Chapter 824 - 58: Immortal Flying Peak Is a Sword

Chapter 824: Chapter 58: Immortal Flying Peak Is a Sword

"The mission from the sect?"

Luo Xiaohong blinked, looking puzzled.

The elder smiled kindly: "Xiaohong, did you forget? What did I ask you to do when you descended the mountain?"

Luo Xiaohong exclaimed with realization: "Master, you tasked me with reclaiming the West Imperial Dynasty and restoring balance to the world."

The elder asked, "And how have you accomplished that?"

Luo Xiaohong scratched her head, murmuring: "I went to West Imperial City, dismantled the Western Emperor Palace, saved an old woman who gave me a pancake, my sword cracked, and Si Minglan took me to see the matters of the world."

"I traveled to many places, ate lots of food, and then we went to Cyan Lotus Mountain to fight Xia Qinglian. They gave me more delicious food, and we went to the Northern Wilderness."

"We found Xia Qinglian in the Northern Wilderness, she was pregnant and couldn’t beat me, so Qin Gengyun arrived."

"He asked, what if killing the people of the world doesn’t restore balance, and I got confused."

"He then suggested a method to resolve my confusion by experiencing worldly matters like making friends, playing, getting married, and having a wedding night."

"So I made friends, got married, and shared a wedding night with him."

"Then... I forgot about the mission from the sect."

The elder said: "Have you figured it out now?"

"I have figured it out!" Luo Xiaohong nodded forcefully.

Xiaohua was moved: "Senior sister, you finally realized you’ve been deceived."

Then they heard Luo Xiaohong loudly proclaiming: "The mission from the sect doesn’t bring happiness. Being with my husband, sister, and friends is happiness. Master, I don’t want to stay at the Immortal Flying Pavilion."

"What?!"

Xiaohua was shocked: "Senior sister, you just descended the mountain for a few days, and your Tao Heart has been tainted so?"

Luo Xiaohong said: "My Tao Heart has recovered, look."

She picked up the Five-Colored Short Sword, whose cracks had long since healed.

The elder stroked his beard with a smile: "Xiaohong, let me ask you, what exactly is your Tao Heart?"

Luo Xiaohong replied: "It’s to protect the balance of the world."

"The purity of the Tao Spirit Body’s Tao Heart—your cultivation is built upon it, but your Tao Heart is given by the Immortal Flying Pavilion. If you want to leave, do you still want your Tao Heart?"

As the elder spoke, his smile gradually faded, and a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

"Master?" Xiaohua wanted to speak, but the elder’s gaze silenced her.

"My Tao Heart?" Luo Xiaohong was stunned, looking down at the Five-Colored Short Sword in her hand, confused.

The elder continued: "I give you two choices: first, discard your Tao Heart and descend the mountain as an ordinary person. Second, complete the mission from the sect, so that you may leave the Immortal Flying Pavilion with your Tao Heart intact."

Luo Xiaohong said: "I don’t want to be an ordinary person, I’d be killed easily by others. I choose the second option!"

The elder nodded: "Then start by killing the people of the world."

For Luo Xiaohong, her mission was to restore the world’s balance.

Currently, the world is indeed out of balance, and only by killing all living beings might the great Tao balance be restored.

"Then I will kill all the living beings and descend the mountain!"

Luo Xiaohong was very happy, feeling she could finally leave the Immortal Flying Pavilion, but soon she was troubled:

"But there are many powerful cultivators in the world; I can’t kill them all."

The elder stood up and moved his hands, causing the Cloud-Entering Pine at his feet to glow, transforming into a colossal sword blade piercing the sky.

However, the sword blade seemed to lack a hilt, standing alone reaching into the clouds, appearing cold and eerie.

And the elder’s demeanor suddenly changed, his once kindly face now covered in a dark aura as he looked at Luo Xiaohong:

"This sword is named Purifying World, your magical artifact originates from this sword. Standing atop the blade, you can wield the full power of the Tao Spirit Body, enough to restore the great Tao balance."

"Cloud-Entering Pine is actually the blade of a sword?! Where’s the hilt?"

Xiaohua, evidently seeing such a scene for the first time, quickly noticed a small notch on the giant blade named "Purifying World" under the elder’s feet.

The shape and size were identical to the Five-Colored Short Sword in Luo Xiaohong’s hand.

"Did senior sister break off her Cai from here?"

Xiaohua covered her mouth; what she saw today had exceeded her imagination.

Luo Xiaohong was also surprised. Though she grew up in the Immortal Flying Pavilion and knew every grass and tree of Immortal Flying Peak, she never imagined her magical artifact originated from the Cloud-Entering Pine.

With her body flashing, she was already atop the sword blade, her petite figure akin to an ant compared to the massive sword blade.

Luo Xiaohong raised the Five-Colored Short Sword, her voice crisp: "I want to kill them all..."

Suddenly, both the Five-Colored Short Sword and the sword blade beneath her feet emitted dazzling light.

But Luo Xiaohong suddenly lowered the short sword.

Xiaohua was puzzled: "Senior sister, why did you stop?"

Luo Xiaohong troubledly said: "If I kill all the people of the world, then my husband, sister, and friends will also die and I won’t be happy."

Xiaohua hurriedly said: "But senior sister, your Tao Heart is the great Tao balance. If you don’t do it, you will lose your Tao Heart!"

Luo Xiaohong looked down at the Five-Colored Short Sword in her hand and suddenly smiled:

"If there are no people in the world who make me happy, my Tao Heart is useless."

As soon as she finished speaking, the Five-Colored Short Sword in her hand suddenly made creaking sounds.

Cracks appeared on the sword blade, these cracks slowly expanded, and finally with a boom, the Five-Colored Short Sword shattered completely.

The fragments flew into a small notch on the giant sword blade and automatically mended it.

"Cai is gone?"

Xiaohua was utterly shocked.

A streak of blood suddenly appeared at the corner of Luo Xiaohong’s mouth, and then blood continuously flowed from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

"It hurts so much."

Luo Xiaohong murmured, and then her body went soft, falling from the gigantic sword blade.

"Senior sister!"

Xiaohua flew up to catch Luo Xiaohong, only to see her paling face with tightly closed eyes. When Xiaohua checked Luo Xiaohong’s wrist, her expression dramatically changed.

"Senior sister’s cultivation... is gone?!"

The elder’s demeanor was calm: "The Tao Heart is shattered; the cultivation naturally disappears."

Xiaohua hurriedly flew to the elder, holding Luo Xiaohong as she knelt: "Master! Senior sister was raised by you since childhood, please save her!"

The elder said indifferently: "I raised her and taught her cultivation to maintain the great Tao balance. Now that she is unwilling, what use is her cultivation?"

Looking at Luo Xiaohong’s rapidly paling cheeks in her arms, Xiaohua kept kowtowing to the elder:

"Master, if the great Tao balance is desired, only senior sister’s Tao Spirit Body can achieve it!"

The elder suddenly laughed: "Everyone believes the Tao Spirit Body is Immortal Flying Pavilion’s reliance, but truly, the reliance of the Immortal Flying Pavilion has never been anyone, but the pavilion itself."

As his voice fell, in Xiaohua’s fearful gaze, the glowing blade piercing the sky revealed a gigantic structure on Immortal Flying Peak.

On this giant building were three large characters: Immortal Flying Pavilion.

This Immortal Flying Pavilion was actually connected to the colossal sword blade.

Xiaohua murmured: "So Immortal Flying Peak is a sword, Cloud-Entering Pine is the blade, that means Immortal Flying Pavilion is... the hilt?"