Lei Jian woke up feeling refreshed. He was sleeping into something soft. He reached for his hand and touched the soft thing. It was nice. He rubbed it again and again. But then he gained consciousness.
"What?!" He saw himself lying on top of Fate. His hand is groping her breast shamelessly. He immediately withdraws himself.
He looked around. They were in a complete different setting. No, actually it looked familiar. The mountains, the land, the trees and grasses. They were gone. But they were there! Lei Jian have witnessed himself how they were burned by the Nirvana fire. But now they were standing there as if nothing hapened. It's as if he returned one hour ago.
"Oh gross... there might be a frightening thing playing with me." He checked his lil sis and she was fine. She woke up.
"B.. brother Jian..."
"Yes?", he looked at her dotingly.
"Are we alive? Are we in heaven?"
"Yes but no. Come on."
The two explored the mountains once more, making sure they were seeing right. But they were not. All trees are perfectly intact and nothing seemed to be burned by fire. What the heck is going on? Who repaired the island?
But when they reached the city, they were astonished by the sight in front of them. The walls are crumbled, showing the city inside. But it was already wrecked. No buildings are standing anymore. They were burned to ashes and were still smoking. But no fire to see anywhere. The calamity has passed but it seems only the area inside the walls are affected, and everything else outside the wall returned to normal.
Lei Jian and Fate entered the flat grounds of the city. He walked straight to the center, where the Nirvana first kissed the ground and exploded.
The temperature there is scorching high, like they are inside an oven toaster. Lei Jian walked further. There was a pit of flame diametering to 45 meters. Inside the pit are flames and lava intertwining and mixing together like serpents. They were forming a ball figure. He found out the sealing array is still present and must have sealed this much of fire.
Intensity of fire is measured in degree calcein. Just a few meters from the fire burns the air up to
900, 000°calcein. Lei Jian would melt if he get a bit more closer. So he turned into blade form and stabbed itself on the ground. It began reactivating its techniques and a pale orange halo surrounded it. After setting the right character mix, it then absorbs the pure yang qi given off by the flame ball.
Not all legendary artifacts can cultivate. Almost all of them needs to rely on their master for the absorption of energy. Or else, they would have to be installed with an appropriate array. But Lei Jian is different. He was an ancient weapon of a godly heavenly being, thus he was given the possibility of cultivating up to three elements.
Lei Jian absorbed enough power to revitalize its blade but not enough to form a core. After all, Nirvana flames is sacred. And cultivating sacred flames needs a lot more time. If one didn't form a solid core, the flame qi inside will self-explode possibly killing the cultivator. Instead of forming a flame core, he instead remixed the qi with his own lightning attribute. As both elements are of yang, the fusion of the qi is not that hard. He only need to find the right combination of characters in order to form a natural array. These kinds of techniques are not of mortal world.
When he was done, his blade glowed red-orange, and crackled with yellow electricity. But its runes are no longer existing because it was damaged by the tribulations earlier. There are more cracks on the surface, it looks it will break easily. But Lei Jian blade is not that easy to destroy.
He remembered about the kid who discovered him and helped bring lightnings down to break his seal. He felt the need to help the kid to relive. The flames can raise the dead even if only ashes remain. He still has the piece of finger as a remaining flesh. As long as it has even just a tiny bit of his soul, he can revive.
The problem is that Lei Jian do not know the respective technique used to refine both items. Oh well. Might as well experiment.
He racked his brain for any sealing technique and eventually picked one. He enveloped the finger in a bubble and casted the array. With comprehension, he delves into the basic way of life.
In life, it's all about balance. Everything on and in a person is finding to balance each other. Yang energy will find Yin and vice versa. Thus, when the two mixed in the right amount, they will form will. It is the start of creating life -will or desire to live. The soul just needs a will, a desire, a need. Then it can be reborn.
The troubling thing is the body. To recreate a body, it needs lots of materials and a very skilled refiner. Lei Jian is not a refiner, but he can cook. He can cook qi to form a physical manifestation, although temporary.
"For thousands of years, phoenix are the first known immortals of the world for their ability to reincarnate through fire. As time passes, this bloodline ability gets weaker and weaker until it gradually vanished. I remember that my master is also a descendant of the phoenix clan. He can execute their techniques of rebirthing through Nirvana. But I just couldn't remember. Ack! It seems that part of my memories are sealed. All those techniques I saw are deleted from my consciousness. But I can remember I saw a lotus. And in that lotus, sprang a little life."
Lei Jian began to pray to his master. If he was still alive, he will surely hear him.
Lei Jian opened his eyes. His mind travels back 8 milleniums ago, where he witnessed an unbelievable miracle. Ping! He has an idea. If he could transfer his spirit to the weak soul, he could strengthen it until it will reform by itself. If only he have a physical body to borrow.
"Wait." He looked back at that direction. He saw Fate looking at him. He grinned.
He dashed to her and snatched her. Forming a faint barrier around her, he walked near the pit.
"Brother Jian, what are you doing?", she was terrified by the pit of flame and what he will do next.
"I'm sorry, lil sis. But I need to use your body to construct a physical form for this poor soul. If I have physical self, I won't hesitate to use mine, but that I don't have. So please, allow me to use your body. Don't worry, I'll save your soul. You will enter his consciousness."
"B.. but.." She hardly understood what he said. But he seemed rather serious. She agreed eventually. It was for repaying a gratitude for saving her many times. She trusted him more than anyone else. "All right. I'm fine with it. But who is that soul you need to save?"
"That..." he pointed at a bubble with a piece of finger inside. "He was the one who saved me. So I'll need to help him."
She nodded.
"Thank you, lil sis. I won't forget about you. After this, I might be sleeping for a long time again. But remember you are my one and only friend here in the mortal world."
"En!", she nodded unable to suppress the tears on her eyes. "I will do as big bro says."
"You just need to eat that piece of finger. Are you willing?"
"Yes."
Lei Jian gave her the burnt finger and she willingly ate it. She grimaced. The taste is obviously awful.
Following that, Lei Jian made her sleep and started his process.
The process took very long. He needs to ensure concise method of replanting souls. He first guided Fate's soul to the brain and let it slumber. He then guided the weak soul to the heart and let it stabilize. Using his own spiritual force, he fed the soul with balanced energy of Yin and Yang.
Soul and spirit are different. Thus they can't be combined. To transform his spirit to a soul, he would have to refine it using the Nirvanic flame qi. After hours and hours of tireless molding, the refined spirit finally blended with the soul which got stronger like a fire receiving fuel.
At last! The soul force is enough to support the body. It just needs a bit of time to cool down. Lei Jian finally collapsed on the ground. He looked at the lovely face of his lil sister and smiled.
"Huff... You'd better take care of her. I've already done everything to help you. It's up to you if you'll survive. If you do survive, I hope you will walk up the path of greatness and work hard to become an immortal expert. Find your own dao and master it to perfection. When you does, find a way to enter the heavens and find my master."
He reverted back to his blade form and fell flatly on the ground.
Meanwhile, inside the heart of the pretty lady, a young bud is emerging.