielding Sword Intent; on the other side was the long-entrenched, cold, and filthy fallen power! Two diametrically opposed wills centered around the Sword Soul, launching a fierce battle for control!

Su Muxue’s Divine Thought was at the center of the storm, enduring the terrifying pressure brought by the collision of both sides, but her eyes were filled with the light of hope!

She had succeeded! She had successfully awakened the sleeping will deep within the Sword Soul!

Now, it was no longer external force performing a forced purification, but the Sword Soul itself beginning to self-cleanse! All she needed to do was to continuously provide ”ammunition” and ”coordinates” for that awakened will using the star key power and her own Divine Thought, helping it reclaim control!

This process was equally perilous; her Divine Thought was like walking on a tightrope, needing to assist the Sword Soul while being careful not to be crushed by the power of either side... At the edge of the Deep Abyss.

Nangong Xuan took a deep breath, his entire aura restrained to the extreme. His gaze was like lightning, locking onto the illusory path in his heart composed of ”friendly” Sword Intent.

The path was not a straight line but was winding and tortuous, requiring him to precisely jump from one ”safe point” to the next without triggering other powerful Sword Intents.

He moved.

He did not use any flashy light-escape techniques, but instead contained the essence of his newly realized ”Nirvana Void-Slaying” within his movement technique. With a light tap of his feet, his figure drifted out like a ghost, landing above the abyss.

The moment he left the cliff face—

Buzz!

The entire Sword Intent force field was like a giant beast being startled awake; countless streaks of Sword Intent vibrated together, and a sharp pressure bore down like a physical weight!

But Nangong Xuan’s heart was as still as water, his Divine Thought highly concentrated. His figure made exquisite turns and glides in the void to the point of perfection, sometimes fluttering like a falling leaf, sometimes swift as lightning, always narrowly avoiding the strangulation of those hostile Sword Intents and landing precisely on the first ”safe point”—a tiny area covered by a relatively peaceful Mountain Sword Intent.

As soon as his foot landed, an incredibly hot Sword Intent brushed past his back, burning the void until it distorted.

Nangong Xuan did not linger; his figure flashed again. Relying on his subtle Perception of the Law of Cutting, he pre-emptively anticipated and avoided a silent spatial crack that sliced toward him, landing on the second safe point—an area containing a soft ”Flowing Water” Sword Intent.

He traversed through the gaps of the myriad Sword Intents with great difficulty, as if dancing on the edge of a blade. Every step and every change in direction condensed his entire understanding of the Dao of the sword and the improvement brought by the recently devoured Law. Nirvana Sword Intent protected his body, the Void-Slaying intent broke through obstacles in his path, and the Sharp Metal barrier resisted stray splashes of Sword Qi.

Though his speed was not fast, he steadily approached the opposite bank.

However, just as he had crossed more than half the distance and was only a hundred feet away from the cave entrance on the opposite bank, another change occurred!

From the bottomless chasm below, a grey-white, extremely dense wave of Evil Qi surged up without warning! This Evil Qi was not Sword Intent, but was even more chaotic and tyrannical, as if it were the sediment of all the negative emotions of the Sword Intents; one could even vaguely hear the roars of countless demonic creatures within it!

The appearance of this Evil Qi wave instantly disrupted the already chaotic Sword Intent force field!

Several originally stable ”friendly” Sword Intents were tainted by the Evil Qi and became violent. Even more hostile Sword Intents were completely enraged, becoming more active and disordered!

Nangong Xuan’s expression changed! The ”safe path” in his Perception instantly shattered!

Several peerlessly sharp streaks of Sword Qi strangled toward him simultaneously from extremely tricky angles! Below, Evil Qi rose into the sky like a giant python, threatening to drag him into the endless abyss!

...At almost the same time, deep within Remnant Sword Gorge, at the entrance to the Sword Cleansing Pool spiritual realm.

The Dark Side Hunting Squad that had been searching the periphery was finally drawn by the abnormal energy fluctuations generated when the spiritual realm opened and by the fierce internal confrontation, tracking their way there!

The leading Peak Golden Core knight holding a flag looked at the spiritual realm entrance, which was shimmering with white-gold light and filthy black Qi, and at Su Muxue sitting in meditation by the entrance (part of her mind was inside the spiritual realm, leaving her Physical Body completely defenseless), a flash of bloodlust and greed appearing in his cold eyes.

”Target number two discovered! And... a powerful energy source! Capture them and seize the energy!” With a wave of the battle flag, three Bat-Demon Knights carrying towering demonic flames pounced directly toward the defenseless Su Muxue and the sleeping star Core!

Troubles within and without—a situation of absolute certain death!