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Yes, she had surprisingly forgotten: apart from Master, there was a second person in Yunhuang who mastered this supreme magic art, and that was the Grand Master!

Da Si Ming sighed, “You should know that this is a forbidden spell that can shift the stars to change the Heavens will and reverse fate.”

“Great… fantastic!” Zhu Yan’s eyes glistened brightly, feeling her heart pounding uncontrollably, “Teach it to me at once! If I learn this, I… I can save my Master!”

“You are willing to pay the price?” The Grand Master stared at her, speaking in a grim tone, “You may say for a moment that you don’t hate him anymore, but are you willing to pay the price of half your life in exchange for his?”

“Absolutely!” She interrupted the old man without a second thought, “I’d give the other half of my life to bring Yuan back as well! As long as they can both come back to life, I… I would be willing to die if it helps with something!”

“Don’t be so delusional.” Hearing such a reply, Da Si Ming sneered disdainfully, “Sharks do not have souls. That Yuan you speak about should have turned into clouds and returned to the Blue Sea by now, isn’t it? If you are willing to redeem yourself, only Shi Ying’s life can still do some good to you.”

“Of course I’m willing!” She couldn’t help but shout.

“That’s good.” The Grand Master nodded silently, apparently pondering thoughtfully on something.

It was only in this moment that Zhu Yan’s eyes lit up a little, as if that small flame of hope was ignited deep inside her heart. She looked at the Grand Master and impatiently inquired further, “Then… you probably know how many years of life I will have left, right?”

The Grand Master nodded, “With your good fortune, you could have lived to the age of seventy-two.”

“I’m now eighteen years and seven months old! That means that I still have around fifty-four years of life left to live from now, right?” Zhu Yan quickly made calculations in her mind and blurted out, “If I share half of it with Master, he will have twenty-seven years of life to live, won’t he?… That’ s too little, can I give him a little more?”

The Grand Master gave her a cold glance, “This is not something that can be bargained for.”

Zhu Yan closed her mouth in frustration – well, at least it was also good to be able to spend twenty-seven years…

Da Si Ming sighed and murmured, “Originally, I might have used the Star Soul Blood Oath to resurrect Shi Ying myself. It’s just a pity that I don’t have many years of life left…” The old man shook his head and displayed a bitter smile, “I also have my predestined fate, everything is unfathomable.”

“It’s alright, let me do it!” Zhu Yan clenched her fists, her eyes blazing with fire, “Just teach me the Star Soul Blood Oath!”

“It’s not that easy,” the Grand Master turned around to look at the eager young girl and shook his head, “Don’t look at the Star Soul Blood Oath as being only one page long, of all the magic spells in Yunhuang it is the most difficult and profound of them all, and not even one out of ten thousand practitioners will be able to master it.”

“I won’t,” she said with confidence, “I will learn it!”

“Is that so?” The Grand Master tossed the piece of paper in front of her, “Do you want to take a look?”

Zhu Yan only cast a glance at it, and the bright light in her eyes immediately froze – what was going on? At first sight, she couldn’t even decipher the first sentence at the beginning of the paper!

In disbelief, she refocused her mind and revisited the page from the top again, realizing that each large word on the page was actually made up of countless, extremely small characters!

As she stared at the thin page, the words bounced out in front of her eyes one by one, twisting and unfolding as if they were alive, changing from one to ten, from ten to a hundred, turning endlessly and forming a dense array in front of her sight!

These dots of light, one by one, were all moving, like shooting stars racing across the sky. Zhu Yan felt dizzy after just one glimpse, and a surge of blood rose in her throat, almost vomiting out as she gasped for breath.

With a sweep of his sleeve, the Grand Master pulled the page back and looked at her with cold eyes, “What about it?”

When all those words disappeared out of her sight, Zhu Yan’s whole body shook, and only with great difficulty she came back to her senses and took a deep breath, with a ghastly white face: “This… spell, is so evil!”

“The words you said are correct.” The Grand Master nodded, “As the Supreme Mystery of the Blood Incantations, the Star Soul Blood Oath is indeed different from the ordinary spells of Yunhuang. One thousand years ago, it was introduced by disciples from the Western Heavenly Kingdoms across the Middle Kingdom – it is only natural that you would find it uncomfortable at first glance, given that you have been raised under the Jiuyi Divine Temple.”

“A blood spell?” Zhu Yan muttered in thought and winced violently.

Back then in Susa Haru, didn’t that Great Wizard of the Huotu tribe used a blood spell? At that time, he used the lives of dozens of sharks to create a demon spirit identical to her, out of thin air! That was a Dark Magic of Demonic origin, which has always been frowned upon by the Kongsang school of magic.

However, how come is the Supreme Mystery found inside the Jiuyi Temple when in fact the Blood Oath is also a blood incantation as well?

“The Star Soul Blood Oath is definitely not an evil spell.” The Grand Master frowned immediately as if he knew what was going on inside her mind, “Don’t get your head in the clouds.”

Zhu Yan couldn’t help questioning, “All of them are done using human lives, so what’s the difference?”

“The Dark Magic is naturally against the Heavenly Dao when it uses blood as a spirit medium and sacrifices the lives of others as offerings.” The Grand Master patiently explained to her, “But the Star Soul Blood Oath is different, it can only sacrifice the caster’s own life.”

“Oh…” Zhu Yan suddenly realized, “The same blood spell, when someone uses their own blood, it’s not considered an evil spell, but if they use someone else’s blood it counts as such?”

“Yes,” nodded the Grand Master, solemnly saying, “the so-called difference between good and evil lies not in the spell itself, but in the original heart of the spellcaster. Although the Blood Oath of the Star Soul is a blood spell, in fact, it is a spell of self-sacrifice, not a spell of depriving others of their lives – if one’s heart is pure, the spell will naturally be luminous.”

“So this is how it is?” Zhu Yan nodded, but frowned again the next moment, “But… if it’s not an evil magic, why did Master refused to pass it down to me in the first place?”

“Don’t you understand?” Upon hearing such a clueless question from her, a bitter smile surfaced on Da Si Ming’s face, “The reason he didn’t teach you the Star Soul Blood Oath was actually to prevent an incident like today from happening!”

She remained stunned for a moment, unable to reply for a while.

“The Star Soul Blood Oath is an extremely ruthless spell that deprives the caster of half of his life. His intention was to prevent you from using it one day,” the Grand Master let out a long sigh and spoke in a mournful tone, “alas… Shi Ying’s love and care for you was actually far greater than you could ever imagine.”

Zhu Yan was listening in a daze. Suddenly, she recalled the last moment of her Master’s appearance: the words he spoke, the expression on his face, the look in his eyes, all of a sudden it was as if he came back to life again from the bottom of her heart, so vividly.

The searing pain was so intense that she could barely breathe.

“I… I will definitely bring back the Master to life!” She gritted her teeth as she repeated the words, almost as if she was taking a vow, ” Whatever it takes, at all costs!”

“Well then, we shall try.” The Grand Master sighed and gazed at her with an inexorable expression, “Throughout the entire Yunhuang, your spiritual power is second only to mine and Shi Ying’s, and you have enough remaining lifespan to spare – that’s the only reason I’ve kept you alive.”

So this was his initial intention after all? Not to spare her, but to exchange her life for his Master’s! However, Zhu Yan didn’t consider it offensive and nodded vigorously, looking eagerly at the old man, “You will be my teacher and teach me the Star Soul Blood Oath, is that right?”

But the Grand Master shook his head, “No.”

“What?” Zhu Yan’s face turned pale for a moment.

“The Star Soul Blood Oath originates from the Western Heavenly Kingdom, and is a magic spell that cannot be ‘taught’, but only relies on enlightenment.” The Grand Master looked at the page and spoke in a calm tone, “In fact, the content on the page that each person sees is different. Just as the stars are in motion throughout the sky, and the stargazer stands in a slightly different position, what every viewer sees is naturally different – so this magic spell simply cannot be passed on from one person to another by word of mouth.”

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