227: Chapter 227 Memory Awakening

He looked at her, and when he said, "I believe you," his eyes were so gentle.

But he, who was so gentle, was also so cruel to her.

He shattered all her frantic delusions in an instant.

A great fire scorched the heavens, and ashes fell like snow.

She watched him calmly step into the Star-Plucking Tower.

She watched the flames engulf the tall building.

She watched another woman wail in madness.

She watched the sky full of ashes drift down like snow.

Then, she smoothed out her plain white clothes, as if going to a meeting that was long overdue.

Step by step, she walked calmly toward the sea of fire that burned everything.

The searing air currents licked her skin.

In a daze.

She seemed to see that young man again, the one she had glimpsed by the banks of the Luo River.

"Jiang Li..."

"Meeting you at the Luo River, and saying farewell forever at Zhaoge."

"If there is a next life..."

"I will be called Jiang Luoli."

"Remember... in my next life, I will still be from Jiangnan."

"...Just waiting"

"To meet you again."

...

"Hah—!"

Jiang Luoli bolted upright from the bed, her chest heaving violently as she gasped for air.

At some point.

Tears had already covered her face.

She first wiped them away haphazardly, leaving tear streaks all over her pretty face.

Then

She sat on the bed in a daze.

Her eyes were empty at first.

Then a storm surged within them.

She remembered everything.

Things she should have remembered from the first day she was born into the Jiang Family of Jianghai City, in Jiangnan.

It wasn't a dream.

All of it was not some absurd, nonsensical dream.

It was memory.

It was Jiang Luoli's past life.

Jiang Li.

A life she had truly and clearly experienced.

She was the Queen of the Yin Shang Dynasty, Jiang Li.

The Yin Shang Dynasty was quite special.

It was one of the few dynasties truly recorded in the history of Great Xia.

It was said that in ancient Great Xia, just like the current High-Martial world, there existed some 'extraordinary power users'.

There were even historical records stating that 'gods' existed in that era.

However, after the fall of the Yin Shang Dynasty, those extraordinary powers slowly disappeared.

In Great Xia's history, there were very few records of the Yin Shang Dynasty and the history before it.

Some of the findings were only discovered by people after the Spiritual Energy Recovery.

Regarding the Yin Shang Queen, Jiang Li.

In the historical records, there were only a few brief mentions.

It only mentioned that she was the last Queen of Yin Shang.

By the banks of the Luo River, she fell in love with Di Xin at first sight.

She watched over him silently in the deep palace.

When the country fell and her home was destroyed, she resolutely followed him to her death.

Jiang Luoli had learned about this piece of history when she was in school.

At that time, because of the similarity in their names, she had a particularly special feeling toward this story.

It made her feel familiar and interested.

However, what she hadn't expected.

Was that the last Queen, Jiang Li, was actually herself.

And the monarch in the dream who she loved to the core.

Who caused her heart-wrenching pain.

And for whom she eventually burned away her life and reputation.

That man named Di Xin, also known as Su Chen.

Was actually...

"Junior... Su Chen..."

Jiang Luoli murmured the name, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

So it was him.

It really was him.

Under the entanglement of karma spanning thousands of years.

Su Chen, who suffered from a terminal illness, had actually, after crossing countless ages.

Stood at the entrance of her Demon Slaying Society with a smile.

That steady and decisive young man who repeatedly created miracles.

That 'troublemaker' who was fought over by three earth-shattering Transcendent Heroic Spirit divine senses during the Heroic Spirit Contract Ceremony.

Was actually the one she had crossed unknown cycles of reincarnation and time for.

The one she glimpsed by the banks of the Luo River.

The one she gave everything for in the deep palace.

The one she followed in life and death before the raging fire.

Her husband.

"Fate is truly wonderful, isn't it, My King..."

Jiang Luoli slowly raised her hand, her fingertips touching her wet cheek, and she began to laugh softly.

"After going in such a big circle and passing through unknown reincarnations."

"It actually still sent you back to my side."

"In this life, I am indeed called Jiang Luoli."

"The 'Luo' of the Luo River, the 'Li' of glazed glass."

"I remember you said not to be a princess, not to be a queen."

"Just be a woman from an ordinary family in Jiangnan, waiting to meet you again..."

"I did it."

"Su Chen."

"I really did it."

"What about you?"

"Have you... remembered?"

Her pretty face, entangled in tears and smiles, slowly bloomed into a twisted grin.

With the complete awakening of her past life memories.

An indescribable power also began to burst forth from the deepest part of her soul.

For a moment, it seemed as if space itself was about to be torn apart.

A layer of incredibly noble pale gold light suddenly lit up around Jiang Luoli.

Powerful spiritual energy surged up around her delicate body.

That spiritual energy was quite profound and filled with a majestic aura.

Like a phoenix descending to the mortal realm.

That was the Phoenix Fate Qi, unique to the Yin Shang Queen who mothered the world.

At the same time, the cultivation within her body began to skyrocket at a terrifying speed.

The barrier of the peak of the eighth rank was instantly broken.

Ninth rank, tenth rank, eleventh rank...

It was unstoppable, without any resistance.

Spiritual energy galloped and whistled through her meridians, which had widened countless times, making a roar like a rushing river.

Her temperament was also undergoing an earth-shaking change at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although the Jiang Li of the past life and the Jiang Luoli of this life were essentially the same person.

Their experiences were different after all.

Naturally, this brought about a difference in temperament.

The bright and glamorous air of a youthful senior that originally belonged to Jiang Luoli quickly faded away.

What replaced it was the calmness of having experienced the world and the elegance of having long held a high position, settled in Jiang Li's eyes and brows.

In the flicker of her eyes, there was less of the deliberately cultivated charm she had just learned from Su Daji.

And more of the wisdom to see through people's hearts and an inescapable sorrowful beauty.

Even her slightly pale and haggard complexion quickly became rosy under the nourishment of the Phoenix Qi.

Her skin became lustrous and glowing, as if covered with a faint layer of jade.

And the clothes on her body also changed at this moment.

The dress that symbolized a youthful female university student.

Under the shroud of the pale gold Phoenix Qi, its texture and style quickly altered.

The original youthful and vibrant color faded, turning into a more solemn and magnificent black, embroidered with phoenix patterns.

The tailoring was extremely fitting, outlining her exquisite and proud curves.

As for the hem of the skirt.

It was an incredibly bold high-slit design.

Reaching all the way to the root of her thigh.

With every movement, a pair of straight, slender, and jade-white peerless legs were partially visible.

Against the backdrop of the black skirt hem.

They were dazzlingly white, inviting stray thoughts.

This skirt.

Was not only convenient and sexy but also perfectly integrated the elegance and magnificence of ancient court dress.

It was truly an extremely beautiful Queen's high-slit formal dress.

At this moment, Jiang Luoli's long hair moved without wind, fluttering slightly in the Phoenix Qi.

She slowly got out of bed, her bare feet stepping on the floor.

With every step she took, her aura became more solid, and the Phoenix Qi became denser.

Peak of the eleventh rank...

Twelfth rank...

Peak of the twelfth rank.

In just a dozen or so breaths, her cultivation had broken through to the peak of the twelfth rank and stabilized.