Chapter 1637 - 199: Whispers

Chapter 1637: Chapter 199: Whispers

After a round of instructions, everyone departed.

Only Jiang Miaoyin was slow to leave.

Shuang Sui was led away by Xu Nianning and Xin Rui, looking back every few steps. Though reluctant, she vaguely guessed something... The little one had heard many stories about Xie Xuanyi, and naturally knew that her Master and this Mysterious Robe Sect Leader had an extraordinary relationship.

She knew that next, the two of them should be about to say some "private words."

"I want to stay here."

After everyone dispersed.

Jiang Miaoyin stood under the daylight and said softly, "This time you’re going into seclusion, you’re trying to step into the Divine Travel Realm, right? I might be able to help with that."

The last time.

Xie Xuanyi stepped into the River of Destiny, and she had been there.

And now...

She wanted to exert her strength once more.

"No need."

Xie Xuanyi shook his head with a smile, gently declining, "Stepping into the River of Destiny depends on fate... After promoting to Yang God, the Forget Worries Divine Power no longer works. I know you mean well, it’s just a pity that this time in seclusion, no one can help me."

Divine Travel is important.

But what he truly wanted to do was actually to assault the Ninth Heaven Strongest.

Once his realm reached that point.

Divine Travel would no longer be a problem.

"..."

Jiang Miaoyin fell silent.

After a long time.

Jiang Miaoyin let out a soft sigh and asked seriously, "Senior Brother, is the Great Tribulation two years from now very terrifying?"

Only after stepping into the Yang God Realm.

Did she realize how vast the world atop the Mountain Peak really was.

Truly like a mayfly seeing the blue sky upon a leaf.

It was hard to imagine that even Senior Brother Xuanyi now faced a calamity he could not handle.

"Lu Yuzhen and I will have a battle."

Xie Xuanyi paused, then said, word by word, "I have a premonition. That battle... will be very difficult."

Jiang Miaoyin had grown up together with Xie Xuanyi.

Thinking back carefully, this should be the first time since she began cultivating that she had ever heard Xie Xuanyi say such words.

Since the day Senior Brother Xuanyi first held a sword, he had been the foremost of the world.

At the same realm, the same age, he had never once been defeated.

Let alone losing a battle.

He had not even encountered an opponent who could suppress him.

"Within the River of Destiny, that Paper Taoist relies on the Great Dao Brush Divine Skill to flee in all directions."

Xie Xuanyi said, "Master, Xiao Yaozi, the Zen Master... and other Strongest are all hunting him down. Unfortunately, this hunt will most likely end in failure."

"This..."

Jiang Miaoyin’s Heart Lake was shaken.

All these years, she knew her Senior Brother had been traveling abroad, dealing with the calamities that might arrive in the future.

Only she had never thought.

That this calamity would be so terrifying, so absurd.

So many Strongest joining hands, yet they still could not kill the Paper Taoist?

If that were truly the case.

Then how terrifying must the "Lu Yuzhen" two years from now be?

"Within the Thirty-three Cave Heavens, there are many ancient arrays."

Jiang Miaoyin said with great solemnity, "Xuanshui Cave Heaven, and the restrictions left by the First Master..."

In her view.

If they were going to kill the Paper Taoist, they would have to go all out.

If Lu Yuzhen dared to come.

Da Sui Sword Palace would certainly fight to the death as a whole sect!

She did not mind sacrificing her cultivation, or even her life... Even if throwing in everything she had only added the slightest bit of odds in Xie Xuanyi’s favor, she would do so willingly.

"What are you saying?"

Xie Xuanyi smiled and said, "Do you think I would lose to him..."

Jiang Miaoyin hesitated.

In her eyes, Senior Brother Xuanyi was of course invincible.

But that Paper Taoist’s ability to cross the River of Destiny sounded far too frightening.

"I don’t think Senior Brother will lose."

Drawing in a deep breath, Jiang Miaoyin spoke earnestly.

"I think so too."

Xie Xuanyi stretched out his hand.

The daylight wavered.

The two of them were separated by dozens of zhang.

Xie Xuanyi’s palm fell, gently patting, and a warm touch spread from Jiang Miaoyin’s shoulder.

The two looked at each other.

In a blink, decades had passed.

Though the world had changed.

Fortunately, their faces had not.

...

...

Jiang Miaoyin left.

This time, the Lotus Forbidden Land truly fell into silence.

Xie Xuanyi sat alone on the meditation cushion, tasting what his Master had once felt here.

He immersed his Divine Thought into the Boundary Stele of the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm.

"Rumble."

The Boundary Stele world was still a barren wasteland, but compared to ten years ago, it had clearly changed.

Xie Xuanyi had cultivated the Great Creation Technique to the fifteenth layer.

All thanks to Cui Zhen’s Divine Skill.

It had turned the repair of the Primordial Swallow Ancient Realm from impossible into possible.

Originally, Xie Xuanyi could only use the clumsiest method to repair the Ancient Realm, and each time he repaired a region, he was forced to consume a vast amount of Undying Spring... Given the scale of the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm, even with Xie Xuanyi’s endlessly upgrading Undying Spring Eye, it was still difficult to bear such enormous consumption.

Now, he could make up for the lack of the Undying Spring by consuming Primordial Energy and Taoist Intent.

The speed at which the Ancient Realm was being repaired had increased severalfold.

The overall mist of the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm had now been broken by half!

"It’s a pity... this Immortal Tree is still in a withered state..."

Xie Xuanyi came to stand before the sky-reaching giant tree. He studied this withered tree and felt a trace of regret in his heart.

The Undying Spring had watered it for a full ten years.

Yet this giant tree still had not sprouted new buds.

However, Xie Xuanyi knew he had already endured the hardest, lowest valley. This Immortal Tree had survived; with its special "tenacity," as long as it did not die, everything still had a chance to be reversed... Ten years of watering, twenty years of watering, were nothing. Once this giant tree blossomed, perhaps it would only take a single night, perhaps even less, for the entire Ancient Realm to burst into vitality.

At that time, as the one who had watered it, he would receive returns several times, dozens of times over!

Xie Xuanyi intended to wait until the day he promoted to Heavenly Human before borrowing the Power of Vitality from the Immortal Tree.

As for now... it was far from the right time.

"Senior Brother Xuan Ming’s Divine Soul is still here."

Xie Xuanyi gazed carefully.

On the Immortal Tree hung more than one strand of soul thought. Eight years ago, while in seclusion in the Demon Country, he had used the Longlife Lamp to collect a large number of soul thoughts.

Xie Xuanyi had placed all of these soul thoughts into the Primordial Swallowing Sacred Realm.

Among them were the souls of Xuan Ming, Ye Zhu, Yuan Yi... these "dead people."

And also Chen Jingxuan, Deng Baiyi, these "still living people."

At first glance.

This scene looked very similar to the Paperman Sect’s Pure White Mountain collecting Life Souls.

But its meaning was entirely different.

Xie Xuanyi had gathered these soul thoughts not out of personal desire.

He cultivated the Life and Death Dao.

If... one day, he could rewrite the River of Destiny.

Then Senior Brother Xuan Ming, Ye Zhu, and the departed Miss Yuan might still have a chance to return to the mortal world.

Only...

To reach that step was extremely, extremely difficult.

Harder even than promoting to Heavenly Human.

At the very least, he would have to reach the True Immortal Realm before such a miracle would be possible!

"Swish."

Xie Xuanyi summoned out his Life Avatar, letting it sit cross-legged before the Immortal Tree. This avatar would be responsible for continuing to comprehend the Great Creation Technique within the Sacred Realm and for repairing the shattered Boundary Stele.

As for his true body, he sank all of his Divine Thought completely.

Xie Xuanyi focused all his consciousness upon the Undying Spring Eye.

"Annihilation..."

"Divine Travel..."

Xie Xuanyi faintly felt.

That the entire mystery was tied to the Undying Spring Eye in his Dantian.

He exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.

"I don’t know if two years will be enough for me to break through."