Swordswoman: The Few Unrecorded Decades - Chapter 36

Responsibility!

The heavens may have really blessed Emperor He Mo at this point for he was given a solid reason to conveniently tie his lady bodyguard for a lifetime! If he had known the reason why the lady gave him a kiss, he may have thanked the soul of the elder’s son for attempting to posses him! He looked at the face of Ye Shin but their intimate moment was disturbed when there was a loud thump which sounded beside them. It was the body of the elder’s that for some reason had fallen from above.

The elder’s son was unconscious! There are two spiral shaped stab wounds in his torso but he is not dead. Ye Shin had put into consideration what the soul of the elder had told her before. She is willing to execute the soul restoration for this man!

The elder felt a great wave of emotions despite him being a soul. The lady had honored his request! Even though his son is unconscious, he knows he can still be saved.

Emperor He Mo looked at the direction where the body had fallen. He glared at the unconscious man on the ground before looking back at Ye Shin. His dark orbs made a contact with the clear eyes of the lady.

The lady smiled gently at him before she stands. Ye Shin helped the emperor to get up from the ground before the two of them slowly walks towards the unconscious body. The alley still remains its peaceful yet off ambiance. Just as Ye Shin was about to check the body of the elder’s son, a rain of arrows barraged them. Six arrows were shot in succession and the lady felt a tremendous hostility from the attackers!

The full exquisite looks of the Spiral Sword had instantly appeared! Six tiny blades abruptly stopped the six flying arrows while Ye Shin slowly turns her head towards the direction where she had felt the strong desire to kill. The lady saw two men in a few distances wearing somehow familiar clothing. Based on the soul of the elder’s memories in her brain, these two men are wearing a robe that belongs to the Soul Practitioners of the Ma Empire.

All of her twelve blades have flew directly towards the two figures in fast speed and hit their bodies. Unexpectedly, none of them were dead or have fallen! The blades were attacking nonstop to the two figures but it seems like their bodies are able to heal the stab wounds caused by the Spiral Sword! Ye Shin solemnly looked at the two figures in a deep thought. Emperor He Mo on the other hand was completely surprised of what he saw.

“They are not affected. They are healing?” the young emperor mumbled while staring at the two seemingly immortal figures!

“Lady, these two people have Divine Soul Constitution. Their soul provides healing from physical attacks. Your mere sword is useless to them, but you can execute Soul Extermination together with your weapon’s attack and these two should be dead.” the voice of the elder’s soul sounded and Ye Shin immediately focus her mind on to the execution of Soul Extermination.

In the legacy that Ye Shin gained from the elder, she found out that there are various methods of executing Soul Extermination. She examined the methods written in the memories while her tiny blades kept on attacking the two figures. The two figures also kept healing endlessly!

A sense is the only path towards the human soul.

-The Five Senses of Soul Extermination

-First Method – Extermination by Inhalation

This is a method of cultivation that uses scent to exterminate the soul and kill.

-Second Method – Extermination by Sight

This is a method of cultivation that uses visual focus of the surrounding to give instant extermination unto the soul and kill a person.

-Third Method – Extermination by Hands

This is a method of cultivation that requires a weapon to extinguish the soul.

-Fourth Method – Intake Extermination

This is a method of cultivation that uses food, medicine, herbs & poison to slowly torture the soul and slowly exterminate a person.

-Fifth Method – Extermination by Sound

This is a method of cultivation which requires musical instruments to annihilate a life.

Ye Shin immediately peered on the third method of extermination. Her blades immediately stopped attacking and had retracted to the body of the Spiral Sword. The elegant weapon manifested by using her inner force was originally having a silver appearance but when the soul extermination was added a red aura immediately surrounded the weapon.

If Ye Zhu – the other sword cultivator who has the ability to corrode a soul, saw the red aura emitting in the Spiral Sword, she would immediately know the now enhanced weapon. The red aura is called Judgment! The attack of the weapon will then be called Judgment of the Spiral Sword!

When the two figures saw the red aura from the body of the Spiral Sword, their looks immediately became ashen! They have finally realized what kind of legacy they are trying to snatch! The legacy that could erase the existence of Soul Practitioners and all beings that has a soul! This is indeed the legacy that the elder living within the body of Ye Shin wanted to protect dearly! A divine punishment!

Not more than a few breaths, the two figures immediately dropped on the ground. It only takes two tiny blades to finish them! The Spiral Sword emitting the red aura had gone back to its silver color before it swiftly vanished.

The two figures have never expected that the legacy they are after is the very legacy that would also lead them to end their existence! The soul in their body was completely extinguished! Their paths to rebirth were immediately erased the moment the two blades struck on their neck. What remains is the empty shell of their body lying on the ground!

The assassination incident involving the two archers during the arena event in the Empire of Ru few days ago was indeed done by the elder’s soul. He had executed the second method of his legacy to those two attackers before, the extermination by sight.

This legacy is the deadliest and most dangerous legacy a Soul Practitioner could ever possess! If the legacy is mastered, one is capable of exterminating not only a person but also bringing destruction to the whole kingdom or perhaps the whole world!

Ye Shin looked glances at the two dead bodies before focussing her attention back to the elder’s son. Soon after, she placed her left index finger right in the forehead of the unconscious body. She then executed the soul restoration. Gradually, the mind of elder’s son is being repaired. During the process, the unconscious body would sometimes convulse due to the heaviness of the impurities within his soul.

The emperor stared at Ye Shin the whole time until he saw the unconscious body gasp an air and breaths heavily. It is like he the elder’s son is chasing an air to breathe! Within a few more breaths, the wounded man gained back his consciousness.

He was in a state of confusion as he looked at his surroundings. After a while, his vision focused on Ye Shin and the young emperor. He looked at them carefully with a deep frown on his face.

“Who are you?” the man asked in a very hoarse voice. His throat is dry and he felt thirsty.

“You insolent child, you are really wilful! Your willfulness had almost brought you at the death’s door!” the soul of the elder answered before the emperor and Ye Shin could speak their response.

As soon as the man heard the nostalgic voice, he was overwhelmed with a deep longing. He had recognized his father’s voice! His tears started falling from his eyes, one by one until he was completely sobbing.

“Look at you crying, aren’t you embarrassed? Even if you are not embarrassed, you are an embarrassment to me! You are old enough yet you cry like an infant!” the soul of the elder scolded his son but deep down he also wants to cry with the kind of tears produced by extremely happiness. Tears of joy!

“He can come along and build a new life on the He Empire.” the emperor stated while the man is still heavily crying in front of them.

“Stop your non sense tears and thank your benefactors instead!” the soul of tje elders ordered and the man immediately bowed his head on the ground.

“Thank you Mister! Thank you Miss. Please accept this bow for saving my useless life.” the man said with full of sincerity. He almost kissed the ground and gave the emperor to most humble bow he could do despite of the wounds in his body.

“Get up. There is no need for that gesture. It was your father’s legacy who saved you.” the emperor said while Ye Shin remained silent beside him. The man slowly got up on the ground and look at them with teary eyes.