Chapter 460 - 182: The Shattering of Everything

His heart bled with anguish, and his disbelief drove him to the brink of madness.

"Liao Qing, how could he possibly be this strong? What kind of Dharma Gate is this?" Jue Xuan, too, was utterly dumbfounded.

"Who is that Cultivator? What just happened? What kind of attack was that? Was that the same strange Hui Chi I saw all those years ago? This attack feels similar, but its Power... it’s far, far greater than Hui Chi’s was!"

Bodhisattva Guan Yun was stunned as well. Blinking her beautiful eyes, she murmured, "The scriptures in the Daoist Scripture Hall... could any of them have survived?"

But before the three of them could react, they discovered in horror that, following the explosion, the spatial walls all around their position high in the sky were shattering.

As the spatial walls broke apart, they revealed patches of utter blackness.

It was as if the very fabric of space had become a mirror.

A mirror that was now shattering, revealing bizarre spatial turbulence within its broken shards.

At that moment, Xu Lei felt his consciousness return.

He was back inside the Ten Thousand Lives Book.

He saw Bodhisattva Guan Yun, Jue Xuan, and the Saint Master all being thrown back by the destruction of the Celestial Palace, spitting blood as they fell helplessly toward the ground.

Fragments of the Celestial Palace scattered in every direction.

But Xu Lei’s own situation was far from ideal.

’I was just thinking that once the shockwave subsides, I’ll resurrect myself and grab the Ancient Longevity Technique and all the Treasures from the Daoist Scripture Hall!’

The destruction of the Celestial Palace had sent countless fragments flying.

There was no telling where they ended up, or how much was even left at the scene.

’But I’d just take whatever I could get.’

But now, Xu Lei realized he had been far too optimistic and naive.

Patches of spatial turbulence were now appearing everywhere. Some fragments of the Celestial Palace fell to various locations across the land, but the vast majority were being sucked into the maelstroms.

And Xu Lei’s own location, it turned out, was right in the middle of one of these turbulent pockets!

The space around him must have been torn open during the explosion, sucking in what little remained of his corpse.

That was why the Ten Thousand Lives Book had manifested his consciousness in this place.

Looking at the bizarre, tearing forces of the spatial turbulence around him, Xu Lei realized he couldn’t possibly resurrect here.

Within the resurrection range permitted by the Ten Thousand Lives Book, there wasn’t a single safe foothold.

If he were to resurrect here, he would be unable to escape his fate—being torn to pieces and dying all over again.

’Looks like I’ll have to reincarnate,’ Xu Lei thought.

Once he reincarnated, decades would pass in an instant.

A wave of emotion washed over Xu Lei.

’I can’t believe this life is over so soon.’

’I used up a life just like that.’

’I never imagined things with the Celestial Palace would end this way.’

’Wouldn’t it have been great if we had all just entered the Daoist Scripture Hall and shared the Treasures peacefully?’

’But no, that Saint Master just had to stir up trouble, forcing me to blow everything to smithereens.’

But as it stood, the Saint Master, Jue Xuan, and Bodhisattva Guan Yun were probably still alive.

Xu Lei held no grudge against Jue Xuan or Bodhisattva Guan Yun, but the Saint Master was another matter entirely.

’Saint Master, you bastard. Don’t you dare let me find you again. If I do, I’ll grind you into paste.’

With that, Xu Lei activated the function of the Ten Thousand Lives Book to begin his reincarnation.

Fortunately, the Ten Thousand Lives Book was still able to sense his bloodline and initiate the reincarnation process.

Then, everything went black, and Xu Lei lost consciousness.

「Several decades later.」

When Xu Lei next awoke, he discovered he had indeed begun a new life, decades in the future.

However, Xu Lei was shocked to discover that the world of today was completely different from the one he had left decades ago!

A new age of cultivation had dawned!

And the origin of this new age? The Treasures and scriptures that had rained down from the heavens decades prior.

This new era of cultivation was now known as the Age of Ancient Immortal Martial Arts!