Chapter 69 - Living Ninety Nine Lives

As soon as Ah Chun sat down and closed her eyes she was stunned to see that she was back in her old house in dust village! She looked around the room and saw that it was her bedroom from when she had lived with her birth mother. With this thought in mind, Ah Chun ran out of her room and started searching the house to find her mother in the kitchen cooking up some of the wild vegetables she had gathered from the previous day. When she saw the figure standing in front of her with cuts and scr.a.p.es all over her arms. The skin sticking to the bones and those sunken in cheeks. Ah Chun's eyes welled up with tears as she started to cry. Why did she never realize that her birth mother was suffering so much in order to take care of her?

Time went on and Ah Chun's birth mother got sick but this time Ah Chun was able to nurse her mother back to health during the sickness that took her life before. Things started to change after this fact compared to her memories it was now the six months after when her mother should have passed away and this was the day she was supposed to meet Mei Liling. But this time she was not alone in the forest she was with her birth mother. The things in her memories had started to blur as she was cherishing the time she had with her birth mother.

This day was like before they were not able to find any more vegetables in the outer ring which was the safe zone. So now they were forced to go in deeper into the forest. As they went in deeper the Wind Chasing Tiger appeared this time it actually lunged at Ah Chun. Ah Chun's birth mother reacted quickly pushing Ah Chun out of the way. Ah Chun could only look on as the Wind Chasing Tiger tore her mother to shreds right in front of her. She only snapped out of it as her birth mother screamed: "Chun'er GO RUN!".

After Ah Chun ran she once again fell down the whole and met Mei Liling again who took her as her disciple and went back to her village with her. In a flash Twenty years passed Ah Chun never went out for training during this time and had steadily cultivated in the Heavenly Sword Sect instead. Ah Chun made friends and fell in love. Time passed and she watched on as her friends and loved ones died around her as they tried to help her reach the apex, only to find that when she went to try to avenge the ones she loved she died as well.

This process continued on and on. Each and every life was different from the last. But all had one thing that never changed and that was Ah Chun's vow to the heavens. She watched as she lost friends and family over and over again. She watched her own death as she died in the most horrific ways. Ah Chun's state of mind was a mess, she had almost gone insane many times. But one thought always came to mind before she did. 'None of this is real. Do not let this illusion control you.' This thought would always bring her back from the brink of insanity.

Outside the illusion in the real world, five months had passed. During this time Ning Shen had not moved from the spot he sat in since he arrived. He watched as the little girl in the array struggled on. Ah Chun had coughed up blood multiple times within the past five months and each time she did Ning Shen wanted to rush forward to help her but he knew he couldn't, he could only sit and watch it all happen.

Even Immortal Xiao Ying eyebrows furrowed when she saw Ah Chun cough up blood. Immortal Xiao Ying had no idea what Ah Chun was experiencing. The samsara would dive deep into one's consciousness and pull out the one thing the person would strive for and build each one of her lives around this concept. She had no idea that Ah Chun was actually experiencing a baptism of a whole deeper level. The bloodshed in each life Ah Chun lived only got worse each time. But each experience tempered her state of mind as she continued. If it was other cultivators most would have cracked under such circ.u.mstances. Some would not even have died at all on the first life causing them to be stuck in the samsara until the day they died in the real world. The samsara was just that frightening and most of the cultivators who went through the samsara baptism either died or came out insane.

Back in the array, Ah Chun was now living her ninety-ninth life. She was currently staring up into the sky looking at the figure who floated overhead with horror in her eyes. The figure released an attack that tore the heavens apart enveloping the sky as the figured laughed maniacally. All Ah Chun could do was feel her flesh being torn as she was hit by the attack with no way to defend against it. Right at the moment of her death Ah Chun's eyes slowly opened...